Tuesday, March 06, 2007

McCain Is 1970s, Hillary Is 1990s, Edwards Is 2004, Obama Is Today


McCain is not even in the game. The guy even looks tired. Hillary had all the sizzlesazzle in the 1990s. She was great. And she is more like Ted Kenney than Bobby Kennedy, destined to be a great Senator. Edwards tried his lucky charm the last time around. He gave us Bush. How do you forgive that?

Obama is for today. He opposed the Iraq War from day one at a time when that was the lonely thing to do. That pretty much separates him from the rest of the bunch.

Obama's presidency will finally launch the new century in America. Bush turned the clock backwards. A recent global poll showed the citizens of the world put the US in the same league of displeasure as Iran and North Korea. Bush earned that for the US.

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In The News

Venezuela's Chavez On Counter-Bush Tour CBS News, NY While Bush visited Brazil on Friday, Chavez packed a soccer stadium in neighboring Argentina, telling a crowd of 20,000 leftist supporters that Bush's tour was a cynical attempt to divide the region. ..... Since Morales took office a year ago, Chavez has pledged more than $1 billion for Bolivian petroleum projects, community radio stations and a factory to make tea from coca leaves. ..... In contrast, the Bush administration's 2008 budget proposal slashes U.S. aid to Bolivia by more than 20 percent, from $125 million to $98 million, part of a deep aid cut targeting much of Latin America. ...... Bush's Latin America tour was met with protests in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Guatemala...... In Guatemala City, protesters burned American flags in front of the U.S. embassy on Saturday and held up posters of Bush bearing a Hitler-style mustache. In El Salvador about 100 protesters staged a small demonstration against the president's tour, though he was not scheduled to visit the Central American country. Gingrich Admits to Affair While Pursuing Clinton Over Lewinsky ABC News Among the three Republican front-runners — thrice-married former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani; twice-married Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; and Gingrich — there are eight current and past wives.
Obama Campaign Energizes HLS Harvard Crimson Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62, who employed Obama as a research assistant when the senator was still a student, said that Obama had the potential to become one of the best presidents in United States history. ..... “We are dealing with someone who has a chance of being the greatest president since Franklin Roosevelt,” Tribe said. ..... He briefly paused, and then he added, “Well, maybe I could drop the Franklin Roosevelt part.”
Barack Obama pays off 17-yr-old parking fines Daily News & Analysis
Obama Pays Parking Tickets 17 Years Late NBC5i.com
Turf War As Obama Fundraises In Clinton's NYC WBBM780 "I love Hillary, I think she's fabulous but I think we need something that's new and fresh and Obama is right there,” Smith said.
Obama Makes First NYC Fundraiser Count CBS2 Chicago
'REAL DEAL' BARACK TAKE$ BIG NY POT New York Post
Gingrich, potential GOP '08 candidate, admits affair while ... Church Executive Magazine
Giuliani Admits Current Affair with Gingrich Ongoing During ... Unconfirmed Sources (satire)
Gingrich confirms details of Clinton-era affair The Age
NH House majority leader endorses Clinton
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McCain: Gossip about personal lives shouldn't be campaign issue WLUC-TV
Keep 'family issues' out of '08 Washington Times
Season of political hardball has begun Palladium-Item

Governing China Caught between right and left, town and country FOUR years of double-digit growth, soaring government revenues, low inflation and a manageable budget deficit might be cause for celebration in other countries. But China's leaders are anxious. Inequalities are growing, corruption is rampant, grumbling widespread. Ideological battles between free-marketeers and left-wingers threaten to impede reform. ..... Three years ago China added a clause to its constitution saying that private property was “not to be encroached upon”. .... Direct criticism of leaders is still virtually taboo in China. .... the leadership itself invited discussion by publishing a draft of the law in 2005—a very unusual move in a country that normally keeps its legislative processes shrouded in secrecy. ..... it would be unprecedented for delegates to reject a bill. .... Sweeping privatisation of housing since the late 1990s has radically changed the social and political fabric of urban China. ..... the number of “mass incidents” in China had fallen to about 23,000 last year from 26,000 in 2005. ..... Since 2004 leaders have vowed to build a “harmonious society”, making it risky for low-level governments to report data suggesting that unrest is growing. ..... party regulations still give unelected party chiefs the final say over village affairs ...... the frequent sale of state-owned enterprises at rock-bottom prices to their managers .... It says the sale of state assets to corrupt officials, the super rich and foreign multinationals is illegal and unconstitutional. Among the more than 3,200 signatories are seven former government ministers or deputy ministers, five former provincial leaders, a sprinkling of retired senior military officers and about 50 professors at the party's Central School, an academy for top officials. ...... State-owned enterprises with no hope of turning a profit will “exit the market” by 2008. ..... what party leaders announced in late 2005 would be a “new socialist countryside” with subsidised health care and free schooling for all. ..... A medical-insurance scheme, launched in 2003, is to cover 80% of rural areas by the end of this year, up from 50% at present. The aim is to have complete coverage by 2010. ..... The armed forces have enjoyed double-digit budget increases for most of the past 15 years. The leadership knows well whom it really needs to keep happy.

