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Piaf Brasserie and Bar: A little Gem
Actually a Modern European vibe. Just been painted - major improvement. Thought it was new management but same team there - just done up. I like the food here. Mid range not pricey (although you can splash out!)
Been a few times so food is generally good. They have cheaper menus if you are going out or having a quick lunch.
Favorite Dish: I saw a celebrity here and he said "Wow" when he saw the chicken and avocado burger. The burgers are big and there are good tender streaks here.
They do some good comfort food like Boeff Bourgignon (with Mash)
It is a nice atmosphere - you can chill out.
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Piaf Restaurant: Relaxing!
Been to this restaurant a few times now. I think the food is very good and at mid-range prices. They also do some deals such as fast lunch and pre-theatre deals (menus)
The place is very like a parisian bistro, they do a range of mediterranean food (no pasta though). Good portions and very high quality ingredients - it's good-would recommend.
Favorite Dish: Good choices and not just the usual stuff.
I like the light dishes, very good steak sandwich on Ciabatta.
Mains are varied - v. good meat dishes, slow cooked and surprisingly good seafood.
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Piaf On The Hill: A little gem on 'The Hill'
We thought we'd try Le Piaf on Wimbledon Hill, as we'd heard some good things about it from friends.
As you go in, the first thing you'll find is that this restaurant a bit old, tired and a touch shabby around the edges - but the welcome was warm and friendly!
The food was a bargain and the quality exceptional for the price. We had an excellent (and big) rib-eye steak and some perfectly cooked calves liver & bacon as our main event, starters were some prawns and a yummy soup. My other half was persuaded into what she said was an excellent sticky toffee pudding.
The wines were ok and after commenting, we were promised that there was work in progress to bring in a new list for summer.
There's nothing hugely inventive about the menus - it's all familiar restaurant and brasserie dishes, however the cooking sets Le-Piaf apart - everything was made very well, at a price that makes it a feasible alternative to cooking at home, when you want a night off!
I'd recommend this place to everyone - a very pleasant surprise! We've already re-booked!
Favorite Dish: My favourite dish was the rib-eye steak - it came perfectly cooked and I had a great peppercorn sauce on the side to go with it.
My partner raved about the grilled prawns and the sticky toffee pudding
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Watch Me: Sri Lankan Food
This is an Indian and Sri Lankan restaurant I was introduced to by friends who grew up in Sri Lanka and now live in England. They say the Sri Lankan dishes taste just how they remember in restaurants back home.
It's quite a tiny place with just a few tables and the decor is fairly standard for an Indian restaurant in the UK.
It was nice to try some of the Sri Lankan dishes that my friends don't cook at home because they are time consuming or need particular equipment, but the restaurant has all the standard Indian dishes too.
It was a good place to go as a vegetarian with meat eating friends, as there was plenty of choice for everyone
I think the restaurant is called Watch Me because there is a glass screen between the dining area and the kitchen, but I've always been too absorbed by my food to take much notice.
It is quite popular with families having a welcoming attitude towards young children, although the restaurant doesn't have its own high chairs.
Favorite Dish: I like the eggless vegetable Kottu Roti (stir fried vegetables with shredded chapattis) or coconut milk topped hoppers (these are crumpets made in a round bottomed pan, so the edges become thin and crispy like a crepe) served with devilled potatoes: a fairly dry, slightly sweet dish with tomatoes, chillies and peppers.
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Gourmet Burger Kitchen: Don't forget to try Chilli burger
As you enter you will notice a many range of gourmet burgers posted on the walls and listed on the menus, and it's hard to choose which you order.The price is reasonable, with a nice decor, and very friendly staff.THEY WIN AS ABEST BURGER HARDEN'S LONDON RESTAURANTS 2006
Favorite Dish: The fries are excellent and huge, and the milk shakes are really yummy.The food is Fresh quality produce and delicious.
Fifteen: Don"t forget pannacotta with soft rhubarb
Jamie Oliver a celebrity cheff created this restaurant as part of his TV series, Jamie's Kitchen, It is a great experience to eat this restaurant. To think that Jamie O is one of my idol regarding cooking.
Favorite Dish: We order oxtail stew, grilled rib-eye steak With butter sauce. My daughter order yellowfin tuna served with spicy caponata. And for the dessert we order pannacotta with soft rhubarb it is really yummy…
The Terrace: An evening on the terrace anyone?
We hadnt been here for a while, and only when seated (how observant are we??? haha).. we noticed that the decor had changed, as had the waiters, as had the NAME :)
We were pleasantly surprised, the food was absolutely delicious, they have changed the decor a bit inside which opens the space up alot and it looks nicer, and service was good.
The only thing we didnt like was that even in the non smoking section, there is a strong smell of cigarette smoke filtering in from the smoking section, so we asked them to put the aircon/fan overhead on higher, which they did. And the smell dissapated.
