Three days left. My girlfriend and I got to Manchester, NH yesterday. This place is rocking and everyone is very welcoming. There is tons of work to be done and fortunately, tons of people to do it.
There's no time to waste anymore, people need to at least know that their first duty is to get out and vote. We just hope they'll be voting for Obama.
Don't get scared by the opponent's scare tactics, they will try everything and anything to prevent victory.
Please help my effort get noticed and carried on. I started an event for this weekend and will be updating and keeping it going. I am looking to counter the McCain/GOP ads and silliness behind protests of Obama's Energy Plan. Please look at the following link, digg it, link it, share it...lets get Obama's energy plan taken seriously.
http://www.candidatephotos.com/Common/PhotoDetailPage.aspx?msa=0&pid=18124057
My last name is misspelled...Lengille instead of Langille. The event I started was passed around earlier but I will link it again as it has some updates. Obama is a leader we can stand behind, let's show the world now. Stand with me in showing the world that Obama has it right and we are willing to follow from his leadership.
A Platform Meeting open statewide to the general public is scheduled for Tuesday, July 22, 5 -8PM at the Worcester Public Library. Several National Platform Delegates and pledged Obama delegates will be at the meeting to assist members of the public in writing their recommendations for the 2008 Democratic Platform to be voted on at the National Convention in August. There will be opportunities for discussion on the topics of interest. Hosted by Marianne Brady Bergenholtz, 3rd MA District, Obama Pledged Delegate
Maximum 140 people. Cookies, Lemonade and Iced Tea will be available.
Make history on Tuesday. Participate in our democracy!
Event posted at http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4gwyl
Reservations recommended, but not required.
Excerpt:
Yesterday was Bastille Day, the French equivalent of Independence Day. Having just gotten back from Paris, I can say that Parisians would storm the Bastille all over again if it would get Obama elected. I went to Paris with my husband, my mother-in-law, my four sisters-in-law, and my aunt (and 16 suitcases). We might as well have had "American tourist" plastered on our foreheads. When we got in the shuttle from Charles de Gaulle airport to our apartment, the idle banter with the driver quickly turned to the US presidential election in general, and to Barack Obama in particular. This was a prelude for the trip to come; without fail, both friends and strangers alike expressed the solidarity with Obama, and their hope that he will win in November. It's no secret that France and the US have had icy relations since the buildup to the Iraq War. For the French, the prospect of the policies of George W. Bush being continued by John McCain are almost too much to bear. [click on the link to read the full article w/ its video and photo]
Yesterday was Bastille Day, the French equivalent of Independence Day. Having just gotten back from Paris, I can say that Parisians would storm the Bastille all over again if it would get Obama elected.
I went to Paris with my husband, my mother-in-law, my four sisters-in-law, and my aunt (and 16 suitcases). We might as well have had "American tourist" plastered on our foreheads. When we got in the shuttle from Charles de Gaulle airport to our apartment, the idle banter with the driver quickly turned to the US presidential election in general, and to Barack Obama in particular. This was a prelude for the trip to come; without fail, both friends and strangers alike expressed the solidarity with Obama, and their hope that he will win in November.
It's no secret that France and the US have had icy relations since the buildup to the Iraq War. For the French, the prospect of the policies of George W. Bush being continued by John McCain are almost too much to bear. [click on the link to read the full article w/ its video and photo]
The full article
POLITIQUE – Il n’y avait pas un américain dans la salle. Pas beaucoup d’américanophiles non plus. Et pourtant, jeudi soir, ils étaient près de 200, venus de Lyon, Paris et Marseille, à se rassembler dans un restaurant-bar lyonnais pour une soirée de soutien… à Barack Obama. Parmi eux, beaucoup de militants de la diversité en France, de gauche, comme de droite, qui voient dans le candidat démocrate l’espoir d’un changement qu’ils peinent même à entrapercevoir dans leur propre pays…
« Barack Obama incarne cette capacité d’un pays à dépasser les origines, le poids de l’histoire. Il n’est pas arrivé là grâce à sa couleur de peau, mais par ses compétences », explique Karim Zeribi. L’élu socialiste marseillais se dit « fasciné » par le phénomène Obama depuis qu’il a assisté il y a deux mois à un de ses meetings à Philadelphie. Trouve « très bien » la mise en place des comités Obama franco-français comme celui qui les rassemble ce soir. Mais note que « c’est significatif d’un profond malaise ».
