Odds and ends

Tue, 09/23/2008 - 5:33pm

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd said after today's tense hearing that the Bush administration's bailout plan is "not acceptable."

Barack Obama presented his own four conditions for a bailout.

In a speech filled with anti-Semitic tropes that wouldn't have felt out of place in 19th-century Russia, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that "American empire in the world is reaching the end of its road."

Google unveiled Android, its mobile software platform.

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American Empire ending

by Don Bacon on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 10:15pm

Actually, considering that the vaunted US military and economic powers are now deep in the dumps, Ahmadinejad was probably close to the truth. Much closer than your recent FP magazine feature which lauds George W. Bush: "After eight years, he’ll leave behind much more than a defeated dictator in Iraq. Closer ties to India, a pragmatic relationship with China, and the pressure he applied to Iran will pay dividends for years to come." That's true, he is leaving more: A devastated economy, a huge national debt, lots of dead and injured people, several destroyed countries and a legacy of torture and domestic oppression. But what's that compared to closer ties to India? Oh, and Ahmadenijad's speech was not "filled with anti-Semitic tropes," either. You made that up. Why? What's your agenda?? Are you part of the solution, or part of the problem??? Methinks the latter.

Ahmadinejad:

by Joshua Keating on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 7:54am

"The dignity, integrity and rights of the American and European people are being played with by a small but deceitful number of people called Zionists. Although they are a miniscule minority, they have been dominating an important portion of the financial and monetary centers as well as the political decision-making centers of some European countries and the US in a deceitful, complex and furtive manner."