POINDEXTER: MR. NICE GUY?
POINDEXTER: MR. NICE GUY?John Poindexter is no Big Brother; he's a misunderstood technical whiz with a tin ear for politics, the New York Times says in a sympathetic portrait of the man who brought us "Total Information Awareness."
"He may be the only guy in government who deeply understands computers," coos computer columnist John Dvorak.
That understanding helped Poindexter build the Reagan White House's e-mail system. But Poindexter wasn't slick enough to quietly get rid of the 5,000+ e-mails he and Col. Oliver North exchanged about trading arms for hostages and illicitly funding the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
"What (Poindexter) apparently didn't know was that these messages were still retrievable from the e-mail system's backup tapes," CNN noted.
Brilliant.
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There’s only one week left until the voting date, and controversies surrounding both the Democrat and Republican camps continue to surface. News sources are eager to report that the Republican National Committee spent upwards of $150,000 on Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin’s campaign trail wardrobe. Although this story has created a flood of negative publicity, anti-Republican attacks, and the like, I am not falling for it. In fact, both Palin and Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama have spent large sums of money on clothing, and it doesn’t affect my voting decision. After all, we live in a material society where appearance and possessions, more than anything else, are the main things by which we judge people. If you had one candidate blazing the campaign trail in well-selected designer apparel, and the other candidate fully clad in Wal-Mart clothes, the latter would be taken less seriously. Plus, look at all the attention Sarah Palin has received from her pricey wardrobe. Maybe it’s not such a bad political move. Ultimately, I hope that Americans will look past the clothes and form their opinions based on the issues. We need to vote for the candidate that supports our freedom for personal financial responsibility and the continued access to no fax payday loans.
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Posted by: Payday Loan Advocate at October 29, 2008 03:30 AM