« En France, on est obligé de rêver de diversité par transfert. Quand on voit ce qui se passe au PS par exemple, on se dit qu’il est parfaitement impossible qu’un Obama émerge dans les cinq à venir. Ce n’est pas propre aux socialistes, les élites françaises en général sont prisonnières de la reproduction sociale. Alors, forcément, quelqu’un qui s’impose comme candidat aux présidentielles en quelques années, ça fait rêver », analyse Zéribi.
Lui, ne voit pas dans Obama un « symbôle de la diversité ». « Rachida Dati est un symbôle. Obama, non. Personne ne l’a « autorisé » à être là où il est. Il y est allé tout seul ». Et de prévenir les militants de la diversité « à la française ». « Je ne veux pas un jour voter pour un candidat seulement parce qu’il est noir ou maghrébin. Nous devons être fiers de nos origines, mais il faut transcender nos origines, couper le lien naturel. Nous ne pouvons pas sans cesse regarder vers le passé et ne porter que le poids de l’histoire, de l’esclavage, de notre militantisme ».
Lors de cette soirée, chacun semblait transférer ses propres attentes politique et sociétales dans la figure du candidat démocrate américain. Patrice Schoendorff, président du comité lyonnais de Barack Obama, perçoit dans l’ascension d’Obama l’univers qu’offre l’Amérique. Par opposition aux conservatismes de la société française. Ce déçu de la gauche, note avec amertume qu’il y a là « beaucoup d’anciens de la marche des Beurs en 1981 ». « Et aucun responsable socialiste ». Il remarque que la nouvelle génération issue de la diversité se tourne de plus en plus vers les pays anglo-saxons. Fabienne Levy, élue radicale (de droite) à la région Rhône-Alpes, voit elle un « nouveau Kennedy » en Obama.
Alice Géraud
PHOTO : Roger Tonye
he Associated Press - 21/06/08 à 20:27:17 - 133 mots
Le candidat démocrate à l'élection présidentielle américaine Barack Obama compte une avance de 15 points sur son rival républicain John McCain, selon un sondage du magazine "Newsweek" rendu public samedi.
Cette enquête, réalisée les 18 et 19 juin auprès d'un échantillon représentatif national de 1.010 personnes en âge de voter, Barack Obama crédite Obama de 51% des intentions de vote, contre 36% à McCain. La marge d'erreur est de plus ou moins quatre points.
Le précédent sondage "Newsweek" réalisé en mai dernier donnait les deux hommes à égalité avec 46% d'intentions de vote chacun. Toutefois, Barack Obama était encore en compétition avec Hillary Clinton pour l'investiture démocrate. AP
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Barack Obama, candidat global ? "L'"obamania" est devenue un phénomène planétaire d'une ampleur peut-être plus grande que celle de la "dianamania"", a écrit Timothy Garton Ash, professeur d'études européennes à Oxford. C'est dire.
Vu de l'étranger, l'homme séduit. D'abord, le sénateur de l'Illinois se distingue par son opposition résolue à la guerre en Irak. M. Obama l'a répété : une fois élu, il retirera les troupes américaines. Il marque les consciences collectives en nourrissant l'idée d'un véritable changement au Moyen-Orient.
Ensuite, ses origines familiales et son parcours, de sa naissance à l'âge adulte, renvoient l'image d'un personnage politique nouveau. C'est un Américain du tiers-monde, un candidat avec une relation personnelle et intime avec d'autres continents. Multiracial, M. Obama - père kényan et mère américaine, né à Hawaï, élevé en Indonésie et diplômé de Harvard - possède un parcours inhabituel qui le rend apte à transcender les barrières culturelles. "Chacun sent chez Obama que l'expérience vécue, le tempérament et les idées ne font qu'un", souligne le New York Times Magazine. N'a-t-il pas dit que le principe fondamental de sa vision internationale est que "la sécurité du peuple américain est inextricablement liée à la sécurité de tous les peuples" ?
D'après une enquête du Pew Research Center réalisée dans vingt-quatre pays et publiée le 12 juin, la candidature de Barack Obama à la présidentielle américaine suscite non seulement de grands espoirs, mais améliore l'image des Etats-Unis dans le monde. Avec lui, l'élection du 4 novembre est perçue un peu partout comme une occasion de tourner la page des années Bush. Comme si M. Obama était capable de remettre un peu d'ordre sur cette planète tourmentée depuis les attaques du 11-Septembre et réconcilier les Etats-Unis avec le reste du monde.
