[silk] A Presidential contest

2012-01-25 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
This Nightline summary of the latest State of the Union speech is quite decent. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSsO0xUHtA] And then the news item from today that makes me write this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16714344 I find it somewhat curious that they decided to use the same

Re: [silk] A Presidential contest

2012-01-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Such naivete, it is a political campaign. Do you seriously expect that sticking to nitpicks about economic policy will be all that any president from whatever party does? --Original Message-- From: Srini RamaKrishnan Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To:

Re: [silk] A Presidential contest

2012-01-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
And yes, osama was shot right in time for the superbowl. Talk about convenient timing eh? -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:23:28 To:

Re: [silk] A Presidential contest

2012-01-25 Thread John Sundman
I'm a skeptic's skeptic, a pinko Peace Corps Volunteer progressive anti-war lefty with a well documented record of criticizing Obama for being as bad as George Bush jr. in some ways and actually worse (if such a thing is possible) in others, but I don't find anything fishy about the timing or