You dont ask, you dont get ;)
Favorite Dish: I had a lasagne pasta which was lovely, my sister had a tasty ravioli, and the bowls were those large deep ones... it was SO filling! Very good value for money too at £6.95.
Our cousin - a little girl of 7 - had a kiddies pizza (Hawaaiin) and she loved it too! So all in all, a successful luncheon :)
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Ma Potters: Ma Potters Bar & Restaurant
The blackboard specials are generally a good mix and reasonably priced.
The service is okay... albeit a little slow when busy. One has to wait at the door to be seated and this sometimes takes ages, so I always just walk in and sit down.
We have eaten here quite a few times and even had a birthday dinner for my sister here, with some friends.
I had gotten there early and good thing I had! They had gotten their wires crossed and sat us at another birthday dinners table, forgetting about hers altogether! So the other party arrived to no table, and we sat at a table for 6, when there were 9 people coming (something we did not know at the time!)!
After a quick call to my sister to get exact numbers, we rearranged everything, so by the time people arrived they were non the wiser as to the flurry that had occurred just before their arrival.
Favorite Dish: Their sesame crust salmon, fishermans pie pesto chicken and chocolate milkshakes are firm favourites! :)
I also like their salads. LOTS of green salad and proper lettuce, not rocket and other greens, as so many other restaurants provide.
Their breakfast is nice but alas, no tomato!!! It's well cooked though and not greasy.
Update Jan 2007:
This restaurant has closed. Coal Bar and Grill is there now!
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The William Morris public house: A lovely pub by the Wandle!
Now this is a little find! Right in the heart of Merton Abbey Mills, near Wimbledon.
One visits Merton Abbey Mills if you are looking to buy that 'something different', whether it be a fossil, a stained glass mirror or a beautiful handcrafetd frame.
We (enjoying crafts and arty things) have often strolled through here (our friend also has an estate agency here, so we pop in and visit him too when we come here).
This pub was recommended to us by him, and we enjoyed it very much.
It is alongside the Wandle River, which has recently been cleaned up a lot and is mroe pleasant to walk along. It isnt a wide river though, more of a canal if anything. Kids fish in it and people go for walks along it.
The pub has a lovely atmosphere, and I especially enjoyed the outside area, alongside the river.
Favorite Dish: Service is good here, we certainly had no complaints!
We had a tiny bite to eat, nibbled more, so I cannot comment on the food her persay, but the beer shandy was cold and tasty, and the experience was very pleasant.
They also dont rush you either, even if you are in a prime position, which was rather nice!
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The Alexandra: The Alexandra
This is an enormous pub. The pub caters for all, with a public bar, a large panelled smoke-free bar, another lounge bar, as well as Smart Alex, the wine bar.
Smart Alex is a lovely olive green colour, with black leather highbacked chairs, with dark wood tables.
Stylish and modern.
It is also non-smoking which is GREAT, but the smell of smoke does reach you from the other areas unfortunately.
There is an outdoor terraced area too, lovely for summer.
Favorite Dish: Food is average meal-wise, but is nothing to write home about. One leaves with a full belly, and one can have a lovely time here.
The Hand and Racquet: The Hand and Racquet
Previously known as Hogheads, this pub has undergone a few management changes it seems.
Decor is good (there's a lovely sunlight in the one section, and leather lounge suites to lounge about on) and there is a non smoking section - yippee yay!
To find that in a pub is a joy. Couches were comfy, and ambiance was good.
Favorite Dish: We have watched a rugby game here, and it was thoroughly enjoyable.
The food we did have was nice (we only had handcut hot chips), beer good and service fine and polite.
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Prince of Wales Pub: Want to dine with the Prince of Wales?
The decor is lovely - old world and quaint, if not a tad shabby though! It is past due a refurbishment in my opinion.
The service is good as far as pubs go, but it is a VERY smokey pub. Even smokers complain!
As a non-smoker I wouldnt go there again, it really puts one off their food!
Favorite Dish: They make lovely home made pies (I havent tasted one of them but a friend has). I had a beer shandy there and it was fine... hard to get a beer shandy wrong! ;)
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Thai Tho: Good Quality Thai Food
The owner of this restaurant was a client of mine at my last job and whenever I met her, she would be on the phone checking that her restaurant was maintaining a high standard of food and service, so I wasn't surprised by the excellent quality I find whenever I have been to eat at any of them.
She started off her business in quite a small way but it certainly doesn't surprise me, given her dedication to providing excellent food and service that it took off and she now has at least five restaurants in the South West London area.
The food is always fresh, well cooked and delicious. The restaurants are decorated but not cluttered with beautiful wooden carvings from Thailand and the serving staff are always friendly and helpful. I have also noticed children eating here on several occasions and when visiting the restaurant with a friend and her children found they were made very welcome.
