Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for December, 2007

Do Tragic Assassinations Ever Yield Unexpectedly Positive Results?

Posted in American History, Politics, Presidents, tagged , , , , on December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

HNN, December 27, 2007
Mr. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University, and the author, most recently, of Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady and Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s. He is a member of the advisory board of HNN.
The murder of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is an evil act [...]

Read Full Post »

“All I Want For Christmas” – The Candidates’ Wish List

Posted in Politics, US Presidential Campaign, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

HNN, December 24, 2007
Here’s what this year’s crop of presidential candidates are hoping Santa will bring — feel free to make your own suggestions:
RUDY GIULIANI: a big bust of a terror ring the day before every primary, to resurrect the fears of 9/11 (without any real trauma) – and a marital record like Harry Truman’s [...]

Read Full Post »

Hillary Clinton Better Bank on Governing Ability or Electability not Likability

Posted in Presidents, US Presidential Campaign, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

HNN, December 21, 2007
 
Apparently, Hillary Clinton is trying to prove her “likability” to Iowans or as she put it on Tuesday, “to kind of round out who I am as a person.” This latest strategic shift in the surprisingly herky-jerky Clinton campaign is further proof of an increasingly jittery “juggernaut” as the New Hampshire primary [...]

Read Full Post »