Month: February 2008

Allison Kilkenny muses about how Hillary Clinton might just turn off enough voters in the general election to have them stay home, which is kind of the argument Barack Obama, his wife, and their supporters have been...

With Mitt Romney now out of the Republican race for president, John McCain is much, much closer to locking up his political party’s nomination.  What does this mean for Democrats?  Bad news, and here’s why....

Much of the so-called success of the surge strategy in Iraq has had little to do with the escalation of troop levels by the Pentagon, and much to do with agreements between US forces and local Sunni tribes and former insurgents....

Dumped on the United Nations, that is! I’m not really inclined to write a diary entry this morning, but some recent articles on a blog on UN affairs that I frequent deserve some attention outside it’s usual...

were she elected president of the United States. In a recent Daily Kos diary, Ten Reasons Not to Vote for Hillary Clinton (Mon Feb 04, 2008), fromtheleft listed several foreign policy reasons why Hillary is likely to follow in...