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...newspapers are dominated by the homestretch of the U.S. presidential election, the ongoing global financial crisis and other momentous events. But the blandly titled "Decision on Major Issues Concerning the Advancement of Rural Reform and Development" will be studied by historians when the markets' latest gyrations and Sarah Palin's appearance on Saturday Night Live are long forgotten. Behind the document's clunky sentences constructed from boilerplate Party phraseology are changes that will vault China into the next, irrevocable stage of its evolution into a fully capitalist economy - but could also spark one of the biggest mass migrations in history...
...changed as a candidate. At the same time, Joe has been tracking Senator John McCain. Joe wrote extensively about McCain in the 2000 election cycle and has been critical of him over the past few months. Recently, Joe was excluded from both the McCain and the Sarah Palin campaign planes. As a columnist, Joe always calls it the way he sees it, and he has been indefatigable in this latest election, describing it as perhaps the most extraordinary election of all that he has covered, and that goes back to 1976. Talk about experience...
...Sarah Palin's fame skips action-figure stage, goes straight to TALES FROM THE CRYPT covers...
...decision-making. They are his best-known qualities. The most important decision he has made - the selection of a running mate - was done carefully, with an exhaustive attention to detail and contemplation of all the possible angles. Two months later, as John McCain's peremptory selection of Governor Sarah Palin has come to seem a liability, it could be argued that Obama's quiet selection of Joe Biden defined the public's choice in the general-election campaign. But not every decision can be made so carefully. There are a thousand instinctive, instantaneous decisions that a presidential candidate...
What a pity Doris Day is not around to play Palin in the inevitable biopic. Picture the scene in the Boeing as she is sworn in on the way to the White House. The dream scene for America's hockey moms and B-movie fans. Please, America, for the sake of the free world in complex and troubled times - get real! Brenda Cherwell, BEVERLEY, ENGLAND