The place I used to live at last year, Lake Forest in CA, is playing host to the presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain and the man playing host is Rick Warren, pastor of the famous Saddleback church and author of the popular book Purpose Driven Life.

You know Obama is a very good communicator but when you have John McCain coming right after Obama’s session and being asked the same questions you suddenly realize how better a communicator Obama is and what high bar and complex hoops he has set for McCain to jump through.

The first question about three most important people you are going to consult, Obama said - his wife, who would have the courage to say you screwed up, his grand mother and senator Ted Kennedy.

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The republican presumptive presidential nominee few days back attended the annual Sturgis Rally is S Dakota. A sort of an American historic event dating back to 1938, yeah yeah given America is not too old, but the interesting thing is the hordes of enthusiasts that get attracted to this event.

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The Nuclear deal is well on its way to becoming a reality. What now needs to be seen is if the US plays its part in providing an exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). But in all this what actually gets highlighted is the grave the Communists have dug for themselves in India.

They were manipulative right from the very start when the UPA was formed. They had always opposed every step and policy the Government tried framing and threatened to quit. The Nuclear Deal is a historic partnership between the US and India which will consolidate the latters position in world politics.

The Left’s opposition to it on grounds of accepting US domination is unfounded. The common man is still waiting for an explanation from Prakash Karat for his historic blunders and faulty decisions.

When the Left withdrew support from the UPA and demanded for a Vote of Confidence, India didnot expect Karat and his men to side with Mayawati and her likes against the Congress. But then considering the militant and caste based politics they have always preached and instigated, this seems but natural.

The Left warned Mulayam Singh Yadav that Samajwadi Party would lose its Muslim support if he sided with the Congress. This again highlights their political ideology which seems very similar to what the Sangh Parivar preaches. It even had the audacity to sit through the BJP staged drama of waving wads of currency in the parliament to deface the Congress.

But the gravest crime Prakash Karat committed was to expel the Speaker Mr. Somnath Chatterjee from the CPM rather unceremoniously. Even children in school studying elementary civics know that a speaker’s post is an unbiased one and that his foremost duty is to uphold the Constitution of India. But the statement of the senior politburo members that Mr. Chatterjee is first a Communist and then a guardian of the Indian Constitution is abominable.

The Left for its totalitarian ideology is not popular, except for West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura, will now surely die in India. Comrade Harkishen Singh Surjeet’s demise will be a major blow to the Left as visionaries like him were, and are, very few in the Left today.

Fundamentally, the Communist Manifesto was a rebellion against the extreme poverty of the lower class.

I have been watching this show for a few days since it follows right after Bill O’ Reilly. (Not that I need to give any reasons here). I started appreciating Ol’ dyed in the wool conservative and republican Bill a bit after he started peppering his judgment on Obama with a few favorables.

This basically showed that he is not uniformly against a certain personality but based on certain single incidents he passes the comment.

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If you are 18 and above and you live in a democratic country, it is of utmost importance that you exercise a right that was fought gained by fighting wars and waging battles. Yes, the right to vote and exercising your franchise.

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Another day, another scandal. This time ex presidential candidate John Edwards has been caught in a major love child whir pool that might end up destroying his political career.

Sources have come forward to charge that this “other women” has previously worked on Edward’s campaign and even followed the 54-year-old candidate on trips across the U.S.

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Andrea Mitchell is out busting Obama’s chops. On a popular current affairs show, Hardball, the lady reporter gave the following statement:

Let me say something about his message management. He didn’t have reporters with him. He didn’t have a press pool. He didn’t do a press conference while he  was on the ground either on Afghanistan or Iraq. What you’re seeing is not reporters brought in, you’re seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questioned by the military and what some would call fake interviews because they’re not interviews with a journalist so there’s a real press issue here. Politically it’s smart as can be, but we’ve not seen a Presidential candidate do this in my recollection ever before.

I think she is upset because she wasn’t “present” during these interviews. The statement that these are fake interviews is extremely vague and out of context.

Increasingly, she is becoming irrelevant and maybe this is her way of getting back into the limelight by throwing useless remarks.

Many of you would also recall that she is married to Alan Greenspan, the financial whiz.

The magazine considered the bible of the WASPs - White Anglo Saxon Protestant - and liberal intelligentsia was under attack on Monday for a satirical cover depicting Barack Obama as a Muslim and his wife Michelle as a terrorist.

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Cohorting with comedians is risky business, especially for politicians when they are trying mighty hard to be politically correct.

Comedian Bernie Mac exactly fits that peg to the T and he got his chance to shock the Obama campaign last night at a high-dollar fund raiser by passing some off-color jokes.

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Before i tell you what happened, the moral of the story is - Walls have ears you moron, especially if you are sitting inside a media room full of high tech electronic gadgetry.

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