We’ve elected the wrong man. I’m not saying McCain would’ve been any better, but years of battle would have prepared whomever we elected to this mess. As things are, Obama is getting the education of his life and swamped with lots of giant chickens coming home to roost.
A lesson I have learned reading [...]
From Paul Krugman at Rolling Stone:
The U.S. economy needs to add more than a million jobs a year just to keep up with a growing population. Even before the crisis, job growth under Bush averaged only 800,000 a year – and over the past year, instead of gaining a million-plus jobs, we lost 2 [...]
From Eric Bates at Rolling Stone, interviewing Barack Obama:
Looking back over the past eight years, what’s the thing that Bush screwed up the worst?
I think Iraq has to rank number one. Although the economy and his failure, utterly, to anticipate the dangers of such a highly leveraged Wall Street, combined with such a highly leveraged [...]
From Tom Raum at the AP:
Barack Obama’s campaign will begin running a television ad Monday that attacks Republican John McCain’s energy policies.
“After one president in the pocket of big oil we can’t afford another,” says the ad, referring to President Bush’s previous work in the oil industry.
Obama hoped to emphasize energy and the economy in [...]
From Julianna Goldman at Bloomberg:
July 27 (Bloomberg) — Democrat Barack Obama said he is convening a meeting on the economy tomorrow that will include former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and billionaire investor Warren Buffett as he pivots to the U.S. economy after a nine-day trip abroad.
From Major Garrett at [...]
He has nice penmanship. This is a sacred document and having the file protects my web server, wherever it is, from harm. Printing a copy and putting it in your pocket will make you healthy. Putting it in your wallet will make you wealthy. I’m gonna put a copy on all [...]
Barack Obama may be a great man, but the reality is mediocrity suffices when standing in the anemic shadows of Bushes II and III. A willingness to visit Kabul and speak with Karzai satisfies McCain‘s foolish objections and begins a dialogue totally mismanaged by Rice and her handlers.
From Fareed Zakaria at Newsweek:
Over the course [...]
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