China's next revolution Economist .... A new property law is a breakthrough, even though it raises hopes that one-party rule may dash .... China has such a large and flourishing private sector, accounting for some two-thirds of ..... In 2004 China changed the country's constitution to enshrine private-property rights. But the constitution is less a prescriptive document than a constantly changing description of what has just happened. So nothing changed. .... some “collective” or “state” enterprises operate in ways indistinguishable from the private interests of their bosses ...... should an underdog try to use the new law to enforce his rights, the corrupt and pliant judiciary would usually ensure he was wasting his time. ....... a government that does its best to silence most dissenting voices, strictly controls the press, and lavishes resources on the best cyber-censorship money can buy. Property rights are a start; but only contested politics and relatively open media can ensure that they are enforceable. ........ the dozing NPC delegates may have started a process this month that will one day change their country completely.
Winds of change 2007 seems to be shaping up as the “year of global warming” ..... urged rich countries to combat global warming or risk seeing global GDP cut by 20% by 2200 ..... global warming would cause the world’s temperature to rise by somewhere in the range of 1.1-6.4ºC by 2100. ..... By 2020, governments are supposed to lower emissions to 20% below those of 1990 ..... anthropogenic global warming .... So far, the EU’s ambitious plans for emissions cuts have underwhelmed in execution. ...... the issue of short-termism. .... carbon will have a price beyond 2012, at least until 2020. That should persuade companies to build a carbon price into their investment plans ..... energy-intense industries will squawk. .... California and Europe are travelling hand-in-hand along their green path ...... if America does not act, Europe will undoubtedly, at some point, give up on greenery.
Lexington Slow train coming John McCain is a more powerful presidential candidate than he currently appears ....
Giuliani is a flawed front-runner ..... He has a foul temper and a mean streak as wide as the Hudson river. “Absolutely not,” was the response of Ed Koch, another former New York mayor and a political rival, to the suggestion that Mr Giuliani is a racist. “He's nasty to everybody.” ...... His campaign may collapse as quickly as it inflated. ..... Mr Romney has a long record of managerial competence—a huge selling point after George Bush's serial incompetences. ...... a quarter of Americans claim that they would not vote for a Mormon .... His biggest weakness has to do with age rather than ideology. .... his face is visibly scarred from bouts with skin cancer.
Bangladesh One begum down The generals show who's boss .... the administration has announced plans to create a National Security Council—in effect an admission by the army's top brass that it has become impossible to govern the country from behind the curtain any longer. ..... The council will include the chiefs of the three branches of the armed forces. To give the arrangement a more acceptable gloss, it will also bring in civilians, and will be led by the head of the interim government, Fakhruddin Ahmed, a former World Bank official. ...... Dhaka is now in an excited state. The military-backed administration still enjoys widespread public support from a public disillusioned with the corruption and eternal feuding of the big parties. ..... The summer monsoon pushes the local elections—likely to be held before parliamentary elections as a test—to the final quarter of 2008 and national polls into early 2009. ...... Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel-prize-winning microcredit pioneer. But his attempt to build a new political force probably needs the army's backing, which Mr Yunus will want to avoid.
Nepal's ethnic politics The new battlefront Rivalries between caste and ethnic groups threaten the peace process

