Obama - October 2008
Jesse Jackson endorses Obama on Saturday Night Live:
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-thursday-jesse-jackson/768742/
. . . Which one is the licensed plumber? (HINT: Neither one)
October 15, 2008 Presidential Debates: Obama Discusses Ledbetter (see Lily Ledbetter)
“Never mind that Ms. Ledbetter didn’t know about the discrimination when it first began,” Mr. Kennedy said. “Never mind that she had no means to learn of the discrimination because Goodyear kept salary information confidential. Never mind that Goodyear’s discrimination against Ms. Ledbetter continued each and every time it gave her a smaller paycheck than it gave her male colleagues.”
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September 25, 2008 In the Roosevelt Room after the session, the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., literally bent down on one knee as he pleaded with Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, not to “blow it up” by withdrawing her party’s support for the package over what Ms. Pelosi derided as a Republican betrayal.
“I didn’t know you were Catholic,” Ms. Pelosi said, a
wry reference to Mr. Paulson’s kneeling, according to someone who
observed the exchange. She went on: “It’s not me blowing this up, it’s
the Republicans.” Mr. Paulson sighed. “I know. I know.” [Paulson is a Christian Scientist, Pelosi knows that]
December 4, 2007: Dodd Receives Presidential Confidence Endorsement
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Democratic Convention Arithmetic
A President Like My Father By CAROLINE KENNEDY
Jan 31 2008, WSJ: When word of Mr. Edwards's pending withdrawal leaked, Mr. Obama's stock rose.
So the markets tell us that Mr. Obama is a better replacement for an
Edwards candidacy than, say, Hillary Clinton, whose stock fell on this
news. Despite the Edwards bump, Mr. Obama remains the underdog, and is
currently a 38% chance of winning the nomination.
Volcker: "I Endorse Obama"
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker is the latest big-name endorsement for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of
Illinois, lending his gravitas in the financial world to a presidential
candidate whose biggest hurdle is to convince voters he is experienced
enough to be president.
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“After 30 years in government, serving under five Presidents of both parties and chairing two non-partisan commissions on the Public Service, I have been reluctant to engage in political campaigns. The time has come to overcome that reluctance,” Mr. Volcker said in a statement today. “However, it is not the current turmoil in markets or the economic uncertainties that have impelled my decision. Rather, it is the breadth and depth of challenges that face our nation at home and abroad. Those challenges demand a new leadership and a fresh approach.”
He concluded: “It is only Barack Obama, in his person, in his ideas, in his ability to understand and to articulate both our needs and our hopes that provide the potential for strong and fresh leadership. That leadership must begin here in America but it can also restore needed confidence in our vision, our strength, and our purposes right around the world.”
Mr. Volcker, a Democrat, was appointed to the Fed chairmanship by Jimmy Carter in 1979 and replaced – with Alan Greenspan – by Ronald Reagan just a couple of months before the 1987 stock market crash. He is widely respected among central bankers, Wall Street and economists for breaking the back of inflation in the 1980s – at the cost of the deepest recession the country has seen since the Great Depression. An economist, he was earlier president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1975 to 1979 and an under secretary of the Treasury from 1969 to 1974.
Since retiring from the Fed, he did a stint as chairman of of Wolfensohn & Co., an investment banking firm founded by the former president of the World Bank, and led investigations of corruption controls at the World Bank and the controversial United Nations’ oil-for-food deal with Saddam Hussein. – Jackie Calmes
But Ms. Clinton remains in the overall lead -- 1,012 to 933, according to the RealClearPolitics.com -- almost entirely because of support from super-delegates, including former president Bill Clinton.
The
magic delegate number to clinch the Democratic nomination is 2,025. Of
the Democrats' 4,000-plus voting delegates, 795 will be
super-delegates. Feb 6, 2008
Another way of looking at electability is to wonder whether it’s more of a disadvantage to be black or to be female. Shirley Chisholm, the black woman who ran for president in 1972, argued in effect that there were more sexists than racists in America. “I met more discrimination as a woman, than for being black,” Ms. Chisholm once said.
And recent polling and psychology research seem to back that up.
Moreover,
my hunch is that a conservative woman like Margaret Thatcher may have a
better chance of being elected than a feminist with a distinguished
record of standing up for women’s rights. For the same reason, Mr.
Obama probably has a better chance than a black candidate who emerged
from the civil rights movement. www.nytimes.com
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May 15, 2007: Voter interest increased as soon as the helicopter arrived with the election ballots. FULL STORY
Feb. 11, 2008: Skytrac receives Everett approval. FULL STORY
The important question should not be whether the right price is $60 a share for Dow Jones. The important question is: Why should Dow Jones be sold to anyone? It is not necessary for any internal business reason. The controlling shareholders of Dow Jones should answer News Corp.'s unsolicited offer by saying: "Dow Jones is not for sale, at any price, to Rupert Murdoch."
The writer retired in 2003 as senior vice president of Dow Jones and chairman of Ottaway Newspapers. He retired in April 2006 from the Dow Jones board after 17 years as a director. He owns or has voting power over 6.2 percent of Dow Jones Class B supervoting shares.FULL STORY
Brown Ends Tuition for Lower-Income Students
Brown University is eliminating tuition for students whose parents earn less than $60,000, after decisions by fellow Ivy League universities to bolster financial aid as their endowments grow.
