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Eliot Spitzer and the Illegal Alien Driver’s Licenses for Sex Scandal
If you have committed some act in the past couple of weeks that has been weighing heavy on your conscience, and you are an ardent believer in Karma, you may get a reprieve from the equatable “what goes around comes around” punishment you may have been nervously awaiting from Karma. The reason for your ad hoc amnesty is that Karma has been working double overtime for the past several weeks on the Eliot Spitzer case. Karma still has more work to do on the case.
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Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy Experience: Redux
The Hillary Clinton Machine continues to tout the experience that would make her the most qualified candidate over her inadequately qualified competitors vying for the Democrat presidential nomination. Yet she has rarely spoken, other than generalities, of any specific qualifications she has acquired in her storied career that make her the most qualified.
It would only take a rudimentary knowledge of recent history or a basic search to substantiate the fact that she has never endeavored in a high executive capacity; she has never managed anything of any consequence; she has very little aggregate experience in the Senate. She actually has less practical experience than most of her rivals that would qualify her as Commander-in-Chief.
John McCain vs. The Republican Base
John McCain’s relationship with the conservative base of the Republican party can, at best, be compared to an arranged marriage. With McCain playing the part of the groom and the Republican base playing the part of the reluctant bride. In this particular scenario, the bride’s heart belongs to someone else, but due to cultural and extraneous mandates, as in all arranged marriages, the bride will see it through out of respect for the culture.
