Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
- Barack Obama, John McCain, and Joe Biden, along with the rest of the Senate except Ted Kennedy, were in town for the bailout vote this evening. The text of the Senate resolution, which was approved 74-25, can be found here.
- We don’t feel expert enough to opine at great length about the bailout at this moment; what we will report is that the biggest portion of the student population here at Harvard College, including the editorial staff of the Crimson, seems to be in favor. We note that this is totally expected.
- Various events in international politics are surely slipping past many people’s radars due to the current financial crisis:
- The Senate decided to take care of some other random business before the bailout vote (because figured that Barack and John Sidney couldn’t hightail it out of there before they cast their yea for that?), like passing some motion for the railroad safety bill (more random tidbit: Joe Biden didn’t vote on that motion) that got a boost from the recent L.A. train wreck, and the U.S.-India nuclear deal, which was ratified 86-13.
- Potentially, India is our new China. (but who are the new Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai?) Depending on how the bilateral relationship pans out over the years, this could end up as the-one-universally praised-accomplishment-by-an-otherwise-terrible-president, i.e., exactly how Nixon is remembered with regards to his China policy.
- On the other hand, North Korea was in the news again—Christopher Hill (who is now more famous in Korea than Coca Cola) is in Pyongyang trying to save the disarmament deal after the North Koreans started rebuilding their nuclear facilities.
Tags: Bailout, China, India, North Korea, Senate
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
- King Barack tours his realm… [WP: synopsis in pictures, YouTube: Berlin Speech]
- And God sent a mighty hurricane to greet John McCain at his oil rig photo-op. [IHT, Wonkette]
- China, an old and decrepit civilization, has an old and decrepit population. [WP's J. Pomfret]
- They also opened a “village” to “house” and provide “services” to over 16,000 athletes. Take a hint, FEMA. [China Daily]
- Chinese Muslim Communists terrorists declare a Jihad on the Olympics. Holy Hu Jintao, China. [The Sunday Times]. The Muslims are still pissed off at this:
- In an apparent payback for China’s humiliating World Cup pwnage in the hands of Iraq, Iraqi athletes have been banned from the Olympics. They are accused of political interference in sports. Really? government getting its hands in sports? The ruling party picking who’s on the National Olympic Committee? China couldn’t help but be simply appalled. appalled. [CNN]
- We knew John Edwards was the worldly incarnation of transcendent evil, but does he really have to be so tasteless? [National Enquirer]
- In India, the Communists are defeated, and Freedom wins. [BBC]
- Radovan Karadzic, the Butcher of Bosnia and later the Hobo from Serbia, is captured. Pro-western politicians win. [BBC Profile, The Guardian]
Tags: Barack Obama, China, India, LOLympics
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