Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Robert Kegan
Kegan interview
What does Kegan mean when he says other countries [in Europe] would like to see Obama elected president of America but would not elect someone like that in their own countries?
Defenders of the Iraq war always say things like - 'you cant seriously believe the world would be better off with S. H. in Iraq' . The world would better off without many dictators - how can that be a defense of the war.
Is it true that the surge was accompanied American payments to tens of thousands of fighters to turn their backs on AlQuada and stop attacking American troupes?
What does Kegan mean when he says other countries [in Europe] would like to see Obama elected president of America but would not elect someone like that in their own countries?
Defenders of the Iraq war always say things like - 'you cant seriously believe the world would be better off with S. H. in Iraq' . The world would better off without many dictators - how can that be a defense of the war.
Is it true that the surge was accompanied American payments to tens of thousands of fighters to turn their backs on AlQuada and stop attacking American troupes?
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Couric asked whether the bailout money might be better spent on the middle class instead of making it available to the banking system.
"That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out.
But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the -- it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that."
"That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out.
But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the -- it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that."
Say what?
"Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first."
--Sarah Palin, answering a question at a town hall meeting Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sept. 17, 2008
"Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first."
--Sarah Palin, answering a question at a town hall meeting Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sept. 17, 2008

