Where’s the Outrage?

President Bush had 2 very close friends on the world stage. They were Tony Blair of Britain and John Howard or Australia. I’m not sure that it is necessary to point out the complete and utter failure of the Bush doctrine. For those who still believe, they will continue to see nothing but good that has come from our muscular myopic foreign policy. The good can not be over estimated because it is almost non-existent. The bad can be measured in a number of ways including the defeat of Tony Blair and John Howard.

John Howard was so taken with the Bush doctrine that he attacked Barack Obama right out of the gate. The day after Barack announced that he was going to run for president, Howard pulled a Cheney. He shot someone in the face. He basically said that a vote for a democrat was a vote for Al Qaeda. (see video below)

Glen has a great post on Howard’s defeat with 2 cents from Atrios.  Words of wisdom added from TCR.

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From NYT:

Australia’s prime minister, John Howard, one of President Bush’s staunchest allies in Asia, suffered a comprehensive defeat at the hands of the electorate on Saturday, as his Liberal Party-led coalition lost its majority in Parliament.He will be replaced by Kevin Rudd, the Labor Party leader and a former diplomat. “Today Australia looks to the future,” Mr. Rudd told a cheering crowd in his home state, Queensland. “Today the Australian people have decided that we as a nation will move forward.”

Mr. Howard’s defeat, after 11 years in power, follows that of José María Aznar of Spain, who also backed the United States-led invasion of Iraq, and political setbacks for Tony Blair, who stepped down as Britain’s prime minister in June. (more…)

 

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The following is from American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor. It tells about the global economy in the 18th century as it impacted American colonists.

The effects of war, the easy movement of goods across the seas and immigrant labor have long made a difference in how people live. It also seems veterans have always been easy to discard when their service is completed.

From Taylor—

“……the growing number….. of urban poor alarmed contemporaries. The poverty seemed especially glaring  because it was such a contrast with the increasingly conspicuous wealth of the lawyers, merchants, and government officials in the seaports. According to tax records, in 1771 the wealthiest tenth of Bostonians owned more than 60% of the urban wealth, while the bottom three-tenths owned practically virtually nothing. 

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I have already posted many of the top videos.  Alicia Keys, Daughtry and Santana just to name a few.  Check out my music category for more great videos.

Kanye West just seems to make hits like the Good Life.

 

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I’m not an expert on rap.  My brother, younger, smarter and more musically inclined is more of an expert.  He can tell you about the birth of rap and how rap grew out of the clubs onto MTV.  What I can tell you is that the early days of MTV were hard on rap artists.  MTV really only played rock and roll.  Well, to be more accurate - Heavy Metal.  One of the first Black bands to bust up the metal dominance on MTV was Run DMC.  Their hit was Walk This Way.  Their genius was to include Aerosmith not only on the tune but in the video.  Enjoy a slice of history.

 

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