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Kerry on Universal Healthcare - No We Can’t!

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: Election 2008, Politwix Blogs

A comment on ABC’s “Last Week” made by top Barack Obama supporter Senator John Kerry was reduced to the soundbite “Senator Kerry claims that Senator Clinton’s universal healthcare plan is a ”non-starter”.
We think that his actual comment warrants further examination:
“Let me just tell you that Hillary Clinton’s plan in the United States Senate is a nonstarter, because it starts […]



Goddamn Michigan and Florida!

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 29th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

The Democratic Party is sinking in quicksand. The more time that goes by without consensus on the allocation of Florida’s primary votes, the more ridiculous the party looks. There is no justification for not allocating votes the way they would have been had the primary not been moved up by the Florida’s Republican Legislature. Both candidate’s names were on the ballot, neither candidate […]



The Audacity of Nope

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

Obama camp’s behind-the-scene attempts to deny primary revotes
Wow. Barack Obama’s supporters in the Florida congress have now gone on record categorically opposing a new primary, a mail-in primary, or seating the Florida delegates as they voted in the first primary. What happened to Obama’s much-touted ability to “reach across party lines” for the good of the people?  Obama’s camp has been floating the […]