Vlad and Boris present “Song for Sarah (For Mrs. Palin).” (h/t William Gibson)
** GLOBAL OBAMA: BIG OPPORTUNITIES, BIGGER CHALLENGES. From my new column.
** HERE’S HOW TO BEAT OBAMA. HE’S NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN! The far right, in the form of the National Review Online and even more fringey sources, again raises the nonsensical point that Barack Obama is not really an American. Or, maybe he is, but maybe he was a citizen of one or two other countries, too. And, er, maybe that would mean he is disqualified from becoming president on January 20, 2009.
I think I’ve heard this before.
Jerry Brown isn’t really a lawyer, so he can’t be the attorney general of California. Even though he graduated from Yale Law School, was a Supreme Court clerk, and the governor of California. Okay, well, he is a lawyer, but he didn’t pay his bar association fees for a few years while he was mayor of Oakland and not practicing law.
That worked out really well, didn’t it?
** CONSERVATIVE LONDON MAYOR BACKS OBAMA. The new star of Britain’s Conservative Party, new London Mayor Boris Johnson, endorsed Barack Obama today in a column in the Telegraph.
Writes Johnson: There are all sorts of reasons for hoping that Barack Hussein Obama will be the next president of the United States. He seems highly intelligent. He has an air of courtesy and sincerity. Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.
Unlike his opponent, he visibly incarnates change and hope, at a time when America desperately needs both. An Obama win could signify the end of race-based politics The legacy of George Bush may take years, if not decades, to determine.
But at present he seems to have pulled off an astonishing double whammy.
However well-intentioned it was, the catastrophic and unpopular intervention in Iraq has served in some parts of the world to discredit the very idea of western democracy.
The recent collapse of the banking system, and the humiliating resort to semi-socialist solutions, has done a great deal to discredit – in some people’s eyes – the idea of free-market capitalism.
Democracy and capitalism are the two great pillars of the American idea.
To have rocked one of those pillars may be regarded as a misfortune.
To have damaged the reputation of both, at home and abroad, is a pretty stunning achievement for an American president.
** GEORGIA POLL: MCCAIN BY 5. In the new Rasmussen poll of Georgia, which no one had seen as a battleground state, John McCain leads Barack Obama, 51% to 46%. Last month, McCain led by 11 points in the Peach State, which was one of the original seven Confederate states.
** MINNESOTA POLL: OBAMA BY 15. Barack Obama leads John McCain in the new Rasmussen poll of battleground Minnesota, 56% to 41%. Obama leads amongst independents, 54-42. Sarah Palin is a net negative in this state in which she was expected to help McCain win.
The Republican national convention was held in St. Paul, Minnesota as part of a national strategy to win this Upper Midwest state.
** OBAMA BLITZING MCCAIN IN SWING STATE ADVERTISING. The Nielsen organization reveals that Barack Obama far out-stripped John McCain in TV advertising in seven swing states in the past two weeks.
In seven key swing states — Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia – Obama placed 150% more ad units (53,049 v. 21,106) than McCain between October 6 and October 22, 2008.
Obama’s advertising has been most prolific in Florida, where he ran 15,887 ads between October 6 and October 22, 2008, outpacing McCain’s 4,662 ads by 240%.
The Morning Column: GREENSPAN ACKNOWLEDGES THE OBVIOUS. At yesterday’s hearing of the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Los Angeles Congressman Henry Waxman, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admitted the obvious.
Which is that the epic financial crisis of Wall Street – which has now spread round the world – was not merely caused by too many risky mortgages. That was a serious problem in itself. But the deeper problem came when various Wall Street institutions, most of them now no longer independent, created speculative investment vehicles atop those mortgages.
“I made a mistake in presuming that the self interest of organizations, specifically banks and others, was such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and the equity in the firms,” Greenspan told his interlocutor Waxman and other members of one of Congress’s most powerful committees.
Greenspan, a staunch deregulationist, ran what has been until now the world’s most powerful central bank from 1987 until 2006. He served, ostensibly, under four presidents. Three of them were Republicans – Ronald Reagan, who appointed Greenspan, George Herbert Walker Bush, and George W. Bush. And one Democrat, Bill Clinton. Greenspan now ackowledges that his staunchly deregulationist ideology has led to results that are from what he anticipated.