Favorite Dish: I love the vegetable tempura and the pak pad prik (vegetables stir fried with chilli and sweet basil), which goes beautifully alongside the coconut rice with crispy onions on top. It's such a good combination of flavours that, since I first ordered it, I have it every time I go there.
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Footlights: Footlights
You can enter this restaurant during the day from inside Centre Court, and later at night from outside, in the front (where the maroon blinds are in the photo).
The idea of the roof terrace on the outside of a mall looking out onto a busy High Street isnt exactly the best scenery-wise, but it's still nice to sit outside.
I have heard bad stories re this place (it becomes more of a bar/club at night, not so much a restaurant), where they have had fights etc. but to be honest - where alot of drink is involved, there will always be fighting and people behaving silly.
Favorite Dish: I have had a few dishes and have enjoyed them all. Nothing out of this world, but no bad experiences either. Their salads are lovely, as is their chicken and seafood. Their menu is quite varied.
Update, April 2006 - We went again and were pleasantly surprised, the food was absolutely delicious, they have changed the decor a bit which looks nicer, and service was good. We thennoticed they have changed their name! haha Hence the food tasting extra nice etc... It is now called The Terrace.
The only thing we didnt like was that even in the non smoking section, there is a strong smell of cigarette smoke filtering in from the smoking section, so we asked them to put the aircon/fan overhead on higher, which they did. And the smell dissapated.
You dont ask, you dont get ;)
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Ma Potters: Ma Potters - breakfast or brunch
I met up with Jenniflower to have brunch at this restaurant.
It has a reasonable sized no-smoking section as well as outside seating
The breakfast I had was nice, not like what you get at a greasy spoon
They offer salads & various snadwiches, quiches, lunch options etc
It seems to be a fairly child friendly retaurant geared towards weary shoppers
Favorite Dish: I have only had the breakfast here so I guess that will be my favourite to date :-)
At present their website is advertising a special offer of 2 course lunch for GBP6.95
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Price is a big issue for me...lets see where this thread goes.
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Unfortunately, bad things happen in "3"s:
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I might have missed the reference when I started the thread.
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Elisabeth Sobotka, Intendantin of Oper Graz and chair of the RING AWARD jury, has once again attracted Stefan Herheim, the internationally renowned director, to Graz, where this time he will stage Handel's XERXES. Herheim, from Norway, was three times voted "Director of the Year" by the leading opera journal "Opernwelt" (2007 for DON GIOVANNI at Essen, 2008 for PARSIFAL at the Bayreuth Festival, and 2010 for ROSENKAVALIER at Staatsoper Stuttgart).
Following CARMEN and MANON LESCAUT, XERXES is his third production at Oper Graz. In this staging, Herheim combines Handel's 1738 opera seria with a parallel theatre world and does not shun away from seeing the tumultuous stage activity with contemporary eyes.
Opening night on 29 November 2014.
The German stage director Holger Müller-Brandes, winner of the first RING AWARD in 1997, traces the fascinating interleaving of film stories and real history at the Berlin Brotfabrik, where he explores the longing and playfulness with dreams that the film promises and that real life by contrast actually lives out.
DREAM FACTORY, a homage to Berlin film pioneers Mia and Joe May, sounds out the world of showbiz in all its facets from Berlin to Hollywood, from yesterday until now.
Opening night is on 26 November.
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The German stage director Christiane Lutz has started rehearsals at Theater an der Wien for a production of Handel's RINALDO to be premiered on 4 December 2014.
No other opera by the composer was given more often during his lifetime than RINALDO, an opera that forms a musical and scenic firework of special qualities and is full of melodic ideas which Handel put to paper for the opera's world premiere in 1711.
At the RING AWARD 14 finals, this offer of a production at Theater an der Wien was a prize awarded by Intendant Roland Geyer to the team Lutz/Maraval.
Memento mori
Vera Nemirova, stage director, born in Bulgaria, and master disciple of Peter Konwitschny, won the RING AWARD in 2000 and the Encouragement Prize of the 'Musical Theatre Today' Academy sponsored by the Bank of Germany in 2002. In March 2006 she received the Art Award Berlin of the Berlin Academy of Arts, section Performing Arts. Her productions were nominated several times by the leading German journal 'Opernwelt'.
Vera Nemirova is well known to many opera fans and to the international press by her highly acclaimed interpretation of Wagner's RING OF THE NIBELUNG at Frankfurt Opera. Her much-discussed tetralogy (starting with THE RHINEGOLD in May 2010) saw its completion and culmination in THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS on 29 January 2012. The opening night's audience enthusiastically welcomed the production, which has meanwhile reached a cult status as the famous 'RING with the disks'.
On the occasion of Richard Strauss's 150th birthday anniversary, Vera Nemirova has brought out a new production of DER ROSENKAVALIER (THE ROSE-BEARER) at the Weimar National Theatre. The story tells a comedy of mistaken identity at the centre of which we find Princess Werdenberg, the Field-Marshal's wife, as a great moral authority reflecting on the transience of human life.
