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According to a new market report published by Lucintel, the future of the global digital fitness market looks promising with opportunities in smart wearable fitness devices and smart wearable sports devices. The global digital fitness market is expected to reach an estimated $27.4 billion by 2022 and is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 32.6% from 2017 to 2022. The major drivers for the growth of this market are increasing awareness on fitness, rising demand of user-friendly and self-monitoring devices.
This report has 102 figures/charts and 60 tables spread through 150 pages. For more detail on this report please click link http://www.lucintel.com/digital-fitness-market-2017-2022.aspx
In this market, smartwatch, fitness wristband, smart clothing, and smart shoe are used to monitor and track fitness related activities. Digital fitness devices are tracking devices, that is, they are either worn or attached to the body part. On the basis of comprehensive research, Lucintel forecasts that the smartwatch segment is expected to witness significant growth during the forecast period due to their versatile features as a wristband.
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Within global digital fitness market, smartwatch is expected to remain the largest segment by product type. Multi functionality features, growing health awareness, and rising in disposable income are the major driving factors that spur growth for this segment over the forecast period.
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North America is expected to remain the largest region due to an increasing obesity rate and growing awareness on physical fitness with the availability of a more sophisticated digital wearable fitness device.
APAC is expected to witness the highest growth rate over the forecast period due to growing adoption rate, technological advancements, and rising urbanization with awareness towards fitness.
Emerging trends, which have a direct impact on the dynamics of the industry, include integration and cross-compatibility of personal health data and introduction of cross over products. Fitbit, Inc., Apple, Inc., Garmin, Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Adidas AG are among the major suppliers of digital fitness market.
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The study includes a forecast for the global digital fitness market by product, category, application, and region, as follows:
By Product Type [Volume (Thousand Units) and Value ($ Million) from 2011 to 2022]:
- Smartwatches
− iOS
− Android
− Tizen
− Others
- Fitness wristbands
- Smart clothing
- Smart shoes
- Others
By Category [Value ($ Million) from 2011 to 2022]:
- Hand wear
- Leg wear
- Head wear
- Others
By Application [Value ($ Million) from 2011 to 2022]:
- Smart wearable fitness devices
- Smart wearable sports devices
By Region [Value ($ Million) from 2011 to 2022]:
- North America
− Mexico
− Canada
- Europe
− United Kingdom
− Germany
− France
− Spain
− China
− Japan
− India
− Brazil
− Argentina
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This report addresses the following key questions:
Q.1What are some of the most promising, high-growth opportunities for global digital fitness market by product (smartwatch, fitness wristband, smart clothing, smart shoe, and other), category (hand wear, head wear, leg wear and others), application (smart wearable fitness device and smart wearable sports devices), and region (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific (APAC), and the Rest of the World (ROW))?
Q.2 Which segments will grow at a faster pace and why?
Q.3 Which region will grow at a faster pace and why?
Q.4 What are the key factors affecting market dynamics? What are the drivers and challenges, and business risks in this market?
Q.5 What are the business risks and competitive threats in this market?
Q.6 What are the emerging trends in this market and the reasons behind them?
Q.7 What are some of the changing demands of customers in the market?
Q.8 What are the new developments in the market and which companies are leading these developments?
Q.9 Who are the major players in this market? What strategic initiatives are being taken by key players for business growth?
Q.10 What are some of the competing products in this market and how big of a threat do they pose for loss of market share by product substitution?
Q. 11 What M & A activity has occurred in the last 5 years?
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Well, on the last map update I asked for a new server, luckily I got one now from a donor, and actually last weeks updates already came from the new render server (which is also about 25% quicker than the older one). Moving the server luckily did not take that much time (about half a day until everything ran smooth). Thanks for all people that proposed me help.
As for the map updates. The biggest change is that mkgmap got a better POI handling for Polygons. Therefore I could take in some more POI (like playgrounds) that I had taken out before because they cluttered the map, and now work better (essentially the placement of the POI for Polygons/Multipolygons got set on the entrance instead of the middle, and for Multipolygons only 1 POI is created, and not one for each polygon).
