It’s easy to be amazed by Barack Obama’s meteoric ascent. If someone had told you five years ago that a 47 year old African American with limited experience in public office who was more liberal than Hillary Clinton was in the driver’s seat for the 2008 presidential race, would you have believed it? I read […]
Barack Obama: Imagine the Future & Reflections on The VP Debate Read More »
No one who’s President (or close to it) is above criticism. Even titans like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson got ripped in the media by a journalist named James Callender (it was Callender who broke the story about Thomas Jefferson allegedly fathering several children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemmings). Given that this is
John McCain: Maybe He Really is a Maverick Read More »
Notes to Readers: 1. Please go to the “What’s New” section to see updates on some of my new projects. 2. Next week I’m planning on blogging about John McCain and in two weeks my topic will be on Barrack Obama. I’ve been doing a lot of interesting reading recently, and I wanted to
Here’s something that is hardly a newsflash: George W. Bush is not currently very popular. This was not the case in the past and—surprisingly—it might not be the case in the future. Consider the presidency of Harry Truman whose popularity was remarkably low at times, yet he is widely admired today (especially among
Bush and September 11 Read More »
Media figures and politicians on both sides of the fence are working hard to spin the selection of Sarah Palin as Republican vice presidential candidate. Some would have you believe that Palin is the second coming of, um, Eleanor Roosevelt (if Roosevelt had been a Republican, a governor, a Vice President, and a beauty
Spinning Sarah Palin Read More »
