Many people think that the Stephen Colbert interview with Vice-President Joe Biden on Thursday, September 10 was seminal TV. Both had suffered tragic losses
Category: 2016 Election
Is Obama endorsing Biden for President?
On August 24, White House press secretary Josh Earnest responded to reporters asking about Joe Biden possibly running for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton:
The “President Trump,” Seven-Days-in-May scenario
If you were a child of the ‘60s, one of the most gripping novels and then movies was Seven Days in May (video link
Trump to nation: Political system is rigged against you
In a rare, and perhaps historical, moment of truth telling in presidential politics, Donald Trump told 24 million Americans that wealthy people like
Trump: Republican strategy taken to its logical extreme
I’ve heard people saying that Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party. I beg to differ. Trump is just the logical extension of the
You can be mean and still sound rational
A recent article published here on Occasional Planet stated that the Republican debates last Thursday night were not as much of a clown car
Republican forum: Not as much of a clown car as I had expected
Maybe it was the format: Each of the 14 Republican candidates for President was questioned individually in 5- to 6-minute segments, with no audience
National Review compares Bernie Sanders to Nazis: Offensive and inaccurate
Commentators cannot seem to leave the memory of Nazi Germany alone. Nazi comparisons became especially heinous after the 2008 presidential election, when haters compared
Trump knows how to reform campaign finance
Earlier this week I received one of those odious phone calls with a political candidate asking for, you guessed it, money. I wish that
Why Donald Trump will not run as a third-party candidate
Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to bolt the Republican party and switch his Presidential “candidacy” to a third party. News media are taking this