Hi, prairie. Our danged media were all wringing their collective hands worrying about whether or not the "charm offensive" was working, as well as whether GWB should have "lectured" Putin. Sheesh!
It was most amusing listening to the media yesterday and today talking about how the WH would be surprised (shocked, caught off guard etc.) that Russia was going ahead with giving Iran nuke materials.
The Bush administration knew full well that Putin would push forward with this, no matter what Bush said to him. They knew it weeks, months ago. It's the PRESS that doesn't have much of a clue from day to day.
I've gotten so bored with TV infotainment, even Fox (except for Brit's show). 90% of what they say is yesterdays news, we are waaaay ahead of what's going on here on the internet. And they never give full reporting either.
For instance, FoxNews was reporting about a program that gets youth to sign up financial supporters and fast for 30 hours in order to collect $$ to fight hunger. Fine and good. But a complete reporting of the story would have included that many countries including powerful lobby efforts in Europe actually prevent food and grains from going to hungry countries because of the genetic engineering issue. Not a word of those little detail gems.
Just stale bread for the masses. Bah.