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...training." Biden dropped out after the caucuses after garnering less than 10,000 votes. In Springfield, Biden made it clear he changed his mind after following Obama's path to the nomination. "Over the past 18 months, I've watched Barack meet those challenges with judgment, intelligence, and steel in his spine," Biden told the crowd. "I've watched as he's inspired millions of Americans, millions of Americans to this new cause...
...being cut open, of getting infections, not waking up, becoming paralyzed. They're scared of the pain. And they don't care about statistics. The smarter ones understand how complicated a decision it is to have an operation. What smart patients want is something beyond statistics - most call it judgment - as they decide between the pain they're living with now versus the risks of a procedure that can't guarantee a cure...
...know enough about housing or finance to make a judgment about whether the measure President Bush signed this week was a good deal or not. About all you can say is that neither party had much choice. Washington could not let five trillion dollars worth of government backed agency paper default without sending a signal to investors and central banks in Asia - which held about a third of the debt - that its other guaranteed instruments, like Treasury bills, might not be secure. And so it jumped in to save Fannie and Freddie. I do know that the speed with which...
...High Court judgment caps a bewildering few centuries for the Chinese of South Africa. Lai, who runs a guitar and amplifier repair shop, steers me a few doors down to Sui Hing Hong and a book called Colour, Confusions and Concessions: the History of Chinese in South Africa by Melanie Yap and Daniel Leong Man. It documents how a tiny minority in a land delineated by race have long been abused from all sides. Many arrived in South Africa as virtual slaves, convicts imported as manual laborers by the Dutch and, later, the British. Their second-class status was formalized...
...argument that amounts to this: Barack Obama is a huge phenomenon, but he does not have the experience, or the judgment, to lead the country. In fact, he is just another politician, an empty suit, who will do whatever he needs, and make as many vague but eloquent speeches as he has to, to get elected. John McCain, on the other hand, is a proven, principled leader you already know...