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Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb: The Craziest Women on TV
It's 9 a.m., and Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb are discussing private parts. "Who the heck bleaches down there?" says Gifford. "How did anybody ever get turned on for all the millennia we've been on this planet without bleach, waxing, or anything else? People seem to have gotten their groove on without any problem at all!"
"I'm gonna hide if we have to talk about this on TV," says Kotb, Gifford's partner on the fourth hour of the Today show for the past five years.
Over the next 45 minutes, during their regular story ideas meeting, they'll consider doing segments on everything from Honey Boo Boo to hot Navy SEALs to the sexiest shoes on the planet. Gifford and Kotb have developed a genius for talking about, well, anything -- and giving us something delectable (and a little bit naughty) in return. "When everything is just right it can be perfect -- and boring. There are no surprises," says Kotb, 48. "We like to let life happen," adds Gifford, 59. To help ring in 2013, we talked to the cohosts about being fearless, finding their joy, and why -- after some grumbling -- they've agreed to take the Ladies' Home Journal Challenge and give up their beloved wine (and every other alcoholic drink) for a month.Are you friends off air?
HK: Oh yeah. When we met, the click was immediate. Now we go to lunch together every Wednesday and see a Broadway show.
KLG: We found out how much we had in common. We both lost our dads. Both of us had been married. Hoda had just come through breast cancer...there had been some tough times for both of us.Do you think your chemistry plays a role in the show's popularity?
KLG: You know, people aren't stupid. If something's authentic, people know it. They can sense when there's tension between people. They can sense when something's forced, and they can sense when two people genuinely enjoy each other's company. I hate to live in the past but from day one it so reminded me of what I experienced with Regis [Gifford was Regis Philbin's partner on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee for 15 years]. There is a showbiz truism, which is if you're having fun, your audience will, too. Fun is contagious. And from the minute I met Hoda it was so similar. It was a different kind of fun because two women having fun is different than a man and a woman having fun, but it's still fun.Who's been responsible for some of your craziest on-air moments?
KLG: Probably me.
HK: Yeah. She'll ask me something, and I'm thinking, Please don't ask, please don't ask...and then she asks. One Valentine's Day it was, "Didn't you get divorced on Valentine's Day?" And I was like, "Well, it just so happens I did."Oh no! But I understand you're now dating a lawyer...
HK: Um, we broke up.
KLG: He was so kind and gentle, and I think he was a big part of her healing during tough times. And now she's playing the field!
HK: I'm playing!
KLG: I think it's been fun for our audience to see "Dateline Hoda" become "Happy Hour Hoda." She's allowed herself to be the same person on TV that she is in real life.Speaking of happy hour, how did drinking wine at 10 a.m. start?
KLG: A few years ago Chelsea Handler had a book called Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. As a gag for her segment, our producers prepared cocktails. I don't even remember if we took a sip of 'em. A week later Brooke Shields came on the show and said, "Where's my cocktail?"
HK: We were like, "Oh."
KLG: So they brought her out a cocktail. And then different people started showing up with their own cocktails. But we don't ever have a whole glass of wine on the air. We sip.
HK: I sometimes overindulge. But who's counting? I think it adds to the show. By 10 a.m. people at home have already had their fill of the heavy news. This is their time to have fun.And now you're giving up wine for a month [see above]. Any concerns?
KLG: My first reaction was, "Are you crazy?" But I'll do it to lose weight. In the past I've given up cheese, pasta, sweets, bread...why not try wine?A lot of people take stock of their lives in the new year and ask themselves, what makes me happy? How would you answer that question?
HK: I did an interview with Steve Harvey and he said, "I'm sick of having fun. Fun is something you seek out, like 'I'm going to the comedy club.' I want joy." He said, "Joy is when you open your eyes in the morning and you're just happy with what you are and who you have." I believe that.
KLG: Happiness has a lot to do with gratitude. And finding work you love -- you know, the thing you lose yourself in. That's what you're supposed to do with your life. Where your joy is is where your success will be. It may not be success in the world's terms -- you may not make as much money as someone else. But real joy comes from knowing every morning you have a purpose.Hoda, you're a breast cancer survivor. How does that affect your perspective?
HK: It makes every other problem seem small. You kind of restart your life. You think, "I was worried about those five silly things? Now those are forever off my plate. Now I only have to worry about things that matter."There must be freedom in not sweating the small stuff.
KLG: By the time you no longer care about your thighs you have accumulated something called wisdom. And here's what I've learned: I cannot control anything in this world, except for what I say, what I think, and what I do. If I try to control everything, like my children's decisions, for example, I'll lose my mind.How are your kids doing? [Cody is 22 and Cassidy is 19.]
KLG: Cassidy is studying acting in Los Angeles, and Cody just graduated from the USC film school.
HK: He graduated, like, top of his class.
KLG: The thing about Cody is, he does not expect anything. There is no entitlement. A lot of kids today, they expect a job. They expect an education. I was a vigilant about teaching my children to say "please" and "thank you" before they were 2.... The world doesn't need more spoiled, undisciplined children. They grow up to be undisciplined adults.Agreed!
KLG: Yes, but now watch. Pride goeth before a fall. Now that I've said this, Cody is going to end up with a mug shot before the day is done. I tell my children, "I'm grateful to God for all the wonderful things that are happening in your life, because I know that you personally could screw it up at any moment. You are one moment, one decision away from disaster." Just as I am in my life. I could screw up everything I've worked for my entire life by doing something really stupid. Today.
HK: It could happen soon. It could happen on the show.
KLG: What time is it? It could happen in an hour.
Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal, February 2012.


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Mitt Romney, trying to fend off mounting pressure to release more of his tax returns, stepped up his offense against President Barack Obama on Wednesday, turning Obama's words against him to argue that the current occupant of the Oval Office is anti-entrepreneur.
For the second day in a row, the presumed Republican presidential nominee seized on a statement excerpted from a speech Obama made Friday in Virginia. At issue was the president's quote: "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
The flap over Obama's comment has been building for days, fueled by Republicans who say it betrays a mind-set hostile to business.
"It shows how out of touch he is with the character of America," Romney told a rally here. "This idea of criticizing and attacking success, of demonizing those in all walks of life who have been successful, is something that is so foreign to us that we can't understand it."
Though potentially damaging in isolation, the president's words taken in context refer to the idea that the groundwork for success is laid by others.
"Somebody along the line gave you some help," Obama said. "There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges."
And Romney himself - campaigning through swing states such as Ohio, whose 7.3 percent unemployment rate is nearly a full point below the national average - has argued that Republican governors have helped create a climate in which businesses can grow.
"I was on a bus trip a few weeks ago, you may have seen, across Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan. . . . I was in Indiana, Wisconsin, and these are the states headed by Republican governors, and you know what? They are doing the right things, and it's making a difference," Romney said. "It's time to have the principles of your state here applied in Washington."
