"Superstar politicians and superstar quarterbacks have the same kind of delicate egos, and people who live on that level grow accustomed to very thin, rarefied air. They have trouble breathing in lower altitudes; and if they can't breathe right, they can't function."
Less than 24 hours to go. Watching Obama attend the last campaign stop in Iowa this hour. Bruce Springsteen on stage.Iowa is where it all started for Obama, and he is ending the last campaign of his political career in Iowa."they said this day would never come....."
It's the end game in American politics. What started 14 months ago with a straw poll in Iowa will end in under 100 hours, when America elects it's next president, and not many elections have come so close as this one. Over a year long primaries are done, debates are over, national grandstanding is done, and now its down to the ground game. The ground game will pit Mitt Romney's well funded, mammoth Republican machine, against one of the best political machines of all time - the campaign to re-elect President Barack Obama.
I have seen people do crazy stuff with Google suggest. I tried bingu’s suggest today, not many surprises. Fun 🙂 Google is god 🙂 Someone wanted proof I guess. Obama [...]
Friedman has a beautiful piece on America's priorities and the precariousness of the national psyche. In his OP-ED in times, Friedman talks about "my president, whose agenda can be derailed [...]
One can be too cynical about the Bambi Nobel, but if there is one person who has changed the "mood" of the world in such a short period of time, [...]
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have [...]
A token pin on sale at the Texas Republican Convention venue :) and like one comment pointed out,shouldn't it be "When Obama is President..." An irony given the fact that the [...]
When a woman does ascend through the glass ceiling into the White House, it will be, in part, because of the race of 2008, when Hillary Clinton broke through the [...]
Funny, the war in Iraq is half a decade old! For effect, its ongoing for one twentieth of a century! Coincidence, it correlates exactly with my work experience! Dubya estimated [...]
She can't be bargained with. She can't be reasoned with. She doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And she absolutely will not stop, ever. Despite Obama winning Iowa yesterday, [...]
Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken "“ if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought [...]