http://www.achicagoblog.com/2008/05/20/talking-is-overrated/ Living and breathing in the Second City Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:20:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.achicagoblog.com/2008/05/20/talking-is-overrated/#comment-1892 Beasley's Brother Tue, 20 May 2008 21:10:46 +0000 http://www.achicagoblog.com/?p=381#comment-1892 Talking is overrated? Seriously? Hasn't the last eight years taught us enough? Talking is overrated? Seriously? Hasn’t the last eight years taught us enough?

]]> http://www.achicagoblog.com/2008/05/20/talking-is-overrated/#comment-1886 Barack Obama » Talking is Overrated Tue, 20 May 2008 14:06:25 +0000 http://www.achicagoblog.com/?p=381#comment-1886 [...] Rumproast — Brooklyn, NY’s meatiest blog wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Rich Lowry writes: When Kennedy thought he was being accommodating, Khrushchev thought he was being weak. He pocketed rhetorical concessions by Kennedy and demanded more. Afterward, Kennedy called it “the roughest thing in my life.” Kennedy adviser George Ball later said that Khrushchev had perceived Kennedy as “young and weak,” and Kennedy confidant Gen. Maxwell Taylor thought Khrushchev concluded he could “shove this young man around.” Vienna was the backdrop for Soviet assertion in the Cold [...] [...] Rumproast — Brooklyn, NY’s meatiest blog wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Rich Lowry writes: When Kennedy thought he was being accommodating, Khrushchev thought he was being weak. He pocketed rhetorical concessions by Kennedy and demanded more. Afterward, Kennedy called it “the roughest thing in my life.” Kennedy adviser George Ball later said that Khrushchev had perceived Kennedy as “young and weak,” and Kennedy confidant Gen. Maxwell Taylor thought Khrushchev concluded he could “shove this young man around.” Vienna was the backdrop for Soviet assertion in the Cold [...]

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