For weeks now one would have expected John Edwards to endorse Barack Obama. In the Primary debates, it seemed at times that Edwards and Obama were a tag team duo against Hillary Clinton. The Obama rhetoric was closer to Edwards than the Clinton rhetoric. So, what gives — why is John Edwards playing [...]
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Obama turned off Edwards
Mar
Great article on Presidential race losers
Mar
The Guardian has a great article today on what the Presidential race losers feel like after all the media attention has gone and they are left alone. It is very interesting to hear what George McGovern has to say about the 1972 race and this year’s contest.
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Obama’s credible approach
Mar
Today Sen. Barack Obama outlined his most extensive policy response to the US’s growing financial crisis to date. His approach is very comprehensive in linking the mortgage meltdown to a larger problem of financial deregulation and oversight as well as a larger credit bubble.
Missing in most conventional approaches to the mortgage crisis is an [...]
Clinton: People are now pointing at the elephant in the room
Mar
Who remembers the 1990s? No, I’m not talking about Grunge or OJ or even the Internet Bubble. I’m talking about the Clinton Presidency. Great decade, huh?
Well, we all have a problem with romanticizing the past by remembering the good and forgetting the bad. The same is true about the Clinton Presidency. [...]
I probably can’t vote for McCain
Mar
Recently I have been toying with the idea of voting for John McCain if it became a McCain-Clinton general election. As much as I may like John McCain’s apparent straight talk, some of his recent positions seem like major flip-flops and others seem dangerous.
I will continue to gauge McCain, but I have to say that [...]
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Is Pennsylvania the defining moment?
Mar
Pennsylvania is shaping up to be the key state to decide how long this Democratic primary contest lasts. Before the Jeremiah Wright scandal hit, Hillary Clinton had a massive lead in all the Pennsylvania polls. Yet, after Obama’s race speech and an endorsement by Bill Richardson, Obama had cut Clinton’s lead in the [...]
Who can promote Bipartisanship?
Mar
Last night, I was belatedly listening to Tom Keene’s podcast (link, subscribe) interview from March 12th with former Oklahoma Governor and Senator David Boren, now President of the University of Oklahoma. Boren, a conservative Democrat, was Governor from 1975 to 1979 and represented his state as Senator from 1979 to 1994. He was [...]
Mike Gravel switches parties
Mar
While I fully support Barack Obama’s presidential bid as the best opportunity for change, I respect former Democratic Presedential candidate Mike Gravel and his Libertarian viewpoints. As a Libertarian, I found it interesting that when I took the Select Smart survey to track how the individual candidates’ positions mirrored mine, Mike Gravel came out [...]
Why Ron Paul Scares the GOP
Mar
As a Libertarian, I am definitely a fan of Ron Paul. It is sad that there is no mainstream party that is Liberal in the traditional sense of the word. Now, liberal means left-wing when I look at Liberal quite differently.
Anyway, there was an article from Time magazine a few days back that [...]
Is the Fed reckless?
Mar
Recently, on Mar. 18th, the Federal Reserve lowered the Fed Funds rate to 2.25%. In the accompanying statement, the Fed said the following:
“Recent information indicates that the outlook for economic activity has weakened further. Growth in consumer spending has slowed and labor markets have softened. Financial markets remain under considerable stress, and the [...]
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