Selon ce sondage, M. Obama inspire confiance et caracole en tête face à son rival M. McCain dans pratiquement tous les pays. Grand favori des européens (84 % des Français lui accorderaient leur vote, 82 % des Allemands, 74 % des Anglais, 72 % des Espagnols), il est également plébiscité en Australie, au Japon, au Brésil, ou encore en Corée du Sud. Au Kenya, un vrai culte est voué "au fils de la nation" comme l'appelle la presse et de nombreux pays africains estiment, comme Le Soleil de Dakar que sa victoire serait "une revanche sur l'histoire".
Certaines déclarations de M. Obama ont pu étonner ou susciter de vives critiques. Des commentateurs voient en lui un candidat difficile à cerner, trop jeune ou manquant d'expérience. Toutefois, en cinq mois de campagne, il a su se forger une stature d'homme d'Etat avec une capacité instinctive à bâtir des ponts et a créer des relations nouvelles. En Israël, par exemple, alors que la majorité de l'opinion publique affichait ouvertement une préférence pour M. McCain, l'engagement et le ton de M. Obama lors de son passage à l'Aipac (American Israël Public Affairs Council), le 4 juin, a surpris. L'alignement du candidat démocrate sur les positions de l'administration Bush concernant le statut de Jérusalem qui doit, selon M. Obama, rester la capitale "unifiée et indivisible" d'Israël a fait reculer les craintes que pourrait provoquer son élection. Ehoud Olmert, premier ministre israélien, s'est même déclaré "impressionné".
Dans le camp palestinien et au sein du monde arabe, les propos de M. Obama ont, d'abord jeté la consternation d'autant qu'ils ont été prononcés par un candidat d'origine musulmane. Certains chroniqueurs arabes ont toutefois décidé de prendre du recul. Dans son billet hebdomadaire publié par le quotidien libanais Al-Safir, l'écrivain libanais Abbas Beïdoune, peu suspect de sympathies pro américaines, a ainsi épinglé ceux qui ont délibérément occulté la singularité du cas Obama, "un homme de race noir et fils d'un musulman". Editorialiste au quotidien saoudien Al-Hayat, Mohammed Salah s'est, lui, interrogé : "Etions-nous en droit de nous attendre à des déclarations différentes d'un candidat à la présidence américaine devant la plus puissante association américaine de soutien à Israël dont il sollicitait le soutien ?"
Dans le cas de Cuba, les déclarations de M. Obama sont également révélateurs de sa capacité à jouer sur différents tableaux à la fois. Lors de son discours de Miami, le 23 mai, dans lequel il a rappelé vouloir dialoguer avec le président Raul Castro et lever les restrictions de voyage, "Obama a proposé des initiatives positives, visant à faciliter les contacts et l'aide économique entre les familles cubaines divisées des deux côtés du détroit de Floride", a estimé Miriam Leiva, une des fondatrices des Dames en blanc, l'association des épouses de prisonniers politiques cubains. Plus étonnant, Fidel Castro partage l'opinion des dissidents : M. Obama est "sans aucun doute le candidat le plus avancé du point de vue social et humain", a écrit l'ancien président cubain le 26 mai.
Les médias russes misent eux aussi en nombre sur la victoire de Barack Obama, "la chance noire de l'Amérique" selon le quotidien Vremia Novosteï du 5 juin. La veille, la radio Echo de Moscou recueillait des impressions sur M. Obama. "Il est frais, pur, jeune et n'a aucun lien avec le complexe militaro-industriel ou le lobby américain du pétrole", s'est réjouit le politicien ultranationaliste Vladimir Jirinovski, le qualifiant de "jeune Gorbatchev de l'Amérique".