On the Velomap I fixed an old bug (thanks for bringing it up to csperr) that had all highway=footway & sac_scale=mountain_hiking displayed as rivers (actually such ways are usually highway=path, so it was pretty rare). Also when updating the colors of the traditional Desktop layout, I had mixed up colors for motorways (in resolution 24) and for secondaries (in resolution 22) and fixed that too. Also I hope tonights update on the Velomaps goes through, cause the last time it didn't. If it doesn't I'll have to recheck, and it will be one day later...
Also especially for the netherlands I removed landuse=grass imports as they are no good at all.
Besides I started working on an online map based on Mapnik2 renderer, hope to go live in 2-3 weeks. Maybe in the beginning for members only, not sure how much resources it will use.


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This swirling mass may look like some kind of LSD trip, but it's actually fractal artwork created using bacteria.
Produced by Eshel Ben-Jacob — a scientist-cum-artist at Tel Aviv University — the piece came about thanks to two strains of bacteria which grew together in interesting and weird ways. to grow in different ways. Smithsonian explains:
As opposed to letting the bacteria grow in uniform conditions, for scientific purposes, he might let them grow at one temperature in an incubator, take them out, expose them and then put them back in the incubator. He also, at times, added antibiotics and other treatments to the petri dishes in order to incite a physical response. The bacteria, it turned out, communicated with one another in response to these stressors; they secreted lubricants, allowing them to move, and formed elaborate patterns with dots and vine-like branches.
From the first instant he saw a colony, Ben-Jacob called it bacteria art. "Without knowing anything, you'll feel the sense that there is drama going on," he says.
Eventually, Ben-Jaocb could predict how the bacteria would grow, then shape them to produce art. This amazing image is the result. [Smithsonian via Neatorama]


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Downtown Sarasota residents and business owners, who are surrounded by the greatest concentration of homeless adults in Sarasota County, want relief.
They want enforcement of city ordinances that would tame panhandling, stop homeless people from squatting on public streets amidst piles of belongings, eliminate unauthorized encampments on public and private property and prevent urination and defecation in public alleys and in the doorways of businesses.
Downtown merchants are organizing to make their case for such actions; residents have expressed their concerns loudly in statements at forums and clearly in emails to city commissioners.
The enforcement of the city's "quality of life" laws has been stymied. One reason: Several of the ordinances and their enforcement have been challenged in court, with rulings going against the city. In other cases, full enforcement -- as in taking alleged offenders to jail -- has been held in abeyance due to an informal arrangement between the city and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Another reason is that the most aggressive enforcement is often frustrating for police.
Booking people into jail is time-consuming, but, in many instances -- if not most of the time -- there is no practical alternative to incarceration because the few shelters that house homeless people place conditions or limits on acceptance. Then, the people arrested are usually released within a day or so -- putting them back on the streets, with less money and fewer chances of obtaining a job than before their arrests.
There is an alternative to the status quo, and it doesn't involve coddling homeless people -- especially those who violate laws and fail to obey reasonable standards of public behavior.
This option will be presented to the city of Sarasota -- and all of Sarasota County -- on Nov. 25 by Robert Marbut, who was hired by local governments to propose solutions for reducing homelessness and mitigating its impacts.
Marbut has stated he will recommend the creation and operation, in north Sarasota, of a Public Safety Triage and Stabilization Unit. That's a fancy description of an around-the-clock, full-service shelter for homeless adults.
He will also recommend that the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office operate the facility, with financial support from county government and on-site aid from existing (and perhaps a few new) social-service providers.
Operation by the Sheriff's Office would offer several benefits. It would provide enhanced security, inside and immediately outside the facility. It would spread the financial burden across the county, something city of Sarasota taxpayers would appreciate.
