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...what future awaits "spread the wealth," a similar bromide uttered by Barack Obama to Joe the Plumber at a rally in Ohio? The history of this expression can also be traced to a movie: Hello, Dolly, released in 1969 and never before now regarded as subversive. But perhaps it deserves a closer look. It starred Barbra Streisand, a notorious Hollywood lefty who also starred in The Way We Were, the 1973 weepie that glamorized frizzy-haired communists and left-wing agitators from New York City and derogated real Americans like handsome blond Robert Redford. In Hello, Dolly, Streisand plays...
...pictures of Barack Obama's home stretch...
...pictures of Barack Obama's home stretch...
...Examining leadership style gives some insight into how the candidates might govern. McCain exhibits the characteristics of a troubleshooter. This type of leader tends to deal with the here and now, is action-oriented, sees problems as separate issues and is primarily reactive. Barack Obama is more of a visionary, seeing a bigger, intertwined picture. For example, the visionary would perceive energy as an issue related to our security, the environment, our domestic economy and foreign policy. The troubleshooter, McCain, tends to approach energy by proposing immediate fixes: opening areas for drilling, now; building nuclear plants; reducing restrictions. While style...
...Europe, Asia or Africa are now the persecutors, thereby perpetuating hate and fear. Shouldn't that kind of American wake up, realize that they live in a different world where there is no pure blood (we are all "mixes," thank God!) and mature once and for all? Maybe Barack Obama cannot change our country that much. But he might make us all more aware of the so-called brotherhood of man. Christy Cox, CANTABRIA, SPAIN...