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So, what happened here?

He’s going nowhere with a startling lack of ambition on the universal healthcare issue*, doesn’t communicate commitment to a strong economic reconstruction effort either, and now that gas prices are going through the roof (and voters are urging candidates to come up with a plan) he’s opted for attacking his own empty hands. And he’s charging into “folksy mode” too, now.

Um… It’s the economy all over again, silly.

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*For people who like to see the difference, here’s a nice picture that accompanies Krugman’s article:

On introducing universal health care in the US

Tell me, dear Obama supporter…

I recommend reading Paul Krugman’s piece - again. While you do that, ruminate on this: regardless of its ethical imperative, providing universal health care coverage is a strategic national security asset, too.

(Added PS: compound image courtesy of originals borrowed from Barry’s Barrels (in NZ) and Vogelzang.)

Clinton Wins Pennsylvania

Neener. Neener neener, in fact.

(This is just a crappy low-resolution and scaled down version of the photo that Béatrice de Géa took for The New York Times, which can be admired on its original spot here - along with other pretty pictures of a well-deserved win by who should be, in my stubborn conviction, the next President of the United States of America.)