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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

How Obama Can Close the Deal

Barack Obama has fought quite a primary race so far against Hillary Clinton, coming from more than 20 points down to draw even with Hillary. But some argue that he can’t close the deal.
Here is what is happening and a couple ideas on how he closes.
Hillary is using the Republican strategy of making the opponent […]

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Breaking the Progressive Comment Response Addiction

This week’s Democratic debate caused a fury on the Internet.
During the first 45 minutes, the moderators (Stephanopoulos and Gibson) covered Obama’s “bitter” comments, the Reverend Wright, flag pins on lapels, Hillary’s lying about Bosnia sniper fire, and Obama’s relationship to William Ayers.
You would hardly know we were a country in a recession fighting a war […]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

A Local WEBN Advertisement and Our Political Debate

WEBN is a classic rock station here in Cincinnati that has decorated our town with a lovely series of billboards. The billboards are easily spotted by single black quotes on an otherwise all-white billboard.

Here are a few samples:

“102.7 WEBN stinks,” Maya Buttreeks from Kenwood
“102.7 WEBN is immature,” Hu Flung Pu, Mt. Adams
“102.7 WEBN has never […]

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Auditioning for CEO of America

Whichever Democrat wins the nomination should make a pitch to become America’s next CEO.
A CEO that is:

A leader
Fiscally responsible
Capable of working with the best and brightest
Willing to push for major change

The CEO positioning is currently up for grabs because Republicans seem to have abandoned this tactic. I’m guessing this is because if George Bush were […]