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Politics, News & Issues > US Elections The case for Barack Obama's candidacy to the 2008 presidential election: 3 of 40

Barack Obama is not African-American in the traditional sense. He is half African and half white. His father was not a descendant of slaves. Obama did not see the ghettos of Chicago until he was in his twenties and an Ivy Leaguer. He graduated from Columbia in 1983, with a degree in political science. That must have been whe...
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Predicting the winner of the 2008 U.S. presidential election: 8 of 41

Barack Obama will be the next president. Hillary got caught with her pantsuit down, by the junior senator from Illinois. Obama said upon his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, he would not run for president in 2008. He lied, and Hillary's poorly-run campaign took for granted the young upstart, who she in fact helped bring ...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Commentary: Anti-immigration hysteria: 5 of 5

Occasional anti-immigration hysteria, the like of which has been gripping the United States in recent years, is a birth pain of progress. It is a fact of American Life that the pain will never go away. The reason why is very simple; people want to live here. Since its discovery by the nations of Europe, immigrants have come ...