Common Sense Politics

Just because we have not been commenting on the two Presidential campaigns for some weeks does not mean Common Sense Politics has not been watching those two candidates and their respective campaign activities. To be quite honest, it’s been funny and very entertaining and we think that a man like Neil Simon could probably have […]

We all have heard buzzwords from politicians over the many years since the invention of political slogans. Many of them have become bumper stickers as well and have been effective while others have been not so successful. Overall though, since they keep popping up, politicians and agenda driven people and groups must think of them […]

This is the second of two Presidential candidate’s assessments, this one about Barack Obama. Like we did with Senator McCain, Common Sense Politics will not go into deep detail when it comes to his background and upbringing but will instead focus more on recent history and events in his life. Anybody who wants greater detail […]

When looking back, we here at Common Sense Politics have not always been correct in our predictions when we made them. For example, we did not pick John McCain as even having a chance of getting the Republican nomination before the primaries and caucuses began. But slightly more than two month ago, on March 11 […]

About two weeks ago, Common Sense Politics posted an article about the Hate Rants of Barack Obama’s pastor, it is therefore only fair that we take a closer look at what happened in the Clinton campaign. On three different occasions including as recent as March 17, 2008, Democrat Presidential candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton told about […]

For the entire time of our website’s existence, we have stayed clear of issues dealing with race, be it white, black, brown, yellow or any other color. As Common Sense Authors, we believe that race is not a topic we can intelligently address and have stayed away from it for that very reason. However, we […]

On Tuesday of last week, Senator Hillary Clinton made the following comment during another Democrat Candidate debates in Nevada: “President Bush is over in the Gulf now begging the Saudis and others to drop the price of oil. How pathetic.” She continued:  “We should have an energy policy right now, putting people to work in […]

Common Sense Authors assume that most individuals over the age of twenty know that the two major political parties pick their respective Presidential candidates at the party convention every four years. This process takes place by the voting of party delegates at these conventions. Now, in most instances, there are

It appears that an ugly element has become part of the Presidential primary campaign in recent weeks or even months. It is the questioning of a candidate’s religion! The last time, religion played such a role in a race for the Presidency was in 1960 when John F. Kennedy’s Catholicism was an issue in the […]

The most recent Presidential candidate debate on the Republican side was held in Florida and hosted by CNN with Anderson Cooper as moderator before a live audience of several hundred people. As before,

 
As was the case during the last election in November 2006, we can expect soon a constant drumbeat of so called ‘Sloganeering’ for the upcoming ones in 2008, the primary and general elections. If you might remember last

 
If we could assume for purposes of making a point here that if by some unusual action it would become unlawful to pander to constituents in Presidential elections, it would mean that there could currently be NO Presidential race! In simpler words:

 
Analogies are always interesting and often very helpful, especially when simple and understandable examples help shed light on much more complex ideas. Watching the Kentucky Derby a few weeks ago, the start of the race brought to mind the Presidential Race (for 2008) and it tempts a comparison: 

 
On November 26 of last year, we posted two articles here entitled: ‘Election Results and Analysis’ and ‘The People have spoken’. Based on the closeness of the various races in the House as well as the Senate, we concluded that the results reflected a shift among moderate voters, the consistent 15 percent of the American […]