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All I can ask is -Why not more disects ?
Just WHO or WHAT do we get our EDUCATION from about the MOST important issues within this country ? Health Care, Immigration, Jobs, Civil Rights,
Is there any one out there, other than Oprah to ask theAmerican people to stop and "THINK" , for themselves that is ?
Chris Matthews on Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani
On October 4, MSNBC host Chris Matthews professed his neutrality in the presidential race. "I'm pretty independent, in terms of the two parties," he said. "I have been just as tough on Bill Clinton and Hillary and Rudy and the whole bunch of them."
In order to ascertain whether this claim is true, Media Matters for America examined every evaluative remark Matthews made on MSNBC's Hardball during the months of September, October, and November about either Hillary Clinton or Rudy Giuliani, the two national front-runners for their respective parties' nominations during that period. We excluded instances in which Matthews was simply reporting facts (e.g. "A new poll shows Giuliani leading ... ") and restricted ourselves to cases in which Matthews offered his own opinions or judgments.[1] We also excluded instances in which there was any ambiguity about whether the statement was positive or negative.
The results demonstrate that Matthews has been particularly friendly to Rudy Giuliani in recent months, and extremely hostile toward Hillary Clinton. Not only is there a qualitative difference between the kinds of praise and criticism he offers these two candidates, but a quantitative difference, as well: Matthews made 10 negative remarks about Clinton for every negative remark he made about Giuliani, and nearly three times as many positive remarks about the former New York City mayor as about Clinton. The ratio of positive to negative remarks was 3.5-to-1 for Giuliani, but 1-to-8.2 for Clinton.
Matthews made 10 positive remarks about Hillary Clinton in the past three months, most of which were evaluations of her campaign performance. But six of these 10 remarks also contained some criticism, as when he said, "She has been charming but cold and absolutely flawless," or when he described a debate as "a highly scripted, brilliant performance by Hillary Clinton." Others -- for instance, his praise of Clinton's success in getting support from "every interest area in the Democratic Party" -- could also plausibly be interpreted as backhanded compliments.
Matthews made 82 negative remarks about Clinton during this period. They cover a wide range of topics, but most have to do with character issues -- that Clinton is overly calculating, disingenuous, or unethical.
Matthews made 28 positive remarks about Rudy Giuliani, most concerning how much of a leader and how tough Giuliani is.
Matthews made eight negative remarks about Giuliani, most about his stance on immigration.
The complete list of positive and negative remarks is available at the end of this report.[2]
The picture painted by this list is clear. Indeed, the Philadelphia Inquirer magazine reported in June 2001 that Matthews told an MSNBC colleague, "I hate her. I hate her. All that she stands for."
A sampling of negative remarks about Clinton:
"Hillary Clinton did what she always does, what her husband always does is refuse to pay a price for political office. To always defer to someone; always avoid taking a position within any interest group that might offend some interest group within the Democratic Party. It seems the whole tactic of the Clintons, never take a stand that offends anybody in the whole room full of Democratic donors and then you get elected because you don't offend anybody." (September 26)
"Sometimes, I wonder, with the Clintons, do they really have that spontaneous ability to react to events, or is it just all script? That bothers me sometimes." (October 4)
"And Hillary's so lawyered up and consultanted-up. We don't know what they really think, do we?" (October 11)
"I think a lot of people pick a president they figure would sort of like them if they knew them. And if you are overweight or have a problem with your diet -- and I certainly did for years -- you may figure Hillary doesn't like people like me. She's looking down on me. What do you think? Howie, she's looking down on me, that woman. She thinks she's better than me." (October 19)
"But did she think up this malarkey about, I'm going stick with the -- doesn't she step back for three seconds and say she grew up in Chicago. You're always loyal to the team you grew up with as a kid. She went to the Yankees so that she could run for senator from New York. It's so obvious. Well, why is she -- doesn't she know she looks like a fraud?" (October 26)
"They have to nestle and pander, if you will. It seems like Hillary Clinton has made her bed. She's going to be for the side of the illegal immigrants. That's where she is." (October 31)
"I hear the sharp notes there coming out of her mouth. Is that bad for her? You know, like in piano music, the notes seem a half a note too sharp. And is that going to hurt?" (November 16)
A sampling of positive remarks about Giuliani:
"That's what I began hearing several years ago, that Southerners look to Giuliani as a leader. And Republicans, as we all know, love leaders. Watch for Rudy to surprise the pundits and pull pretty good numbers down in Dixie." (October 18)
"Rudy is this tough, kick-butt cop from New York. You know he is not a nice guy. You know he can be a SOB. But maybe that is what you want on the subway at 3:00 in the morning. Maybe that is what people feel like in their heads right now. It is 3:00 in the morning. And we want tough guy on that subway with us, right?" (November 6)
"Rudy Giuliani, after 9/11, the galloping horse of history came by. He jumped in the saddle and made himself Winston Churchill. You either grab your opportunity when it comes, or you blow it. This guy grabbed it. That is why I think he is the number one possibility to be the next Republican nominee for president." (November 6)
"I think reading this [Newsweek] article may give me a sense of why in fact he's got this tough persona that I think is part of the reason why he stayed at the top of the polls for all these many months, about a year or so already, coming -- coming out of the background that he did. No one say he came from a -- a very pampered, silver-spoon-in-his-mouth type background, as -- as other presidents have done. That may give a sense as to why he's got the kind of demeanor and the toughness that I think made him a success as mayor and I think will make him a success on this campaign trail." (November 26)
Negative remarks about Hillary Clinton (82
September 11
"The target of the Romney sleaze, Fred Thompson, was, of course, the senator assigned the job of probing all that honky-tonk fund-raising the -- the Clinton family did back when they held the White House, all those Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers for those who could pay the price in Clinton campaign contributions, all that Motel 6 use of the president's house. Well, here we go again. Hillary Clinton has just been caught with and has had to return $850,000 from a guy named Norman Hsu, now under investigation by the FBI."
September 13
"I mean, I have noticed her trying to do the pyramid play, the Betty and Veronica number, on this war issue for months now, saying, I want a residual military force over there. I don't want to talk to Ahmadinejad, all that kind of hawkish talk, to go along with the anti-war sentiments of her party."
September 19
"Talk about the Keating Five. Here's a meeting in Washington with a bunch of Congress people, including apparently Sheila Jackson Lee, who escaped the chance to be on the show tonight, all sitting around being introduced to a bunch of lobbyists, who are trying to sell security equipment to the federal government. It's a match making operation, a pimping operation. Hillary Clinton is the queen bee of it. Is this the future if she gets elected president?"
September 20
"And you've got this question of bundling. It's been reported in the paper today that people are being asked to kick in to campaigns and then being compensated by their bosses. They're Republicans being forced to kick in to Hillary Clinton's campaign. A lot of this sleaze is going on. It's not the new kind of post-Watergate politics we were promised."
September 20
"You're saying it forces them [the Clintons] to be corrupt? Excuse me, are we now in the business of justifying -- because their ambitions are so grand, we can't expect them to be careful in how they raise money? Excuse me, they choose to run for president. They believe they can handle the job without being corrupt. They say so. And when they are found to be corrupt, we say oh, that comes with the territory. Is that the excuse?"
September 20
"Is this corrupt, what Hillary Clinton is doing, holding fund-raisers with lobbyists, pimping them, basically, saying, if you give money to me, you lobbyists, I will sit you down to lunch with members of Congress, chairmen of committees, and they will sit around with you and you will get to be friends with each other, but give me the money first, and I will set up those deals, those lunches?"
September 26
"Hillary Clinton did what she always does, what her husband always does is refuse to pay a price for political office. To always defer to someone; always avoid taking a position within any interest group that might offend some interest group within the Democratic Party. It seems the whole tactic of the Clintons, never take a stand that offends anybody in the whole room full of Democratic donors and then you get elected because you don't offend anybody."
September 26
"But the Clintons always do this 'slip-sliding-away' thing. They beat Paul Tsongas with this back in '92, she's following the same playbook now. Don't take positions on anything that offends anyone and you can slip-slide your way into the nomination."
