5 Reasons Why McCain Is A Better Businessman Than Obama
Posted on July 2, 2008 - Filed Under General
With the US Presidential Election looming on the horizon in just a few short months and the campaign trail hotting up, the issues that are relevant to the American public are coming under scrutiny.
It’s no wonder when you think just how many problems George W Bush will be leaving behind for the next lucky man to sort out. With the economy in such a state, the business sense of both John McCain and Barack Obama is coming into question with some rather unfavorable statements being made about both men.
However, on balance, McCain just beats out Obama when it comes to answering the question of who is a better businessman. There are several reasons why McCain is a better businessman than Obama, 5 of which are outlined below so you can see for yourself just why the Republicans might be a better choice for sorting out the economy than the Democrats: Read more
90 Percent Of Whites Comfortable With Black President
Posted on June 22, 2008 - Filed Under America, Political News, U.S. Elections, Video
The Washington Post reports “an overwhelming public openness to the idea of electing an African American to the presidency.”
In a Post-ABC News poll last month, nearly nine in 10 whites said they would be comfortable with a black president. While fewer whites, about two-thirds, said they would be “entirely comfortable” with it, that was more than double the percentage of all adults who said they would be so at ease with someone entering office for the first time at age 72, which McCain (R-Ariz.) would do should he prevail in November.
But the good news may stop there. “As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice,” according to the same poll. Read more
Can McCain claim the Ron Paul votes?
Posted on June 22, 2008 - Filed Under America, Political News, U.S. Elections
With iconoclast Ron Paul having ended his quixotic bid for the Republican presidential nomination - his platform had called for, among other things, ending the Iraq War, repealing the PATRIOT Act, returning to the gold standard and eliminating taxes on tips - his many dedicated supporters are up for grabs.
Even excluding his support in caucus states, Paul received a few more than a million votes in the Republican primary, finished second in five states including Pennsylvania and Oregon and continued to draw votes well after he’d effectively withdrawn from the race.
His campaign also tapped into the potent new vein of online fundraising, punctuated by the so-called “money bomb” day when his supporters, unaided by his campaign, managed to pump $5 million into his coffers in 24 hours.
It’s a support base that could make the difference in a close election, and while there’s no guarantee that his supporters will turn out at the polls for GOP standard-bearer John McCain, one thing seems clear: Despite their overlapping anti-Iraq war positions, Barack Obama will not make major inroads among them.
Paul’s campaign says he is unlikely to endorse anyone. Absent that endorsement, many of his campaign officials expect Paul’s votes will splinter — and the names of Libertarian candidate Bob Barr and Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin come up at least as frequently as does Obama’s. Read more
Gored: Obama could win vote, lose election
Posted on June 19, 2008 - Filed Under America, Political News, U.S. Elections
Until 2000, it hadn’t happened in more than 100 years, but plugged-in observers from both parties see a distinct possibility of Barack Obama winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College — and with it the presidency — to John McCain.
Here’s the scenario: Obama racks up huge margins among the increasingly affluent, highly educated and liberal coastal states, while a significant increase in turnout among black voters allows him to compete — but not to win — in the South.
Meanwhile, McCain wins solidly Republican states such Texas and Georgia by significantly smaller margins than Bush’s in 2004 and ekes out narrow victories in places such as North Carolina, which Bush won by 12 points but Rasmussen presently shows as a tossup, and Indiana, which Bush won by 21 points but McCain presently leads by just 11.
One possible result: Even as the national mood moves left, the 2004 map largely holds. Obama’s 32 new electoral votes from Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and Virginia are offset by 21 new electoral votes for McCain in Michigan and New Hampshire — and despite a 2- or 3-point popular vote victory for Obama, America wakes up on Jan. 20 to a President McCain.
According to Tad Devine, who served as the chief political consultant for Al Gore in 2000 and as a senior adviser to John F. Kerry in 2004, “it certainly is a possibility. Not a likelihood, but it is a real possibility.” Read more
Clinton asks top donors to meeting with Obama
Posted on June 18, 2008 - Filed Under America, Political News, U.S. Elections
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton plan to meet with some of her top contributors next week in an effort to calm donors who remain frustrated with Obama’s presidential campaign.The meeting is set for June 26 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, several top Clinton fundraisers said Tuesday. The former first lady will introduce Obama to her financial backers.
Jonathan Mantz, Clinton’s national finance director, notified donors about the meeting by e-mail Tuesday and urged them to attend and to contribute to Obama, who clinched the Democratic Party’s nomination on June 3.
Two people closely involved with Clinton’s fundraising said the meeting had taken on added urgency after several of her money “bundlers” complained that they felt their concerns weren’t heard during meetings last week with Obama campaign officials in New York and Washington.
