On Democratic side, the endorsements speak for themselves: Europe's Candidate (Definitively, Barack Obama is the Candidate of Europe) and The Anti-Torture President.Mitt Romney's mind is a marvel — a calculating, evaluating, inquisitive,
all-consuming consulting machine, formed on his CEO-father's lap, trained in
Harvard's business and law schools, and perfected while making hundreds of
millions in the cutthroat world of private equity investing. There is not a
spreadsheet that does not pique his interest, not a bureaucracy he does not itch
to streamline, not a widget factory he does not wish to understand.
"I'm so
excited to see this product!" he exclaimed Saturday in Lutz, Florida, outside of
Tampa, while visiting a company called Opinicus, which makes "Level D" flight
simulators.
"I don't think I have seen a more impressive layout at a
facility, and I have seen some extraordinary facilities," he gushed a few hours
earlier, after touring a coupon-making ValPak plant in Largo.
"Unfortunately, the utensils are not as hard as they need to be," he said
over lunch at KFC, where the cholesterol-soaked skin of his fried chicken was
overwhelming his plastic knife and fork.
Update: Best of course would be a stolen nomination, with perhaps Florida as the decisive state.
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new obama endorsement in the nation:
Insofar as the issues discussed during a presidential campaign are circumscribed by the taboos and pieties of the political and media establishments, they tend to be dispiriting for those of us on the left. Neither front-runner is calling for the nation to renounce its decades-old imperial posture or to end the prison-industrial complex; neither is saying that America's suburbs and car culture are not sustainable modes of living in an era of expensive oil and global warming or pointing out that the "war on drugs" has been a moral disaster and strategic failure, with casualties borne most violently and destructively by society's most marginalized and--a word you won't be hearing from either candidate--oppressed. And yet, this election is far more encouraging (dare I say hopeful?) than any in recent memory. The policy agenda for the Democratic front-runners is significantly further to the left on the war, climate change and healthcare than that of John Kerry in 2004. The ideological implosion of conservatism, the failures of the Bush Administration and, perhaps most important, the shifts in public opinion in a leftward direction on war, the economy, civil liberties and civil rights are all coming together at the same time, providing progressives with the rare and historic opportunity to elect a President with a progressive majority and an actual mandate for progressive change.
The question then becomes this: which of the two Democratic candidates is more likely to bring to fruition a new progressive majority? I believe, passionately and deeply, if occasionally waveringly, that it's Barack Obama.
end quote. it is too bad that he won't end the prison-industrial complex though.
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