September 26
"What do you make of her commitment on Iraq to keep the troops in there so she can do the old Betty and Veronica play here, where I'm for pulling the troops out but I'm for keeping the troops in? It's like Archie, you know, Archie Andrews, I mean, she seems to say I'm coming home but I'm staying. You know, what is it? I feel like Jackie Mason here, she's in -- she's out. The question is do you think she has an authentic policy proposal or is your policy proposal for a federalization system over there where you share the oil revenues; you break up the land into different confessional groups. Is that the solution you believe in? Do you think she really believes you keep a certain number of troops there forever to fight Al Qaeda and you take the other ones home? I mean, does that make sense to you?"
September 26
"What about when she said, 'I know this is of special interest to you.' For whom is Social Security not a special interest? I mean that was the strangest kind of response to someone."
September 26
"I've got you figured out boy. Yeah right. I just thought that was outrageous. There's not a senior citizen in America that doesn't think that the future of Social Security is of ultimate relevance to them."
September 26
"It's how they destroyed Paul Tsongas back in '92. Let the other guy propose reforms, you talk reform but don't say anything, ever."
September 26
"Do you think that Hillary Clinton is trying to have it both ways in the war on Iraq by maintaining a combat troop presence to fight Al Qaeda, that's her phraseology, which avoids having to say I'm pulling the troops out. Is that a strategy to keep everyone happy with a policy that really does divide Americans?"
September 26
"I thought it was interesting, you couldn't get her to say raise taxes, change the benefits or change the amount of income taxed. That pretty much defines inaction, doesn't it?"
September 26
"Let me tell you how short Hillary's leash is. She was asked by you, sir, about whether we're going to get full disclosure of contributors to presidential libraries. And she did not feel that she had the latitude in her husband's absence to give you an answer. She said, you'll have to ask my husband, as if you're a guy going door to door trying to sell someone and says you'll have to wait for my husband to get home. It was unbelievable that she wouldn't answer that. Never mind, let's drop this. I just thought it was extraordinary that their deal doesn't have that much clarity to it."
September 26
"Yes. But she has always had that -- you know, you have dealt with her. You know if you have a town meeting with her, 10 minutes before the town meeting, one of the press people comes in and asks you the questions, what they're going to be. This is Hillary-land. You've go to live in that land. We all live in that land. She wants -- she doesn't want to have any risks. She wants to get the presidency without risk and that's not surprising if you're the frontrunner."
September 26
"But let me ask you about this about the issue tonight. Is Hillary Clinton vulnerable to the charge that she's been sloppy about taking money from Hsu, from dealing with this guy Follieri? Is she too loose when it comes to the people she hangs around with and lets her people hang around with? Is there a problem of corruption in the front-runner's campaign?"
September 26
"We've got the big presidential debate right now. And the question is, will sleaze stop Hillary Clinton?"
September 26
"What is it about the Clintons' world that is more connected with big money people, a lot of foreign people, a lot of people with particular interests and kind of seedy people, as opposed to Barack's campaign? Is it the fact that he gets small contributors, idealistic contributors, and they deal with the old interest people or what?"
September 26
"Let me ask you about the peculiar nature of the Clintons fund-raising operation. They are -- let's try to use the right word -- notorious for the wholesale manner in which they haul people in and shake them down for lots of money. This reached a head during the 1990s, when they were hauling people into the Lincoln Bedroom, letting people stay overnight in droves, one after another. They called it Motel 6. Senator Fred Thompson was the man who led the committee that investigated that. They couldn't prove anything to put the Clintons away. Is there something about the Clintons that's different than the usual sleazy fund-raising in politics?"
September 26
"But I do see this story building. It looks to me like the one big weakness of Hillary Clinton is not that she's a woman, not that she's not smart, not that she's not hard working, not that she's not experienced, not that she's too middle-of-the-road, but that she's too establishment. She's too much a part of the old way of doing things, and it's very hard to say she's the candidate of change."
September 26
"Jill, do you think the fact that Hillary is a woman, that she's married to Bill, and they have had the history of Motel 6 and raising money in the White House, the fact that she voted to authorize the war, adds up to a vulnerability?"
September 27
"Well, today Bill Clinton, as usual, tried to turn her dodging into a chivalry issue, something he's done so many times before. He's just looking out for his honey."
September 26
"She's still doing this, what I call, this Betty and Veronica pyramid play of saying I'll keep the hawks happy, I'll keep the doves happy, I'll keep some troops in forever to fight this Al Qaeda potential threat over there."
September 27
"Debra, what do you think looking at it from your side of things? Do you think Hillary Clinton has a notion, much less a vision, of what to do in Iraq?"
September 27
"Archie Andrews had in the comic books of Betty and Veronica. He wanted both of them. And that's what she wants, both arguments. She wants to be seen as a hawk and be seen as a dove for the purposes of this campaign."
September 28
"And here's Barack hitting Hillary Clinton for her bogus baseball fannery."
September 28
"More news today about the Clintons' strong-arming of that magazine 'Gentleman's Quarterly,' their killing of a Hillary story that they didn't like the look of. ... I don't know if the Clintons can keep getting away with this. It's kind of rough treatment, you might even say a little fascistic treatment, of the journalistic world."
October 1
"I got to tell you, I love Frank Rich, and I love him especially when he points out what seems to me to be the obvious, that Hillary Clinton is hedging, that she wants to have the hawks in the Democratic Party, the hawks in the general election, and the anti-war people in the Democratic Party all to like her, and it's starting to show, this hedging of her bets."
October 1
"And Hillary can't seem to decide, is she a hawk who wants to take on Iran, who supports the latest resolution from the neo-conservatives, is she the hawk who wants to keep troops in Iraq forever, or is she the one who wants to bring our boys home and end this war? She says both things all the time. What is she? Can you read her?"
October 1
"You said the other night, when we were talking at dinner, you said that people don't mind you taking any position except the fetal position. Is that what Hillary's doing? I don't know what it is. It's like the quarterback who falls down on the ball, rather than trying to advance it, because he knows he's winning the game. That's what she seems to be doing. Every time there's a play, she falls down on the ball so she won't, you know, fumble."
October 1
"I think the country wants to move the ball. They don't want somebody to keep control of the ball, like the Clintons do, hold the ball for the rest of their lives when what people want is it to move forward. They want to get out of Iraq. They want to avoid going into Iran. They want to have the economy better off and more secure. And here's a woman who's playing it safe and hedging her bets."
October 1
"Well, she doesn't want to lose it. But it's not -- OK, that's playing for her, it's not playing for us."
October 1
"I know, but Drew, I'm hoping it's real because I really liked the cackle when she did it to Chris and -- because I love to be rivals with everybody. But I've also heard that she cackled when she was talking to Bob Schieffer, which made no sense. I can't figure her out. Is the cackle killing her? You think it's a distraction. What is it?"
October 1
"If she keeps cackling, we'll keep talking about it. So I don't think she can win this baby! I don't know what to say."
October 1
"But the first African-American guy to really have a shot, that the voice of the future, no more Clinton versus -- Clinton and Bush rotating the job of the presidency like rotating old cans on a shelf in a supermarket, dusting off the cans because nobody is buying them."
October 2
"I still am in wonder of how Hillary Clinton can keep saying she didn't vote for the war."
October 3
"They used to say back in the old days at the Dewey campaign in '48 that he had a brilliant communications operation on his train as it whistle-stopped through the country, but it said nothing. Let me ask you about Hillary Clinton. She went on the Sunday talk shows, all five of them, made no news in five appearances. It was a tour de force, if her goal is to say nothing."
