Category Archives: U.S. Elections

Brian Williams interviewed Sarah Palin and John McCain the other night on the NBC nightly news. He asked about her definition of “terrorism” with respect to Bill Ayers and my favorite question: What is an “elite” and who is a member of the “elites”? Palin’s answer: People who think they’re […]

Liberals are bad. Very bad. But Republicans need to reach out across the aisle to them. But first, they must call them names and blame them for everything that is wrong with America. Republicans want change too. Even though they’ve been in charge for the past eight years. Apparently they […]

Barack Obama has fought quite a primary race so far against Hillary Clinton, coming from more than 20 points down to draw even with Hillary. But some argue that he can’t close the deal. Here is what is happening and a couple ideas on how he closes. Hillary is using […]

WEBN is a classic rock station here in Cincinnati that has decorated our town with a lovely series of billboards. The billboards are easily spotted by single black quotes on an otherwise all-white billboard. Here are a few samples: “102.7 WEBN stinks,” Maya Buttreeks from Kenwood “102.7 WEBN is immature,” […]

Whichever Democrat wins the nomination should make a pitch to become America’s next CEO. A CEO that is: A leader Fiscally responsible Capable of working with the best and brightest Willing to push for major change The CEO positioning is currently up for grabs because Republicans seem to have abandoned […]

Hillary Clinton claims that we should hire the person with the most experience to be President. It’s an interesting argument, but what is really going on here? There are two ways you could look at the term “experience” when it comes to this race: Political experience Experience fighting Republicans Most […]

As John McCain picks up the “lack of experience” story to attack Barack Obama, I thought I’d revisit this topic, revisit the argument, and think about ways to re-frame this issue. When Hillary Clinton says that she has more experience, she typically is not just referring to her experience in […]

A good sign that you have a solid vision is when other candidates start using it. For this reason and for his consistency, Barack Obama wins this week’s Message of the Week Award. Obama has been preaching a message of change and hope since his book, The Audacity of Hope, […]

While researching the Huckabee coverage, I thought I remembered seeing a brief blurb in the news a while back in which a senior Whitehouse official called the evangelical Christians nutjobs. Digging further, I found out that David Kuo, a former Bush speech-writer, wrote about this in his book Tempting Faith. […]

The Republican race for President has certainly taken an interesting turn recently. As Rudy Guiliani’s campaign sinks faster than the Titanic or the “Straight Talk Express,” Mike Huckabee is now the GOP front runner. Yet many stalwarts of the Republican right have come out against Huckabee. Ann Coulter recently said […]