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If McCain had a sense of humor
The ridiculous story published by the New York times yesterday regarding John McCain’s encounters with a Washington lobbyist offered little to it’s readers or the voting American public. It was a waste of moment on talk shows and the broader media coverage it received shows how petty electio…
Rush Limbaugh rushes to John McCain’s defense
With friends like Rush Limbaugh, John McCain doesn’t need any enemies.
The conservative talk show hosts nowadays denounced the New York Times’ report on McCain’s questionable relationship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman. During his 2000 presidential run, aides were so worried that there was a roma…
Did John McCain have an affair with a lobbyist and use his potential for her client?
The New York Times, in a bombshell report, raises serious questions about John McCain’s integrity. Of course, such questions should be nothing new. In the 1980s, he intervened to keep regulators absent from Charles Keating, a Savings & Loan operator, who contributed to McCain’s campaign and let …
Qatar looks at $15 billion investment in US/UK banks
Qatar has begun to take a stake in Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) and indicated that it is part of a program to put $15 billion into banks in the US and UK. “We have a relation with Credit Suisse and we bought some of the stock from the market, actually, but I cannot say what percentage considering still …
Mitt Romney to back John McCain
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who proved that presidential politics is a awful investment, is poised to endorse Republican front-runner and his one-time rival John McCain, according to the New York Times.
This is hardly a shock.
Republicans, with the exception of Mike Huckabee and Ron…
Obama unveils $210 billion profitable stimulus plan
Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, nowadays unveiled a new $210 billion federal spending plan that he says would create jobs in interpretation and environmental services.
The Obama proposal would invest money by 10 years in two programs, the largest of which would …
How President Obama will shape the American economy
As a registered independent who voted for Obama on Super Tuesday, I was interested in reading BusinessWeek’s take on Obama’s likely affect on the U.S. economy. Its conclusion is that Obama is thoughtful and refreshing and is willing to work with commerce leaders, many of whom may reject him cons…
Hillary Clinton fading fast as Obama, McCain sweep Potomac primaries
Hillary Clinton’s chances of fitting the next president of the United States are fading fast.
Barack Obama swept the so-called Potomac primaries yesterday in Maryland, The District of Columbia, and Virginia, humiliating the New York senator by double-digit margins. On the Republican side, John Mc…
Young adult vote could surge in 2008, driven by Obama, Web factors
Social scientists, unlike some journalists, are reluctant to label anything a trend until they’ve amassed and evaluated a great deal of info often by years. A journalist can always quote a lack of info, or the crush of daily (and shorter) deadlines as a reason his/her news story did not describe rea…
McCain is not your father’s Republican Party nominee
One of the Democratic Party’s worst nightmares regarding the 2008 presidential election is coming to fruition: Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) will be the Republican Party’s nominee.
Some investors / readers may argue that as a moderate, somewhat rebellious Republican and an advocate of the Iraq…
Is Obama in 2008 like JFK in 1960 — on the glory road?
A colleague based in Washington, D.C. recalled that moment in the 1960 presidential campaign when Kennedy’s campaign staff knew that John F. Kennedy would defeat Richard Nixon. It occurred that fall, just before their first televised debate — the first presidential debate ever broadcast on televisi…
Clinton campaign hopes for spring renewal after winter of discontent
It is not a revelation to state that Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-New York) campaign has stumbled and is reeling.
It would be a revelation to argue that despite all of the advantages that public policy experience, party apparatus, and political contributions affords, Hillary Clinton could lose the 2…
Mitt Romney, the uber-capitalist candidate, bows out of presidential race
He made hundreds of millions of dollars running Bain Capital, but Mitt Romney won’t be running the U.S. He announced that afternoon that he is ending his run for the presidency. No doubt, countless Mormons and private fairness lobbyists have gone into mourning.
Technically, Romney is “suspend…
Top 5 election lessons so far
From the home office in Burlington County, New Jersey. I give you the top 5 lessons learned from the presidential election so far. The results are determined through a totally arbitrary process of my own creation.
Super Tuesday — The mother of all primaries produced plenty of drama — for p…