“The problem here is that something that looked to be a very solid edifice and indeed a critical pillar to market competition and free markets did break down. And that, as I said, shocked me and I don’t fully understand why it happened,” Greenspan said. “And to the extent I figure out where it happened and why, I will change my views. And if the facts change, I will change.”
As a point of disclosure, I’m acquainted with Waxman. He was the chairman of the California delegation to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, and I was a vice chairman of the California delegation. Waxman is one of the very foremost of Jewish-American politicians, as should be obvious, and a very smart guy, as should also be obvious.
Waxman, who has represented Los Angeles in Congress since he was first elected in 1974, is a center-left Democrat. He’s a pragmatist, not an ideologue, as reflected by his role as co-leader – with fellow LA Congressman Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee – of one of the nation’s most powerful political machines. Until they both got tired of it.
Hey, it’s a California thing.
Barack Obama’s new ad urges voters to check out how they would do under his tax plan.
** GEORGIA POLL: AN OBAMA-MCCAIN TOSS-UP. The brand-new Insider Advantage poll of Georgia – which no one anticipated would be a battleground state – shows Barack Obama with a slight edge over John McCain in this ultimate state of the old Confederacy, 48% to 47%. Obama appears to have somewhat more room for movement amongst the undecideds than does McCain.
** BACHMANN LOSES LEAD IN MINNESOTA CONGRESSIONAL RACE. Far right Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann has lost her lead in the new Survey USA poll of her race with little-known Democratic challenger Elwyn Tinklenberg. Tinklenberg now leads Bachmann, 47% to 44%.
Bachmann appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball with Christ Matthews last week. During the course of her interview, she declared that presidential frontrunner Barack Obama is “anti-American” and went on to call for a thorough investigation of Congress to root out other “anti-Americans.”
In the wake of her interview, the aforementioned Mr. Tinklenberg raised $1 million from upset citizens around the country.
Bachmann represents what is supposed to be a safe, rock-ribbed Republican district. Which is why she felt safe in presenting such preposterous comments on a national television show.
Subsequent to her debacle on MSNBC, she claimed that she was manipulated into calling Obama and other Democratic elected officials “anti-American.” Well, no. I have watched the interview. Bachmann said exactly what she wanted to say. Matthews merely drew her out.
John McCain’s latest attack ad seizes on a Joe Biden comment at a private fundraiser in Seattle about foreign powers testing a new president.
** TV AD WARS: MCCAIN’S JOE THE PLUMBER CAMPAIGN (SERIOUSLY). With two weeks to go, it looks like John McCain is going with Joe the Plumber as the advertising centerpiece of his campaign. Still. That seemed in question to me yesterday, as the fellow’s vogue of last week is already fading. But it may be, that absent some fantastic new character attack against Barack Obama, it’s the campaign’s best shot left at attempting to drive an economic message. Talk about your “mad men.”
So McCain has flickery ads with grained-up up the footage, with a message making it sound like Obama will raise everybody’s taxes. I guess that’s what they think they have to do to punch through when Obama is out-gunning them 4 to 1 on the air. You can see one version of a Joe the Plumber ad above, and one below.
McCain has lately been playing that Joe the Plumber card hard, invoking him more than running mate Sarah Palin, who polls show has become a liability outside the conservative Republican base. That means scaring voters about Obama and his “socialist” policies, as McCain put it the other day, as a big tax-and-spender. But in this environment, most voters probably want government to spend in order to stimulate the economy and provide more of a safety net. So the success of this tack depends on the McCain campaign’s ability to convince people that Obama would raise their taxes, and not the taxes of rich people and corporations. … From Tuesday’s column.
** WHERE THEY ARE TODAY.
Barack Obama is in Honolulu, Hawaii, visiting his 85-year old grandmother for what may be the last time.
Joe Biden is in Charleston and Martinsville, West Virginia. Obama, amazingly, in striking distance in the Mountaineer State.
John McCain is in Denver, Colorado Springs, and Durango, Colorado. Longtime red state Colorado is sliding away from the Republicans and McCain is trying to stop it. If Colorado goes, it is virtually impossible for McCain to win.
Sarah Palin is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Springfield and St. Louis, Missouri. The Republican ticket continues its last ditch effort to snatch Pennsylvania away from the Democrats. And Palin is also trying to help the ticket hold onto red state Missouri. Where she is actually, as it happens, unpopular.
