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Malika Henderson
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: The rain on Cain`s parade.
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews up in New York. Leading off
tonight: Cain in pain. It`s the political explosion of the day, the news
first reported by Politico that Herman Cain was accused of sexual
harassment when he headed the National Restaurant Association and that cash
payments were reached with two women. In his defense, Cain today said he
was accused by one woman but that the accusation was false.
How will this story affect Cain`s dramatic lead in the polls? Will it
hurt him, or will his supporters chalk it up to a predictable attack by the
political and media establishment?
And tomorrow`s the publication date for my big new book, "Jack
Kennedy: Elusive Hero," which provides a new, intimate portrait of the 35th
president. How did a rich man`s son grow to the leader who got us through
the Cuban missile crisis, a look at the troublemaker in school, the young
man who challenged his father on World War II, who saved his crew members
in the South Pacific, and went on to inspire a country even now. There`s a
lot President Obama can learn from Jack Kennedy.
We start with the latest on Herman Cain. Jonathan Martin is chief
political correspondent for Politico, and Nia-Malika Henderson is a
political reporter for "The Washington Post."
Let`s show us now what we`ve heard latest. NBC has confirmed that one
woman received a settlement from the National Restaurant Association after
complaining about inappropriate sexual conduct by Herman Cain. NBC News is
not disclosing the name of the woman, nor characterizing who she is.
Today Herman Cain acknowledged he had been accused of sexual
harassment but said the charges were not true. Let`s listen.
HERMAN CAIN (R-GA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: In all of my over 40
years of business experience running businesses and corporations, I have
never sexually harassed anyone. While at the restaurant association, I was
accused of sexual harassment -- falsely accused, I might add. I was
falsely accused of sexual harassment.
And when the charges were brought, as the leader of the organization,
I recused myself and allowed my general counsel and my human resource
officer to deal with the situation. As far as a settlement -- I am unaware
of any sort of settlement. I hope it wasn`t for much because I didn`t do
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s go to Jonathan Martin. J-Mar, congratulations
on breaking this story. Of what we just heard from Mr. Cain, what can you
report is not accurate?
JONATHAN MARTIN, POLITICO.COM: Well, Mr. Cain himself has just
contradicted his own statement. In an interview that`s going to be on Fox
tonight, Mr. Cain says he believes that the one woman got about three
months` salary as part of this departure deal.
You just saw him there say at the National Press Club he`s not aware
of any settlement but he hopes it wasn`t for much. Literally minutes after
doing that midday National Press Club, he tapes an interview for tonight
with Greta Van Susteren saying that the one woman got three months` salary.
So he is not keeping his story straight on the response.
MATTHEWS: Why?
MARTIN: And further -- go ahead.
MATTHEWS: Yes, clearly, he has had a hard time. Why do you believe
it`s taken him all this time? Apparently, someone gave him the heads-up
that this story was about to break, and even in those 10 days, he didn`t
seem to be prepared for you. Let`s take a look at your interview earlier
today -- was it earlier today, Jonathan?
MARTIN: Yesterday.
MATTHEWS: When you confronted him with the charges in the story.
MARTIN: Sunday.
MATTHEWS: Sunday. Here he is. In your Politico story yesterday, you
wrote that the campaign knew about your reporting for 10 days...
MARTIN: Right.
MATTHEWS: ... yet Mr. Cain didn`t seem to be prepared when you
confronted him just yesterday in Washington. Let`s watch that scene.
CAIN: I`m not going to comment about two people that you won`t tell
me who they are, OK? I`m not going to -- I`m not going to -- I`m not going
to comment on that.
MARTIN: Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment? Have you?
Have you, sir? Please answer yes or no.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That was the last question. Thanks.
MARTIN: Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment?
MATTHEWS: Jonathan, can you report about the core of this story,
which is what may have been he was accused of?
MARTIN: Sure.
MATTHEWS: What was his infraction? What did he do that most
MARTIN: Sure.
MATTHEWS: ... watching right now would think was either deeply wrong,
troubling, or whatever?
MARTIN: Sure. Well, two women complained about what they deemed to
be inappropriate behavior towards them, physical contact and also language
that they found to be offensive and embarrassing, so much so that they went
to their superiors and they went to colleagues to complain about the
treatment. And subsequently, both of them got five-figure cash payouts,
and nondisclosure settlements so that they would not be able to talk about
what actually happened.
One of the women, Chris, Mr. Cain invited to his hotel suite during an
event that was actually related to the organization. So it was those kinds
of gestures. It was physical contact.
MATTHEWS: Right.
MARTIN: It was statements that were just making them feel
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MARTIN: ... suggesting...
MATTHEWS: But how far did it go? Can you report how far it went --
obviously inappropriate, from everything you`ve said...
MARTIN: Right.
MATTHEWS: ... and certainly has no place in the workplace.
MARTIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: But I`m asking you about this question. Was it what we
consider really aggressive harassment, like, I want to sleep with you, you
work for me, you better do it...
MARTIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: ... something of that extraordinary nature? Was it
something like that?
MARTIN: Well, I think -- it was inappropriate language, and also
physical contact, too.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MARTIN: You know...
MATTHEWS: But going to the room, certainly, and reporting that he
asked her to go...
MARTIN: Yes, inviting...
MATTHEWS: ... that suggests...
MARTIN: ... somebody to your hotel suite is pretty blatant. So there
is that, and also physical contact that made these women feel
MATTHEWS: Sure, I`ve got you.
MARTIN: ... in the workplace.
MATTHEWS: Do you know whether -- just to narrow it down for our
viewers who are catching up to this story...
MARTIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: ... and making a character judgment, some of them, about
this man, do you know whether that invitation to go to his room was, in
fact, a sexual proposition? Do you know that, or do you think it would
look like one to the woman involved, let`s put it that way? Did she take
it that way?
MARTIN: Our sources tell us that the woman not only took it that
MARTIN: ... but took it that way and then went and complained about
the matter to a board member at the organization because she was so -- so
hurt by the matter and was so scared by the matter...
MATTHEWS: OK. Sounds right to me.
MARTIN: ... that she went to her superiors.
MATTHEWS: Well, this is serious business, Nia-Malika Henderson of
"The Washington Post." Is this going to be one of those stories that takes
down a candidate because it looks like predatory behavior in the workplace
over someone who reports to you?
NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, "WASHINGTON POST": Well, it looks like there`s
more to come out of -- out of this day. It looked like he was ending his
day on a song at the National Press Club, and now he`s done this complete
reversal that we`ll hear more about on Fox News tonight.
I think you are hearing some pushback from conservatives, saying
basically, that this is another example of the liberal press trying to
bring down a black conservative. They`re name-dropping Clarence Thomas and
drawing comparisons to that.
But it does seem like he has stumbled into a real big mess here
primarily because there`s that clear flip-flop, there`s that clear reversal
from earlier in the day...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
HENDERSON: ... when he said he had no idea of this settlement, which
I think to some people`s ears, did strike them as odd because there seemed
to be an acknowledgement that the complaints were made. And then to kind
of say he had no idea that a settlement was made when it was made I think
struck people as odd. And so now we have him here, clearly contradicting
MATTHEWS: Right. Well...
HENDERSON: ... from earlier today.
MATTHEWS: ... he`s definitely developing this story as he goes along.
This is called -- what`s it called? Rolling disclosure, we call it in our
business, right, J -- Jonathan, J-Mar? This is when you put out
information like a leaky faucet and it looks worse for you all the time,
MARTIN: Well, look, Chris, he had 10 days to respond to this story.
His campaign was made aware of our reporting on Thursday, October 20th.
They did not respond until the following week on Monday. We were not
satisfied with the nature of their response. We wanted to make sure Mr.
Cain himself -- not his staff, Mr. Cain himself -- had a chance to respond
to these very serious questions.
So I asked him directly, outside of CBS News yesterday morning, Have
you, sir, ever been accused of sexual harassment in your life? I gave him
four chances to answer that very straightforward question. He didn`t do
it. And not until today did he finally admit that, yes, he was accused of
sexual harassment.
