So, Hillary this week graciously offered to debate Barack mano a mano. No moderator.
Set their own rules. Ask each other questions and answer them.
Millions of people across the country would be THRILLED to have a debate without moderators.
But can we really recreate the pure raw power of the Santos-Vinick debate (from the final season of [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:51 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
I can name a few things:
Revisiting a place I lived in or visited in the past on Google Earth
Searching for that perfect fretless bass on eBay
Accidentally starting a round of Polar Pool (okay, accidentally on purpose, but I didn’t think I’d be up half the night!)
Reconfiguring my Fantasy Baseball Team
Installing the newest version of my [...]
Wow! I’ve not been on this site for a week and look at what I’ve missed! First, some observations about the current political scene:
1) Here’s a news flash–Hillary lied about her “recollections” about Bosnia! I never would have guessed it. How many Democrats are out there that think Bill got a raw deal as President, [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Sunday, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:37 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Chet Culver, Democratic Party, Des Moines Register, Eliot Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, Iowa General Assembly, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Labor Unions, Rudy Giuliani
This had been a disconcerting election year so far, and certainly we still have a long road ahead, but the state of the Democratic Party, and the latest Gallup Poll, are giving me reason to smile today.
Democrats really don’t know what they want any longer. They’ve found themselves stuck with either a chronic liar, or [...]
Today we got to see some of the substance of Barack Obama’s plan for solving the current economic crisis. Both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal have good write-ups.
Obama’s approach includes:
More power to the Federal Reserve over non-bank investment firms that borrow from the central bank
A ‘financial oversight commission”
$30 billion in aid for financially stressed [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Tuesday, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:15 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Banks, Barack Obama, Business, Democratic Party, Economy, Federal Reserve, Hillary Clinton, Markets, Mortgages, Recession
Well, Hillary appears to be attempting to make EVERYONE happy.
More government money to rescue folks who simply bought more house than they could afford. According to a Wall Street Journal story Tuesday, Hillary proposes:
Freezing Forclosures for 90 days
Freezing Interest-rate Resets on Sub-primes for 5 years
Establish a $30 billion fund so states and cities can [...]
Geraldine Ferraro is the next contestant on “Who Wants The Most Media Attention?”. Today she resigned from Hillary’s Finance Committee because of remarks considered racist regarding Obama. She had essentially said that Obama’s campaign was having such huge success because he was black (Hillary’s gender has nothing to do with her success). [...]
I had the privilege of participating as a delegate to my first Republican Polk County (Iowa) convention. It was a great experience. We ended up with significantly more people than expected (usually 50% of the elected delegates show up, we had about 70%+) which had a big impact on our start time and [...]
Both Democratic candidates were asked if they would consider the other as a running mate. Neither gave a smart answer. Each of them is fighting to set themselves apart from the other, and yet when asked about the VP slot, each gave an answer that suddenly sounded like they could easily work side-by-side. [...]
According to the AP, McCain now has enough delegates to be the Republican Nominee for President.
Now that we’re here, let’s focus on what we can do to make the party as effective as possible. We have a platform to deal with, we have House and Senate seats to win, we need to build the [...]
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