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...pundits and newscasters were practically slobbering over Clinton's projected defeat and could barely wait to crown Obama the winner long before the polls closed. Obama is smart, attractive, likable and a fabulous orator, but we need much more than beautiful speeches. Bambi Lin Litchman, Tacoma, Washington...
...pundits and newscasters were practically slobbering over Clinton's projected defeat and could barely wait to crown Obama the winner long before the polls closed. Obama is smart, attractive, likable and a fabulous orator, but we need much more than beautiful speeches. Clinton's credentials are excellent. By happenstance, she would be the first woman President of the most powerful nation on earth. Talk about change. Bambi Lin Litchman TACOMA, WASH...
...Republicans are embarrassed enough by this universal wisdom that they are making noises about paying for the stimulus by cutting government spending. Unfortunately, even if such spending cuts took place, which is unlikely, they would defeat the purpose of the stimulus. Bush, for example, proposes to pump about $145 billion into the economy through tax cuts of various sorts. This is a classic Keynesian stimulus, and the whole purpose of that is to increase demand in the economy. Instead of a self-feeding spiral downward?I get laid off and can't pay my mortgage, so the bank fires...
Indeed, the very things that helped Romney handily defeat McCain by almost ten percentage points - his more optimistic view of the economic future and claims that the auto industry's jobs could be saved - could look to some voters like the worst kind of political pandering; in other words, the same old Mitt...
Like any Communist-run state, China has a complicated relationship with democratic elections, particularly those at its periphery. Sometimes things go well for Beijing: in Taiwan, the party of pro-independence president Chen Shui-bian was handed a devastating defeat in Jan. 12 parliamentary elections, clearing the way for a more conciliatory relationship with the island China considers a renegade province. But in Hong Kong that same weekend, thousands protested against Beijing's timetable for democratization in the territory, which last month ruled out the possibility of direct elections in 2012 in favor of a vague promise to consider them...