He denied it and said that...
MARTIN: ... there was one charge. A half a dozen sources tell us
that there were at least two female employees who complained about their
MARTIN: ... by Mr. Cain.
MATTHEWS: Nia, I want to ask you, is anybody out there, can you tell
me, pushing this story with a partisan agenda, anybody that`s come by,
making calls to "The Post" or anyone else that you`ve come across? I`m
trying to figure the motive. It would seem to be -- well, I don`t want to
speculate because I always speculate in my mind, but I don`t want to do it
here, as to who would gain from the fall of Herman Cain.
I don`t think the liberals would be after him at this point. He
doesn`t look like the nominee. But who would be after him would be a
fellow conservative who`s competing with him to go on against Mitt Romney.
But that doesn`t tell you who did it, it simply gives you a possible motive
for someone.
HENDERSON: Yes, and you heard Herman Cain, for instance,today call it
a witch hunt, and obviously, conservatives are blaming it on the liberal
media. But I will say, I think there have been rumors about this swirling
around his campaign...
MARTIN: Right.
HENDERSON: ... swirling around press organizations. And you know,
kudos to you, J-Mar, for breaking this thing. So yes, there had -- there
had been...
MATTHEWS: You mean rumors of this particular nature, the harassment
HENDERSON: Yes, this particular -- this particular incident,
specifically, that J-Mar so masterfully reported on in Politico.
HENDERSON: My ex-colleague. Hats off to you.
MARTIN: Thank you.
HENDERSON: So yes, I think -- but no smoking gun because, of course,
you know, in campaign, you obviously hear from rival campaigns, you know,
touting, you know, details about the other campaign. But I will say that I
hadn`t -- I hadn`t experienced that, but there had been rumors just around
Washington about this and around this campaign.
MATTHEWS: So Jonathan, just to make it official, doing my job, you`re
not going to tell me who the source is.
MARTIN: I am not going to talk about my source.
MATTHEWS: OK, now we know. At the National Press Club today, he
responded, Mr. Cain did, to a question about whether he thinks another
campaign leaked the information to the press. Let`s listen to Mr. Cain.
CAIN: I told you this bull`s-eye on my back has gotten bigger.
CAIN: I have no idea. We have no idea the source of this witch hunt.
MATTHEWS: Well, it`s either a bull`s-eye on your back or it`s a witch
hunt. I don`t think it can be both.
MATTHEWS: Jonathan, I think he`s got his historic references mixed
up. But my question to you is...
MARTIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: This is a hard one -- as an analyst, do what you know about
this case look to be disqualifying? In other words, gets to character?
MARTIN: I think the nature of the charges against him are very
serious. He`s got to answer more questions about what actually happened
here. And also, he`s got to try and get his story straight. He said
midday today that he didn`t know about any settlements at all, and then,
again, a few hours later, even less than that, he`s taping an interview for
tonight and saying, yes, it was a settlement for about three months`
MATTHEWS: Yes, rolling disclosure. Rolling disclosure. It always
looks bad.
MARTIN: So you know...
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you...
MARTIN: ... the more he talks, obviously, he`s raising more
questions, Chris.
MATTHEWS: You know the old rule of journalism. I always advise
people, if it looks better for the politician -- I mean, if it`s better
than it looks, they`ll tell you. He has to tell us if it looks better --
if it`s better than it looks.
Anyway, thank you, Jonathan Martin. Congratulations on the scoop, I
guess. And Nia-Malika Henderson, thank you for congratulating him for his
MARTIN: Thanks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Coming up, my new book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," is
out tomorrow. That`s the pub date -- the story of a president who inspired
a country. What can President Obama learn from Jack Kennedy? That`s
coming up next.
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MATTHEWS: President Obama`s adding prescription drugs policy to his
growing list of executive actions. It`s all part of his new slogan, You
can`t wait -- We can`t wait -- as the president takes more executive
actions, rather than waiting for Congress to approve components of his jobs
Today he signed a new order aimed at preventing potential prescription
drug shortages, to speed the application review process to produce
medications, and alert the Justice Department about possible price gouging.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. My new book, "Jack Kennedy:
Elusive Hero," debuts tomorrow. And over the past few years, I went back
to try and answer the question, What was he really like? And what I found
was a self-made Jack Kennedy, someone who was curious about the world and
knew that the first step in leading was to ask Americans to follow him.
Well, we`re turning the tables tonight. And with me tonight are two
great political thinkers in the MSNBC family, the Huffington Post`s the
great Howard Fineman and Massachusetts`s own Mike Barnicle, who`s covered
and grown up with the Kennedys over the years.
Gentlemen, you`re going to be asking me the questions about Jack
Kennedy. Howard, you start.
OK, Chris. Let`s play HARDBALL.
FINEMAN: I know that wasn`t convincing. But the first thing that
occurred to me is that there have been a lot of books written about Jack
Kennedy. I, in fact, was inspired when I was a little kid to get into the
business I`m in because of reading "Making of the President" in 1960 about
Jack Kennedy and that race.
Why now? Why another book? Why were you so interested in it,
especially because you`d written one in the past about Kennedy and Nixon?
Why this book now?
MATTHEWS: I wanted to find out whether he was as good as we thought
he was back in the `60s before he was killed. I wanted to know if he was
the genuine article. And so I had a lot of access to people through oral
histories and personal relations and documents to go back to and find out
what he was like in high school at Choate, what he was like in the Navy,
what he was like in that early going politically, how he learned to be Jack
And what I found out was pretty amazing. I found out where "Ask not"
came from. It came from something he heard from his headmaster about, Ask
not what your alma mater can do for you but what you can do for her. And I
got the exact notes from the headmaster`s sermons up there.
I also went back and found out what he was like in school. He was a
troublemaker, a kid who was an Irish-American, who didn`t like the WASPy
headmaster who took a shot at the Irish, calling them "muckers," and he
went out and formed a group called the Muckers. So he was an early leader.
What really grabbed me and will grab anybody who reads these stories
was his courage in the war. And Mike Barnicle knows it and you know these
stories. But I went into depth. Imagine, he`s carrying a guy on his back,
and he`s got a badly injured back and had grown up with a bad back,
carrying this guy on his back for four hours through the Pacific Ocean,
through Japanese-held waters, all the time pulling the guy`s life jacket in
his teeth.
He saved the lives of 10 of his crewmen. Two of them were really in
bad shape. He had to go out and talk them into not giving up. It`s right
out of a movie. He is a true hero, a chillingly, amazingly gutsy hero.
And that`s how it all started.
MIKE BARNICLE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Chris, I have a -- I have a
bunch of questions, but I want to talk to you tonight about something that
absolutely jumped off the page to me. And it has to do with an appearance
that then Senator Kennedy made in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before the
convention in 1960, long before the election in 1960.
MATTHEWS: Right.
BARNICLE: And I ask you this in light of today...
MATTHEWS: Right.
BARNICLE: ... when so many people, Republican and Democrat, seem to
be wallowing in a frustration about the future of this country...
MATTHEWS: Right.
BARNICLE: ... and about the strength of our political leaders,
including President Obama.
And the question is this. Senator Kennedy is at the podium and he`s
being introduced by the then governor of Pennsylvania, David Lawrence, a
powerful figure. And in his introduction, in which Senator Kennedy expects
it to be glowing and laudatory and an endorsement of his candidacy for
president, Lawrence sort of slaps the young Bay State senator around.
John F. Kennedy stands up, addresses the critiques that David Lawrence
raised, and then proceeds to turn and sort of verbally pummel David
Lawrence in front of Lawrence`s own audience.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BARNICLE: My question to you is, can you see Barack Obama having the
strength to do that today?
MATTHEWS: Well, he better learn. Let me tell you, the best part of
my book in terms of research, besides all the archival work, was getting 64
audiotapes that nobody`s ever had before of Kenny O`Donnell describing such
scenes at each stage of his political life.
