Hillary should get out now!

Hillary Should Get Out Now
By: Jonathan Alter
Feb 23, 2008


Jonathan Alter, was born in Chicago 1957, and graduated from Harvard in 1979. He has been working for Newsweek since 1983, where he now is a columnist and a senior editor. In the 1980’s, for a decade he was a critic on the media, he would hold other news organization accountable for their coverage; he was one of the first to do so. Then in 1991, Newsweek allowed him to have the first political commentary column. He also became well known the night of the 2000 elections. He went onto NBC news to talk about the problem with the “butterfly ballots.” He told reporters that the recount were “more art than science.” That statement made many conservatives angry. His column has been very unpredictable, and he has been a strong critic on President Bush. He wrote a book The Defining Moment, which is about when Franklin Roosevelt was president, and how the U.S. became a dictatorship. His book has received many great reviews.
Mr. Alter has some very good points in his article. I think that he spoke a little too soon though, because if you look at the polls now Obama and Clinton are almost at a dead even race. This has been the most interesting race so far, and tomorrow with Texas and Ohio voting, Mr. Alter maybe wrong.
He says that Hillary has no chance to catch up to Obama, which is looking to be true, but with these two big states voting tomorrow, it may all change. She does have to put her game face on, because Obama is doing much better than her campaign thought that he would. He says that she needs a 20 delegate lead on Obama, or the delegate math just won’t work in her favor. He may or may not be right, we just don’t know. Obama does also need to gain some superdelegates in Denver, but Hillary needs to really step it up.
Obama has more pledge delegates, and the majority of vote, which means that Hillary needs to close the gap which means she needs to dominate in all other states. Like he said that everyone wrote Hillary off when she lost in the caucus in Iowa. Things happen in politics and you have to be careful not to speak up too soon or it will come back and bite you in the butt.
Mr. Alter says that Hillary only has a chance to win, if Obama messes up so badly that he gets disqualified. Obama has been very excellent about making sure he doesn’t mess up. He has messed up a few small times but like Mr. Alter said we are to the point that we like him so much we just blow it off.
Mr. Alter does have so good points, but he may have spoken too soon. We will find out on March 5.

Young people are rockin' the vote - at last

Young people are rockin' the vote - at last
Written by Stphen Winn
Febuary 12, 2008

Stephen Winn talks about how the younger population is finally coming out and voting, to hopefully make the world a better place for them to live in. He blames the baby boomers era for screwing everything up. He mentions how they have allowed our government to get caught up in two different wars. He also says that the baby boomers have asked the government to buy stuff that isn’t really needed, which in return makes the national debt sky high. This Man has some very good points.
I completely agree with his article. As he mentions that there have been numerous signs that there is a need to reform social security and Medicare, and yet still haven’t done anything. Since our government hasn’t done anything to fix this, us youngsters are going to have to pay it. When all of our parents go in to retirement and start collecting their social security, it is going to put more strain on the government, and then they are going to raise taxes. Raising taxes is going to help the government get more money and make it harder for us to live in this world, and actually make it.
I like how President Bush has his No Child Left behind Act, but because the government hasn’t done anything to improve our debt, that many children will not be able to go to college because we won’t be able to pay for it. With the government stepping in, this problem is getting worse. Our government needs to stop stepping in to the states problems, and fix there own problems. With our government making all of these problems, and not fixing them our countries name is pretty much mud around the world, as Winn mentions.
As Winn states that President Obama speaks about unity and fixing our national problems, it is catching the ears of college students. This leads us to the recent spike in young voters. I know personally that I was never interested, and because of the internet and television, spreading the news so fast it has made it much easier to follow the races. This time around we are not going to sit around and watch and see what happens, we are going to do something about it. With all of the younger people voting the out comes of the presidential race may be very different than everyone expects it to be.

Georgia Loses Federal Case in a Dispute about Water

Georgia Loses Federal Case in a Dispute about Water
Today Atlanta, Georgia lost a significant court case, over the amount of water they wanted to take from an Atlanta area reservoir. Alabama and Florida, who were opposed to Atlanta taking the water, were glad to hear that Atlanta will not be able to take as much water as they wanted. Atlanta was unable to take the water because they had not obtained the correct approval.
Alabama and Florida had said that Atlanta would take the water that normally flows downstream to their consumers. The two states had brought the appeal suit up to cancel out the agreement they had with the Army Corps of engineers. The three judge panel, of the United States Court of Appeals of the Columbia Circuit agreed that the agreement was not valid, because the two parties had not acquired Congressional approval. The 2003 contract between the Army corps, and Georgia was permitted to increase its share of the reservoir allocated for water storage to 22.9 from 13.9 percent. Florida and Alabama had been fighting this agreement for the last two decades, and final took it to court. Alabama and Florida, which are dependable on the water from Lake Lanier for power generation, industry, recreation and commercial fishing, argued Georgia no right to take the water from the lake. The lake was originally was built for hydropower. Georgia depends on the water from that reservoir, but other states argue that Georgia had bad planning for water usage, so there for they now depend on it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/us/06water.html?ref=us