It may be too hazardous to sell a President Bush and McCain combo right now, but daddy works fine. Former President George H.W. Bush endorsed John McCain’s presidential campaign this Monday, a move McCain hinted at on Friday. But the President’s Day aspect had a nice touch to it, so Bush used the holiday to [...]
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China’s Top Political Couple Has a Love Story, Too.
February 16, 2008 – 9:31 pm
On Valentines day CBS 60 Minutes examined the love stories of American public figures, including Barack and Michelle Obama. During their one minute and twenty five second interview, Michelle described how the office romance began. She thought they’d be friends. He said Michelle rejected him for a date at first and then he finally convinced [...]
President Bush defends inaction on Darfur
February 15, 2008 – 2:03 pm
The BBC’s top page today showcases an interview in which President Bush defends his decision not to go into Darfur. He called it a “seminal decision” not to intervene with force, taken partly out of the desire not to send US troops into another Muslim country. Other than sounding more and more like a moderate [...]
On an island in the sun…
February 14, 2008 – 5:30 pm
While Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee claims he’s not smart enough to be intentionally trying to remain in the race just to block John McCain from becoming the official Republican presidential nominee, nobody can question his intelligence when it comes to picking good spots to do paid speaking engagements. Huckabee will be in the Cayman [...]
Huckabee “not smart enough”
February 13, 2008 – 7:30 pm
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee appeared in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN Saturday afternoon. Blitzer asked Republican candidate Mike Huckabee, who trails John McCain by an insurmountable margin of pledged delegates, if his strategy at this point is simply to prevent McCain from getting the delegate majority he needs to become the official [...]
Ian Sherr tries to find the delegates…
February 12, 2008 – 2:34 pm
Published Feb. 12, 2008 in the San Francisco Chronicle. Count the Delegates, If You Can by Ian Sherr Just when I thought I had figured out why the Democratic Party has superdelegates, Nancy Pelosi comes along and says I have got it all backward. “The superdelegates were established to give many more people at the [...]
What Side Are You On?
February 5, 2008 – 11:45 pm
Kimberly Geiger asks An Important Question Published in Capitol Weekly As Super Tuesday dawns in the state with the greatest trove of convention delegates, members of California’s Democratic congressional delegation face an uncomfortable choice in backing Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Some have decided that making no endorsement at all is the better part of [...]
Tales from the polls
February 5, 2008 – 9:43 pm
It used to be simple. Then I moved from the East Coast to California and everything changed. I found myself voting on propositions most people have never heard of but become experts on once inside the voting booth. But that has turned out to be the simplest part of the process. Today, near Berkeley’s campus [...]
The Chinese Vote
February 5, 2008 – 4:04 pm
Wu Nan reports on the Chinese vote in this year’s election Published in Capitol Weekly Hillary Clinton? Or Barack Obama? Democrats in the Chinese American community in the Bay Area seems to be divided by generation when it comes to choosing a Democratic presidential nominee on Tuesday – just like all the other Democrats in [...]