It has the potential to reduce -- or, at least, control -- the jail population, keeping costs in check. And it could further strengthen relationships between law enforcement and social-service agencies.
The shelter would enable law enforcement agencies, especially the Sarasota Police Department, to more effectively enforce ordinances aimed at stopping panhandling, squatting on sidewalks, camping in parks and urinating or defecating on private property.
Marbut will also recommend that all local governments in the county adopt nearly identical ordinances. He will propose that they be vigorously enforced, once the proposed shelter is functional.
The existence of a shelter that takes in people 24 hours a day, seven days a week, ensures that police have somewhere secure -- other than jail -- to take homeless people right away.
The nearest model is Pinellas Safe Harbor in Clearwater. In Pinellas, police or deputies who encounter homeless people violating the law detain them and threaten arrest. But the officer gives homeless people a chance to go Pinellas Safe Harbor.
Those who accept are given time to hydrate and rest, then placed into a 40-hour-per-week program that includes counseling, treatment, on-site work duties, job training and opportunities to move into transitional housing.
Most adults in the Pinellas shelter have been arrested for nonviolent, relatively minor offenses that nevertheless degrade the quality of life in a city.
Upon entering, those adults receive a "notice to appear" in court. The notice remains in effect -- unless, in the view of a caseworker, the person completes the program and has housing arranged.
There is no coddling: Homeless people, especially those violating laws, are taken off the streets and given opportunities to recover and help themselves -- benefiting these individuals, business owners, residents and visitors.
The ACLU says it supports this approach and pledges, if it is implemented, to drop its opposition to ordinance enforcement.
So, there is the potential to get homeless people off the streets and into treatment at a single, secure location.
The question to be answered soon is whether the public and its representatives want to abandon the status quo and pursue the potential for change that a Sarasota Safe Harbor could bring.
Tom Tryon is opinion editor. email@example.com
Tryon: How to help homeless get off the streets
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Looks like Brooklyn's Don Diva is ready to get back to some serious work, well if you can call performing at BB Kings in NYC serious work that is. Foxy who spent eight months in prison on a variety of charges will be sharing the bill with Big Daddy Kane and Roxanne Shante. Not sure what to think of that line up really…Big Daddy Kane, Roxanne Shante and Foxy Brown with special guest Spraga Benz doesn't really sound right to me for some reason.
But anyhow good to see Mami getting herself back out there. The show at the midtown bar and grill is set for this coming Saturday at 8 pm.
If you are on the net every day checking the sites, catching up on the lies and gossip circulating, chances are you have seen, heard or read about our next IHIPHOP Introduction. Donny Goines took home a UMA this year for biggest buzz, showing that his constant work really is paying off.
REPRESENTING: I represent the people of this Hip Hop culture. Artists like myself
are the new generation and it won't be long before the tides change.
My music speaks for the communities that are not represented in the
mainstream and at the end of the day I rap for them.
INVOLVED IN MUSIC:Seriously about two and a half years now. I started back in January of
2006 and once I decided this is what I wanted to do I never looked
back. In this relatively short period of time I have accomplished many
things and the best is yet to come.
IF YOU WEREN'T RAPPING WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING? Probably getting drunk or high somewhere wasting my life away at a bullshit 9 to 5. Before music I had no real motivation or passion do
anything worthwhile. Although I've had many jobs, careers, etc.nothing
I did ever really made me happy so I would just go through the motions
and get wasted on my off time. That's exactly what many people do and
I would still be doing had it not been for music.
CD/DIGITAL-ONLINE/PRINT, YOUR TAKE ON THE WEB: CD, Online and Good. That's the short version haha. Here's the realanswer. The internet has leveled the playing field and in this day in
age when everything is at the tip of your fingers the music business
has changed. Now instead of waiting weeks for that new magazine to hit
the stands, in one press of a button you can read about the artist
instantly on any blog or website. Why go to the store and purchase a
album that only has one or two good songs when you can buy ringtone
from your home? Instead of mailing out CDs to A&R's you can find their
Myspace page and contact them directly with your music and save on the
postage stamps. It's the future and the Internet is the key to it all
right now. Once you have that, you have the world at your fingertips.
