The Obama Valley
When you’re a venture capitalist and technology multimillionaire, it’s easy to be liberal and write big checks…
(via VentureBeat)
Barack Obama gets big Silicon Valley names behind him — Obama has picked up checks from Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz, Google backer Ram Shriram, YouTube founder Chad Hurley and many more, making him an early valley favorite, at least among the area’s power players. Thanks to Eric Savitz, of Barrons, who has sifted through Federal Election Committee filings.
RELATED: Obama speech sparks anti-US rally
The Guardian reports:
“Democratic US presidential hopeful Barack Obama was criticised by Pakistani officials as ‘irresponsible’ for saying in a policy speech last week that, if elected, he might order unilateral military strikes in the country against al-Qaeda. Following the Pakistani officials’ comments, hundreds chanted anti-US slogans and burnt a US flag.”
Just another day for those with nothing else to do…
‘We are able to defend ourselves. We will teach a lesson to America if it attacks us,’ a local cleric, Maulvi Mohammed Roman, told the rally.
Almost sounds like a threat…
Elsewhere in the country, a suicide attacker killed nine people after detonating a car bomb at a busy bus station in an area bordering Afghanistan. The attack wounded 35 others, officials said. Army helicopter gunships and troops repelled a guerrilla raid on a military checkpoint earlier last week, killing at least 15 Islamists, the military said.
Terrorists, killing more innocent women and children.
(yeah, that’ll show us!)
August 5th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
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