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Posts Tagged ‘Democrats’

Britain’s first wives’ club

By Miranda Husain • Apr 19th, 2010 • Category: Features

One might have hoped that the wives of Britain’s political leaders would have naturally and rightly shied away from the superficial eye candy route of supporting their men’s political ideologies and supposed pragmatism. But they have not
There is some concern that the current bout of election fever gripping Britain is increasingly [...]



Expected US Mis-adventures

By Farid Masood • Oct 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

As the presidential polls are getting nearer, G,W.Bush’s successor candidate Mr John McCains defeat likely to be witnessed. Even after the polls results the prevailing situation may be formed so that it may ignite such events on the globe which may create difficulties for the opposition candidate Barak Obama to handle in days to come.
We [...]



Safety in “Big Daddy’s” Shadow?

By Dan Tow • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I couldn’t resist a few remarks on my impressions of the recent American nominating convention for the Republican Party, nominating John McCain for their candidate. I’ll be relatively brief, for a change. American presidential nominating conventions have changed over my lifetime. In the 1960s and earlier, these conventions were news-making, business-like affairs, where important party [...]



Why Hillary wont quit

By Tazeen Javed • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Billary (the Clintons) have always believed that they’re very different than the rest of us. Over their more than 30 years in politics together, they’ve learned one important and consistent lesson: that rules don’t matter. Rules don’t apply to them. Rules are for other people. Rules can be bent, changed, manipulated.
So it’s particularly ironic that [...]