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It's 3 a.m. Who do you want answering the phone?
Not John McCain, say some military leaders: "I think his knee-jerk response factor is a little scary."
By Mark Benjamin [2008-03-06]

  • @Rosenkavalier

    Zing! That was terribly unhip of me, but I also lapse into saying things like "Post-war" whatever. Can't seem to get over having been born in that period. Anyway, duly noted. Obama's lived in some countries with planned economies. Damn, that sounds awkward, though. I'll have to get past my Sauvy orientation, as he would, at the time, have called Kenya and Indonesia (rightfully) third-world countries at the time he coined that term. Soviet bloc countries were then second-world. We're talking mid-60s now, so maybe Mr. Obama actually lived in some developing countries. Anyway, he's had some interesting residential experience, I think we can agree on that. I'm not so sure I'd buy the US as second-world country, at least not quite yet. We are working our way there, though. Fast.

    -- AJCalhoun
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    Thursday, March 6, 2008 09:58 PM
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