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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A little more than a year ago I was working on a get out the vote effort in the Philadelphia. As we were going around the neighborhood I mentioned to a van full of young people that Hillary Clinton was the 2008 version of Howard Dean. The outrage around me was palpable. One person informed [...]
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Looking at the range of candidates, it is interesting to guess who would be most beneficial for China. Off the top we can knock Kucinich off their list of top choices. He is highly protectionist, and would do everything possible to limit trade with China while giving Beijing headaches about their human rights abuses. Of [...]
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Dear Mayor Bloomberg,
Recently I noticed that you were in China, for what, I am not entirely clear. It looks like you will not be running for president, what with you getting chummy with Mr. Obama and all. So clearly you do not need to burnish your foreign affairs credentials. It’s nice and all that you [...]
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Recently Hillary Clinton mocked Barack Obama for saying his time living abroad has value when it comes to foreign policy. Yet, as someone who has lived abroad more than 15% of his life, I think that the experience contributes tremendously to understanding how foreign policy affects people outside of the US, and almost as importantly, [...]
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