Written by Neil Kelty on November 21st, 2008
Defense
Defense Secretary Robert Gates – It is extremely likely that current secretary will stay on to see the downsizing of operations in Iraq. It appears that the major holdup in this scenario is that gates wants some of his people to stay on.
Senator Chuck Hagel – Hagel appears to be the leading candidate to replace Robert gates should he choose not to return to serve in the Obama administration. You can hardly argue with Hagel’s experience and readiness for the job which includes work in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Hagel could also be a Republican in Obama’s cabinet, which experts say he should have at least one in order to hold his promise of change by not picking all …
Written by Neil Kelty on November 12th, 2008
On Tuesday, November 11-just a week after the election-myself and a crowd of just over 1,000 people joined Former Senator John Edwards at the IU Auditorium for a lecture running for public office and the future of America. While I enjoyed the lecture and the event showed the speaking power of the man, I felt it was missing an intellectual ingredient. Senator Edwards seemed to gloss over many of the issues we’re seeing America battle and I can’t honestly say I was inspired much by his rhetoric. He didn’t offer up any important changes we need to make, instead I heard a candidate making his case for issues.
I was expecting …
Written by Neil Kelty on July 24th, 2008
With Obama dragging out his selection process for at least few more weeks, we’ve still got plenty of time to speculate about the myriad of potential candidates, but recently Indiana Senator Evan Bayh has been thrust into the spotlight as a likely choice for the VP nominations. Add to the fact that John Edwards is essentially out of the picture with his recent spectacle, Bayh has all the more chance of landing the job.
Bayh made a joint appearance with Obama last week in Indiana and appeared opposite Joe Lieberman on Fox News Sunday arguing vehemently in favor of Obama’s policies and giving that ever-so-famous non-answer to the …
Written by Neil Kelty on April 9th, 2008
A couple of months ago I was watching a debate between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards. Barack made a statement to the effect that he voted†against†a bill providing limits on credit card interest rates because he thought the rate of 30% was too high. Edwards called him on the statement, but the debate pressed on.
Barack’s statement stuck with me, why did he vote against that bill. Why? He said that he thought the rate was too high, so I decided that he voted against the bill to keep the debate continuing – it didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but I decided that I’d go with it.
Then I read his website:
Obama supports extending a 36 percent interest …
Written by Patrick McAlister on February 7th, 2008
For the Democrats, Super Tuesday was a bag of mixed nuts.
One would have assumed that with the exit of John Edwards his supporters would shift one way or another. One would have assumed that since what seemed like every state was up for grabs, one of the two remaining candidates would take charge and become the presumptive nominee. One would even assume that if one candidate won major states over the other candidate that candidate would be finished.
Welp, if one assumed all or even any of that, one would assume wrong.
The fact was that Hillary won the biggies ñ New York, California and even some of the upsetties (doesnít work as well) – namely Massachusetts and New Jersey. …
