No, seriously. Spam campaigns on pro-Obama message boards don’t constitute a savvy web strategy. Slander on political web blogs doesn’t constitute a savvy web strategy. So unless the Clinton campaign is staffed are utter morons (more…)

Epic is not a word readily used in a political context. By rule of thumb, I sleep through or ignore political speeches of all stripes, just like I slept through 80% of my lectures in college. I have little use for them…mostly I settle in with a good book or good article and draw my conclusions from what I’ve learned on paper. Obama’s “epic speech” went the same way. I’ll be honest – Obama’s delivery was pure vanilla. There was strength, there was honesty, there was empathy. There was also a complete lack of passion, more like a tutor giving his class a lecture than a preacher calling upon the heavens to open up and rain fire and brimstone upon the unbelieving masses. Well, so maybe that was the whole point, but still…

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How far the mighty hath fallen. Hillary Clinton, once the soon-to-be-crowned Queen of the Democrats has been unseated by a young, charismatic upstart named Barack Hussein Obama. Queen Hillary has been suffering multiple upsets at the hands of this Democratic whippersnapper who has been so…so impudent as to challenge her God Given Right to the Democratic nomination.

At first, Her Majesty believed that she could deal with this pest by humbling him in New Hampshire and Nevada, then crushing him on Super Tuesday. But Super Tuesday came and went, and…guess what? That impudent little ant (more…)

“It is understandable and acceptable that actions do speak louder than words, but it is also notable that all actions start with words.”

Just thought I’d share this quote with everyone, Clintonites take special heed. I’m still paying more attention to the current political turmoil in my own Malaysia, but I’ll be back with more soon, particularly Obama’s incredible speech.

It’s been surfacing recently, speculation that Hillary Clinton is no longer trying to win the 2008 elections – she’s gunning for the 2012 elections. And she’s doing it by trying to destroy Obama so badly that he’ll lose to John McCain.

That’s interesting speculation and should bear some thought. McCain is 71, the oldest Presidential candidate in history. It would seem a safe bet, morbid as it sounds, to assume he’ll be a one-term president by either electoral selection or natural selection. Obama is different. Young and coming from the same (more…)

Well, the Malaysian elections are all over while the fratricidal battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama drags on as old John McCain struggles to make up the mileage against his formidable potential foes. The US elections are a world and a half away from the twisted, corrupt farce that are the Malaysian elections, yet both the democrats and republicans will do well to keep in mind the results of this quasi-democratic exercise from the middle of Asia’s willy.

Right from the outset the ruling National Front (BN), an all-conquering juggernaut, formed of a coalition of numerous political parties goose stepping in time to the beat of the ruling Malay nationalist party UMNO, dominated the electoral scene. Dominating the media airwaves, they arrogantly assumed (more…)

Most people around me know my opinions on a lot of contentious issues. My political position has been firmly right-of-center for a very long time. Though I’m considered liberal on certain social issues, on matters concerning the economy and foreign policy, I fall firmly on the conservative side of the spectrum. I am openly in favor of NAFTA and free trade. I have a strongly Friedman–influenced ideal of economics. I unashamedly supported and continue to support the US mission in Iraq, even if I continue to decry Bush’s folly of attempting the whole SNAFU on a shoestring budget. I have gone so far as to defend the necessity of Guantanamo Bay (before you burn me at the stake, I’ll just say in my defense that I’ve forsworn this position – Guantanamo does far more damage to America’s attempts at quelling militant Islam than is justified by the overt benefits it has yielded).

Yet, again and again I find myself attracted to Barack Obama. When Obama (more…)

Everyone is now talking about how this year’s elections have already been groundbreaking in the way it’s broken from the trench deadlock of partisan warfare that has characterized the last series of Presidential elections, from Clinton to Bush. Everyone is chirping about the arrival of the “millennials” and their inclusive, conciliatory brand of politics that looks set, perhaps, to change the way politicians appeal to voters –focusing once again on the middle ground of moderate voters instead of trying to rally “the base”.

Sorry, but this is politics, not war. The bitter trench war between blue team and red team hasn’t gone away. It’s simply going through a period of shifting alliances and partisan ideologies just as it did with Reagan or (more…)