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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
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Halli Casser-Jayne
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Posted, December 31, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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John
Edwards, if nothing else, is the most earnest candidate
vying for the
office of President of the United States,
so it’s hard to make jokes about him, and even harder to take aim at his
platform.
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MRS. CLINTON AND MRS. BHUTTO
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Halli Casser-Jayne
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Posted, December 28, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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Islamabad,
Pakistan is a long way from Iowa but in this increasingly small world it
is just around the corner. So, in a sense you could say that the late
Benazir Bhutto was the girl next door ... she just happened to be
Pakistan’s and the Muslim world’s first woman prime minister. Similar
in
the way that Hillary Clinton is the girl next door – from
Park Ridge,
Illinois - who happens to be the first woman to be seriously running to be
elected president of the United States.
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ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
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Halli Casser-Jayne
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Posted, December 27, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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Like
their Republican counterparts, Democrats are shopping for a new
presidential nominee, trying to determine who would be the best candidate
for America’s top job. On January 3rd, the first election of
the eliminating process takes place. In Iowa, it’s down to the wire.
The
candidates are giving it their all. Where do they stand on the
burning issues of the day: Iraq? Education? Health Care Reform? The Future
of the Planet?
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DUCK, DUCK, DUCK BARACK OBAMA
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Halli Casser-Jayne
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Posted, December 24, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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I
once had a discussion with E.J. Dionne of
The Washington Post that
centered on the reason Democrats have such a hard time winning elections. We were at a dinner together and duck was on the
menu, but more about DUCK later..
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS HILLARY
by
Halli Casser-Jayne|Posted,
December 21, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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Jingle
Bells … I’m in the holiday spirit and in the spirit of holiday charity I
have decided to offer Hillary Clinton some sage-green mistletoe advice. I
say “charity” because the advice I’m about to give Senator Clinton is free
and unsolicited.
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LADIES FIRST
by
Halli Casser-Jayne|Posted,
December 19, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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There
was a time when the office of the vice president was considered a
ceremonial job, wrongly, but that’s how it was seen. John Nance Garner,
FDR’s Vice President once called the position “a warm bucket of piss.” .
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THE REAL JOE BIDEN
by
Halli Casser-Jayne|Posted,
December 17, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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Joe
Biden
is intelligent, experienced, engaging and handsome (in an east
coast kinda way). He’s
seeking the democratic nomination for president - sorta.
Biden whose first bid for the presidency dissolved in an alleged
plagiarism scandal, since proved phony, seems to be making only a
half-hearted effort to achieve the nomination -- and it’s too bad. Biden
just might be the right candidate for the job.
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NANCY DO-LITTLE PELOSI
by
Halli Casser-Jayne|Posted,
December 14, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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Wouldn’t it
be loverly if House
Speaker Nancy "Do-little" Pelosi had a room somewhere far away from
the cold, night air of Washington D.C.?
With a little bit of luck, she’ll get on a plane heading west and
return to California where she belongs to live happily ever after with her
own handsome and very rich Professor Higgins, her husband Paul Pelosi.
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HUCKLEBERRY SLIM
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Halli Casser-Jayne|Posted,
December 12, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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You have to
admire a guy who can lose 112 pounds in a short period of time, but you
don’t have to like his Hee Haw politics.
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BLACK LIKE SHE
by
Halli Casser-Jayne|Posted,
December 10, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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There’s
a reason why Oprah Winfrey is the giant she is
(she eats too much, only kidding). There is almost no better
marketing genius than she. Oprah Winfrey has made herself a
famous and wealthy women by creating the brand she has been most
successful in marketing -- herself. But apparently bored with selling
“Oprah,” in the last few years Ms. Winfrey has turned her talents to
building the careers of others including writers, a psychologist,
Dr. Phil, a diet guru, a decorator, and lately, a doctor.
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TAKE THAT OLD TIME RELIGION AND ...
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Halli Casser-Jayne|Posted,
December 7, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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Just like
40 years ago when America’s right wing had John Kennedy up against the
religious ropes because the guy was born a Catholic, hands rubbed
together in glee these last few days waiting in lurid anticipation to
learn how Republican Presidential candidate Willard Mitt Romney, who
happens to have been born to a Mormon family, was going to save his
candidacy from its assault from the Christian Right.
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THE MOTHER OF OUR COUNTRY
by
Halli Casser-Jayne|Posted,
December 5, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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In 1878 an
amendment to the Constitution was introduced in
Congress to give women the
right to vote. It was defeated. It was then reintroduced in every session
of Congress for the next 40 years. It finally passed the
House of
Representatives in 1918 where it was introduced by Jeannette Rankin of
Montana, the first woman elected to Congress; it passed the
Senate in 1919
and was ratified by the States the following year. Women voted for the
first time in the presidential election of 1920, nearly 100 years ago.
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WHY ELIZABETH EDWARDS SHOULD SUPPORT
HILLARY CLINTON
by
Halli Casser-Jayne|Posted,
December 3, 2007 12:01 p.m.
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In
this era of generic reporting by the traditional news media and punditry, where
journalists are long on spewing opinion and short on reporting facts, it
would behoove the women of America to start reading the fine print.
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