Political Equinox

Although referencing Romeo and Juliet is incredibly trite, it nonetheless underscores an important point - it shouldn’t matter in picking the leader of our country. In politics it helps if your name is Bush, Roosevelt, Kennedy or Rockefeller or is alliterative (Ronald Reagan, Hannibal Hamlin etc). But unless your shtick is railing against elite political families or hating repetitive letters and sounds, names usually do not have a negative affect on a politician.

Enter the 2008 presidential race. Although the McCain camp has done a good job denouncing the practice, some of his supporters have selectively chosen to insert Senator Obama’s middle …

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This is former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney who served under President George H.W. Bush during the Gulf War. In this video from 1994, Mr. Cheney provides his analysis of what would happen (hypothetically) if the US actually overthrew Saddam Hussein.

I don’t have a comment on this. However, I look forward to yours.

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