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Post-election potpourri from the presidential campaign
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Barack Obama's victory was deep-running and total. His was a decisive, disciplined enterprise. He increased the Democratic vote over four and eight years ago in just about every demographic except small towns - even in western Pennsylvania, where...
Nov/13/2008 8:08 AM

The potential strength in the new 'Obamanation'
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"What does not destroy me makes me stronger." - Nietzsche And so it is to be President Barack Obama. His seminal victory marks a major moment in the nation's history. It is fundamentally his accomplishment - for minorities and multi-ethnics, for...
Nov/6/2008 8:04 AM

Obama the wrong choice for U.S. voters
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John McCain will get my vote - no question. He easily surpasses Barack Obama in wisdom, values, character, experience, judgment, truth-telling, and his positions on most of the issues. The decision is not even close. The case for McCain is matched by...
Oct/30/2008 11:13 AM

The issue is Obama
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If the economy has taken a clear No. 1 position - beyond terror and national security - as the issue of most concern to the voters, why is the McCain-Palin ticket spending so much time attacking Barack Obama for his past associations? "Because the...
Oct/16/2008 8:08 AM

The debates: Judging Palin-Biden & McCain-Obama II
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What'd you think about the debate? McCain-Obama II? Actually, that one and Palin-Biden. Both. "Let's start with Palin-Biden. She had him for lunch - blew him away. It wasn't even close." But he was so smooth, uptown, on top of his facts. She was so..
Oct/9/2008 8:12 AM

Pols, the press, and the financial crisis
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Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, The New York Times and others of that ilk insist the distress in the financial system and the failure thus far to fix it is all the fault of - yes - the Republicans. Obama: "This crisis is a direct result of a philosophy...
Oct/2/2008 8:00 AM

The credit panic: Cutting through the shamanistic voodoo
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In the sciences of finance and economics, what is the credit panic all about - and what can be done about it? "First a point about your central assumption: Finance and economics are not true sciences. They are not like chemistry or physics or...
Sep/25/2008 5:34 AM

In the solitude of forests, quiet redefined
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Floating the new water(less) closet - an outhouse, actually a porta-potty for stationary use - across the river and wrestling it up the 15-foot bank, the inquiring mind understandably asks, "Why?" The answer is at once simple and complex. The simple...
Sep/18/2008 8:02 AM

Quotables on China, the dong, Obama bias, drilling, reading, etc.
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Quotations on key topical issues. ... Washington Post Foreign Service reporters Jill Drew and Maureen Fan: "Beneath the shimmer (of new construction) and behind the slogan ('One World, One Dream'), China is under criticism for suppressing Tibetan...
Sep/11/2008 8:00 AM

What's so terrific about McCain's Palin pick?
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OK. So how about a single word to describe John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running-mate? "'Sensational.' If he becomes the next president, he may well look back and see this decision - this long Statue-of-Liberty pass...
Sep/4/2008 8:07 AM

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