jAnd how’s that second rate burglary coverup going, would you say?

Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON | Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:11pm EDT

(Reuters) – Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.

The emails, obtained by Reuters from government sources not connected with U.S. spy agencies or the State Department and who requested anonymity, specifically mention that the Libyan group called Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks.

The brief emails also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under way, to Washington.

however, back to politics. I like Obama, for having the courage to support Gay rights and women’s right to choose. I know that not everyone agrees with me on those issues, it’s just that I don’t think that I have any right to tell anyone who they can love or what to do about the very precious life in their bodies.

I like Romney, in that he is very correct in the fact that China is not playing fair by manipulating the value their currency. He is dead-on when he said that “we are already in a trade war with China” Just because we are not fighting back by letting China have it’s way with us doesn’t mean that there isn’t a trade war. Our balance of trade is draining the pocketbooks of the middle class American. It isn’t just China, but many other countries that are draining us with out of balance trade. Donald Trump is right, American politicians aren’t smart enough to be in free-trade agreements with countries that are smart enough the play the game.

Their are many issues that I feel strongly about on both sides of the presidential race, too many to go into in this short comment. Although I’m not inclined to call anybody a “liar” or “stupid”, I just don’t trust political promises.

In the end, I guess what I looking for is a line-item President, where I can just fill in the blanks of what I want, then trust that they will do what they say. I’m not going to say who I have decided to vote for, because like my good friend Bunny says, a little bit too gleefully I might add, “It really doesn’t make any difference who you vote for in California, Obama is going to dance away with 55 electoral Votes.”

And… Thank you Eric for a fun discussion.

It’s a little dense, probably because it was written by a German who wants to get all the details and politics in, but the approach and results are pretty clear.

http://www.mckinsey.com/features/government_designed_for_new_times/behind_the_german_jobs_miracle

The figure of 2.9m unemployment works out to 3.6%.

As far as I am aware, the German economy has done well by means of responding demand for its strength in precision industrial systems, sold in large part to the Chinese who have been building factories. You would see this from the mittelstand, the famously effective small and medium businesses, to mega-giants like 400,000 employee Siemens.

They’ve build this capacity out of good education (though they also complain) and by German versions of good old get up and go. I used to meet an amount of both, working every day with Germans in the office and across borders there. Including the developing world export, definitely.

They have their own problems with jobs even so, because not everyone can be included in these specific export-lead industries, but have felt that they should find ways for people to have them even so.

One of the more experimental way to do this has been the so-called one-euro (1-3 euro per hour, 10-15 hours/week) jobs, These are highly sought because they keep people in the workforce for the opportunities that show up when you are present, and for the social inclusion and communication benefits, even as a person is on welfare.

Thus there’s reason for Ernie to be interested in how Germans look out for working people, having learned a few lessons in their history. Again, they have some difficulties in that regard, but they do try, and for the US there can be interest in their ways.

Anyway, I’m not aware of Germans riding on US recovery in any particular way. Of course they sell some things here, and gain back as Americans gain back.

More than you wanted to hear, am sure, but felt worth putting on the table. Guess I’m sort of in the mood after the full debate caught up on youtube.

I was directly answering a complaint, Steynfan, but by all means, don’t let facts get in the way of your way.

Joel Meilke I’ll vote for a 3rd party candidate, as I usually do.

Jeez, Joel, with that kind of consistency you could do Candy Crowley’s job.