“A solid B-plus”, said President Obama when Oprah Winfrey asked him a few weeks ago to rate his administration a year into his first term. I can say with certainty that I would not be as charitable of the Number 44′s achievements. Yet to think that for someone who has always identified himself as right [...]
One of the debates over the past few months has been about the use and the ban of torture – or enhanced interrogation techniques – against terror suspects. America’s newfound morality amazes me as a dabbler in history. A sound clip in the Wikipedia entry on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is of then [...]
For many months leading up to November 4 Presidential elections, John McCain’s only criticism of Barack Obama was that the Democrat was friends with Bill Ayers, a terrorist of four decades ago, an allegation that both men rejected. If this were indeed true, it would have caused a serious setback to Obama’s campaign. The Chief [...]
… is now the President of the United States of America. A bumper-sticker I saw on the road this morning summed it up succinctly: “2008: End of an Error.“
It is the morning of November 5. I step out of the house. The buildings are in their same proper places. The ground is still intact. The sky hasn’t fallen down. So, it isn’t apocalypse. Barack Obama might not be that bad for America! Oh, and by the way, where are those chronic Nostradamus-quoters, who explain every [...]
Senator John McCain does one right thing finally, telling a woman in one of his town halls / rallies that Barack Obama is not an Arab. Somewhere in the backdrop, McCain doesn’t like the campaign that he is running. It is against his nature, and he recognizes it. This moment captures that in all earnest.
Will the McCain campaign stop telling America that Sarah-ppalling is “just like you”? Please! I mean, we don’t want someone who is just like us. “Just like you” does not mean that the “you” is some exalted person. It means that the person who is touted as “just like you” is just average. So so. [...]
I hereby invite Senator John McCain to consider replacing Governor Sarah Palin with me as his running mate. Well, there are many reasons why he need not. For one, I am not a former Miss Alaska runner-up. I don’t know what a moose is. Hockey-moms won’t vote for me. When last measured, I had a [...]
Today’s Morning Joe on MSNBC had some of the funniest moments on a TV news show since Chris Matthews took conservative radio talk show host Kevin James on the issue of appeasement. The topic of discussion this morning was the money that former New York Stock Exchange chairman, Richard Grasso had taken home, roughly $190 [...]
Yesterday, as I was heading to work in the morning, I was waiting at the intersection of two busy streets sandwiched amidst a group of 20 other people, for the signal to indicate “Walk”. Suddenly, at the next light, a couple of cars came to a screeching halt and all of us turned to our [...]
Yesterday, President Bush issued a statement that Congress should lift the ban on offshore oil drilling off the US coastline. The best reason he could think of for this was the 4-dollar-a-gallon gas. Immediately, Senator McCain, who is increasingly looking like George Dubya Bush the Third, concurred with the President and thought offshore drilling is [...]
Image via WikipediaAs we all know, Hillary Clinton will suspend her campaign tomorrow, and will endorse Senator Obama. I was wondering what she will say tomorrow, considering she has been bitter especially over the past few months. I am not going to write out an entire speech here, but going by the way she has plugged [...]
Image by jurvetson via FlickrSenator Barack Obama has some bad news. It is rumored that Hillary Clinton wants to be his running mate. Many pundits have been of the opinion that Clinton would not seek to be Obama’s Vice President, and that she would rather aspire for a bigger, more powerful role in the Senate. [...]
Time.com has an article titled The Five Mistakes Clinton Made, that analyzes why the self-obsessed candidate who presumed that she was just waiting for George W. Bush to leave so that she could move in has seen her campaign derail. The article says: She missed the mood She didn’t master the rules She underestimated the [...]
Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” Hillary Clinton: “Yes, we scam!” (Wow, this is becoming some kind of a feature! Here is Politics, in four words)
The IHT’s David Brooks on why Hillary Clinton insists on protracting the primary season. For nearly 20 years, she has been encased in the apparatus of political celebrity. Look at her schedule as first lady and ever since. Think of the thousands of staged events, the tens of thousands of times she has pretended to [...]
Supporters of Hillary Clinton: “Help Hillary make history!” Supporters of Barack Obama: “Help make Hillary history!”
The media is at its best when it does a post-mortem. And beware, they could do this to anyone if they know they are losing. However, Frank Rich’s clinical piece in The New York Times dissecting Hillary Clinton’s stuttering campaign is worth a read. If the press were as prejudiced against Mrs. Clinton as her [...]
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