October 3
"All I know is this: I think we need a national health care system and the Democrats say they're for one. But when it comes time to create one, they don't even have the guts to finance it. If we're going to have a 200 billion dollar health care program, like Hillary and the others are talking about, you have to be willing to finance it. If all they're going to do is a number of saying, someday I'll raise the cigarette tax, that's not exactly a profile in courage, Rachel. Either you're going to pay for this stuff or stop talking about it. Hillary and Barack and Edwards are all talking about national health care. And all they can think of is some cigarette tax they know they will never pass. Why don't they put up their money where their mouth is, and say, we're for national health? And damn it, we're going to pay for it. We're going to cut something here. We're going to raise taxes here. It's going to add up. Why don't they say that?"
October 3
"But, Emily, how can she get away with leading a party by 33 points that's so totally against this war? We had the number on last night, four out of five Democrats want the Congress to be much tougher in taking on this war policy. And yet, Hillary doing that sort of interesting back and forth play she does on the war, where she's hawkish, in terms of Iran, hawkish in terms of keeping troops in Iraq. Yet says the right things most of the time about ending the war. How can she get away with that pyramid play in a party that's so overwhelmingly anti-war?"
October 4
"Sometimes, I wonder, with the Clintons, do they really have that
spontaneous ability to react to events, or is it just all script? That bothers me sometimes."
October 8
"I've been saying a long time anecdotally, because I love to do these things, that anybody with a gun and a boat, Hillary hasn't got their vote. And I'm trying to be like Jesse Jackson here with little rhyming here. But that guy, that independent working guy, he's hard to get for a liberal Democrat, isn't he?"
October 11
"And Hillary's so lawyered up and consultanted-up. We don't know what they really think, do we?"
October 18
"What about when she does this sort of awkward, I think, or highly rehearsed, Us girls have to get together and circle the wagons against those men? Is that attractive to women voters or not?"
October 19
" 'The Los Angeles Times' reports today that Hillary has raised unprecedented amounts of money from poor Chinatown residents -- quote -- 'Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fund-raisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton's campaign treasury' -- quote. The report goes on to say that many of the donors, some of whom don't even vote, felt pressured to give because leaders in neighborhood associations told them to. Well, while she shovels in money in one door, she shovels out the federal money in another. Republicans in Congress have just succeeded in killing an earmark proposed by Senator Clinton and New York's Chuck Schumer. It would have provided $1 million for a Woodstock museum in Upstate New York."
October 19
"I think a lot of people pick a president they figure would sort of like them if they knew them. And if you are overweight or have a problem with your diet -- and I certainly did for years -- you may figure Hillary doesn't like people like me. She's looking down on me. What do you think? Howie, she's looking down on me, that woman. She thinks she's better than me."
October 22
"That's right, the same thing she said about her vote authorizing the war with Iraq. Hillary wants hawks in the party to think she's the most hawkish of Democrats and still make the cut with the doves. Talk about a wide stance."
October 23
"Julie, I think they're going to skunk Hillary the way they did Dukakis back in 1988. They're going to say, we want change but not this one, baby."
October 26
"But did she think up this malarkey about, I'm going stick with the -- doesn't she step back for three seconds and say she grew up in Chicago. You're always loyal to the team you grew up with as a kid. She went to the Yankees so that she could run for senator from New York. It's so obvious. Well, why is she -- doesn't she know she looks like a fraud?"
October 26
"What's with her clapping? Why is she always clapping? There we see her -- I don't know any -- is this a Chinese thing? What is this clapping? She doesn't clap like you do at a movie you like or something. She claps when she meets people. She claps -- is that Tom Friedman? I mean, she claps when she stands at a luncheon. What is all the clapping about?"
October 26
"Does she exploit it and get power by knowing that he's always feeling guilty with her? In other words, did she get power -- I heard this from David Gergen. She got power over health care financing, the biggest issue of that administration ... because he was so hooked up in the problem of Paula Jones that she just squeezed it out of -- OK, give me the health care thing, and I'll be quiet."
October 26
"Is that the kind of exploitation, or what do you call it -- what do you call it, blackmail? What do you call it?"
October 26
"And she exploited it to get more power."
October 26
"It was a fund-raiser, of course. Like so much of the Clintons' life, they use it for fund-raising purposes or political purposes."
October 26
"I find them both amazingly likable people when I'm with them, especially Hillary. I do find a fraudulence, a public fraudulence, in all this Yankee/Red Sox stuff. It's so hokey, so baloney, so B.S. It makes me wonder about how much more B.S. there is. When you can actually pretend it's an issue that somebody roots for the Sox, when your team loses the division, I mean, who cares?"
October 26
"It was the worst of both worlds, Sally. It was the fingers on the blackboard and a stupid topic."
October 26
"How do we discern how they work together in the White House, because there's this problem you're pointing to of trying to get the record out. Explain the problem of getting the record out about how Bill and Hillary operated for eight years in the White House."
October 26
"When you want to find out about something, they [the Clintons] say, oh, that's politics. You can't look at it. If it's something to do with policy, they say that's policy. By the way, who's in charge?"
October 29
"Here's what I think Obama should say starting tomorrow night at the big MSNBC debate in my hometown of Philly. Quote, 'This country's in a rut, a rut that leads to endless war in Iraq, that leads to inevitable war with Iran. The American people, and not just the Democrats, want to get our country out of this rut. The great majority of them want this election to take us to a new place, not just led by someone smarter along the same rut. I promise to take us to that new place. Senator Clinton is smart. She's hardworking. She's serious. But every vote she has cast, every word she has spoken says yes to the status quo. She voted to approve the war with Iraq. She just voted with the hawks to target Iran. She always seems to choose the safe boat that leaves this country in the same rut, the rut of fearful politics and endless war. I promise change. I promise a new approach. I promise deliverance from the rut of endless war in Iraq, inevitable war in Iran. So there you have it. It's for you, my fellow Democrats, to decide. If you think Bush's policies would have been succeed if they were better executed, then go with Senator Clinton. If you think the Bush policies were wrong, dead wrong, I'm with you.' "
October 29
"I mean, I made the point early in the show, as I started the show, I think he has to say that Hillary Clinton keeps us in the rut we're in right now. She offers no change, more war with Iraq, inevitable war with Iran. You need a whole new approach to the foreign policy of this country, and she's not offering it."
October 29
"But Hillary is basically column A. She's a smarter Bush."
October 29
"By the way, that might be the smartest politics, because having just been at Fenway Park and heard some of the rumbling behind me about Hillary; 'Is she really going to be the nominee? Tell me she's not going to be the nominee. Tell me I don't have her as president.' That was what I was hearing behind me."
October 29
"She's very much the establishment candidate. She's doing the establishment thing, taking money from the interest groups, whatever they are, saying she really doesn't pay much attention where the money comes from. That's Bill Clinton politics. That's what they did in the White House. Is it going to work?"
October 30
"Dan, it seems to me that she has managed to keep the voice tenor down. There has been none of that fingernail on the blackboard kind of hectoring sound."
October 31
"Roger, it seems to me that she uses this phrase, 'undocumented workers,' rather than illegal immigrants. It's obviously pandering. It doesn't tell you anything. 'Undocumented worker' can mean anything. She doesn't use the actual language of reality. These people are in the country illegally. And then she seeks to solve the problem by giving them documents, as that -- as if that's their only problem. They're in the country illegally. She wants to give them driver's licenses. By the way, she finally went full circle again today and said, Yes, give them driver's licenses."
October 31
"You know, last night, Anne, I thought Hillary Clinton was playing a pretty good game of eightball in pool, and then she scratched at the end. She was the one that put the cueball in the hole, in the pocket. She committed the self-inflicted wound of coming out for driver's licenses, documentation for people in this country illegally. I don't know how she wins on this. "
October 31
"I think she's ready to switch again, Pat. We'll be right back. I swear she switches on this like a top in the next couple of months."
October 31
"The hottest issue in the Democratic Party is the war. The hottest issue in the Republican Party is illegal immigration. And now Hillary has sided with illegal immigration."
October 31
"What is this, Pat? Dodgeball? That's not a position for the first lady?"
October 31
"I mean, her husband is the guy she is using as her number-one trolley to the White House here, and she can't give him a call and say, hey, dear, why don't you release those documents, so I can brag about my record at the White House?"
