Category Archives: Foreign
The Best You Can Do
Obama is ignoring David Ignatius‘ advice to take credit for saving the economy and run with it. In his column, Ignatius calls the voters “willfully stupid” – possibly not a winning campaign slogan. So instead, the president is taking Joe McCarthy’s advice to make a wild accusation and then demand that the accused prove his innocence. The accusation being that the Chamber of Commerce is selling out the country to foreign corporate interests. The New York Times debunked this but that didn’t stop David Axelrod from telling Bob Schieffer, on Face the Nation, that we don’t know that the Chamber is not taking foreign money until they prove it. Shieffer’s response, “…is that the best you can do?”
P.S. While Ignatius thinks the people are “willfully stupid”, Victor Davis Hanson says they’re being “played for fools”.
Never Mind
Fidel Castro on 50 years of the Cuban Collective – Never Mind! It may work for Michael Moore, but Castro offhandedly commented, “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore”. Here’s Jeffry Goldberg’s Lunch with Fidel in “The Atlantic”.
Oops. Here’s an update. Fidel now says, “when I say the Cuban model doesn’t work for us anymore I mean that the capitalist model doesn’t work for the U.S. anymore”. Never Mind.
A Stone’s Throw from Civilization
The wisdom of the voters is hard to comprehend when the local electorate is busy stoning young couples. To their elected leader’s credit, President Karzai condemned the act of Sharia Law.
