Judgment.

John McCain today, speaking in Chicago, Illinois, said that Barack Obama has "reckless judgment in response to Obama's planned diplomatic ways in dealing with Iran. I would have thought that McCain was talking about himself. After all, he's the one that voted for the Iraq war, which turned out to be a humongous mistake of judgment on his part. Obama opposed the war from the very beginning which obviously shows that he has the capability to make the right choice even though it might be very unpopular, especially politically.

Obama made it clear why he believes the United States should take more of a diplomatic attitude towards the world by saying, "Why shouldn't we have the same courage and confidence to talk to our enemies? That's what strong countries do. That's what strong presidents do." Although Obama may not have much as experience with foreign policy as John McCain has, it is obvious that Obama has the better judgment and that is easily seen through all the soldiers we have lost in Iraq.

Hillary's Analogies.

Today, in Kentucky (who has its primary on Tuesday), Hillary Clinton said "If we get everybody turned out, it's going to send a great message to our country that you don't stop democracy in its tracks." The truth is that democracy has already rolled down its tracks and has arrived at its destination; Senator Barack Obama. If Hillary refuses to acknowledge that she's behind on all three important fronts: pledged delegates, super delegates and the popular vote, she's simply in denial.

She also said "think about this as a hiring decision," when the people in Kentucky go to the polls on Tuesday. If this is really a hiring decision, then America has spoken and she's definitely not getting a call-back. It's positive to note that Hillary's analogies and attacks on Obama aren't really getting to Obama's head as he instead focuses his attention on McCain, as the whole Democratic Party should.

McCain vs. Obama. Round 1.

John McCain and Barack Obama are finally getting a chance to fire some shots at each other, with Hillary Clinton basically out of the picture. Their first fights have been over their views of foreign policy. There has been controversy over how each of the candidates plan to treat some of America's foes in the world. McCain wants to continue foreign policy the way President Bush has been doing it, but Obama is willing to take more of a diplomatic approach.

Obama has continuously called the strategies of Bush and McCain as "fear-mongering" and has called for McCain to differ his foreign policies to the failed ones of President Bush. Though the Republicans think that the attacks on Obama are hurting his candidacy, it's actually helping because now the Democratic Party has something to come together against. The Republicans are only hurting themselves when they attack Obama with unreasonable logic.

Obama Stands His Ground.

Senator Barack Obama responded today to the controversial comments that President Bush made yesterday by saying "After almost eight years, I did not think I could be surprised about anything that George Bush says, but I was wrong." Don't worry Barack, most of us have been surprised by Bush's antics multiple times. Bush never seems to disappoint our disappointment in him.



President Bush is taking his politics of fear to new levels and the worse thing is that John McCain seems to be a great fan of the Bush politics of fear. Obama makes an excellent point in saying that McCain "still hasn't spelled out one substantial way in which he would be different from George Bush when it comes to foreign policy." I'm pretty sure that America will not vote for a candidate that will basically continue the failed of policies of our current President.

"This is bulls**t."

While in Israel today celebrating that country's 60th birthday, President Bush took a sharp blow against the democrats by comparing to Democrats wanting to "appease" with Iran to the way people in Europe let Hitler come to power. Joe Biden, the Senator from Delaware, simply responded to Bush's remarks by saying; "This is bulls**t." Obviously the President is willing to compare anyone that is open to having talks with some of our enemies, to Nazis, and that's simply put.

You know those simple proverbs that you tend to hear and you feel as if everyone on planet Earth has heard them at least once in their lives. Well, I thought that "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" was one of those. Apparently, the leader of the free world still is ignorant to that fact even though he is the engineer of one of America's greatest military mistakes, the war in Iraq.

President Bush at this point is simply out of touch with world issues at this point in time and needs to adapt to the modern world. We can no longer just simply ignore countries we don't particularly like and expect that to solve all of our problems. After all, aren't we the country with the world's greatest military and democracy? If we are, we should definitely start acting like one and stop hiding from our enemies.

To make this into an analogy, imagine this, the world is a high school, America is the captain of the football team and the strongest kid in the school. If a problem arises with another student, America wouldn't be the one to go hide and avoid the other student, the other, weaker, student would be the one hiding. America would have the guts to go talk to that school since it has nothing to be afraid of and convince them to act appropriately.

President Bush kinda understands this but apparently not enough because instead of convincing weaker countries he just largely ignores them, and when the problem really becomes something serious, he just beats them up (Iraq.) So, it's time that we realize our powers and abilities and not just use our muscle, but also our brains. Obviously, President Bush doesn't realize that the silent treatment is only effective in insignificant social matters and does not work on a global scale.

Obama/Edwards ticket?

Forget about Hillary Clinton's lost Presidential hopes, now it looks like she has lost any possible Vice Presidency hopes also. Today, in Michigan, John Edwards officially endorsed Barack Obama for President. This is mostly an apparent political move because Edwards obviously was waiting things out until it got obvious that there was a presumptive nominee. This endorsement is the final straw that broke the camel's back for Hillary Clinton's campaign.

This endorsement is much more important than people realize simply because Edwards represents the voting bloc that Obama has struggled with the most; white blue-collar, suburban voters. I feel that it's no surprise that Edwards endorsed Obama the day after a land-slide victory for Clinton is West Virginia. This definitely puts a huge dent in any possible Clinton momentum after West Virginia and leaves Senator Clinton's campaign on life support and there's not much life to support.

A Party United, Against Itself?

Whenever I go to my barber, Hana, we always have some friendly, although sometimes serious, conversations about politics. We were recently talking about the split in the Democratic Party thanks to the bitter race between Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton when Hana said:

"You know what they say now right? There are three parties. Republicans, Democrats, and the Clintons."

What might just seem as a playful political joke is definitely not one which is apparently seen in today's West Virginia exit polls. According to CNN.com:

"Almost as many of Hillary Clinton's West Virginia supporters would vote for John McCain as would for Barack Obama, exit polls show."

According to the same article,

"If Obama were the Democratic nominee, 36 percent of Clinton supporters would vote for him in the fall, the polls found.

But 35 percent said they'd cast their vote for McCain instead."

I know that a lot of Democrats say that Mrs. Clinton should stay in the race but when you start seeing numbers like that, you know it's time to close things up. After 8 years of Bush, Clinton has still somehow managed a way to separate Democrats among from each other and risk losing one of the most important presidential elections in modern history. If Clinton is as truly dedicated to keeping the Democratic Party together as she says she is she needs to realize that her candidacy is putting the whole party at risk for decomposition.

And even as she probably will win West Virginia today, she needs to come back down to planet Earth from whatever far away galaxy she has been traveling in and step out of the race and actually give the Democrats a decent chance at taking the White House back in this fall. You have to set aside personal ambitions sometimes if it's for the good of the people, especially when you have homeless veterans on the streets, rising gas prices and a potential McCain administration that would just make matters worse.