Narrowing the Field

By Craig Andresen on April 19, 2011

To call the race to the republican nomination in 2012 a process would be nothing short of a gross understatement. The road to that destination is long, bumpy, full of twists and turns and full of speed traps.

Warning signs are also a key feature along this road and by all means, those signs should be heeded. The best course of action is…go slow…in order to avoid the hazards.

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Of Race and Gender in Politics

By Craig Andresen on April 7, 2011

Certainly there ARE those who allow race and gender to influence their political decisions as well as their votes. I suspect they are also people who allow such things to influence their daily lives. Both, I believe, men and women, fall into this demographic.

Such are people who believe a woman is not as competent, not as strong, not as qualified as would be a man in the workplace, on the battlefield or in elected office. Such people, I suspect would also base their friendships on race. Oh yes, they would outwardly claim they have friends of different ethnicities, or claim they believed in a much more equal standard between men and women but a close look at their behavior would tell a different story.

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