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I thought the media could do no more to champion style over substance in American politics. But the way they’re hyping the first debate of this presidential election has disabused me of that thought. For I am truly stupefied that TV reporters and commentators are encouraging viewers to determine who wins not by the answers they… Read more.
Evidently, even President Obama has become afflicted with Trumpitis. For only this explains the conceited and crass clarion call he issued to blacks on Saturday night. The occasion was a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation gala in Washington, DC. With Democratic leaders increasingly worried about a lack of passion for Hillary Clinton among young black voters, President Obama is rolling… Read more.
If the health of these presidential candidates is so important, each of them should submit to a full physical examination by a military doctor selected from the active-duty physicians who serve in the White House Medical Unit. After all, these physicians will be responsible for providing health services to the new president (and her family). That… Read more.
Donald Trump has edged ahead of Hillary Clinton in a poll released Tuesday, the latest to reflect a tightening race as the campaigns kick into high gear after Labor Day. The CNN/ORC poll shows Trump leading Clinton 45-43 percent in a four-way race, with Libertarian Gary Johnson at 7 percent and Green Party’s Jill Stein… Read more.
I would like nothing more than to see Bernie do to Hillary in 2016 what Barack did to her in 2008. (“Bernie Sanders: The Democrats’ Ron Paul…?” The iPINIONS Journal, July 2, 2015) In fact, I was feeling the Bern long before Millennials — who are now fueling Bernie Sanders’s campaign — even knew his name. But, like… Read more.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind you. In fact, rumors about Hillary’s sexuality have dogged her for as long as rumors about Bill’s infidelity have dogged him. Except that, where Bill’s indiscretions soon confirmed rumors about him, Hillary’s discretion always kept them in doubt about her. But things changed in 1992, when they… Read more.
During the mid-1990s, I was one of many worker bees at the D.C. headquarters of the Clinton-Gore Re-Election ’96 campaign. We all buzzed around trying to seem relevant to the political ambitions of the most powerful man in the world. Yet even I saw enough of the compromises and sacrifices (of self and others) Bill… Read more.
Ever since Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, liberal elites have betrayed an obsessive interest in the political career of his wife, Hillary. These are the folks who treated Barack Obama like an uppity Negro for daring to challenge her ascension to the presidency in 2008, and who are now – with no hint… Read more.
In previous commentaries I have lamented the fact that, on the world stage, President Obama is looking far too much like George W. Bush. In fact, despite his transformative rhetoric, Obama is not only continuing but actually expanding far too many of Bush’s foreign policy tactics. One glaring example of course is his recent decision to escalate… Read more.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is nearing the end of an 11-day, 7-country tour of Africa. And all indications are that she is performing admirably, reinforcing the Obama doctrine of good governance as a precondition for US aid and direct investments. Unfortunately, the earlier part of her tour was upstaged by her husband’s simultaneous… Read more.
