I am now considering how qualified and experienced Nader is for the presidency and he doesn't look good. Then again, neither Kerry nor Edwards has experience leading, either. I'm also considering how effective Nader would be as president. I...
I want to be a centrist: reasonable, willing to see both sides, comfortable with progress through compromise. Arguably the only progress that’s ever made in our political system is the progress that happens when both Republicans and Democrats work together, put aside...
Okay, so there’s this debate going on among leftists and further-to-the-leftists: why elect John Kerry when he’s so centrist it will barely make a difference? The argument is that John Kerry’s record shows that he isn’t nearly as far to the left as he would need to be...
In the July 19 issue of Newsweek, the “Conventional Wisdom” section makes this statement about Vice President Dick Cheney, “Campaigns like Scrooge on tour.” I showed it to the stranger sitting next to me on the train and made a friend, for a moment.
On this Fourth of July, I'd like to remind all those Americans who love to say that we saved France's ass in World War II: 1776 - The signing of the Declaration of Independence took place at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, a war that would drag on into the...
The email gave the backstory as follows: Earlier this year, the web site for the Bush-Cheney campaign - the real one, paid for by MBNA America and Richard Scaife - featured a "create your own banner" tool, that allowed you to enter your own slogan and print out your...
I don’t really know what has gotten into me this year. I started volunteering with the Kucinich campaign last fall motivated by nothing more than boredom and loneliness, and now I’ve taken on personal commitments to do whatever I can to get Bush out of the White House...
Let's bring the troops home now. NOW. The U.S. was wrong to attack Iraq in the first place, it's not on its way to being a Western-style democracy and we're going to end up bringing our troops home in failure anyway, so let's leave now. The insurgents are beginning to...
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Would someone please explain to me what the thinking is of the people who are still planning to vote for George W this November? Anybody? Anybody?
We're eleven days away from the hand-over of power in Iraq and I feel new doubt about our -- the American people -- our decision-making ability. No, we didn't elect George W, but knowing what we know now, would we have allowed him to take office as easily as he did in...
The events themselves were horrifying and numbing at the same time. Constant reviewing of them, trying to determine how everything happened and why, keeps the events alive in my memory along with the pain and grieving I thought I had finished. There is no chance to...