Five former secretaries of state met in Athens, Ga. recently to formulate bipartisan foreign policy suggestions for the next president. All five former secretaries (Powell, Kissinger, Albright, Baker and Christopher) agreed on two important recommendations: The U.S. should open a dialogue with Iran, and the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay should be closed. The first [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Pardon My Politics
In his speech on March 26 at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Senator John McCain gave his Foreign Policy speech. Not surprisingly, nothing in his speech included an America that conservatives could embrace. McCain made it quite clear, that a conservative, values friendly, sovereign America is not part of his world view. What many [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Pardon My Politics
With the 2008 Democratic Pennsylvania primary looming, how will working-class of Bethlehem, PA vote?
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Pardon My Politics
As story after story is written about the race issue, Geraldine Ferraro and Rev. Wright, I have held still to see where we would go with it. It didn’t take long to flush out the bigots and rRacists from both sides of the fence. As much as we don’t want it to be, this election [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Pardon My Politics
Most of the debate about the government “doing something” to help homeowners in foreclosure has focused on what it should do. What kind of program should be passed, what the role of the FHA should be, how the Fed can manipulate interest rates lower, and so on. But none of these arguments gets to the [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Pardon My Politics