The Final Four

By Mike in Politcs Plus

Well, since Rudy Giuliani dropped out last night, and John Edwards  is dropping out today. It seems to be a race between Clinton and Obama, for he Democrats and McCain and Romney for the Republicans. McCain and Clinton are the current front ...

The Republicans play nice

By Mike in Politcs Plus

The Republican debate last night seemed like a social club, singing to the tune of “let’s cut taxes”. The only variation was McCain wanted to cut spending and Ron Paul wanted to eliminate everything except the Washington Monument maybe.  My ...

Barack Obama or Hillary,that is my question?

By Mike in Politcs Plus

I started out supporting John Edwards, but I can see he is not going to get the Democratic nomination. Lately I’ve been going back and forth between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama. I became aware of Mr.Obama when he gave the ...

Half-Truth,spin,gossip, or just outright lies

By Mike in Politcs Plus

I have come a long way from trusting everything in the print media, to double sourcing just about everything I read. Jayson Blair and Judith Miller of the New York Times  made me a big-time skeptic. With this new 24/7 ...

Media please

By Mike in Politcs Plus

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for freedom of the press, but this election is about the candidates, not the pundits.  We don’t need Chris Matthews or Bill O’Reilly trying to be the story. I was disappointed with Tim Russert ...

Stunned

By Mike in Politcs Plus

My world was turned over upside down last night, because the polls,media ,and I were flat wrong.  57% of the New Hampshire electorate are women, and they said “No you don’t” and showed up in droves to vote for Hillary Clinton. ...

The week end New Hampshire debate

By Mike in Politcs Plus

What a weekend Tivo to the rescue.  All my passions, Houston Rockets ,NFL playoffs, three presidential debates and a Bill O’Reilly meltdown.(More on this later)as a bonus……on at the same time. The Democrats. The ABC debate seemed like a cordial event, ...

On to New Hampshire

By Mike in Politcs Plus

The Iowa primary is over, but.. it left its mark.   Joe Biden and Christopher Dodd  dropped out, of the presidential campaign. Biden, knowledge of foreign policies, and Chris Dodd’s expertise in the domestic issues.  never did get them into ...