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...stop shooting from the lip and open a dialogue with Raúl Castro to accelerate a needed change of course for Cuba. If the U.S. can trade with China, Saudi Arabia and other nations that do not exactly embrace democratic principles, then there is absolutely no reason it cannot do so with our neighbor a mere 90 miles [150 km] away. J. Patrick Grimes, CAMBRIDGE, MASS...
...Mexico. Additionally, she has rallied the support of important swing voting groups such as Hispanics, whereas Obama’s support has come largely from traditional democratic voting blocs such as students and blacks. Though the presence of young voters and blacks has increased in this election, they cannot be counted upon in the general election, having failed to vote en masse in the past. While Obama has garnered an impressive number of victories—albeit mostly in traditionally red states—Clinton has continually outpaced him in both Democratic strongholds and critical swing states by garnering...
...recent poll by The New York Times found that 57 percent of registered voters felt that Clinton was prepared to be president, versus 39 percent for Obama. Discrepencies like this and Hillary’s victories in almost all of the significant Democratic states cannot be ignored. Barack Obama has run a good, competitive campaign, but in the end the Democratic Party needs to select the candidate most likely to win come November—not just the candidate who has managed to win Republican strongholds. The role of the superdelegates is to select that candidate, and their choice should...
...level of civility. This applies equally to the candidates and their staffers and advisors. The sort of personal animosity that motivated Obama’s advisor and Kennedy School professor Samantha Power’s comment last week, calling Clinton a “monster,” simply cannot be tolerated. Otherwise, this race risks devolving into nothing more than a flurry of negative advertising, which hurts the Democrats’ chance of achieving the far more fundamental goal: defeating John McCain in November. Let this not simply be a war of attrition. It may be hard to imagine...
...European Commission, says the Parliament's top brass knew about the fraud for years but decided not to take any action to tighten the rules. "But so far, the Parliament has not been prepared to come forward with concrete proposals to improve the current system," he says. "The Parliament cannot claim to be the conscience of Europe while this is happening...