Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the U.N. General Assembly today in New York – amid protests from street-level Jewish/human-rights groups, Western governments, media pundits, the east-side traffic displaced, and a Nobel laureate. There is a lot of bluster around Ahmadinejad. Some of it is dangerous. Some of it is without direction. But it is somewhat […]
Forget Palin: Will McCain Win the Hispanic Vote?
In a dramatic break from the Democratic Party, Miguel Lausell has endorsed John McCain. The move by the Puerto Rican businessman and longtime Democratic activist and fundraiser is a significant departure and a bruise for Senator Obama’s campaign, reminiscent of the erosion Senator Clinton faced in the waning days of her Democratic primary bid. […]
Tears and Bookends
8 25 08 Tears and Bookends By Mary Lyon What a great opening night! And what an historic journey the Democratic National Convention highlighted in its kickoff. It was a night of Great Democratic Bookends. The evening began with America’s little girl, Caroline Kennedy, the embodiment of what many of us remember as the best […]
When You Act Like a Jerk, You’re Gonna be Treated Like a Jerk
It would be one thing if John Edwards’ big boo-boo stood alone. But it isn’t working out that way. Enough by now has been written about the bimbo eruption itself, the charismatic married Democrat and the “other woman,” the betrayed wife, the irate and brokenhearted supporters. Hmm… sounds familiar. Didn’t we just go through this […]
Even in Palestine, Barack Obama in the News
Posted by Jillian York to Global Voices Online Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is making headlines this week in the Palestinian blogosphere: partly for his impending visit to the West Bank and partly for his turn on the cover of this week’s New Yorker. Of the former, Gaza Strip: The Untold Story says: Finally, we Palestinians […]
Hillary says sorry for Kennedy remark
Hillary Clinton quickly apologized on Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F Kennedy in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds. "I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any […]
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