Romney, animated and at ease as he took questions from the audience, also suggested that Obama cares more about getting reelected than creating jobs.
"In the last six months, he has held 100 fundraisers, and guess how many meetings he has had with his jobs council?" Romney asked. "None. Zero. Zero in the last six months. So it makes it very clear where his priorities are."
Meanwhile, Romney's backers continued to express concern that he could sustain more political damage by his continued refusal to release more than two years of tax returns, an issue they say is also becoming a distraction from Romney's message about the economy.
The candidate has released one year of returns and has promised to make his 2011 return available once it is complete. In April, he filed for an extension on his 2011 return, something his campaign said is similar to what he has done in other years; he has also made public an estimate of his tax liability.
White House press secretary Jay Carney added to the pressure Wednesday, telling reporters at his daily briefing: "If you are going to run for president, it's not necessarily comfortable, but it's become a tradition, and it's an important one. You make your tax returns available because you think the American people deserve that kind of transparency."
A number of prominent conservative voices have also urged Romney to release more of his returns. Among them are two of his former rivals for the Republican nomination, Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, as well as the editorial board of the National Review.
The chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, Wayne MacDonald, said Wednesday that while the decision whether to release more tax returns is ultimately up to Romney, "there's certainly an upside" to revealing more about his personal finances.
"Certainly, I don't think Mitt Romney has anything to hide, and probably the best thing to do is to eliminate any chance for [Democrats] to make this an issue," MacDonald said in an interview.
But several other state-level party officials said Romney has released enough financial information.
Florida GOP Chairman Lenny Curry said that by calling for the tax returns, Obama "wants people to be jealous of and resent wealth" and that the president "is without question wanting a street fight in this campaign."
If Democrats want more financial information from Romney, Curry added, they should pass a law requiring it.
Some Democrats on Capitol Hill have sought to do just that. On Wednesday, Rep. Sander Levin (Mich.) and Sens. Richard Durbin (Ill.) and Carl Levin (Mich.) introduced legislation that would require candidates to disclose 10 years of tax returns.
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, who was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, said that while it is up to Romney to choose whether to release more of his tax information, that decision should not be a crucial issue in the campaign.
"You know what Americans care about? They don't care about Mitt Romney's tax returns," McDonnell said. "They care about their tax returns."
Felicia Sonmez and David Nakamura contributed to this report.

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- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 4
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community South Seas
rates (USD)
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$ 2,500 - $ 4,000 / month
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South Seas Club is a 55 acre gated complex on the beautiful white
sand beach of Marco Island. South Seas North is located on the
northeast end of the complex and includes garden and mid-rise
condominiums. Walking paths wind throughout the complex, tropical
landscape paths lead you directly to the 3 1/2 mile beach.
This is a lovely second floor two bedroom/two bath condo located in
South Seas North mid-rise (Bldg A). The beautiful view from the
screened balcony is overlooking pool and Clam Bay.
Large patio doors lead from the living room and master bedroom to
the balcony.
Dock access available for boats, large heated pool, and tennis
courts. Kitchen and baths have just been remodeled. Non-smoking unit.
condo rental amenities
Unit Amenities include:
2 Bedrooms
Master bedroom has King size bed, cable TV
Master bath & shower
Second bedroom has 2 twin size beds
Living area has queen pullout sleeper
Fully equipped kitchen - newly remodeled
New Oven and Range, Dishwasher, large tile floor, new carpet
Microwave over range, Blender, and Refrigerator,
Ice Machine located next to elevator
Cable - Sony flat screen TV & DVD in living room
Dining area with four chairs
Snack bar with three stools
All linens including beach towels
High efficiency Washer & Dryer in unit
Patio furniture
Non-smoking unit
Other Outside Amenities include:
Guard gate with 24-hour security
300 yard paved path to the white sand beach on the gulf of Mexico
Fantastic western sunsets from the beach!
Heated swimming pool
Ten tennis courts
Boat Dock available
Chickee Huts with gas grills
activities and attractions in Marco Island Gulf Coast South
Marco Island is located off the South West coast of
Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. Just 10 miles drive from Naples, 45
minutes from Fort Myers airport. The island offers beaches, boating,
fishing, shopping, numerous golf courses, and excellent restaurants.
Once you come to Marco you'll never want to leave!
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March 2013 Leased
April 2013 - $3,500
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Winter Warmer - SanTan Brewing Co.
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Reviews by uawildcat:
4.25/5 rDev +11.5%
07-15-2013 04:06:01 | More by uawildcat
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3.5/5 rDev -8.1%
01-23-2013 03:28:14 | More by bambam2517
3.76/5 rDev -1.3%
08-26-2014 00:12:43 | More by thebeeler
4/5 rDev +5%
Pours a deep dark brown color with a nice dark white head.
Aromas are of light chocolates, dark roasted malts, and light spices like nutmeg and ginger breads.
Lots of spice flavors. Dark roasted malts, toast, nutmeg, cinnamon, cocoa and a hint of rye on the finish. There is a slight sweet and creaminess underneath that helps balances the spices nicely.
Nice full, but not overly thick mouthfeel with good carbonation.
Drinkability is good. This reminds me of Anchor's winter ale. This is not overly spiced, but there is still a lot of complexity, and the alcohol is hidden nicely. Good stuff.
12-31-2008 02:26:59 | More by flexabull
3/5 rDev -21.3%
01-07-2012 16:41:12 | More by Aclucari
3.95/5 rDev +3.7%
i had this brew on tap while i was picking up a growler for Deuane. I think i sampled all of their current brews available before deciding to get this one.
This poured a cloudy amber color with a cream colored head that laced pretty nicely.
It smelled of pepper, ginger, slight hop.
Tasted spicy with ginger being the one thing i picked out most predominantly with some peppery spice and some floral/citrus hop finish.
It was creamy yet fairly light mouthfeel, but i would imagine it is to cater to the arizona climate (mid 60s and sunny even today)
It have a very good drinkability for a brew that is 8%. I could get in trouble with this one sitting in the pub too long, the abv is well disguised. I am happy now they have growlers here so that i can bring some of this home to drink responsibly!
12-15-2007 21:22:24 | More by tayner
3.9/5 rDev +2.4%
Props to Tayner for a growler of this brew.
A-Cloudy dark amber color with a medium light tan head that laced well.
S-"Holiday" spices, ginger, and an odd earthiness that I could not identify. I liked it but I could not id it.
T-Nice malty spiciness with an underlying hop bite and also that unknown earthiness in the taste as well.
M-Thick and creamy. A very nice, round, full bodied brew.
