2008 presidential election | 2008 presidential election
Nov.09.2011
Last night was the first election night in about seven years that I didn't spend hunkered in a newsroom into the wee hours, munching pizza and debating when it was safe enough to call a given race.
Earlier this year, I moved from the city desk at the big-city newspaper where I work back to the...
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Sep.05.2009
Does the name Levi Johnston sound familiar to you? If you have any idea who this person is by name alone, then you are way ahead of me; that is until I clicked on MSNBC headlines around 6:00 A.M. yesterday morning. Once I began to read the article presented on the site by the fine folks at People...
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Jul.07.2009
On September 25, 1957, President Eisenhower had to use the 101st Airborne division of the United States Army to force the State of Arkansas to admit nine black students to a public high school in Little Rock. In 2009, two little black girls play on the White House lawn as their father sits in the...
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Dec.08.2008
Make no mistake, this is not about questioning the integrity, judgment, or credentials of retired Army General Eric Shinseki. After all, it was Shinseki who told a congressional committee, back in 2003, that it would take "several hundred thousand soldiers" to attain victory in Iraq.
As...
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Dec.04.2008
It's reassuring to see Barack Obama's team of advisors is almost the size of the National Guard, and to think that, instead of an alligator at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, we'll have a delegator. And, as an added bonus, it may even be a way to avoid bringing back the draft.
No one would question the...
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Nov.23.2008
Some in the Arab world are reportedly fearful of having Hillary Clinton as our next secretary of state. There is concern that the New York senator is hawkish, and that her pro-Israeli posturing underlies a deeper bias which will, in the end, prevail.
As has been suggested, Senator Clinton, at one...
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Nov.06.2008
While in the midst of basking in the afterglow of Tuesday's election results, the longest high I've had without inhaling, I got an e-mail from a friend this morning alerting me to what he thinks is an ominous Web site.
I'm not drawing any conclusions here and, as a lifelong supporter of free speech...
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Nov.06.2008
What an amazing and historic reality it was - on 4 November, 2008. Barack Obama elected the first African-American plus bi-racial President of the United States of America. I had tears in my eyes.
Indeed, I am deeply inspired and proud of all citizens of the Union for keeping the American...
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Nov.05.2008
Today, a jet crashed in Mexico City (Reforma) with the Mexican Interior Minister inside of it. We are being told it could be an accident, but what I know is not an accident: is their constant struggle against corruption, and insecurity.
It was a sad day for the President, his Interior Minister...
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Nov.04.2008
When we vote today, there will be many by our side we cannot see, but they will be watching us. Some will have front row seats but, for the most part, history is standing room only.
Walt Whitman once wrote that for all we know, he may be looking over our shoulders now, and he may be right. If we'...
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