So Canada is like the US… but different. Their government is exactly the same as ours… but different. George W. Bush is wishing that he could dismiss Congress. I’m still laughing. If there was ever a time that Canada needed to rewrite their Constitution, I’m thinking that now might very well be that time. Well, after Parliament is back in session.
The oil industry has asked us (no, wait…) told us to bend over and relax for the last 15 years. Now, it appears, the tables have turned. OPEC met last week with a plan to decrease production. The meeting ended without an agreement. Experts are now talking about falling gas prices… to falling to less than one dollar per gallon.
As we know, Barack Obama won the election and it wasn’t close. John McCain gave a very gracious speech. In this week’s show, I interview my good friend Bill Scher from Campaign for America’s Future and the editor of BuzzFlash, Mark Karlin. I try to start at the beginning. Mark is from Chicago, Obama’s home turf, and he explains how our future president made this remarkable climb to the top. Bill Scher was at the 2004 convention. He was, like me, blown away by Barack Obama’s 2004 convention speech. This is a great discussion and a great summary of what happened.
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I had put this together just after the election and have no idea why I didn’t post it then. These are excerpts from Obama’s victory speech in Grant Park.
Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
