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Claudia Beckford asked:


It is Election Year in the United States of America! It will be the 56th consecutive presidential election and a very peculiar one as the Democrats’ party race for the White House has elected the first woman to run for president; Mrs. Hillary Clinton; former US First Lady; and the first African American, former Illinois State Senator; Barack Obama.

As the process starts to dig deeper there are more politics attacks on both sides; especially now that Obama leads with about 130 delegates after capturing Wyoming on March 8th followed the win on March 11th during the Mississippi primary. Despite his solid campaign representation and ideas to the American people many believe Obama is the eye-centre of a race issue exampling his 90 percent win of black votes in Mississippi and just one quarter of the white vote; a common pattern seemed in the southern states.

Clinton assures that if Obama was not who he is he will not be running for the office; a remark which is being polished due to the possible consequences in the remaining 10 contests in Indiana, North Carolina (May 6th), and the West Indies (May 13th). Let’s not forget the disqualification of the 366 delegates in Florida and Michigan due to unmistakable anomalies as Obama’s name was not on the ballot; therefore, Clinton won both primaries. It is very likely this voting will be repeated via regular mail with a higher than expected multi million cost.

On the other hand; there is the Republican candidate John McClain who many believe is the big winner of this controversial contest as he still has a good chance to win if the Democrats don’t get their act together and show the people what they could do for the United States and the countless problems the country is currently facing among which there is an eminent recession.

A recent nbc News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 76 percent of voters claim for a president who will shift the current path President Bush has kept over the years and that only a 17 percent will be content with the way things are right now. Additionally, 43 percent claim their situation has worsen in the past four years and a 34 percent states they are better off than 4 years ago. Without a doubt; this is golden opportunity for either Clinton or Obama if they know what to do with it.

The controversial Obama – Clinton / Clilnton – Obama presidential nominee election will soon be decided for the first time in two decades by the North Carolina voters during the May 6th, 2008 primary; this win will ensure a number of delegates and a pattern of who could lead in the rest of the cities to vote. Then on November 4th we will encounter the two strongest US parties and the people make a final resolution.

trailblazer asked:


Ronald Reagan supported the Solidarity movement in Poland, which was a union that opposed communism. Lech Walesa, the head of Soliditary who undoubtably was one of the most major players in ending communism behind Pope John Paul II, says that without Ronald Reagan, the Polish people would not have their liberty. Poland has the highest favorable rating of America and political scientists seriously theorize it is because of American support for the Solidarity movement and that the Polish people still remember it. I think some people are fooling themselves in thinking Reagan had little to do with ending communism.
“As I say repeatedly, we owe so much to all those who supported us. Perhaps in the early years, we didn’t express enough gratitude. We were so busy introducing all the necessary economic and political reforms in our reborn country. Yet President Ronald Reagan must have realized what remarkable changes he brought to Poland, and indeed the rest of the world. And I hope he felt gratified. He should have.”
-Lech Walesa

http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005204
Walesa said in his own words that Reagan helped end communism in an article he wrote in the Wall Street Journal.