How can there be a “debate” if the results are pretty much predefined?

The honesty and transparency themes are driving much of voter sentiment in this election. 

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama confessed to a group of teens this week at Manchester Central High School in Manchester, New Hampshire that when he was their age he used to be a dope smokin’ fool. 

Most have probably seen by now one of the top watched YouTube commercials with GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and me. It was fun to film. 

California’s Supreme Court has been asked to hear a claim Sen. Hillary Clinton wrongly invoked First Amendment protections to remove herself as a defendant from a multi-million-dollar lawsuit in which she and her husband are accused of defrauding the largest donor to her 2000 Senate campaign.

...Forty-five years ago this week, President John F. Kennedy announced a startling economic discovery. He tried to educate the American people about why he was cutting taxes – not that the American people or any other people have ever needed to be persuaded to cut taxes. 

In a nation of self-rule, failure to vote is a refusal to rule.

Sitting in for Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham gave Jeri Thompson a powder puff interview on Tuesday night but it won’t be enough to save her husband, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson. “Fred Dead?” was a topic on Brit Hume’s Fox News show, which aired earlier in the evening. Thompson is dead politically mainly because of his flip-flops and incredible lack of knowledge and sensitivity on the right-to-life issue. 

It seems that only about 40% of American voters know that there are 3 branches of the Federal government.  Take a guess as to how much else they have no clue about.

It’s very easy to fall behind the times.  It is for this reason that you find parents who never seem to really know what the younger generation is involved in, older folks who still act as if a hot dog should be 10 cents, and people who fight yesterday’s social battles.  As to the last thing, there are those who ask if a woman can be elected president.

Drug tests have recently exposed the doping of professional athletes. Marion Jones was stripped of gold medals. Floyd Landis was dethroned as the Tour de France winner. Barry Bonds may have his record wiped from the books if proven guilty. Drug testing forces people to deal with truth.

Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred “diamonds or pearls” at last night’s debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

A single word has taken the campaign for the presidency to a new level, as a woman at a South Carolina political event for Sen. John McCain asked the Arizona Republican, “How do we beat the bitch?”

Atlanta, GA/November 14, 2007 – Strategic Vision, LLC, a public relations and public affairs agency, announced the results of a three-day poll in Iowa of 600 likely Republican caucus goers and 600 likely Democratic caucus goers on the 2008 Presidential Election.

As best as I can remember, I have touched on all of the Republicrat candidates but Rudy. So lettuce take a crack at it.