While there is more than a year before elections in the US, the country is already beginning to be “assaulted” by the politicians. Much can happen in the months prior to voting day but nobody wants to be left aside and be forgotten and then there is a lot of money to be gathered from the constituents. Read the rest of this entry »

With one week to go, I am probably going to give myself a break and short of something extraordinary happening avoid writing anything else about the U.S. elections until we know who is going to be the next president. By now anything I can write all of you would have probably read in the printed media or seen on TV. In the meantime I hope the Bush administration is not trying to go out with a bang. Read the rest of this entry »

Election 2000 is something many people will remember. In my case, after several years of living abroad I arrived back in Palm Beach County just in time to vote. And vote I did using the infamous butterfly ballots with its hanging chads. Read the rest of this entry »

It seems to me that for all our looking at the Canadians like if they were our not so advanced cousins, they could show us a thing or two. Especially now when we are running the US election of the Democrats nominee as if it were a battle: blacks against whites, men Read the rest of this entry »

I know that it is the nature of the beast. If we want to be read and get good ratings we have not just to have our strong opinions but to be different and aggressive. Specially in the ever evolving world of blogging. For a long time The Huffington Post was a blog I read everyday after the main papers. It was informative, accurate and interesting. It made one think. And then came the presidential elections and something happened.

Of course, papers and blogs have their orientations, that is what distinguishes them. And blogs even more so. So it did not take very long that The Huffington Post was routing for Barack Obama. Fine. Why not? Only, as the days go on and the endless race between the two Democrat candidates stretches The Huffington Post could change its name to Barack Obama Post so incredible biased it has, in my opinion, become. Or maybe you have officially endorsed Obama and I was unaware?
I still read The Huffington Post because among all the Obama articles, there are some quite good ones about other topics which lets me hope that after the election race things will go back to normal and your blog will again be among the top rated ones. By the way, thanks for the Joseph C. Wilson articles though they look a little lost among all the others….