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On the occasion of Benjamin Britten's, the great composer's, 100th birthday anniversary, the Vienna Boys' Choir will sing, play and make music with Nikolaus Habjan, Styrian puppet player, who recently celebrated a most successful and highly acclaimed opening night at the Schauspielhaus Graz. The stage director of this special musical performance at MuTh (Music & Theatre Vienna) is Christiane Lutz. The German director together with her set designer Natascha Maraval won the jury's Adjunct Prize of EUR 2000 at the RING AWARD 14 finals, in addition to offers for productions at Theater an der Wien and Staatstheater Cottbus. In "Der Junge und das Meer" ("The Boy and the Sea") she has developed a concept for a scenic concert based on Benjamin Britten's children's opera "Golden Vanity", which the famous English composer wrote especially for the Vienna Boys' Choir in 1966.
To be seen at MuTh on 7 & 8 November 2014.
"Austria's Puppet Artist Number One"
Last Friday Nikolaus Habjan and two actors from the ensemble of Schaupielhaus Graz let 'the puppets dance' at the theatre's Rehearsal Stage. Albert Camus's "The Misunderstanding", under the direction of Habjan, has already turned into the great public success of the season: few spare tickets are left for all remaining performances.
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The full extent of Washington's complete control over who sees what in the crucial Iraqi dossier calls into question the allegations made by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that 'omissions' in the document constituted a 'material breach' of the latest UN resolution on Iraq.
Last week, Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan accepted that it was 'unfortunate' that his organisation had allowed the US to take the only complete dossier and edit it. He admitted 'the approach and style were wrong' and Norway, a member of the security council, says it is being treated like a 'second-class country'.
Although Powell called the Iraqi dossier a 'catalogue of recycled information and flagrant omissions', the non-permanent members of the security council will have no way of testing the US claims for themselves. This will be crucial if the US and the UK go back to the security council seeking explicit authorisation for war on Iraq if breaches of resolution 1441 are confirmed when the weapons inspectors -- this weekend investigating 10 sites in Iraq, including an oil refinery south of Baghdad -- deliver their report to the UN next month.
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Current and former UN diplomats are said to be livid at what some have called the 'theft' of the Iraqi document by the US. Hans von Sponeck, the former assistant general secretary of the UN and the UN's humanitarian co- ordinator in Iraq until 2000, said: 'This is an outrageous attempt by the US to mislead.'
Although the five permanent members of the security council -- the US, the UK, France, China and Russia -- have had access to the complete version, there was agreement that the US be allowed to edit the dossier on the ground that its contents were 'risky' in terms of security on weapons proliferation.
Yesterday, US President George W Bush announced that a planned trip to several African countries, scheduled for January, had been cancelled. As he gave the go-ahead to double the current 50,000 US troops deployed in the Gulf by early January, he used his weekly radio address to say that 'the men and women in the [US] military, many of whom will spend Christmas at posts and bases far from home' were the only thing that stood between 'Americans and grave danger'.
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The Jungle Nook was awesome!
My husband and I were more than satisfied with our lodging at the Balboa Park Inn (we had booked over the net). Turned out it's right across the street from the zoo and Balboa Park, so the location was great! We stayed in the jungle nook suite which was nicely decorated and perfect for comfort. Gorgeous bathroom with double shower and hot-tub. We WILL recommend it and return next time we're in San Diego. And friendly staff to boot!!!
Great place to stay inSan Diego
Stayed three nights, and once you are able to relate the freeway grid to destinations within the San Diego area there's no problem getting about. We got a great welcome and help and advice were always on hand. It's a great idea to build around the courtyard and as a result it was quiet and secluded while being central at the same time. Our accommodation was fine (the Courtyard suite) and whilst a little quirky was very comfortable and had every amenity. We ate locally - a walk into Hillcrest is about twenty minutes or so and we had one of the best Italian meals ever there (Antico Toscana). Highly recommend the Balboa Park Inn on price and quality.
Great Stay!
Really good value, great for families, and great location. We stayed with our 2 kids aged 4 1/2 and 12 months. They had a queen bed and a pull-out full sofa bed in our room with a full kitchen. They give a nice continental breakfast delivered to the room. We had breakfasts in the room, and even a dinner and were able to pack picnic lunches we prepared there. The room was decorated nicely. It had a nice private patio going into the courtyard. This hotel was obvously someone's dream. The location couldn't be beat.
Always a pleasure
I have stayed at the Inn and will continue. I have had friends and family stay there as well. It is very Gay friendly and fortunately located close to Hillcrest, the park and zoo. Close to freeways and is a most beautiful inn. Every room is unique and "extremely" clean. The staff bends over backwards to make sure you are happy and comfortable. I love this place and so will you. The Orient Express room is one of my favorites with its elegance and just a touch of "campiness."
