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To: Brumar89 who wrote (650601)	4/5/2012 10:48:11 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572877

Obama campaign website yanks BET videos following TheDC’s reporting 04/04/2012 by Neil Munro dailycaller.com President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign website has removed several videos that pitched alarmist messages to African-American voters, following reporting by The Daily Caller and the Fox News Channel. In one video that the campaign yanked from the “African-Americans for Obama” section of its website Tuesday, actress Tatyana Ali seemed to predict that a second Obama term would bring a host of benefits to African-Americans once the president no longer had to concern himself with campaigning. “What really excites me … is that a U.S. president has only two terms,” a laughing Ali said in the footage that the Obama campaign scrubbed from its website Tuesday. “In the second term, ‘it’s on,’ because we don’t have to worry about re-election.” The video series, titled “Leading Women Defined,” focuses on African-American women, including Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s longtime aide and a former Chicago government official. It was produced by Black Entertainment Television and is still available on that that network’s website. “We’re encouraging people to come out and vote to, as we say, vote like your life depended on it,” BET CEO Debra Lee said in one of the videos. BET’s top managers are sympathetic to the Democratic Party and to Obama. Lee, for example, has donated almost $100,000 to Democratic politicians and allies’ causes since 2008. Obama and his campaign officials have repeatedly noted that enthusiasm for Obama has declined since 2008. That’s true even in the African-American community, which voted almost in lockstep for Obama in 2008. However, unemployment among African-Americans is higher than among whites or Latinos. Less than 50 percent of black males younger than 30 are in full-time jobs, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. To win in November, “we have to tell the story of the work that has been done,” said Valeisha Butterfield-Jones, an African-American who is the national youth director for the Obama campaign, in one of the BET videos removed from the Obama For America website. “We have to press reset, start over, wipe the slate clear and tell the story to young people,” Butterfield-Jones added. Obama’s deputies are running an under-the-radar campaign intended to scare African-Americans to the polls, said Jeffrey Bell, a veteran GOP strategist. His campaign advisers are confident that “he’s going to get 95 percent [of the African-American bloc], but they’re worried about turnout,” he added. The result is that the campaign will broadcast the message — often outside the view of the established media — that “any opposition to Obama is based on race, and it is open season [on African-Americans] if he loses,” Bell said. The BET videos include a raft of black-targeted messaging, including a reminder that Obama has delivered $1 billion dollars to historically black colleges and universities and $3 billion in contracts and loans to African-Americans entrepreneurs. Stephanie Brown, Obama’s national director for the African-American vote, made that pitch, saying the president has “shown our communities … he can deliver the change that he talked about in 2008, so we need to continue to have his back.” That implication of a threat to Obama’s job security was amplified in another of the now-removed videos. “He needs eight years to finish the mission and we need to have his back,” Ahmir Thompson, an African-American musician, said. “The person of him is so jarring to certain people that it has caused people to step into the way back machine and want to be in the ’50s,” Joy-Ann Reid, an African-American journalist and talk radio personality, said in another. “I think there is a sense of panic that’s developing in part of the majority culture.” One of the BET videos that the Obama For America website previously hosted touched on the contentious issues surrounding the Feb. 26 Trayvon Martin shooting. “Trayvon Martin’s death sparks outrage,” Kim Keenan, the NAACP’s counsel, said in a video carried on Obama’s campaign website until Tuesday afternoon. “These kinds of things are happening in communities all over America, but it takes something like this to finally get a camera on it, and that’s what we need to change.” Where Keenan’s videotaped comments about the Trayvon Martin case once appeared is now a link for Obama partisans to watch the interview on BET’s website instead. Read more: dailycaller.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (650601)	4/5/2012 11:12:31 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572877

Treasury Officials Given One Day To Review U.S. Solyndra Loan By Alison Vekshin And Jim Snyder, Bloomberg April 4, 2012 The U.S. Treasury Department was given one day to review Solyndra LLC’s $535 million U.S. loan guarantee after learning the Energy Department was ready to announce the award publicly, according to a Treasury audit. While Treasury staff say they had enough time to review the loan, internal e-mails cast doubt on whether staff suggestions were addressed by the Energy Department, the Treasury’s Inspector General’s Office said yesterday in the report... Read more: nation.foxnews.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (650601)	4/5/2012 11:20:20 PM
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Carney: Obama Not Understood Because He Spoke In "Shorthand" Since He Is A Law Professor realclearpolitics.com 4/4/2012 White House press secretary Jay Carney tells the press corps that President Obama's attack on the Supreme Court was misunderstood because he was speaking in "shorthand" since he is a former professor of law. Henry: The president is a former constitutional law professor. One of his professors is Laurence Tribe. He now says, in his words, the president “obviously misspoke earlier this week”, quote “he didn’t say what he meant and having said that in order to avoid misleading anyone, he had to clarify it.” I thought yesterday you were saying repeatedly that he did not misspeak. What do you make of the president’s former law professor saying he did? Carney: The premise of your question suggests that the president of the United States in the comments he made Monday, did not believe in the constitutionality of legislation, which is a preposterous premise and I know you don’t believe that. Henry: Except this is from Laurence Tribe, who knows a lot more than you and I about constitutional law. Carney: What I acknowledged yesterday is that speaking on Monday the president was not clearly understood by some people because he is a law professor, he spoke in shorthand.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (650601)	4/5/2012 11:40:46 PM
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Rocket fired from Egypt hits Israeli city of Eilat 5 April 2012 bbc.co.uk A Grad rocket has landed in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, but has caused no damage or injuries, Israeli security officials said. District police chief Ron Gertner told Israeli radio the rocket had been fired from Egypt's Sinai peninsula. He said it struck a construction site close to a residential area shortly after midnight (21:00 GMT). The blast took place as thousands congregated in the resort town for the Jewish holiday of Passover. Rocket attacks from Egyptian soil are uncommon. Attacks on Eilat and the nearby Jordanian town of Aqaba in 2010 killed one person and injured another four. Sinai unrest Eilat Mayor Meir Yitzhak-Halevy told the Jerusalem Post that the city would function as normal despite the attack. A wave of unrest has hit the restive Sinai peninsula recently. Israel says militants have become active in the region since former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011. In August 2011, an armed group crossed the border into Israel from the Sinai peninsula and killed eight Israelis. Israel blamed Palestinian militants but five Egyptian policemen were killed as Israeli forces pursued the gunmen, sparking a diplomatic row between the two countries.