Re: Cass Sunstein and his 3rd wife Samantha Power ~~ Maybe Obama doesn't want us to know much about these folks... yet...:
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>>>>>>>>Cass R. Sunstein (born 1954) is a preeminent American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics. Sunstein taught at the University of Chicago Law School[1] for 27 years, where he continues to teach as the Harry Kalven Visiting Professor. Sunstein is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, along with Alan Dershowitz.<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>Sunstein's 2006 book, Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge, explores methods for aggregating information; it contains discussions of prediction markets, open-source software, and wikis. Sunstein's 2004 book, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever, advocates the Second Bill of Rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Among these rights are a right to an education, a right to a home, a right to health care, and a right to protection against monopolies; Sunstein argues that the Second Bill of Rights has had a large international impact and should be revived in the United States.
His 2001 book, Republic.com, argued that the Internet may weaken democracy because it allows citizens to isolate themselves within groups that share their own views and experiences, and thus cut themselves off from any information that might challenge their beliefs, a phenomenon known as cyberbalkanization <<<<<<<<<
KLP Note: the Second Bill of Rights link:
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He married in July 2008 Samantha Power……
>>>>>>>>>Power spent 2005-06 working in the office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama as a foreign policy fellow, where she was credited with sparking and directing Obama's interest in the Darfur conflict[2]. She served as a senior foreign policy adviser to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign until she was forced to resign after referring to Hillary Clinton as "a monster" in an interview with The Scotsman in London. Power apologized for the remarks and resigned from the campaign shortly thereafter.<<<<<<
1. According to Sam Stein at The Huffington Post, while promoting her book, Power has "hinted that she could be part of that hypothetical cabinet" if Obama were elected President. [18]
[18[ Samantha Power Unapologetic About Iraq Remarks, Hints At Return, huffingtonpost.com
>>>>>>In 2002, she said that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lay in investing "billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, in investing the billions of dollars it would probably take, also, to support what will have to be a mammoth protection force, not of the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence", even though this may alianate "a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import".[6] <<<<<<<<<<
[6] Conversation with Samantha Power: globetrotter.berkeley.edu
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