Bob Schaffer
Bob Schaffer
Robert Warren "Bob" Schafferwas a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Colorado in the 105th Congress and the two succeeding Congresses. In 2004, Schaffer lost in the primary election to be the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat. He was the Republican nominee for Colorado's other Senate seat in the 2008 election, which he lost to Democratic nominee Mark Udall...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 July 1962
CountryUnited States of America
As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.
The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.
Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general.
In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.
That really doesn't affect us in a negative way. There are some positives to it. It will bring a lot more shoppers to Marina, and they will shop in Wal-Mart and drift down to University Village.
The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.