New York Times OP-ED COLUMNIST A President Forgotten but Not Gone By FRANK RICH Published: January 3, 2009 WE like our failed presidents to be Shakespearean, or at least large enough to inspire Oscar-worthy performances from magnificent tragedians like Frank Langella. So here, too, George W. Bush has let us down. Even the banality of…
excerpt from: NY Times Op-Ed Columnist By FRANK RICH The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama From the start, there have always been two separate but equal questions about race in this election. Is there still enough racism in America to prevent a black man from being elected president no matter what? And, will Republicans play the…
[photo: Mikael Rudolph & Cindy Sheehan] [IFP does not endorse any federal candidate only encourages accountability of all politicans] By John Heuer Pittsboro, NC The Other National Election The current financial melt down (faster than the polar ice caps) has commandeered the headlines, while Obama and McCain contest for the scraps of the Bush regime….
US superpower status is shaken By Paul Reynolds World affairs correspondent, BBC News website Will Uncle Sam still bestride the world in future? The financial crisis is likely to diminish the status of the United States as the world’s only superpower. On the practical level, the US is already stretched militarily, in Afghanistan and Iraq,…