En revanche, le Canada et le Mexique, deux pays frontaliers des Etats-Unis s'inquiètent, eux, du vent de protectionnisme qui souffle chez les démocrates, aux Etats-Unis. Au Mexique, certains secteurs libéraux ont peu apprécié les déclarations d'Obama critiquant l'Alena, l'Accord de libre-échange entre le Canada, le Mexique et les Etats-Unis, "en usant les vieux prétextes de la protection de l'environnement et de la défense des droits de l'homme", comme le souligne Antonio Rosas-Landa, dans El Universal. A Ottawa, le sénateur de l'Illinois a été accusé de ne pas prendre la question de l'Alena au sérieux. Son conseiller économique Austan Goolsbee, aurait assuré aux Canadiens que sa position n'était qu'une rhétorique de campagne pour calmer les craintes des "cols bleus" américains. M. Obama ne laisse personne indifférent. Le président iranien Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s'est inquiété dans un entretien à El Pais, le 5 mars, disant qu'une victoire de M. Obama était impossible "à cause des forces cachées qui sévissent aux États-Unis". Même le dirigeant libyen Mouammar Kadhafi a mis en garde le candidat démocrate, mercredi 11 juin : "Nous lui demandons d'être fier de lui en tant que Noir et d'être conscient que toute l'Afrique est derrière lui, parce que s'il ne se débarrasse pas de ce complexe d'infériorité, sa politique étrangère sera pire que celle des Blancs qui l'auront précédé". Obama une révolution ?
The Kingdom of The Pride
It was a special day in the Kingdom of The Pride. Today was the yearly meeting of all the wild animals that belonged to the Kingdom. Today it was to be decided who deserved the title of King for the year.
One by one, everyone in the kingdom arrived at the old acacia tree and gathered inside. Suddenly there was a loud roar. All eyes turned as the wild yellow lion strutted into the meeting with his head held high. His mane was thrown about his head like a golden crown of glory as he made his way to the front of the room. Like the parting of the Red Sea, the crowd made room for him. His wife followed closely behind him.
Pride, as he was called, held the title of King as long as anyone could remember. It was known by everyone that he would win once again. The yearly meeting was just a formality and no one knew why they even bothered to attend. Contagious yawns spread through the crowd. Many were impatient and wanted to go find food to eat. Many were tired. They had traveled a long, long way and wanted to take a nap.
Suddenly, there were loud noises coming from outside. Sleepy heads became curious and turned in the direction of the noise. Lil’ Gif, the littlest spotted giraffe galloped inside. He was excited. This was his first yearly meeting. He sat on the right side of Pride. On the left of Pride stood his wife. Smug, she looked over at the littlest giraffe, turned her nose up with a “humph!” as she fanned herself.
Pride stood up and looked at the bored crowd. “Well, if there aren’t any objections, I have won again. Have a nice year, everyone!”
Everyone turned to leave. “Wait!” someone yelled. Everyone stopped in their tracks and turned to see who dared to prevent them from leaving.
Was it? Could it be the giraffe that just spoke? Everyone gasped. No one had ever heard a giraffe talk before.
The little spotted giraffe questioned the crowd. “Aren’t we going to have a vote?”
“A what?” they asked.
“A vote,” the little giraffe repeated.
“No,” they chorused, “that would change everything!”
Lil’ Gif smiled. “As scary as it may seem at first, change can be a good thing!”
“He wants change!” Everyone whispered to each other, “Change! Oh my we’ve never had CHANGE before!”
Lil’ Gif asked them, “Are you happy the way things are?” No one answered. They looked at each other, looked around the room, stared at the ceiling.
Lil' Gif continued, “How do you know Pride is the best man for the job?” He glanced around the group, and his eyes rested on the little gray mouse. “Or woman for that matter?” The little gray mouse giggled. Gasps were heard all over the room. The yellow lion appeared bored and rolled his eyes.
Suddenly, Ellie, the big gray elephant spoke up. “Yeah, why is it we don’t have a vote?” She looked around the room. All eyes followed her as she walked to the front. “Why hasn’t anyone voted for me? Is it just because I am a girl?”
The baby kangaroo popped out of his cozy bed to see what all the noise was about. His momma asked, “Is it just because I am not a citizen?”
The penguin sighed. “Well, that leaves me out.”
The mouse ran and jumped on Ellie’s long trunk. “Why hasn’t anyone voted for me? Is it just because I am little?”
Ellie asked, “Is it because I am too big?”
The oxpecker flew onto Lil’ Gif’s shoulder. “I am a hero. I save your lives by eating the bugs off your fur. Why do you not vote for me? Is it just because I am a bird?”
