Posted on 12/17/2008 5:15:05 AM PST by abb
ou probably sat in a fancier conference room the last time you refinanced or heard a pitch about life insurance. There's a table, some off-brand mesh office chairs, a bookcase that looks as if it had been put together with an Allen wrench and instructions in Swedish.
To reach this room, you pass through a cubicle farm lightly populated by quiet young people. Either they have just arrived or they are just leaving, because their desks are almost bare. The place has a vaguely familiar feel to it, this air of transient shabbiness and nondescriptitude. You can't quite put your finger on it ...
"It's like the set of The Office," someone offers.
Bingo.
It is here that we find Barack Obama one soul-freezingly cold December day, mentally unpacking the crate of crushing problems some old, some new, all ugly that he is about to inherit as the 44th President of the United States. Most of his hours inside the presidential-transition office are spent in this bland and bare-bones room. You would think the President-elect a guy who draws 100,000 people to a speech in St. Louis, Mo., who raises three-quarters of a billion dollars, who is facing the toughest first year since Franklin Roosevelt's might merit a leather chair. Maybe a credenza? A hutch?
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
ping
I hope this changes.
The final straw for me with Time was when I read the article about Putin where they practically fawned over the guy and made several inferences to most of the world’s problems being the fault of the U.S.
“Time” for Time to close up or move offshore since they’ve decided to be so anti-American.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cbs17-2008dec17,0,7202949.story
CBS fires nearly 30 people in its entertainment division
http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/
Detroit Gets To Work on Next Year’s Model
Is this not the same magazine that once named Hitler and Stalin —”Person of the Year”?????.....
Don’t forget about the Man-of-the-year jinx.
I will do my best to ignore him.
Otherwise, he deserves the same respect shown by the KOS crowd to President Bush.
Vladimir Putin to Barack 0bama: seems pretty much like a lateral move to me.
Let’s see didn’t the Time Mag’s Carney just get a big adminstrative position from the O? Good thing quid pro quo doesn’t apply to “journalism”. (sacasm intended).
Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Hitler fled to Spain, South America in 1945
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message683558/pg1
All the indicators are that this is not happening at all. So he's dumb or dishonest. Actually, he's both. And worse.
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