D-Totally...a very solid holiday beer offering. WOuld love to know what that "odd" tatse is. It makes me want to drink more to try and figure it out. Nice to have a solid beer from a fairly new brewery.
02-02-2008 12:51:47 | More by Deuane
4.1/5 rDev +7.6%
My beer arrived with a nice finger-thick, khaki colored whipped cream layer of foam resting atop a clear concentrated cola brown brew with gorgeous garnet red highlights. The head didn't stick around long, though, and the little bit of retention it had quickly diminished to thin webby lacing along the glass while it was cold. As it warmed, all traces of foam vanished.
The nose was full of toasted sweet malts, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. While it was sweeter on the nose initially, it did hold quite a bit of a bittersweet note that was punctuated by hints of pine needles and a very faint bon fire off in the distance. Warming up, the spices were much more pronounced and a faint dry spicy yeast, toasted barely, and a caramelized citrus - most likely orange zest - became present. It was rather comforting to sit with this beer in the dark, warm bar with the sounds of lightly clinking glassware, garbled laughter, and that ever present hum of friendly conversation going on around me. It's a very calming experience enhanced by a nice warming beer.
the Winter Warmer, while being warming, comes across with a medium body thanks to adequate tingly carbonation even though it holds a thinner mouthfeel overall. Early on it was quickly hoppy and dry with a light piney resin, but was smoothed out nicely by lots of honey and a faint caramelized orange zest that became more prominent as it warmed. There were plenty of dark, sweet malts throughout, followed by toasted grains, nutmeg, allspice, and a hearty kick of ginger right at the end that left my mouth slightly dry and spicy. I really liked the complexity of this beer and found it difficult to pick out quite a few aromas and flavors as I came across them - which of course kept me going back for more. At one point, I even started dipping my fresh little gingersnap cookies in the beer to bring out the sweetness from under all the spice! Honestly, I should probably get a growler of the Winter Warmer so I can make my own gingersnap cookies for my family when they come visit in a month.
12-01-2010 16:13:59 | More by Lucklys
4.08/5 rDev +7.1%
SanTan's annual Winter Warmer starts with a traditional English old ale recipe and is then spiced with 10 pounds of fresh ginger and 10 gallons of Arizona orange blossom honey.
Inside a snifter, it's a pretty beer: Caramel malt and other roasted grains lend a deep maroon hue, and there's great clarity despite the darkness. On top is an inch of foam the consistency of fresh, tan-colored snowfall that deposits winding slaloms of lace on the sides of the glass.
Aromas of cinnamon-spiced raisins, caramel, and perhaps some plum arrange themselves in a blend that reminds of bread pudding, accented with notes of gingerbread and earthy English hops. It's like Christmas breakfast at Bob Cratchit's house.
Touch of brandy emerge in the flavor, brought out by sugary alcohol. The front of the flavor is loaded with cinnamon and honey mingled with raisins soaked in the aforementioned brandy. Mid palate, ginger steps up to dance with dark fruits and English hops. Very subtle toasty bread notes settle in after the swallow, while hints of buttery toffee emerge as the brew warms. Altogether, Winter Warmer leans slightly toward the sweet side, but it finishes just dry enough to keep things from becoming cloying. The medium body is like warm blanket on a cold night, enveloping the tongue in supple smoothness while the alcohol heat chases away any chill.
There's a reason SanTan Winter Warmer won a New Times Best Of award in 2010 -- it's a fantastic example of the style that provides delightful warmth when the weather outside gets frightful. Order a glass at the brewpub in Chandler and you'll get it served with a trifecta of tiny gingerbread cookies, which are the perfect pairing. The ginger included in both beer and cookie resonate, while the brew's raisin-soaked honey sweetness and big alcohol hit dull the cookie's spicier edges.
01-06-2012 22:50:31 | More by Phelps
3.75/5 rDev -1.6%
02-13-2013 23:54:07 | More by sprucetip
3.83/5 rDev +0.5%
Caramel brown color, thin white topping when it's served. Not much by way of lasting lace, but the head retains very well. A little cloudy with some yeasties, but mostly clear and shining.
The ginger is quite prominent in the nose, along with some whole clove (not quite releasing its full power), white pepper, and nutmeg. Definitely got some things going on, but it's not amazing in terms of power or complexity.
The flavor, unsurprisingly, is made up in a major way by the ginger - which is fine. You just need to be very careful with ginger, and that goes for brewing and cooking.
The spice component is the leading edge to the flavor profile, similar to the nose, while the hops come next lending a little pine, pretty good citrics, and a hint of flowers to the proceedings. The malt stays mostly out of the way, and is lightly sweet.
I found the mouthfeel a little bit thin both for style and for my taste. I tend to think that a winter warmer should "bring it" more. The spices are there, but the size isn't. I suppose there's just not the demand here in the desert...
The finish is a little antiseptic, with a certain tangy yeast component being all that's left behind. This could be improved.
SanTan's winter warmer isn't a bad effort by any means. I wouldn't mind a little more heft in general to back up a solid blend of spices and citric flavors, but the brewers have gone for a "lighter" style here, which makes sense given that it's mid-December, and out "winter" is still giving us 60 degree weather.
12-18-2008 02:18:53 | More by BretSikkink
3.35/5 rDev -12.1%
Sampled 1702; March 2010
This arrives with a frothy, almost half-finger thick, dark tan colored head. The beer is a dark, concentrated, burnt amber color that shows some rich red hues when held up to the dim light. The aroma is hard to smell after the HopShock, but has a sweet, sort of cinnamon-like, no maybe mint-toothpaste like not to it if I really dig around for it. Some hints of toasted, caramelized notes seem to bee just noticeable in the aroma as well. The aroma is disappointingly faint, but after warming up for a long time the spice character becomes much more noticeable and even objectionable.
The beer is somewhat light bodied (at least for something labeled as a Winter Warmer), but still has a certain fullness to it. I was definitely right about the toothpaste note in the aroma as this is quite noticeable in the flavor; though it is not up front as it only comes through in the middle through to the lingering finish of each sip. This almost has a rosemary edge to it up front, but really, what is that flavor; it is not really mint, nor toothpaste, it is resinous, perhaps it is cardamom and / or ginger. There is enough sweet malt to support the spice I suppose, but really the spices are just way too aggressive; they really need to dial these way back to make this drinkable. Whatever the spices are, the mix of flavors has notes of nutmeg, allspice, cardamom, definite turpene notes and maybe even some flavors of myrrh.
This is a really interesting beer, too bad it doesn't really work for me; a subtle use of the spices that allows the malt to come out would have been really nice. Hopefully this will get fixed for next years batch, as this does have potential.
05-05-2010 16:23:55 | More by Gueuzedude
4.1/5 rDev +7.6%
Finally decided to give this one a try after walking past the Growlers in Whole Foods dozens of times.
