President Barack Obama has, as discussed before and elsewhere, built up a huge list of supporters who want to engage with him. Now, we’re finally seeing how he’s going to use it on the good side. As you may remember from earlier posts, I’m signed up with the Obama database as living in Alexandria, VA [...]
February 26th, 2009 at
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Politics (Outside Ireland) | tags:
barack obama,
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carrot and stick,
communications,
congressman,
james moran,
jim webb,
mark warner,
mitch stewart,
obama for america,
organizing for america,
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spending,
stick,
stimulus,
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(Hat tip to Aidan) In the category of ‘Quality of Overall Infrastructure’ we rank 64th in the world. 64th! 64th out of 134 countries. Our infrastructural quality ranks behind Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Azerbaijan, Jordan and Jamaica. We are one of the richest countries in the world (as measured in GDP) and,yet we still trail behind [...]