Free of spin, focus groups and Twitter analysis, here’s my real-time assessment of the Vice Presidential Debate in Kentucky last night. 8:58 PM: Go to MSNBC. Verizon FIOS channel guide says show is hosted by David Shuster, who hasn’t been with MSNBC in over two years. 8:59 PM: Sharpton knows …
Hoping on Hope
Not sure you heard, but Barack Obama becomes the nation’s 44th President today. He is the most popular man in the world right now, and to think that one year ago he was just an inexperienced, relatively unknown Junior Senator entering a Democratic race as big a longshot as the …
The Obama Tax-Cut Scam
Less than a week to the election, and I’m admittedly perplexed by the amount of stupidity some smart people I know are displaying when it comes to their support of Barack Obama’s “tax-cuts for the middle class”. These allegedly intelligent friends of mine — living in Hoboken and in the …
Your Vote Means Nothing
A few weeks ago, Hobokenites went to the polls in record numbers for the New Jersey Democratic and Republican Presidential primaries. All told, over 10,000 voters went to polling centers around the city. Amazingly, more residents voted in this primary than the last Mayoral election in 2005. A Hoboken resident …