The university, in Providence, R.I., said on Saturday that it also planned to substitute grants for student loans in the financial aid packages of students whose families earned less than $100,000 a year. The new program cuts reliance on loans for all students regardless of family income, the university said in a statement posted on its Web site.
Brown also announced plans to increase tuition by 3.9 percent for the 2008-9 academic year to $36,928. With room and board, the costs are $47,740 for one year.
“Since 2001, Brown has made financial aid for our students one of our highest priorities,” Brown’s president, Ruth J. Simmons, said in the statement. “Today, we take another major step forward to ensure that our nation’s best students from lower- and middle-income families can attend Brown and graduate without the enormous burden of college debt.”
Brown’s action follows similar moves by Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Stanford.
ABC6 names "Buddy" Cianci Chief Political Analyst & Contributing ...
WLNE-TV (ABC6), RI - Oct 24, 2007
Vice President and general manager Stephen Doerr announced the addition of "Buddy" Cianci to the ABC6 news team as the chief political analyst ... (Bubba thanks Buddy for Coming Back to take over the Political Analysis headache)Cianci’s prison days are numbered: Release date nears
Cianci arrives at Boston halfway house after release from priso.
He was wearing a baseball hat and sunglasses and slipped in a back without speaking to reporters. May 30, 2007
SUMMARY: Google and MySQL are close to finalizing a deal that could find the open-source database vendor incorporating powerful features created by the search giant into future versions of the popular database. This Monday, Google publicly released the source code for multiple custom features it had built in-house to enhance performance and reliability for its search engine. The add-ons were released via GPL (General Public License). Google’s announcement was done without MySQL and on the eve of MySQL’s annual worldwide conference in Santa Clara, Calif., the announcement appeared to be a subtle attempt to put pressure on MySQL to add the Google features to the official version of my SQL software, something mySQL has, until recently, been loath to do.
SAN FRANCISCO(AP) -- New Yorker David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, died in a car crash early Monday. Halberstam's 2002 best-seller, "War in a Time of Peace," was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. David Halberstam's Books 'The Noblest Roman' (1961) 'The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy' (1969) 'The Best and the Brightest' (1972) 'The Powers That Be' (1979) 'The Breaks of the Game' (1981) 'The Reckoning' (1986) 'October 1964' (1994) 'The Children' (1998) Halberstam's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporting Reporting on Vietnam for The Times (1963 - 1964)
A run-off will now be held on May 6. A record number of 44.5 million voters cast their votes - the highest turnout in 50 years, reports said.
Sarkozy polled nearly 31 percent and Royal took around 25 percent. Read an editorial about Chirac's France here.
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Gonzales Vows to Keep His Job After Bush Vote of Confidence- Associated Press - April 23, 2007 2:30 p.m.Alberto Gonzales, with a fresh vote of confidence from President Bush, vowed Monday to remain as attorney general despite lingering differences with senators over the firing of federal prosecutors.Appearing at a news conference on identity theft, Mr. Gonzales said he will remain "as long as I can continue to serve effectively." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117733723621078960.html?mod=home_whats_news_us Last Updated: 18/04/2007 15:36 Bush has 'full confidence' in Wolfowitz The White House said today that President George W. Bush still had "full confidence" in World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, who faces intense criticism for his role in arranging a high-paying promotion for his girlfriend. "We still have full confidence, the president has full confidence in President Wolfowitz," White House spokesman Tony Fratto told reporters. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0418/breaking50.htmBy Jim Rutenberg Published: April 22, 2007WASHINGTON: Time and time again President George W. Bush has stood by his most embattled but loyal lieutenants http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/22/news/bush.php
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http://www.abajournal.com/news/scalia_legal_writing_doesnt_exist
Scalia: Legal Writing Doesn’t Exist
Posted Aug 9, 2008, 02:31 pm CDT
By Edward A. Adams
Justice Antonin Scalia—the U.S. Supreme Court’s great dissenter—stayed true to form as he accepted a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Legal Writers on Saturday.
“I do not believe that legal writing exists,” he told an audience of approximately 100 at the Harvard Club in Manhattan.
Lest the listeners think the man who recently co-authored a book devoted in large part to how to write effective briefs had had a change of heart, he continued, “That is to say, I do not believe it exists as a separate genre of writing. Rather, I think legal writing belongs to that large, undifferentiated, unglamorous category of writing known as nonfiction prose. Someone who is a good legal writer would, but for the need to master a different substantive subject, be an equivalently good writer of history, economics or, indeed, theology.”
While teaching legal writing early in his career at the University of Virginia School of Law, “it became clear to me, as I think it must become to clear to anyone who is burdened with the job of teaching legal writing, that what these students lacked was not the skill of legal writing, but the skill of writing at all. To tell the truth, at as late a stage as law school, I doubt this skill can be taught.
“What I hoped to have conveyed to my charges in those years were merely the prerequisites for self-improvement in writing, which are two things. Number one, the realization—and it occurred to my students as an astounding revelation – that there is an immense difference between writing and good writing. And two, that it takes time and sweat to convert the former into the latter.”
The Society—also referred to as the Scribes—holds its annual luncheon during the ABA Annual Meeting.
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