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May 16, 2008

Say NO to politics on the week-ends…

Aggregated from: Buckaroo Thandi

How was your week-end? I had a fabulous one, spent a lot of time not thinking about our world's decay...I save that for Mondays. Parliament is still stalling, Southern Rhodesia is still sorting out who's worth being President and Obama is not a clear winner yet. So what else is new? I am keeping ...

The US primary Elections and my support for Obama

Aggregated from: Boni Dulani

A number of people have asked me to speed up the entries on the US presidential elections. Here's my first entry, which ends with my endorsement of Barack Obama. The process of picking up the candidates Unlike in our mother Malawi, where all the main parties have effectively picked their candi...

I Dont Want To Pick A Side!

Aggregated from: Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead » USA

Whenever election time comes around and all the candidates become poised in partisan battles the urge for people to label their peers liberal or conservative becomes more appealing. I always find this cycle tiring because friends, family and readers try to slap some sort of label on me and they almo...

Mad At Hillary | SNL Harpoons Hillary Clinton

Aggregated from: The Haitian Blogger

This Saturday Night Live sketch is not pulling any punches. Looks like the Clintons are pissing off more people. They are standing in the glaring light of their own classless blind ambition.The Clintons are gambling that the superdelegates will buy the arguments that 1) her supporters are racist and...

Obama fires back hard at Bush/McCain

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

Obama fires back hard at Bush/McCain “I’m running for president to change course, not to continue George Bush’s course.”Speaking before an audience in Watertown, South Dakota, Barack Obama responded to President Bush's extreme attacks yesterday....

Global: Obama An Apostate?

On May 12, the New York Times published an op-ed by one Edward N. Luttwak from Chevy Chase, Maryland entitled “President Apostate?” Luttwak's op-ed piece details Obama's relationship with Islam (his father, born Muslim, renounced the religion, and Obama became a Christian early in life) and the effects that it could have on global politics and the United States' relations with predominantly Muslim countries.

GOP in trouble in Congressional seat switch

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

GOP in trouble in Congressional seat switchHopefully a sign of things to come. Regardless of who becomes President, they will be working with a Democratic Congress and Senate-Darryl...

Obama - America Can't Afford 4 More Years of George Bush

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

Obama - America Can't Afford 4 More Years of George BushSen. Barack Obama, campaigning in Missouri, says that a McCain presidency would be a third Bush term. This will be a strong campaign message in November. Include the economy and Iraq and I see no way McCain can win.-Darryl...

Bob Barr is running as a Libertarian for president

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

Bob Barr is running as a Libertarian for presidentNot quite Ron Paul, but will at least neutralize Nader-Darryl...

The lost election year, Godfrey Hodgson

Aggregated from: openDemocracy - american power & the world

Hillary Clinton won a handsome victory on 13 May 2008 in the Democratic primary election in West Virginia, whose people are among the poorest, most racially homogeneous, and least educated in the United States. But her success there will not erase Barack Obama's lead in delegates secured for th...