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...rash and his experience too slight to make consistently sound judgments about the inexact science of politics. But our society consistently spurns such warnings, exalting “participation,” and ever devising new strategies to persuade the “youth” to vote. Barack Obama may have finally found one: appealing to the vanity of young...
...Clinton feeling surge at the end of policy debates like last night’s, and hot tears stream down my face as Barack Obama delivers magnificent speeches like those he gave at Dr. King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. Without doubt, there are many who will vote for or against Hillary and Barack on the sole basis of her extra x-chromosome and the color of his skin. But for the informed and thoughtful citizen, the much more interesting question at stake is less about demographics and more about the key skills required to be an effective president...
...highly educated, soon-to-be-yuppie emerging from the throes of e-recruiting, I ex ante believe that jobs should be rewarded to those who can establish their qualifications in a substantive, structured and tangible way—namely, through policy debates. But in the end, my vote carries the same weight as that of the senior citizen concerned about losing her drug benefits to an overly ambitious tax plan, the concerned father who doesn’t want his daughter to think that the only way to become president is to marry one, and the recently unemployed steel worker...
Medvedev won more than 70% of the vote Sunday in an election that outside monitors have labeled as flawed, in large part over charges of Kremlin intimidation of opposition candidates...
...consternation, you may ask? Isn't that the nature of most legislative processes in democracies? As with anything in Iraq, there was a lot more to this veto than a quibble about constitutional law. The dissenting vote on the Presidential Council was cast by Vice President Adel Abdul-Medhi whose Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) is the Shi'a power bloc with relatively closer ties to the U.S. than the rival party run by Shi'ite strongman Moqtada al-Sadr, who leads the contentious, trigger-happy Mahdi Army. Abdul-Medhi said that the Provincial Powers law contravened the constitutional right...