I was really struck by this photo , which graced the cover of Tuesday's New York Times, showing Ariel Sharon, Condoleeza Rice and James Baker attending a memorial of the late Yitzhak Rabin in Israel. There's something in that picture...in Rice's face, jaw set, eyes hidden behind rockstar sunglasses...and how she is flanked on either side by two men who've played hard-ball power politics for decades: Ariel Sharon, peering beneath his furrowed brow and, always conscious he is being observed, gesturing and thinking...and James Baker, completely hidden behind a permanent dimplomatic mask, an impenetrable sphinx. Of course, that photo sends a powerful message to the world. Rice was in Israel to do serious business . The fact that she brought Baker with her meant that the full weight of the U.S. military-industrial complex... the old guard ...was with her. That trip to Israel was important; and I would guess that U.S. plans and actions regarding Syria were part of that
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If we could get local people and politicians to build schools, hospitals and city's that work maybe we could get the red states to follow us. We would be leading them somewhere they want to go.
As long as democrats have to fight their liberal democratic elected officials constantly to do what they said they would, we're in no position to offer solutions for others.
Why is the blogosphere so afraid of local issues? Seems like fixing the Oakland schools would make more real connections and leaders than a conference.
You have insight into Oakland. It's less grand than this other stuff but not less important.