I should have said this earlier. There’s no sharper illustration of the importance of this presidential election than news last week that federal Judges Bill Wilson and Jim Moody are retiring.

Do you want John McCain (or, by default, the Sarah Palin-led Republican base) selecting their replacements on the Little Rock bench or Barack Obama and Joe Biden?

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