Follow this link to read some of Obama’s agenda as posted on www.whitehouse.gov. In particular, read the comments on hurricane Katrina.
I guess Obama felt a little constrained during his inaugural address given that George Bush was sitting right behind him.
The agenda uses phrases such as “broken promises” and “unconscionable ineptitude” to describe Bush.
Now that he is in office, Obama can tell us what he really thinks.
You want to make suggestions to Barack Obama? He has a web site called Citizen’s Briefing Book.
Share your ideas on any issue facing the new administration, then rate
or comment on other ideas. The best rated ideas will rise to the top
— and be gathered into a Citizen’s Briefing Book to be delivered to
President Obama after he is sworn in.
Economist Paul Krugman’s column of two days ago explains why Barack Obama needs to be very bold in his proposals to fix the economy.
To put it another way, if Obama proposes to do more than we find out that we need, he can always cancel some of his proposals. On the other hand, if we eventually find out that we need more than he has proposed, it may be too late to add these items by the time we find that we need them.
When it comes to having a few extra resources, I always believe it is better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them.
In the military sphere, this would be equivalent to the Powell doctrine of having an overwhelming force to accomplish your mission.
My freshman advisor at MIT, the noted strobe photography expert Dr. Harold Edgerton, once said in a lecture, “If 5,000 volts is needed to fire this xenon flash lamp, then 10,000 volts will surely fire it.”
Follow this link to the Vanity Fair article of April 2008 that explains how the current situation in Gaza came to be.
As I posted the above link, I had just read the Huffington Post article that is derived from this one. That article is headlined Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault.
After breakfast, I finished reading the Vanity Fair article. It never ceases to amaze me how one can confidently depend on the Bush administration to make things worse.
Now the question is, “Is it too late to reverse the ill affects of the last 8 years?” The first law of holes states that, “If you find yourself stuck in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.” Perhaps the new administration can start there.