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When I worked in the US Senate from 1998-2000 as a staffer I ran into a lot of politicians at work. It was routine to see Senator so and so from some state, many of whom you know well from their tenure’s in government.
I remember walking into the bathroom down the hall from my office […]
Barack Obama, the most inspiring presidential candidate since JFK, recently has been getting hammered on by the Clinton machine. The Clinton machine is trying to make him out as a lightweight and Hillary as the heavyweight. Barack needed to respond to the challenge and in front of 15,000 people the other day in Hartford he […]
Tonight was some of the best political theater I have seen in a long time. As a ten year old I remember watching the election results come in as Ronald Reagan absolutely trounced Walter Mondale, only a few years ago watching late into the night as Norm Coleman beat Walter Mondale in a senate race […]
The other day I happened to hear that Oprah Winfrey endorsed Barack Obama for the Presidency in 2008. This, according to Oprah, is the first time she has endorsed a candidate of any kind. When asked what she thought of Hillary Clinton, Oprah responded diplomatically that she was not against any candidate, only that she […]
My student worker Michelle recently attended the CPAC conference in Washington, D.C. CPAC for you who have no idea what I am talking about is the Conservative Political Action Committee. This is a PAC, or Political Action Committee that is powerful in conservative Republican politics.
There were a few thousand attendees who voted on […]