At Stockholm, participants raised some concerns that the initiative is being led by just 6 European countries and it was not clear how or when they could get the support from more politically heavy countries to table it and get it endorsed at the United Nations General Assembly.
Events are "proving right" those who said that the euro was a half-finished project, said Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF (and a possible Socialist candidate to run against Mr Sarkozy in France's 2012 presidential election) on the eve of a visit to Germany intended to get it to endorse the EU-IMF bail-out for Greece.
Soon after J Street got started, it endorsed Robert Wexler, a Democratic congressman who represented a South Florida district.
The partisan process which created it bodes poorly on the prospects for actually getting the increases it endorses, however, and the new law fails to mention many research and education programs whose inclusion might have helped department officials make the case for their funding.
What do I want, what can I get and what do I feel comfortable endorsing to get it.
So the merchant would say, all right, I'll take that, but you got to endorse it over to me.
"This does not protect against a political meltdown in Greece this week if the government can't manage to get its austerity plan endorsed by Parliament," he added.
His boasts can be absurd and childlike — getting endorsed by baking soda, say, or "Might valet park a Brink's truck" or "Suicide doors!/Rest in peace to my car, though," which is adorable babble.
The analysts predict that by 2014, some 10%-15 10%-15l social media reviews and other forms of engagement will be fake, paid for by the companies getting endorsed.
You saw Barack Obama getting endorsed by Jay-Z and the intersection of culture and politics in a way we'd never seen.
