Blatant Reality

With 2008 bringing changes not only in the United States’ leadership but also the Russian leadership, it is important to hear what the potential presidential candidates have to say concerning Russia. The candidates’ take on Russia is especially important now that the Russian government under Putin has been steadily moving away from democratic rule. Combine this with the fact that Russia has been contracted to build nuclear reactors in Iran and possibly sell them an air defense system and you got a major foreign policy issue.

The only real interesting thing I found in this article was Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy plan concerning Russia. From what was said in the article, Hillary obviously can’t grasp that the policies inside Russia’s borders have an affect their foreign policy. I deduce this from the following quote from the Boston Globe cited in this article:

In the wide-ranging interview, the senator, a Democrat of New York, also said her policy on Russia would focus on influencing that nation’s role in the world rather than trying to halt its internal move away from democracy. She would seek Russia’s help negotiating with Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons program, she said, and try to prevent Russia from “being a problem in the Middle East” or bullying its neighbors.

 

“I’m interested in what Russia does outside its borders first,” she said. “I don’t think I can, as the president of the United States, wave my hand and tell the Russian people they should have a different government.”

Yea, and at this rate the Russian people won’t have much say about their government either. Who would have thought that Hillary would be the one to support a dictator as long as they would support the United States?

Well, after all the hype about Huckabee misspeaking yesterday about Bhutto, Hillary can join the ranks by not knowing how Bhutto’s father was killed and how many children she had. She is quoted as saying the following yesterday in Denison, Iowa :

She wrote a very moving autobiography which begins with the assassination of her father who had been the leader of Pakistan and was killed as well. I grieve for her family particularly her two children.

Read the whole article to find out how Bhutto’s father was actually killed and how many children she really had.

John Hawkins posted an article on Townhall.com today where he outlines the twelve biggest mistakes we have seen in this presidential race. My personal favorite is number six.

6) John Edwards’ running feud with Ann Coulter: Ann Coulter was roundly — and rightly — slammed for calling John Edwards a “f*ggot” at CPAC last year.

 

Unfortunately for John Edwards, instead of ignoring it, he tried to hype it for the sake of publicity and fundraising which not only caused Ann Coulter to continue to go after him, but led to lots of conversations that went about like this,

 

Person 1: Ann Coulter was wrong to call John Edwards a f*ggot.

 

Person 2: You’re right. She should have just called him a little girl or Silky Pony.

 

Person 1: …Or the Breck Girl. I mean he is pretty girlish. But, oh that Ann Coulter — she always goes too far!

 

Then, Edwards made the mistake of compounding his error by having his wife call in to attack Coulter on Hardball. That’s really the way to convince people that you’re not as much of a wimp as they think you are — by sending your sick wife out to fight your battles for you.

S&P released an article today that outlines how stocks might be influenced by whether a Democrat or Republican takes office next fall. The main topics of discussion are health care, defense, and energy stocks. One thing is for certain, no matter who wins next fall, the advertisers will always come out on top…

Regardless of which party gains the White House, advertisers will likely be the big winners, as spot TV advertising spending is projected to rise 9% to 10% in 2008, according to the Television Bureau of Advertising.

Here is a nice summary of Huckabee’s platform. All the information was taken from his campaign website, just cut down to the basics.

The Boston Herald also has a convenient list of Democratic candidate profiles and Republican candidate profiles that includes each of their respective platforms.

Well, first Russia agrees to build nuclear reactors in Iran and now they are discussing selling Tehran air defense missiles.

Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said Tehran has signed a contract with Russia on Tuesday for the delivery of the advanced S-300 air defense missile systems, Iran’s Fars news agency said on Wednesday.

 

The defense minister provided no details of the deal or any timeline for the delivery of the system.

 

The signing of the deal follows last week’s meeting on military-technical cooperation between the two nations in Tehran, where both sides reviewed existing agreements and discussed further steps to enhance military cooperation.

 

Air defense and radar systems are the priority directions in Russia-Iran military cooperation, Mikhail Dmitriyev, director of Russia’s federal service for military-technological cooperation, said last week.

Wouldn’t want all those shiny new Russian made “reactors” be bombed by Israel now would we?

This is just sad. To actually view one of the positives of the melting arctic as being the flooding of the south where a majority of conservatives of this nation live is despicable. Plus, the author failed to mention that if this were to happen, the flooding would be slow enough to allow everyone to flee north to the liberals’ strongholds. I’m sure that just the thought of a flood (no pun intended) of conservative refugees entering their perfectly liberal towns is enough to scare them into hoping that man-made global warming is all wrong. However, they wouldn’t be the only ones because, contrary to popular belief, there are many scientists who also disagree with predominating notion about global warming.

This new polls shows Huckabee with a strong lead in the polls in Oklahoma, ahead of second place John McCain by a good 12%.

The latest American Research Group poll shows that Ron Paul has actually risen from 4% in Iowa to 10%.

Just four days ago, a poll ARG took Dec. 16-19 showed Dr. Paul with the support of just 4% of Iowa caucusers. Four days later, a poll taken Dec. 20-23 by this same polling organization shows him at 10%, more than twice his previous support level. The poll shows nearly all of Paul’s main opponents dropping in their support, including front runner Mike Huckabee who lost five points to 23%, down from 28% four days prior. The only main opponent who rose was Mitt Romney, whose support rose four points after an 11 point drop from their prior poll. This is most likely a bounce after a fall due to the controversy regarding Romney’s religious beliefs.

This same poll found that even though Huckabee’s support may have dropped roughly 5%, out of those who said they would vote for him, 88% said that their vote was definite. That was the highest voter loyalty out of any of the candidates. The actual poll data can be found here.

MSNBC posted two articles today, one dealing with the Republican side and the other with the Democratic side.  Basically, for the Republicans, either Huckabee or Romney will be the winner and for the Democrats, either Clinton or Obama (no big surprise there). The articles are still worth the read because they summarize each candidates’ current standing.