Has a nice rich dark amber color, and short-lived cream top. Minimal lace.
Sweet-smelling orange blossom and ginger. For me, the ginger taste is flirting with being over the top. But, manages to say just below that line. I really enjoy how the sticky sweetness, malt, and spice comes together. As it warms, a bit of yeast/bread starts to come into the finish, and on the nose.
This really has a lot of character. But, I have to agree with a previous reviewer on it being a just a bit "thinner" mouthfeel than I would expect.
01-23-2010 22:34:04 | More by DigitalHype
Winter Warmer from SanTan Brewing Co.
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Pleasanton not Pleasantville...
Original post made by moviebuff on Dec 19, 2007
on Dec 20, 2007 at 11:21 am
People live in bubbles and think the world is beautiful. They only look in black and white, (i.e., good vs. bad) and can only see color if they just open their eyes to the real world.
I love this topic. Good job moviebuff.
on Dec 20, 2007 at 2:55 pm
This string is going to open up, yet again, deragatory and negative comments about Pleasanton. Anyone who visits these blog pages on the Weekly knows that in the past couple of months it has all been about bashing teens, Pleasanton, you name it....No we do not live in Pleasantville, but we do not live in Detroit either....New topic please......
on Dec 20, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I in fact think this topic is a very good one to discuss.
Why do you think it is going to cause people to write badly about our community?
Many people like living in their own suburban bubble, away from the rustle and bustle of big city life. It is much more calm and relaxed here in Pleasanton, where I have lived nearly all of my life. There is no need to bash Pleasanton, I was merely looking for others opinions on how they felt Pleasanton was portrayed towards non-residents.
I personally have friends from other cities that come to Pleasanton and love the city...especially Main St. People need to learn to take the good with the bad, not all topics are going to stir up smiles and bubbly feelings.


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Reduce College Costs - Painlessly
When you have to write a five figure check each year for your child's college education, it may seem futile to look for ways to cut corners or shave some costs here and there on many of the expenses incurred during the school year. But, you would be amazed at how all of the "incidentals" can add up. Here are some of the ways you could easily cut your expenses by four figures:
- Buy used textbooks, or consider "renting." Some services allow rentals on core curriculum textbooks, saving 60 to 80% on textbooks costs. Just be sure to check to see that the current text book being used in your class hasn't been changed or doesn't include different or additional assignments.
- Buy an inexpensive or refurbished laptop or desktop computer; unless you have, for example, a child enrolled in an engineering program, word processing, spreadsheets and internet access is all they will need.
- Buy an inexpensive inkjet printer that can utilize refilled cartridges, or have your student use the campus computer lab for printing.
- Choose the right meal plan. Many students never use all the meals available (sleeping late equals missed breakfasts.) Choose a plan that cuts costs while ensuring your student won't go hungry.


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CATEGORIES Comedy, Drama, Casting, Scripts, CinematicalInformation on Academy Award-nominated writer-director Jason Reitman's (Up in the Air, Juno, Thank You For Smoking*) follow-up directorial effort has been sparse over the last year, but Deadline has the latest and it's almost a go: Reitman is set to direct Young Adult, an original script from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (The United States of Tara, Jennifer's Body, Juno) with Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron (Monster) to star in the comedy-drama.
Young Adult centers on a ghost writer (Theron) who writes young adult novels. Suffering an early mid-life (identity) crisis, she decides to look up and rekindle a relationship with her high-school boyfriend (who's married and has zero interest in revisiting the past), and reconnect with old high-school friends and acquaintances.
Partnering with Mandate Pictures and John Malkovich's production company, Mr. Mudd, Reitman hopes to have additional financing in place to begin production on November 10th in New York City.
I have more faith in Reitman than in Cody, who's last film, Jennifer's Body, disappointed commercially and critically, but with Theron, an actress who tends to pick quality projects (Aeon Flux notwithstanding) attached, I'm willing to give Young Adult the benefit of the doubt.
Based on what you've read, what do you think of Reitman's next project? Given the talent involved, does this project sound like something you'd like to see theatrically, on DVD/VOD/Cable, or not at all?


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NFL Insider: Easing the fallout from firings
Conditions have improved for assistants, says an NFL Coaches Association official.
By Jim Jenkins -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PST Thursday, January 5, 2006
Story appeared in Sports section, Page C3
There are eight head-coaching vacancies in the NFL and a good chance of a few more.
Most of the time, those shoved out of jobs find another one, often in the same year. Even if it is later, they usually have been paid so well - contracts of $2 million a year or more are the norm for head coaches - there's little pain or economic risk involved biding their time for the next opportunity, pro or college.
But what about the assistant coaches? What becomes of staffs splintered in the wake of a head coach getting fired or retiring? Where do they go?
At best, only a few assistants are retained in a change because the new head man wants to hand-pick a staff that best fits his style.
Not long ago, that reality led to tremendous anxiety among assistant coaches suddenly facing unemployment. But conditions have improved in recent years with the formation of the NFL Coaches Association.
Fed up with too many examples of comrades and their families cut adrift, veteran assistant coach Nick Nicolau stood on a ladder during a social gathering at the heavily scouted Senior Bowl in 1996 and said it was high time his peers organized.
And that was the impetus for the assistant coaches group that today is headed by Larry Kennan. It is based in the same Washington, D.C., building that houses the NFL Players Association.
The 61-year-old Kennan, who had two tours of duty with the Raiders (Los Angeles and Oakland) during his 16 years as an assistant head coach, committed himself to serving as the NFLCA executive director until the group built enough strength to protect its members. The goal evidently has been reached.
"The amazing thing about our growth," Kennan said in a phone interview, "is that when we started out, I think we had 330 assistant coaches in our organization. Now it's 500, virtually all of them.
"We collect dues to pay most of our bills and educate them on what they need to be doing between jobs, give them salary information while they're interviewing for new ones. Coaches have a lot of questions when they're fired - what they're owed by the clubs, what's legal and what's not."
According to Kennan, most coaches catch on in college or the NFL. Many are hired by their former head coach when he goes to a new team, assuming he has the leverage to bring aboard old hands.
"One of the nicest things we've done is help raise salaries of assistant coaches," Kennan said. "For years, nobody knew what everyone else was making.
"Now we do, and it's led to doubling salaries since 1998. We put a value on ourselves instead of getting kicked around."
Kennan said the average pay for offensive and defensive coordinators is more than $600,000, although those who are more experienced and working for successful teams often command seven-figure salaries. The average range for assistant coaches, he said, is $268,000 but can rise significantly, depending on experience and the employer's generosity.
What was the NFL's reaction when the assistant coaches didn't unionize but banded together?
