The Air Force finally announced the new RQ-170 “Beast of Kandahar” drone. Looks like a baby B-2. While Obama accepts the Nobel Prize, his drones will be high above the Middle East.
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Ten Months of dismal economic data, yet the Obama team is still focused on the previous eight years. At what point will the current mess be Obama’s, and not Bush’s?
At some point Obama needs to own the problem and get on with fixing it. Where is the plan? The Ten Point list of programs that need to be implemented?
So far the solution has been to throw a big stimulus program out, spend all year debating a Health Care Bill, and then just hope that things will change.
I guess in the end you get what you pay for. I am not sure that we would be in a better place with McCain, but I think few people would have expected so little Change out of Obama at this point. To most, it is just more of the same.
Obama’s stormtroopers efficiently killed three Somali pirates who were holding an American ship captain hostage. While the nation rejoices that Capt. Richard Phillips is safe, we can only wonder what this is doing for pirate recruitment efforts off the Africa coast. As we know, confronting, fighting, and killing pirates only makes more of them.
Be wary when a President says we are in a crisis and we have to do something immediately to solve it. Remember where that has led us in the past…
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday, President Obama’s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing. CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing.
With the conventions behind us, it seems as if the actual campaign will finally start. I am looking forward to the debates, an opportunity to see the candidates head-to-head. It should be interesting to see how they do when facing each other on the same stage. Will McCain’s temper get to him and cause him to come across as a mean old man? Will Obama be able to maintain his image as eloquent and articulate if he stumbles and trips over his words while trying to find the “safe” words to a direct question?
I was hopeful that Obama would take up McCain’s offer to do weekly town-hall style debates. In my opinion, it is worrisome when a candidate tries to minimize his appearances with the other candidate. How do you feel about the upcoming debates? Would you like to see more, or are you already sick of the campaign and just want the election to be over?
Last week I asked folks to predict who would be the VP choices, and surprisingly, no one picked the ultimate winners! I am most impressed with Strong Moderate who was the only person to predict Sarah Palin. Nice job, I don’t think too many people had her on the short list last week.
While I think McCain’s pick was less “safe” than Obama’s, I think it will ultimately hurt him. Just as Dan Quayle became an albatross around Sr. Bush’s neck, I think Palin will also come up short for McCain. Why? One reason, she has no experience. She is even fresher than Obama, and that is startling in itself. Reading her bio on Wikipedia proves her to be a very interesting individual, however I am not sure that her qualifications (2nd in 1984 Miss Alaska competition) are going to energize the electorate.
I think the most interesting line in her bio is, “On September 11, 2007, the Palins’ then eighteen-year-old son Track, eldest of five, joined the Army. He now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq on September 11, 2008″ That sure is a lot of 9/11’s. Coincidence? Let’s see what EuroYank has to say…
What do you think?