October 31
"Do you think she is hiding something? Do you think she's hiding something, that she did something during the administration of her husband that is embarrassing to her, and that's why she doesn't want the papers out?"
October 31
"They have to nestle and pander, if you will. It seems like Hillary Clinton has made her bed. She's going to be for the side of the illegal immigrants. That's where she is."
November 1
"First she mocks the debate, now she's playing the woman card. Will either move pay off for Hillary Clinton after her flip-flop on this issue we're talking about, driver's licenses for people in the country illegally?"
November 1
"I was just triggered into thinking about the number of times Hillary Clinton has yielded herself to this gender card; I'm your girl out in Chicago. What gives me experience in dealing with evil men, and now this one, rallying the troops up at Wellesley. Is she going to do a seven sisters tour now, a college tour now with Hillary to rally the women against the men?"
November 1
"Is this pandering or playing to the Seven Sisters crowd up at these all-women's colleges, where there may be that sort of mood if you're -- and they all want dates. I assume a lot of them do, on weekends. But this anti-male thing, is that something that's particularly something you can sort of spruce up, you can play up, up there?"
November 2
"Is Hillary out of line for painting herself as a victimized woman every time her male rivals criticize her? And do we want a president who plays the gender card every time her opponents attack her?"
November 6
"Hillary Clinton's team, led by very smart people, the best and the brightest in the business, people like Mark Penn and Mandy Grunwald, they're putting out the word -- first of all, they put out the word to Drudge that night that somehow Tim Russert was too tough. Then they put out the word the next day at a fund raising meeting, in a conference call, that the other rivals were too tough. Then she dropped the Wellesley -- maybe she did it rightly or wrongly, but she did do the gender card thing. And now they're putting out the fact, Bill, that they're Swift Boating this poor woman. You know, just a month ago, she's I'm your girl. In Chicago, she was tough. I can take on all these bad guys. Now, what's big brother coming to defend her for? What's all this excuse-making?"
November 6
"No, I think it's [clapping] bizarre behavior. Anyway, I think it has something to do with -- men don't know what to do with their hands. I guess she's like us. Anyway, we'll be right back with more of the round table. I want an answer, why is she clapping. Matt, please. Tell me. Why does she clap all the time?"
November 9
"Hillary Clinton has this number I just looked at the other day, we all saw it. Fifty five percent of married men in the country say they'll never vote for her under any circumstances. Doesn't she walk into the White House really a pariah amongst so many people?"
November 13
"Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? First the Clinton people blamed the moderator in that Philadelphia debate for Hillary's bad night. Then they confessed to feeding questions in televised town meetings. Now they're trying to intimidate the next debate moderator. Is everyone fair game except the candidate?"
November 13
"This shows that she's a manipulative candidate."
November 16
"I hear the sharp notes there coming out of her mouth. Is that bad for her? You know, like in piano music, the notes seem a half a note too sharp. And is that going to hurt?"Positive remarks about Hillary Clinton (10)
October 1*
"Hey, Mike, Drew, I'm warming up towards her, despite how hard I get on this show, because it's my job to play hardball and be tough on all these guys. But I do think she's so much more appealing as a political figure, after all these years of putting up with Bill."
October 4*
"Well, Hillary -- and this will sound negative towards Hillary, but, you know, I have come to like her a lot more over the years. I just respect how far she's come. I think putting up with Bill has been her rite of passage, putting up with that marriage, and coming out pretty whole, at least the way we look at it. And I think that's a fair estimate. It's not the nicest estimate. But she's a tough cookie. And I think he made her tougher, not necessarily by being nice. But she's a tougher woman than she was 20, 30 years ago, I'm sure."
October 5
"She's much cuter. Cut her some slack, will you? You are brutal."
October 8
"Let's come back and talk about Hillary, who's just leaped to the front of Iowa. She could run the table if she keeps it up. It will confound some people. She's definitely running an impressive campaign."
October 25*
"The establishment, the interest groups, the older women, the working women, the minorities, minorities -- I don't know if gays -- if they're significant, but they're probably for Hillary too. It's unbelievable."
October 29*
"But how do you bring about that choice with Hillary? Hillary is out there with these incredible numbers. Women seem to be voting for her in large numbers. Minorities are voting for her, poor people, working people and old people. She seems to have corralled every interest area of the Democratic Party right now."
October 30*
"The calm, cool presence of a Grace Kelly, if you will. It is almost -- that is the way that Hillary has been. She has been charming but cold and absolutely flawless, I agree."
November 8
"As her friends and foes must have noticed, I get a kick out of going after Hillary's fondness for public clapping. She does it everywhere. Every time she gets in front of a crowd of supporters, she keeps clapping and clapping and clapping. Well, I was up at my old high school the other night, La Salle in Philly, last night. And I talked to Agnes Hallis (ph), who is married to John Hallis (ph), who used to play French horn with me in the school band. She gave me four -- make that a full quartet of reasons why Hillary likes to clap. I love these reasons. Number one, it's a polite way to show she appreciates the applause from the people around her. She's responding. Number two, it's a way to jazz up the energy in the room, sort of like being a cheerleader of the crowd. She's sort of cheering them up, getting them going. Three -- I love these last two -- it's like Peter Pan. If you clap, Tinker Bell will get better. Four, that's that old kid's song. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. Anyway, so, don't let my Scrooge attitude about clapping make you think anything less of this or take away any reasons why a person running for commander in chief shouldn't enjoy this campaign any way she chooses."
November 16*
"You know what I saw, David, there? A highly scripted, brilliant performance by Hillary Clinton that hit all three bells."
November 30
"Well done. You know, that's what people like to see in politicians. It seems to me, regardless of political parties or attitudes about the person, to get out there on the curb, as she is right there in front of her house answering questions, right away, speaking to the public in a transparent fashion, no hiding in the back. People love it. I hope we see more of that from politicians in the future. It's good stuff. I also like the fact she thanked her volunteers and those of every other campaign, young people in their 20s who run American politics because they have the time to go out there and volunteer. I hope they still do."
* These remarks were positive overall but also contained some negative element.
Positive remarks about Rudy Giuliani (28)
September 4
"Word is that he [John McCain] might be inclined to throw his backing to Rudy Giuliani. The beauty of that is, it would whack Romney, smash his erstwhile buddy, Thompson, who wasn't supposed to run as long as John McCain was in the race, and give a real lift to a fellow maverick. Lots of grit in those two, Rudy and McCain."
September 12
"Were you impressed that 92 percent of the people, almost everybody, thinks he was totally within his rights to celebrate 9/11, and be a main celebrant of it, that he owns that horror? He was there."
September 14
"There's another piece to it [Giuliani's popularity] that you haven't mentioned. I think they like -- people on the conservative side tend to like strong leaders."
October 3
"Rudy's opportunity to pick up on the Bush vote is clearly in the east, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, maybe Ohio. Pick up some opportunity there. They already have Ohio. Pick up some eastern, more ethnic cities, where people like gritty people like Rudy."
October 8
"Rudy's got a gritty image."
October 8
"OK. Let's put a picture up here, a gritty, big-city guy, with a long ethnic name from New York, tough on crime, great during 9/11, Giuliani, right?"
October 9
"That is so smart [that Giuliani listens to his opponents and responds to them]."
October 10
"Well, I think Rudy is right [that he is the most electable -- the "50-state" candidate]."
October 11
"You're with me on that one [that Giuliani will be very tough]. That's what I think."
October 11
"Everything you say is true about Rudy Giuliani. I have been saying that for two years. Whatever your position, liberal, middle, or left, or right, Giuliani has beat the spread week after week after week. And, if you just watch this business, the Republican Party seems to want strength more than anything else. And, for whatever reason, good, bad or fictitious, or whatever, he exudes it."
October 18
"That's what I began hearing several years ago, that Southerners look to Giuliani as a leader. And Republicans, as we all know, love leaders. Watch for Rudy to surprise the pundits and pull pretty good numbers down in Dixie."
