A Multi-Drug Wonder Pill to Fight Heart Disease?

It only makes sense that someone would come up with a combination pill to dramatically cut the risk of heart disease.

As the article points out, innovations like the polypill for the heart may be just what the doctor ordered as we take on the challenges of making health care affordable. Cost effective medicine and preventive care sounds like a sane prescription for all.

Go get 'em, polypill.

Hillary Using the Bush Smirk on Obama

I admit to being an Obama supporter from the get-go. As such I have had a sharp eye out this political season and have seen way more than my share of sound bites, cable clips and debate footage. Hillary has been formidable and I admired her poise and tone. But what I have been seeing lately from the Clinton campaign has me agape!

After the Philadelphia debate, which showed the first crack in Hillary Clinton's composure, she appears to have retreated into the smug, smirking, condescending speaking style of that beloved orator, George W. Bush. Who is advising this woman, anyway?

Hillary's public personality is getting way off track and becoming as managed and contrived as Al Gore's became during the 2000 campaign.

Of course, we love Al Gore for the person we know him to be, but, let's face it, in 2000, he didn't come off as either "real" nor "commanding." (As a presidential candidate, you've got to be either real or commanding with some level of consistency.)

Hillary's 'Bushy Smirk' was evident, for example, when she responded recently to Obama's statement of having an innate talent for foreign policy based partly on spending his most formative years (6-10 years of age)in a third world country.

In velvet tones, Hillary countered the Obama statement with the following: “Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next President will face. I think we need a President with more experience than that."

What rankled me so much with the response was not the point she made (more rebuttal on that point at another time), but the tone and the body language she used.

Over and over recently Hillary has slipped dangerously close to ridicule and sarcasm in tone. Have you noticed it, too? Ridicule is not a clever tool and sarcasm is a tacky attempt at wit. When confidence becomes haughty and poise looks more like condescension, the democrats will flee in droves.

We've had 8 years of silver spoon "brattitude" and now we're getting it from Hillary. Enough!

Another recent Hillary "slippage" in authenticity came when she attacked Obama's health care plan. No doubt all health care plans have room for scrutiny, but I swear Hillary was acting like she had been medicated. Her voice took on a kittenish purr and her eyes were glazed as she again ridiculed Obama with a half-smile smirk.

I've heard Hillary speak - lots of times - and I never heard that little voice before. It's the kind of thing you see in horror movies when the main character's best friend is exposed as an android or zombie.

What's happening, Hillary? You have not been yourself lately.





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Barack Obama…The $25 Million Man of the Hour

Rumored for days that he would raise close to the recording breaking 26 million garnered by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama made it official today. In the first quarter of 2007, he has tallied $25 million in contributions. Some funds are from big-wig contributors such as George Soros and David Geffen, but an astonishing 100,000 regular janes and joes contributed as well.

As previously reported in my column on Associated Content, Obama's presidential campaign. much like his previous US Senate campaign in 2004, is built from the ground up. During the closing weekend of the first quarter, ordinary people around the country opened their homes and places of business to small gatherings of Obama supporters. But 100,000 people? Even in traditionally Red State cities such as Indianapolis, Indiana, including its toney suburbs of Carmel and Zionsville, dozens of meetings were held around 2 pm Saturday, March 31, as supporters joined in a live video-feed conversation with Senator Obama.

During the same weekend, March 31-April 1, previous donors both large and small (that would be me) received a call to encourage additional financial support. "Fund-raisers, frank in their approach and reportedly dedicated to their candidate, succeeded in record numbers."

Now the public has found its own voice through the internet. Obama strikes a chord with that voice when he says, "Across our country, everyday people like you have experiences and ideas that haven't previously been heard. This is your chance to speak your mind and help set the policies that will guide this campaign and change the country."

"What's your story? What's your big idea? We want to hear it."

To date, Obama's own position on the war in Iraq has seemed prophetic. In 2003, prior to the start of the war, he is on record as one of the earliest official dissenters. Not only on idealogical grounds, but on practical, common sense grounds as well.

His recent statement on health care brightened the hearts of millions of Americans. One senses his statements are a great deal more than political babble.

"In the 2008 campaign, affordable, universal health care for every single American must not be a question of whether, it must be a question of how. We have the ideas, we have the resources, and we will have universal health care in this country by the end of the next president's first term."

With the first presidential primaries over nine months away, and the presidential election itself an additional 11 months down the line, it remains to be seen which candidate will be left standing in the end of what promises to be an engaging political battle. This quarter, however, over $25 million has been placed on Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.

At this rate of popularity, Obama may indeed become the de facto leader of the country long before the Presidential election of 2008.