Category: Politics & World Affairs
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Arkansas’s Proposed Initiative Act No. 1 makes California’s Prop 8 look like puppies, chocolate, and rainbows. Or something. That state’s Proposed Initiative Act No. 1, approved by nearly 57 percent of voters last week, bans people who are “cohabitating outside a valid marriage” from serving as foster parents or adopting children. While the measure bans…
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Conservative blogger John Hinderaker has advice for Barack Obama: "Take public speaking lessons from George W. Bush!" (link: TPM) Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He needs to understand that as President, his words will be scrutinized and will have impact whether he intends it or…
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Gun sales went up in Texas in anticipation of Barack Obama’s presidency. Among all the possible reasons for the spike in sales (ban / price hike on assault weapons) we can safely assume that one may have been the reckless public prounouncements of ignorant elected officials like Sarah Palin (pals around with terrorists) and Cynthia…
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Fellow blogger Namit Arora sent me the link to an intriguing news item reported in the Indian newspaper, The Economic Times. Apparently during a fence mending meeting, a month before the last elections, Barack Obama kicked around the idea of sending Bill Clinton as a mediator to the disputed territory of Kashmir in order to…
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A Lightbulb goes on Ever wonder what the US Supreme Court might have made of what the Prez-Elect might have said? It’s lucky he didn’t enunciate it. Obama roasts Rahm Emmanuel in 2005
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Anna pointed out in a recent post that the Obama campaign benefited from the vision that DNC Chairman, Howard Dean first formulated for the Democratic Party when Dean himself was a presidential candidate in 2004. Obama’s successful 50 state strategy, fashioned after Dean’s bold vision, which bore fruit with wins in Indiana, N. Carolina, Colorado, Nevada…
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Indian journalist, Manoj Joshi analyzes the possible impact of the upcoming Obama presidency on India and the rest of the world.
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Smarting under Tuesday’s blow at the ballot box, the Republican leadership has hunkered down to analyze the verdict of the voters and to figure out a new winning strategy. Representative Thaddeus G. McCotter (R- Michigan) said: "We’re rock bottom. We are now free to start thinking again, acting again, and doing the right thing by…
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As we all know by now, Prop 8 passed in California. This could be considered the one real defeat that liberals suffered on election day. The voters of California, in a direct vote on the issue, by a bare majority amended the California Constitution to eliminate the state constitutional right to same-sex marriage. As Ruchira…
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Two points to reiterate within the maelstrom of commentary and punditry regarding Obama’s victory: 1) The Tactics — However brilliant a traditional, top-down campaign he ran with the help of the two Davids, the organizing act of going up to someone and challenging them to change their lives by getting involved with the political process…
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Yes, we did !!! I was a young girl in India looking from afar in awe when the civil rights movement in the US was under way. Today as a middle aged woman and an American citizen, I am equally thrilled to be a participant in the logical grand finale to those distant events of…
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Can we or can’t we? Whatever is on your schedule today, be sure to vote, if you have not done so already. It is an important election and an exciting one. Make certain that you are a player in the outcome.We at Accidental Blogger, hope that you will vote for Senator Barack Obama and other…
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A couple of McCain supporters and GOP hacks can’t quite believe that Barack Obama can think his own thoughts and put them together in complete sentences. So they tried to launch an investigation using the expertise of an Oxford philosopher to "prove" that Obama’s autobiography, The Dreams from My Father was actually ghost written by…
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Last night, I came across this while checking out blogs and forums and thought it was almost unbelievable:Sarah Palin getting pranked by some French-Canadian guys on the phone. This was later confirmed by all news agencies. Yes, that was indeed the one-and-only Sarah Palin being fooled by a pair of French Canadian impersonators. Two well-known…
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