October 19
"I'll tell you, Rudy Giuliani wants to bring Ron Paul into every debate for the rest of his life, because he does this alley-oop play. Every time Ron Paul gives the Libertarian, anti-neo-conservative argument, Rudy says what about 9/11 and gets the home run again."
October 22
"He's [Rudy Giuliani] not competing to be the most conservative, he's competing to be the leader."
October 22
"I have a sense that the coasts are going to be owned by Rudy Giuliani just because of the unit rule and the way he can roll it up in Florida and New Jersey and California."
October 23
"OK, I still bet on Giuliani to be the toughest competitor of Hillary."
October 24
"Well, it [Giuliani's claim to be supporting the Red Sox in the World Series] sounds reasonable to me. Is he supposed to be voting for the team from the other league?"
October 30
"Rudy Giuliani enjoys that same kind of popularity in the suburbs, because people want to go back to the old neighborhood. They want to be able to walk around it without getting hurt. They love it. They love their cities. That's why Rudy is popular."
November 6
"Tonight the person with the best shot to win the Republican nomination, I say it's Rudy Giuliani. Once again it is based on national and key state polling, international betting odds and perhaps the most important point, his best and most distinguishing strengths."
November 6
"What is his power punch? The way I see it, Republicans like leaders, as I said, he can win big in big states. And the Christian right now sees anti-terrorism, for which he is famous, as a moral virtue. What could stop him? His positions on social issues like abortion rights and gay rights. Early losses, really bad ones, could kill his big state bid before it even gets started. And finally, some Gotham blowback from firefighters, widows, police, anyone who tries to poke holes in his 9/11 legacy, that could be a problem."
November 6
"You know why I have been saying this guy looks good for a long time, he looks like a potential winner? Because I have been talking to a lot of people in the South, guys that go to lunches in the South, not necessarily church-y people, just secular Republicans, they hear about lower taxes, law and order, they like him. They can't spell his name down there, some people, but they love the idea he is a tough, kick-butt policeman, basically, in New York, a prosecutor, a guy who puts bad guys like Milken away."
November 6
"Rudy is this tough, kick-butt cop from New York. You know he is not a nice guy. You know he can be a SOB. But maybe that is what you want on the subway at 3:00 in the morning. Maybe that is what people feel like in their heads right now. It is 3:00 in the morning. And we want tough guy on that subway with us, right?"
November 6
"Rudy Giuliani, after 9/11, the galloping horse of history came by. He jumped in the saddle and made himself Winston Churchill. You either grab your opportunity when it comes, or you blow it. This guy grabbed it. That is why I think he is the number one possibility to be the next Republican nominee for president."
November 6
"Well, he's [Giuliani] the leader in that party. He looks more like a leader than the rest of them. "
November 20
"Well, that's Rudy at his best [making fun of Barack Obama's admission of past drug use]."
November 26
"So the people looking for a tough guy leader are going to Rudy. They know who they like, in a time of crime fear and terrorism fear, that makes sense."
November 26
"I think reading this [Newsweek] article may give me a sense of why in fact he's got this tough persona that I think is part of the reason why he stayed at the top of the polls for all these many months, about a year or so already, coming -- coming out of the background that he did. No one say he came from a -- a very pampered, silver-spoon-in-his-mouth type background, as -- as other presidents have done. That may give a sense as to why he's got the kind of demeanor and the toughness that I think made him a success as mayor and I think will make him a success on this campaign trail."
November 26
"The Italian-Americans [references a Giuliani profile in Newsweek] are the people that rub the graffiti off the walls when somebody puts it on the wall. They're the ones that won't move out of the neighborhood when it changes. They're the ones that really do fight for the city. They try to keep it straight and narrow. They are straight-and-narrow people. It seems to me it's a plus."
November 28
"I have to tell you, when I watched it [a debate], I thought every -- those two guys were operating at a different level than the rest of the guys, the rest of the candidates, that those two guys, Rudy and Romney, were so far ahead, they were like -- they were like the top-ranked football teams."
Negative remarks about Rudy Giuliani (8)
September 13
"Rudy Giuliani gets whacked on immigration, and maybe deserves it."
September 13
"Republican candidates for president are still pouncing on Rudy Giuliani for remarks he made on talk radio about illegal immigration. He said that being in the United States illegally should not be a federal crime -- quote -- 'because the government wouldn't be able to prosecute it. We couldn't prosecute 12 million people' -- close quote. Well, his position puts him clearly at odds with top supporters like Peter King of New York, who want the law enforced. Well, excuse me, but how can a law and order conservative like Giuliani think it's OK for the first thing a person does on entering this country to break the law? In the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, by the way, Giuliani has seen his lead over Fred Thompson shrink from 13 points down just to six points. It will keep shrinking if he keeps sounding soft on illegal immigration."
September 13
"Rudy Giuliani sounds soft on illegal immigration. What's he up to?"
September 24
"Call me old-fashioned, but, when you invite people to go to the trouble to come to an event and listen to what you have to say, you give your first attention to them. You don't operate a switchboard of anyone who feels like interrupting you [referring to Giuliani's answering of a cell phone call during a campaign speech]. If this thing happens again, and people aren't openly offended by it, that's their fault. Cute once, maybe, not cute twice, not cool, if it happens again."
October 1
"Rudy Giuliani explains why he keeps interrupting speeches to take his wife's telephone calls. And wouldn't you know it, it has to do with 9/11."
November 6
"Big problem, small problem, his [Rudy Giuliani] inability to answer that quickly? He was mocking Hillary for having a problem with a question. Brian asked him a fairly obvious question, he took the longest time to say how long he hasn't talked to the guy [Kerik]."
November 26
"Which of these two top Republicans [Romney and Giuliani] is least likely to give you an extension [on a loan]? I don't see a whole lot of heart from either of these guys."
November 29
"You know what I liked about last night, gentlemen, was that there was one issue that neither of these heavyweights, Rudy Giuliani or -- or Governor Mitt Romney, had prepared themselves for in this campaign. They had adjusted their positions on abortion, on gun control, on a whole array of issues to make themselves acceptable to the arch-conservatives, but they hadn't adjusted their records on immigration, illegal immigration. They were both caught flat-footed last night. And you saw that great battle between them, knowing each other was vulnerable. They were both vulnerable on the issue, because neither one has been a red-hot on this issue."
[1] We did not count the plentiful instances in which Matthews criticized Bill Clinton unless he also explicitly criticized Hillary Clinton, despite the fact that criticism of the former is obviously no help to the latter.
[2] We considered each remark to begin when Matthews began speaking and to end when a guest began speaking. Consequently, there were a few occasions on which Matthews made multiple negative or positive remarks regarding the same topic during a single conversation.
—Media Matters staff
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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1949: On THE GUIDING LIGHT, Mama Bauer (Adelaide Klein) died.
1979: On THE EDGE OF NIGHT, Phil (Sam McMurray) pulled a gun on Deborah (Frances Fisher).
1983: Catherine Mary Stewart aired for the final time as Kayla Brady in DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
1991: Lucy Montgomery was born on AS THE WORLD TURNS. Peyton List took over the role exactly 10 years later.
1992: Tracy Middendorf aired for the final time as Carrie Brady in DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
2000: On AS THE WORLD TURNS, Vicky (Jensen Buchanan) appeared during the seance.
2004: Candice Daly, who played Veronica Landers on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS in the late 1990s, was found dead in a rundown Los Angeles apartment.
2006: Heather Tom aired for the final time as Kelly Cramer in ONE LIFE TO LIVE.
2009: On THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, Billy (Billy Miller) and Daniel (Michael Graziadei) shared a jail cell.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Patty Duke (ex-Ellen, THE BRIGHTER DAY; ex-Molly, KITTY FOYLE) - 66
Elaine Princi (ex-Dorian, ONE LIFE TO LIVE; ex-Linda, DAYS OF OUR LIVES; ex-Miranda, AS THE WORLD TURNS; ex-Kathryn, ANOTHER WORLD) - 66
Celia Weston (ex-Gloria, RYAN'S HOPE) - 61
Cynthia Gibb (ex-Suzi, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW) - 49
Noelle Beck (ex-Lily, AS THE WORLD TURNS; ex-Trisha, LOVING) - 44
Tammy Blanchard (ex-Drew, GUIDING LIGHT) - 36
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A cascade of events Wednesday suggested there was no end in sight to the ideological skirmishes following President Hassan Rouhani's outreach to the U.S.
