Monday, September 29, 2008

Marionettes, dance

Marionettes, dance



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BRIEF: Economic advisers for Obama, McCain disagree but remain affable


The Stanford Daily


By: The Daily News Staff
Published: September 29, 2008

Peter Henry, a Stanford Business School professor and Obama advisor, and Kevin Hassett, an American Enterprise Institute director and member of McCain’s campaign team, remained amicable during a discussion hosted on Wednesday by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Both advisors stressed the need for a bipartisan approach in fixing the current economic crisis and drew distinctions between the candidates, but stopped short of attacking each other over the candidates’ views on the Bush administration’s $700 billion bailout proposal.

Henry argued that McCain’s economic proposals were simply a continuation of Bush policies that ran up deficits by cutting taxes for big businesses and the wealthiest.

In response, Hassett emphasized McCain’s promise to deliver a balanced budget by 2013 and follow through with a tax plan that would cut the corporate tax rate and stimulate job growth. He added that McCain backed a bill in 2005 that would have restricted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both of which were recently bailed out by the government.--------
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Vision): I see a puppeteer dressed in a long, black, hooded cape. He’s handling several marionettes all at once, and he’s making them dance. The puppeteer’s looking down on them, and although I can’t see his face, I have the impression that he’s smirking. “Dance, marionettes, dance! As long as you dance to my tunes, your strings and wires will stay untangled. Down below I see the marionettes dancing on top of a world map. Each marionette represents a country or an area of the world. There’s Hong Kong, Japan, the U.S., Europe, and others. The puppeteer has his strings firmly attached to each one, and he’s manipulating them quite well. Him that will discern, let him discern. Through selfish lust and the deceitfulness of riches, the marionettes grow dependent on the strings of the puppeteer. A demonstration to those in high standing of who is really the boss. Even the big money boys are as pawns in the hands of the puppeteer.


Ted Rudow III,MA

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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Bush, who cried 'wolf!'



By Leonard Pitts - Miami Herald

Monday, September 29, 2008
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A15


"....No one can be surprised. Not after the way Team Bush fudged facts and faked urgency after 9/11 to stampede the nation into invading Iraq. Not after it censored science and politicized truth on abortion, global warming, education and health. Not after it elevated blame shifting and responsibility avoidance to the level of art. And not after it was abetted and supported in all this by a corps of sycophantic true believers for whom no lie was ever too big and no intellectual disconnect ever too wide.Now even they have fled, as evidenced by the president's subterraneanpoll numbers and near invisibility at his own party's convention. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left to pick up the pieces and pay the bill. And to hope that, at the very least, the moral of the story that so profoundly escaped your predecessor is not lost on you: Guard your credibility. You never know when you might need it."
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Marionettes, dance!


Vision): I see a puppeteer dressed in a long, black, hooded cape. He's handling several marionettes all at once, and he's making them dance. The puppeteer's looking down on them, and although I can't see his face, I have the impression that he's smirking. "Dance, marionettes, dance! As long as you dance to my tunes, your strings and wires will stay untangled. Down below I see the marionettes dancing on top of a world map. Each marionette represents a country or an area of the world. There's Hong Kong, Japan, the U.S., Europe, and others. The puppeteer has his strings firmly attached to each one, and he's manipulating them quite well. Him that will discern, let him discern. Through selfish lust and the deceitfulness of riches, the marionettes grow dependent on the strings of the puppeteer. A demonstration to those in high standing of who is really the boss. Even the big money boys are as pawns in the hands of the puppeteer.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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