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Last week President Obama decided to send 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan with hopes that the U.S. can surge now and withdraw by around 2011.

The New York Times has an interesting article on How Obama made the decision. I have to admit that after reading the article I am more accepting of the decision to put more troops in Afghanistan. At least now we have an idea of the information and assumptions that Obama had in making the decision.

What do you think of his in-depth decision-making process? After reading the article, did it change your opinion of his decision?

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While home in Detroit I read a front-page article in the Detroit News about President Obama’s 24 year old Korean American advisor, Eugene Kang from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He happens to be a graduate of the University of Michigan (Go Blue).

Conservative or not, I like the story of Mr. Kang’s involvement in politics.

In the summer of 2002, before his freshman year at the University of Michigan, he was an intern on the re-election campaign of Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn.

At U-M, he felt frustrated that there were no student voices on the City Council. So he ran in 2005 — and lost by 90 votes.

The City Council “was I thought at the time kind of in need for a younger voice,” Kang recalled. “There were a lot of wonky reasons — the millages kept going up, the services kept getting cut — that I just felt (being on the City Council) would be a great way just to learn more about the process and to just try my hand and see if (politics) might be something I could succeed in.”

I was genuinely pleased and surprised by this article for a number of reasons. First, I was pleased that the Detroit News covered something about Asians that wasn’t about Japanese cars, tainted Chinese goods, or Asian cuisine.

Second, I was surprised that a kid could almost win an election for city council. Ann Arbor is a college town more progressive and more diverse than your typical town in the midwest but the point is that he seemingly had 2 strikes against him (young, Asian) yet lost by ninety votes. Assuming a few thousand votes cast that’s not a horrible margin of loss.

Finally, and most importantly, I am pleased that there is a young Asian American in the White House. I don’t know what his job function is, it has something to do with community building and online stuff. Maybe he’s not doing anything SUPER important or Earth shattering but, hey, there’s an Asian in the Oval Office. You gotta admit that’s pretty damn cool.

Asian Conservative’s long-stated goal, yet examplarized by Mr. Kang’s success story, is to fan Asian American activism. We want the Asian Conservative voice to be heard by our local, state, and national governments! I’m going to start by voting in the California Special Elections. Then if I ever buy a condo I’ll run for a seat on the HOA board. Then when I have kids I’ll run for PTA… Then who knows what else I’m likely to do.

America… Fuck Yeah!

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I may write for The Asian Conservative but I AM a male in the 18-34 demographic. Yes, fart jokes and sexual innuendo entertain me. That is why I was particularly delighted when news outlets called Tax day protesters “teabaggers.” Of course Fox News has an article about how immature the other cable news networks are for using the term “teabagging” and “teabaggers.”

Sure, it’s not professional or mature but I find the whole situation thoroughly entertaining.

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• Irony: White House person in charge of asking GM CEO to resign was an investment banker. What now. Refinance GM under a sub prime mortgage? #
• White House has power to fire GM CEO but not AIG or big bank execs? #

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• A documentary: “Why haven’t we dragged AIG/Citi/Auto execs out into the streets and flogged them?” Society needs public floggings! #
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Quite frankly I didn’t know what an omnibus was until I looked it up in wikipedia.

Taxpayer.net, run by Taxpayers for Common Sense, reports that the Fiscal Year 2009 Omnibus has 8,570 earmarks worth $7.7 billion dollars. That’s a lot of loot. They offer an Excel spreadsheet of the earmarks. I am interested to see how many of the earmarks benefit Asian Conservative constituents, if any. Updates to this post will follow.

Update 1:

($142,500) Japanese Community Youth Council, San Francisco, CA for renovation of a youth development facility

($237,500) Japanese American Museum of San Jose in San Jose, CA for construction of a new museum

($476,000) Chinese Hospital, San Francisco, CA for facilities and equipment

($196,500) Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment, San Gabriel Valley Business Development and Revolving Micro Loan Fund for counseling and advising services

($245,643) Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program

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