down the people closest to Mitt Romney. I can't go into details as it gets into personal lives, but we knew for certain that none of his closest aides were making any plans to move with Romney to meet up with McCain. So, we knew then that McCain's choice was not the former Massachusetts Governor -- who, like John McCain, used to be for a lot of cool things before he was against them.

Like much of the public, I thought that McCain was then going to go with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. I didn't quite agree with a thoughtful Dem writer I know that "even though Pawlenty cut off his mullet, he's still a guy who had a mullet." Pawlenty had http://www.watchrolexshop.com/wow-power-leveling some strengths that could have impressed voters -- so too Romney. In fact, many Republican realists were big Romney supporters, and McCain could have helped seal a serious rift in the national security community by taking on Romney.

Steve

Thanks for your response. Glad to see that it was more a choice of the person and not the company (which I do admire - for now).

stagecoach

This is good news for the Foundation to continue in the "heavyweight" tradition. I read one of the linked articles that talked about the Foundation's emphasis on a powerful electronic element. I always assumed that TWN was completely sanctioned by your bosses, and that it provided some very useful benefits to the foundation itself. The capacity to preside, to blog, to support, to cheer-lead, etc. are all part of what keeps this think-tank out of the ivory-tower category. What I also know for sure is that there will still be hardback books in the offices, as well as the latest in laptops.

This is good news for the Foundation to continue in the "heavyweight" tradition. I read one of the linked articles that talked about the Foundation's emphasis on a powerful electronic element. I always assumed that TWN was completely sanctioned by your bosses, and that it provided some very useful benefits to the foundation itself. The capacity to preside, to blog, to support, to cheer-lead, etc. are all part of what keeps this think-tank out of the ivory-tower category. What I also know for sure is that there will still be hardback books in the offices, as well as the latest in laptops.

stagecoach -- it's my self-indulgent notion that the New America Foundation continuing to chug along in ways that make a difference is universally good. just a simple overstatement of mine -- but one i feel comfortable with. eric schmidt has been a friend and on our board a long time and pre-google. he was formerly at sun microsystems as CTO and then CEO of Novell. I would have been pleased to have him as our chairman of the board in either of those capacities and am not gaga about google per se. but i am a big fan of eric schmidt.

best, steve

Steve

So why is it good that the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world is the Chairman?

I can see why everyone gets giddy whenever anyone associated with google does anything.

Google will, rightly or wrongly, be in the middle of significant political storms both domestic and global. I find it hard to believe that you want a corporate bias in the Chairman's position.

On the Board absolutely no problem. Chairman, in my mind is something different.

Why am I wrong?

Stagecoach

Steve, are you sure it shouldn't read.....(?)

"Google CEO Acquires New America Foundation"