Those overtures will be put to the test next week in Geneva when nuclear talks with world powers resume.
For Rouhani, the immediate prize would be winning pledges from the West to roll back painful sanctions in exchange for concessions on Tehran's nuclear program. But, on a deeper level, Rouhani's gambit also exposes sudden insecurities among the West-bashing factions that have shaped Iranian affairs for decades.
If Rouhani's brand of diplomacy pays off in the eyes of Iran's top policymaker, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it could bring sharper limits on the reach of powerful factions led by the Revolutionary Guard -- which has already been warned by Khamenei to stay out of politics and let Rouhani's overtures run their course.
The Guard will remain a pillar of Iran's establishment no matter what happens with Rouhani's efforts. But Khamenei's directive to give Rouhani political breathing room was a rare roadblock for a group whose power and influence has expanded steadily in the past decade.
Possible attempts by Khamenei to separate the Guard from the worlds of politics and foreign affairs would mark a profound change on how Iran interacts with the West, and offer more of flexibility in diplomacy.
"Opposition or frustration by hard-liners is a natural reaction," said Tehran-based political analyst Saeed Leilaz. "But nothing can derail Rouhani's policy of outreach to the U.S." as long as Khamenei remains nominally in his corner.
Khamenei has previously said he's not opposed to direct talks with the U.S. to resolve Iran's nuclear standoff with the West but is not optimistic. Last week, he called the U.S. "untrustworthy."
"There is a political will to reduce tensions with the U.S.," said a Tehran political commentator, Hamid Reza Shokouhi. "This strategy is supported by the supreme leader."
But that has not stopped critics of Rouhani's government from making their complaints heard.
The nationally broadcast Friday prayers last week included the familiar chants of "Death to America." A week earlier, protesters hurled eggs and insults and Rouhani's entourage after he returned from the groundbreaking exchanges in New York.
It was capped by President Barrack Obama's phone conversation with Rouhani in the highest-level dialogue between the countries since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The latest counterpunch followed a drama that began with a report in the hard-line newspaper Kayhan that contained alleged misquotations of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that criticized the overtures with Washington. This was followed by Zarif seeking medical help because of what he called muscle spasms "due to being nervous."
"A bitter day," the U.S.-educated foreign minister posted on his Twitter account.
Zarif claimed the newspaper Kayhan misquoted him as saying Rouhani's 15-minute telephone conversation with Obama was "inappropriate." It also quoted Zarif as saying he believed it was wrong to hold a lengthy face-to-face meeting in New York with Secretary of State John Kerry.
Mohammad Hossein Naqvi, spokesman of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, rejected the Kayhan report.
The editors and management at the paper were not immediately available for comment. But in a front-page story Wednesday, Kayhan defended its account and said Zarif's acknowledgment "brought down the line of compromise" with the U.S.
To further complicate matters, Kayhan's director is appointed by Khamenei. This suggests fissures within one of the main outlets for hard-line commentary.
A major moment for Rouhani's agenda will come next week in Geneva when Iranian envoys -- led by Zarif -- meet with delegations from the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany in a follow-up to discussions in New York last month.
Rouhani has made it clear he wants the U.S. and allies to pull back on sanctions, which have cut Iran's vital oil exports in half and blackballed the country from international banking networks. But Iran has not announced what it will offer in return.
In Geneva, Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, told The Associated Press that Iran has more enriched uranium than it needs for its research and would be willing to discuss the "surplus" with Western powers next week.
He said Iran is open to discussions about what to do with the 20 percent enriched uranium that it doesn't need. Iran has reported to the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency that it has turned half of its 20 percent enriched uranium into a powder form that cannot easily be used to make weapons-grade fuel.
The 20 percent enriched uranium has been a centerpiece of the showdown with the West. It is closer to warhead-grade material than the level needed for energy-producing nuclear reactors. Iran, however, says it needs the higher level enrichment for its medical research reactor and repeatedly denies claims it seeks an atomic weapon.
"We have some surplus, you know, the amount that we don't need," Larijani said. "But over that we can have some discussions."
Last week, parliament overwhelmingly backed Rouhani's initiatives. In an attempt to further push back against hard-liners, Rouhani has asked the government to conduct a poll on views of his U.N. visit and outreach to the U.S., spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA news agency.
Meanwhile, other battle lines could be emerging.
The semiofficial Fars news agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guard, reported that authorities are studying a proposal to free Iran's two most prominent opposition figures, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, who have been under house arrest since early 2011.
In recent weeks, officials have freed more than 90 people jailed in crackdowns since huge unrest after the disputed re-election of Rouhani's predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in 2009. Mousavi and Karroubi led those protests.
In a separate statement, Rouhani urged police to be less aggressive in enforcing Iran's Islamic dress codes for women, who often push limits with body-hugging coverings and head scarves barely hanging on.
"One of the main reasons behind Ayatollah Khamenei's recent decision to support (Rouhani's) efforts is sanctions," said Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born political analyst based in Israel. "Such support will not be open-ended or unconditional, as (Khamenei) has his own hard-line audience to play to. So Rouhani better deliver, and deliver fast."


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"There is currently much interest and excitement at the emergence of an educational approach commonly termed the 'Massive Open Online Course' or MOOC. ... I feel there is much we can learn from the delivery of MOOCs that can be used to enhance the on-campus experience supplemented by online course material and delivery. This format offers us the opportunity to investigate learning and improve teaching processes, perhaps more similar to the edX approach. It would seem appropriate to collect and use data to inform this process; treating learning and teaching as a field ripe for research, tying in to a research-led approach."
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They called it the "Year of the Activist." But the aggregate returns show not every hedge-fund manager who takes on chummy corporate boards is Carl Icahn.
Activist hedge funds delivered a 19.1% return in 2013, according to eVestment. That made the group the top-performing sub-strategy in the entire hedge-fund industry for the period.
Then again, these returns badly lagged SPDR S&P 500 ETF's (SPY) 32% and were just under half the 38.8% return of iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM). And it's not as if the activists did much to dodge the 2008 financial crisis selloff.
On the contrary. From eVestment:
Activist hedge funds ended 2013 as the leading substrategy, returning 19.1% for the year and besting 2012's 15.2% gain. Activists still underperformed the S&P significantly during the year and have a history of volatile returns. During the financial crisis the group only outperformed the S&P Total Return slightly (-35.1% vs. -37.0%), yet significantly outperformed in 2009-2010.
Speaking of Icahn, investors are apparently back on the bandwagon in 2014, sending Icahn Enterprises (IEP) to a gain of 7.6% over the first several trading sessions of the new year. A December selloff pared the stock's remarkable 2013 gain to 155%.


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the logistics of getting 4 kids home if the SHTF when she's 20 miles from home. Any thoughts?
