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It’s time that normal Joe Six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency (sic). This was Gov. Sarah Palin’s folksy attempt to justify her inability to speak intelligently in recent interviews about anything except hunting moose and drilling oil pits. But this populist spin is patent nonsense. Because any normal Joe Six-pack would… Read more.
Despite all the media hype, presidential debates have very little bearing on how people vote on Election Day. Instead, they tend to merely reinforce voters’ pre-existing feelings about the candidates. This means that who won the debate is invariably in the eye of the beholder. That said, there’s no denying the suspense inherent in watching for a… Read more.
Senator John McCain made quite a show yesterday of announcing that he is suspending his campaign and withdrawing from the first presidential debate so that he can return to Washington to join the gaggle of those negotiating terms of the $700 billion financial bailout legislation now pending in Congress. And, to demonstrate his much-vaunted leadership,… Read more.
Because of my efforts last week to help compatriots in the Turks and Caicos Islands recover from Hurricane Ike, I was unable to comment on the new ad John McCain launched in which he cast Barack Obama as a pervert who wants to “teach comprehensive sex education to kindergartners.” Specifically, to reinforce the deception, the… Read more.
NOTE: This cartoon assumes you saw Palin in her fist deer-caught-in-the-headlights moment on Friday when reporter Charlie Gibson of ABC News asked her opinion on the Bush Doctrine. She made Dan Quayle’s first interview seem like that of a seasoned statesman. However, unlike the congenital dunce Quayle turned out to be, I suspect Sarah is a very quick… Read more.
Granted, it’s her show and she can interview anybody she wants. But Oprah claims that the mission of her show is to help people (especially women) live their best lives. And she purportedly does this by providing a forum for the discussion of important issues that affect them. Therefore, it behooves her to appreciate that refusing to invite Republican… Read more.
It seems a curious thing that John McCain chose a VP running mate who is turning out to be a female version of the caricature he has made of Barack Obama; i.e., a candidate utterly lacking in the experience necessary to be president of the United States, and one who represents a triumph of political… Read more.
It is now more important than ever for the Republican nominee, John McCain of Arizona, to pick a minority running mate, like Condoleezza Rice, if he wants to have any chance of defeating Obama in November. [Barack Obama clinches historic Democratic presidential nomination, The iPINIONS Journal, June 4, 2008] Sarah Palin is a minority, but she is clearly… Read more.
With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. With those simple words, Barack Obama continued the historic march on Washington to fulfill the dream Martin Luther King, Jr. voiced 45 years ago. That dream of course was for an America where people “will not be judged by the color of… Read more.
Washington has been abuzz this week with speculation about who presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, will choose as his vice presidential running mate. And the consensus seems to be that Obama will choose Delaware senator, Joe Biden. I agree. Frankly, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Georgia 10 days ago, Obama had little choice. But instead… Read more.
