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By '08 he probably needed 2 seats.
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Was he an invited guest with prominent seating, or did he just attend with the press?
Think about the difference.
he was invited by chris christie. had to fly them in on a chinook.
LOL...
It would take a Chinook to move Moore's ass! With Moore and Christie, that Chinook was probably straining!
Why was he sitting in the press box?
roof access. lowered em down together.
Obama is a lying fake...always has been, always will be and he's a damn murderer for continuing and extending Bush' policies.
BUT, in Mayor Julian Castro's case, this can only help both of them, especially Castro's political future. He is USING Castro for the Latino vote. And of course Julian is allowing himself to be used, but of course that means he'll probably be offered a cabinet position or something.
So in that sense, if you are Julian Castro and you wanna move up and end up in the White House soon, it's a good move for what He wants to do.
I'm sorry to say he'll be another sell out Democrat politician (because he'll be beholden to Obama) when and if he ever becomes President or anything else, but maybe, just maybe he'll be able to do some good.
I won't vote for Obama, but if and when Castro ever becomes something years from now, I hope he does something good and doesn't screw it up too.
I'll have hope, but probably not much. I completey disagree with the whole Dem/Repub way of doing things. It's a corrupt system.
How can this be a bad move? Even if he does alienate local supporters, he's about to open the door to national support by being visible young Hispanic candidate speaking on a huge stage.
Sure, maybe he loses the kind of donors that fund a Mayoral run but he's about to gain the kind of donors that fund national politics.
Glad we got that out of the way.
How's he been as a mayor? I always lived outside the city limits so I never voted in a mayor race in SA but I supported Harberger the first time around.
If you live outside of 410, fairly uneventful.
I liked Hardberger for being very vocal in helping the homeless and helping with Haven for Hope.
Castro is your typical politician. So careful in everything he says. I was impressed when he made that video talking crap to Charles Barkley because he is always so "Romney-like" and politically correct, or fake basically when speaking.
He is trying to progress SA, I give him that, his 20 year plan to bring life to the city and revitalize, etc, good job. His support of the Cesar Chavez street name change I personally agree with. I think he can be really good nationally if he doesn't sell out. But how often does that happen in politics?
As Mayor, I have no huge complaints. I'm just glad it isn't Howard Peak or Garza anymore. lol
I actually do root for Castro to move up as we clearly see that's going to happen.
Last edited by SA210; 08-01-2012 at 04:52 PM.
2010 article on Castro worth repeating..
The Post-Hispanic Hispanic Politician
Full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/ma...or-t.html?_r=1In early December, Julián Castro, the newly elected mayor of San Antonio, visited the White House to attend President Obama’s national jobs-and-economic-growth forum. Castro was one of only five mayors in attendance and, at 35, the youngest. When his turn came to speak — the subject was the creation of green jobs — the president looked at him, midway down the long conference table, and said: “I thought he was on our staff. I thought he was an intern. This guy’s a mayor?” The other participants — world-famous economists, environmentalists and politicians — burst into laughter.
“Of San Antonio, Tex.,” Castro said evenly.
Obama grinned. “I’m messing with you,” he said. “I know who you are.”
Castro was neither flustered nor flattered by the president’s bantering familiarity. Of course Obama knew who he was — gate-crashers might make it into White House social events, but they don’t get to the table of high-level West Wing policy meetings led by the president himself. Castro smiled politely at Obama’s jest and then proceeded to the business at hand, delivering prepared remarks about employment and the energy market in San Antonio. He is cerebral, serious, self-contained and highly efficient. If he were an energy source, he’d be zero-emission. A video of the event shows the president listening intently to Castro’s presentation and nodding occasionally, Harvard Law ’91 silently encouraging Harvard Law ’00.
A few days before the meeting, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited San Antonio and told the mayor that he was “on the radar in Washington.” The morning of the meeting, Castro was included in a small working breakfast hosted by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Valerie Jarrett, one of the president’s closest advisers, was there, too. Castro was being noticed and auditioned. It had been about a dozen years since another brilliant young man from San Antonio, Henry Cisneros, regarded by many as the emerging national leader of the Hispanic wing of the Democratic Party, lost his political future in a sex-and-money scandal. Cisneros’s implosion left an opening. For a while, Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, and Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles, were Great Hispanic Hopes, but scandals eventually knocked them out of contention too.
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Thanks for posting
Yes, and you also like to take things out of context. You gave us one more example of how unethical of a scientist you will make. You will be in good company with the AGW crowd.
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