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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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DC Beltway Noise
Uploaded: Mar 31, 2010
In a way, I miss W. My personal point of view about the man and his Presidency is niether here nor there, but he was pretty consistent and predictable in his policies. Good or bad, right or wrong.
This POTUS, Obama, is a different character. He clearly is very smart intellectually, is more a pragmatist than an idealogue.
The DC Beltway noise resonates in these days much less consistently.
Now, let's look at the GOP, especially the Senate.
They are led by Mitch McConnell, who was described by one pundit as the Lex Luthor to Superman. Works for me.
Allow new offshore drilling
Send 36,000 more troops to Afghnistan
USG makes money on Citbank shares the government bought and is starting to sell
Using drones to kill enemies we have along the Afghan/Pakistan border
Not a peep from the Republicans in office about these things. Why is that? IMHO, it is because they find it inconvenient to acknowledge that this guy down the Avenue is not a doctrinaire left winger, but actually has made a number of decisions which they support.
It is different to govern than it is to campaign. I criticize the Republicans for the last year for doing more of the latter and not enough of the former. Making selective choices about what are the "issues" and then having the temerity to clam to represent "the American People." It's BS
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