Death in Afghanistan

BBC: Another death in Afghanistan, the total is now 87. How many more how long. I don't see a winning strategy that will finish off the terrorist threat for the future.

Where is the Gipper ?

Bloomberg: Looks at how each candidates on the Republican side has a problem when it comes to the mantle of Ronald Reagan. The Gipper was a one off, but we do miss him, that was a President.

NYT on Thompson

New York Times: Has a look at why Thompson did not take off, the usual critic, lack of energy on the campaign trail, others taking position that made them more conservative, thus undercutting his platform. Also looks at how the withdrawal with help other candidates.

Fred Thompson OUT

BBC News: Reports that Fred Thompson is out of the Republican Race for President. In the end he was no Ronald Reagan, in 1976 Reagan had early defeats against President Ford but went down to the convention. A candidate needs the fire in the belly to win, Thompson wanted to President as long as he didn't have to work for it, you are not given the Presidency you take it, that is power.

Obama v Bill Clinton

The Times: Looks at how the Obama camp is going to make sure Bill Clinton keeps to the truth about the Obama record. Good Luck with that Chaps, recall Bill Clinton has a problem with the English Language. As IS a former President not a candidate.

Florida Polls 08

Two polls for Florida, that cover the same days, but had different leaders, give me a break, Rasmussen has Romney 25%, McCain 20 %, Giuliani 19% while SurveyUSA has McCain 25%, Giuliani 20%, Romney 19%. Need some more polls before even thinking of making a prediction.

Bill Clinton and Reagan

RCP Blog: How the Reagan comment by Obama has allowed Bill Clinton to go about his record in office. This is time for Chicago Political rules, if Clinton wants to play dirty, let the Obama Campaign start to hit back hard, the weakness of the Clinton Administration to deal withe Terrorist threat, from 1993 onwards, the White House Scandals also in other Departments, the Dot Com Bust. If need be the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, he he was fined by a judge for answers, much more, time for Obama to hit hard and win.

Clinton and Reagan

Washington Post: One of the best articles of the day, how Bill Clinton wants to be seen as another Ronald Reagan, not much chance of that, that went down the tubes with Impeachment.

Press Review of S.C Debate

Washington Post: Looks at the fight between Clinton and Obama, and how far both went back to get some negative stuff on each other, also the Reagan comment by Obama and how this effects the political race ( as stated in early post, Reagan never a favorite of Liberal Democrats ), how S.C is the jump off point for Super Tuesday.

CNN: Reports that Edwards was on form, also has a look at the Strategic plans of Obama and Clinton, Clinton appealing to the base while Obama is reaching out beyond the base. The question that this very interesting article asks is which strategy will win the nomination. Recommend Reading.

S. C. Debate Review - Democrats

As VIEWS is over the water had a good chance to think about the Democratic Debate last night, Obama and Clinton don't like each other, some real dirty pool of politics, he stated she had been a Director of Wall Mart while she said he had been Lawyer for a slum lord. John Edwards was there for this contest, but he came across as quite normal, not the rule for John Edwards, Edwards tried to keep to the subject and he did not bash on about his Two Americans stump speech. Obama showed he was not going to allow the Bill and Hillary Clinton to define his record. He is learning what others have learnt about the Clinton's they fight dirty. Thus on the grading of the debate, Obama A, Clinton B+ and Edwards a C-.


Obama gets a A because he showed in the first hour that he was willing to fight his corner, he showed that Democrats have to get votes beyond the base, thus the reference to Ronald Reagan, he showed that they needed Obama Republicans and Independents to vote for the Democrats as to have the support Reagan had in 1980.

Clinton gets a B+ because she kept Obama on earth, made him fight dirty, as ab0ve she has no chance in S.C but she made sure she will get support for Super Tuesday. Her support is older women over 50 and those from Mexican decent. In the General Election she will need to get greater support to win.


Edwards gets a C- he made himself noticed, but this is not his year.