I was recently surfing the web when I came upon, quite accidentally mind you, this article on CQPolitics.com.
The article itself is worth the read, but is not the subject of this post. Instead, the subject is an organization Cranford somwhat casually mentions therein: the National Bureau of Economic Research. If you’re a data junkie like me, you’ll really appreciate it (at the very least, check out the recent foreign exchange rates and the National Economic Trends).
For those of you who prefer deep analysis and insightful commentary, rather than the ubiquitous and crippling migraine that results from staring at incredibly complex numbers and graphs for more than 10 minutes, I’d suggest you move along and forget ever reading this post.
While perusing the web tonight, I came across this post on the CT GOP Blog.
First, why do Republicans insist on comparing themselves to President John F. Kennedy? Don’t they remember this:
Second, President John Kennedy and Mitt Romney share no commonalities, other than they served as elected officials from the same state. One was undeniably born into fortune and privilege, but chose to serve his country and ultimately became the shining beacon of virtue and honor to a great generation of Americans, the other made a fortune as a CEO of an equity investment firm and rose to prominence after organizing the 2002 Winter Olympics. To claim that somehow, someway Romney’s speech (taking into account personality and substance) rises to the level of Kennedy’s 1960 proclamation before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association is absurd. The Republican Party should, at the very least, wait until after Romney’s speech before they begin with the lunacy.
Continuing the foolish practice of attempting to paint one of the Democratic Party’s most iconic figures as somehow comparable to any Republican (other than maybe President Theodore Roosevelt – who is generally viewed to be the leader of the progressive movement, and later broke from conservative Republican doctrine to form his own party) really is laughable and makes success extremely difficult to define and impossible to reach.
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