Chris Matthews:
"Welcome back. The word these days is optics, visuals, signals. In the Carter presidency, the optics were not exactly robust, and Ronald Reagan rode that to a big victory in 1980. Is the Obama White House sending some Carteresque signals these days? Some see that in the deep bow to the Emperor of Japan, an unforced error say critics. Then there was, there was what happened in China: Obama got nothing in the way of concessions over there in spite of playing the polite visitor. And his effort to speak directly to the Chinese was jammed by the government. Third, that decision to try the terrorists up in that federal court in New York City. Again, nothing that had to be done, and critics say it shows that Obama, his team doesn't understand this is a war we're in. David, that's the question. These optics are everything in a president. Carter used to carry that garment bag over his shoulder. This president is he making mistakes like in China like in Japan?"
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Washington Post: Former U.S. official, wife admit to 30 years of spying for Cuba
"The couple's attorney, Bradford Berenson, said in a statement after the hearing that the Myerses were not motivated by greed but spied 'out of conscience and personal commitment.'"
I get it. They were committed to betraying fellow Americans out of conscience.
I get it. They were committed to betraying fellow Americans out of conscience.
London Guardian: Forced labour and rape, the new face of slavery in America
"In one recent incident a 16-year-old Mexican girl was found to have been trafficked across the US border. Doctors noticed the heavily pregnant girl showed clear signs of physical abuse when she was brought into a hospital in Dayton to give birth. The police were called but the couple who had brought her had already fled. When the girl's story emerged, it became clear she had been kept against her will in the nearby city of Springfield and used for labour and sex. 'I thought slavery ended a few centuries ago. But here it is alive and well,' said Springfield's sheriff, Gene Kelly.
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