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WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should have been not Joe Biden, but Rumpelstiltskin. He spun straw into gold, a skill an Obama administration will need in order to fulfill its fairy-tale promises.
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By 2012 he would "require" the economy's huge energy sector to -- here things become comic -- supply half as much energy from renewable sources as already is being supplied by just one potentially renewable source. About 20 percent of America's energy comes from nuclear energy produced using fuel rods, which, when spent, can be reprocessed into fresh fuel.
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RealClearPolitics - Articles - Obama's Economic Fairytale
Just for BK!
Not exactly on-topic here, but I wonder how much of his acceptance speech will be honest and true, tonight, and not just some more of the same? How many delegates will honestly remember what he said 15 minutes after his show of fame? How long will the party last at Invesco Field?
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08-28-2008, 03:53 PM
George Will - Obama's Economic Fairytale
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