Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Obama

Obama is on a trip to Iraq, Afghanistan, and a few other middle eastern spots. He also is visiting some of our European allies. McCain kept saying that he had been "on the ground' in Iraq and knew what was what, and Obama had not been there and was naive about what was needed. How could Obama say that the surge didn't work! He just did not have the experience to be the Commander in Chief and "WIN" in Iraq.

So now that Obama is in Iraq, McCain complains that his trip is just a political media show and without substance. The McCain camp complains that the media is "IN LOVE" with Obama and has a LIBERAL bias as usual. The three big network news anchors went on the plane with him and have had personal interviews at different sites during the trip. It all looks very "Presidential"! Obama is going to make a big speech in Germany. Shades of JFK! No doubt it will get international coverage in TV.

When McCain went, his campaign limited the invitations for the big guns from the press. He toured around in a baseball cap and a flak jacket surrounded by armed troops and helicopters.
Obama is causal and shooting baskets in the gym with the troops. He is meeting with all the heads of state wherever he is visiting. The President of Iraq agreed with his goal of starting to remove troops with a 16 month goal for the drawdown. It all looks very Presidential.

In a recent interview, McCain said that there was a lot of trouble along the border between Iraq and Afghanistan. Afghanistan has no border with Iraq. McCain still thinks that the name Chezkoslavakia is still on the map.

Poor old John!

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

De-feated and De-famed--a political dirge

standing darkly in the corner,
a figure wrapped and cloaked,
his face turned toward the shadows,
twas not as he had hoped.

no more to see the lighted aisles,
of chambers filled with yore,
no more the soaring orator,
seen pacing on the floor.

fate had caught him finally,
and crushed him in it's vise,
his sins had caused a chilled effect,
an electorate turned wise.

Friday, March 21, 2008

Networking Overload

This week I have entered the world of Facebook, Linkin, and flickr. I went to
Facebook and established myself with a profile page and checked my address book for "friends' and lo and behold I had some in my book who were active and had sites. I sent out some invitations. I have a nephew who is a sophmore in high school who accepted and responded that his mother thought it was hilarious that I had a facebook site. Another older "friend' who responded said a friend of his invited him so he set something up, but thought that Facebook was skewed pretty young for him, and said he did most of his business networking through Linkin.com. I investigated that site and checked my address book, and found that my sister was on that site along with a few others. I did some invites on that site and spent some time completing my life history on a profile page.

It was interesting to me that (National) Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, the company I work with as a Realtor, had a facebook site and it looked to be part of the network presence of the company with information about the company and entries on the wall from many Coldwell Banker Realtors around the company doing networking for referrals. That was a good idea, so I'm now on there too!

I had an account on flickr for picture sharing but hadn't done much with it for about a year. I renewed my acquaintance and decided to set up a family group to share pictures and comments and downloaded some family pictures into the group site, sent email invites to family members and, of course, my teenage nephew was also right on top of joining up on that one. He must be on the computer in all of his spare time. I notice he has lots of friends. Lots of them girls!

So now that I have my bio out to the world I wonder if I will be inundated with "friends" and 'business" and "family" to the point that I will be unable to handle the mass of communication I may have caused. It will be interesting to see what my workload will be in coming weeks to support all my reaching out activity. I hope that it is manageable and that I can keep the grapevine I have planted from dying from lack of regular watering and fertilization.