Jack Kennedy played hardball. He sent Bobby in the back room to do
it, to beat up these governors who were giving him a hard time. And it`s
amazing how he did it, with Mike DiSalle and David Lawrence and people like
Pat Brown and Governor Taws (ph). They came out of that room endorsing
him. He had a strong brother -- there he is in the picture -- who was
willing to do the tough work, the ruthless work, and Jack kept his hands
clean. But he got the job done.
In that case -- here was David Lawrence. Jack Kennedy had won the
Democratic primary in Pennsylvania that spring, 70-plus percent. He had
walked away with it with a write-in campaign. Pennsylvania wanted him.
The Democrats wanted him.
And here`s old David Lawrence, the first Catholic governor, nervous
about a fellow Catholic being the candidate, and he`s holding back, acting
like Jack hadn`t won the primary. Well, Jack walked up on the stage, as
you said, told those delegates, who were going to delegates, if you don`t
give this nomination to me because I`m Catholic, this Democratic Party is
finished and you guys are finished.
Lawrence goes off the stage practically finished and Jack Kennedy won
the Pennsylvania delegation. Sometimes you have got to take the fight to
the enemy to their face. And I`m telling you, that`s a lesson. You have
got to go after the bad guys.
FINEMAN: Chris, that`s probably one lesson that I know you think that
President Obama needs to learn. He has to be willing to make enemies. He
has to be willing to do it in public.
But as I read through the book, I thought of the promise of Barack
Obama as president, and the Kennedy-esque -- Barack Obama was compared to
both Franklin Roosevelt and Jack Kennedy, tremendous burdens to be sure, of
expectations, but what can Barack Obama do now at this rather late date?
What can he read in your book that he needs to follow and try to
follow before it`s too late?
MATTHEWS: Well, the most important thing is -- and I don`t do this
with disrespect for this man, who I respect a lot -- he seems to think that
the presidency is a solo act. I have never seen a president who doesn`t
have allies, who doesn`t have confederates.
Where are the people coming on this show, coming on the Sunday
programs like "Meet the Press" and bashing the hell out of the other side?
Where are his Cabinet members? Are they Hatch Act? What`s the matter with
these people? Where`s Sebelius? Where`s Vilsack? Where`s any of them?
Madeleine Albright was a better trooper for Bill Clinton when he was
in trouble with Monica than any of these people are. How come these
senators come on like Bernie Sanders like he has his own political party?
OK, he`s a socialist, but can`t he act like a Democrat? Can`t he act like
Obama`s ally? How come these guys on the show? We have them all over the
They all come on television and act like they`re running in their own
campaigns. They should be his confederates, they should be his allies, and
they should take some punches for him and deliver some punches for this
guy. He ought to just say, are you a Democrat? Then you`re in my party.
Now, part of it`s his fault. He ought to have them over to dinner at
night, he ought to sit around, have a few drinks them with them. He ought
to play cards. He ought to nurture them. But he better make some allies,
or this guy is going down this road next year all alone.
As Tip O`Neill once said to a congressman, I don`t need you when I`m
right. I need you when I`m not popular. I need you now.
And I don`t understand why he doesn`t lay down the law.
Michael, you understand this politics. Where are the confederates?
Where`s the Obama party? Jack Kennedy had something called the Kennedy
O`DONNELL: Well, let`s talk about that, I mean, you know, that
element that Howard threw on the table and that you just knocked out of the
park. And it is the element of, he ought to have these guys down the White
House, he ought to play cards with them, he ought to have a drink with
MATTHEWS: Like them. If you don`t like them, they`re not going to
like you.
O`DONNELL: Well, that`s the question. Is he as -- is Barack Obama as
good at politics as we initially thought? Because he certainly, after this
point in time, is certainly not John F. Kennedy, who schmoozed these guys.
MATTHEWS: I know.
O`DONNELL: These guys, in your book, they liked Jack Kennedy. You
get the sense that a lot of Democratic reps and senators, they admire the
president, as we all admire the president, as we all ought to, but they
don`t really like him.
MATTHEWS: You know what happened to Jack Kennedy? He got beaten for
the vice presidential nomination in `56 and he talked to the people around
and said, now I`m going to be a total politician, not just some popular guy
that people vote for. I`m going to be a guy that makes other politicians
do what I want them to do, because he had that nomination taken away from
him because he was Catholic in `56.
At the last minute, Rayburn and those guyed screwed him. So he said,
next time around, I`m going to have the power over those guys. And so he
went out in the country and he got 30,000 people supporting him for the
convention. He knew half the delegates personally when he got there,
You have got to go out and put the rope around these other
politicians. You have got to make them do what they don`t want to do. You
can woo some of them. You have got to use the stick with the rest of them.
And I`m telling you, it`s all about domination over other politicians.
When I look at somebody who is sort of a middleweight politically --
I`m not knocking him, but Eric Cantor is not a heavyweight yet. For this
president to be pushed around by him, he gets pushed around by Bibi
Netanyahu. Stop it. Stop it.
We`re the ones giving the $3 billion a year to Israel. You shouldn`t
be acting like you`re giving it to us. I`m sorry. He`s got to get tough
with our allies in the world, good allies like Israel, and start acting
like we`re the big guys. You know, be a little tougher about this.
Anyway, that`s my thought. Just a thought. It`s easier to be a pundit.
FINEMAN: Chris, it`s partly because of what you bring to the story in
terms of your own knowledge of politics, I`m sure, but what I -- one of the
things I took from your book, as you have been saying, is just how
thoroughly steeped in the world of politics Jack Kennedy actually was.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: On the outside, we saw the cool customer and so on, but you
document how from an early age, he was deeply involved in studying and
trying to understand history and politics.
I`m not sure Barack Obama`s ever going to be that. But I wanted to
flip around and ask...
MATTHEWS: By the way, he`s a lot more like you and me than you would
And, Mike, we`re kids I`m sure that started reading about Churchill
and people, heroes like that when we were very young. He had read
Churchill`s history of World War I by the age of 14. He read "The New York
Times" every day in high school.
FINEMAN: Well, but let me ask you something else entirely different.
Having studied Jack Kennedy, and you have talked about all the things
he brought as a leader and his bravery, physical and political, what were
his shortcomings as a political leader? And there must have been some.
And I`m wondering, also, what a second term might have been like had he
been able to have one.
MATTHEWS: He was fighting to the end, before he was killed in
November of `63, trying to twist the arms of the guys on the Rules
Committee to get civil rights through. I have got stuff in the book about
him working the Judiciary Committee, and he did that well with the help of
Dick Daley, boss Daley, in Chicago. He was really squeezing them.
But he had the biggest, hardest time with the Dixiecrats. He couldn`t
move them on issues like even tax cuts. He had a problem dealing with
Congress. And that`s where I sympathize with Obama, President Obama. You
can be the right guy, you can be the good guy, the tough guy, but these
other guys can stand in your way if you`re the best in the business.
It took his assassination -- let`s be honest -- we all know this -- to
get the civil rights bill through, because of the horror and the grieving
of this country afterwards. And Johnson was able to use that to get civil
rights through in `64.
Jack had the guts to bring it up and say, I`m for it, but even he
couldn`t get it through until horror struck this country in his
assassination. So, he wasn`t a superman, but, boy, did he try and did he
have the right values? Yes. Yes, he did.
O`DONNELL: You know, one other element that really struck me in the
book, Chris -- and I`m sure it probably struck Howard as well -- we all
know that times are drastically different today than they were in 1960.
But President Kennedy and Senator Kennedy`s friendship with
journalists, with Ben Bradlee...
MATTHEWS: Thank you.
O`DONNELL: ... with Charlie Bartlett, with Teddy White, there was a
common mutual respect and affection back and forth. He was not afraid of
them and let them into his life.
And we all understand the differences between coverage then and now.
But it struck me that that does not exist today.
MATTHEWS: And I don`t quite understand that. You know, we don`t have
to be coddled, but there is a common interest in our country that the
commentators and journalists have in common with the president, which is we
all cover the same areas on both sides of the political and the
journalistic fence, and we all care about the country and there should be a
little more respect. But that`s up to him.
