GO TO PUBLIC POLICY POLLING FOR THEIR ANALYSIS OF ILLINOIS US SENATE 2010
I am pretty sure things can be righted in Illinois without ceding what should be a Democratic Senate seat to the Republicans. But then again, Democrats would have solved this by appointing Diane Nash instead of Burris.
Maybe Jon Stewart should move to Illinois and run. More realisticaly, the Dems would most likely win with Lisa Madigan as their standard bearer, or so PPP finds.
All of the President’s timely press conference makes good reading and I refer you to the NYT site for a thorough look. Particularly useful was his concentration on Pakistan which mirrors the concern ofthose who have trained a close eye on reports of Taliban advances there.
Here with salient links the gist of the President’s viewpoint.
Speaking at a prime-time news conference on his 100th day in office, Mr. Obama called the government in Pakistan, where army forces are at war with Taliban insurgents who have been advancing on Islamabad, “very fragile.” Pakistan’s leader, President Asif Ali Zardari, is to visit Washington next week, and American officials have been pressing his government to be more aggressive in battling the insurgency.
“I am more concerned that the civilian government right now is very fragile,” Mr. Obama said, because it lacks the capacity to deliver services like health care and the rule of law. “As a consequence,” he added, “it’s very difficult for them to gain the support and loyalty of their people.”
Mr. Obama also hit back at critics including former Vice President Dick Cheney, maintaining that harsh interrogation techniques used by the previous administration did not yield any information that could not have been obtained through other means. SOURCE
HERE IS THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE ENTIRE 100 DAY OBAMA PRESS CONFERENCE
You would have thought he would have hung around the White House to soak up some of the incessant, unrelenting, ultimately BORING, concentration on 100 Days. But the whole world has things to be thinking about that do not relate to silly benchmarks. I am being nasty but I want to see some concentration on Pakistan, some concentration on the jail economy in this country, some evidence that we do not have a clone media operation that has sacrificed independence for competing to see who can do the best 100 Days.
Well, I think I am on the same page with the Boss. That would be our President, who spent yesterday in Missouri doing a Town Hall and other no-nonsense things.
Good going Mr. President. And thanks for making the WhiteHouse.Gov site more a source of news than the repetitive efforts of the media marching in single file.
I stopped counting at 150. Pete Souza and the White House Photo Office have created an inside look at the Obama White House that is well worth a look. See it here.
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has raised the prospect that Osama bin Laden could be dead after he said that intelligence officials could find “no trace” of the al-Qaeda chief. […] There have been regular reports of bin Laden’s ill health, notably speculation about his kidneys failing. Mr Zardari said his own advisers believed there was substance to the rumours. […]Mr Zardari’s comments came as he sought to reassure the international community that it need not worry over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. SOURCE
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