Joe Biden And The Tara Reade Assault Allegations
Are the wheels starting to come off the Joe Biden campaign? Up to this week it seemed certain that theContinue Reading
Tag: Democratic Party
Beware The Andrew Cuomo Whisperers
As the world goes to hell in a handbasket, to use the American phrase, this article in Current Affairs magazineContinue Reading
Joe Biden. The Right Candidate At The Wrong Time?
If the coronavirus crisis has shown us anything else, it’s that the issue of ageism and a lack of deepContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton And The Vendetta By Conservative Democrats Against Bernie Sanders
While many voters and commentators now regard Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael as different sides of the same political orContinue Reading
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez And The Democratic Socialists of America
I suspect that few people in Ireland will have heard of the Democratic Socialists of America or DSA, arguably theContinue Reading
Weiner, A Compulsive Documentary On A Repulsive Man
Returning to US politics, last night I watched the remarkably candid documentary, “Weiner“, the subject of which is the eponymous formerContinue Reading
The United States Goes Full Brexit With President Donald J. Trump
Well, here’s one prediction I wish I had got wrong. President Donald J. Trump. Seriously, the United States of America, what the fuck?Continue Reading
Hillary Clinton And The Scandals Eating Away At Her Support
The media consensus in the United States maintains that it is a done deal, that the Democratic Party’s Hillary Clinton will gainContinue Reading
The Donald Trump Defenders Find Their Irish Champion
There is a certain satisfaction to be derived from having one’s opinions – or prejudices – confirmed and that is certainlyContinue Reading
John Podesta And The Clinton Campaign On It’s Ethnic Outreach To The Irish
Scanning through the recent tranche of hacked emails released by Wikileaks, taken from the Gmail account of John Podesta, the chairperson for Hillary Clinton’s presidentialContinue Reading
Defending Donald Trump’s Penchant For Dropping The Hand
One suspects that if the Republican Party nominee, Donald Trump, succeeds in his campaign to be elected the president ofContinue Reading
The 2016 First Presidential Debate
Before the first one-on-one presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump the press consensus held that if the coiffured orangutan managed to refrain fromContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton’s Animosity Towards “That Man”, Barack Obama, And Bill’s Inveterate “Dicking”
Despite a somewhat haphazard campaign to question or undermine the veracity of the latest tranche of leaked emails from the GmailContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton, Not Crooked But Definitely Suspect
The decision by the FBI in the United States to release fifty-eight pages of notes from its investigation into Hillary Clinton’sContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton And The Odour Of Mendacity
One of my favourite films is the 1958 release, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof“, based on a play of theContinue Reading
The Clinton Machine Rolls Over The Opposition At The Democratic National Convention
With Hillary Rodham Clinton anointed as the Democratic Party candidate for president all’s over bar the shouting at the organisation’s 2016 nationalContinue Reading
A Trumpite Speaks
Perhaps not the best choice of words by American ex-pat, Meghan McBride, writing in defence of Donald Trump and the UnitedContinue Reading
Donald J. Trump, A Clinton Supporter With A Grudge?
Reading back over the publicly expressed opinions of Donald J. Trump in the 1990s and early 2000s, one is struckContinue Reading
NBC News – YouTube Democratic Candidates Debate 2016
For me it was a another win for Bernie Sanders, albeit a narrow one, over Hilary Clinton and also-ran, MartinContinue Reading
SNL On The CNN Democratic Debate
Following on from the big CNN debate between the presidential candidates for the Democratic Party in the United States – whichContinue Reading
US Mid-Term Elections Deliver Big Shocks
The results of the mid-term elections in the United States have surpassed even some of the wilder speculations of theContinue Reading
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