The tensions among the first Bush cabinet on many issues were pretty evident. Colin Powell’s appointment as Secretary of State was meant to satisfy the moderates, after all. That and perhaps balance the factions within the Republican party, at a time when G.W. Bush seemed clueless on practically anything that mattered and Cheney/Rumsfeld represented an […]
Niceness will get you nowhere when you are up against the Orwellian Mrs. Clinton, who, by gaining a last gasp of air in Ohio, thinks she has a mandate; she reminds me of Greece’s PASOK party, who lose an election and manage to convince us that they won it.It's surprising Obama hasn't resorted to nasty tactics already. Still, I guess some of his appeal lies in just that. Of course he is bound to get 'nasty', given the way these primaries turned out, if he's really going after the nomination. That's part of what politics is about, after all.