With the news today that Britain is also establishing some sort of withdrawal, time horizon, retreat/defeat deadline, does anyone else get the sense that the rest of the world is trying to politely slip a few cards into Obama's hand?
Perhaps the near alignment of other nation's foreign policy isn't coincidence, rather a subtle nudge to the American electorate as to which candidate would find the most overseas cooperation when they become president.

Over the past few weeks, it seems that the NYTimes has been running stories and analysis of various portions of Obama's platform. It seems after every speech of his, the Times and other media offer an assessment of the feasibility of his ideas. Today's analysis of his health care plan brought this to mind. The McCain camp may have something with their perception that Obama has been attracting the lion's share of media coverage. But, has McCain been receiving the same amount of attention for his economic, foreign policy, health care, mortgage crisis proposals? Does he even have any proposals with specifics?
Perhaps the media does like to cover Obama.
Maybe its because there's something to write about...

Please forgive the typos in my previous post, but since I am a horrible typist more mistakes can be expected.

Apparently the National Museum of Natural History has been famboozled into co-sponsoring a film produced by the Discovery institute. The film, "The Privleged Planet, the Search for Purpose in the Universe, is promoted as a documentary on its website. However, it is is not immediately clear on any websites related to the film it is trying to discredit real science while endorsing the theology of "intelligent design". The website is a fantastic example of pseudo-science trying to famboozle its way into the mainstream. The authors of the Privledged Planet website try to add scientific creedence to the film by emphasizing the utilization of stunning computer animation and the visual archives of NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope Institute, the European Space Agency, and leading observatories throughout the world, . There is an email circulating among scientific circles with the notion that the director of the NMNH, Christian Samper, is not entirely comfortable with this whole promotion of "intelligent design" by NMNH. Dr. Samper's email is SamperC@si.edu . I am not sure how significant a role he played in the whole process of NMNH working with the Discovery Institute on this scientific charade. But, since the NMNH has been an ardent advocate of real science, and by inference evolution, I imagine Dr. Samper is not too stoked about this new film partnership with the Discovery Institute.