In this week's issue of Huffington, just in time for the Republican convention in Tampa, Jon Ward chronicles Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate.
Jon Ward began reporting on the Romney campaign long before Romney took the stage to announce Paul Ryan in front of the battleship USS Wisconsin -- an event, he writes, that included an "elaborately arranged secret meeting" and "was executed without a hiccup." Here, through interviews with some of Romney's top advisers -- including Matt Rhoades, Romney's 37-year-old campaign manager who posits that a Romney presidency might look something like the James K. Polk years -- Jon Ward explores what Romney's campaigning style might tell us about his governing style.
He also places Romney's choice of Paul Ryan against the backdrop of America's fiscal realities: the national debt is approaching $16 trillion; nearly 50 million Americans over 64 rely on Medicare for their health care, at a time when the baby boomer generation is just entering the program; and 10,000 Americans will enroll every day for the next 20 years.
As the Republican National Convention presents Mitt Romney to the country, and the world, Jon Ward captures the campaign's bravado. As Rhoades, the campaign manager, puts it: "We're going to win. And Mitt's going to fix the mess."
Far from the back rooms where political decisions are made, Saki Knafo tells the story of a girl named Noor, whose parents came to America from what is now South Sudan, and her teacher Ms. Sabrina. The setting is North Carolina, and Saki's reporting takes us deep inside the debate over pre-kindergarten: a world of political battles, constant threats of budget cuts, and -- often lost in the shuffle -- the first critical educational and social experiences of a young child's life.
By putting flesh and blood on the research -- including one study showing that more funding for pre-kindergarten has been linked to higher-than-average math and reading scores -- Saki Knafo's reporting puts the spotlight on a critical period in a child's life. "Until recently," he writes, "the mind of the young child was as obscure as a distant galaxy."
Jon Ward's story takes us inside the campaign of Mitt Romney, a man whose entire life seems to have been preparation for this moment; Saki Knafo's takes us inside the world of little Noor, taking her tentative steps into a world of someone else's making.
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Meanwhile, Obama/Biden plan several campaign stops with Al Franken.
All true. Please correct my lies.
So diffuse, in so many ways and obvious contexts that it is not true... that it can be a lie if you wish. I doubt if-when we get to your revelation it will be found "true." But it does, cut to the chase after a fashion, though.
Google considered the phrase, as a search query, chaotic. If you keep chewing your tail, eventually you're going to reach something with some meat. Republicans are making goblins... they could almost be accused of having a factory somewhere. Hard not to be found convenient when you're so good at something. Marketing and production, in any case, don't know about sells just yet.
But, you're (at some point, doubtless) going to share a great truth that one won't find in the GOP version of screwed? I don't think so. And buried in your view is an answer from an authority in some far off (right wing in your version) place, of truth and "rightness." That has no counterpart in modus on the left.
So yes, you lied.
For myriad reasons, but mainly for partisanship.
Romney can win this if he does three things. promise jobs for all, guns for all, and promise to get tough on iran which is code for bomb iran. americans know that wars big wars = jobs.
Also hinting at bombing iran in every stump speech will win him FL a key state.
And it wont hurt if he blames the blacks and the illegals for america's downfall.
Is that a problem?
Slaves, dirt roads, poverty, epidemics, illiteracy, no public services and open warfare with Mexico?
And in the process, destroying the New Deal and Great Society legislation that brought us Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, environmental controls, and sensible regulations to protect Americans from predatory corporations?
Anybody with any kind of a political mind knows that the "safety net" programs are not going away. Ryan and Romney are not that crazy. However, they do have to be redesigned in a manner to make them sustainable for all. It has already pencilled out that if you tax the "rich" at 100 percent that will still not support the programs in place now. That blows the democrat program out of the water which is the same old tired tax the rich. It is just a canard for the gullible like the people in 2009 that lined up in Chicago for that ObamaMoney. That was a rumor that got out of control. What will happen when Social Security is paid with rubber checks?