June 30th, 2009 | Posted in democrats, elections, politics
We have finally learned who the newest Senator for Minnesota will be…. Al Franken has been officially announced the winner of the highly disputed Senatorial race from this past November.
The state Supreme Court announced today that it was going to force Republican candidate Norm Coleman to concede the race to Franken. The decision to add Al Franken to the Senate is a big win for Democrats. Franken gives the Democrats 60 votes, which is enough to prevent any Republican attempt at delaying legislation, also known as a filibuster.
Definitely a major blow to the Republicans, and another major win for the Democrat party.
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October 31st, 2008 | Posted in Obama, politics
Lawrence Eagleburger, who was Secretary of State under George H Bush, has been a pretty vocal supporter of the struggling McCain campaign, but as to his thoughts on McCain’s Vice President selection, Sarah Palin … well, Eagleburger doesn’t seem too optomistic about her ability to run the country.
When asked yesterday if he thoughtPalin’s had the ability to take over as President should something happen to McCain, Eagleburger stated that obvious with three simple words… “Of course not.”
But surely Eagleburger thinks that Palin would be able to learn and grow into a position where she would be able to lead the country in these tough times. Not so fast! Let’s see what he had to say about the possibility of her taking over control:
“Give her some time in the office and I think the answer would be, she will be adequate. I can’t say that she would be a genius in the job”
Not that big of a deal I guess… afterall, America has managed to survive the last 8 years with a less than genius mind at the controls!
As of today, polls are showing Obama is probably going to win by a pretty sizable margin… depending on what polls you look at, it seems like political analysts are thinking he will win by an ectoral vote of 338 to 178… but you never know how elections in America are going to turn out. Should be interesting to see!
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March 25th, 2008 | Posted in politics
I ran across an interesting news piece today that laid out some strange, albeit distant, family relationships for some of this year’s Presidential candidates.
First, let’s look at Democratic hopeful Barack Obama. U.S. researchers looked at Obama’s family tree and discovered that Obama is a distant relative of current Republican President George W. Bush. Not only does Obama have President Bush in his family tree, but also another prominent political figure, wartime British prime minister Winston Churchill. Churchill I would claim… Bush, well… we all have some skeletons in our family closet… why should Obama be any different?
What about the other leading Democratic hopeful, Hillary Clinton? The same researchers show that Clinton is distantly related to Madonna, Jack Kerouac, and Angelina Jolie.
On the Republican side, Republican John McCain does not have anyone quite so impressive, but he is a distant relation to current first lady Laura Bush.
Obama had the longest list which include not only the names above, but former presidents Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman, and to Civil War General Robert Lee (am I the only one that finds some irony in this?).
Interesting lineup for sure for the first possible black President of the country.
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