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To: michael97123 who wrote (451420)	1/27/2009 10:24:40 AM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575201

In order to really defeat al queda and neuter iran, obama needs to use his world wide popularity to our advantage. Question. Whom do you think would win a popularity contest in the Middle East? Obama or Osama? As long as our guard is up osama cant get us because as you so eloquently say, bush did such a great job. So there. Our guard is no longer up. Obama foolishly began dismantling it on day one, with the proclamation that we would not use enhanced interrogation techniques. HUMINT is critical, and Obama gave up a significant portion of it on Day One. And he's just getting started. If the CIA captures a fountain of information in Afghanistan today, they have no effective means of getting him to give it up. At all. That, Michael, is stupid. You don't win wars by talking. Or by not fighting. Or by weakening your defenses.

To: michael97123 who wrote (451420)	1/27/2009 10:27:53 AM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575201

Muslims sworn to kill infidels don't give a damn about popularity. Arafat took Carter and Clinton to the cleaners, just as Obama will have his clocked cleaned by our enemies. Bookmark it and watch it unfold.

To: michael97123 who wrote (451420)	1/27/2009 10:29:28 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575201

Critics say Obama's economic bill lacks stimulus Republicans, economists question billions in projects S.A. Miller (Contact) Tuesday, January 27, 2009 From $400 million for NASA climate-change research to $650 million for digital TV converter-box coupons, the unprecedented spending in President Obama's economic stimulus plan is provoking questions about whether it can create jobs and jolt the country out of recession. The $825 billion bill, which is headed for likely House passage Wednesday, is being scrutinized increasingly by Republicans and economists because it doles out billions of taxpayer dollars for everything from the 2010 census to university research to contraceptives at family-planning clinics - areas far removed from the meltdown in finance, housing and automotive industries. “This bill is not all stimulus,” said David M. Walker, the former head of the Government Accountability Office and president of the fiscal issues advocacy group Peter G. Peterson Foundation. He said the potential stimulus effects from the bill are diluted by spending on government facilities and public-assistance programs. “We ought to have open and honest discussion and debate about the merits of each,” he said. The rescue package, dubbed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, pours $41 billion into local school districts, $1.1 billion into Amtrak, $600 million into buying energy-efficient cars for the federal government, $275 million into fixing State Department computers, $200 million into sprucing up the National Mall, including new sod, and $50 million into the National Endowment for the Arts. “It's ridiculous. It won't work. It won't stimulate,” said John Seater, an economics professor at North Carolina State University. “Any kind of spending will stimulate the sector of the economy where the money is spent, but I don't know that these industries are depressed. ... You can't just move somebody over from housing construction to climate research.” Mr. Seater and other conservative economists suggest reducing the marginal tax rate to create incentives for business growth. “It's not like this is the 1930s and this is the first time we've done this,” Mr. Seater said. “We've been doing this for 70 years, and we've learned a few things. But you wouldn't know it from what is going on in Washington.” [Get Copyright Permissions] Click here for reprint permissions!