Tag: barack obama

I, like most others, thought that Hillary Clinton will defeat Donald J. Trump with a comfortable margin on election night.

I was clearly wrong, but before getting into the why, permit me to start with what I got right.

In the footnote to my pre-election perspective, I noted how the conventional wisdom focusing on the Democratic Party's

I have a suggestion for those who are politically interested: surround yourself with people who are disagreeable.  Surround yourself with a lot of them.

That means that if you’re in college, odds are you should be seeking people who go to meetings of College Republicans (yes, those people exist, in surprisingly large number).  If you’re a working

I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

I have gone  through five years of grammar school, three years of middle school, four years of high school, four years of college, three years of law school and nearly two years of work experience.  I have stayed consistently in one side of the political spectrum.  I studied

Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire withdrew his nomination as President Obama's Secretary of Commerce.  The new president's first month in office has been quite bumpy, with the Commerce Secretary's job increasingly turning into a cursed cabinet post. As rough as it has been for the president, I am still withholding judgment on the Obama

I like President Bush. I will miss him greatly. Read about my personal affection for the president.

The New York Times, which my family stopped subscribing to years ago for obvious reasons, never ceases to amaze me.

This article on Barack Obama's "role" in the downfall of Illinois governor Rod R. Blagojevich just may be the most far-fetched article I have read from the Times in a while--and that's quite a statement. 

Since this is a popular game among political scientists (and an important one at that; too many poli sci people comment on the aftermath as if the result was a foregone conclusion without any accountability of being held to a prediction), I shall throw in my two cents.

At this juncture, it's fairly clear--and personally, depressingly