USA Politics

LooseCannon said:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feat ... d-me200901

An interesting article here about the outgoing President, written by someone who actually met the man in a setting many people would expect to meet someone: as the father of one of your close friends.
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Read the article.  Felt that the author was an asshole who betrayed the trust of a friend and her family.  Being a President must be a very strange existence, when every human encounter you have -- no matter how friendly, welcoming and generous you may be -- has the potential of ending up in a magazine article attacking you. 
 
Yeah, like I said, an interesting article.  I think being President of the USA would be a very hard and demanding job, and I think it shows the difference between how Bush has tried to live his private and his public life.  It goes back to my thought: a great neighbour and a terrible president.
 
NigelTufnel said:
I thought old Dick Cheney was running the show and W was only his mouthpiece.
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Well, to a certain extent, I think this is true.  Like I said, I feel that Bush's private life is oh so different than the public life he led.  Most people who have met the man on a personal and non-political level have come away with favourable impressions.  It's his politics that people find distasteful.  Certainly, this could be explained if Bush's hand wasn't the one always on the tiller.
 
Cheney had the exclusive luxury of not wanting the office for himself after Bush's term is over. He can be the asshole that he is. Imagine what the Bush presidency would have been like without Cheney, but McCain as the VP.
 
Onhell said:
I'd like to think Rove had far more influence than Cheney.
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Really? I know old Dick had a huge hard on to get us back into Iraq. Lucrative, no competition contracts for his former company and its subsidiaries. I have to admit I don't know much about Rove, except for him being W's campaign manager and top advisor.
 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479952,00.html

Normally I don't report from Fox News, so please excuse the bias contained in the article.  It's the headline that's most important:

Obama to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".

"Thadeus of Lansing, Mich., asks, 'Is the new administration going to get rid of the "don't ask, don't tell policy?'" said Gibbs, looking into the camera. "Thadeus, you don't hear a politician give a one-word answer much. But it's, 'Yes.'"

I think this is one of the biggest first steps Obama can take.  Along with closing down the Guantanamo Bay prison camp (which he has also pledged to do), this is a huge step towards equality.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/14/obama.gays.military/index.html

And an update from CNN.
 
I can't wait to see results. There are so many things politicians says, but between their word and their actions there is a HUGE ditch they rarely cross. So I'm excited, but hesitant.
 
I don't know if I have posted this before, but last year, my son's Social Studies teacher decided to offer the kids in his class a chance to take a trip to DC for the inauguration.  So, my son and one of his friends were the only ones to take him up on this-- they leave Saturday for DC, and they will be there to see Obama take his oath.  I think that is pretty cool!  I wonder if D&N will be there for that....

Any way, i am envious of my son, for the opportunity that he has there!!!
 
Wasted155 said:
I don't know if I have posted this before, but last year, my son's Social Studies teacher decided to offer the kids in his class a chance to take a trip to DC for the inauguration.  So, my son and one of his friends were the only ones to take him up on this-- they leave Saturday for DC, and they will be there to see Obama take his oath.  I think that is pretty cool!  I wonder if D&N will be there for that....

Any way, i am envious of my son, for the opportunity that he has there!!!
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Historical moments like that...

You got one lucky kid...

40 years from now, he'll be able to say: "I was there..."

(Provided mankind, Global warming and space invaders haven't killed us all by then...)

- AJ the optimist...  :P
 
I wonder if D&N will be there for that....
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Hell no I'm not going to be there. DC is hard enough to get into on a regular day... Inauguration Day? Faugetabowdit! History be damned! It's going to be a freaking nightmare and cold as hell to boot. Glad your son and his friend are able to go though.
 
D&N said:
Hell no I'm not going to be there. DC is hard enough to get into on a regular day... Inauguration Day? Faugetabowdit! History be damned! It's going to be a freaking nightmare and cold as hell to boot. Glad your son and his friend are able to go though.
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That's what TV is for.  Make the networks get through the traffic for us.
 
Yeah I planned to go to inauguration with friends, but it got too expensive for me...so I decided to watch it on TV :D.  Oh and about the don't ask don't tell policy thing LC, I would be excited but I'm rather hesitant about this. It just seems too straightforward for politics, call me cynical, but I feel like there's gonna be some sort of big "but" about this...either that or nothing changes at all.
 
Madama Tussaud in Amsterdam dumps Bush, Obama laughs:

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Natalie said:
Yeah I planned to go to inauguration with friends, but it got too expensive for me...so I decided to watch it on TV :D.  Oh and about the don't ask don't tell policy thing LC, I would be excited but I'm rather hesitant about this. It just seems too straightforward for politics, call me cynical, but I feel like there's gonna be some sort of big "but" about this...either that or nothing changes at all.
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I think he'll ask Congress to do it earlier rather than later, so as to minimize backlash from the rednecks.
 
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