Voice of North America Articles

EXCERPT: I saw this goofy story this morning and I thought someone else might enjoy it.
Look at me! Look at meeeee! Source: metro.co.uk
The best thing in a band is always the one guy who is convinced that he's the real star of the group. Casting aside conventional wisdom like 'the lead singer is the one everybody watches' or 'guitar solos should focus on the guitarist', they take every opportunity to pout, star-jump and pelvic-thrust their way into the audience's...

EXCERPT: Yet another contradiction has come to light about Barack Obama's judgment and his credibility is once again in question. Back in April 2007, Don Imus was fired from MSNBC for the controversial remarks he made about the Rutgers University women's basketball team ("nappy-headed hos").  At the time, few came to Imus' defense even though it was made public that his contract had required him to do what he did best, be controversial.
Not even presidential...

EXCERPT: Some perspective on the speech.... Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday was a turning point for his campaign for the presidency.  The outrageously racist and anti-American remarks of his longtime friend and spiritual and political mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, stalled his momentum and entangled his campaign in a dead-end debate about racism.  He set the date and time to go before the American people and formally denounce his pastor's hatred and proceed to...

EXCERPT: This is a response to those who have accused me of hating America, destroying Barack Obama, and trying to split the Democratic Party. For context, you can read the comments of Indie's assessment of Obama's speech.  This was intended to be a comment, but I think it's too long.
I understand that the things I've said about Obama may not help the Democrats this year, but those of us who don't like the way Obama has built his campaign in this election by...

EXCERPT: We know three things about Hillary's chances of winning this nomination, thanks to Phaedrus:
The popular vote is not on her side
The number of pledged delegates (as of today) is not on her side
The delegate math (for upcoming contests) is not on her side
Something is missing from this analysis: electability.
Two weeks ago, Obama was certainly riding high and it look as though Hillary Clinton was fighting a losing battle.  Then the controversy of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's...

EXCERPT: What a disservice to someone who has worked hard to get where he is today to be diminished as "the first African-American governor of New York."
I'll admit that I had not heard of David Patterson before last week and I thought it was at least interesting to know that he is legally blind yet he worked his way up the political ladder through New York's Senate, to minority leader of the state Senate, to Lieutenant Governor, and now to the position of Governor.
For all...

EXCERPT: That is, voting in either of the big two party's primaries is a courtesy not a right.
Now, I've heard a lot of misinformation about how the Democratic nominee is selected.  You can go ahead and say that the Democratic nominee should be chosen by the people, not the super delegates.  Fine.  That's your opinion.
But the fact is that your participation is simply ceremonial.  If the Democratic Party, a political not Constitutional organization, decided...

EXCERPT: RE: The controversial comments of "Randi Rhodes Crucifies Clinton for the Republican Party"
Humor is going out of style in this country.  Many of us have gotten past the boring Johnny Carson humor and moved to more in your face offensive comedy.  Many of us have a sense of humor as well, and that's why we can deal with someone like Don Imus making a joke.  But recently the Messiah, Barack Obama, was attacked with a racial slur in another post on this...

EXCERPT: Tony Rezko’s jury selection started today and the Obama campaign is in the midst of another scandal, this time relating to Obama’s association with Rezko.
The association between Obama andRezko involves a $200,000 real estate deal in which Obama bought a house from Rezko despite the fact that Rezko was known for his corrupt dealings.  Obama admitted that he should have known better, but you know, public information isn’t enough sometimes.
So once again, with...

EXCERPT: Voting based on personality, popularity and history making aside, I thought it would be interesting to look into the issues that should be the focus of this nomination process.
As we know, Clinton has pressed her experience and details on the issues whereas Obama has tightened up his campaign message and trimmed off the fat (or details), allowing him to focus more on the idea of getting things done rather than resorting to completely agreeing with everything Clinton says and nearly...