The Business Ethic in Politics
Follows a brief against the shortest book in the world – business ethics. Their are businesses that make a central place for ethics in decision making. They thrive well. But they seem a tiny...
View ArticleWhy Obama and Not Hillary Would Beat McCain soundly
John McCain is the most experienced policy MAKER running in this election. Most candidates, certainly the two remaining Democrats, have far fewer years in politics. How are the dynamic duo doing...
View ArticleSherrod Brown and Obama on Restoring America's Economy
Sherrod Brown in The Nation: I've talked to Barack a lot about his Patriot Corporation Act, which is not trade per se, but it's certainly part of the economic package around globalization. The Patriot...
View ArticleBush-McCain's Nixonian Appeasment Slur
The tag team of Bush and McSame seem to be singing an old song about tomatoes and potatoes. You say Obama I say Carter - in public. But in private the Bush tricksters made clear the slur from the...
View ArticleHills Kentucky Folly
There are a lot of reasons Kentucky voted for Hillary and Oregon voted for Obama yesterday. Mainly Oregon is one of the more liberal states in the country - it will voe Democratic in 2008 as certainly...
View ArticleTwo Paths Hill Might Go By
There is still time to change the road she is on but Hill seems far too comfortable with forcing the sort of divided Convention that surely brought Richard Nixon his bare win in 1968. That is the race...
View ArticleMr Obama's Team of Rivals
The best way off Hills cliff? A public announcement of inclusion in a Lincoln like Cabinet comprising many of this years Democratic contenders for President might fit that prescription to a tee. And...
View ArticleSuprise Veep Stakes
Thinking outside the box is a cliche about avoiding cliches. But Try it for a moment. we are all vested in some established mover and shakers next move up but we might best counter the GOP's next...
View ArticleWednesdays Child
May be full of grace. Keith Olberman reported tonight that Clinton staffers are getting one way tickets home or one way tickets to Wednesday's New York City victory gala which may become a wake for...
View ArticleSmashing McCain Talking Points
Kossacks - Now that the past is gone - To the water cooler debates! Now is the time to strike the decisive blow for a new and lasting realignment in our politics. Disposing of McCain talking points...
View ArticleAmong Tom Freidman's Victims
The neo-con arm chair wariors prime victim is the illusion all of us with family serving in the military need to hold near sometimes. When they destroy those illusions they can make us all feel as...
View ArticleDon't Give Up on Bushville
The same old advice just shouldn't be taken this year. We need to compete everywhere now. It's very different this year. First we have a candidate who can raise more money than the GOP. Second we...
View ArticleWhy McCain Lost
(post on the first Wed in November)The main difference between tickets was the ability to inspire hope in a very dark day. Obama won by mobilizing a significant army of volunteers in bringing new...
View ArticleYour 50 State Strategy
Your Part of the 50 State Campaign has begun with the same sort of effort that was the start of Barrack Obama's public life. Obama's first months in Chicago were spent registering voters in an effort...
View ArticleDestroying McSame's "Bush Who?" Dodge
Among the causes of the incredibly poor quality of the McCain campaign is a real ambivalence over whom messages should be tailored toward.Especialy the last GOP campaign directed most themes to the...
View ArticleDead Skunks clogging Middle of the Road
McCain's recent postures in the Senate were sufficient to nail down the nomination. But only under extreme duress. The GOP infighting was beginning to look an awful lot like an old and often accurate...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Armies
All the words spoken by and about candidates and their lives and causes profoundly change the country. Many of the well honed arguments in public forums like this can enter and shape the outcome of...
View ArticleObama Responds to Mccains Oily Flip Flop and Fly
I want to spend a few words in defense of poor Johnny McCain. Charitably McCain doesn't know enough about much to have any firm opinions on tough questions. Can a man with easy convictions borne of a...
View ArticleJohnny McCains Free Pass on Public Finance Cheating
Never has the press man crush on McCain been more evident than on reporting about public finance. The press has ignored the cheating of the public system McCain just accomplished in the primaries....
View ArticleSummer soldiers in the FISA battle
The FISA battle hasn't even reaches the Senate. And many on this forum are deserting the last chance to strip it of it's odious provision - Telecom immunity. With friends like some here no movement...
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