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Independents like myself who support Barack Obama and Democrats are busy trying to tear down John McCain’s surprise pick for Vice President. They say she is less qualified than many other potential candidates that McCain could have selected. I would tend to agree. But, that’s neither here nor there. The question is whether she [...]

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In the US, the Republican National Convention has begun and as we prepare to watch the presumptive Republican nominee for President, it bears noting a little background into his character and past.
One reputable source of background material has been the BBC. They have released part one of a two-part audio documentary series timed for the [...]

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John McCain made a surprise choice in choosing Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, for his running mate. While this is a risky choice, it definitely balances the ticket.
Below is a snippet of the story at the Wall Street Journal. This will be an interesting election.

Sen. John McCain picked first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin [...]

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Just hours after Barack Obama picked Joe Biden for his running in the U.S. presidential elections (more on that soon), I got a hilarious spam e-mail with a subject line that really tempted me to open it:
McCain picks Paris Hilton as running mate
Spammer ingenuity.

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This past week, I attended an Investment luncheon to hear Greg Valliere, the chief political strategist with the Stanford Washington Research Group. He had a number of important things to say regarding the economic implications of political decision-making in Washington and of this year’s U.S. presidential election. I agree with most of his [...]

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Now that the Democratic race is almost over, John McCain has stopped getting a free ride. Almost overnight the attacks have begun and we will see whether his squeaky clean maverick image holds up to scrutiny. Today, the Washington Post and the UK newspaper the Guardian launched the first high profile probe into [...]

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Marc Ambinder over at the Atlantic Monthly showed a chart suggesting a future re-alignment of voting patterns toward the Democratic party and away from the Republican party. His chart reinforces the idea that it is not naiveté on the part of young voters in supporting Obama’s Presidential candidacy, it is rather that there has [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]