Progressive World Review

Health Insurance Reform: A Turning Point

Paul Wilden — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:05:09 +0000

For more than a year now we’ve watched Congress debate healthcare reform, or more accurately, health insurance reform, with all its fits and starts, twists and turns with increasing frustration regardless of which side you’re on. For those on the left the aggravation has been particularly acute with the one system, single payer, whose success [...]

The Vice Presidential Debate

Paul Wilden — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:23:59 +0000

I only managed to catch a relatively small part of the debate as well as some of the “expert” commentary afterwards but there were a couple of standout points I wanted to comment on. First, Palin will mostly likely be declared the winner by virtue of the fact that she didn’t embarrass herself the way [...]

McCain Stands for the Worst Excesses of the Bush Administration

Paul Wilden — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:52:38 +0000

With the economy tanking and the financial sector in meltdown the discussion has focused, rightly so, on which candidate, Obama or McCain is the right person to clean up the mess. Regulation, or more accurately, re-regulation has become the buzzword of the day and McCain has taken to selling himself as a strong proponent of [...]

McCain’s Recipe for Change: Just another Pig in a Poke

Paul Wilden — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:24:33 +0000

For anyone familiar with the Atwater/Rove school of campaigning, all of the fuss over Barack Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” remark comes as no surprise. In what was a clear reference to McCain, Obama’s comment was a harmless phrase meant to point out that no matter how much McCain dresses up his policy proposals as [...]

What Goes Around Comes Around

Paul Wilden — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:48:20 +0000

In what can only be seen as a rather pathetic attempt to win over some of the Clinton supporters, McCain has chosen for his running mate, a woman by the name of Sarah Palin. The reasons this is so pathetic are several. McCain has continued to slam Barack Obama for his lack of experience and [...]