A Great Find
Just returned from a weekend stay at the Balboa Park Inn and were really impressed. We chose this hotel because of the good things we read about it on Tripadvisor.com, and just wanted to return the favor and encourage others to try it out as well!
When I check in to small, independent hotels I often worry about cleanliness, but our room was really well-maintained. After looking at all the hotel's rooms on its website, we decided to opt for "pretty" over "silly" and chose the Courtyard Suite for Valentine's Day Weekend (although some of the more over-the-top rooms looked like a lot of fun!). Our room had a really large bathroom with a jacuzzi tub for two and a wet bar in it. The living room/bedroom area was clean and spacious - we kept saying we wished we knew people in San Diego to invite them over; the setup would have been perfect for entertaining friends. The outside/common areas were lovely too - lots of little areas all over the complex with pretty wooden benches, garden/flower arrangements, fountains, etc. to just sit outside and enjoy San Diego's gorgeous weather. They bring your breakfast straight to your room whenever you're ready for it, and we took ours to a bench right outside our room and ate it out there.
The location was great for us too - we had a car and had no problem with on-street parking (the hotel is on the corner of a street with nothing but private houses, so there was lots of room to park). We had dinner in the Gaslamp district, and that was only a 5 or 6 minute drive away. The north end of Balboa Park (where the zoo is) is only about a half-mile walk.
I cannot rave enough about the Balboa Park Inn. The rooms are very comfortable, the continental breakfast is much more than you could possibly eat and the staff (Judy and Bick especially) is absolutely wonderful. The Balboa Park Inn is walking distance from the San Diego Zoo and the wonderful museums in Balboa Park. Also just a short taxi ride to the Hillcrest and Gaslamp Quarter.
I will definitely be coming back to visit my new friends there!
Fun place and location
The Balboa Park Inn is in a great location just across from the park and zoo. Also close to Hillcrest with lots of good places to eat. We found it to be quiet.
We stayed in the Greystoke and enjoyed the kitschy Tarzan theme with lots of stuffed animals. The bathroom was amazing with a wetbar and large whirlpool tub. Very romantic! The room was very large and clean. A bit expensive at $200 per night but worth the splurge if you have a sense of humor and want something fun to hang around in.
Oldie but a goodie
We have been staying at the Balboa Park Inn twice a year for the past five or six years. The Inn has a wide range of rooms with various themes, and we have stayed in most of them. Some rooms, the bathrooms in particular, need a little work. But it is walking distance from the park and it is in a quiet neighborhood. The breakfast is more than most people can eat in one sitting and many of the rooms have private or semi-private patios where you can enjoy a glass of wine as the day turns to evening
Nice but noisy
The Inn was clean, friendly and in a great location. Parking was easy and we cold walk to the zoo and museums in ten minutes.
The Inn's walls are VERY thin, and noise late at night and early in the morning kept us up.
Continental breakfast was very nice.
Had a great stay
Had a very good experience staying at the Balboa Park Inn. The buildings are old but well maintained. The room we stayed in was very clean, comfortable and quiet, even though on one morning there were hoards of people passing directly in front of the in the annual AIDS walk. Our room had a semi-private deck directly in front of its kitchen area that provided a pleasent place to enjoy breakfast. The front desk staff was extremely courteous and helpful. The location can't be beat. We were able to walk over to the zoo and the park museums. We were also only minutes away from the wonderful restaurants to be found on 5th and University Avenues. We plan to make this a regular spot for a relaxing weekend getaway.
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Romney缺少charisma 是个问题,但可能美国人希望少点激动人心的演讲,多点务实的重建计划。还有个问题是他是摩门教徒。
3 years of Obama, and his extreme left wing agenda, has done terrible damage to the U.S. 4 more years of Obama and the nation will never be able to recover. Gov Romney has the business and excutive political experience to start repairing the damage. As for him being a Mormon? Well with Obama we're not quite sure what we've got, but the betting is he's really an atheist or a Moslem. When most Americans think of it that way they are more than happy to have a Mormon in the White House!
I had to stop reading after the first few paragraphs because the bias of this article was so glaring that I did not want to waste my time trying to get an objective, journalistic analysis of Romney. This reads like a Romney press release.
I had to stop reading after the first few paragraphs because the bias of this article was so glaring that I did not want to waste my time trying to get an objective, journalistic analysis of Romney. This reads like a Romney press release.
So true. I agree.
I will not spend too much space the left comment people (lovely "moderate" Obama, evil limited government United States Constitution, "racist" Tea Party people, and on and on.....).
My interest is with the article itself. Yet again the Economist magazine (like so many other people - including the rival candidates) is claiming that Obamacare was based on Romneycare and this is just NOT TRUE.
