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The Groseclose and Milyo paper you linked to is, in my judgment (and I've spoken to Groseclose and corresponded with Milyo), fundamentally flawed. This isn't the forum for going into it, but I felt the need to throw it out there.

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Bush has destroyed Iraq for profit of friends and because his PNAC doesn't like non-Christians. Obama does not serve the PNAC.

Bush mildly delayed the NO rescue by not immediately firing incompetant officials (like the horse trainer who didn't set up a command centre). Do you really think Obama's mother would tell the American people: people living in the Superdome are doing good for themselves (I really hope Barb just meant to say: good, given the situation)?

GWB campaigned on a platform that no one would tempt the US thirst for oil. He actively has lobbied for big oil and supressed scientific discovery so badly, I'm almost willing to give the Chinese super-power model a try, for all its warts. Obama has a $150 billion ten-year enviro-trust in the planning. He has enough measured caution in his stated biofuel and nuclear platforms, that he might even avoid/divest these pyrhic "solutions".

The US deficit is primarily a Republican tax-cut and Iraq War creation. Bush's Iraq War added $5/barrel to oil prices and maybe he unleashed inflation or USD flight that added another $5. Not much. His corn biofuel subsidies doubled corn prices and increased most other crop prices....

I doubt B.Obama would utilize racial profiling of Arabs as much as Bush is. I say this because he has friends (such as the Reverand) who should keep him grounded from his upbringing. It would be neat to see Obama institute a law that all whites must spend a day a year in a federal prison, like "Waldon Two" or the Soviet gulag. I'd bet 1/2 (drug possession, THC distribution, consensual sex with a mid-teen, not rapes and murders) the black inmates get immediately released in the aftermath...on the downside, Hepatitas, MRSA and HIV rates among affluent free whites would rise.

I agree its more a systemic than a leadership issue. If he was so bad, he wouldn't have won in 2004. My own belief for the CNN flip-flop, is the network realized just in 2008 it was responsible for helping to dumb-down American 2000/2004 voters, and it didn't want to unleash a third harm on the US people. CNN is remorseful.

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