The Obama Second Term
Tomorrow the Americans vote for their next president. I expect President Obama to be re-elected, and have a few thoughts about the shape of his second term. President Obama It…
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Arab Revolutions Put Iran Attack On Back Foot
There can be little doubt that the Arab revolutions have already transformed the Middle East and look set to continue and deepen that transformation. Dictators in Tunisia, Yemen and, most…
GlobalTV Mocks Hurricane Deaths
Frankenstorm Promo How would you feel about a news organization that treats a hurricane as a campy Halloween ratings booster? I’m appalled. Watch the above clip from GlobalTV last Thursday…
The Impoverishing States of America
Hard times for the working man, indeed. We’re familiar with statistics showing working class wages have stagnated, even declined somewhat, since Reagan waved his wand across the U.S. but it…
Three Reasons why Obama’s Second Term will be a Transformative One
The Great Storyteller Not only America but the rest of the world would benefit from President Obama being voted in for a second term, because that term will be a…
Sound familiar? Ignatieff & Obama and their election platforms
Planless Obama & Ignatieff Having singlehandedly wiped out nine months of campaigning by blowing the first debate, President Obama has now finally released his plan for his next term: Obama’s…
Obama & Romney: What their handwriting reveals
President Obama’s handwriting Many believe that you can read a person’s character by studying their handwriting. A report in Ynetquotes the findings of a graphologist for the two gladiators. According…
Better Homes & Bomb Shelters
Hallowe’en is fast approaching, and the eerie spectre of a potential Romney election win is casting a pall over the southern horizon. How does a prudent real estate speculator in…
Benghazi: Fresh News about Drones, Mobs, Terrorists and the American reaction
US drone at Benghazi Here are fresh details about the Benghazi attack and the American response while the Ambassador and others were fighting for their lives: A U.S. ambassador is…
Battleground States: Romney now leads Obama in 11 states
And the winner is ….? Romney now leading in 11 Battleground States, says the Rasmussen survey of those states released on Monday October 22, before the final debate: In the…
Political gravestone for President Obama if he loses
The arc of the presidential campaign of 2012 would be a fitting inscription for a political tombstone should President Obama not win re-election. The CNN Poll of Polls as of…
Will Romney win the "jobs" argument and therefore Pennsylvania?
This Republican analysis thinks so: Our latest Pennsylvania poll conducted 10/11-10/13 and released by the Washington Examiner October 18thshows Mitt Romney has taken the lead over President Obama by a…
Obama & Romney: Who is the "change"candidate this time?
President Obama surged to victory in 2008 riding the twin horses of “hope” and “change”, in the process beating off Hillary Clinton and then The Maverick and his moose-hunting Veep…
Debate 3: President Obama’s Last Chance to Channel Moses
Moses: Model for Obama? Alan Schroeder, Journalism Professor at Northeastern U, has an interesting post in Huffington Post entitled The Dramatic Arc of the 2012 Presidential Debates. It is worth…
Presidential Election: The Battle of the Pollsters
Nate Silver – 538 pollster While most Americans are focusing on the battle between Obama and Romney, hardcore political junkies (such as you) are also darting from one poll to…
Debate 2 Obama & Romney: The role of the moderator and questions for CNN
Romney, Crowler, Obama The furor over the intervention by moderator Candy Crowler in the second presidential debate has not died down, nor will it before November 6. The Republicans are…
Debate 2: The Benghazi Question – Was moderator Crowley briefed beforehand?
President Obama in the Rose Garden Lots of airtime about the Libyan attack on America’s consulate, and lots of confusion about whether the Obama administration deliberately avoided linking the attack…
Presidential race: It all comes down to Ohio
As this mapshows: No wonder so much money is being spent on ads in Ohio.
Is Obama writing off Florida, North Carolina and Virginia?
The dust has barely started settling from Debate 2 and the rumour mills are grinding, grinding, grinding … Daily Kos has this comment on a possible abandonment of 57 electoral…
Mitt Romney’s China Doctrine
Every president needs a foreign policy doctrine (ala the Monroe Doctrine) to act as a package for his foreign policies. What will Romney’s Doctrine be? Romney has told Americans what…