I am no fan of Mitt Romney (or of Romneycare), but Obamacare was actually based on ideas that had been around in the American socialist movement for many years (see "Red Army" and many other books that cover this) - and these ideas are rather different from Romneycare. The basic point of Obamacare (the so called "Affordable Healthcare Act") is to make real private cover as EXPENSIVE AS POSSIBLE (the official name of Obamacare is deliberatly ironic).
American insurance cover is very expensive already (due to existing government regulations and existing government spending programs, such things have the same effect in health care as government subsidy of students has in higher education i.e. they VASTLY INCREASE PRICES - the one in student fees, the other in the price of health insurance). However, Obamacare is designed to vastly INCREASE these costs (via endless new mandates and regulations) so that real private cover (whether bought by individuals or their employees) is made more and more expensive - so that people are forced into "private" cover that is actually paid for (and controlled) by the government.
Later, of course, this "crony capitalist" (crony capitalist because it will really be paid for by the tax money) "private providers" will become very unpopular (due to hidden government control - or rather the effects of it) and it will be easy for the government to take over completely (it has a been a similar story with student loans).
Actually a lot of the above is already starting to happen. Private employers are dropping the coverage of their employees because WITH ALL THE NEW MANDATES AND REGULATIONS it will be cheaper to pay the fines than it would be to pay for health insurance. And private indivduals who pay for their own health insurance are already finding it vastly more expensive to do so - as companies prepare for the additional cost burdens of Obamacare.
I repeat that I am no fan of Mitt Romney but the above is certainly not his agenda. If the Economist magazine had actually bothered to research Obamacare (either the REAL origins of its ideas or just the details of the actual "Affordable Health Care" Act) you would know all the above.
At least you have a more realistic photo of Mitt Romney ! The ugly face of capitalism ! --- was it Edward Heath who said about Lonrho and Tiny Roweland ? These ugly faces keep popping up, but this is not only a problem of capitalism-- we had nothing but ugly faces on the other side ! The good thing is most people are sane and decent ! American people know what is good for them ! If John McCain couldn't defeat Obama, I doubt Mitt Romney can !
I believe that his claim that Utah was his primary residence (to avoid taxes) was scandalous. See http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/06/us/romney-faces-residency-questions-in...
What does The Economist means, the "REPUBLICAN Party could do worse"? The COUNTRY could do worse as it did between 2000 and 2008. After the corruption, criminality, illegality and incompetence of low-IQ George W. Bush, it is almost inconceivable the U.S. could fall lower. Is Mitt Romney going to be bad for the US? Definitely. You can expect more help for his friends in Wall Street to ensure they screw the average American even more, continued help for Israel to oppress the Palestinians further, more violations of the Constitution, well, you get the picture. Just another typical American president beholden to big business and banks.
Why do you think The Economist calls him America's future CEO? Because he will behave like all disgraced American CEOs: expand his and his buddies' advantages and privileges, at the expense of most Americans, or if you want, heaven for the few and hell for the many.
So, as I said, Romney will just be another average US president in charge of perpetuating an American dream for the few while ensuring an American nightmare for most. But WORSE than W. Bush? Now that would take some doing.
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The article seemed like a mundane enumeration of various talking points. Had to hold off hitting the recommend button.
On the whole, I think Mitt Romney would be a good, competent leader of the country. And by the way, a country is not a corporation.
Bu who knows - I think one president, or aid to a president (Kennedy administration?), conceded that it is all on the job training. In the end, nothing really prepares someone for a job like President of the US - An executive of a massive bureaucracy that has to share power with others, and possibly have to deal with a vast array of contingencies and suprises, both foreign and domestic.
As for business experience, interestingly only the two Bush presidents and Hoover seem to have any business experience deemed successful in the modern era (ok, LBJ had radios and hands in things, but...)
However, the 2008 financial crises was brought on by some of the greatest minds in banking and finance, so what does that say?
Once again the economist ignores the facts. Obama and the democrats have repeatedly tried to compromise with republicans to no avail, Obama has not ignored the centre and run off to the left. By saving the auto industry, continuing tarp and quickly enacting a stimulus Obama did what this newspaper repeatedly urged him and others to do. Finally being a CEO is not akin to running a government especially as president of the USA dealing with 3 seperate branches of governments, one of which has a multitude of members with wildly divergent goals.
The economist should just come out and say it that they don't like the left in any of it's incarnations and stop trying to sound fair and balanced its beginning to get tiresome and you are insulting your readers
Hear Hear! Spectacularj1 Jan 12th 2012 17:07 GMT : "Hopefully the comparisons of government to a business will cease. The government is not a business, does not have the same objectives as a business, and is not meant to be run like a business. Running the government as a business makes about as much sense as running a business like a government."
But I am afraid it falls on deaf ears. So do read this article with tongue in cheek, please. It's much more fun.
Start with the title: Mr. Romney as America' s next CEO. And then: the party (i.e. Republican) can do worse. Mind you: the party. How about the rest of the USA? Well, I suppose that part needs a hefty "restructuring", a lot of downsizing perhaps and if necessary: they all together are to be fired. For the Good of All.
