Obama’s speech yesterday confirmed two things for me: (i) why I like Obama in the first place, and (ii) the stark contrast between Obama and Clinton as candidates and politicians.
 
On this blog last week I wrote this: “I’ve liked Obama for more than a year because I like the calm, rationale, pragmatic approach he brings [...]

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Governor Spitzer led the fight against the excesses of Corporate America. While some of his pursuits may have been overzealous, on the whole his efforts as New York’s AG were undeniably a good thing. Much has been made in the past week of Wall Street’s delight at Spitzer’s downfall. The question for Wall Street is what comes [...]

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With Mississippi in the books, we now have six solid weeks until the Pennsylvania primary on April 22.  Six long weeks of… what, exactly?  As Howard asked earlier, where is this thing headed?
 
Let’s start with what we know.  Obama leads in delegates, 1606-1484.  Obama has won 29 contests, to Clinton’s 14.  And Obama leads the [...]

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So, about those Clinton tax returns.  You know, the ones from 2000-2006 that will show how Bill and Hillary went from being debt-ridden public servants in 2000 to so incredibly wealthy by 2008 that they could stand to loan Hillary’s campaign FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.  The tax returns that will show who is funding Hillary’s campaign (via that $5million loan), [...]

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So I’d like to pose a few questions to Hillary supporters out there - not to be antagonistic, but to hopefully help understand what’s going on from the other side’s perspective.  I’ve been a steadfast Obama supporter, and I know that it becomes easy to view this entire debate through that lens - in the interest of trying to counter that, I’d really like to [...]

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Great article on the front page of the New York Times.  Click here to read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/us/politics/09obama.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin 
Poking fun at himself he may be, I love this quote b/c it shows that even the idol himself knows exactly what he has accomplished:
“I’ve been very blessed,” Mr. Obama told the crowd assembled in March 2006. “Keynote speaker at the [...]

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