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Politics : The Next President 2008 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (1771)	11/23/2007 6:36:27 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 3215

That I agree with you on. The Election has become a Media / pollster driven event, taken away from the voters and given over to Madison Avenue. I go back to my request, that we use high school debate coaches as moderators. each candidate given a topic, 5 minutes and a rebuttal of 3 minutes. Then they should be graded by the teachers association of America on there responsivness. 1. Did they stay on topic. Did they pove there point. Did they answer questions raised by the opposing challenger? Possible strike may derail CBS' Democratic debate A Democratic presidential debate scheduled for next month in Los Angeles could be canceled because of the labor troubles of its sponsor, CBS News. More than 500 news writers, editors, desk assistants, graphic artists and other staffers for CBS' TV and radio news operations have been working without a contract since April 2005, and this month voted to authorize a strike. These employees work for CBS News and its affiliates in four cities, including Los Angeles, where CBS is putting on the Dec. 10 debate. They are represented by the Writers Guild of America, but their possible walkout is separate from the ongoing strike by the guild's screenwriters. As Democratic presidential candidates seek endorsements from organized labor, they have walked picket lines around the country, and a strike would leave the debate with few if any candidates. On Wednesday, five contenders -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson -- said they would skip the debate in the event of a strike. "If there's a strike, it's going to be awfully tough for any of the Democratic candidates to participate," said Roger Salazar, a political consultant who is a spokesman for the California Democratic Party. The debate is officially sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee, but the party indicated Wednesday that it would not cross the picket line if there were a strike. In a statement, DNC Press Secretary Stacie Paxton said, "We will continue to watch the situation closely."

To: jlallen who wrote (1771)	11/24/2007 4:10:02 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 3215

Obama gets blunt with N.H. students Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told high school students yesterday that when he was their age he was hardly a model student, experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking alcohol. Obama stopped by a study hall at Manchester Central High School and answered students' questions about the war in Iraq and his education plan for kindergarten through grade 12. The Illinois senator's plan aims to improve teacher pay, early childhood learning, and math and science test scores. It would cost upwards of $18 billion a year. But when an adult asked about his time as a student, Obama spoke bluntly. "I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof-off in high school as my mom reminded me," said Obama, who grew up in Hawaii. "You know, I made some bad decisions that I've actually written about. You know, got into drinking. I experimented with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time that I didn't really apply myself a lot. It wasn't until I got out of high school and went to college that I started realizing, 'Man, I wasted a lot of time.' " In high school, his biggest interests were sports and girls, he said. Obama has written about his drug use in his memoir, "Dreams from My Father." Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, Obama wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it. Drugs, Obama wrote, were a way he "could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory." Obama told the students at Manchester Central, the state's most diverse high school, that he developed his sense of social justice when he was at college. He attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years before transferring to Columbia University in New York. boston.com