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Winners:
Outsiders – No matter what happens from here on in with the debt ceiling negotiations, those in the best position to exploit it in the 2012 elections will be those who were nowhere near this mess when
Who Won and Who Lost This Week?
by Ronald A. Rowe July 27th, 2011 | Political Opinions, Winners & Losers
It Depends On Your Definition of Bribe
by Ronald A. Rowe June 1st, 2010 | Congress, General Politics, Presidential News
Remember 2008 when Candidate Obama told us he’d run the most ethical White House ever? Remember last week when President Obama held a press conference to tell us that he had the Gulf Coast oil spill under control? Turns out that both were equally true. Which is to say neither is true in any sense of the word.
BP has officially announced that the Top Kill operation touted as a success by the president, has failed. This is bad news for everyone, regardless of political affiliation. So why would the president offer such a premature and rosy evaluation? In order
BP has officially announced that the Top Kill operation touted as a success by the president, has failed. This is bad news for everyone, regardless of political affiliation. So why would the president offer such a premature and rosy evaluation? In order
Bill Clinton’s Victory Lap
by Ronald A. Rowe August 11th, 2009 | General PoliticsAs you may have seen during the few hours of TV talking head time that were not devoted to Michael Jackson this week, American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were released from 'house arrest' in North Korea and given full pardons thanks to the intervention of American diplomat and elder statesman... Bill Clinton?
President Clinton, who most recently has been serving in the capacity of cranky old attack dog for the Democratic Party, stepped up his game and wrangled the journalists' freedom from cranky old crazy man Kim Jong Il in what North Korea described as a token of North
Political Mudslinging
by LJ Dovichi May 8th, 2008 | General Politics, Presidential Election
Why do all political races have to devolve into mudslinging? What is it about politics that makes it less about the issues and more about which candidate is an evil, horrible, untrustworthy person because of someone they may or may not have known when they were eleven?
Anytime I read anything about Democratic politics, it inevitably boils down to Senator Hillary Clinton's camp slinging mud at Senator Barak Obama. How can we Americans make an educated vote for the betterment of our country when the issues aren't being debated? Personally, I don't see how whether or not a candidate wore matching
Anytime I read anything about Democratic politics, it inevitably boils down to Senator Hillary Clinton's camp slinging mud at Senator Barak Obama. How can we Americans make an educated vote for the betterment of our country when the issues aren't being debated? Personally, I don't see how whether or not a candidate wore matching
