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

March 4, 2008 
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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

March 4, 2008 
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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

March 2, 2008 
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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?

March 1, 2008 
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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

March 1, 2008 
Category: Analyses & Opinions, Keys to Victory | 1 Comment

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

Has Hillary Been a Bad Girl? Hillary Clinton Plagiarizes during the Very Same Debate She Was Laying the Charge of Plagiarism Against Barack Obama

February 25, 2008 
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During the CNN/Univision-sponsored debate on Thursday, Feb. 21, the Hillary Clinton charge was unambiguous. In her response to a probe by the panel of journalists, Hillary Clinton, once again, accused Barack Obama of having plagiarized lines from a 2006 campaign speech that Deval Patrick had given in his then victorious bid for the office of governor of Massachusetts. Read more

From the Hillary “Moments” to the War and Controversy over the Health Care Mandate and NAFTA: Why Obama Should Be the One Saying: “Shame on You Hillary Clinton!”

February 24, 2008 
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It is strange that it is at this very late date that Hillary Clinton chose to “voice” her “indignation” at the two mailers she says the Obama campaign has been sending to Ohio voters, mailings that she claims have distorted her record on NAFTA and her plan on universal health care. Her Feb. 23 “Shame on you, Barack Obama,” however, sounds as fake as her “moment” in the last minutes of Thursday, Feb. 21 CNN/Univision debate in Austin, Texas. Read more

In Spite of Hillary Clinton’s Emotion, Obama Won the Feb. 21 Debate in Texas

February 22, 2008 
Category: Analyses & Opinions | 1 Comment

We can safely say that the Thursday, Feb. 21 debate was the first debate that Barack Obama decisively won. Heading into the debate, it was understood by most observers that Hillary Clinton had to come out swinging in order to attempt to reduce the momentum Barack Obama has enjoyed virtually unchallenged since Super Tuesday. She did not. Read more

War of the Zingers: How Barack Obama Should Prepare for Debate Counterpunching

February 21, 2008 
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Elections are generally not won on issues. They are won on perception, likeability, and impressions. Public opinion is often very easy to sway one way or another based on impressions. While Barack Obama has been, so far, winning the perceptions game due to the novelty of his persona and the excitement of his speeches, a slippage in the Thursday debate could slow the clear momentum that the Senator from Illinois is currently enjoying. Read more

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