Category: Democrats & Liberals

The election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States raises the hopes of many (in the U.S. and internationally) for a change in course from unilateralism to cooperation; from concentration of power and economic resources in the hands of the few to a more equitable balance; from continued erosion of Constitutional […]

News media are filled with stories about the need for President-Elect Barack Obama to get going immediately to solve our economic problems. Our economic problems are many, but the most urgent problem for our president-elect to tackle is the depression, which promises to be as bad as the Great Depression of ‘29 and ’30s.
In addition […]

We Americans, in our greatest display of enthusiasm, democracy and tolerance that I can remember, elected a black president. Barack Obama is the victor. United States is the victor. The civilized world is the victor. And the terrorists are the losers.
I was rooting for Obama the minute he announced his candidacy. After the announcement almost […]

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I don’t know about you, but I have had it with the ever narrowing circle of who is a “real American.”** For sure this is not something new.
** Special note: I too have problems with claiming that those in the United States are “Americans” as it disenfrachises those who live in Canada and Mexico […]

Joe Scarborough has been harping on this comment by Obama in Iowa that his win there vindicated his faith in the voters, as if it’s all about Obama arrogantly proclaiming his own candidacy to be a measure of that. Others on the program were saying that it’s about race. I say that’s only […]