Your blogger has taken a nice sabbatical from posting, resting up from the post-election euphoria. Now it's time to bid the Bush family "adieu" as they leave Washington, D.C., and the Obamas move in from the neighboring Hay-Adams Hotel.
In the last month there seems to be no bottoming out of our economy; the situation in Pakistan after the Mumbai terror-attacks is worsening; and Israel today has launched a ground offensive into the Gaza strip.
Thumbs up to Pres.-Elect Obama for: a) picking Colorado Senator Ken Salazar to be the next Secretary of the Interior; b) vacationing in Hawaii (such a nice contrast to watching the White House reporters camped out in that hell-hole of a town, Crawford, Texas); and c) rising above the fray after the Illinois Governor was caught trying to auction off the vacant Senate Seat.
Thumbs down to Obama for: a) picking Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State. I predict nothing but trouble with this one. b) asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stay on -- where's the "change we can believe in"?; c) having mega-church Pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation at the inauguration. Wasn't it bad enough the way Warren sandbagged Obama at the candidate's forum, where McCain was allowed to slip outside his "cone of silence" and have all the questions leaked to him via Blackberry? Truly one of the low points of the campaign.
It's shaping up to be an interesting month. We'll see how many more wheelbarrows full of taxpayer cash "W" and Cheney can manage to truck out of town before Jan. 20th!
Check back often!
In the last month there seems to be no bottoming out of our economy; the situation in Pakistan after the Mumbai terror-attacks is worsening; and Israel today has launched a ground offensive into the Gaza strip.
Thumbs up to Pres.-Elect Obama for: a) picking Colorado Senator Ken Salazar to be the next Secretary of the Interior; b) vacationing in Hawaii (such a nice contrast to watching the White House reporters camped out in that hell-hole of a town, Crawford, Texas); and c) rising above the fray after the Illinois Governor was caught trying to auction off the vacant Senate Seat.
Thumbs down to Obama for: a) picking Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State. I predict nothing but trouble with this one. b) asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stay on -- where's the "change we can believe in"?; c) having mega-church Pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation at the inauguration. Wasn't it bad enough the way Warren sandbagged Obama at the candidate's forum, where McCain was allowed to slip outside his "cone of silence" and have all the questions leaked to him via Blackberry? Truly one of the low points of the campaign.
It's shaping up to be an interesting month. We'll see how many more wheelbarrows full of taxpayer cash "W" and Cheney can manage to truck out of town before Jan. 20th!
Check back often!
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