I think he makes a mistake if he doesn`t recognize the role we play.
And if he thinks he`s superior to that role, he`s right, but he also shares
that role.
Anyway, thank you, gentlemen.
I want to say to the people who watch me every night all these years,
this is a book I put my heart into. I hope you read it. I hope you get a
ahold of me and grab me somewhere at an airport and tell me what you think
of it.
I`m telling you, if you lived through this period, it will convince
you, you were right about Kennedy the first time. If you`re a daughter or
a son of somebody who lived through it, you are going to understand your
parents now. And if you`re really young today, it will teach you what
leadership is. And I think we need to know that.
My book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," I`m asking you, go out and buy
MATTHEWS: We will be right back.
I`m asking.
MATTHEWS: Up next: Rick Perry is down in the polls, so now he`s
trying a new tactic: stand-up comedy. The trouble is, it`s not clear that
Perry meant to be funny, and that`s a problem.
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HAMPTON PEARSON, CNBC CORRESPONDENT: I`m Hampton Pearson with your
CNBC "Market Wrap."
All tricks and no treats for the bulls today, the Dow Jones
industrials plunging 276 points, the S&P 500 tumbling 31, the Nasdaq giving
up 52 points. A pretty lousy way to end what was otherwise a great month.
All the major averages put up double-digit percentage gains. It was the
Dow`s best month since 2002, the S&P`s best since 1991.
Former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine`s bid to revive his struggling
investment firm came to an end today. MF Global Finance filed for
bankruptcy protection after talks to sell it fell apart.
Health insurer Humana surged after delivering better-than-expected
profits and an improved outlook. Sony slumped on word it`s looking to
split its struggling TV unit into three separate divisions. And the dollar
hit a three-month high against the yen as the Bank of Japan stepped in with
another attempt to weaken that currency.
That`s it from CNBC, first in business worldwide -- now back to
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Rick Perry`s poll numbers have dropped precipitously over the past
month, largely as a result of his shaky debate performances. But when it
comes to damaging moments, nothing may match Perry`s appearance in
Manchester, New Hampshire, this past Friday night.
Just take a look at what has been described as a bizarre and unusual
GOV. RICK PERRY (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This is such a cool
state. I mean, come on, live free or die?
PERRY: It`s like live free or death, victory or death, bring it.
PERRY: The Texas rangers after 50 years are going to win a World
Series. Oops.
PERRY: I grew up on a farm. I grew up -- I grew up on a farm. If
they print any more money over there in Washington, that gold`s going to be
PERRY: Or that, 20 percent flat tax. Put it on there, take your
deductions off, send it in.
That little plan that I just shared with you doesn`t force the Granite
State to expand your tax footprint, if you know what I mean, like 9 percent
PERRY: I love Herman. Is he the best?
Today has been awesome, girl.
PERRY: This has really been a great day.
MATTHEWS: Wow. Well, that`s the first time I saw that baby. That`s
-- after that over-the-top performance, is this guy in big trouble?
John Heilemann is an expert at such things, national affairs editor
for "New York" magazine. And David Corn can`t wait to give us his opinion.
MATTHEWS: He`s MSNBC`s analyst of course and D.C. bureau chief for
"Mother Jones."
I have got to start with John, who is here.
John, I don`t know how I would describe that.
JOHN HEILEMANN, "NEW YORK": Well, I think it`s fair to say that the
people in the audience did not realize they were going to get to see Will
Ferrell performing an imitation of Rick Perry performing an imitation of
George W. Bush.
I would have been kind of amazed to see that performance.
MATTHEWS: Well, what was it? It was like a -- well, I don`t want to
get into it. It was so whimsical.
HEILEMANN: Goofy.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
HEILEMANN: Goofy. And I think if you were going to try to put the
most positive spin on it, you would say he has been flat and wooden and
sort of dead up until now, and he`s now trying to revivify himself in a
folksy, loose, charming way. That`s the only -- that`s the most positive
spin you could put on it.
But I think if you`re sitting in Boston right now and you`re in the
Romney campaign, you look at that and you say, he`s a clown.
MATTHEWS: No. Yes. Well, I don`t know.
MATTHEWS: I mean, I don`t know where to begin here, David Corn.
Is this the behavior at the office Christmas party two months ahead?
DAVID CORN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well...
MATTHEWS: I don`t know -- the guy with the lamp shade on his head who
thinks he`s funny. I don`t know. What is it?
CORN: Well, I have to say he looked pretty good to me, but then I was
high when I was watching.
MATTHEWS: Be careful.
CORN: No, not really.
MATTHEWS: People take these things literally, my friend.
HEILEMANN: I don`t think he was kidding at all.
CORN: But he did -- but he did make me think of Spicoli, the
character from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," when he said, you know, hey,
it`s cool, dude, and all this stuff.
But I think there may be an explanation here that you almost touched
on there, John, and that is, he`s been so sleepy in a lot of these debates.
This looked to me like they gave him like 20 cups of coffee before he went
on, and said, go have fun, Governor.
MATTHEWS: Coffee?
CORN: But would you want a fellow like -- would you want a goofy
fellow with his finger on the nuclear button? I think people in the crowd
were kind of -- didn`t know -- were kind of wondering what to make of this
MATTHEWS: You know, it`s like what you see at a wedding, where the
guy gets up there and stands up there and he`s not quite ready for prime
And I don`t want to be too tough. But I do think it was bizarre.
Let`s take a look. The Perry camp gave the following quote as an
explanation for Friday`s speech.
MATTHEWS: They gave it to The Huffington Post -- quote -- "The
governor is passionate about the issues he talks about."
MATTHEWS: I`m not sure that was...
CORN: You can`t even read with it with a straight face.
MATTHEWS: I think the British say, what is it, tired and irritated
when somebody puts on a performance like that.
HEILEMANN: Like I say, I do think there`s some overcompensation going
I mean, look, they I think increasingly -- look, he has -- he`s the
only candidate in the race who has the financial resources to compete with
Mitt Romney. That`s number one.
CORN: Right.
HEILEMANN: Number two, he traditionally -- before he became a
presidential candidate, the thing that everyone said about him was that he
had tremendous retail skills. He connected with human beings in a way that
Mitt Romney didn`t.
I feel like they feel that he has become this other Rick Perry, and
they`re trying to get him back there somehow. And so there`s an
overcompensation that went on here, I think.
MATTHEWS: You know, I got to tell you, I`m in this business trying to
figure out the tone, of how to set it for this program some nights.
And I do want -- sometimes I get a little giddy and I have too much
fun. The other nights, I get too serious. It is a matter of tone.
Let`s take a look at his latest ads. His ads have been dynamite. I
mean, that`s his strength. Let`s take a look at the ad that`s set to run
in Iowa, the Perry ad.
GOV. RICK PERRY (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If you`re looking
for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already
have that. And he`s destroying our economy.
I`m a doer, not a talker. In Texas, we created 40 percent of the new
jobs in the entire country since June of 2009. And we cut a record $15
billion from our state budget. Now, they say we can`t do that in
Washington. Well, they`re wrong and they need to go.
MATTHEWS: That -- I`m sorry, as a regular person, forget the ideas
involved, I like that guy. Corn?
DAVID CORN, MOTHER JONES: Well, he`s made good campaign ads before.
And in fact, in Texas, he`s known for skipping out debates, but coming up
with killer ads, usually negative ads, but that are very effective.
And so, as John mentioned, he`ll have lots of money. He can still,
you know --
MATTHEWS: Why can`t he do that on stage? Is he like a movie star
that can`t do live theater?
CORN: He doesn`t have the talent set to be that person. I don`t
know how many takes did that commercial take?
MATTHEWS: I don`t want know.
CORN: Forty, 45, 47? I mean, he can`t -- he`s had plenty of chances
now on the national stage to be impressive as a person, as a real person,
and he hasn`t been able to do that yet.
MATTHEWS: The funny thing is that Mr. Romney, who can be, I`ve
always said, looks like one of the characters in the hall of the
presidents, you know, down in Disney World.
