Tonight at 8pm US eastern time, President Barack Obama will deliver an address on health care to a joint session of Congress. It is expected that he will press for a government-run insurance option in an overhaul of the U.S. health care system. Health care reform has dominated the news in the country for weeks and created lots of expectation and anger. Read the rest of this entry »

-Among the many matters the Obama administration is working on there is the massive economic stimulus proposal. On Friday the U.S. Senate Democrats unveiled their version of a stimulus that, like its counterpart in the House of Representatives, would provide emergency spending and tax cuts totaling $825 billion. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

Today my day began reading the update someone on my team had written. I like it when they do it as one can then read opinions other than mine and it gets more interesting. Also, it is good for me when I am very busy that someone else helps with the blog. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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 »

Reading Maureen Dowd’s article published on April 16th, 2008 in the New York Times was like a strange experience. Since the elections’ campaign began to heat up she had been so vituperative whenever she wrote about Hillary Clinton and so praiseful about Barack Obama that this last article sounded as if it had been written on April 1st. Could she have written “The last few weeks have not been kind to Hillary, but the endless endgame has not been kind to the Wonder Boy either” and “Behind closed doors in San Francisco, elitism’s epicenter, Barack Obama showed his elitism, attributing the emotional, spiritual and cultural values of working-class, “lunch pail” Pennsylvanians to economic woes.” Read the rest of this entry »