Mitt Romney - So, Mitt Romney's father, George, was a member of the Nixon Administration, having served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 - 1973. (1) Too, George Romney was the chairman of AMC Motors, a lobyist for ALCOA and a Governor of the State of Michigan. (2)

I suppose that this is interesting [to me] vis-a-vis Mitt Romney's statement that he is an "outsider" who will "bring change" to Washington. And it reinforces the thought that Mitt is probably connected to "Wolfram and Hart," inasmuch as George Bush Sr., Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, et al, also joined the "Firm" during Nixon's tenure in office.
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Barack Obama - Speaking of bringing change: When was the last time that someone rose rapidly within a hierarchy -- by opposing that hierarchy?

In my own experience -- in government, in the Academy, etc. -- when one calls into question the values that one is expected to maintain, one's progress is thwarted. Barack Obama, at age 46, is running for the Presidency, after having been elected to the Illinois State Legislature, and the United States Senate. (3)

It seems not to be the case that Barack Obama was committed to actualizing "real change" while he occupied any office to which he was previously elected -- but rather he "leap-frogged" from office-to-office for the sake of realizing his ambitions.
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(I) You create the appearance of a struggle for the purpose of building the myth of your own overcoming.

(II) You create the appearance of a crisis for the sake of introducing a solution that -- absent the crisis -- would be unacceptable.

(III) Having employed force and fraud to obtain some honor you feign disinterest in laurels -- suggesting that anyone, really, might do even better with just a little, honest, hard work.

(IV) You refuse to acknowledge any rival's disadvantage -- always ready with the story of some third party in a yet more difficult circumstance; you admit no comparison with yourself.

Circa 2008, on-line, the two things worse than being stupid are (a) being old; and (b) being boring. That's why you hate (a) history; and (b) politics. And that's why you're stupid.
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03 Jan: Iowa
08 Jan: New Hampshire
15 Jan: Michigan
19 Jan: Nevada, South Carolina (R)
26 Jan: South Carolina (D)
29 Jan: Florida
01 Feb: Maine
05 Feb: California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, etc

Republican Nomination:

Within the Party, there is said to be a division between fiscal conservatives and social conservatives. (1) Fiscal conservatives, a/k/a Rockefeller Republicans, a/k/a the oligarchic faction, seem to have thrown their support to Mitt Romney. Watch Mitt Romney.

Noteworthy are George H.W. Bush's [two?] recent invitations to Mitt Romney for the purpose of speaking at the Bush Family's facilities at Texas A&M University. (2)
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