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Originally posted by jsobecky
I will continue to criticize Obama as long as he is in office.
Originally posted by jtma508
Well, this thread seems to be an anti-Obama circle-jerk.
When the economy was squarely in the crapper both the current administration and McCain were telling people that the economy was 'fundamentally sound'.
Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Several months before Obama announced his U.S. Senate bid, Jones called his old friend Cliff Kelley, a former Chicago alderman who now hosts the city's most popular black call-in radio program.
I called Kelley last week and he recollected the private conversation as follows:
"He said, 'Cliff, I'm gonna make me a U.S. Senator.'"
"Oh, you are? Who might that be?"
"Barack Obama."
One Chicago Public Schools manager must have really been jonesing for a cup of coffee when officials say she spent nearly $70,000 of the district's money to buy 30 cappuccino/espresso machines for a high school program. But five months after the machines were purchased, 22 remained unopened, one disappeared and three were being used at two schools—though not in the culinary arts program for which they were intended, the district's inspector general said Tuesday. Officials in a department dealing with work-school programs allegedly separated the purchases to make them appear they came from 21 different schools and were under $10,000. By doing so, the purchases did not have to be competitively bid or win school board approval, said Jim Sullivan, the district's inspector general.
Originally posted by jibeho
The Chicago city schools spent $70,000 on cappuccino machines last year.
PRAGUE, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Dual crises over the Gaza conflict and gas supplies to Europe are proving to be a trial by fire for the European Union presidency of the Czech Republic, the first ex-Warsaw Pact country to be put in charge of EU business.
Largely eclipsed by bigger European players in the diplomacy aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza, Prague is fighting to reassert its authority with a push to end a nine-day standoff between Russia and Ukraine that has left hundreds of thousands of Europeans without gas and forced factory shut-downs.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
...They've made it so that people don't trust the government any more at ALL, no matter what they say.
Originally posted by loam
If not carried to an extreme, that might actually be a good thing.
I feel pretty confident that you will be singing a different tune soon enough.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
What tune am I singing, Loam?
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Well the times, they are a changin' and there's a new kid in town (and other appropriate song titles).
Originally posted by loam
To carry the analogy further, perhaps, Hail to the Chief?
Notwithstanding your question, I think my point was clear enough.
Was it not you who posted:
Well the times, they are a changin' and there's a new kid in town (and other appropriate song titles).
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
I may change my tune. I'm puzzled that so many are "looking forward" to it. (You're not the only one who's giddy at the thought)
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
The danger is real, unlike "Saddam has WMD". Obama may not be doing the right thing, but he's doing something to offset the danger.
Originally posted by loam
The remedy is potentially far worse than the problem it is designed to fix.
Supporting the notion that "doing something to offset the danger" even if it's not the right thing, makes no sense to me. I'm not sure how it does for you.