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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (465559)3/22/2009 9:38:24 AM
From: Alighieri2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1574002
 
If you want to guarantee that America becomes a mediocre nation, then just keep vilifying every public figure struggling to find a way out of this crisis who stumbles once — like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner or A.I.G.’s $1-a-year fill-in C.E.O., Ed Liddy — and you’ll ensure that no capable person enlists in government.

So all kinds of lesser issues and clowns have ballooned in importance and only confused people in the vacuum. Hopefully, that plan will be out by Monday, and hopefully the president will pull the country together behind it, and hopefully the lawmakers who have to approve it will remember that this is not a time for politics as usual — and that our country, alas, is not too big to fail. Hopefully ...


I so completely agree with this op ed...including the point he makes about Obama failing to lead the debate...

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