Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Cautious Non-Pessimism

As far as the elections, let's give it a couple of years and see how things work out.

On Sunday I acquired my target of 0.5 miles in 3:30. Hurrah.

5 miles in 49:55 today.

1 comment:

Sergio Lukic said...

Hey,

In two years the majority will keep being happy with Obama. He is a superb orator; during the nineties he got two Audio Book Grammy Awards for Spoken word!

I bet that he will follow Mao's style (not the content!) of doing politics:

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10311230

I quote from that article :
"Yet within China economic growth was pathetic and living conditions were wretched. So why did a vast list of Western political, military and academic leaders accept the value of Mao's brand at his own estimation? Even Stalin, no guileless observer, believed in and, to his later regret, protected Mao. The brand-building lesson is that a clear, utopian message, hammered home relentlessly, can obscure inconvenient facts. Great salesmen are born knowing this."