An hour and a half with Barack Obama

This is a blog post from Marc Andreessen creator of the Netscape browser, co-founder of Ning.com, and financial supporter of both the Obama and Romney campaigns.  Marc has some interesting insight into Obama, the man and what he represents, having been able to spend 1.5 hours with him before the campaign kicked into high gear.  Red meat for the faithful, but I think Marc does a great job in capturing why so many of us adore this man and see him as the leader we so badly need.

http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/03/an-hour-and-a-h.html

Obama ‘08!!!

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How Dangerous Is the Internet for Children?

Great article from David Pogue today!

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/assessing-the-dangers-of-the-internet-for-children/

Nice to have evidence concerning what many of us have assumed all along (Internet dangers have been and continue to be over-hyped).  That being said, my other take away is that we really should continue to be having more discussions around cyber-bullying and empowering students with strategies to deal with this phenomenon.

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Intercepting Iran’s Take on America

Thomas Friedman’s take on what is wrong with our country!

“There are two intelligence analyses that are relevant to the balance of power between the U.S. and Iran — one is the latest U.S. assessment of Iran, which certainly gave a much more complex view of what is happening there. The other is the Iranian National Intelligence Estimate of America, which — my guess — would read something like this:”

Read the full article HERE

Our Troops Must Leave Iraq

 Walter Cronkite makes the case for leaving Iraq…NOW!

“The American people no longer support the war in Iraq. The war is being carried on by a stubborn president who, like Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War, does not want to lose. But from the beginning this has been an ill-considered and poorly prosecuted war that, like the Vietnam War, has diminished respect for America. We believe Mr. Bush would like to drag the war on long enough to hand it off to another president…..”

Read the article HERE

Huckabee and Saudi Arabia

I try not to get political on this blog, but seeing that I am a Democrat and writing to support the comments of a Repuiblican I thought it would be OK just this once.Having just read the FANTASTIC book “Three Cups of Tea” this comment from Mike Huckabee really hit home:

“Every time we put our credit card in the gas pump, we’re paying so that the Saudis get rich — filthy, obscenely rich, and that money then ends up going to funding madrassas,” schools “that train the terrorists,” said Huckabee. “America has allowed itself to become enslaved to Saudi oil. It’s absurd. It’s embarrassing.”  Huckabee said “I would make the United States energy independent within 10 years and tell the Saudis they can keep their oil just like they can keep their sand, that we won’t need either one of them.”

Go get ‘em Mike!  The full CNN article can be read HERE.