Posted in News, Politics on Jan 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
The dynamics of the campaign for the presidency shifted dramatically over the weekend as race and gender came to the fore. Hillary mastered “Meet the Press” with Russert the Terrible on Sunday and forthrightly proclaimed that the campaign is not about race or gender … although it is. Either a black man or a woman [...]
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Posted in Politics on Jan 10th, 2008 No Comments »
That famous Tax-a-chusetts pseudo Frenchie John Kerry is about to endorse the latest French-like Demo party candidate Barack Obama, according to The New York Times blog “The Caucus.” This is supposed to help Obama but does Kerry’s opinion carry any weight? If you want another Kerry-like candidate who will speak in circuitious platitudes and talk “change” and [...]
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Posted in News, Politics on Jan 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Way back in 2000 when Hillary was running for her first term for Senate in New York against the pugnacious Rudy Giuliani before he dropped out she of course did the fund raising thing in Southern California. One stop was at the Hollywood Hills estate of the Producer of the movie American Beauty. I don’t [...]
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Posted in News, Politics on Jan 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Posted in News, Politics on Dec 28th, 2007 No Comments »
That’s what the cab driver said as I slid in. He was holding up the New York Daily News. “The government shot that woman. How could they do that?”
He was Pakistani, like many New York cab drivers, and he was articulating the prevailing sentiment - that the government of Pakistan was to blame for the [...]
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Posted in News, Politics on Nov 16th, 2007 No Comments »
The odds were that Barack Obama and John Edwards were going to score major points in the Presidential debates in Las Vegas last night. There were chinks in Hillary’s armor and this was the moment they were going to exploit her weaknesses. What happened? She smoked ‘em.
Get used to it. Hillary Clinton will be the [...]
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Pakistanis are finding ways to break through the info-crackdown by General Musharraf and his gang by getting satellite dishes and becoming info warriors. They are connecting to the Internet and outside news sources and they are blogging from inside the country and aggregating reports from other bloggers. As we have seen from crackdowns in other countries, information has [...]
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