You're definitely going to have to have a winter kit and a summer kit given your northern climate. I agree with Rikkrack that good footware has to be a foundation for all the bipeds that will be traveling under their own power and it has to be appropriate footware for the season. I'd toss in a box of toe warmers and hand warmers, enough so everyone could have two sets. 20 miles in one day is absolutely not realistic for anyone that does not train for the distance. So that presumes spending the night out.My winter kit includes a mid-weight poly base layer, fleece pants, a fleece jacket, wind-proof pants, heavy wool socks, winter gloves, and an N2B flight jacket (parka). Multiplying that by five is going to take up a lot of space, but the alternative is not moving at all and having to hunker and wait for help to arrive.I have the advantage of having a garage, so I can keep about 5-7 liters of water in my car that only freezes a few days a year. Without that, water can be a real challenge. For food, I keep it extremely simple: Granola-type bars (they don't melt), Millenium Bars (5 year shelf life), and sports bars and gels. I do have a small solid fuel stove and metal water bottle along with chicken bullion cubes, but I've been rethinking this and will probably go with an alcohol stove and/or tea lite candles in the future because the exhaust given off by esbit stoves is noxious. Realistically, the stove and hot soup is just for morale. Everything else if food cube food and just meant to keep me alive. I have historically carried several MREs, but their summer shelf life is awful in a car (really, one summer), I don't like the taste, and would rather be able to eat on the move. Still, some items like ranger bars, lemon poppyseed poundcake, and the crackers are worth considering, but the entrees seem like a waste of space and time.One kid-transit idea is a shopping cart, however, more and more supermarkets are going to auto-locking wheels so they're worthless when you leave the parking lot.
When I first read the title I thought it was referring to the "date rape" drug known as GHB. That puts a WHOLE different perspective on the topic.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) – The fiscal cliff is a trumped-up phony.
It's a political issue, not a pressing economic one. There's a couple of tricks to solving it, but it's not impossible. Wall Street could do it. It's fixed tougher, albeit smaller, problems.
The fiscal cliff, as designed by lawmakers, would instigate draconian automatic spending cuts on Jan. 1. It would be something like trying to fix a car with poor gas mileage by depriving it of gasoline.
To understand how our national debt problem could be fixed, it might be helpful to step back and see what's in our favor and what's not.
The positives
First let's look at the strengths. The good news is that we have time. This is probably our greatest asset. Despite our worsening debt picture, U.S. obligations remain the safest in the world. There is no reason to think the U.S. cannot manage its debts. Wall Street would be the first to vouch for that fact. The 10-year Treasury US:10_YEAR yields less than 2%; inflation is running at about the same rate.
That's not some biased opinion of a liberal economist like Paul Krugman or Joseph Stiglitz. It's the verdict of the free market. It's said that investors are the ultimate ratings agency. If that's true, in the words of Warren Buffett, the U.S. is a "quadruple-A" credit.
Second, contrary to opinion, the $16 trillion national debt mostly is in the hands of friends. Two-thirds, 66%, is owned by U.S. investors, including the government itself. The rest is split up among foreign countries. China owns 8.1%, Japan 7%, according to the Treasury Department.
That last part might sound alarming, but this is how global finance works. Nations lend to each other. We are competitors, but we are partners too. Because China owns our debt, it has an interest in our economic well-being. It needs our markets. China's wealth is tied to the value of our dollar.
Finally, there's our potential. A Wall Street adviser would see if there is anything worth investing in. And here, too, the outlook is good. All sides agree that given the right conditions, the economy will start humming again. Stronger gross domestic product will translate into a bigger tax base. It will be the quickest and easiest way to pare annual deficits and trim the debt.
The negatives
On the negative side, the debt currently is growing faster than the revenue. In other words, if the U.S. was a corporation — as some analysts including Mary Meeker have suggested it should be viewed — not only isn't it profitable, its losses are mounting. We added $1.1 trillion to the deficit in fiscal 2012, about 7%.
That's a bad trend we know will only get worse as the money we've promised to our elderly will be an incredible burden for the next 25 years as the baby boom retires.
Another problem, all of those good things we talked about to begin with, the confidence in our ability to repay our debt and the friends who hold our debt, can't go on forever — especially if we don't have a plan.
Now, all of this may seem insurmountable. Politicians aren't promising much. The media is making it sound even worse.
But recognize that Wall Street has its own version of fiscal cliffs every day. Companies that expected X in revenue or profit only got Y. Maybe it's a recession. Maybe it's pension costs. Whatever. These companies are running into problems with their bonds. Payments are coming due. Dividends, salaries and bonuses, like entitlements, must be paid.
Some of the world's most successful companies had bad periods, and as a result, debt problems. Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.23% Boeing Inc. BA, +0.30% Xerox XRX, -0.71% and Altria Inc. MO, -0.47% all had slumps. But instead of creditors squeezing the companies and forcing them out of business, Wall Street gave them the breathing room to turn themselves around.
First, the companies needed to step up by taking a hard look at management. In a way, voters did this last week by issuing votes of confidence for both the House, controlled by cost-cutting Republicans and the president, who has vowed to raise revenue through taxes.
Second, Wall Street would use the strengths to its advantage. To get the economy moving, it could spend more and cut taxes in the short term, say two years, to give the private sector a jump start.
Again, the one thing the markets are giving the U.S. is time. Investors have no immediate qualms about U.S. debt.
If the economy is humming again, the government could begin to phase in additional taxes and spending cuts, say in 2014. The Bush tax cuts could be phased out over two to four years. Spending cuts, along with changes to entitlements, could be enacted over a longer period of time.
Wall Street also would remind the U.S. that its advantages don't end with a strong credit profile. The U.S. still has the biggest GDP in the world. It has the power to tax infinitely, which is the main difference between a private sector or business whose income is finite.
Secondly, as California has shown, government doesn't have to solve all of its fiscal problems in a single sitting. California is still facing billions in costs, but its debt enjoys strong demand because the government has taken steps (cost-cutting and tax hikes) to show it's serious about its debt profile.
Of course, naysayers will argue that this view is too simplistic, that we are heading the way of Greece, Spain and Japanese-style stagnation. Compelling, except the U.S. is the biggest economy in the world, it's the richest and it holds big leads in the industries (technology, finance) that will be required to compete globally in the next decade and beyond.
That's why this nonsense about the self-imposed "fiscal cliff" is a trap. It's a man-made crisis. The reality is that we need to get serious about a plan to bring down the debt, not hysterical about it.


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SchrodingerZ writes "Captain Scott Kelly, brother of former commander Mark Kelly, will embark on the United States' longest manned space mission, set for 2015. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend an entire year on the orbiting International Space Station. The mission will be a first for NASA's space program, but it is far from the world record. The longest recorded time in space was the 438-day mission of Russia's Valery Polyakov, working on the Mir Space Station, 1994-1995. Kelly, a decorated Navy captain, received degrees from State University of New York Maritime College and the University of Tennessee, and was the flight engineer for space station expedition 25, and commander of expedition 26 in 2010. 'Kornienko hails from Russia's Syzran, Kuibyshev, region and has worked in the space industry since 1986.' The yearlong study on humans working in space will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, spring 2015."


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The Poster Collection is comprised of over 2,000 educational posters. The posters are organized according to subject category and are shelved in cabinets adjacent to the children's books. Posters are cataloged in I-Share @ Morris Library. Click for tips in searching for posters in I-Share @ Morris Library.
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The 3-Phase Energy Sensor (Submetering) Kit will enable you to monitor a group of appliances or 3-phased power circuits. Easy to install, the information will be updated instantly, which means you can act immediately, helping you to be more energy efficient and save money on your electricity bill.
The information will be displayed in the Engage Web Portal. This will be presented in energy units (Watts and kWh). You can open the Android or iPhone App and walk around the home switching appliances on and off to see how much energy particular devices are using. When you are away on holidays, at work or on the move and you want to know how much energy your home is using at that time or in the past, you simply access the portal. The Web Portal and App include multiple features that will also help you save on your electricity bill.
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Let me start off by saying I love this addition to the site. I am more of a lurker than a poster but I will try and find some time to post several other trip reports from various destinations in North Carolina. One aspect of planning my backpacking trips is to make sure there are ample campsites for Hammockers and with trip reports like these I hope that the wealth of information will make everyone's trip planning easier.
I am a Claytor JH owner, I haven't made any mods to it yet but would eventually like to lighten it just a little. I use an old basic 32 degree bag. I sleep in wool socks a tshirt and fleece, wool cap if needed, and usually my hiking pants. No pad on this trip but I do put my camping towell under my butt for an extra layer of insulation. So on to the trip report.
