July 2008 Archives

We often take our good fortune for granted. Especially the luck we are born into, can easily be forgotten even as we take advantage of our heritage, our citizenship, and our freedoms. I have always felt extraordinarily fortunate to be an American. In 2008, America is lucky!

By this time everybody knows that Barack Obama delivered an outstanding speech in Germany. It was greeted by a raving audience of over 200,000 people streching for a mile. Obviously he was a hit. Republicans are so scared of the affect of this grand reception on the American public, they are denigrating everything about the speech.

Politico's John Bresnahan writes of the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on executive power overreach by the Bush administration taking place today. But, Bresnahan characterizes this hearing as "Democrats bash Bush over abuse of executive power". Bresnahan apparently misses the fundamental import of this hearing: democracy and its preservation. This hearing is vastly more important to America than its inherent partisan politics; and quotes of the hearing's participants provided by Bresnahan allude to this.

President Bush's main reason for not promoting the development of clean energy - wind, solar and other non-carbon fuels - is that it may be a burden on business. He and many economists have been telling us that all-out investment in CO2-free fuels would place a burden on our economy. We should, they say, concentrate on oil and coal, at least for now.

In this column will be writers who are Democrats, or whose views are liberal and closely related to Democratic values. If you have very good writing composition skills, have a blog of your own, or experience with web site publishing, and would like to write for this column, please send and email to editor [at] poliwatch.org.

Please include your experience, and hyperlink or URL to where your writings can be viewed.