Category: Elections & Voting

I try to avoid making commentary out of commentaries of news items. I also try to avoid using the word “I” in my columns overmuch, but the reader shall see how that worked out. This is actually a commentary on …

During a debate this past April, Sen. Barack Obama distanced himself from Weather Underground founder William Ayers by saying, “the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I …

It’s becoming apparent Obama’s developing the strategy of the apology to gain the independent vote. His surrogates go forth making outlandish statements, Obama comes along and apologizes with the usual “I didn’t know but it won’t happen again rhetoric”. Them …

Following the hard lessons of New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s failed attempt to give licenses to illegal aliens and John McCain’s close call with political destruction for supporting Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty in 2007, Barrack Obama has stepped on a …

Over the last several years, numerous editorial letters have been the subject of complaints that American politics do not reflect a true democracy. Many of them suggest that the current electoral system needs to go, and that the popular vote …

For the first time in American history two sitting U.S. Senators will battle for the presidency on November 4, 2008. Barack Obama, Jr. Senator from Illinois and John McCain the GOP’s Senior Senator from Arizona are the top contenders in …

Reading the news and commentary in the last week, we’re to believe that Barack Obama inching to the center of the political spectrum is a clever maneuver. But it has very little to do with being clever. It’s …

The popular phrase used to describe John McCain’s presidential aspirations has been the “Straight Talk Express”. According to the popular myth, John McCain “tells it like it is” and lets you know exactly where he stands. Those that …

Barack Obama has been making some rather astonishing anti-left statements lately. It seems he’s changing his views on a number of critical issues. Political wisdom says it’s the expedient thing to do, political wisdom also says rather than dazzle new …

Senator Obama’s campaign is based upon a fantasy: his claimed ability to transcend politics-as-usual and thereby to unite the nation for a common purpose. It isn’t just that Senator Obama lacks his claimed power. It’s that the secular …

When Barack Obama started his fairy tale run for the White House, the operative word was CHANGE. Change this, change that, change everything, was the promise from the charismatic socialist who set the nation on fire with his youthful …

No, this is not a review of an upcoming Spike Lee film; rather, the title of this offering is a reference to what the town of Unity, N.H. became on Friday June 27, when Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, …

Well, here are your choices in November – a devil or a devil. Maybe the choice could be made easier. After all the saying goes, “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.” Ok, well …

In the 1960s, it might have been a dance craze. In 2008, it may be the coming word in politics – on the Left. And for Barack Obama. The word is “nudge,” as in nudging Americans to …

After his ill-begotten conspiracy with Ted Kennedy to ram amnesty down the throats of the American people failed miserably last summer, John McCain claims to have had a spiritual awakening. Campaigning in South Carolina, McCain said, “”I got the …