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: [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: [silk] A Presidential contest Sent: Jan 26, 2012 06:49 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 exclusive elite seal team, 'Seal Team 6', that dispatched Osama bin Laden to also kill 9 Somalian gunmen hopped up on `khat` leaves. It must have been an unfair contest. Nevertheless the bullets are real, so the risk for the special ops team was real. If the choice of team and the subsequent decision to send them in was purely dictated by operational wisdom, then that's fine, however the fantastically good timing allowing Obama to casually bring it up at his address, and for his propaganda machine to readily reveal that it was the same team that killed Osama and Biden's lavish praise makes me wonder if it wasn't stage managed from the start. It's certainly getting more press than any of the numerous operations that these teams carry out with regularity. Perhaps Obama is getting insecure in his track record, which most would say is ample enough, and decided he needed a little PR steroids. Even great athletes dope on the Tour de France they say; something similar happens when it comes to US Presidential elections I guess. -- srs (blackberry)