"They (league office and owners) didn't understand us in the beginning and fought us," Kennan said. "And they still fight us on some issues, because when we ask them for something, it likely is going to cost them money. But they have respect for us now that they didn't have before. It's a whole lot better."
Nevertheless, there still are some sad cases, Kennan acknowledged.
Just as retired players from the league's early years drew modest pay and pensions, so did assistant coaches who labored during that era, putting in marathon hours away from their families with little recognition and compensation.
"But there aren't many of those now," Kennan said. "One of our initial problems was that a lot of guys were being forced into retirement before they were 60 and weren't able to collect full (league-funded) retirement until age 65. But we got the full retirement age lowered to (a combination of) age and length of service totaling 75 years."
Now that Kennan's organization seems entrenched, is he thinking of returning to coaching.
"Why not?" he said. "I worked for improving the benefits. I ought to be able to take advantage of it."
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The Baylor Bears simply do not have an answer for the Kentucky Wildcats on defense. Kentucky has been at their best in transition as usual, but Baylor don't exactly look capable of stopping UK in the half court either. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is lighting it up with 11 points, and Kentucky has a 30-15 lead at the under-eight minute media timeout in the first half.
Anthony Davis is Kentucky's second leading scorer with 10 points, but it's a different Wildcat making the biggest impact on the other end, where Davis usually shines. Terrence Jones already has three blocks. Quincy Acy has been effective inside with eight points, but his first half will best be remembered for this flagrant foul that wasn't.
Pro-level flop job by Jones on this one. Acy was called for a flagrant. For...being strong, I guess?
Baylor's shooting 33 percent from the floor at the moment. They were always going to struggle to defend Kentucky, so if they can't hit shots either, this game is going to get very ugly.
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9Britney Spears' Fiancé Is Officially in Charge of Her Life
Remember how Britney Spears went a little crazy a few years back and then everyone decided that it was best if her dad went ahead and took control of her finances and her life and everything? And remember how Britney's soon-to-be husband, Jason Trawick, was supposed to be legally signed in as the other dude to be in charge of all that? Well, it happened. And it feels just as weird as we all thought it would.
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Britney Spears' fiance Jason Trawick is officially the singer's newest conservator — the judge in her conservatorship case just signed off on giving him legal power to govern Britney's affairs.
TMZ broke the story … Britney's dad and conservator Jamie Spearsfiled the petition earlier this month, asking the court to add Jason as a co-conservator. We're told Britney also wanted Jason on board as co-conservator.
After the hearing, we overhead the lawyers say Jamie is "thrilled."
The move makes total sense … considering the two are set to be married.
As co-conservator, Jason is now empowered to help decide how Britney will earn and spend her money — including the $15 million deal she's about to sign with "X Factor."
Hey, let's consider this, all right? What would you do if you met someone really awesome, and you were attracted to her, and she seemed super, but then you found out that she was in a bit of a rough place and her dad was basically in control of her: would that be a deal breaker? Or would you maybe stick it out while that person got her life back on track? You wouldn't marry her, would you? I hope not, because that would be kind of creepy.
I think there's a difference between being in a relationship with a healthy, stable adult who becomes mentally ill or somehow incapable of being trusted with her own finances and big decisions and all that and entering into a legal relationship with someone who legally isn't allowed to make her own decisions. Do you know what I mean? I mean this whole thing really creeps me out, and if Britney won't be able to go out and buy her own wedding dress or pay vendors all by herself, and if she needs her dad to legally approve her marriage, then maybe she shouldn't be getting married.
But what do you think?
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She shouldn't be allowed to get married? That's a little harsh…
No it isn't, Malia. The point is if she is considered mentally unfit to take care of herself and her finances, and someone has to be her guardian, then she can't be mentally fit to make such a huge decision as marriage. How can you not see that?
CranAppleSnapple: My thoughts exactly. How can she enter into a marriage when she, legally, isn't in control of her affairs, both personal and financial?
I smell a GIANT lawsuit somewhere down the line over these decisions if her "marriage" blows up.
The conservatorship doesn't seem like it's going away anytime soon. She shouldn't have to put her life on hold. She probably has a HUGE say in all the decision making, she just gets the support and approval from those who are the most important in her life. It seems nuts to me, but seems to be working out great for her. get on with your life, girl!
"She probably has a HUGE say in all the decision making, she just gets the support and approval from those who are the most important in her life."
I hope she does.
I dunno, it feels a little strange, but in all honesty, some things work for some people. Her life has stopped the downward spiral and dramatically improved, so I think maybe something about having people she trusts to guide and advise her life decisions works for her. She certainly seems much happier. Obviously….this only works because her dad doesn't seem to be a douchebag…*coughmichaellohancough*
Well, I hope this guy isn't someone who thinks he got handed the keys to the bank. And, yes, she does need a legal guardian. 2009 was only 3 years ago and she was a total mess. Remember her walking down the street with menstrual blood running down her leg? Shaving her head? Getting carried out of her home, strapped down to a gurney? She needs an attendant and if she wants to call him a husband it doesn't matter. God knows what she would do on her own without someone making her take her medicine and see her therapist. I was starting to wonder just how much longer she had to live!
You've got to wonder, did she ever really have it "together"? She may have been a mess internally the whole time and just from all of the prep knew how to hide it…or rather…knew what we wanted to see from her.
When will people realize Britney is NEVER going to get "better"? She has gone beyond the point of return, mentally. It is weird that her husband is going to also be her conservator, but hopefully her father believes Jason is actually a good guy. This situation is kind of the best that's going to happen. There is probably a reason why she has conservatorship, she is going to need it for the rest of her life. This makes Jason and Brits union more complete, but hopefully her dad has some sort of final say/control.


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Fred Ellwein will lead the U.S. Army Old Fife and Drum Corps as it marches down Pennsylvania Avenue ahead of President Barack Obama's motorcade.
Ellwein says he thinks every step along the parade route will resonate with memories and blessings of the things he's been afforded. He says it will potentially be his last official mission in the Army.
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A specter haunts liberal and progressive America: Obamania. With BaRockstarObama appearing on Oprah, the Today Show, the covers of Men's Vogue and Vanity Fair, conducting a 13-city book tour, being featured in New York Times op-eds by (a fawning) David Brooks and Frank Rich and now having finally gone public (on the NBC Sunday morning show "Meet Tim Russert," formerly known as "Meet the Press") with his long-obvious presidential ambitions, it's a good time for an Obama intervention.
Few things are more indicative of the desperation and myopia that weak minds, battered hearts, and limited electoral choices instill in some leftists and left-liberals than the success the openly "Hamiltonian" (Brooks' gushing description) Obama has achieved in convincing progressives that that he's one of them.