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Clinton Launches Drive For Women's Votes Guardian Unlimited chided the Bush administration for what she said was failing to fully track national data on gender disparities at work ... ``Business leaders tell us the strongest form of marketing is advocacy by a trusted friend'' .... www.icanbepresident.com .... she does well among women generally, and single and younger women in particular.
Clinton launches drive to break "glass ceiling" Reuters
the "hardest and highest" glass ceiling ... opened a "Women for Hillary" program that plans to use the Internet to enlist thousands of activists into a Women Leaders Network on behalf of her campaign. ..... Clinton won more than 70 percent of the women's vote in her runaway 2006 Senate re-election victory .... "Guess what, I'm a woman, and I know it's on people's minds," Clinton said at the luncheon. "To all those who say a woman cannot be elected president, I say 'we'll never know unless we try' and that is what I am going to do in this campaign." .... Clinton said she would introduce legislation to ensure equal pay for women.
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Rudy Giuliani sells off investment banking unit
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Clinton Launches Drive for Women's Votes
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Clinton to launch drive for women's votes Boston Globe
India 'most improved' country: Poll
Times of India Israel, Iran, the US and North Korea are overwhelmingly negatively identified as the world's new rogue states by disparate groups of people in 27 countries around the world .... The barometer of public opinion fell for key global players such as the US, UK, Russia, China, France in an eerie reflection of their pre-eminent geo-political status as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. .... Chavez's Venezuela seems to be appealing to as many people as it is displeasing ..... the strongest pro-India sentiments were found in Indonesia ..... America's place in the "bloc of four hate-figures on the world map" must be a cause for concern because of its unchallenged status as sole hyperpower. ....... America's status as a country of peace and goodwill plummeted. ..... people around the world tend to look negatively on countries whose profile is marked by the use or pursuit of military power. This includes Israel and the US ....... the most positive ratings going to Canada, followed by Japan, the European Union and France.
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International Herald Tribune positive views of Iran grew dramatically in some Muslim-dominated countries .... Polling was conducted in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and the United States.
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NATO Launches Major Offensive in Southern Afghanistan Spiegel Online
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The man behind brand Bachchan Economic Times IN 1992, during the filming of the late Mukul Anand’s Khudah Gawah, Mohammed Najibullah, then president of Afghanistan, offered the film unit half of the nation’s air force as protection in the war-torn country; all that was asked in return was an opportunity to have his pictures taken with the film’s leading man, Amitabh Bachchan. ..... In an October 2005 national survey of India’s 15-year-olds commissioned by Brand Equity, respondents voted the sixty-plus Amitabh Bachchan as their favourite celebrity brand endorser ..... in 2003, 23 million MTV viewers voted Bachchan as the Maha Style Icon of the Year. ..... an estimated Rs 220 crore worth of business riding on his shoulders. .... not every brand that’s sold itself successfully to one generation of consumers has the satisfaction of being the next generation’s preferred choice as well. ..... returning as he did from the brink of virtual oblivion and bankruptcy to dominate the Hindi film industry all over again ..... Bachchan embodies heritage, dominance, refinement, discernment, charisma, mystique, power and achievement, values that have emerged as a result of his journey from an anti-establishment hero to ruler, patriarch and man of stature. ..... For the average Indian, he represents resilience of spirit and the power of dreams .... Bachchan rose, phoenix-like, on the back of game-show, Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC): “Today, Amitabh is a symbol of hope and optimism that life begins at 60.”
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Productivity Is Less Than Estimated, and Pay Is Higher New York Times
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Dell may offer Linux as alternative to Windows Reuters Canada
More Teens Are Undergoing Obesity Surgery Washington Post
The Line Between Torture and Cruelty New York Times
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Ill treatment may be as traumatic as torture MSNBC most abused prisoners, including those in the present war on terror, are innocent or ignorant of terrorist activities ...... Strictly speaking, she wasn’t tortured, but 2½ decades later it still feels that way, she says. ...... Today, she still trembles whenever she sees the police. Her ordeal, she says, is “a spiritual burden that stays with you forever.”
Steamy e-mails from astronaut case released Reuters Astronaut Lisa Nowak carried copies of steamy e-mails that her NASA lover had written to his new girlfriend the night she raced cross-country in a diaper to confront her rival ..... while staying with Oefelein in his Houston apartment the weekend before the attack, Oefelein accidentally called her "Lisa" in bed one night. ..... Nowak is free on bond but required to wear a global positioning device that will alert authorities if she returns to Florida.
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