Back to the grindstone for a couple days. While celebrating the holiday, I completely missed the development of the horrific violence going on in Southern Israel and Gaza. Short of ceasing all arms dealing with Israel, which we would never do, I'm not sure the U.S. can do anything to halt the bloodshed. For what it's worth, W. blames Hamas, and while Barack has been pretty silent on the matter, he's also been critical of Hamas in the past. No one can deny that a country facing rocket attacks has to do something, but this full-scale invasion is sickening.
The biggest domestic story on the blogs I read is how W. let industries essentially run OSHA. We've got less than a month of him, people.
Nothing much new on the Blago stand-off, but the Gov is trying to use the report by Barack's team to show that he, too, is clean.
Finally, there are some concerns floating around about some poor moves by Barack. First, there's the whole Rick Warren thing, about which, my feelings are clear. Second, Paul Krugman mentioned last week that while there's nothing really wrong with the Obamas renting a posh Hawaiian house for their vacation, it does strike an odd note during a financial meltdown. Now, Lynn Sweet is miffed about his closed transition meetings. He's still wildly popular, but things can change fast. Hopefully, he'll get his groove back starting Jan. 20.
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yeah, i was kind of questioning his judgment on that house in hawaii. but then i thought: he's been living on the road for the last two years, working his ass off so that this country could have a leader who is super-smart, admirable, and capable of leading. plus his whole life is changing before his eyes, so i'm gonna give him some slack on this.
i assume there will be plenty of substantive policy decisions that i won't agree with him on so i'll wait for that to get worked up. for now, HAPPY NEW YEAR and good riddance to Mr. George W. Bush.
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