Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Hank Edson
By John Hank Edson
Dedicated to Barack Obama
History will honor the architects
who advance the quality of humanity
by improving the structures of democracy.
This Election Day, November 4, 2008, we find ourselves in the midst of an extraordinary and important moment in the history of the United States of America. In May, 75,000 people overflowed an [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Hank Edson
We need to be as ambitious in envisioning political process integrity as John Edwards has been honest in talking about political process corruption.
For supporters of John Edwards, the end of his 2008 campaign for the presidency should not be spent in either deep gloom or false bravado. The future of the cause Edwards champions remains [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Hank Edson
The recent flap over Barack Obama’s comments on Ronald Reagan speaks volumes about what distinguishes our three democratic presidential candidates. But what it says is not complementary to either Obama or Clinton. Instead, once again, it shows us that John Edwards is the real candidate all Democrats should support.
Obama’s Intent
When Obama described Reagan’s Republican Party [...]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Hank Edson
It was primary day in the forest and so Goldilocks told her mother she was going to go vote. Goldilocks was a democrat and she was terrified at the terrible condition of her country. Her vote today mattered a great deal to both her and her country.
She left her home and went down the path [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2008 by Hank Edson
They all can win in the general election; therefore, the question is which will be best for our nation? Consider:
The Survivor: Hilary Clinton has a record of change. She also has a record of failure, a record of compromise, and a record of working with corporatists who have corrupted our system and turned it against [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2008 by Hank Edson
Why the Progressive Movement Needs to Unite Behind John Edwards
By Hank Edson
At the end of last summer, I proposed in two sequential opinion pieces that perhaps John Edwards was the man progressives should rally around in order to have the most beneficial impact on our direction as a nation. (See Edwards, Does He Mean It? [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2007 by Hank Edson
The Facts
The facts are despicable, criminal, worse than animal, just absolutely ugly. In 2005, 20-year-old Jamie Leigh Jones of Houston, Texas had just signed on to work in Iraq for a Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR), one of the private military contractors most used by the United States military. Just two days after [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Hank Edson
Yet Again: Why We Must Impeach Bush and Cheney
A Time for Humble Pie
On Tuesday, President Bush reported to the nation and the world that a recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) concluded that four years ago Iran had stopped its covert program aimed at developing nuclear weapons. To many sober minds, this news would be cause [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by Hank Edson
With the writer’s strike in play, the nation has been badly missing its nightly dose of John Stewart, especially when it comes to those clips showing a series of one pundit after another banally repeating the same talking points with overwrought intensity. What has particularly been driving me crazy these past few days is hearing [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2007 by Hank Edson
“I may have called you a douchebag… but I only said those things because I honestly think you’re a horrible person!” — John Stewart
Robert Novak’s unseemly brand of journalism should have been amply demonstrated by his role in publishing the identity of an active undercover CIA agent, exposing her and multiple other agents around the [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2007 by Hank Edson
When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg broke from the Republican Party this June, there was widespread speculation that he would make an independent run at the presidency using his own fortune. This past week Newsweek renewed interest in this possibility by devoting its cover to Bloomberg’s presidential ambitions. Bloomberg, however, is just the latest [...]
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