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Confidence or arrogance? Obama says he could've beaten Trump. President Obama claims he could have won a third term if he had been allowed to run – but even if he's right, his coattails haven’t done much for the rest of his party. While Obama’s tireless campaigning, broad demographic appeal and message of “hope” and “change” helped propel him to two terms in the White House, his skills on the stump haven’t translated down the ballot. The Democratic Party suffered huge losses at every level... The grand total: a net loss of 1,042 state and federal Democratic posts, including congressional...

John McCain reportedly has already laid plans to heal the nation’s political wounds, and to offer new hope to countless journalists and other liberals whose faith will have been shattered by the defeat of Barack Obama at the polls on November 4. According to an unnamed campaign insider, Sen. McCain’s “compassion for the multitudes who will suddenly be like sheep without a shepherd” has resulted in detailed plans for… - a nationwide chain of in-patient Obama recovery centers, - community-based 12-step groups, - and fast-track FDA approval for a post-Obama patch (a wearable mix of sugar, Koolaid and a mild...

  MISSUS CLINTON ENTERS POST-ELECTION MORALITY-PLAY FRAY(THE LEFT CONTINUES TO DEMONSTRATE ITS UNFITNESS IN REAL TIME) by Mia T, 11.15.04   efore the largest audience ever assembled for a Fares Lecture, New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke at the annual Issam M. Fares Lecture yesterday afternoon. Her lecture, titled "Policy Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean After the Presidential Election," emphasized the necessity of fostering healthy dialogues regarding both domestic and international issues.... She began by expressing the wish "that I were here speaking about the prospect of a Middle Eastern foreign policy from the...