I'm writing a piece on the Obama record to date, one that looks at his state-level legislative record and incorporates key information from other critiques (including one that David Sirota did for The Nation earlier this year)and from Obama's latest book (which appears to be a quick read…looks like I can knock it off in a couple of hours at the Barnes & Noble).
Here (below) I have taken the liberty of pasting in two past ZNet essays I've done on the 2008 presidential hopeful. The first one – a rapid response to the sickening 2004 Democratic Convention Keynote address that did so much to crystallize Obama's national prominence – received an astonishing outpouring of response (about 95 percent positive) from literally hundreds of ZNet readers (truth be told, it had me feeling a little bit like an Internet rock-star for a couple of days). The second, annotated one (with an oddly religious approach that might falsely suggest that I am a Christian…I am no such thing) is from ZNet's paying Sustainer system and received a nice but smaller response.
1. Obamania Intervention Number One (2004)
Keynote Reflections
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I come from the same Chicago neighborhood (Hyde Park) as the nation's official new political rock star Barack Obama. I work in urban policy and civil rights and I've recently been telling leftists to engage in "tactical" presidential voting – for Kerry in undecided states and for leftists like Cobb or Nader in "safe" states. So I must have really liked the charismatic former civil rights attorney Obama's much-ballyhooed keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, right?
Not really. Sorry, I might be (rather unenthusiastically) advising people to vote Kerry in some jurisdictions next fall but I'm still a leftist – the real thing, not the mythological sort created by the crackpot right, which conflates the disparate likes of (say) Bill Clinton, The New York Times, Tom Daschle, Al Franken, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and Che Guevara as part of the same ideological vision.
Equality Versus Equal Opportunity
And as a person of the radical left, I am opposed to social inequality in and of itself, whatever its origins. The massive socioeconomic disparities that scar American and global life would be offensive to me – and supremely damaging to democracy and the common good in my world view – even if all at the top of the pyramid had risen to their positions from an equal position at the starting line of a "level playing field." There is no such field in really existing society, but the creation of such an equal beginning would not make it any less toxic and authoritarian for 1 percent of the U.S. population to own more than 40 percent of the nation's wealth (along with a probably higher percentage of America's politicians and policymakers). As the great democratic Socialist Eugene Debs used to say, the point – for radicals, at least – is not to "rise from the masses, but to "rise with the masses." Serious left vision is about all-around leveling before, during, and after the policy process.
The world view enunciated in Obama's address comes from a very different, bourgeois-individualist and national-narcissist moral and ideological space. Obama praised America as the ultimate "beacon of freedom and opportunity" for those who exhibit "hard work and perseverance" and laid claim to personally embodying the great American Horatio-Algerian promise. "My story," one (he says) of rise from humble origins to Harvard Law School and (now) national political prominence, "is part," Obama claimed "of the larger American story." "In no other country on Earth," he said, "is my story even possible."
Obama quoted the famous Thomas Jefferson line about all "men" being "created equal," but left out Jefferson's warnings about the terrible impact of unequal outcomes on democracy and popular government. He advocated a more equal rat-race, one where "every child in America has a decent shot at life, and the doors of opportunity [the word "opportunity" recurred at least five times in his speech] remain open to all."
Sorry, but those doors aren't even close to being "open to all." America doesn't score particularly well in terms of upward mobility measures, compared to other industrialized states (and Brazil's current chief executive was born into that country's working-class). Every kid deserves "a decent life," not just "a shot" at one. And such a life isn't about living in a world of inequality or (see below) empire.
Democracy Versus Polyarchy
Real leftists are radical "small-d" democrats. They believe passionately in substantive, many-sided, root and branch democracy. By democracy they mean one-person, one-vote and equal policymaking influence for all, regardless of class, wealth, ethnicity, and other socially constructed differences of privilege and power. They are deeply sensitive to the core Jeffersonian contradiction between democracy radically defined and capitalism's inherent concentrations of wealth and power. They advocate a political and social life where real, regular, and multi-dimensional popular governance is structured into the institutional fabric of daily experience and consciousness.
They are hardly enthralled by what passes for political "democracy" in the United States, where highly ritualized, occasional, and fragmented elections are an exercise in periodic pseudo-popular selection of representatives from a "safe" and small circle of privileged "elites." One term to describe really existing US "democracy" is "polyarchy," what left sociologist William I. Robinson calls "a system in which a small group actually rules and mass participation in decision making is confined to leadership choices carefully managed by competing [business and business-sanctioned] elites.
The polyarchic concept of democracy," notes Robinson, "is an effective arrangement for legitimating and sustaining inequalities within and between nations (deepening in a global economy) far more effectively than authoritarian solutions" (Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy – Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 385).
Obama's address advanced a truncated, passive, and negative concept of democracy, one where we are supposed to be ecstatic simply because we don't live under the iron heel of open authoritarianism. It is an American "miracle," he claimed, "that we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door" and that "we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted — or at least, most of the time."
Never mind that what we say and think is generally drowned out by the giant, concentrated corporate-state media cartel and that our votes – even when actually counted – are mere political half-pennies in comparison to the structurally empowered super-citizenship bestowed upon the great monied interests and corporations that rule our "dollar democracy," the "best that money can buy." Jefferson and Madison tried to warn us about that power disparity.
"Pleding Allegiance to the Stars and Stripes"
Real leftists are suspicious of those who downplay internal national divisions, "patriotically" privileging "homeland" unity over class differences and over international solidarity between people inclined towards peace, justice, and democracy. We are deeply critical, of course, of war and empire, which advance inequality and misery at home and abroad. Global humanity – the species – and not "fatherland" or nation-state, is the "reference group" that matters to us.
That's why many leftists cringed when they heard the newly anointed Great Progressive Hope Obama refer to Americans as "one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America." Its part of why I was uncomfortable when Obama praised "a young man" named Shamus who "told me he'd joined the Marines and was heading to Iraq the following week." One of Shamus' endearing qualities, Obama thinks, is "absolute faith in our country and its leaders, his devotion to duty and service." "I thought," Obama said, "this young man was all that any of us might hope for in a child." Not me. I hope for children who regularly and richly question authority and subject the nation and its leaders/mis-leaders to constant critical scrutiny.
Many of us on the left should have been disturbed when Obama discussed the terrible blood costs of the Iraq invasion and occupation purely in terms of the U.S. troops "who will not be returning to their hometowns," their loved ones, and other American soldiers dealing with terrible war injuries.
What about the considerably larger quantity (into the tens of thousands) of Iraqis who have been killed and maimed as a result of U.S. imperialism and whose numbers are officially irrelevant to U.S. authorities? One of the problems with the American exceptionalism that Obama espouses is that it feeds indifference towards "unworthy victims" among peoples and nations less supposedly favored by "God" and/or History than "beacon" America. This racially tinged coldness goes back to the nation's founders, who thought their "City on a Hill" had been granted the Creator-ordained right to eliminate North America's original, Godless and unworthy inhabitants.
