Say what you will. He’s dammed if he does and he’s dammed if he doesn’t. Not an enviable position to be in when you are the leading candidate for the most important job in the United States. In what has been billed as Senator Obama’s Mid East trip extravaganza, in the eyes of the press, it appears to be so much more but in reality is just more of the same. Read the rest of this entry »
And there’re off! Financially speaking that is. It would appear that the two candidates are locked in a tortoise and hare competition. So far, Senator Obama has raked in more funds than his fellow opponent Mr. McCain and building on what has was been reported as the, “sixty eight dollar donation,” raising $52 million in June alone! His opponent pulled in just over $20 million. We Americans tend to see winners as those who can raise money and looser as the ones who can’t; some one needs to step it up! But is the true indicator of success found in how efficiently they raise money; or in how they spend it? Read the rest of this entry »
Well, get ready get set go! Hi-Ho, Hi- Ho, it’s off the bank we go! Hopefully that isn’t you getting ready to go to the bank today. Not since the great depression have more banks been ready to teeter over. Unlike the great depression however, we have safety measures in place to prevent such bank collapses. Granted, the work of the present administration has been largely to weaken those defenses, but hopefully we can all rest assured, China will never let us go broke. Besides, we are a nation of gamblers! We eat this kind of tension for breakfast. Read the rest of this entry »
