As much as the Democrats may “deserve” to win this next Presidential election on the merits, given the personal nature of US politics, they still are going to lose to McCain unless they select a more popular nominee. Here are the head-to-head match ups of the two leading Dem candidates against McCain, via The Votemaster:
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Better than any sensationalism you will see in the MSM, this brief summary of the Real Lessons of 9/11, by Mike Gravel, could serve as a decent starting point for looking into this matter in a realistic fashion. The headings:
They Do Not Hate Us Because ‘We are Free.’
Anyone Could Have Imagined the 9/11 [...]
This was so unbelievable, I had to pass it along. I don’t have much to add, except that I had just heard about him in connection with the “three-day-destruction-of-Iran’s-military” claim. This would certainly seem to call into question the credibility of that report (which was pretty wild to begin with).
Someone on the pink side of the ideological spectrum had a bright PR idea.
Intelligence has reached us, on the far shores of the Ocean, that the American Democratic Presidential candidates are going to hold their next shindig, somewhat misleadingly called a “debate”, on Sun. June 3 7-9PM, presumably to be televised on CNN (though certainly to be excerpted extensive on the internet in subsequent days.)
And yes, Sen. Mike [...]
One of the very few I’ve heard who really put it all together. All except the energy/environmental situation, which would only add urgency to his message, but then, no one person can be a universal scholar anymore. The reason it would have fit well into this interview is that, according to much of [...]
Covering Sen. Mike Gravel’s announcement of a legislative plan to end the Iraq war, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post* wrote:
The notion of Clinton or Barack Obama demanding passage of the Gravel plan was amusing, but no more than Gravel’s other foreign policy views. He asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “much smarter than [...]
This development is of immediate relevance for the “media elites”, but may end up being a deeper change than that discussed in Part I. I will begin by briefly reviewing the Gravel story:
1) In spite of having announced his candidacy almost one year before the front-runners, Sen. Gravel remained a complete unkonwn. Sen. Gravel was [...]
The recent events surrounding the presidential campaign of Mike Gravel, though not of earth-shattering importance in and of themselves, encapsulate three trends that, though at the moment still subterranean, promise to burst out into the open in the next few years. All three involve in various ways the diminishing ability of the elite and elite [...]
Newsboycott has just published my short essay “What makes the cut: two actual examples of media suppression”. Have a click over there and check out their new but rapidly developing site.