HANG OUTS: I am from the Hood U.S.A. It's just like any other hood I suppose.
Specifically tho, I live in Harlem. I go right to the Africans to cope
me a clean white tee, then the McDonald's down the block or if I'm in
the mood the Soul food joints on 125th. I hang out right on the
benches scattered across my block or sit on the curb if there full.
This is where you can find me. In the hood.
SONG: At the moment my favorite song would have to be California Dreaming by
the Mamas and Papas.
VIDEO: Juicy by Biggie.
PRODUCER: DJ Static (don't worry, you'll know
that name soon enough).
CONCERT: I have never been to a concert in my life and
once I decided I wanted to rap chose not to attend any until I'm
performing at one.
MOVIE: One of my most favorite movies is Awakenings starring
Robert De Niro and Robin Williams (Close second would be Leaving Las
BOOKS: My favorite books are by James Patterson (The Alex Cross
THE FUTURE OF HIP-HOP IS: Artists such as myself. Skyzoo, Sha Stimuli, Mickey Factz, Torae, Kidz
in the Hall, AC, APinks, Jon Hope, Termanlogy, Esso, Nina B, The Cool
Kids, Rain, Sic Osyrus, Farrah Burns, Sav Kills, Homeboy the Sandman,
Fresh Daily, Emillo Rojas, Phase One, Gym Class Heroes, Drake,
Panama…….. I can keep going if you'd like haha.
The future of Hip Hop are all the MCs out there who are making good music.
**ELECTION FEVER** PLACE YOUR BETS: Neither. I don't follow politics and none of the candidates really
impress me. One is just too old and the other is just hype as far as I
can see. When the smoke clears the the winner is in office, what he
does will make me a believer. For now all I hear is talk.
HIDDEN SECRETS: I listen to Danity Kane haha. I can't get enough of that Damaged song
and they're all hot.
TAKE ON THE INDUSTRY: Earning respect. Anyone can rap but to actually earn the respect of
people within this business is something that not many can achieve.
Ringtone sales, hit records, new dances won't get you that. It's your
actions as an artist that set you apart from the rest and if you are
lucky enough to earn your peers and the public's respect then you will
never fade from the spotlight even after it dims.
To listen to a track from Donny click on the link below for Wordplay produced by DJ Static


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The holiday season is the perfect time of year to bring out your sparkly clutches. Weather it's a gold sequin stunner or a vintage inspired baguette, a bit of shine can make even the simplest dress the star of the party. Today I was digging through my own collection to see what I've got to work with for my upcoming holiday soirees. Here's my mix…
Apple & Bee from OMG Vancouver
Scoop Pop-Up shop Vancouver
Kiss & Makeup boutique West Vancouver
If sparkle and shine are not really your thing, try something a little different.
Why not accessorize your accessories? I took this brown leather vintage clutch ( c/o Shoppalu) and attached a pretty little vintage broach to add some shine and whimsy. Now I have a fabulous one-of-a-kind bag that will work with anything from jeans and stilettos to sequins and tulle.


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Please. Just stop. It's bad enough when some random elitist self entitled dumbass plays the "I never wanted to be President, it's the last thing I wanted, but the People drafted me and America needed me! I couldn't tell my countrymen no!"
.:Eye/roll:. Ay-yi-yi. Mittens actually let his elder spawn shit out that hilarious whopper:
The Grio — In a surprisingly candid new interview, Mitt Romney's oldest son Tagg revealed that this father "had no desire" to run for president in 2012.
"If he could have found someone else to take his place … he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn't love the attention," Tagg told the Boston Globe in a behind-the-scenes look at the loss of the Romney 2012 campaign.
