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Blog Entries by Diane Francis from 11/2008

Obama: Globalization of Joy

| Posted 11.05.2008 | Chicago
Read More: Politics, Baby Boomers, Chicago, Civil Rights, Obama Grant Park, Oprah, Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama, Obama Grant Park Speech, Kansas, Grant Park, Africans, Election Results, President Obama, Obama Presidency, HuffPost Election Reaction, Chicago News

Chicago's Grant Park was filled to the brim with half a million happy, cheering Americans from every socio-economic slice of America's multicultural society.

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Top Priority: Keep Obama safe

| Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, Murder Rates, Terrorists, Firefighters, Popemobile, Police, Chicago, Handgun Murders, Washington, Threats, Terrorism, U.S. Violence, Bulletproof Glass, Security Forces, Barack Obama, No-Fly Zone, Personal Safety, Gun Ownership, President-Elect Obama, First Family, Security, Healthcare, Pope, President Obama, Politics News

The United States cannot afford to take any risks. President Obama, and his family, must live in a bubble all their days in office. Handshaking, baby-kissing and plunging into crowds must be forbidden.

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Is Mexico the Next Crisis?

| Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Drug Trafficking, New Crisis, Politics, Instability, Obama Election Day, Crime, Obama Election Victory, Meltdown, Mexico, Felipe Calderone, Mexican Drug Cartels, Business, Barack Obama, Mexican Immigration, Economy, Politics News

The day of Obama's election, Mexico's second-highest official in charge of other key drug interdiction officials died in a fiery jet crash. This may become the President-elect's first test and crisis.

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America: Get Your Financial Act Together

| Posted 11.18.2008 | Business
Read More: Ayatollahs, U.S. Economy, Meltdown, Economy, U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, Credit Default Swaps, Global Crisis, Global Rescue Effort, g20, U.S. Recession, Housing Crisis, Fraud, Aig, Iran, Wall Street Crisis, Worldwide Recession, Wall Street, Bailout, Atomic Bombs, u.s. Economy Problems, Real Estate Bubble, Skullduggery, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Tech Bubble, Business News

It would be as irrational to allow the Ayatollahs to build bombs as it would be to allow Wall Streeters to run amok again building their weapons of financial mass destruction.

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Buy Now: One of World's Best Investors

| Posted 11.28.2008 | Business
Read More: Investments, Economic Crisis, Meltdown, Economy, Wall Street Crisis, Bailouts, Common Stocks, Hartford Financial Services, Barack Obama, Berkshire Hathaway, Aig, Wall Street, Rescue, Financial Crisis, Warren Buffett, Stock Market, Wall Street Bailout, Business News

One of the few investors or money mavens who guessed the meltdown was coming is Canada's Prem Watsa, Chair and founder of Fairfax Financial Holdings L...

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