The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. Controversy: The Bold Speech that Barack Obama Should Give to Make It All Go Away

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. controversy has been the biggest, and perhaps, the most daunting challenge that the Obama campaign has had to deal with to date. It has become clearer and clearer, with the sudden TV and YouTube appearances of a number of despicable videos showing an enraged Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. engaged in clearly-disturbing racist and anti-American diatribes, that the fallout would be very costly to Barack Obama in the political arena. Read more

Canada, NAFTA, Tony Rezko and Barack Obama: Time and Ways to Avoid Further Embarrassment

How and why the Canada/NAFTA/Obama impasse developed so easily and so fast into a harmful story with long legs is puzzling. The issue was so badly handled by the Obama campaign that it suggests the people around Barack Obama have begun to construct a bubble of illusion and aloofness from reality around the candidate. Mistakes such as the Canada/NAFTA debacle should never have been allowed to happen, and should never have happened. And the mishandling of such mistakes in the media can only fuel further acrimony, suspicion and controversy, and give more ammunition to a Clinton side so desperate for stories and scandals that could sink Barack Obama and lend some credibility to the Clintons’ contention that the whole Obama phenomenon is, in fact, a mere fairytale. Read more

Against All Odds: Why Barack Obama’s Incredible Achievement Must Be Lauded and Admired

The pundits and Clintonians who have chastised Barack Obama–the real underdog–for failing to wrap up the nomination against Hillary Clinton–the expected victor–always seem to forget one simple evidence: Barack Obama is not just any “normal” candidate in this race, he is a BLACK candidate. Read more

The Texas and Ohio Expectations Game: What the Obama Campaign Must Do to Ensure a Win-Win Paradigm Come Tuesday

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns have been playing the expectations game ahead of the crucial Ohio and Texas primaries on Super Tuesday #2. These primaries have universally been recognized as Hillary Clinton’s last stand and her only chance of freezing Barack Obama cold on his tracks. Read more

War of the “3AM Ads”: How Credible is Hillary Clinton in the White House at 3AM?

Ok, Hillary Clinton is at it again. On Friday, she launched a “3AM” ad that is reminiscent of a song by Nonchalant whose lyrics are asking the question: “5 o’clock in the morning, where you gonna be? – Outside on the corner.” Hillary’s new ad seems to pose the same question to voters, asking them to consider who would be a more credible Commander in Chief when it comes to answering that fatidic phone call at 3AM in the White House as children sleep unsafely in an unsafe world. Read more

Michelle Obama Must Avoid Taking Position on Potentially Controversial Issues

Watching Michelle Obama taking position in the past few days on the controversy over Barack Obama’s “Hussein” middle name, I got a small hunch. And the hunch said: Michelle Obama must avoid taking position on potentially controversial issues. Read more