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[The Caucus] Obama Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com: Obama and the way they represented our country during this trip. How refreshing and wonderful to have a President that listens to others, speaks eloquently, and lets the world know that the American people want a government that listens to all sides, and reacts appropriately and hopefully with consensus;

[POLITICO Top Stories] Obama: 'Instant gratification' fueled bust - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com: The costs are driven up largely by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan””neither of which is part of the official Department of Defense budget. By the end of 2008, the cost to fight the Iraq war alone totaled over $580 billion.

[Republicans & Conservatives] Republicans & Conservatives: Center-Right Country, My Right ...: Politicians, particularly the Democrats because this is one of their key constituencies, wanted to be seen as increasing minority and low-income home ownership, so they compelled banks to give mortgages to a lot of folks who simply would not have qualified under a more typical and strict approval process. When a lot of these bad mortgages defaulted and the real estate market tanked, the mortgages became worth much less becuase the real estate backing them became worth much less, and we all know the downward spiral that this has uncorked.

[Economist's View] Economist's View: Paul Krugman: Barack Be Good: suburban professionals into the Democratic column -- a trend underway since the 1990's, but accelerated under Bush -- gave the Democrats a majority, but also a two mode internal Party composition, in which the moderate/conservatives are the mode of more tenuous loyalty. These were the secular, responsible Republicans, who favored fiscal responsibility, and thought for years -- until Bush proved otherwise in technicolor -- that Republicans were responsible Daddy figures.

[Status Asthmaticus] hmm: Also, contrary to much popular opinion and analysis, the New Deal never did much practical good, and it took the industrial needs of a total world war to finally end the Great Depression. By the way, feds, where's my bailout?

[Johnblakey's Weblog] Mild: I suppose we’ll soon see the Luton Muslim hate-mongers back on the streets, this time bitching about Islamaphobia. An irony of their actions, which they do not seem to have considered, is that their verbal abuse being splashed all over the media will certainly send people flocking into the arms of the BNP - but perhaps I’m being naive and actually they are spoiling for a fight.

[lies.com] lies.com » Koppelman on the Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy: For example, do the same characteristics of clinging to an unpopular belief hold for the people who clung to the notion that: the “Gulf of Tonkin” incident never happened (after 40 years declassified documents proved the conspiracy was true), or that elements of governments will lie or harm their own people for a perceived greater good (“Operation Northwoods” - a declassified military proposal suggested by the military), or that in 2003 (based on all the available evidence) Iraq did not have operational WMD’s and that (unless the Bush administration had more evidence somewhere) Bush’s claims were merely a “sexed up dossier” i.e., a conspiracy to start a war. Even a business person who has a “crazy” idea that with perseverance proves to be a successful venture shares many of the characteristics Shermer ridicules.

[Cindy's Zone 2] Links 78: Tech 'Bailout' hits Domino's for 11000 free pizzas Assad: By war or peace, we will liberate the Golan - Haaretz - Israel News 'Israel unlikely to attack Iran this year' - Haaretz - Israel News G20 to bulk up IMF in response to crisis .

[Metro - cleveland.com] Nationwide tax rallies inspired by colonial 'Tea Party' - Metro ...: Let me get this straight, with close to 50% of the public not paying federal taxes per Obama's plan, the rest of us should just shut up and pay "our fair share" as they define it? It is kind of easy for someone paying virtually nothing to say the other guy has to suck it up and pay more so that he can have net income after taxes higher than his income before taxes.

[The Obambi.com Blog www.obambi.com] Obama’s White Papal Masters « The Obambi.com Blog www.obambi.com: “While some right-wing critics of Barack Obama suffered under serious delusions themselves, other critics deliberately misrepresented Obama’s values in order to portray him as a threat to the United States of America. Guilt-by-association smears linked him to the radical background of family friend Frank Marshall Davis, Reverend Wright, and William Ayers.”

[BBC Blog Network] BBC - Peston's Picks: Tories to break up banks?: I have second thoughts on the Tories Spin, I feel for all those LloydsTSB mere mortals (the workers Band 8 etal) at the bottom of the LloydsTSB food chain. Some of those people have contributed to the share save scheme for 20+ years helping to towards their pension will be for nothing if the Tories do as they have indicated then thousands of people will recieve nothing, whilst the big fat cats at LlyodsTSB have recieve large pensions, they do not give a stuff about the staff who are always pressured to sell..sell..sell.

[NO QUARTER] Obama’s Dangerous Rhetoric on Islam and America : NO QUARTER: It is very hard for governments like Turkey’s to cooperate on Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Iran, if ordinary Turks feel a sense of personal animosity against the US because of its policies. Maybe saying plainly why we are committed to those policies (or why we aren’t, in this case) will have zero effect, who knows.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Beat 360° 4/6/09 « - Blogs ...: After a successful day at the NATO summit US President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozu,and German Chancellor Angela Merkel suddenly begin singing and dancing to the Dixie Chicks “READY,READY, READY….READY TO RUN!”

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