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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
As a Clinton supporter, I'm feeling optimistic. The pundits, the polls and the professional politicians just can't read the tea leaves this time. But it looks like Mrs. Clinton's assets and smarts have steadied the ship .
As a professional salesman I have attended innumerable sales congresses and motivational speeches. Great speakers are fun to listen and often quite entertaining, but when you go back to work, having a plan and the willingness to carry it out are the "magic ingredients " that create successful careers.
It's taken a while to identify what is unsettling to me about Sen. Obama. To put it simply: its there substance behind the rhetoric? There may be - but I have no doubt about it when I listen to Sen. Clinton. Charisma and great oratorical skills are helpful in campaigns, but it's the ability to work with Congress and be familiar with foreign issues and have the experience to understand the complex issues that matters to me.
I'll vote for Sen. Obama if he receives the nomination, but for this voter, Hillary Clinton has the right stuff to be an effective president.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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