Archive for April, 2008

Dirty Tactics?

Today I don’t want to talk about the Presidential election. There’s lots of time until the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, and all the behind-the-scenes stuff and the nasty campaigning can wait until another day.
Today I want to talk about another kind of dirty political tactics!
The New York Post and the New York Times both led [...]

Hillary Clinton Wins Pennsylvania!

The Polls closed in Pennsylvania and Hillary Clinton was projected as the winner within less than an hour.
Hillary won in almost every category of voter, except African Americans, 92% of whom voted for Obama.
So the former front-runner, now “come-from-behind” candidate has done it again, winning four of the last five primaries, even though the media and Democratic honchos keep telling [...]

Pennsylvania Political Primaries

It’s less than twenty-four hours until the polling places open in Pennsylvania.
With massive ad expenditures, Barack Obama has tried to bring this primary season to a close by preventing Hillary Clinton from a runaway, double-digit victory that was forecast sometime in the past. We will see if the money spent on ads paid off for [...]

How Much Are Our Politics About Comfort?

I was reading a rather interesting post this morning about American’s feelings towards China, in view of the recent Tibetan confrontations. As I read the article and the comments by other readers, I really started to think (even though it’s the weekend).
The way I see it, Americans seem to want to focus on the human [...]

The Democratic Race Oozes On

Last night’s Democratic Presidential debate in Philadelphia was the first televised debate after the ’stumbling and mumbling, mistakes and misspeaks’ of the last two months.
Hillary Clinton’s supporters felt that she made the most points, while Barack Obama’s supporters were irritated that the anchors kept bringing up trivial issues from the past. Those “trivial issues”, like [...]