My two friends and I set out in Panthertown Wilderness Area near Lake Toxaway Friday evening at about 7:15 at the cold mountain gap trail head. We descended into the valley and went towards the area where the shelter is located in the white pine forest. We set up camp there at dusk and we love this area b/c there is a limitless amount of places to hang from and makes a wonderful campsite. The weather that night was unseasonably cool and got down to the mid 40's in early August.
We set out the next morning toward Warden Falls where we ate lunch and relaxed for a while then set out to Blackrock Mountain to take in the views. The views in Panthertown are wonderful as it is nicknamed the Yosemite of the east. The only thing that hampers the vies are the power lines compliments of duke power. From this vantage point you can see the granite domes of Cold Mountain and Little Green Mountain.
We then set off back to the Valley and circled around over several miles to the backside of Little green mountain and ascended to the top to find our campsite for the night. There was a pretty well established campsite on the top of the mountain with plenty of sites to hang hammocks. (all 3 of us use Claytor JH Hammocks) We took in the views over dinner and then scared off a bear that wanted us to share our food with him but never got too close. ( Panthertown is a bear sanctuary and it is fairly common to see a bear) We went to bed and I awoke at sunrise to take in the amazing Appalachian Ocean in full effect and then ate breakfast and headed for Schoolhouse falls. After a short hike from there back to the car we headed home to Charlotte.
Overall a great trip in one of my favorite places to hike. Trails are not named or well marked sometimes but it isn't too difficult to navigate if you have some experience. Check out this site for some pictures
my profile picture is also form Panthertown on a trip there last year.


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ST. ANTON, Austria (Jan. 12) - Alice McKennis (Glenwood Springs, CO) came out of the number four start position to pickup a career first Audi FIS Alpine World Cup win in a challenging downhill in St. Anton. McKennis led three Americans into the top six - five in the first 15 - on a dominating day for the U.S. Ski Team, becoming the ninth American to find the podium this season and the fifth winner. McKennis moved into fourth in the downhill standings, with three Americans in the top four. Action continues in St. Anton Sunday with a super G.
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Both of the coaches who have led their team to Monday's college football national championship game have been linked to NFL rumors. Both of them attempted today to downplay any interest in leaving college for the pros.
Alabama's Nick Saban, who claimed while he was the Dolphins' head coach that he wouldn't leave for Alabama right up until he left for Alabama, is now saying that he doesn't believe he has anything he needs to accomplish in the NFL.
"I don't have any unfinished business in the NFL," Saban said. "It's not something I'm concerned about. It's not even anything I want to do."
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said he has given no thought to coaching anywhere other than South Bend.
"Leaving is not an option. I don't even think about it," Kelly said.
It's hard to take coaches at their word at this time of year, and it's particularly hard to take Saban at his word given his track record. But if Saban or Kelly have any interest in leaving, they're not letting on.


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The Chattanooga Lookouts announced this past week that they have scheduled the baseball club's first "Fan Fest" for this Saturday at AT&T Field.
The activities-filled event will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and there is no charge to attend. Single-game tickets for the 2013 season will be on sale, those who have bought season tickets can pick them up, and everyone attending will have the chance to buy an opening-day ticket for $1 or get one free by bringing a canned food item to the Lookouts' Dodger Blue antique truck parked on the outside plaza.
Fans can take a stadium tour, hit in the batting cage, have their fastball speed checked, record a home-run call in the radio booth, buy game-used memorabilia and interact with the Class AA team's mascots, among other things.
The Fan Fest also will include giveaways and face-painting, and children can take part in an art contest in which the winning piece will be included in the final edition of the 2013 Lookouts program, according to the team's release.


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Oct. 9, 2007
Just call the Lady Bisons the streak killers.
Sunday afternoon they ended a 14-match winning streak for Florida Gulf Coast in an Atlantic Sun contest. Tuesday night they stopped Murray State 3-2, ending a seven-match winning string for the Racers of the Ohio Valley Conference.
The Lady Bisons opened the match with a 30-18 win, but lost 30-24 in game two. The Lady Bisons rallied with a 30-22 win in game three, but dropped game four 30-21. The Lady Bisons closed out the match with a 15-10 come-from-behind win in game five.
"We have been through some tough challenges," Lipscomb coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "We let up a little bit, but we are playing good volleyball. I'm proud of our players.
"It's tough going into conference play and being so focused. Having a mid-week non-conference game like this is hard, but the schedule is the schedule. We can't take days off."
This was the sixth five-game match for the Lady Bisons this season. The win gives them a 3-3 record in five-game matches.
"In games two and four we got into an area where we started trading points," Rosenthal said. "We would close the gap to three and then we would serve out. It was just a matter of settling down.
"We have been talking about staying relaxed and steady, but we were a little too relaxed. We have to find that balance between being relaxed and having a competitive fire."
The Lady Bisons have won four straight matches and five-of-their last six games.
In game five the Lady Bisons were down 8-5, the exact situation they were in as they played game five against Florida Gulf Coast.
"There was no need to press at that point and do things we didn't need to do," Rosenthal said. "But at the same time it was the time where we had to get going."
Freshman defensive specialist Brittany Simmons served five on five straight points, including one service ace, for the Lady Bisons who took an 11-8 lead.
"Brittany is very even-keeled," Rosenthal said. "I've never seen her get upset. I think that works in tough situations. Like all of our freshmen she is making the most of her opportunities."
Junior outside hitter Sarah Snider made a match-high 27 kills and finished with a .274 hitting percentage on 62 total attacks. This was the 13th time that Snider has posted a match-high and the 16th time this season she has finished in double figures.
Snider also had a match-high 24 digs, the first time she has accomplished that feat this season.
"Sarah is so competitive," Rosenthal said. "She is going for it all the time. There is a lot of pressure on her. We want the ball to go out there to her. We need her to get the ball."
Senior outside hitter Jessica Enderle gave the crowd a scare in game one when she hit the floor. She came back to make 17 kills and 10 digs.
"We weren't sure she was going to be able to come back," Rosenthal said. "We had a good talk between games two and three. It was good for her to get back out there. She is very good when she plays within herself and within the system."
Senior defensive specialist Grace Gilmore was credited with a career-high and a season-high 20 digs.
"Grace knows what she has to do," Gilmore said. "When she is able to execute she can help out a lot."
Freshman middle blocker Alex Kelly made 18 kills with a .312 hitting percentage and seven blocks.
"I thought Alex Kelly had a huge game," Rosenthal said.
Senior middle blocker Alex Scruggs added 10 kills. Freshman setter Stefine Pease had 19 digs, senior libero Ann Mullins finished with 18 and junior defensive specialist Jessica Turner made 12.
The Lady Bisons had 111 digs to Murray State's 97.
Heather Norris finished with a match-high 34 digs for Murray State. Tara Demage made a team-high 18 kills and added 13 digs.
"Murray State is a great team," Rosenthal said. "We knew they were going to be scrappy defensively. It was one of those games where we knew we were going to have to do everything we could in order to win."
The Lady Bisons are 6-4 at home this season. The next three games are on the road with stops at A-Sun foes North Florida on Friday and Jacksonville on Saturday and a non-conference visit to Chattanooga Tuesday.
"Home has been a good place for us," Rosenthal said. "It is tough to leave and go on the road, but we will be ready."
The Lady Bisons are 10-9 overall. Murray State slipped to 10-9.
"We have never been on the plus-side in wins at this point of the season," Rosenthal said. "But it is something that we though could happen this year."


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In spring 1945, the Allied Forces win the war and the German army is defeated. A German family's life is upended when the Nazi regime is overthrown. The father, an SS officer, hurriedly burns documents and makes plans to get the family to safety along with his supportive wife but it is too late and both parents disappear soon after. Their five children are left to fend for themselves. They undertake a long journey to reach their grandmother who lives in the North, led by the eldest child, fourteen-year-old Lore (Saskia Rosendahl). With only a vague idea of how to get there and the country falling apart around them, the children come to realise the fallacy in their indoctrinated beliefs. Lore feels conflicted when she meets a concentration camp survivor (Kai Malina).
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