Archive for January, 2008

Countdown to Super Tuesday

With only five days remaining until Super Tuesday, tempers are rising and candidates are fading.
John Edwards chose New Orleans, where his campaign started, to withdraw from the race. He has NOT thrown his support to either of the two remaining candidates in the Democratic field. Staffers have been quoted as saying that he doesn’t feel [...]

From Florida to the White House?

The results came in last night for the Florida Republican Primary. As I watched the results being tallied from time to time, it appeared that for once the pollsters predicted results perfectly.
John McCain and Mitt Romney were in front from the very beginning, with Rudy Guiliani at third place, Mike Huckabee in fourth and Ron [...]

State of the Union: Bipartisan Finger Pointing

It never ceases to amaze me that any two supposedly intelligent people can look at an issue and come up with diametrically opposed opinions. Such is the case with last night’s State of the Union Address and the rebuttal.
If you watched George W. Bush deliver his seventh, and final, State of the Union address you [...]

A President Like My Father!

Probably one of the most stunning after-effects of the BIG Barack Obama win in the South Carolina Primary, didn’t come out of South Carolina, but from an entirely different, and mostly unexpected, corner.
Carolyn Kennedy, daughter of the late-President John F. Kennedy has been pretty close-mouthed about her preferences for a Presidential candidate in the 2008 Campaign. [...]

Obama Wins BIG in South Carolina Primary!

Early yesterday evening, the results of the Democratic Primary in South Carolina were announced. Barack Obama won, and he won BIG!
With more than twice as many votes as his nearest rival, Hillary Clinton, Obama garnered more votes than Clinton and John Edwards COMBINED! As for the ‘Billary campaign’, Clinton didn’t even stay around until [...]