Interesting trivia.  Though perhaps not trivial.

If political races are won by the biggest ad spenders, the contrast between Senator Obama's online ad spending and that of Clinton's could have people wondering whether more of her ad budget should have been spent online. Comparing Clinton's Google total of $292,200 in '07 and '08 to Obama's $2.08 million just this year indicates a major difference in overall ad strategy. 

I really don't have much to add to Robert Cassidy's words:

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Failed expectations in US trade policy

By Robert Cassidy

Asia Times 

As the principal United States negotiator for the landmark market access agreement that led to China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), I have reflected on whether the agreements we negotiated really lived up to our expectations. A sober reflection has led me to conclude that those trade agreements did not.

We failed to address the underlying fundamental market distortions that skew the benefits toward the few while leaving the rest of the economy less well off. As global US financier George Soros, in a Bloomberg News interview on the financial crisis, recently said, "... the system, as it currently operates, is built on false premises." The premise on which our trade agreements are negotiated is at best flawed, if not broken.

It's just the market working.  The free market.  The invisible hand.  

Here's what China is doing with the huge buildup of U.S. dollars that we are enabling, 'cause we're free traders.

Chinese companies have diverse motives for acquiring foreign ones; increasingly, deals are no longer focused on acquiring raw materials and natural resources. Rather, the goal is to acquire strategic assets across a broad swath of industries and geographies. 

Economist Bob Powell has detailed trade talking points here on his own website.  He is, of course, very concerned about the country's economic future.