Democrat platform - familiar themes and contrasts, plus the wonky bits
As a policy document, one could get lost in the weeds about NATO, North Korea and loose nukes, but the wonky bits in the 2012 Democratic National Platform don't start until halfway through the forty...
View ArticleDemocrats say value in American Dream is in who you are
One of the earliest speeches to the delegates of the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday evening, came from a man in a white cowboy hat - Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar. It kind of set the...
View ArticleJerusalem, God amendments to Democratic platform added on close vote
In what can easily be described as an uncomfortable three minutes for the Democratic National Convention, its chairman, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, was forced to take three, apparently...
View ArticleA verdict to be rendered, votes to be gathered, a victory to be won
There is a two part movie analogy to what took place at the Democratic National Convention, in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week. One is the the trial drama, where the parade of witnesses for the...
View ArticleCome up with a position - Mitt will be along shortly
He has been running for president of the United States for almost six years, and there are still so many doubts about his backbone and his political footing that opposing party partisans are not the...
View ArticleClinton: ‘A positive direction’ ahead for relations with the Muslim world
U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary R. Clinton, hosted an Eid ul-Fitr celebration, Thursday night, at the State Department, marking the end of the Muslim Ramadan month of fasting.After acknowledging the...
View ArticlePeace withers when religion tramples the vine
Faith requires so little - only the willingness to abandon what one knows to be true in family and society, in favor of something less certain, outside one's usual life experience. That is where a...
View ArticleRomney's Core
Given all the different positions that Mitt Romney has taken throughout his political career, it may be easy to label him a liar and a flip-flopper. But if voters are looking for the "real" Mitt, they...
View ArticleIt's not the debates; it's de base
Forget about a campaign "reset" from the Obama camp, Thursday evening, or anytime during the next twenty-odd days until the election results are final. Forget about the hand wringing and the forget...
View ArticleTruth slightly distorted - the Republicans' latest cobbled frame
"The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted." -G.C. Lichtenberg, 18th Century scientist and satirist Word has come, from a piece in New York Magazine, that former President George W....
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Administration Benghazi story consistent with intelligence docs
Fire burns in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi after the attack there on September 11, 2012. (Photo credit: Voice of America)News reports appeared, Friday night, that it was not al-Qaeda that was...
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What's so foreign about foreign policy?
In a time when so much of U.S. foreign policy involves our global military footprint, ongoing engagements, waning engagements and threatening engagements, it's easy to think that war is the sole...
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Commander in Chief vs Commander of Shift
"You said that, first, we should not have a timeline in Afghanistan. Then you said we should. Now you say maybe or it depends, which means not only were you wrong, but you were also confusing in...
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Sandy's reality provides opportunity for Obama 'One America' redux
"For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga, a belief that we are all connected as one people... "It is that fundamental belief - it is that fundamental...
View ArticleFor Obama, it's really always been about unity
If there was ever a question about which commitment President Barack Obama has made in his life that will live beyond his presidency, it is his stubborn belief that a united America, without the...
View ArticleFiscal cliff compromise a wolf in elephant's clothing
Here we go again. The Republicans are skipping down the path toward obstructionism, aiming to get away with doing the least by convincing us it is the most they can do. It isn't. They will give it...
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Wal-Mart protesters call for workers’ rights
Workers' rights are human rights. That's what one hand painted sign said at a protest outside a Wal-Mart store in Decatur, Georgia, Friday. About two dozen protesters stood on the sidewalk across the...
View ArticleSaxby Chambliss' red scare
Remember when the "red scare" was the fear of Communism creeping across the globe, where right wing politicians warned us that a commie could be hiding behind any tree, on the street where you live?...
View ArticleRepublicans shameless attacks based on sham principles
It's probably a holdover from war propaganda technique. Dehumanize your enemy; make them less sympathetic. For Republicans, that requires inventing an artificial social standard for which they can...
View ArticleMichigan attempt to stifle labor puts politics ahead of people
President Obama, Monday, drew a parallel between the divisive politics of the federal budget's so-called fiscal cliff, and the politics of the Michigan governor's fight against unions. "These so-called...
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