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The next president better be good

The next president had better be good because he won't be popular.  Everyone was had by this administration, the press, the people as well as the House and Senate, this is going to cause a tremendous...

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George W. Bush and Katherine Harris School of Managment

Ah, let us drift gently in our minds to yesteryear, to the 2000 election.  Big mess in Florida.  I watched the Civil Rights Commission hearings on the discrimination going on in the Florida elections...

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Michael Dukakis Vindicated

Tonight watching all hell break loose as more hand wringing begins a new chapter of examination regarding the incompetence that underpins this WH over the post Katrina inaction I could not help...

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Article Details Bush's War on Science

There is an excellent article in the New Yorker this week, but it is not available online. "Political Science," by Michael Specter, investigates this administration's unprecedentedly ideological...

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'Wait Wait' Laughs at Dems

It's pretty sad when an NPR talk show gets a chuckle from the audience by joking about the lack of any organized framework for the Democratic Party platform. Which is a great opportunity for me to push...

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NY Times - Still Clueless

 The NY Times has an editorial today titled Porter Goss Departs. Reading it makes one wonder what planet the writer has been living on. The first sentence makes that very clear. There is no question...

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Garrison Keillor hits a home run

Garrison Keillor's opinion column appears in our local Sunday paper.  Unfortunately, the paper's website still has last week's column up tonight, but Keillor's column is distributed by Tribune Media...

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After The Hamdan Decision...What To Watch For In The Capitol

>The Center for International Policy [1] sponsored a seminar this morning on the theme The National Security State: Part II: Intelligence Gathering And Its Challenges for Human Rights. Melvin...

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The Peter Principle and the airport security screeners.

Part of the Peter Principle (in a hierarchy a person rises to the level of his/her incompetence) states, "Competence is in the eye of the beholder." To an airline passenger, a security officer...

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Hey John Edwards "What do we do? What do we do?" is not emergency management...

Reading the New York Times article regarding John Edwards announcement from New Orleans,  it began to confirm what I have feared for a long time about the type of leadership to expect from John...

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Character, Compassion, Competence & Wesley Clark

The Bush 43 presidency has proven the overwhelming necessity of the "3 C's"--Character, Compassion, Competence--that should be required qualities of any person elected as president. Any one of the...

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The Obama campaign is different!

I hate to admit it but in less than two months I will be 62 years old. Since 1968, I have been very interested in politics. I have been involved in many campaigns, both Congressional and Presidential....

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Competence and Accountability

Though they ran on Competence and Accountability in '06, the Dems are coming up short in both areas.

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Competence (Updated: Shaheen resigns)

In the weeks leading up to the 2004 general election, I had several arguments with Republican friends, acquaintances, and neighbors about the choice between Kerry and Bush.  Most of these arguments...

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Clinton's flawed argument against Obama

The Clinton campaign is clearly nervous and seems to be looking everyday for a new theme to throw at Obama. The latest - developed at the outset of the Nevada debate - is the notion that Obama would...

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We Need A Competent President

The utter incompetence of the Bush/Cheney Administration has long been acknowleged by the entire world with the exception of a small sliver of Republican Party members in the US who overdosed on Fox...

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Will Clinton's Advisors Tell Her The Hard Truths?

I know it seems a geological eon ago, but remember the resignation of Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle? And how Doyle never told Clinton about the campaign's massive hemorrhaging of cash,...

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The Obama Logic: Fighting Fire with Water

For the past several years I have secretly, quietly, and sometimes obsessively come to the Daily Kos for updates on progressive thinking. As you know, recently there has been great debate over the...

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What Would Have Eliminated Obama From the Race?

If Barack Obama had lost 11 contests in a row, he’d be done already. If Barack Obama had run out of money in mid-February, loaned his campaign $5 million, and refused to release his tax returns, he’d...

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MSM FINALLY rips-off a Kossack's "Obama Competence / Vision" meta-narrative meme

I'd say that we bloggers are, collectively, in the vanguard of political analysis and critique.  Let's keep up the good work and continue to shape the dialogue. I posted the following diary on 11...

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