While he’s not exactly the messiah, Barack Obama has done a lot of good things as a candidate and president. People seem to be making the case that he has not done much in his first nine months in office, but people also forget that January was one of the worst job loss months in [...]
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Riots in Tibet last year. Riots in Xinjiang this year.
There is one lesson that we can learn from all of this: Old people are dangerous. Incited youths listen to and heed the words of virtually anyone the age of their grandparents. Young people are not motivated by ethnic hatred, lack of jobs or the perception [...]
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Think back to the Democratic primary. Remeber what the knock on Obama always was? He’s naive. He’s too idealistic. He’s too liberal. He’s just not tough enough.
Just in case you didn’t get it during the campaign–when he decided to privately finance and blew McCain out of the water–Obama is tough, and hardly naive. A friend [...]
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Not to gloss over the remarkable achievement of America electing its first Black president, but the heavy focus we have seen misses the point of this election entirely. Barack Obama is set to lead this country out of one of the worst periods in its history. And he will do so slowly and steadily, with [...]
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Since February I have been predicting a Democratic blow out. However, I am a Democrat. And a Mets fan. And a Jets fan. Let’s just say optimism isn’t my thing. So as we approach the moment of reckoning, I’m confident–but totally scared shitless. One similarly-minded friend of mine got mad at me because I kept [...]
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John McCain could still easily be the next American president. Although behind in the polls, it’s pretty easy to come up with a mathematical formula for him to win the 270 electoral votes he would need. Yet the man who says he would “rather lose an election than lose a war” should be worrying about [...]
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I have long suspected that the post-convention McCain bump in the polls would not last since. Now there is strong evidence that virtually the entirely based on a jump upon enthusiasm among hard-core GOPers and that, to paraphrase John McCain, the fundamentals of the Obama campaign are quite strong.
The NYTimes and CBS conducted a poll [...]
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John McCain is a maverick! How can I tell? Well, aside from the fact that he tells people he picked Sarah Palin as his vice presidential choice. No one had thought of the half-term Alaskan governor. So he’s a maverick! (Although picking Joe Lieberman, something he thought was the best choice, and in the process [...]
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The surprise vice presidential pick of Sarah Palin by John McCain told us a lot about the campaign, much of it concerning. The first and most obvious, is that most of his strategy has become trying to convince Hillary supporters to switch over to him. Rudy has been going on radio and television shows trying [...]
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