Re: interesting article on Obama...

Rumpelstiltskin wrote:
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:26:49 -0800, Islander <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Rumpelstiltskin wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:44:17 -0800, Islander <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


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What you are seeing in Obama, IMV, is leadership. He has the ability to inspire people in the same way that JFK and FDR did. That might very well be the thing that this nation needs most now. If he surrounds himself with good people, and I believe that he will, I think that he could be a very good President.

My first choice would have been Biden who has the best credentials in my opinion, but that isn't going to happen. Perhaps he will accept a Sec State position.

I still think that Obama would be well advised to choose Jim Webb as vice president. That would be a very powerful team.

I'm sorry to see Hillary in trouble, but also did not look forward to the negative campaign that she would attract, through no fault of her own. I'm not writing her off yet, but am not optimistic.

I don't particularly like Edwards despite his populist message. But, I could accept him over any of the Republicans, any one of which would be a disaster.


I don't particularly like Edwards either, and I don't feel
I'm really being fair about that. My suspicion is that he doesn't have real goals other than being president, even
though he's saying the right things these days, more so
than Hillary. Hillary is still my first choice among the candidates I think can win the nomination and the presidency, but as I said a while back, if Obama became the Democratic nominee, I wouldn't be at all dismayed.

One more Republican president and it's over. The
USA will collapse and cease to exist. We'll break up
into smaller countries, such as perhaps Dixie, New York/New England, California, Texas, and the Northern and Southern Plains.


A lot of people around here think that it was purely accidental that these islands became part of the USA rather than Canada and it is often suggested that we should secede. Lumping us in with the Northern and Southern Plains might just do it!

I'm becoming increasingly impressed with Obama. For someone who supposedly has little experience, he has been running a pretty flawless campaign. Personally, I'd like to find out more about who he is surrounding himself with. I note the possible influence of Friedman in a parallel thread and suggest that the Univ. of Chicago may have moved on. Still conservative, but I have thought for some time that the Democratic party was more fiscally conservative than the Republicans and that is a good thing.

But, I'm not dismissing the possibility that possible influence from any quarter might be dirty tricks. I want names! Who are his advisers?


Friedman is not a fiscal conservative, though, as far as I know.
Aren't his views partly responsible for the nine-trillion dollar debt
we have now? I might be wrong about that, but he's no friend of "the common man", anyway. He's more of a laissez-faire guy,
as far as I know.


Friedman is considered to be the dean of fiscal conservatives, but that is only because fiscal conservatism was corrupted by the far right. His particular claim to fame was his belief that economic growth was improved by increasing the supply of money. Not surprising then, that as Reagan's economic adviser, he allowed the debt to increase so dramatically. There are those today who still argue that the debt is not a problem.

The Reagan tax cuts were intended to be consistent with this economic policy, labeled as "trickle down" but by the time the politics finished with it, it was a grab-bag of favors to political supporters.
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