The Economist: "Start with the advantages. The most important fact about Mr. Romney is that he is a non-ideological man …." which comes in handy nowadays, but …. " …. but can it outweigh the negatives? Mr. Romney's pragmatism has an inconvenient flip side: no one is quite sure where he stands." Which is convenient for a CEO to be: keep them in the dark and feed them shit (excusez le mot), is the motto.
There is a very apposite article by David Runciman in the London Review of Books
of 5th January 2012: "Will we be all right in the end? " see http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n01/david-runciman/will-we-be-all-right-in-the-end .
Mr. Runciman writes about the depoliticizing of politics in Europe, after the American model and example, I would say. He remarks on the crisis in the eurozone that it is not at all about politics nor about visions, ideas or ideology:
" One of the most striking things about this crisis is that the basic divide it has revealed is not between fundamentally different political views of the future, but simply between optimists and pessimists. (….)The current argument between the optimists and the pessimists has all the hallmarks of an ideological dispute but without any of the content."
I dare say that is exactly what is going in the USA now. Politics has been effectively gutted some time ago over there. We only go on referring to it as something to do with politics because that is what we are supposed to do. We simply have no other vocabulary for the hullabaloos.
To my opinion the best recent analysis of what has been going in the USA for some time now is by Sheldon Wolin with: "Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism."
see: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8606.html : "But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"?"
Well, being a successful CEO, mr. Romney should not find the trick of " turn-around-management" to difficult a thing to pull. Or isn't that the thing professor Wolin means by 'to invert' at all?
can anyone explain the vulcan reference??
I hope no. It will be another lost presidential period in the USA with Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney has zero potential to be the new american Gorbatchev. Generally, from collapse of Soviet Union, USA are unable to generate true leader.
"You know, I think it's about envy. I think it's about class warfare,".
To a large portion of our society, fatigued with the face of an African-American in the Oval Office, Romney is just the tonic. The thing is - he's spineless and without conviction. Envy? Way to whiff on a chance to understand the problems of the nation better Mitt.
Bye-bye consumer protections. Adios health care for all. Sayonara clean environment. The billionaires at the country club haven't had their fill just yet. And the Bubbas and Joes in the trailer park are going to make sure it keeps a coming.
Jonathan Sheridan wrote "…I simply cannot understand how a man who studied law at Harvard and is quite clearly nobodies fool in other aspects of life could bring himself to firmly believe in the religion…"
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Jonathan, I have a graduate degree in Physics, a non believer but with a wife who is a believer. Allow me to share my view and a laugh with you. While in school, we had this physicist joke. First, a couple of words of background for those who doesn't know: Wolfgang Pauli was famous Physicist; he did tremendous work and arrived at the Fine Structure Constant (approx 1/137). The Fine Structure Constant is used in many aspects of Physics. Anyhow, Pauli died and arrived in heaven. He met God and received a lot of compliments for his contribution to science. God then ask him if he has a question. He asks, "God, why is fine structure constant 1/137?" God explained it to him, and he stood there and listened respectfully. When God is done, he said "No, God, you are wrong, and here is why..." and he proceeds to explain to God where He is wrong...
Many famous brilliant minds believed in God. Even Einstein claimed to believe in God. I asked a professor I was close to once about his Catholic believes. He as an MIT PhD found it perfectly reasonable in what he believes. For him, it is simple, God is Energy and he created the physical laws the way they are so as we exist.
I could not cross that Rubicon myself. While I am fully aware that we don't have any idea about many aspects of the universe, I found it hard to believe that Energy or any physical laws are self-aware. But I must humble myself in submitting to the fact that while I consider myself rather smart, I am not all-knowing. People a lot smarter than I think I am wrong.
That said and while being a non-believer, I concluded being a non-believer is NOT a smart decision. I stand by it but I am fully aware I set myself up for the condition of only having the penalty and never the reward:
As Believer:
(b1 - reward) I am a believer and I am right (as believer): I can enjoy eternal life and be fully aware I am right.
(b2 - no punishment) I am a believer and I am wrong: I pay no price. There is nothing after and I won't be aware I am wrong – no punishment.
As Nonbeliever:
(n1 - punishment) I am a non-believer and I am wrong: There is a God and eternal life, I will suffer eternally and I will be fully aware of my folly as I pay the price and suffer the punishment as a non believer - punishment.
(n2 - no reward) I am a non-believer and I am right: there is indeed nothing after, I won't event have the satisfaction of knowing I am right – no reward.
So logically speaking, I took the path of punishment for being wrong and no reward for being right; rather than the path of reward for being right but no punishment when wrong. So logic alone said it is smart to believe. However the dumb non-believer is the path I have chosen. Who am I to argue with someone making a logically smart decision?
