By August 1863 the United States had suffered a quarter of a million casualties. Copperhead Democrats would seek to oust Lincoln in the 1864 election in order to end the war through concessions to the Confederacy. Lincoln’s presence at the dedication ceremony...
By JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. May 23, 2008 On Wednesday, Joe Lieberman wrote that the Democratic Party he and I grew up in has drifted far from the foreign policy espoused by Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy. In fact, it is the policies that President George...
There’s been a fair amount of criticism of Obama lately by George Bush and John McCain, in what they are terming “appeasement.” As usual, I tend to fall somewhere between the two extremes. I feel a little bit like Homer Simpson when deciding whether...
Here are two more polls. One from Iraq, one from the United States, both regarding how long the United States should remain in Iraq. The wording of these two polls are not as similar as the one above. Comparisons are thus more difficult. One has outcome based choices....
Set forth below are to two opinion polls taken at five different points in time regarding the United States decision to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power. One polls was taken from Iraqi’s and one from the Americans.The wording the polls is not the...
Below is the prepared speech given by Senator Obama on Retirement Security. Obama’s Retirement Plan is essentially this: No Privatization Address the coming Social Security funding gap not by reducing benefits or changing the retirement age but rather by...
