The current rush for the Bush Administration to have Congress pass such significant and consequential economic legislation brings back lurid, six year old memories. It seems like just yesterday when Bush asked Congress to hastily pass the Joint Resolution to invade Iraq based on you-have-to-trust-us-on-this-one assurances.

The Democratic Party's buzz word for the 2008 convention is "unity." But when it comes to the important policy decisions a President must make, how united are Barack Obama and Joe Biden?

A brief overview of eight domestic and foreign policy positions shows that they are indeed united on those issues that will be on Americans minds when they pull the lever in November.

Hillary Clinton's speech at the 2008 Democratic Convention urged the delegates on the floor to support, and vote for, Obama.

"Barack Obama is my candidate. And he must be our president...That is our mission, Democrats. Let's elect Barack Obama and Joe Biden for that future worthy of our great country."

While many state delegates at the convention are taking her word to heart, what is happening with those superdelegate holdouts who will vote for Clinton unless she tells them, specifically, to do otherwise?

The discussion of abstinence-only sex education in schools has fallen off the radar.  The idea that sex education in schools should be based on abstinence and not on a more comprehensive approach seems to be a topic of the past.

But is it? This divisive issue returns every year as federal funds are doled out to pet projects.