** FROM THE ARNOLD FILE. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers a keynote address tonight at the annual NAACP convention in Burlingame, just south of San Francisco Internation Airport.
His Proposition 11 redistricting reform initiation appears to have a halfway decent chance of becoming the first such major initiative to prevail at the ballot box.
** INSIDE THE “BRADLEY EFFECT.” Barack Obama has won all three presidential debates over John McCain. He has a solid lead in the polls. What could go wrong for him? Well, many say the polls could be wrong, skewed by a hidden racist vote.
The “Bradley effect” — the notion that white voters lie to pollsters when a black candidate is in the race — has become widely known. But what you think you know from the campaign that gave rise to the phrase, then Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley’s ultimately near-miss race for governor of California in 1982, isn’t so.
I was in the middle of that, doing opposition research for Bradley’s campaign. I vividly recall election day that November, as reports from the exit polling done by California’s leading polling organization, the Field Poll, circulated. It seemed that Bradley, the first black mayor of Los Angeles, was headed for a big win as California’s first black governor. … From my Friday Huffington Post column.
** THE “MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE” FANTASY: PARANOIA AND IRONY ABOUND. “He’s … an Arab.” It’s perhaps fitting that last week ended that way for John McCain — face to face, embarrassingly, with an angry supporter sputtering about Barack Obama — given that he began it with a speech playing to the deep swamp of fevered innuendo about Obama as a “Manchurian candidate” out to seize the presidency and take down America. …
The Manchurian candidate ugliness began reaching critical mass over two years ago. That’s when it became apparent that Obama could be the figure of the future in American politics. …
Produced in 1962, The Manchurian Candidate is a darkly satirical view of far right politics in America. It was made with the encouragement of President John F. Kennedy, who was all too aware of the dangers of the paranoid style in American politics, starring his good friend Frank Sinatra, as Sinatra himself recounted in a 1988 documentary on the making of the film. … From a recent column.
** 24/7 LIVE TV NEWS FEED FROM RUSSIA TODAY. Russia has re-emerged as one of the world’s great powers. Click here for a live TV news feed on your computer, bringing you English-language, jargon-free, fast-paced coverage of global and Russian news from the new Russia Today channel. You probably already know about CNN International, BBC World, and Al Jazeera. Russia Today, which also features culture, entertainment, and sports, is based in Moscow and is owned and operated by the TV Novosti division of Russia’s state news agency, RIA Novosti.
While it’s quite foolish to expect to see, say, criticism of Vladimir Putin on Russia Today, which I know as a former DemRussia advisor, the channel is very interesting nonetheless. With U.S. cable news chattering away as it does, this sort of respite can be informative. The NWN live link to RT does not constitute an endorsement of the channel’s views. It’s presented as an otherwise unavailable new media window.
** SCHWARZENEGGER’S CALIFORNIA. Here is my series of five columns on the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger for the Los Angeles Times in debate with Pulitzer Prize-winning former Times reporter/editor Bill Boyarsky, whose columns are also included.
Among them is what I’m sure is the first piece examining Schwarzenegger’s legacy as governor of California. Since he will actually be governor of California until 2011. No technology known to be disruptive to the space/time continuum was used in its preparation.
** TRACK GLOBAL AND NATIONAL ENERGY PRICES IN NEAR REAL TIME VIA BLOOMBERG ENERGY MARKET WATCH. After crashing over $147 for yet another record on July 11th, crude oil is trading in the $64 to $65 per barrel range. OPEC, meeting in Vienna, has just announced a 1.5 million barrel per day production cut. But, with stock markets slumping further in Asia and Europe, this move has failed to arrest the oil slide.
Deutsche Bank issued a forecast over the weekend that crude oil will trade at $60 per barrel in 2009 amidst a possible “major global recession.”
The drop of $83 per barrel since the record high three months ago comes on acknowledgment that the weak US economy will cut future demand and on the easing of geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. It is clear that that, contrary to much chatter, neither the US nor Israel is about to launch a strike against Iran. And the Russian war with Georgia, confounding much speculation and reporting to the contrary, actually decreased the geopolitical risk premium in the oil market.
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“I think, at the very least, that these guys are Russian-Americans.”
Mmm, that sounds right. That would also explain their over-developed sense of irony.
It’s going to be a classic…better than the skateboarding dog for sure…
“Ah, that was kind of an obvious deal.
Two tells there.
