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if you really love a country, let it go

by Ian Schuldt | Moderate | Comments (0)

Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Clinton campaign knows this. That is why they have decided to release a photo of Barack Obama in a turban. The idea being if she can just make the country think twice about Obama for any reason, she might be able to squeak by in Texas and Ohio.
I […]

“hope” explained

by Steve Cooney | Moderate | Comments (0)

It’s difficult to be a male college student who supports Clinton, especially when you’re missing the point about what makes Obama so appealing. Unfortunately, Billary and McCain and many of their followers seem to be unable to wrap their heads around Obama’s success in recent weeks. Billary chalks it up to big crowds and remarkable […]

superdelegates are attacking! but leave the kryptonite at home

by Robert DeFrance | Moderate | Comments (0)

Superdelegates are not voted in, not selected, nor elected. They are the party elite: former governors, elected officials, chairpersons of the Democratic convention, etc. Though not elected, their position allows them to subtly override the popular vote by putting forth their own nominee. But in a race as close as Clinton-Obama (neither of whom are […]

movement against the machine

by Ari Holtz | Moderate | Comments (0)

Why is Sen. Barack Obama the front-runner to be the Democratic nominee for president? He really has no business being so. He’s a black man. He has next-to-no national political experience. His Senatorial accomplishments are minimal. He’s skinny. He looks more like a recent Ph.D. recipient in comparative literature than he does a potential commander […]

no hope for hillary/mccain

by Jeremy Skinner | Democrat | Comments (0)

Lately, as a segue into drawing distinctions between himself and the soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee, Barack Obama has been praise-mocking John McCain for his “half-century” of service to the nation. McCain responded by suggesting an Obama-McCain debate on age, in which he would no doubt accentuate his most recent message: “That young whippersnapper doesn’t know […]

the blurry line between government and corporations

by Boris Glebov | Socialist | Comments (0)

There are two common misconceptions that always irk me. The first is that private companies always do it better than government. The second is that free market economy is in all cases better.
Why are private companies not more efficient than government? The problem here is not political or economic ideology. It is the size of […]

american misogyny: alive and kicking

by Cameron Contois | Moderate | Comments (0)

Imagine standing in a crowd of people, looking up at a dark skinned man behind a navy blue podium. In his deep, moving voice, he says: “We must continue to be a nation that strives always to give each of our children a better future… so, today we say with one voice — give us […]

democrats: abstain!

by Andrew Bosworth | Democrat | Comments (0)

In normal times, it would make sense to support the candidacy of the Democratic Party. But we are not in normal times.
What happened in 2000 was no less than revolutionary - a party was radicalized, a state was captured, a bureaucracy was purged, courts were stuffed and a cultural decency crusade was launched. It was […]

fidel - 1 : US - 0

by Sandra Kinne | Democrat | Comments (0)

In March 2004, thanks to an academic license and a semester-long course in graduate school, I spent a week in Havana with two dozen classmates and administrators from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
As I talk about in “90 miles,” Cuba is a paradox of an island nation. It is both […]

presidential vices

by Emma Onom | Republican | Comments (0)

Read Justin Roper’s rebuttal to this article: “rebuttal to: presidential vices“
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Every presidential candidate has their vices, whether true or made up by the media. Bill Clinton was a womanizer, Ross Perot was just plain crazy. John Kerry wasn’t a good enough vet, and George W. Bush wasn’t really a vet at all. John McCain sleeps […]