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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (31476)	6/19/2008 8:27:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224749

Europes GDP is larger than ours and their currency is worth double ours. Europe is a bunch of countries, with more people than the US. Their currency isn't worth double ours, and if it was it would be meaningless in this context. Are the Japanese desperately poor because of the Yen is worth so little? If Chad issue a new currency that was worth $1000 would that mean that Chad was prosperous?

To: koan who wrote (31476)	6/20/2008 1:26:41 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

The media and the activists won’t care (they were only interested in campaign-finance reform only when the Republicans had more money). Meanwhile, Obama’s money is forever. He’s got an army of small donors and a phalanx of big money bundlers, including, according to The Washington Post, Kenneth Griffin of the Citadel Investment Group; Kirk Wager, a Florida trial lawyer; James Crown, a director of General Dynamics; and Neil Bluhm, a hotel, office and casino developer. I have to admit, I’m ambivalent watching all this. On the one hand, Obama did sell out the primary cause of his professional life, all for a tiny political advantage. If he’ll sell that out, what won’t he sell out? On the other hand, global affairs ain’t beanbag. If we’re going to have a president who is going to go toe to toe with the likes of Vladimir Putin, maybe it is better that he should have a ruthlessly opportunist Fast Eddie Obama lurking inside. All I know for sure is that this guy is no liberal goo-goo. Republicans keep calling him naïve. But naïve is the last word I’d use to describe Barack Obama. He’s the most effectively political creature we’ve seen in decades. Even Bill Clinton wasn’t smart enough to succeed in politics by pretending to renounce politics.