Round glasses slid down the beak of Ben, the wise old owl as he argued, “I’m the smartest. Is it just because I’m a bird, too?”
The blue swallow perked up. “Is it just because I am blue?”
The orange thrush asked, “Is it just because I am orange?”
The black stork asked, “Is it just because I am black?”
The white-bellied sunbird asked, “Is it just because I am white?”
The blue swallow argued, “Only you’re belly is white, Jefferson.”
Jefferson argued, “Well, only Orange’s head is orange.”
The blue swallow argued, “Orange has black and white stripes on his wings, too.”
The zebra asked, “Is it just because I have black and white stripes, too?”
The yellow-throated Warbler argued, “It has nothing to do with color. I am a bird, but I am also yellow like the lion and no one voted for me.”
The turtle crawled slowly near Ellie. “Why isn’t anyone voting for me? Is it just because I am too slow?”
Lil’ Gif argued, “But I’m fast and nobody voted for me.”
The cheetah argued, “I am the fastest and no one voted for me!”
The sloth asked, “Is it just because I am lazy?”
Pride growled. “This is ridiculous! Who could fight for you day in and day out, but me? I am ready on Day One.”
The little giraffe shook his head. “But we don’t want to fight anyone unless we have to.”
Pride was stubborn. “I am the only choice you have! What do you fools have to offer?”
The penguin argued, “I’m the coolest.”
Pride roared, “I’m the loudest.”
Ellie bellowed, “No! I’m the loudest!”
Pride added, “I am proud.”
Lil’ Gif argued, “I am courageous.”
Pride added, “I am bold!”
Lil’ Gif argued, “You’re just mean!”
Pride argued, “I am fierce!”
Lil’ Gif argued, “I am peaceable.”
Pride argued, “I roar!”
Lil’ Gif argued, “Too loud, I might add. I only bleat when needed.”
Pride argued, “I am the best hunter!”
Somebody in the back of the room yelled, “Yeah…only for yourself! Where were you last year when we had no food to eat?”
Everyone nodded and began to yell out, “Yeah! Yeah!” as they crowded around him.
Pride got angrier and angrier that they should dare to challenge his authority. His face got redder and redder. He huffed and puffed and raced to the littlest giraffe who dared to dream of a different world. Just as he jumped up to pounce on the littlest giraffe, the little giraffe spun around and whacked the biggest yellow lion with his back leg. The lion flew through the air, out the window, up into the sky, past the hot air balloons flying near the clouds, spun around and around in the air, and landed in the quicksand with a “SPLAT!”
Pride’s wife ran after him. “This is a right wing conspiracy!” she cried.
The little mouse giggled. “Pride is before a fall.”
Ellie walked over to the little giraffe. “You’re a hero, Lil’ Gif. Why didn’t we do this before?”
The littlest giraffe shrugged.
Ellie tried to find an answer. “Is it just because you’re fast?”
“No.”
Is it just because you’re tall?”
“Is it just because you are strong?”
“Is it just because you are a boy?”
“Is it just because you have no fear?”
“Do you have super human powers?”
“No,” he laughed.
“Then, what is it little giraffe?”
“Yeah, tell us, tell us!” They pleaded.
The littlest giraffe smiled before he walked out of the room. “It’s just because I stuck my neck out and spoke up.”
As they left, Ellie the elephant reached up with her trunk and tore down the sign over the door that read, The Kingdom of the Pride. Jefferson pulled out a feather and with his quill scratched out “the Pride” and wrote US.
Everyone present signed their name, and that was the beginning of democracy for The Kingdom of US.
