Tag: democrats
member name: John M.
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November 15, 2006 09:36 AM EST --
For twelve long years the Democratic Party has been relegated to a backwater societal role equivalent to the "Ungodly Unwashed" of premodern India. The recent tumultuous election rinsed all of . . . more
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November 26, 2006 04:36 PM EST --
I disagree with all the conservative pundits who say that the Democrats have no mandate from the voting public. But then again, I also disagree with old line liberals who assert that now is the time to . . . more
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July 15, 2007 10:02 PM EDT --
Why did the failed immigration bill insist on a path to citizenship as one of it's provisions? That provision was the major reason the American people rose up with such fury against passage. For . . . more
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December 03, 2006 04:07 PM EST --
Everyone has been puzzled as to why Bush waited till after the election to announce that Rumsfeld was leaving when it may have served his interests and those of the Party to do so prior to the vote. The . . . more
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October 28, 2006 11:07 AM EDT --
It's raining heavily this Saturday in Connecticut and the winds are gusting at 25 to 40 mph. Folks are home for the weekend and happy not to have to go out and shatter the pervasive stillness with . . . more
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November 10, 2006 09:58 AM EST --
I just finished reading Paul Krugman's article in today's New York Times. He is positively giddy and couldn't help "flashing" a long past article of his having predicted this outcome. . . . more
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November 17, 2006 08:35 AM EST --
Most of the scuttle but around the Democratic Majority Leader position centered on the role played by Nancy Pelosi. Why was this so important to her that she would risk almost certain defeat on this, her . . . more
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March 01, 2007 10:57 AM EST --
It was only yesterday when I suggested that Al Gore was a better prospect for the Presidency than either Hillary Clinton, who really hasn't earned the distinction of deserving to be considered for . . . more
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December 20, 2006 10:54 AM EST --
We have to be very careful about trying to apply American analogies to the Iraqi mindset. They do not think or behave in ways that we recognize. In todays New York Times, Tom Friedman lists some fifteen . . . more
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January 08, 2007 11:16 AM EST --
Yesterday on "Meet the Press" Joe Biden debated Lindsay Graham about the Presidents, not yet fully revealed plan for a troop surge in Iraq. The widely respected Lindsay, who never once interrupted . . . more
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April 25, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
In an editorial piece the Wall Street Journal today prospectively calls Iraq, "Harry's War".
Their point is that if we withdraw despite protests by the President the Democrats would be . . . more
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July 09, 2007 08:55 PM EDT --
Barack Obama, to date, has a seeming lock on second place in the Democratic Presidential campaign. His supporters are getting nervous because he shows no signs of gaining against Hillary Clinton. For weeks . . . more
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July 30, 2007 10:10 AM EDT --
At this cross section of time in the Democratic Presidential Campaign some important patterns of emphasis are emerging. Simply stated, Hillary's campaign, for example, is attempting to emphasize and . . . more
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August 09, 2007 07:54 AM EDT --
What does it mean that Hillary Clinton, who in her own words has "stood up to that dastardly Right Wing Conspiracy for the last fifteen years and become stronger for it", has just had her presidential . . . more
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October 26, 2006 11:02 AM EDT --
One bad choice begets a rash of others. The disparate cacophony of reported facts about the current circumstances in and around Iraq indicate to me that, there are no good choices open to us, none. That . . . more
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November 02, 2006 04:28 PM EST --
Transference is the transfer of memories from some past experience into the present and believing without doubt that the two are one and the same. It results in behavior that may or may not have been suited . . . more
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February 22, 2007 12:39 PM EST --
Yesterdays imbroglio between Hillary and Barack was ignited surprisingly early in the campaign and as it unfolded proved to be quite revealing about the leading candidate. Hillary Clinton has just demonstrated . . . more
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May 03, 2007 10:13 AM EDT --
Republican and Democratic primary debates may provide good theater for political junkies but for Joe and Mary Lou American they are sterile. They lack imagination, creativity, excitement, inspiration and . . . more
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February 28, 2007 10:27 AM EST --
This upcoming presidential election shows promise of upending, to the delight of most Americans, the present odds on favorites from both parties. The campaigns have started so terribly early that they . . . more
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November 08, 2006 10:05 AM EST --
Rx for losers: What will happen to every ones failed predictions? There is a guaranteed prescription for every such errant prognostication. For those eligible for Medicare, prescription drugs, the painful . . . more
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