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Hoover? Really? Is That Your Best Dig?

Does John McCain understand at all that by trying to taint Barack Obama by using references to Herbert Hoover he’s accomplishing absolutely nothing? I’m older than Obama (just), I love American History, and even I know almostbupkis about the

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My Voting in the 2008 Presidential Race

Like most Americans, I’ve been faced with a tough choice of McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden. While the names are all nice and short, the fact of the matter is that both tickets give me pause. Who will I vote for?

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Why Attack Ads Matter

I loathe political attack ads. They don’t contribute to the constructive debate and are often such a conglomeration of out-of-context snippets (I …

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He ISN’T the Biggest Celebrity in the World

The recent series of ads that the McCain campaign has launched against Obama’s “celebrity” isn’t one of them. Frankly, I’m not a fan of either candidate, so I shouldn’t care, but this is so far out there that I find it galling not so much for what it says, but for how it might tilt the many sheep of the American electorate.

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