My view is: God is what the believer made of him. Cogito ergo sum. We think, therefore, we are. We think of Him, therefore, He is. If one chose to believe, one has chosen wisely. If one chose not to believe, well, you will never know if you are right.
So, I ask but one question: If there are more of them (believer of any particular religion), would the world be better even for the non-believers? If the answer is yes, then more power to them. After all, he made the smart move even if he is wrong.
insubstainity wrote:Comparing businessmen to statesmen:
- In a business, employers fire incompetent employees. Do you want
government to get rid of incompetent citizens?
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Hmmm... Insubstainity, you and I have different mindsets, or you mistyped.
For me, public servants serve the public, so for citizen to get rid of incompetent employees (politicians, government employees, so forth) is normal.
I have not considered your preposition that the public serving the public servants. So, the idea of public servants getting rid of the citizens as incompetent employee didn't occur to me.
Is that what you mean? If it is, that would be authoritarian – only the authoritarians would consider the public serving the public servants there by creating the situation that the citizens being fired as bad employees. If it is not what you mean, please explain your point.
Fair point, I should have been clearer in my analogy. I am attempting to state that comparing goverments to companies is absurd and I am equating a government's citizens to a company's employees. Some people are taking my comments as comparing companies' employees to government's employees which is not the point I was attempting, quite the opposite, my point is that companies try to increase revenue whereas goverments should try to enforce the rule of law and maximise the happiness of their citizens...
Comparing businessmen to statesmen:
- In a business, employers fire incompetent employees. Do you want government to get rid of incompetent citizens?
- In a business, employers reduce workforce and bring automation to maximise profits. Do you want government to reduce population in order to get a better GDP per capita?
- In a business, you vie by overcoming your competitors. Do you want government to take over other countries?
- In a business, you take heed from the board of directors not your employees. Do you want government to ignore its citizens?
The role of government is to protect the rights, liberties and properties of all its citizens. A good government will protect the needy and embrace utilitarian ethics where policies are executed for the good and wellbeing of the many not the interest groups.
Rather than a businessman running America you may want good statesmen running your companies, people that will look after the wellbeing of all stakeholders (employees, consumers and shareholders) and not just shareholders. A successful country is a country where most of its citizens are free and happy, a large GDP means nothing if its distribution is obscenely skewed.
You obviously don't understand the role of government. The government doesn't generate GDP. That is not their role. The role of government is to establish and enforce laws that protect it's citizens from criminals foreign and domestic. Not all businesses have the goal of taking over other companies. Indeed, businesses become unwieldy and inefficient if they become too large (as do governments). Government would do well to do what only they can do efficiently and leave the rest to the private sector. Even poverty is more efficiently addressed through the private sector (charities) than government intervention. How many full time FEMA officials would it have taken to do what was done along the gulf coast by volunteers after Hurricane Katrina? How much money was wasted by the government in attempting to deal with the problem only to be too late anyway? I would love for our next president to fire unnecessary government employees. If the job they're doing is "good enough for government work", it probably shouldn't be done by the government.
Gayle, where have I stated that the government generates GDP? I am making sarcastic analogies trying to highlight that you should not compare the criterias used for measuring a company's success to the criteria used for measuring a government's success.
I said the role of a government is to "protect the rights, liberties and properties of all its citizens" which is the same as what you say "establish and enforce laws that protect it's citizens from criminals foreign and domestic".
"...Mr Romney should be able to offer America a competent centre-right alternative to Mr Obama (and drag the latter back towards the ignored middle)....."
Here we go again, with "The Economist" Seeming to Support yet another Flip=Flopper!
As far as "centre-right" is concerned, this President Obama has Served them Well!!
All these Figure-Heads, are the Same!!!
They are ALL, the 2-Sides of the same coin!!!!
Peace, Love & Respect.
Being the sanest among a gang of clowns hoping to inhabit the White House does not qualify Mr. Romney for the Presidency. One suspects that the voters will have more urgent criteria in mind.
Ugh. In the morning, once I've had my coffee, I plan to go through all the daft comments that have popped here. To begin with, let me say:
1)To modern US Liberals: The Liberal Consensus has been dead since the 70s. Wage and Price controls aren't coming back, and you aren't getting any more "conservatives" in the mold of Nixon who created the EPA, instituted said wage and price controls, said "We are all Keynesians now" and opened up Communist China (the only good policy of the ones listed). We also aren't getting another FDR, who, quite frankly, was a steamrolling ass who considered separation of powers a nuisance at best (a policy sadly emulated by his successors). Get over it.
2) Specifically, to egslim: Political Scientists have shown that, past a certain point, money DOESN'T matter in elections. Once voters know they hate someone, no amount of spending convinces them otherwise. Yes, I know it feels morally satisfying to imagine all voters as sheep who are just swayed by money, but that is simply not the case. Money, frankly, does not win elections.
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