Hillary may be on her way out, but she still wants your money. I had to chuckle when a message arrived in my inbox this morning, signed by Hillary Clinton, affirming her plans to “extend my congratulations to Senator Obama and my support for his candidacy” Saturday.
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Ouch that has to sting a little. I mean we are talking about Arizona here, McCain’s home state, where he is the elected Senator.
The momentum continues to build. The biggest number though is the number of new donors: 218k.
The amount is less than the record $55 million he raised in February, but still a sizable amount that sustains his place as the fundraising leader among all presidential candidates.
Looks like Mccain is pretty knowledgable about foreign policy:
Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.” A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate’s ear. McCain then said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.”
It is absurd that this man is even a candidate. How do we plan on being successful in a WAR if we dont even know who we are fighting?
I finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns a few weeks ago and am working on a review for it but it is taking longer than I want. The big thing that it made me realize is that we have completely forgotten about this war. A war in which a close neighbor of mine is on the front lines of putting his life on the line.
In the book Hosseini covers 30 years of Afghan history, though it is a work of fiction he does reference many historical periods and events throughout the story. One thing that is mentioned again and again is that the warring will always come back and as we are seeing now the Taliban has made a huge shift in momentum. Even against the mightly US military:
Nagl listed a catalogue of challenges in Afghanistan, including its harsh climate and terrain, its lack of centralized government in the past 30 years, the destruction of roads and other basic infrastructure, and the state of its army.
“I’ve worked with the Afghan security forces a little bit. I find them to be diligent and dedicated and trainable (but) not particularly well educated … The Iraqi security forces are far more advanced than are the Afghans,” he said.
“The Taliban did extraordinarily harmful things to the intelligentsia of the country. The people you need to run a country no longer exist.”
The last sentence there is the critical component of what we are missing and what we have left out since our intervention in the 80’s with the USSR’s war there. There is a huge vacuum with regards to education in Afghanistan. What is there to replace it is obvious: Radical Fundamentalist Islam.
Mccain’s answer is for more guns, but the need is for more books.
Afghan war trend worse than Iraq: U.S. trainer - Yahoo! News
Its been an interesting week in politics. Mitt ‘the Quit’ Romney is done and now that fossil Mcain is looking like he will be the GOP nominee. On the other side of things The Dems got a whole lot more interesting as Obama seems to have taken enough of a lead to cause Hillary to dip into her Personal War Chest to the tune of $5Million.
I agree that she should fully disclose where this is coming from:Obama suggests Clinton show tax returns - Yahoo! News
I base this on the recent stories that have come up about her past experiences on Wal Marts Board of Directors. Who is pulling Hillary’s strings?
