If there is one thing we have all seen during the Bush administration it is just how important the job of Vice-President has become. Even during the Clinton years, Al Gore was more of a partner than a veep, whose only constitutional job is to break ties in the Senate and nothing more.
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They may have campaigned together in a town called Unity, but “unity” is not exactly the word that best describes the Democratic Party right now.
True, Hillary Clinton has been out there urging her supporters to vote for and give money to Barack Obama.
True, Barack Obama seems to be Clinton’s new press secretary–hardly a day goes [...]

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The economic news just keeps getting worse daily it seems.
Today alone, the following:
The stock market–the Dow Jones to be exact–plunged faster than a penny off the roof of the Empire State Building.
The Dow reached its lowest level in about two years, down almost 360 points!
Oil futures kept climbing, now passing the $140 a barrel mark.
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It’s not exactly like being picked to be Barack Obama’s running mate. But Hillary Clinton will still get  to share the spotlight with him Friday when they appear together in New Hampshire to show unity.
Of course, it will be a good testing ground for Obama to judge what the reaction is to the two [...]

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It may come down to age vs. race in the historic presidential election now shifting into higher gear.
A new Reuters report reveals Barack Obama’s race may get in the way of his moving into the Whiite House–”Americans say in both interviews and a poll showing that nearly a third of them acknowledge feeling racial prejudice.”
The poll [...]

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For years, the Bush administration has kept alleged terrorist suspects under lock and key in Cuba hoping to try and -it would seem–convict them by a military tribunal as quickly as possible.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court sort of screwed those plans up by ruling that the detainees had the right to have their cases [...]

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