I was only half-attentive (no, maybe not even that much) to the news broadcast yammering forth from the radio. So I wasn’t sure that I’d heard clearly.
Well, the New York Times is reporting:
| President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was not winning the war in Afghanistan….
In a 35-minute conversation with The New York Times aboard Air Force One on Friday, Mr. Obama reviewed the challenges to his young administration. The president said he could not assure Americans the economy would begin growing again this year. But he pledged that he would “get all the pillars in place for recovery this year” and urged Americans not to “stuff money in their mattresses.” |
Is not winning the same as losing? Or does he mean it’s a stalemate?
About the pledged placed pillars — will the recovery be this year or just the placement of the pillars?
And about the mattressed money (or the moneyed mattresses) — I don’t my money in any mattress nor under it. We spend it. But what about those who actually have extra money? What should they do with it? More directly, do you keep your money close to your mattress?
Look, I’m not knocking the President, OK? 🙄
I’m just wondering.