Category Bob Graham
Remembering Bob Graham’s underdog 1978 Gubernatorial campaign
Editors Note: Bob Graham one of the greatest Floridians of all time, a Governor who had such a vision for this state and a US Senator who selflessly put our state’s interests above his own personal ambition passed away earlier today. He was 87. The man who was the presumptive Democratic nominee for nearly two […]
Remember Bob Graham’s Iraq War views? They were positively enlightened…
This past few weeks, the media has spent a lot of time discussing the Iraq War, which began 20 years ago this month. While the war was very popular at the time, it’s become an issue since that first defined Democrats in the 2007 to 2012 period and since 2015 or so the GOP, who […]
The Phlip Side: 2018 FL Dem. Dream Team
It is a fact that you can’t beat somebody with nobody. In politics, no matter how bad somebody is you are unlikely to beat them unless you have a better option. Over the past decade Democrats have won a grand total of zero Florida Cabinet races. The Florida Democratic Party failed to even recruit a […]
U.S. and Saudi Arabia: A cold “peace”, Part II
Part One can be found here In August of 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and stationed four tank divisions on the border of Saudi Arabia. Osama Bin Laden offered the services of his mujahidin soldiers, based in Afghanistan, to defend Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia sought the protection of the U.S. military and President George H.W. Bush […]
The Florida Squeeze 