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Deep down, I know the Senator Clinton believes the Democratic Party and the country need her. And who knows, maybe she’s right. She thinks Senator Obama isn’t up to the task of taking on John McCain. But in this bubble of conviction, she has started to lose touch with reality. Even on the day when [...]

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The rhetoric and tactics that Hillary Clinton has pushed on China policy demonstrate everything that is wrong about her campaign, and herself as a politician. Publicly advocating that President Bush should boycott the opening ceremony in response to a pu-pu platter of offenses by the Chinese Government would not only fail to help promote progress [...]

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I remember Bill Clinton’s first presidential election in 1992. He was cool, smart, likable and most importantly, he really cared about the average American. He gave people hope and made them feel like America’s best days were ahead of them. There was a Bush in the White House, a war in Iraq had just ended, [...]

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Super Tuesdays results were anything but decisive for either Democratic candidate. However, Senator Obama won the most states and the most delgates. The next several contests favor Obama, and if he can make a big push we will have a new face of leadership in America, after 28 years of Clintons and Bushes in the [...]

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American Su Fei has a video up where she goes around asking Beijingers what they think about the American election, primarily the Obama-Hillary aspect. I should mention that I was planning to do this bit based on message boards a few weeks back–except the discussions about Obama had almost no participants and made little sense. [...]

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Before I get to the endorsement, January 31 is the last day Americans living abroad can sign up for the global primary election. If you would like to do so you can register electronically here. As you go through the form you will become entirely convinced that it is an application to get an absentee [...]

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If you want to know where the US is as a political entity in 2008, do not looks to the polls, nor election bickering. Look to the conservative commentators. There is a gap emerging between those who once made up the party of ideas (mostly bad ones) and those who have an idea of where [...]

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I’ll keep this short and sweet: we already knew that Hillary was running on Bill’s record (”35 years of experience”). Now he’s running the whole campaign.
Next time she says, “He not on this stage, I am” I’m going to freak out. If she wants to run as herself than maybe she should get him to [...]

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has not-so-privately been floating the idea of running for president as an independent. With the two races still fairly muddled, I thought it might be interesting to look at the circumstances that might facilitate him jumping in.
The first condition would seem to require at least one candidate with fairly high [...]

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Just as I was readying to write a post about how Senator Clinton is getting some unfair press over race, I found an anonymous quote from one of her aides that sickened me, but I’ll get to that in a moment. Since the New Hampshire primary there has been a bit of a whispering campaign–in [...]

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