In the part of his speech that came closest to a direct criticism of the Iraq invasion, Obama suggested that the Bush administrated has "shad[ed] the truth" about why "U.S. troops were sent into "harm's way." He added that the U.S. must never "go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world."
It's hardly a "war," however, when the most powerful imperial state in history attacks and occupies a weak nation that it has already devastated over years of deadly bombing and (deadlier) "economic sanctions." "Securing the peace" is a morally impoverished and nationally arrogant, self-serving description of the real White House objective in Iraq: to pacify, by force when (quite) necessary, the outraged populace of a nation that understandably resents an imperial takeover it rightly sees as driven by the superpower's desire to deepen its control of their strategically super-significant oil resources.
And "shade the truth" doesn't come close to doing justice to the high-state deception – the savage, sinister, and sophisticated lying – that the Bush administration used and is still using to cover their real agenda, understood with no small accuracy by the people of Iraq.
The low point in Obama's speech came, I think, when he said the following about his repeatedly invoked concept of "hope:"
"I'm not talking about blind optimism here – the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a mill worker's son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too…In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation; a belief in things not seen; a belief that there are better days ahead."
Sorry, but this leftist takes exception to this horrific lumping of antebellum African-American slaves' struggles and sprituality with the racist U.S. crucifixion of Southeast Asia – "the young naval lieutenant line" is a reference to John Kerry's "heroic" participation in a previous and much bloodier imperialist invasion, one that cost millions of Vietnamese lives – under the image of noble Americans wishing together for a better future. I suppose "God" (Obama's keynote made repeated references to "God" and "the Creator") gave Nazi executioners and Nazi victims the shared gift of hoping for better days ahead.
What told Kerry and his superiors that the Mekong Delta was theirs to "patrol"? The same arrogant sensibilities, perhaps, that gave 19th century white Americans permission to own chattel slaves and allowed the Bush administration to seize Iraq as a neocolonial possession.
Popular Struggle, Not "Elite" Saviors
Need I bother to add in conclusion that leftists believe in organizing and fighting alongside ordinary people for justice and democracy at home and abroad, not in holding up as saviors great leaders from (whatever their alleged humble origins ala Obama or John Edwards) within the privileged "elite"? It was probably inherent in the nature of Obama's keynote assignment that he would finish by saying that the swearing in of Kerry and John Edwards as president and vice president will allow America to "reclaim its promise" and bring the nation "out of this long political darkness." It's inherent in my leftist sense of what democracy and justice are about and how they are attained to say that a desirable future will be achieved only through devoted, radically democratic rank and file struggle for justice and freedom and not by hoping – or voting – for benevolent "elite" actors working on behalf of any political party and/or its corporate sponsors.
Paul Street ([email protected]) is an urban social policy researcher in Chicago, Illinois. His book Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (www.paradigmpublishers.com) will be published in September, 2004.
2.Obamania Intervention Number Two (2006)
June 16, 2006
Obama's Path to Hell
ZNet Sustainer Commentary
By Paul Street
In the spring of 1967, after he went public with his strong and principled opposition to the Vietnam War, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was approached by liberal and left politicos to consider running for the United States Presidency. King turned the activists down, saying that he preferred to think of himself "as one trying desperately to be the conscience of all the political parties, rather being a political candidate…I've just never thought of myself as a politician" (1)
The minute he threw his hat in the American winner-take-all presidential ring, King knew, he would be encouraged to compromise his increasingly leftist and fundamentally moral message against racism, social inequality, and militarism. Reflecting his chastening confrontation with the concentrated black poverty and class oppression in the "liberal" urban North and the horrors of U.S. policy in Southeast Asia, King had come to radical conclusions. "For years I have labored with the idea of refining the existing institutions of the society, a little change here, a little change there," he told journalist David Halberstam that spring. "Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values"
The black freedom movement, King told a crowd at the university of California-Berkeley, had shifted from civil rights to human rights, involving "a struggle for genuine equality" that "demands a radical redistribution of economic and political power." It would be hard to find mass political support for this goal, King said, "because many white Americans would like to have a nation which is simultaneously a democracy for White America and a dictatorship over Black Americans" (2).
By this time, King had identified the U.S. government as "the greatest purveyor of violence" in the world and denounced U.S. support for U.S.-investment-friendly Third World dictatorship, all part of what he called "the triple evils that are interrelated": racism, economic exploitation [capitalism], and militarism (3).
These were not winning ideas in the racist, plutocratic, and corporate-imperial U.S. electoral system. They were truth-based moral observations that contained openly acknowledged radical policy implications. They were richly consistent with what Frederick Douglass called "the Christianity of Christ," very different from what Douglass considered the false American Christianity that justified slavery, Indian Removal, and other abominations and forms of oppression (4). As the prolific Catholic scholar Gary Wills notes in his recent book What Jesus Meant, the Jesus that emerges from a serious reading of the gospels is an uncompromising enemy of wealth and hierarchy who said that "it is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich to enter into God's reign" (Mark, 10.23-25) and counseled his followers to "protect yourself against every desire for having more" since "life does not lie in the abundance of things one owns" (Luke, 13.15). Opposed to all forms of hierarchy, not just economic inequality, the Jesus "rebuke[d] the followers who jockey[ed] for authority over each other and over others" (5), saying that "everyone lifting himself up will be abased and anyone abasing himself will be lifted up" (Luke, 14.11).
"There cannot be a clearer injunction of hierarchy of any kind," says Wills, adding that Jesus was "absolute in his opposition to violence" (6) and remarkably indifferent to politics, saying "Caesar's matters leave to Caesar" (Mark, 12.17)
Following the gospels' radical message, which he knew quite well (7), King didn't want to end up like the odious Barack Obama.
A former neighborhood organizer on Chicago's impoverished South Side, Obama claims fealty to the ideals of Jesus and King. Still, he:
* "refuses to take any options," including the supremely sinful strategy of preemptive nuclear war, "off the table" in attempting to deter Iran from doing something U.S. global strategy would seem to strongly recommend to that nation: developing nuclear weapons.
* voted to fill the nation's top diplomatic jobs (of all offices) with a mendacious war-criminal named Condaleeza ("Chevron") Rice.
* refuses to call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from illegally and mass-murderously occupied Iraq, placing more value on maintaining America's blood-soaked "military credibility" than on recognizing standard world norms of civilized state behavior or on honoring Jesus' and King's commitment to nonviolence.
* distanced himself from fellow Illinois Senator Dick Durbin's (D-Illinois) courageous criticism of illegal U.S. torture practices in Guantanamo Bay.
