This July 14, 2008 handout image courtesy of The New Yorker magazine shows the cover of the July 21st issue, entitled 'The Politics of Fear,' in which artist Barry Blitt satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the Presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign. Barack Obama's campaign decried the cover showing Obama wearing Islamic dress while his wife holds a Kalashnikov. Obama sees New Yorker's cover offensive U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign condemned on Monday as "tasteless and offensive" a New Yorker magazine cover

What fools we Americans are. We claim to have representation at the highest councils of our government. Yet our congresspersons and senators do and vote for what is best for themselves. They represent only their own economic interest. What fools we Americans are.Elections are coming soon. Again we are asked to vote for the person best suited to represent our views. Yet we all know that the person we elect, regardless of party affiliation, will not represent our views but only the view that best suits their own economic interest. What fools we Americans are.We claim to have high morals. Yet we

I'm very interested in data, so something like Google Trends is very entertaining for me (might not be the case for everyone). This is a Trends report for the three presidential hopefuls: Obama, Clinton, and McCain. I was inspired by CafePress's charts of Sales and Products created per candidate. They include almost all political hopefuls (including Al Gore). Mine shows the search trends of Google users for the three candidates as well as sub-region stats, and stats for New Jersey (that's where i live).

Hillary and Obama really went at it in this video of the South Carolina Democratic debate. Wow, it's getting personal and the Clinton's are starting to show their true colors - which apparently is White Trash. Hey I love Bubba for his foreign policy moves and his economic genius, but if the Clintons were living below the poverty line they would be the types of people that would run into your car to sue you or pretend to slip on a wet supermarket floor.These kinds of attacks are making Obama look even better and making Hillary look like "more of the same" from Washington. While Obama

I'm not saying that I will vote for Barack Obama, but if my vote hangs on an a candidate's potential, then he has the best chance. Having Oprah support him is a sin I cannot forgive but out of all the choices we have in this Hometown Buffet of an election, Obama is one of the few candidates from either party that does not looked picked over.More to the point - any one of the candidates could be an average president, thanks GW Bush for lowering the bar! Some of them could be good presidents. But in my mind only Barack Obama has the potential, however small, of becoming a great President. He

Yesterday, Georgia held Presidential elections and according to official results Michail Saakashvili won with 52.8%. His challenger Levan Gachechiladze got only 27% I've been watching different news reports and the they were always different depending on the channel. The western media agrees with the official results and Russian media focused on the controversy of the exit poll and the official results.According to the exit poll Levan Gachechiladze came first with 31% and Michail Saakashvili came second with 24% The Georgian opposition does not agree with the official results saying the vote

Well the first test of the Presidential election is over, and pundits like Tim Russert are ready to call the race for Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee. The way they are talking on the news this morning you'd think it was the last primary, not the first caucus. Once again the media is hyping this thing up to overblown proportions, that is until the New Hampshire Primary.Take a look at Hillary's situation - Russert and others are saying that losing in Iowa is a "huge Blow" to her chances. How? Look back to the 1992 Presidential Race: Bill Clinton did not even campaign in Iowa (Tom Harkin's

You need to send this around. Better yet, frame it and hang it in your office.. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/opinion/30friedman.html?ex=1348804800&en=68c518b52f765868&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

May 14, 2007 A Quiet Prayer For Democracy By Fareed Zakaria O ver the past five years, President Bush has made various efforts to reform the Arab world. They have all stumbled over one enormous obstacle. In the region, the people who win elections are not democrats. They seem to believe in elections (at least as long as they win), but not in the individual rights, laws and traditions that create a genuine liberal democracy. The administration has pushed for elections in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt, only

Hillary Clinton said if elected president, she will assign her husband Bill Clinton, USA ex-president, a roaming ambassador to the world . "He has said he would do anything I asked him to do. I would put him to work." - devoted wife words.Hillary Clinton still remains one of the main candidates for the US president. The elections will take place in November 2008.