Crusty the Clown

John McCain, crusty the clown, is at it again. His current ad uses Hillary Clinton clips to attack Barack Obama. This particular ad is targeted at Clinton’s angry supporters and of course the independents that McCain needs if he is going to win in November. All of McCain’s ads have a few things in common: they are increasingly negative and each is peppered with that oleaginous hypocrisy of a close at the end “I’m John McCain and I approved this message.” with a goofy smile. Or is it a smirk?



I guess everything is fair game in politics, but I recall Crusty saying that he wasn’t going to run a negative campaign against Obama. What’s particularly noteworthy is that in all the attacks, Crusty hasn’t seen fit to outline what his circus act intends to do to govern. All of his ads focus on Obama in an effort to highlight the presumptive democratic nominee’s alleged shortcomings.

One thing is certain, the race is a dead heat and both candidates need to spend more time talking about what they will do to make life better for Americans. As for McCain, he should fold up the circus tent and behave with the dignity and honor of someone who has served as a military officer and senator who now seeks this Nation’s highest office.
-Golf

Obamanomics

In

Obamanomics

, bestselling author on politics and economy John Talbott sizes up the odds that Barack Obama’s presidential policies might actually stand a chance of working.

Talbott, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who is credited with having been among the first to predict the current housing crisis in his bestselling 2003 book “The Coming Crash in the Housing Market” offers the first book of its kind about the leading presidential candidate.

When Talbott read Obama’s speeches, books, statements and policy papers released by the Obama campaign, he discovered that they add up to a set of principles and specific policies that are different from anything we’ve seen in a generation. Talbott then called on his own deep knowledge of the current state of the American economy, with all the challenges we face as a nation to determine the likelihood of Senator Obama enacting lobbying reform, revitalizing our economy, fixing our healthcare system, slowing global warming, ending the war in Iraq, improving education, addressing the aging of our population, finding alternative energy solutions and bringing about housing, mortgage and banking reform. The result is: “Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics.”

Obamanomics would seem to be the right book at the right time to address the great challenges that will face the next president and all of us. If you decide to read it too, come back and let’s compare notes.
-Golf

Temper, temper

I was going to write a lot after watching this, but it’s left me speechless. I’ve decided to let the video from a U.S. Senate hearing speak for itself and will leave it up to you, the reader to draw your own conclusions.



Is this who we want negotiating or talking to allies and non-allies at the conference table? Do we want our next president to get up and storm out when the going gets tough? What do you think?

-Golf