Let me start off by saying that Reagan is the President of my youth, the President that as a child I trusted to keep the missiles from falling, who grieved the astronauts, and who – at the time, I thought – single-handedly defeated communism. You can solidly put me down in the “not a fan” column. Yet I still think he deserves a place on our currency.
One of the more frustrating things about Obama’s economic team and policy has been the use of the same advisors who contributed to the conditions that made the Great Recession possible (Geithner, Summers, etc.).
Some schools, such as the University of Pennsylvania, saw the changing and challenging economic environment and shifted their investments accordingly. An earlier email by Penn President Amy Gutman (via Business Insider) detailed the investment strategy and operating cost-containment measures:
All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
This has been a bad week for the birthers.
Their weak arguments are debunked and discredited. Congress birthers flee from video. Even all the birthers in the House had to vote on a resolution to recognize Hawaii as the birthplace of the President.
By the way, this is no fringe movement, as BlueTexan at FDL points out:
[They include] at least 17 elected Republicans in Congress, numerous Republican state legislators, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Liz Cheney, Michael Savage, Alan Keyes, G. Gordon Liddy, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax and Free Republic.
Both Obama and Cheney have spoken. Obama’s transcript is at ThinkProgress; The NYTimes Caucus blog provides a summary and links to the full-text at AEI [PDF].
Obama’s National Security Speech: “Chill, I Got This S*#T!”
Cheney’s Personal Insecurity Speech: “OMGZ! Teh Feer! Iz Scerd!
As always thanks to Wordle
Cheney ‘rebuttal speech’ was framed by the press as portraying him as an equal to the President, with the press loving the conflict, even if its imagined. The Elected-President with a 60% popularity rating is going to be challenged by the Former Vice-President (of the losing party no less) with the 30% approval rating. The story should be looking at Cheney’s audacity.
