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HALLI
CASSER-JAYNE -
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HALLI
CASSER-JAYNE -
bio Barack Obama cannot do that.
On Tuesday night, when Barack Obama was anointed the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee and was taking his victory lap on the stage at a rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, there standing by her man was his dutiful wife, Michelle.
John McCain doesn’t like Barack Obama. Really.
HALLI
CASSER-JAYNE -
bio I’m in love. No kidding. I am deeply and heartfully and emphatically ga-ga over – get this – a Republican. And who is the big elephant who stole my heart, seduced my mind, sends shivers up my spine (not a thrill going up my leg) you ask?
HALLI
CASSER-JAYNE -
bio Ya gotta have hope. Hope is the fuel that burnishes the fire that keeps humanity going. As one of my favorite poets, Emily Dickinson said, “Hope" is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
HALLI
CASSER-JAYNE -
bio While in this season of “the politics of change” -- the useless word that is no more than a campaign jingle spouted most notably by the new kid on the block and the likely next president of the United States, Senator Barack Obama -- in Washington, D.C. it remains politics as usual.
HALLI
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bio Hillary Clinton may be a tough cookie but she’s as soft as a Nabisco Nutter Butter when it comes to accepting abuse.
HALLI
CASSER-JAYNE -
bio Here we go again. Once again America has bought into charm and lyrical words and very likely is about to elect as its next president another self-absorbed, psychologically impaired, megalomaniacal political operative.
HALLI
CASSER-JAYNE -
bio Not because of the barnacles of age that the old Navy war hero wears on his skin, or because of the scar that snakes down the cheek of his face, remnants of his battle with skin cancer. No, Old Mac needs a different kind of cosmetic surgery, the kind to rid himself of the plastic personas that make up his image these days.
HALLI
CASSER-JAYNE -
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That’s just the way that it is. They love each other, they hate each other. Sometimes they enjoy each other. Other times just the thought of a family uniting in a room for the holidays is enough to cause familial angst.
HALLI
CASSER-JAYNE -
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All is not well in the house of the Democratic
Party and as much as the party leaders would like to overlook the
schisms boiling below the surface, here is a warning: DEM DI DUMB DUMB –
DON’T!
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