An unusually powerful American delegation arrived here Thursday and, according to a senior American official, intended to warn Pakistan that the United States would act unilaterally if necessary to attack extremists groups who use the country as a haven to kill Americans.
The delegation, which included Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; the new Director of Central Intelligence, David H. Petraeus; and the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, would push their Pakistani counterparts to make a definitive choice between fighting terrorists or supporting them, the administration official said. The two sides met late into the evening Thursday. (NYT, 10/20/2011)
Hillary proving her bona fides again as the toughest Dem out there. Who does RedStateVT fear more as an opponent of the eventual Repub nominee, Obama or Hill? Why Hill, of course!
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You're headed for a one-term presidency," he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it difficult for them.
Jobs also criticized America's education system, saying it was "crippled by union work rules," noted Isaacson. "Until the teachers' unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform." Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit.... (Huffington Post, 10/21/2011)
President Obama has been running around the country quoting Warren Buffett on the need to raise taxes on the rich. What does he have to say - we wonder - about these comments from Steve Jobs?
Your Daily Greengate Update
With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.
Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department's $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs. But two years after the loan was announced, the job of assembling the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car has been outsourced to Finland. (ABC News, 10/20/2011 - thanks to Bobcod)
After a while, you run out of words to describe the immeasurable waste resulting from Obama's policies.
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