1. The scar was too neat.
2. The scar was a mirror image.”
My guess is she was the victim of domestic abuse and tried to hide it by this crazy story. Very sad if true.
From Huffpo: “McCain’s Private Visit With Chilean Dictator Pinochet Revealed For First Time”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-dinges/mccain-meets-a-bloody-dic_b_137422.html
McCain met with that bastard Pinochet and he dares go after Obama?
I knew a private military contractor who worked under Pinochet — America realy fracked the Chilean people by backing that bloodthirsty son-of-a-bitch.
Well, that was many years ago, you know …
My friend Marc Cooper, former Allende translator, was all over this yesterday.
I know if you have listened to her on TV you will find this hard to believe, but from the Associated Press:
“Palin stylist draws higher pay than policy adviser
WASHINGTON – An acclaimed celebrity makeup artist for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin collected more money from John McCain’s campaign than his foreign policy adviser. Amy Strozzi, who works on the reality show “So You Think You Can Dance” and has been Palin’s traveling stylist, was paid $22,800, according to campaign finance reports for the first two weeks in October. In contrast, McCain’s foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was paid $12,500, the report showed.”
It’s pretty obvious that somebody punched her eye and she then, delicately, took a razor blade to her face.
>52. Brasky:
“Ah, that was kind of an obvious deal.
Two tells there.
1. The scar was too neat.
2. The scar was a mirror image.”
My guess is she was the victim of domestic abuse and tried to hide it by this crazy story. Very sad if true.
Oct 24, 2008 – 11:30 am
This video has quickly become a co-favorite for me with the Arnold Clone Movie.
You all have been warned!
>51. Brasky:
“I think, at the very least, that these guys are Russian-Americans.”
Mmm, that sounds right. That would also explain their over-developed sense of irony.
It’s going to be a classic…better than the skateboarding dog for sure…
Oct 24, 2008 – 11:28 am
And here I go on international TV, usually late at night, with no make-up.
>55. Sacramento Solon:
I know if you have listened to her on TV you will find this hard to believe, but from the Associated Press:
“Palin stylist draws higher pay than policy adviser
WASHINGTON – An acclaimed celebrity makeup artist for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin collected more money from John McCain’s campaign than his foreign policy adviser. Amy Strozzi, who works on the reality show “So You Think You Can Dance” and has been Palin’s traveling stylist, was paid $22,800, according to campaign finance reports for the first two weeks in October. In contrast, McCain’s foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was paid $12,500, the report showed.”
Oct 24, 2008 – 11:44 am
well that explains a lot.
Really?
Well, considering that Scheuneman was lobbyist and advisor to the dumbkopf who decided to attack South Ossetia, thus providing Russia with its long-sought rationale to invade Georgia, I would say he was overpaid.
>55. Sacramento Solon:
I know if you have listened to her on TV you will find this hard to believe, but from the Associated Press:
“Palin stylist draws higher pay than policy adviser
WASHINGTON – An acclaimed celebrity makeup artist for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin collected more money from John McCain’s campaign than his foreign policy adviser. Amy Strozzi, who works on the reality show “So You Think You Can Dance” and has been Palin’s traveling stylist, was paid $22,800, according to campaign finance reports for the first two weeks in October. In contrast, McCain’s foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was paid $12,500, the report showed.”
Oct 24, 2008 – 11:44 am
It’s the Tawana Brawley of the far right …
>48. Wilbur:
GOP volunteer who claimed to have been mugged by a black man enraged by her McCain/Palin sticker confesses it was a hoax:
http://kdka.com/local/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html
Will Fox showcase the truth as prominently as they did the lie?
Oct 24, 2008 – 11:22 am
“Well, that was many years ago, you know …”
Yes, twenty years after the Weather Underground and a couple of years before the S&L scandle — boy, that is a long time ago!
At least it’s not the Eagles.
1. Jonas Blane:
Vlad and Boris rock.
Oct 24, 2008 – 9:00 am
“OBAMA BLITZING MCCAIN IN SWING STATE ADVERTISING. ”
Looking at your numbers, I’m sure Obama could outspend McCain by a larger margin if he wanted.
I’m guessing Obama is spending a LOT on ground, which is a smarter investment at this stage, especially with early voting.
