Election night around the corner

Eight days to go! Finally this incredible long campaign for the US presidency is arriving at its end. For me the best of it is that on the 5th of November we will be able to relax knowing that never mind who becomes president it would not be Bush any longer. Happy Crawford retirement!!! Read the rest of this entry »

An Obama-McCain ticket = sensible foreign policy?

On Tuesday Richard Cohen, who had been on the side of candidate Obama during the primaries, wrote in the Washington Post “I have an even better ticket in mind: Obama-McCain. That way we might get a sensible foreign policy.” Read the rest of this entry »

Why so much venom on the way to the nomination?

During my daily ritual before I start writing for the blog, I try to inform myself about the most relevant news, reading as many papers on the net as I can, North American and European mostly. Then I advance to the blogs from both sides, though mostly from the democrats side. Read the rest of this entry »

Will the missing votes make a difference?

Yesterday Kentucky and Oregon chose Clinton and Obama respectively.
In Kentucky, Clinton won 65% of the votes and Obama 30%. In Oregon, Clinton won 42% and Obama 58%.

Kentucky was dismissed by the media and the progressive blogs. Read the rest of this entry »

Too much money and religion and too long

It is inevitable that with campaigns that last this long more unexpected occurrences happen. I have always thought that there were several things one should change in the way American Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks Elizabeth Edwards

Some days after looking through the main newspapers in the country and many blogs, I feel very depressed and not very sanguine about the future of our country. The total vacuity of the articles, the lack of important information, the ridiculous interest in what the candidates for the presidency do, whether Obama likes arugula or Clinton had a shot of whisky is demoralizing. Read the rest of this entry »

Is the US a misogynistic country?

At a fund-raiser concert on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s campaign on April 9th at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, British pop star Elton John said he was amazed at the misogyny of some in America. He had reached that conclusion hearing about all that was written and talked about in the media about Hillary Clinton. Many of the senator’s opponents deride these comments as being made by a foreigner and several epithets describing the singer have been used. It is sad that in America, in the 21st century, we have arrived to this point. Read the rest of this entry »