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 »

A change the United States needs

Yesterday I wrote about the health care plans of the three candidates and the day before about the different way of how some of their overstatements were reported by the media. Today I am going to mix both topics, prompted by another article from Paul Krugman “Health Care Horror Stories” that appeared in Friday’s New York Times. Read the rest of this entry »

Iraq, 3 candidates, 3 opinions and a dark tunnel

At the hearing which began yesterday on Capitol Hill with General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker and the different committees, if we were to be honest, we should say that we were not expecting much on the way of clarification of how things really were going in Iraq and even less about a timetable for withdrawal of the troops. Blessed are then the ones who don’t expect much as they would not be disappointed. Read the rest of this entry »

Fibs of Obama and Clinton, a hazard of campaigning

As I watch how the Democrats are destroying themselves, I think that the race is turning just plain silly and even dangerous. 4,000 American soldiers dead in an unnecessary war, millions of people not able to afford health insurance, great number of people with their homes in foreclosure, unemployment, the dollar tanking, oil over $100 a barrel…. All the woes that are holding and grasping America and all we care about is whether we are racist or not? Of course we are, both blacks and whites, and Latinos and Asians. But that did not happened yesterday and will not finish on election day. A family whose child is hungry can be helped with good government programs and those can start with the next president. A Democrat in the White House can begin to implement the necessary plans to bring and end to the slaughter of our soldiers in Iraq, and on and on. But no, we are just busy looking at our navels at best or oblivious of what needs to be done using our resources to find fault and mistakes in what Clinton or Obama do or say.

In the latest reports, the Obama followers are salivating at Clinton’s fabrication of her Bosnia trip in 1996. “See, -they blog furiously- she cannot be trusted. She lied.” And the media, thinking copy and smelling blood and having more or less nominated Barack Obama, print stories about it or report it in their talk shows non-stop. If we want to be fair, where are the reports and comments of the embellishment of Obama about the speech he gave in Chicago about the coming Iraq war, the speech that he names in his campaign trail relentlessly? He says: “My objections to the war in Iraq were not simply a speech. I was in the midst of a U.S. Senate campaign. It was a high-stakes campaign. I was one of the most vocal opponents of the war.” According to NPR Obama delivered the speech in October 2002; he did not officially declare his candidacy for the U.S. Senate until January.

Of course, let us not forget his denials about some of the utterances in the sermons of his pastor, the Rev. Wright, before he realized he had to come clean and gave “the speech”. But that follows into the race category I wrote above and I don’t think is worthwhile going there anymore.
So, my fellow Democrats, let us unite but in a calm way. Let the nomination of a candidate be made with emotions but mostly with reasonable arguments and weighing the pros and cons, not just dismissing a candidate because he is black or she is a woman and a Clinton. Not everything was that bad prior to George W.Bush, was it?