JOHN HEILEMANN, NEW YORK MAGAZINE: Audio-Animatronics.
MATTHEWS: But yet in the debate, he comes across as a quite natural
debate. He seems like he belongs there. This guy always has those weird
kind of collars, he wears -- he looks like he`s going to disappear in his
collar. He looks like he`s wearing the wrong clothes.
There he is wearing clothes he looks totally comfortable in. Not
here. But, you know, we`ll see. I don`t think he`s really -- I don`t
think doing well. He`s 4 percent in Iowa, and he can`t get much lower with
the margin of error.
John, I don`t understand how he can run such a terrible campaign and
such great TV ads. Maybe this will be the end of TV ads or whatever.
Thank you, John Heilemann, I think you were very discreet in your
discussion of his performance there. By the way, (INAUDIBLE) later, we
could really thank.
David Corn, thank you.
Up next, President Obama ran on hope and change in 2008. Something
that`s not likely to work in 2012, is it? Well, getting ready to go
negative, is he? We`ll see.
He is definitely getting personal and it looks like negative on
people like Romney. They`ve already started to sharpen their knives,
This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
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All debates will take place next October, all in one month. And one
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We`ll be right back.
DAVID PLOUFFE, SENIOR OBAMA ADVISER: I`d make two points about him.
One is he has no core. Issue after issue after issue, he`s moved all over
the place. And I can tell you one thing working a few steps down from the
president, what you need in that office is conviction. You need to have a
true compass. And you`ve got to be willing to make tough calls.
And you get the sense with Mitt Romney that, you know, if he thought
it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an
election, he`d say it.
MATTHEWS: That`s powerful stuff there. Welcome to HARDBALL.
That was senior Obama adviser David Plouffe on "Meet the Press"
yesterday, clearly signaling that the 2012 presidential race is on and that
Mitt Romney is the candidate the Obama campaign is most worried about.
Back in August, a "Politico" piece previewed the Obama strategy. Its
headline, "Obama plan: Destroy Romney."
The story said, "Barack Obama`s aides and advisers are preparing to
center the president`s re-election campaign on a ferocious personal assault
on Mitt Romney`s character and business background. His aides are
increasingly resigned to running -- that`s the president`s aides -- to
running for re-election in a glum nation. And so, the candidate who ran on
hope in 2008 has little choice four years later but to run a slashing,
personal campaign aimed at disqualifying his likeliest opponent."
Well, are we seeing the rollout of the Obama campaign strategy
Sam Stein is the White House correspondent with the "Huffington
Post," and Susan Milligan is contributing editor at "U.S. News & World
Susan, that looked like the talking points to me of this Obama
reelection campaign voiced by its top kick.
SUSAN MILLIGAN, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT: Absolutely. Well, look,
that`s their strongest argument at this point, and that`s what Romney`s
problem has been in the primary, is that he`s not completely trusted by the
conservative wing of his party. And I think that there`s a sense that
people don`t completely know who he is.
Mario Cuomo had this issue come up when he was governor of New York
and he was running again and some people said, you know, you`ve got to
change your mind on the death penalty and be for the death penalty, most
New Yorkers are. And he wouldn`t do it.
And he sat with us in the statehouse and he said, if you change your
mind on something that fundamental, people won`t trust you again. You`re
not going to win over the people whose side you won`t over to and you`re
going to lose the people who were with you before. And people just want to
know who you are -- particularly on things like abortion and gay rights
that Mitt Romney has flipped on. And that`s what`s giving him problems
with his own base.
But I think it`s going to give him problems next year as well. And
since, I don`t -- the economy is not going to be Obama`s strong suit next
year. That`s what he`s going to have to do.
MATTHEWS: Sam, it`s interesting that parties that think the other
side might have gone too far to the right or too far to the left have still
decided to hit the opponent on being a flip-flopper. I`m thinking back to
the McGovern campaign in `72, the Nixon campaign through John Connelly
running something called Democrats for Nixon did the flip-flop ad with the
signs flipping around and going around 360 degrees at one point and
spinning around. The same thing was done against John Kerry in 2004 with
the Strauss Waltz music playing while he wind surfed.
Why do you think -- I`m asking you to teach me here -- why not go
after the opponent on his positions? Why go after him on his flipping?
SAM STEIN, HUFFINGTON POST: I wouldn`t dare try to teach on anything
about political history. But in the case of Romney, it`s because it`s
worked in the past. I mean, this was the attack line that Ted Kennedy
tried against him in `94 successfully. And if you remember, in 2008, this
is what Mike Huckabee and John McCain viciously went after him.
I remember, we looked it up, there was this attack on him for --
Romney defended him for -- he said his opponents were mischaracterizing his
position on Iraq during the 2008 debate, and Huckabee chimed in, which
position? It worked very effectively back then. It just gets to character
of the man running for office. Voters respond inherently to it, and I
think that`s what you`re seeing with David Plouffe going out and using it
again yesterday.
MATTHEWS: You just said something really well, Susan, about
candidates. And Teddy Roosevelt, who I really look up to, said the reason
he didn`t run for reelection in 2008 was that he said he wouldn`t. And he
said, if I did run, people would understand. But they`d always look at me
as a politician. And he didn`t want to be thought as a politician.
That doesn`t seem to bother Romney being thought of as a politician.
MILLIGAN: Right.
The other is, it`s one thing to change your mind on something like
raising taxes or something, where the circumstances change and you say, you
know, I said no new taxes, but right now, it looks like we`re going to need
some more revenues. But on some of these really fundamental issues that
people feel very strongly about, it just makes look like as, Plouffe said,
you have no core -- you have no core beliefs. But there`s a lot of
uncertainty in this country right now.
I mean, demographically, we`re changing dramatically, it`s unsettling
things for a lot of people. The economy is bad. So, you want some
MATTHEWS: Objectively, do you think Romney has a core? Is there
anything he wouldn`t give on to get elected president? How`s that one?
MILLIGAN: That`s a pretty strong thing to say.
MATTHEWS: I`m asking you -- is there something that you can imagine
he says this is where I stand, like Martin Luther, I`m not going to give?
Is there anything he`s got like that, that you can think of?
MILLIGAN: Well, you could -- I can`t think of anything, no. You
can`t argue he might say that he`s flexible. But I mean, he doesn`t strike
me as somebody who has a strong ideology.
MATTHEWS: OK. I`m being tough here. I`m playing HARDBALL with real
Let me ask you, Sam. Can you think of something he won`t give on?
STEIN: Right. You said you were being too tough with Susan. I
don`t need to answer that question, do I?
MATTHEWS: All right.
Here is Jon Huntsman answering the question. Here he is on his
favorite fellow religionist. I`m being sarcastic here. Let`s listen.
JON HUNTSMAN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This is when the
candidates need to stand up and show a bit of leadership. You can`t be a
perfectly lubricated weather vane on the important issues of the day.
MATTHEWS: Susan, perfectly lubricated. Where does he get that?
That`s a great line.
MILLIGAN: I know. If he were doing better in the polls, it might
have gotten more press. That was really quite brilliant.
I do think that that`s his most damaging characteristic, and I don`t
think it`s a character assault in the same way as attacking somebody as
being elitist, which is such a vague term. It really does have to
fundamentally do with what your belief system is. And I think people can
deal with it if they disagree with you on something like that. But they
have a harder time when you seem to be finessing your views to fit the
MATTHEWS: Well said again.
STEIN: Let me -- can I jump in?
MATTHEWS: Sure. You`re in.
STEIN: Because it`s not just about his core. There`s another front
to this argument that the Obama team wants to make. And that`s looking
back at his time at Bain Capital. They think that they can use that part
of his biography to make him this sort of personification of income
inequality in America.
MATTHEWS: How`s so? Is he a chop shop guy? Is that how they`re
going to do it?
STEIN: Because I was in conversation with a senior administration
official on this, they think right now, they`ve looked at data, especially
from the Nielsen company, it shows people really upset about income
inequality in this country, much more so than ever before. And they look at
Mitt Romney and say here`s a guy who got rich no matter what happened to
his clients. His clients may have folded. They may send jobs overseas.
