Sometimes what hurts a President or a political party is not the quality of his/their ideas so much as the timing. John Quincy Adams was a nationalist, meaning he wanted the USA to get bigger and stronger. He wanted the country to be more of a player in international affairs. Unfortunately, many people in the […]
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The story that most quickly comes to mind when people talk politics and the upcoming elections is that the economy is still in rough shape. Is it too late for Democrats to change that story? Yes and no. It is definitely too late for congressional Democrats. Most people would say that Democrats have had two
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I remember being in graduate school and hearing a professor say that there really wasn’t much difference between fundamentalist Christians in America and fundamentalist Muslims in the Middle East. He made his remarks a few years before 9-11, though, so I wonder if he still feels the same today. On one side of the equation,
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In a speech on foreign policy recently, specifically the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said that, really, our priority needs to be the American economy. I was struck with how much the President’s priorities were just the opposite of Richard Nixon’s, which certainly doesn’t sound like a bad thing, but let me
I find it interesting how hard it is to please the critics of Presidents. Let me give you some examples. Democrats mocked George Bush for being a flip-flopper after he famously said, “Read my lips: No new taxes” then he agreed (with the Democrat-controlled Congress) to the biggest tax increase in American history. Later, Democrats
