Worth Reading

Two long-ish pieces from the New York Times Magazine. Very interesting going into the home stretch. ("long-ish" shouldn't be scary...don't let 'Google make you stupid')

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/magazine/26mccain-t.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/magazine/31bush-t.html

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Morning Reading 10.07.08

Playbook Tuesday : 28 Days

The Testing Time by David Brooks

This is the test. This is the problem that will consume the next president. Meanwhile, the two candidates for that office are talking about Bill Ayers and Charles Keating.

He also has a book recommendation: The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy by David M. Smick

Swedish Spoken Here by Thomas Freidman

Making history is not simply about the will to do so. It’s also about the way — the resources you have to achieve your ends. Whatever wills the next American president comes to office with, he is going to find that his ways have been diminished and restricted — until we roll up our sleeves and work our way out of this mess.

In the category of random, useless information: The Measure of a President. The crazy thing is that on a number of these, you might actually be able to guess who they are without seeing their names - just the recognition of stature. Be sure to see Teddy's glowing eyes, Carter's smile, and then length of Dukakis' pants.

An initial review of "W."

If you haven't seen this, you should:

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Morning Reading 09.25.08

Mike Allen - money quote - SCOOP 1 -- FORBES.com’s Brian Wingfield and Josh Zumbrun , on how Treasury got the $700 billion: “It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."

I don't know about you, but now I feel much better - http://www.politico.com/playbook/

Well, maybe I actually do feel better. We could make money on this thing:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122230704116773989.html

Bush and Candidates to Meet on Bailout:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/business/economy/25bush.html?hp

From CHANGE to CONVENTIONAL:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13892.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/us/politics/25assess.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Cue Obama - "I thank the Clintons for their support...wait...what support?":

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/bill-clinton-do.html

Ham, Shem and Japheth take a walk down memory lane...yes, this really exists:

http://www.pbase.com/paulthedane/noahs_ark

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