But he did well.
And there`s nothing better that that picture of Mitt Romney with his
Bain Capital buddies where they`re literally biting into $20 bills. They
think that works very well, too.
MATTHEWS: Well, on Sunday, Rick Perry and David Plouffe, appeared to
be working from the same talking points in criticizing Romney. He`s
getting it from both sides -- the Republican rivals, as well as the
Democrats. Let`s listen.
GOV. RICK PERRY (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He`s been for pro-
PLOUFFE: He was an extremely pro-choice governor. Now he believes
that life begins at conception.
PERRY: He`s been for supporting for gay rights.
PLOUFFE: He was to the left of Ted Kennedy on gay rights, and now he
wants to amend the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage.
MATTHEWS: Sam, same talking points.
STEIN: If it works. I mean, like I said, this is the same talking
points that`s been used against Romney for almost two decades now. And
it`s something that`s worked before, so why change it?
MATTHEWS: It looks like he`s back where he was, Susan, back in that
`94 race, with Ted Kennedy, multiple choice, right?
STEIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Thank you.
MILLIGAN: It does. And you know, Chris, he said something even very
recently he was asked during a debate about hiring illegal immigrants to
work on his lawn, and he said he went to the company and made sure they
were legal. And he said something to the effect of, look, we`re in an
election here, we can`t have this.
MATTHEWS: We`re being watched.
MILLIGAN: And that made it look worse.
MATTHEWS: We got to go, guys. Thank you so much, Sam Stein. Susan,
excellent points tonight.
When we return --
STEIN: Thanks.
MILLIGAN: Great book, Chris. Love the JFK book.
MATTHEWS: Thank you, keep saying it. You`re allowed to write about
it, if you`d like. Thank you very much.
MILLIGAN: I will.
MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" with why one basic to becoming a leader is
to ask you to follow you. Kennedy asked. Obama needs to start asking now
-- or else. That`s next.
You`re watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" tonight with this. As a student at Choate
in the early 1930s, young Jack Kennedy heard headmaster George St. John
recite a favorite maxim, quote, "The youth who loves his alma mater will
always ask, not what she can do for me, but what I can do for her."
When it was time for the challenge of the Cold War, those words
stuck. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for
your country. It was a call to duty. It was a very personal invitation to
each and every one of his fellow citizens.
He wasn`t going to do this alone, he said. The new frontier was not
going to be a solo act. We were going to meet it together. And Jack
Kennedy was going to be our leader.
He would create the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress,
boosting the space program, calling up troops to meet the Berlin crisis,
calling for civil rights for all Americans. His presidency was not going
to be a spectator sport, something to sit back, watch and judge.
And this is what the Obama presidency still needs -- the sense on the
part of the American public being called to join the effort. It is felt
most by all who voted for him with such enthusiasm, cried on election
night, got swept up in his inaugural fever.
There are certain basics to becoming a leader. The first is asking
people to follow. Kennedy asked, Obama still needs to. The American
people who elected Barack Obama have been on the verge of feeling
discarded. Too many feel they were used for that purpose, to give him the
job, and then fade back into the obscurity from which they cheered him, saw
him as their deliverance.
It`s something he has to fix and can. He needs to find inspirational
ways to include us in the work of rebuilding America. He needs to start
My book "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero" is out in stores tomorrow. I`m
asking you to get it and please read it. It will lift your spirit and will
also challenge you.
And that`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
"POLITICS NATION" with Al Sharpton starts right now.
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I gave up trying to get my christian family and friends to think. The info I give them never gets through.No matter how sound my evidence it just does not compute. It is like they have a filter in thier brain that will not let any info contrary to what they believe through. They all ask me why I dont believe in god, but they dont really want answers.
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The other day I was chatting with a friend of mine on another site about the origins of the bible. I made the comment that it was interesting to me how people could still believe in the book even with the mountain of evidence against it. An aunt of mine chimmed in asking ,"what evidence?" I went through with her a lot of these evidences. We spent some time on the subject.
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First I want to say that I am not a satanist. I dont believe in him or anything like him. Just stick with me for a minute.
So god expeled Satan from heaven. What did Satan do? Did he think he could be more powerful than god? Or did he think he could do better than god? Maybe Satan saw how much of a prick god is and tryed to do something about it and god ,being a prick, kicked him out.
Everyone says that Satan is pure evil and that god is good. From what I have read I dont see…Continue
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As a Child I remember hearing the stories of Noahs Ark and how god saved Noah his family and two of every animal. It was taught in such a way that it made me believe that god was good and loving. Looking at it through my child eyes I could just see god telling Noah how the ark must be built. I could imagine god leading all the animals to the ark two by two. This all amazed me as a child. The stories of Sodom and Gomorrah and the like were all taught to me as a child in such a way that I…Continue
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Several years ago when I had a lot more time on my hands, I took plain brown packaging paper and used it as my canvas to create my own paintings, then would wrap gifts in it. I watched my mom as she unwrapped one of my gifts. She pulled the tape and hand-painted wrapping off gently without tearing, then carefully folded it and set it aside to keep.
Putting my creativity and time into gift wrap sort of doubles the giving. I find myself worrying the actual object wrapped inside will be a letdown.
Last Christmas, I was delighted when my young niece ran to the tree and selected my gift with all its crazy ribbon to eagerly open first, not knowing who it was from.
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Poll: Stark Russian divide over Vladimir Putin
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The success and possible future undoing of President Vladimir Putin lies in the contrast between people like provincial housewife Yekaterina Arsentyeva and Moscow student Kirill Guskov.
In the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, Arsentyeva sees Putin as the only man who can ensure her children have a decent future. In the capital, Guskov can't hide his contempt for Russia's leader and the culture of corruption he has overseen: "A fish rots from its head," he fumes.
An Associated Press-GfK poll released Monday reveals a stark divide between Moscow and the rest of Russia over the man who has ruled the country for the past 12 years. A total of 60 percent of Russians maintain a favorable opinion of the president as he begins his third term. In contrast, only 38 percent in the capital — where tens of thousands have joined anti-Putin protests — have a favorable view of him.
The division extends to views on the fairness of elections and the state of the economy, while almost all agree that corruption is among the most serious problems facing Russia today.
The split promises to have profound, albeit still unknown, consequences for the future of the protest movement and of Putin himself. The outcome depends in large part on the economy, which the poll shows is the primary concern of most Russians. While anger over the trampling of democratic rights has brought Muscovites out to protest in droves, any deterioration in living standards could prove the catalyst for protests in the provinces. Pending hikes in utilities prices have the potential to cause broad discontent.
The mood in the hinterlands may also change as more people gain access to the Internet and the social networks that have been crucial to the rise of the protest movement in Moscow and other large cities.
For now, people like the 39-year-old Arsentyeva have no sympathy for the protest movement and the educated, urban professionals who have been its driving force.
"If they don't like our country, why do they live here? Let them go to Europe or America and express their dissatisfaction there," she said. Her hopes are pinned firmly on Putin.
"My husband works in a good company that is growing, we have a stable income, I can easily buy diapers, soap, anything my children need and I don't have to stand in line or run around in search of goods in short supply," said Arsentyeva, who is expecting her second child.
Her views reflect a deep-seated fear of social upheaval and of a return to the turmoil of the 1990s, the decade following the Soviet collapse, when salaries often went unpaid for months and store shelves were thinly stocked.
Nikolai Petrov, who studies Russian regional politics at the Carnegie Moscow Center, said that Putin's popularity should be considered support for the existing order and not for Putin himself. "The majority of Russians are still not ready to change the whole system," Petrov said.
Putin's rating on his job performance hit a high of 81 percent as he wrapped up his second term in 2008, according to the Levada Center, which measures his current approval rating at 60 percent, about the same as the 58 percent registered in the AP-GfK poll. This differs from favorability rating, which seeks to measure overall impressions of a person.