* followed the counsel of the rich men of corporate America by backing a "tort reform" that makes it more difficult for ordinary people to attain just compensation from business that cheat and damage.
* voted to close filibuster proceedings that would have attempted to block the appointment of the reactionary Judge Alito – a known civil and women's rights enemy.
* voted to re-authorize the Patriot Act, which uses real and imagined foreign threats created by empire to roll back liberty at home.
* fled fellow Senator Russ Feingold's (D-Wisconsin) motion to officially censure the Bush administration for its monumentally criminal actions at home and abroad. * applies his campaign finance Midas touch to the reelection efforts of his "mentor," the de facto Republican Senator Joe Liberman ("D"- Connecticut), a close ally of Bush's occupation, and a leading architect of the nation's oppressive and racist "welfare reform," which slashed basic government assistance for the most disadvantaged members of the industrialized world's most unequal, wealth-top-heavy society.
In the horrible 2004 Democratic Convention Keynote address that did so much to catapult him into national prominence, Obama set some centrist tone for his subsequent predictable betrayals of cherished principles and leaders. In that instantly celebrated speech, Obama:
* claimed that the U.S. is the ultimate "beacon for freedom and opportunity," the "only country on earth" where "my story" (a supposedly Horatio-Alger-esque tale of climb from poverty to prominence and now [thanks to some generous book deals] prosperity) "is even possible." This despite the fact that the U.S. is actually the most rigidly hierarchical nation in the industrialized world, home to a stultifying corporate plutocracy, massive persistent and highly racialized poverty, astonishing incarceration rates (also quite racially disparate) and low mobility from lower to upper segments in its steep socioeconomic pyramid.
* said that "every child in America" should "have a decent shot at life," not that every kid deserves a full and decent life now and thereafter
* expected Americans to be ecstatic over the "miracle" (!) that they don't live under the iron heel of open state repression (he made not exceptions for the nation's 2 million prisoners, nearly half black), as if democracy is just the absence of a police state and not the power of the people to run their own society in an egalitarian fashion (talk about low expectations for freedom).
* praised a Marine enlisted in the racist and imperialist oil occupation of Iraq for (of all things) "defending the United States of America" and (supposedly) expressing "absolute faith in the country and its leaders." Now there's a nice democratic sentiment: such chilling "faith" is the stuff of the very police state whose absence in the U.S. Obama called a "miracle."
* scaled new heights of cringing, pseudo-patriotic nausea-inducement by making disturbing "hope" parallels between: "the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs:" "the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta;" and the "hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him."
The "lieutenant" referred to in his speech was Democratic presidential candidate John "I Participated in the Crucifixion of Southeast Asia" Kerry, whose government's imperial right to "patrol" great rivers on the other side of the world during the 1960s Obama took as axiomatic. The "skinny kid" referred to a young Obama, grooming himself for a Harvard education while growing up with his white grandparents in sunny Hawaii.
The connection with "freedom"-singing slaves? A shared belief in what Obama called "God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation – a belief that there are better days ahead."
Yes, the brutalized black slaves of racist antebellum America were looking forward to the glorious white-imperialist rape of Southeast Asia, when their faith in "better days" would find glorious realization in the napalming of Vietnamese children, the images of which shocked Martin King to denounce the Vietnam war in strident and forceful terms.
How unimaginably and hideously grotesque. For a more detailed critique of Obama's great breakthrough speech, see my article [the most popular Internet piece I've ever published by far] "Keynote Reflections," ZNet Magazine, July 29, 2004 (available at http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=33&ItemID=5951)
In a recent New Yorker piece, Obama is quoted at length as an example of Democratic Party centrism. The community-organizer-turned-U.S.-Senator responds as follows to writer Jeffrey Goldberg's query on whether the Democrats should focus on defending the American public against the U.S. government's assault on its civil liberties: "Americans want to feel good about themselves and their government. They can be called upon to sacrifice and they can be ashamed when we fall short of our ideals but they don't believe that the main lesson of the last five years is that America is an evil hegemon"( 8).
It's hard to know how Obama thought that revealing passage addressed illegal federal wiretaps and the like, but his statement contains a revealing assumption that deserves consideration on its own ground. The assumption holds that the important question isn't whether or not "America" (or perhaps its imperial government) is "an evil hegemon," but rather whether "Americans" (translation: American voters and especially American campaign-financers) perceive their nation-state to be such a terrible entity. Political calculation trumps the quest for moral truth.
But what if "America" (or at least its government) is, well…"an evil hegemon" (probably the majority world view of the U.S. state, for what that's worth)? If true, that terrible fact, by Obama's standpoint, should not be openly addressed because it works against Democrats efforts to enhance their chances of election and re-election by helping "Americans feel good about themselves and their government."
The contrast with Martin King's courageous left-Christian, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and democratic-socialist sentiments is quite pronounced. For King, the relevant calculations were very different. He was compelled to call "America" on its global violence and its related domestic injustices regardless of the difficulties the U.S. citizenry might face in acknowledging their own and their government's role in the enforcement of empire, inequality, and oppression at home and abroad. The imperative was hardly to help "Americans" "feel good about themselves and their government." It was to encourage them to be true to themselves, to each other, and to the rest of suffering humanity by facing up to "the triple evils that are interrelated."
Obama's descent into Hell is almost certainly about a desire to be an American Caesar. The path to the White House is not paved with na*ve crusades against the politically inconvenient truths that King felt compelled to expose and oppose. It requires regular reassurance to the rich and powerful few and to the militaristic instincts of Empire that the opulent minority seeks to inculcate among the marginalized multitude. Whatever Jesus is reputed to have said about who may enter heaven, the keys to the earthly kingdom are reserved for those who play by the rules set by the masters of wealth and war.
Obama is what happens when a young leader sells his soul for power, wealth, and personal advancement in a militantly hierarchical society. It's what happens when you invest your energy in "jockey[ing] for authority over others." It's a very old story, making Obama one of many actors in a timeless and tragic drama.
Paul Street ([email protected]) is a writer, speaker, and activist in Iowa City, IA. He is the author of Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004) and Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York, NY: Routledge, 2005).
1. David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference [New York, NY: 1986], p. 562).
2.Garrow, Bearing the Cross, p. 562.
3. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Where Do We Go From Here?," 1967, reproduced in James M. Washington, A Testament of Hope: the Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. (San Francisco, CA: 1986), p. 250.
4. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), appendix.
5. Gary Wills, What Jesus Meant (New York, NY: 2006), p. 44
6. Wills, What Jesus Meant, p. 58.
7. Paul Street, "Martin Luther King, Jr., Democratic Socialist," ZNet Sustainers Commentary, January 14, 2006, available at http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-01/14street.cfm)
8. Jeffrey Goldberg, "Central Casting," The New Yorker (May 29, 2006)


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