Both individuals spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the meeting. Read more
Over 50,000 peoples have joined the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty
Posted on June 17, 2008 - Filed Under America, Political News, U.S. Elections
Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty has just reached 50% of its membership goal within the first three days and this was a goal set to be reached by September 2, 2008.
That’s over 50,000 people who have joined the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty, Why would so many jump on board with this organization so quickly?
As Ron Paul said himself “These past 17 months have been among the most exciting and eventful of my life”, and his original campaign for the White House was just a wake up call to some Americans who first heard about Ron Paul, he will now take on the larger campaign for freedom that is just getting started.
I get the feeling that this new campaign will be something much bigger and also one that will make a massive difference in small steps, the Campaign for Liberty will “educate Americans in freedom, sound money, non-interventionism, and free markets”.
Ron Paul aims to get the people’s message across at “every level of government” and it’s just this kind of enthusiasm that will make a massive difference bit by bit. Read more
The impact of this election on the Supreme Court
Posted on June 16, 2008 - Filed Under America, Political News, U.S. Elections
Robin Lee has posted a little essay titled: “Reason Number 1 Why Barack Obama Must Win in November.” I found it under the group heading “Barack’s Vice-President and Cabinet.”
The essay discusses some recent rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, which narrowly struck down some of the Bush administrations attempts to subvert the Constitution. Readers will appreciate that Robin’s writing is more concise than mine, but I would like to add a few observations of the subject…
Basically, four of the nine total justices on the Court, including the three who are by far the youngest, are virtually guaranteed to give President Bush a blank check to abuse his authority in any way he chooses. Among the other justices, the youngest, David Souter, will be 69 in September.
Justice Stevens is 88, and the others are in their early to mid seventies. The president we elect this coming November will almost certainly have at least two vacancies to fill among the five justices on the Court who are now willing to rule that President Bush is not above the law. If the next president is reelected in 2012, he will almost certainly be able to create a substantial makeover of the Supreme Court. Read more
Obama The Preferred Candidate Around The World
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under America, Political News, U.S. Elections
WASHINGTON — People around the globe widely expect the next American president to improve the country’s policies toward the rest of the world, especially if Barack Obama is elected, yet they retain a persistently poor image of the U.S., according to a poll released Thursday.
The survey of two dozen countries, conducted this spring by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, also found a growing despondency over the international economy, with majorities in 18 nations calling domestic economic conditions poor.
In more bad news for the U.S., people shared a widespread sense the American economy was hurting their countries, including large majorities in U.S. allies Britain, Germany, Australia, Turkey, France and Japan.
Even six in 10 Americans agreed the U.S. economy was having a negative impact abroad.
Views of the U.S. improved or stayed the same as last year in 18 nations, the first positive signs the poll has found for the U.S. image worldwide this decade.
Even so, many improvements were modest and the U.S. remains less popular in most countries than it was before it invaded Iraq in 2003, with majorities in only eight expressing favorable opinions.
Substantial numbers in most countries said they are closely following the U.S. presidential election, including 83 percent in Japan _ about the same proportion who said so in the U.S. Read more
Obama Moves To The Center
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under America, Political News, U.S. Elections
Barack Obama faces the difficult task of shifting his message away from the primary electorate to general election voters, while avoiding angering the more liberal primary voters who gave him the presidential nomination.
Obama appears at the close of this week to have overcome one of his first hurdles — a furor among labor and activist leaders over his choice of a campaign director of economic policy.
On another potentially dangerous front — building a general election foreign policy team — there is less danger of hostile reaction to the integration of Hillary Clinton advisers into the Obama organization.
Obama’s most provocative move in terms of economic policy has been to hire Jason Furman, who runs the relatively centrist Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution as his staff director for economic policy.
Furman brings with him, as an unpaid adviser, his mentor and the founder of the Hamilton Project, former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, as well as former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Lawrence Summers.
Both men have advocated pro-business policies and balanced budgets, and have been criticized by liberals who seek more government spending. Read more
Michelle Obama becomes GOP target
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under America, Political News, U.S. Elections
It’s less than a week into the general election campaign, but already Michelle Obama is a Republican target.
Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger leveled the first blow, introducing Republican John McCain’s wife at a fundraiser this week as someone who is “proud of her country, not just once but always.”
Obama wasn’t mentioned by name, but the audience got it.
The dig signaled the start of what Democrats expect will be a concerted effort to cast Michelle Obama — and, by extension, Barack Obama — as an unpatriotic radical. It also pointed out the urgency to define Michelle Obama to general election voters before the opposition goes too far in doing it for her, strategists said.
“We live now in an era where everything and everyone is fair game,” said Douglas E. Schoen, who was a pollster and adviser to former President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 2000.
“It is certainly the case that Teresa Heinz Kerry was probably not an asset in John Kerry’s campaign, at least publicly, and the jury is still out on how the public will view Michelle Obama.” Read more
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