Well folks Views has tried not to look at early polls for 2008, its February folks, but it seems the politicians in the D.C want to start early so Views will start to look at the Iowa and N.H polls for the start of April. Views stills goes with the conventional wisdom that that it will be McCain and Clinton in the general election but on the other hand it could be Gore and McCain. Gore could do a Nixon in 1968 and run with his anti War views in place but with a good record of government also his Oscar for his rant on green issues will play well the early voters. Lets be honest, the reason Al Gore is not President in some respects is Bill Clinton and his scandal. If one thought that politics can be revenge best served very cold, 8 years is very cold, Gore could beat Hillary Clinton and take the Prize. That would be real cold revenge, one has to wonder will Gore have the character to go through a open door and became the 44th President of the United States of America.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Arthur Schlesinger Jr Dead
The last of the great Liberal Icons has passed away, the author of A Thousand Days, the record of President Kennedy's Administration between 1961 - 1963. It should be noted he was a Liberal Democrat, he wanted to impeach Nixon but not Clinton, thus his critical review of President George W. Bush. In the Mid 1990s he had the responsibility to pick historians to rank American Presidents it was no great suprise that his group chose Kennedy and Johnson over Reagan.
Here are some of the news reports on the death.
New York Times
Newsweek on Schlesinger, fair if not stressing his neglect to mention some of the faults of JFK.
Schlesinger on Reagan, only a Liberal Democrat could write a semi negative article like that, worth a read and you see why even the NYT had to say he was a Partisan Liberal but a interesting character and writer.
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