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Obama, McCain and What's Good for Israel
In a Sunday, May 18th NY Times op-ed article that seem to be specifically written to Jewish Americans, Thomas Friedman wrote that "America today has — rightly — a bipartisan approach to Arab-Isra...
Hillary three winding roads to the Presidency
Hillary Clinton still has open opportunities to become President, but these require moving along roads that are narrow, winding, unsafe, and each one carries different probabilities of success. Her co...
Yet she continues
Hillary's thin win in Indiana and major loss in North Carolina should have clinched the nomination for Obama. Mathematically it may have, but Hillary won't concede. Is it, as some say, part of her Pl...
Big Day for McCain
Tuesday May 6th, another big Tuesday for the Democrats is turning out to be an even bigger day for McCain. To the dismay of many Democrats, Tuesday results are not resolving which candidate will wi...
Repulsed into voting Republican
Hillary's continued attacks on Obama may increase her chances to derail Obama in 2008 as well as increase her rerun chances in 2012. The fear of the Democratic party super delegates that many indepe...
Hillary Clinton's Plan B
Ever wondered why Hillary is going after Obama in such vicious ways even if it helps McCain? While all pundits talk about her Plan A (the hope that something happen and Obama quits or the super delega...
Are Obama and McCain so similar? (follow up on Hillary is the next Bush)
A while ago I posted a popular DIGG article "Is Hillary Clinton the Next Bush" in which I claimed that despite policy differences Hillary and GW Bush share many personality characteristics that are bo...
Waiting for Godot for the Endgame in Iraq
For a long time President Bush seemed to be blind to realities on the ground in Iraq. Lately he may have traded short term failure for future vindication - "History will judge me differently". Per...
Political Vision and Ability to Execute
Hillary Clinton, more than anyone else in this campaign season, brings up experience as the critical reason she is fit for the highest post in the nation. She points to years of experience, a criteri...
Not all pork is not Kosher
The media loves controversial issues and aside from sex scandals nothing bests Washington corruption in an election year. A group who goes by the acronym CAGW who apparently believed that spelled ou...
The Iraq Dilemma
There is a large consensus that we got into the war in Iraq for the wrong reasons. Faulty Intelligence, faulty foreign policy, or a deceiving President are the most common cited reasons. By now, very ...
Which Candidate Will You Feed?
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said,“My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealo...
The Greatest Show on Earth
Stanley Fish in his New York Times Op-Ed piece of March 23rd may be on to something. He claims that the media has been shrewdly creating crisis and distracting us from what's important. That's not ...
Politics of Exclusion vs. Politics of Inclusion
If Barack Obama's candidacy is centered on change and inclusion, Bill Clinton campaigning for Hillary wife is revealing that her campaign is quite the opposite. The latest flap created by Bill is on...
Double Celebration at the McCain Headquarters
McCain has two reasons to celebrate. The first and obvious and are his recent wins that finally brings to a successful closure his Republican party nomination to the Presidency. The second and somewha...
Healthcare and NAFTA
Most Americans are covered by their place of work with the bulk of the premium costs paid by the employer. Clinton and Obama's health care proposals do not propose to change that. McCain also plans to...
Constitutional Crisis - No More Presidents
Several recent articles discussed the potential problem McCain may have should he become the Republican party nominee. Apparently McCain was born on a US base in Panama where his parents were statione...
Chief Executive Experience-Lessons from the Primary Campaigns
Clinton, Obama and McCain make claims on presidential experience. Whether they tout change as their primary slogan the jour or not, experience and success is the only verifiable record voters can go b...
Obama and McCain hope and faith
As long as Huckabee is in the run McCain has an ultra conservative wing problem. Huckabee forces him to prove that he is holier than the pope. He proclaims faith and faithfulness right and further r...
McCain Hillary and Obama's shopping list
I hate the supermarket. They mapped the entire human genome and haven't figured that one yet, but I'm sure the answer is somewhere on the Y chromosome. My wife is so good at it, and me and my fellow m...
Hillary - it's the internet, Stupid!
There is a fund raising war going among the Presidential contenders, and it reflects in many ways the difference between old and new politics. Following Romney's capitulation, the Republicans are slow...
A new smart and wise President
It is possible that we may never know the single most significant factor for the collapse of the Soviet Union. There are those who put the blame on systemic flaws of the communist system. Others han...
Democrats Slug Fest
Have you seen the South Carolina Democratic debate? Hillary and Obama showing their teeth, neither giving an inch, attacking each other like there is no tomorrow. If they continue this way, there wi...