©2008 Donna Zuk Adley
From: Dawn Teo� <dawn@rightoffcenter.com>Date: June 3, 2008 11:03:41 PM MDTTo: Arizona Women for Obama <ArizonaWomenforObama@groups.barackobama.com>Subject: [ArizonaWomenforObama] Arizona Obama Video Released TodayReply-To: ArizonaWomenforObama@groups.barackobama.com
Today, one of our local Obama supporters (Rory) released a video that he made. I wrote about it on Huffington Post (also cross-posted to DailyKos). It is a truly beautiful, very touching video. I hope you all enjoy... You will have to click on one of the links to actually see the video because I cannot embed video in an email :)Today, I Criedhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/dawn-teo/today-i-cried_b_104903.htmlhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/4/03932/32867/886/528973Posted June 3, 2008 | 12:41 PM (EST)One of my fellow Arizonans has just made a video (which I've embedded after the jump) entitled, I Cried Today.In the video, Arizonans read a poem (also entitled I Cried Today) and then tell us why it personally matters to them that Barack Obama be elected president.This is how the video came about:On April 7th my mother sent me an email forward and the subject line was, "Today I Cried." I remember thinking, "What in the world made my mother cry?" So I opened the email to find the poem (see below). The poem so moved me that I immediately adopted it into a script and began the process of putting together a shoot. The people in the video are not actors; they are simply Barack Obama supporters who responded to the call. Oh, how I wish you could have been there to feel the energy and love in the room the day we taped.I have embedded the video after the jump. If it does not make you cry, or at least tear up, then you don't have a soul, or a heart, or ok, maybe you're just not the crying type, but I can tell you I cried.Be sure that you watch the part after the poem. Each of the people in the video talks about why it is personally important to them that Barack Obama wins. That was the part that made me cry.TODAY, I Cried Today, I cried.....I voted for a black man and, I cried.I cried for my father and my grandfather and all grandfathers before him. I cried for my uncles, my four brothers, my seventeen nephews, my two sons, my six grandsons and one great-grand son.I cried for the black men I have loved and those that have loved me.I cried for the millions of little black boys (not forgetting the girls) over the centuries that did not, in their wildest dreams, imagine...that they could run for Office. I cried for their despair...I cried for all the men and boys incarcerated that lost hope in themselves and took the low road. I cried, I cried and I cried..I know that this was 'just the primary.' But whatever the end result may be, today I voted in the United States of America for a black man, and...I cried.If I should die before the presidential election it will be OK,Because today I voted. I voted for a black man and I cried.Author UnknownThe author to this beautiful poem is unknown. I have searched the web for a source but to no avail. If anyone knows the source, please post it to the comments so that I can give credit where credit is due.
On April 7th my mother sent me an email forward and the subject line was, "Today I Cried." I remember thinking, "What in the world made my mother cry?" So I opened the email to find the poem (see below). The poem so moved me that I immediately adopted it into a script and began the process of putting together a shoot. The people in the video are not actors; they are simply Barack Obama supporters who responded to the call. Oh, how I wish you could have been there to feel the energy and love in the room the day we taped.
TODAY, I Cried Today, I cried.....I voted for a black man and, I cried.I cried for my father and my grandfather and all grandfathers before him. I cried for my uncles, my four brothers, my seventeen nephews, my two sons, my six grandsons and one great-grand son.I cried for the black men I have loved and those that have loved me.I cried for the millions of little black boys (not forgetting the girls) over the centuries that did not, in their wildest dreams, imagine...that they could run for Office. I cried for their despair...I cried for all the men and boys incarcerated that lost hope in themselves and took the low road. I cried, I cried and I cried..I know that this was 'just the primary.' But whatever the end result may be, today I voted in the United States of America for a black man, and...I cried.If I should die before the presidential election it will be OK,Because today I voted. I voted for a black man and I cried.Author Unknown
Well, it looks like the tide is turning.
"Many of the donors are likely "moderate Republicans or independents who are dissatisfied with the direction of the country now and are looking for change," said Anthony Corrado, a government professor at Colby College in Maine who specializes in campaign finance.
I just read an article from Eric Margolis, a writer I respect highly. This writer is a lifelong Republican who has been writing against George W. Bush and his policies for quite a while now.
The short article is slightly critical to Obama but interesting nevertheless.
"Republicans just can’t seem to stop invoking both facts and myths of World War II to promote their foreign policy. If World War II must be dredged up, a more appropriate reference would be Nazi leader Hermann Goering’s famous formula for fascism: “All you have to do is to tell them (the people) they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
“All you have to do is to tell them (the people) they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
"To whom does one negotiate if not with ones enemies and rivals? Refusing to talk to one’s foes is stupid, childish and counter-productive. World War I was sparked by the breakdown of diplomacy. It could have ended with a fair peace in 1917, and spared the world Stalin and Hitler, if the US had not foolishly entered the war, thus allowing Britain and France to reject negotiations with Germany"
Make sure that you browse up Eric Margolis's website. He is a writer who does know his history and is always coming up with the strangest facts.
This is a good article in the LA Times about the intestine fight going on in the GOP.
