HANANIA: Will the Bush Administration expand its wars to help McCain? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-27-08

Cross-border attacks in Syria and Pakistan are not coincidence

By Ray Hanania – The Bush administration will start a war for oil. And one week before a presidential election, with his Republican party’s candidate waning in the polls, the Bush Administration will also start a war for politics.

ELAASAR: Why should Arab and Muslim Americans vote for Obama? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-16-08

Why should Arab and Muslim Americans vote for Obama?
By Aladdin Elaasar – Islam has come to the forefront of American presidential elections this year. With allegation that Barak Obama is a Muslim, or an Arab- which he is not- fear has been used by his opponents to tie him to some foreign scary thing. But it is not working. The more serious issues this year for the American voters are of course the economy, the Iraq war, health care, education and other serious nagging issues. Smear campaigns and digging for dirt proved not to work with savvy American voters.

ELAASAR: Sarah Palin: Re-igniting the culture wars, Part II, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-16-08

Sarah Palin: Re-igniting the culture wars, Part II
By Aladdin Elaasar – “The hypocrisy is rank. Bristol, Palin’s daughter “made the decision on her own to keep the baby,” McCain’s aides told the press. That’s not a choice pregnant teens would have under the proposed administration of her mother and McCain. As for her claims to oppose corruption and pork – according to the Alaska press, she supported that costly bridge to “nowhere” for years, before finally canceling it as Governor. And experience? Again, according to Alaskan papers, during Palin’s tenure as Mayor, most of the actual work of running small Wasilla was turned over to an administrator after Palin’s precipitous firings gave rise to a recall campaign. Mayor Palin even tried to fire City librarian after she demurred at a proposal to censor the library’s collection”, Gadette says.

ELAASAR: Sarah Palin re-igniting the culture wars, Part I, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-16-08

Sarah Palin: Re-igniting the culture wars, Part 1
By Aladdin Elaasar — In his recent column in the Huffington Post, Jay Rosen claimed that republicans will try to spin Palin’s shortcoming into strengths, by revving up the culture wars.  “As more emerges about how the McCain camp made the decision, the appointment looks more and reckless, the decision rushed, the vetting inadequate. This leads to advanced jeering from the left, intense criticism in the press, damaging leaks from within the Republican party, fueling calls from within and without for Sarah Palin to remove herself” Rosen said.

ELAASAR: Who is the real Sarah Palin, Part 2: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-10-08

Who is the real Sarah Palin, Part 2
By Aladdin Elaasar – Sarah Palin was elected Alaska’s youngest and first woman governor in 2006. On stage, in front of the Republican National Convention she was dressed in a conservative black power suit, her hair raised in a high ponytail, she described herself as “an average hockey mom from Alaska”. She may be seen by some as a rising star of the Republican Party, but she was relatively unknown on a national level. As he took to the stage, in front of a packed audience, McCain introduced her as “exactly who I need, exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics of me first and the country second”.

ELAASAR: Who is the real Sarah Palin Part 1, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-10-08

Who is the real Sarah Palin? Part 1
By Aladdin Elaasar — As he took to the stage, in front of a packed audience, McCain introduced her as “exactly who I need, exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics of me first and the country second”. When Republican Presidential nominee John McCain unveiled ‘The Barracuda’, a.k.a. Sarah Palin, and governor of Alaska as his running mate, he literally opened the flood gates of the media to controversy and speculations.

HANANIA: Arabs and Muslims have no excuse for America’s pro-Israel stance, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-03-08

Arabs and Muslims have no excuse for America’s pro-Israeli stance
By Ray Hanania – Both of the presidential candidates and the vice presidential candidates in each of their first round of debates emphasized their commitment to “change.” But when it comes to America’s blind support for Israel and failure to stand up for human rights and justice for Palestinians, there is no change. And it again makes this presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain another difficult and unsatisfying choice for Arab and Muslims Americans. Not all of the blame falls on the shoulders of the candidates or on the American people who dissect to minutia heady issues like the nation’s economy and alleged threats from Iran and North Korea but seem to be missing in action and intelligence when it comes to understanding the fundamentals of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

HANANIA: Bailout collapse costs the American people, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 9-29-08

Bailout battle costs the American people real money
By Ray Hanania  – Republicans are blaming the Democrats and Democrats are blaming the Republicans for the crash of the stock market in the wake of the failure of the Congress to approve the $700 billion economic bailout. But I have to blame someone else.

HANANIA: Did Obama undermine his election chances? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 9-9-08

Did Obama undermine his presidential election chances?
By Ray Hanania  – Did Barack Obama allow his personal feelings to get in the way of doing what is best for America? Obama could have put together the strongest possible presidential ticket, the so-called “Dream Ticket,” by naming Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Was Obama too confident with the rushing accolades from his party? He’s not used to it since he hasn’t been leading the party very long and may have been too endeared to them.

HANANIA: Republicans come out swinging, and one salutes high, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 9-04-08

Republicans come out swinging and one salutes high
By Ray Hanania – Sarah Palin is clearly a powerful speaker, although in all honesty as I watched her read without any slipups her moving conservative perspective on the world, I kept thinking it was a monologue on Saturday Night Live and Palin was “news roaster” Tina Fey. Oh for the old days of entertainment, which is what American political conventions have become.