“GEORGIA POLL: MCCAIN BY 5″
Obama is probably within the margin of error many of the most recent polls in Georgia. That right there is a huge victory. Obama is taking his advantage and continues to push McCain to cover more ground pull-out of swing states.
This just what champion sport teams do — when they are up big, they continue to build their lead, not run-out the clock.
You can just feel the chaos on the other side — pretty soon, every Republican organizer is going to be stuck in an elevator in Kansas somewhere trying to get the last undecided voter.
“Unlike the current occupant of the White House, (Obama) has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.”
Oh no he didn’t?!
Boosh! KaKow!
“MINNESOTA POLL: OBAMA BY 15. ”
It’s like the implosion of Coleman/Bachmann and Obama’s growing appeal in the Land of 10,000 Lakes have combined into some kind of feedback loop — look for more gains for Dems here.
Hot damn!
Is that William Gibson the big scifi author?
BB:Vlad and Boris present “Song for Sarah (For Mrs. Palin).” (h/t William Gibson)
Greenspan is a criminal and should be in federal prison with Abrahmoff and Dukey Cunningham. Waxman is full of hot air and knows that his party colluded with the republicans for years. He said there were warning signs about the economic crisis, so why didn’t he or his boss Nancy the millionaire do anything about it?
well, at least now that they have nationalized the banking system we can have a real discussion about socialism — not big business bailout kind that Paulson and McCain support, not the corporate welfare the Democrats and Republicans endorse, not the redistribution of the peoples’ wealth upwards that Bush, Clinton and Reagan enabled. Let’s have worker control of the means of production and democratic decision making about how our earnings are spent, higher taxes on the wealthy and stiff fines and jail terms for the corporate criminals, a New Deal that bails out workers and lifts the victims of capitalism’s failings up out of poverty. Now that capitalism has been exposed as a failed system, in its death throes, the fear mongers are trying to make the absurd claim that Obama (funded by Lehman Bros and other Wall Street speculators) is a socialist! If only that was true! The corruption of the two party plutocracy has exposed the lies and opened the way for the democratic socialist future. A vote for Peace and Freedom candidates will help move us closer to that necessary reality.
Paul,
Is there anybody you disagree with who shouldn’t be in prison?
Paul Burton, I have some advice from John Lennon:
“If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.”
“Is that William Gibson the big scifi author?”
It is!
Didn’t someone here read Spook Country? I’m thinking of making it my next read.
Brasky,
I have a copy if you want it. It wasn’t my kind of read…however, someone by the name of Bill Bradley touted it big time. Ever heard of him????
And I’m serious about the book…just let me know a drop off point and it will be there.
Vlad and Boris remind me of a Russian “Flight of the Conchords”. The Conchords are definitely worth a chuckle, if you’ve got 4 minutes. Not political, but very clever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU
Sacto — Thank you for the kind offer, but I’m affraid that if I come out from under my rock, I might get gobbled-up!
Obama sent California supporters an email — just within 20 miles of Sacramento, there are 10 phone bank opportunities targeting out-of-state voters.
Guess it’s all that experience as a community organizer…
“HERE’S HOW TO BEAT OBAMA. HE’S NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN! ”
Wow, these guys are dumb.
Of the two candidates, who wasn’t born in the United States of America?
Brasky,
You’re quite welcome…and understand not wanting to be outted. Look forward to your review of the book.
Queue commercial…
“Both candidates SAY they’re Americans.”
“But one of them was born in a foreign country…a country that has embroiled in multiple military coups and overthrows…a country that has claimed allegiance to some of America’s enemies…a country that America went to war with. “
“John McCain – he’s not from here and we can’t trust him.”
“Paid for by Americans Who Want John McCain to Go Back Where He Came From – Panama”
Biden made a moderate mistake highlighting the “leadrship” issue when he should have focused on the economy. I expected him to be smarter than that.
If you want to read that National Review piece, go here: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzgwMzU5MzFkNThkOWVlMjJjNjA3YjJlMGM0NTAzOWU=
The story has already been burried under a flood of other crazy shit these guys post like every 5 minutes.
Seriously, don’t they even know the bio of their own candidate?
“Ashley Todd Story Pushed By McCain Campaign Aide, Say Reporters”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/24/ashley-todd-story-pushed_n_137710.html
Ka-kow!
“Bachmann Tapes Apology Ad”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/24/bachmann-tapes-apology-ad_n_137689.html
Boosh!
