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Senator Obama has evidently decided to personally ring in (his well-put) “Silly Season”: The Clinton Campaign Debt…why is this a public concern? Is it like a “love offering” at church? For many people who are watching this unfold, in a time of national financial upheaval, where is the logic? People are not hanging up on the issue of party unity; they are hanging up on the rule they are forced to live by: “If you can’t afford it, you can’t spend it…”<period.> People are watching this campaign as a preview to an Obama Administration. For those first time voters, those “grass-roots” citizens, those who believe a message of change is actually possible, what might this action suggest regarding future fiduciary decisions; and, who will be expected to ‘pony up’? (Can we just take a breath and think about this?)
North Korea: “Evil No More”… In what played like another manifestation of ‘foreign policy schizophrenia’, President Bush announced Thursday: “First, I’m issuing a proclamation that lifts the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act with respect to North Korea.  And secondly, I am notifying Congress of my intent to rescind North Korea’s designation as a state sponsor of terror” (White House News Archives, June 26, 2008).  

So now North Korea is out of the “Axis of Evil” doghouse. You know, if this were an episode of Comedy Central’s “Lil Bush” it might actually bring a smile. The sad reality is U.S. citizens expect leaders to say what they mean and mean what they say. Yes, even after all we have been through, we still hold that expectation. This administration just made manifest the cavalier constitution (not to mention ease in de-constitution) of the cast of characters in their War on Terror. Obama’s response, which was typically loquacious, rational and reasoned, found itself reduced to simplistic sound-bites of “praise for Bush’s new policy on N. Korea”. There is a concept called proximity—Obama’s temporally quick game of “told you so” might be perceived as a pitiful rendition of “We are Family” when viewed through the eyes of those “low information voters”. (Where do we get these terms?) The cautionary tale can be simplistically stated: “Simply Irresistible” might turn into “Obama is Predictable” without missing a single beat. Maybe it is time for a vacation.

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