Political nonsense: Not just in Latvia

  • 2012-08-09
  • By Karlis Streips
This year, like every year, I spent two weeks in Chicago, where I grew up. Always a lovely break from the inanities of Latvian politics... and the ability to look at the inanities of American politics instead.Readers will know that a presidential election is upcoming in November of this year in the United States. There is no question that incumbent President Barack Obama will be the Democratic Party’s nominee, and it is all but 100 percent likely that his Republican opponent will be the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, who managed to fend off a group of other wou...
 
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