Step one to winning an election — never putting yourself in a situation that requires you to say “sorry” to the American people.
Oops!!!
Oh, and today Palin endorsed tax dollars going to vouchers for private schools:
http://publicbroadcasting.net/kbia/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1398198§ionID=1
These guys are seriously floundering.
“The Obama campaign manager says McCain would have to win 15% of the Democratic vote, 95% of the Republican and 60% of the independent vote to take (Pennsylvania).”
http://thepage.time.com/2008/10/24/11-days-left/
Why is McCain putting so much into this state? I would have gone big for Ohio and Florida if I were McCain.
>>comrade Brasky:
Paul Burton, I have some advice from John Lennon:
“If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.”<<
yes, of course; that’s why i wrote ‘democratic socialism.’ the state centralized totalitarian stalinist-maoist model has been discredited. But the mixed economy model we have here (with Social Security, public investment, Medicare) could be improved if we develop a system that distributes wealth to the people, not the corporate elite via subsidies, tax loopholes, offshoring, etc.
Ralph Nader said recently he was reminded of a comment his father made: “Why will capitalism survive? because socialism will bail it out.”
During the Republican primary people said that McCain was not qualified to be president because he was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone. Just like Dick Cheney was not qualified to be VP because he was really from Texas and the Pres and VP can’t be from the same state. Now we know there are dozens of other reasons why neither are qualified to hold public office.
>Sacramento Solon:
Paul,
Is there anybody you disagree with who shouldn’t be in prison?<
It ain’t about a disagreement, it’s about holding the corrupt, incompetent and criminal misleaders accountable. The petty criminal on Main Street who steals a pizza a couple of times, then gets caught stealing a pack of gum can be locked up for life under three strikes laws; the corporate crook on Wall Street can steal millions of dollars of pensions, bankrupt businesses and cause people to lose their homes, yet be rewarded with bonuses (paid for by you and me).
“During the Republican primary people said that McCain was not qualified to be president because he was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone”
OMG — didn’t Romney try that?
“comrade Brasky”
You should try to be intentionally funny more often – that was pretty good…”fellow traveler.”
SS:
74. Sacramento Solon:
Brasky,
I have a copy if you want it. It wasn’t my kind of read…however, someone by the name of Bill Bradley touted it big time. Ever heard of him????
And I’m serious about the book…just let me know a drop off point and it will be there.
me. me. i’d like it!!
after the election, i will have time to read. yeah! (and do tea.)
“GLOBAL OBAMA: BIG OPPORTUNITIES, BIGGER CHALLENGES.”
Very good sir. I don’t think Obama is going to suffer the “now what” moment, but that is still a long list of international affairs.
I would also say that the current economic crisis and the political campaign will also put some trade issues back into the spot light. Plus, Cuba is still kicking around (although I’m sure our half-century campaign of isolation is going to finally payoff any minute now).
Any insight into who Obama will be tapping to help him with these foreign relation issues?
Paul,
Thank you for your response. For the record, I find you a very bright, articulate, person.
However, I find you too harsh…you see too policy differences as criminal acts. Or at least I perceive that to be the case.
As strange as this may seem, I find that I agree with you in some policy areas. However, we part company in the harsh view you bring to the table.
But, like others on this blog, I encourage you to continue on. While I’ll continue to disagree…and at times take jabs…you bring a different, important, viewpoint to the table.
Have a nice evening and weekend.
Four Waters,
Of course…just say when and the book is yours.
Folks,
Been out and about this evening. Come home with a food recommendation…live here or coming to Sacramento soon, enjoy dinner at Frank Fat’s.
Had dinner there this evening and it was awesome. Just wonderful.
Funny, I’ve been going to Frank Fat’s for close to 30 years and have never had a bad meal. Never.
Now, good evening. Sleep well.
What new video today?
Hey, where’s the weekend update??? Almost noon…you slacking off or something?? Under the weather??? I’m the one who was out and about last evening having a small skirmish with John Barleycorn and his buddy, Vinny Vineyard…and I’m sure you’re smarter than that. So, what gives????
We want the update!!!!!
Solon, it’s possible there is no update because there is nothing to update. Obama has been off the trail because of his trip to see his grandmother, McCain has suspended his campaign because he has discovered he is not a citizen, and Palin is having her face done.
While Biden is bidin’ his time
Not a lot of big news since late Friday afternoon …