The Presidential Election Recapped
Excellent series of articles from Newsweek, well worth the read:
Ch. 1: Barack Obama: How He Did It
Ch. 2: John McCain: Back From the Dead?
Ch. 3: The Long Clinton-Obama Siege
Ch. 4: McCain Camp Retools, Targets Obama
Ch. 5: Obama Sweats the Clintons, McCain Gambles on Palin
Ch. 6: Battling it Out in the Great Debates
Ch. 7: The Final Days
Posted at 12/13/2008 12:14:00 PM PT
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Say - you remember writing this?
http://www.kirkdorffer.com/ontheroadto2008/2005/01/wave-of-compassion.shtml
Specifically (you were referring to the tsunami disaster at the end of 2004):
"Until yesterday's ten-fold increase of monetary aid, we were pledging less money that George Bush planned to spend on his own (totally unnecessary) re-inauguration, expected to cost tax payers $40 million."
Just wondering - you have any plans to discuss the upcoming $150M inauguration?
Just curious -
The short answer is yes.
If this is a roundabout way of suggesting that Bush's re-election inauguration equates to Obama's inauguration in excess, while the number is definitely high, my question was why do we need a re-inauguration event of any magnitude.
Today, for example was Chris Gregoire's re-inauguration event as Governor of Washington State. The cost is being paid for mainly from the tickets sold to attend. But re-inauguration events don't need to be such a big deal IMO.
You tell me what part of the cost you don't think is warranted in this case, and what part would be.
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