Keeping Busy

Obama is certainly keeping busy. Apart from making trade ties with Russia, he's just had a state visit from the Afghan President - among other things to discuss the war in Afghanistan and to put pressure on him regarding the drug trade. Well, if the opium poppies are affected by disease, there should be less of a problem for funding terrorism - apart from the prices rising (and possibly the drug related crimes too). Then he addresses the US employment issues, the oil spill catastrophe in the Mexican Gulf - dealing with the culprit of British Oil company BP, and eventually asking for money in Congress to clean up the mess. Granting a missile defence system for Israel. Still, taking the time to wish new British PM Cameron good luck and extending a hand for future co-operation and negociation.

Obama has also found time for the nomination of a new justice for the US Supreme Court, dean of Harvard Law School and Solicitor General Elena Kagan, after Justice John Paul Stevens who will retire. Latest in the rumour trade would have Kagan be a Lesbian, now needing to 'defend' herself against it. Who cares who she is kissing? The questions and the probing shouldn't be about her private life. The questions and the probing should be - does she know her way around the paragraphs and the Constitution? Paradoxically, the ones to raise this very issue don't.

For further information, please see (photos googled, among other places found at the Barack Obama website and timesonline.co.uk):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/nyregion/12newyorkers.html?hpw
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/kagan_elena/index.html?inline=nyt-per
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/13/AR2010051305305.html?wpisrc=nl_pmheadline&sid=ST2010051305412
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kagan