Posts Tagged ‘ Senator Barack Obama ’

In the closing days of this historic presidential campaign, a lot of noise has been made by the Republicans, John McCain and right wing ideologues about the amount of money senator Barack Obama has raised in his quest to be the next president of the United States of America. John McCain has complained about...
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In the most profound show of lilly-livered, wimpy and cowardly display of journalistic ethos, the American media brazenly towed the official line of right-wing ideologues in suppressing the most powerful aspect of General Colin Powell’s endorsement of Senator Barack Obama’s candidacy for the U.S presidency this past week. In the course of the most...
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For quite a while, I actually enjoyed listening to Lou Dobbs on CNN. I religiously followed what I assumed were intelligent discussions of pressing issues, especially when it had to do with capital flight and the so-called war on the middle class, outsourcing and disappearing jobs in America. But the more I listen to...
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It has now been confirmed that the Bush administration has removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. “Based upon the cooperation agreement North Korea has recently provided … the secretary of state this morning rescinded the designation of the DPRK as a state sponsor of terrorism,...
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Remarks of Senator Barack Obama–as prepared for delivery Chillicothe, Ohio Friday, October 10, 2008 We meet at a moment of great uncertainty for America. In recent weeks, we’ve seen a growing financial crisis that’s threatening not only banks and businesses, but your economic security, as well. It’s getting harder and harder to get a loan for that...
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The presidential debates have begun and we just witnessed the first one. While we will leave it to pundits and spin masters to debate about who won or lost, one thing that was very apparent was that should senator Barack Obama be lucky enough to win this election, he will owe an eternal debt...
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The campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama have been on the verge of being dismissed as another go-round of “stupid” politics with the dangerous veering toward the ridiculous. The latest round of this is the recent spat between the Obama  and McCain campaigns over “lipstick on a pig” comments. As anyone who has...
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One thing that has become a constant in this political cycle is the barage of polls to which all of us have been subjected. While these are not necessarily bad, the nature of the recent polling procedure inevitably leads one to ask the question “Are polls racially biased”?
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In this earlier post, I made the argument that if Senator Barack Obama “announces a male Vice Presidential candidate, he should be sure that the Republicans and Senator John McCain will use that against him in the general elections, or worse yet, introduce a female VP candidate”. That indeed became reality now that both...
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There have speculations in the media that Senator Barack Obama will ultimately name a male candidate for the position of Vice President in his campaign for the White House. Let it be stated here first, that that move alone may cost the senator from Illinois his bid for the Presidency.
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