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...Ceremonies, watching the world’s best athletes huddle together under one roof (or rather, in one nest), I found myself feeling horribly inadequate. While thousands of surrounding spectators snapped photos and texted friends, I was deep in retrospection, asking myself, “What have you actually done with your life...
...Towards the end of the Olympics, when most athletes had finished competing and many now sported medals around their necks at exclusive parties all over Beijing, I shifted the blame to my parents. It was no longer, “What have I done with my life?” but instead, “Why didn’t Mom and Dad force me to focus on an obscure sport from day one?” I might have complained a bit now and then, but years later I could have been standing on the podium thanking them...
...euphemisms like mendacity and inaccuracy ... or, as the Associated Press put it, "McCain's claims skirt facts." But increasing numbers of otherwise sober observers, even such august institutions as the New York Times editorial board, are calling John McCain a liar. You might well ask, What has McCain done to deserve this? What unwritten rules did he break? Are his transgressions of degree or of kind...
...telling the truth - Obama wants a market-based system subsidized by the government - but McCain's untruth illuminates a general policy direction, which is sketchy but sort of within the bounds. (Obama's plan would increase government regulation of the drug and insurance industries.) Obama has done this sort of thing too. In July, he accused McCain of supporting the foreign buyout of an American company that could lead to the loss of about 8,000 jobs in Wilmington, Ohio. McCain did support the deal, but the job loss comes many years later and was not anticipated at the time...
This email was hacked by anonymous, but I took no part in that. I simply got the password back, and changed it so no further damage could be done. Please get in contact with Sarah Palin and inform her the new password on this account is samsonite1. Thank you and best wishes, the good anonymous...