Putin handed over the presidency to his junior partner, Dmitry Medvedev, but as prime minister he remained the dominant player in Russian politics. Putin's decision in September to reclaim the presidency, followed by his party's victory in a December parliamentary election through what observers said was widespread fraud, set off protests across Russia.
After Putin won the March presidential election with 64 percent of the vote, the protests died away in much of the country except for Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The AP-GfK poll indicates that Putin retains broad support, although only 18 percent expressed a strongly favorable view of him. The poll was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications from May 25 to June 10 and was based on in-person interviews with 1,675 randomly selected adults nationwide. The results have a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points.
At the other end of the spectrum, 14 percent expressed a somewhat or strongly unfavorable view. The majority falls in between, passively supportive but some increasingly cynical.
Magomed Abakarov, who works for the government in the North Caucasus city of Makhachkala, voted for Putin, but his support is tepid at best.
"I consider him a liar and a fake," Abakarov said. "Someday we'll know who the real Mr. Putin is, but under the current circumstances he is the best candidate for president. He can talk tough with the leader of any country."
The majority of Russians see their country as a stronger international power than it was before Putin became president in 2000, according to the poll.
Like many Russians, Abakarov said he voted for Putin because there was no viable alternative in a country where only Kremlin-approved candidates are allowed to run for president. Putin has centralized control over the political system, preventing the emergence of independent political leaders and reducing parliament to a rubber stamp.
The presidency is now the only institution that at least half of Russians feel can be trusted to do what is right, according to the AP-GfK poll. The military, still manned by conscripts, comes next with the trust of 41 percent.
The parliament only has the trust of about a quarter of the people and the same goes for the courts, which have been compromised by corrupt judges. Just 18 percent say they trust the police, who are notorious for shaking down motorists.
Corruption is among Russians' biggest concerns, with 91 percent of those surveyed in Moscow calling it a serious problem and almost as many, 85 percent, of those outside the capital saying the same. Even though Putin has failed to deliver on repeated pledges to crack down on corrupt officials, most Russians don't hold him responsible.
Grigory Mikheyev, a 28-year-old systems administrator in the far eastern town of Dalnegorsk, complained of a system of double standards.
"The laws seem fine, but they only apply to the selected few," he said. "The simple people get punished, while the bureaucrats get rich."
Still, Mikheyev said he generally approves of Putin.
In keeping with the disparity between the capital and the rest of the country, Muscovites are far more likely to see election fraud as a serious problem: 56 percent compared with 37 percent elsewhere.
Guskov, the 21-year-old Moscow student, expressed frustration over what he sees as one-man rule.
"He is still a czar and Russia is the kind of country where a lot depends on a single person," Guskov said. "But we as a people are trying to do something, so we go to protests and demonstrate our discontent."
A major factor behind the divergence between Moscow and the rest of Russia is that about half of those surveyed live in small towns and rural areas, where most people still get their news from the Kremlin-controlled national television networks.
Half of the respondents outside the capital said they do not use the Internet, compared with only 10 percent in Moscow. Without access to the Internet, they have not seen the flood of videos purporting to show blatant vote rigging or read about alleged corruption in political and business circles close to Putin.
Without the Internet, many Russians are unlikely to know much about Alexei Navalny, a charismatic corruption fighter and blogger who is a leader of the anti-Putin protest movement. In Moscow, only 15 percent said they had no opinion of Navalny, compared with 46 percent in the rest of the country.
This may change, however, as the number of Internet users rises steadily. The Public Opinion Foundation said 38 percent of Russians now use the Internet daily, up from 22 percent just two years ago.
Residents of Moscow also differ from the rest of their countrymen with their far more pessimistic view of Russia's oil-based economy, perhaps because they are more aware of the challenges ahead.
To consolidate his base ahead of the election, Putin promised higher wages and benefits to soldiers, police, doctors and teachers. He pledged to pump billions of dollars into ailing industrial plants and the military.
But economists warn that the additional spending is unsustainable if oil prices remain low. Russia is able to balance its budget if the Urals blend of oil stays above $115, but it is currently trading at closer to $90.
Sergei Mikheyev, an analyst with the Center for Political Technologies, said the economic troubles would have to be lasting and deep to drive people in the region out onto the streets.
"To make the regions rise up in a revolt, the oil price will need to take a dramatic toll on living standards, for example by making millions of people jobless," he said.
Petrov, the Carnegie scholar, is more pessimistic. He points to substantial hikes in the cost of heating and electricity that will go into effect in July and begin to bite once the weather turns cold, coupled with unpopular new taxes and education reforms going into effect in September.
"We've witnessed a big wave of political protests, with Moscow as the leader, in big cities," Petrov said. "I don't think this political protest will go down to small towns, but in the fall there will be socio-economic protests, and socio-economic protests across the country combined with political protests in the big cities will create a deadly mix."


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Petition of the day
The petition of the day is:
Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center (Granted )
Docket: 11-1231
Issue(s): Whether the 180-day statutory time limit for filing an appeal with the Provider Reimbursement Review Board from a final Medicaid payment determination made by a fiscal intermediary, 42 U.S.C. § 1395oo(a)(3), is subject to equitable tolling.
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Recommended Citation: Matthew Bush, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 1, 2012, 11:59 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/petition-of-the-day-294/


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This is something I've wanted to test ever since I got my hands on play-by-play data, and to be entirely honest, doing this test is the major reason I acquired play-by-play data in the first place. Linearized scoring models are at the heart of the stats revolution sparked by the book, The Hidden Game of Football, as their scoring model was a linearized model.
The simplicity of the model they presented, the ability to derive it from pure reason (as opposed to hard core number crunching) makes me want to name it in some way that denotes the fact: perhaps Standard model or Common model, or Logical model. Yes, scoring the '0' yard line as -2 points and the 100 as 6, and everything in between as a linearly proportional relationship between those two has to be regarded as a starting point for all sane expected points analysis. Further, because it can be derived logically, it can be used at levels of play that don't have 1 million fans analyzing everything: high school play, or even JV football.
From the scoring models people have come up with, we get a series of formulas that are called adjusted yards per attempt formulas. They have various specific forms, but most operate on an assumption that yards can be converted to a potential to score. Gaining yards, and plenty of them, increases scoring potential, and as Brian Burke has pointed out, AYA style stats are directly correlated with winning.
With play-by-play data, converted to expected points models, some questions can now be asked:
1. Over what ranges are expected points curves linear?
2. What assumptions are required to yield linearized curves?
3. Are they linear over the whole range of data, or over just portions of the data?
4. Under what circumstances does the linear assumption break down?
We'll reintroduce data we described briefly before, but this time we'll fit the data to curves.
One simple question that can change the shape of an expected points curve is this:
How do you score a play using play-by-play data?
I'm not attempting, at this point, to come up with "one true answer" to this question, I'll just note that the different answers to this question yield different shaped curves.
If the scoring of a play is associated only with the drive on which the play was made, then you yield curves like the purple one above. That would mean punting has no negative consequences for the scoring of a play. Curves like this I've been calling "raw" formulas, "raw" models. Examples of these kinds of models are Kieth Goldner's Markov Chain model, and Bill Connelly's equivalent points models.
If a punt can yield negative consequences for the scoring of a play, then you get into a class of models I call "response" models, because the whole of the curve of a response model can be thought of as
response = raw(yards) – fraction*raw(100 – yards)
The fraction would be a sum of things like fractional odds of punting, fractional odds of a turnover, fractional odds of a loss on 4th down, etc. And of course in a real model, the single fractional term above is a sum of terms, some of which might not be related to 100 – yards, because that's not where the ball would end up – a punt fraction term would be more like fraction(punt)*raw(60 – yards).
Raw models tend to be quadratic in character. I say this because Keith Goldner fitted first and 10 data to a quadratic here. Bill Connelly's data appear quadratic to the eye. And the raw data set above fits mostly nicely to a quadratic throughout most of the range.
And I say mostly because the data above appear sharper than quadratic close to the goal line, as if there is "more than quadratic" curvature less than 10 yards to go. And at the risk of fitting to randomness, I think another justifiable question to look at is how scoring changes the closer to the goal line a team gets.
