October 4, 2008
October 3, 2008
Europe’s response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia was very moderate. The U.S. called for political isolation, Nicholas Sarkozy went to Moscow as head of a European delegation. The U.S. wanted Russia to withdraw immediately, while Europe was satisfied with one or even two months later. Th...
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: a) Barack Obama is winning America over as Tony Blair did Britain in 1997; and b) if America wakes up on November 5th to an Obama victory, it will be a similar feeling of a new dawn - and of a sudden, overnight and irrevocable dismissal of an o...
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Disclaimer: This rant on Palin does not mean I support Obama/Biden. I don’t because on foreign policy they are one in the same. I support Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney. Although I’ve been following the Palin fiasco each day, I hadn’t planned on blogging about it. Mostly it’s been for my...
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It was reported last Monday - it missed the radar thus far - that Barack Obama’s campaign received many millions of dollars from individuals who, as of yet, remain anonymous. Most of these individuals, it seems, live in foreign countries and… are unlikely to be American citizens. Rather,...
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For what could very well be the first time in history, Pakistani feminists and religious conservatives agree with each other: the way Prime Minister Asif Ali Zardari treated Sarah Palin - John McCain’s running mate - was unacceptable. When Zardari met Palin he told her she looked “gorgeo...
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“We’ve got to remember what the desire is in this nation at this time. It is for no more politics as usual and somebody’s big fat résumé that maybe shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment, where, yes, they’ve had opportunities to meet heads of state.” If I didn’t ...
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