Obama for good
Let's hope this is not only good for US but for the whole world...
It's over
Following a steady drumbeat of undecided superdelegates declaring for Barack Obama, the Associated Press declares that the Illinois senator has "effectively clinched" the Democratic nomination for president, and reports that Hillary Clinton is "open" to being his running mate.
What Is “American” Anyway?
The Bear Stearns collapse and the looming recession have pushed the failure of Boeing to win the Pentagon tanker contract out of the news, but in fact they are further evidence for what the Boeing crisis made clear: the American economy is no longer American and Boeing is no more a purely American company that Airbus is European.
John Adams vs Tom Jefferson = Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama
If you’ve been watching the John Adams chronicles on HBO, you know that the birth of the young American Republic was accompanied by enough controversy, bitterness, infighting and rage to sink the project before it ever got off the ground. If it hadn’t been for the fact that democracy, rough and tough as it was, produced the right outcome.