That sharp upward kink plays into how the shape of response models behaves. We'll refactor the equation above to get at, qualitatively, what I'm talking about. We're going to add a constant term to the last term in the response equation because people will calculate the response differently
response = raw(yards) – fraction*constant*raw(100 – yards)
Now, in this form, we can talk about the shape of curves as a function of the magnitude of "constant". As constant grows larger, the more the back end of the curve takes on the character of the last 10 yards. A small constant and you yield a less than quadratic and more than linear curve. A mid sized constant yields a linearized curve. A potent response function yields curves more like those of David Romer or Brian Burke, with more than linear components within 10 yards on both ends of the field. Understand, this is a qualitative description. I have no clues as to the specifics of how they actually did their calculations.
I conclude though, that linearized models are specific to response function depictions of equivalent point curves, because you can't get a linearized model any other way.
So what is our best guess at the "most accurate" adjusted yards per attempt formula?
In my data above, fitting a response model to a line yields an equation. Turning the values of that fit into an equation of the form:
AYA = (yards + α*TDs – β*Ints)/Attempts
Takes a little algebra. To begin, you have to make a decision on how valuable your touchdown is going to be. Some people use 7.0 points, others use 6.4 or 6.3 points. If TD = 6.4 points, then
delta points = 6.4 + 1.79 – 6.53 = 1.79 + 0.07 = 1.86 points
α = 1.86 points/ 0.0653 = 28.5 yards
turnover value = (6.53 – 1.79) + (-1.79) = 6.53 – 2*1.79 = 2.95 points
β = 2.95 / 0.0653 = 45.2 yards
If TDs = 7.0 points, you end up with α = 37.7 yards instead.
It's interesting that this fit yields a value of an interception (in yards) almost identical to the original THGF formula. Touchdowns are more close in value to the NFL passer rating than THGF's new passer rating. And although I'm critical of Chase Stuart's derivation of the value of 20 for PFR's AYA formula, the adjustment they made does seem to be in the right direction.
So where does the model break down?
Inside the 10 yard line. It doesn't accurately depict the game as it gets close to the goal line. It's also not down and distance specific in the way a more sophisticated equivalent points model can be. A stat like expected points added gets much closer to the value of an individual play than does a AYA style stat. In terms of a play's effect on winning, then you need win stats, such as Brian's WPA or ESPNs QBR to break things down (though I haven't seen ESPN give us the QBR of a play just yet, which WPA can do).
Update: corrected turnover value.
Update 9/24/11: In the comments to this link, Brian Burke describes how he and David Romer score plays (states).


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What is Google's PageRank Good For? - Whiteboard FridayBlog Post: August 11, 2011
Thanks for sharing such insightful information. After watching the video I started correlating the mozRank and PageRanks for different sites. Following are some pages I checked:
seomoz.org: mR=6.83, PR=7
wolf-howl.com: mR=5.94, PR=6
searchengineland.com: mR=6.68, PR=7
searchenginejournal.com: mR=6.36, PR=7
And some other sites as well, and it seems to give relatively similar values in case of high PR, mR pages. But a big difference I noticed is for seobook site:
seobook.com: mR=8.89, PR=6
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Tom Cruise helped to nurse his "Rock of Ages" co-star Julianne Hough back to health after she injured herself during a dance scene.
The pair was filming an energetic routine when dancer-turned-actress Hough lost her footing and ended up in a heap on the floor, and she admits she had to pinch herself when she found Cruise helping her back to her feet.
She tells People magazine, "He took care of me on set. He was making sure I was OK, and I was like, 'Somebody cares about me, and it's Tom Cruise!'"
But the Hollywood actor wasn't the only co-star Hough bonded with – she now also counts R&B superstar Mary J. Blige among her good pals.
She adds, "If I had to pick a soul mate as a best friend, she would be my soul mate. It's the oddest match: Mary J. Blige and Julianne Hough! But we became so close!"
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Model #WPD-6048CBI
|List Price:
|Our Price:
|$1079.00 New
General Description
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- Found it for less? We'll match the price
- 25-Year or Limited Lifetime Warranty
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Exhibit your important signs and documents for easy viewing without allowing everyone to touch them. These Weatherproof Enclosed Vinyl Boards are durably designed for years of trouble-free outdoor use. These enclosed bulletin boards feature a vinyl surface that will not fade in direct sunlight like traditional cork.
- Manufacturer:
Over the decades, Aarco Products has distinguished itself by providing quality communication boards that have become the standard in the industry. Aarco offers markerboards, corkboards and directories that are top quality and made to last.
- Width:
- 60 in.
- Height:
- 48 in.
- Weight:
- 1 lbs.
- Green
- GreenGuard Gold
- Warranty:
- Limited Lifetime
- Made in USA
- Certified Green
- Tackable burlap-weave vinyl surface
- Vented case for moisture reduction
- Weatherized rear panels
- Thick rubber door seal
- Satin anodized aluminum frame
- Doors lock securely. Two keys included
- Comes with L-brackets for mounting
- Lifetime Coverage: Our Limited Lifetime Warranty guarantees many years of use and enjoyment.
This product is made with pride in the United States of America!
Indoor air quality certified for children and schools
We're committed to exceeding your expectations:
- Found it for less? We'll match the price
- 15-Year or Limited Lifetime Warranty
Our customers come first — we guarantee it!
Shipping & Assembly
- Ships Via:
- Common Carrier
- Leaves Factory In:
- Approximately 6-8 weeks
- Assembly:
- Ships assembled
Weatherproof Illuminated Vinyl Tack Board 2-Door
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Product Family
This product is a part of Weatherproof Enclosed Vinyl Boards by Aarco
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Sustainability LIVE!
"Lights, Camera, Action"
I had the pleasure to participate in the Mike And Rob LIVE FedEx webcast for FedEx Services recently. They were kind enough to have me on to talk about our sustainability efforts within FedEx. Equally gratifying was the fact that we did the live webcast from the FedEx Enterprise Data Center-West (EDC-W) facility. This is a LEED Gold-certified facility. LEED is the U.S. Green Building Council's certification of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Click here for more information about the EDC-W. It truly is an outstanding, efficient and advanced facility.
During this live broadcast, we talked about what EarthSmart is. You can find information on this wonderful website – and be sure to play the games there. We talked about several of our initiatives – both those involving the company's operations, as well as the services and innovations we offer our customers. For instance, this included the following:
- Aircraft emissions reductions: We recently raised our goal by 50%. We now have a goal to reduce aircraft emissions intensity by 30% by 2020. You can find out more in our Global Citizenship Report.
- Vehicle efficiency improvements and innovations: We are ahead of schedule on our goal in this. Find out more in our Global Citizenship Report.
- EarthSmart Carbon Neutral Envelope Shipping: More than 200 million shipments each year. Worldwide. At no extra charge. Available for our customers. Now. Find out more here about this innovative and clear-cut way we help our customers with their commitment to sustainability.
- International Electronic Trade Documents: Find out about our service with this link to FedEx Paperless Processing. Customers can ship to more than 80 countries without printing customs documents. It's an EarthSmart Innovation.
- TechConnect Remote Representative Program: At-home customer service. Virtual town halls. Limited commutes. Convenience and service.
- TechConnect Repair Service Center: Where we repair, reuse and recycle electronic equipment. Check out more here.
- Environmentally-friendly paper selections and services from FedEx Office: Paper, cloud services and other sustainability offerings here.
We also discussed the benefits of having a sustainability focus. They include business in general, workplace and team members, shareholders, and, of course, the environment itself.
In addition to all this, we also highlighted quotes from two of our customers on the value of our EarthSmart initiatives to them. That is something that is great to hear since customer service is core to the FedEx mission and our belief system. That's why we say, EarthSmart – FedEx solutions for a more sustainable world.
Performance. Innovation. Leadership. Technical Know-how. And, Customer Service. All with an eye towards sustainability. LIVE!