Category: Politics & World Affairs
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In a performance worthy of Oscar Sunday, at a campaign rally in Providence, RI, Hillary Clinton mocked Barack Obama for his "immature and unrealistic" promises of hope and change.
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Consumer advocate Ralph Nader who is seen widely by the Democratic Party as the man who tilted the balance toward George Bush in the Bush vs Gore 2000 fiasco, has thrown his hat into the ring for the 2008 presidential race. The already interesting contest on the Democratic side, now threatens to become even more interesting.…
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Was last Thursday’s debate in Texas Hillary Clinton’s swan song? To her longtime friends, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sounds unusually philosophical on the phone these days. She rarely uses phrases like “when I’m president” anymore. Somber at times, determined at others, she talks to aides and confidants about the importance of focusing on a good…
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The Clinton campaign is crying foul and whining that the Democratic Party’s rules for deciding the presidential nominee are not fair. Mind you, Hillary and her operational crew are not questioning the fairness of the rules in abstract but only as they apply to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which many now fear will fail unless she…
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Fidel Castro, one of the world’s longest ruling political leaders, has resigned from his position as the president of Cuba. Although he will no longer be president, Castro will remain active in Cuba’s communist party. The question that remains is if the silly attitude of the US government towards Cuba will change now that Castro…
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The media outlets are abuzz with the news of Barack Obama’s supposed "plagiarism." Last Saturday in Wisconsin, Obama delivered a speech where he defended the "power of words" using the words of his good buddy Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. Both Obama and Patrick dismissed the brouhaha by claiming that the two talk all the…
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has picked up the endorsement of the Houston Chronicle. The Chronicle also reports that despite the old and influential network of the Clintons in Texas, a huge victory for Hillary Clinton is not guaranteed due mainly to a trend of younger voters leaning toward Obama. We’ll have to wait until March…
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Do Obama supporters hate Hillary Clinton or is their choice based on a genuine preference for Obama and / or unease with Hillary’s past and current record? I won’t go into the details of my opposition to HRC which I have explained in detail in several posts and comments. Anna too made a persuasive case…
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I have repeated on several occasions that this blog was launched largely as an outlet for me to vent my displeasure with the atrocious administration of George W. Bush. As other authors climbed aboard and joined me in blogging, all of us were united in our disgust, disdain and disappointment with Bush-Cheney. The list of…
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Super Tuesday has come and gone and it is up to us, the candidates and media pundits to crunch the numbers, read deep meanings in voter demographics and slice the cucumber thin to get the big picture. None of us knows what lies ahead. The Republican primaries have been decisive in their verdict – John…
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Since Joe is still waiting to be convinced by Obama — and Paul Krugman continues in his quixotic project to convince us all that Barack is actually Bob Dole, once again due the lack of mandates for universal coverage in his health plan — I thought I’d share a recent exchange between one Anna Levine…
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If this week’s presidential debates in California and the barrage of campaign information in the media haven’t convinced you to choose your candidate so far, here is a simple test to help you decide. My results : Barack Obama : Points of agreement = 9, disagreement = 1 Hillary Clinton : Points of agreement =…
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Ann Coulter says she would support Hillary Clinton over John McCain. Speaking on Fox’s "Hannity and Colmes," Coulter took aim at the GOP frontrunner, and suggested he was little more than a Republican in name only. "If you are looking at substance rather than if there is an R or a D after his name,…
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Ezra summarizes, and has a links round-up. "It’s time for me to step aside so that history can blaze its path." It will be interesting to see who it blazes for. Obama, I’m still waiting to be convinced.
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