National Aspirations

Adapted from: Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative President (Chelsea Green Publishers) There is a tide……downward. Voters will expect concrete improvements as well as loftier national aspirations. And as a simple matter of politics, if the…

Barack Obama has now personally taken his praise of Zionism to a Palestine where his sentiment is viewed as a perverse glorification of Jewish……zones, there also needs to be an ideological accommodation with the national aspirations of the Jewish people. For most Palestinians,…

Yudith Oppenheimer, Executive Director, Ir Amim Ilana Sichel, Research Fellow, Ir Amim This past Sunday, Jerusalem celebrated the opening day of……East and West Jerusalem are divided along lines of both political and national aspirations, as well as by deep socioeconomic disparities.…

Expressing unhappiness over India's stand on the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Tuesday said the Tamil community expects New Delhi to extend its support to their 'national aspirations', even as it renewed its call for a ceasefire with Colombo. The Tamil…

After days of political bedlam in the country and verbal confrontation between the PML-N leadership and President Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistan……to the people of Pakistan. “The sun of justice has dawned today and national aspirations would be fulfilled,” The News quoted Sharif, as…

As speculation flies about potential national aspirations of Gov. Bobby Jindal, one thing often left out in the equation is the electoral calendar particularly is unsuitable for getting himself elected to a second term as governor and making a stab at the presidency in 2012.As anyone who has paid…

Since leaving his DNC chair earlier this year, Howard Dean has been recovering from a double snub……he do? Well, it's probably best to compare him to another cable star/former governor who holds national aspirations but not a national office, Mike Huckabee.

For 24 hours, Mark Sanford's name was on the tip of the world's tongue. The governor who ran away to South America to see his Argentine mistress. The family man with four children. The politician with national aspirations. Who could resist such a story?

There are, to be sure, many possible personal and/or political reasons for Sarah Palin's decision……stimulus money to help low-income Alaskans with fuel costs. She may have decided that her national aspirations could be better served by campaigning for others, accumulating chits, and then…