Just my Thoughts · Politics

Empty Senate Seats

This has been the year for under-representation in the US Senate.  As you may recall from your American history class, the legislative part of the United States government is made up of two house – the House of Representatives where the representation is dependent on state population and the Senate where representation is two per… Continue reading Empty Senate Seats

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Disappointing Democrats

Olympics… Political conventions… what more can I ask? I should be in a literal heaven.  I have a strong love of the Olympics, made much stronger by working at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid.  I am a political junkie and the next two weeks bring conventions that only come once every four years. … Continue reading Disappointing Democrats

Just my Thoughts · Politics

Kennedy Endorses Obama

I cannot believe that I was the only one watching Senator Ted Kennedy today as he endorsed Barrack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination who was thinking of the irony in what Kennedy had to say.  I was trying so hard not to laugh at the words Kennedy was professing that I had a stomach… Continue reading Kennedy Endorses Obama