Despite aggressively running arguably the most costly campaign in American history, Tagg Romney claims that his father "wanted to be president less than anyone I've met in my life."
Nothing against The Grio, great writers, great progressives, the original story ran in the Boston Globe and the Grio harpoons it properly. But please, if another journalist repeats this nonsense without qualifications just put the fourth estate out of its two-headed freakish misery.
Mitt Romney wanted to be President more than just about anyone in the 21st century and possibly for the entire post Cold War era. Everything he did for the last decade and a half has been vertically integrated into the singular goal of being President; it is documented, it is on video and in print. He was convinced Mormon Jesus wanted him to be President, that the country had to have him as President, he ran a scorched earth primary campaign to win the GOP nom for President, he spent gads of his own money to be President, and when he found out he wasn't going to win, he and his entire inner circle had a near meltdown fueled by disbelief and fury that Mitt Romney wasn't going to be President.
Why Mittens, a junior billionaire, would choose this over kicking back and enjoying the freedom and luxury and dream making that only those lucky few in the tippy-top of the global wealth pyramid can afford is a topic for present day psychologists and future historians. It suggests he didn't choose, that he was driven, compulsive, perhaps even obsessed. But want it he did with every fiber in his well intentioned if profoundly misinformed being, Romney yearned so deeply to be President, with such pure unadulterated burning ambition, without cause or direction in the event he actually won, that it creeped me and a bunch of other people right the fuck out just thinking about it.
Tagg either needs to get out and meet some people who really don't want to be President, of whom there are a'plenty, or he's just following in daddy's footsteps and lying his ass off. I'll take the latter three-to-one.


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Guests: Chuck Todd, Mark Halperin, Kelly O'Donnell, Norah O'Donnell, Hampton Pearson, Pat Buchanan, Peter Welch, Ed Rendell, David Corn
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Mr. President.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews up in New York.
Leading off tonight: The president defends his call. President Obama has had some tough words today for congressional Democrats unhappy with the tax cut deal. He said no deal, well, could have meant months of partisan skirmishing with the same result, a protracted battle that would have harmed Americans with higher taxes and lost unemployment checks. He gave us a hard assessment of the president's compromise. We're going to get that tonight.
And we learned late today that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the former presidential candidate, John Edwards, has lost her battle with cancer at the age of just 61. She was a very popular figure, I must say caught up in a very difficult family situation that became such a political story.
Chuck Todd is NBC's chief White House correspondent, and "Time" magazine's Mark Halperin, who's MSNBC's senior political analyst. Mark, I want to go to you first on this. Elizabeth Edwards has just died. She's been in terrible health now for months and years, in fact, caught up in the middle of this triangle, this embarrassment for her husband, hurt to her. We don't see much of this in politics, where you have really a horrible disease striking somebody so popular and as attractive as this, at the same time, she is on the wrong end of a scandal, and it's got nothing to do with her.
MARK HALPERIN, "TIME," MSNBC SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, she's really one of the most public and valiant cancer survivors—was—this country has ever seen. She worked so hard with her children to keep her life together under a very difficult situation, and I think it's important to remember her in part for what she did with that spotlight. She didn't let herself become a victim. She worked hard for single-payer health care, for homosexual rights and other issues she cared a lot about. Even as she was struggling towards the end, she still worried about her family and her country, and I think that's an incredible testament to someone so strong who dealt with so much adversity.
MATTHEWS: Chuck, this story blew up right in the middle of a presidential campaign. John Edwards tried twice. He almost made it the first time, less of a chance the second time, in the midst of this triangle, you have to call it. It's nothing new in life. There was infidelity involved, and then there was this terrible disease.
CHUCK TODD, NBC POLITICAL DIR./WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: It was such a surreal issue, frankly, in American politics. There was nothing like it that you had such a tragic personal story on having to do with cancer, on a spouse, a candidate's spouse who was so active and so engaging and engaged with both the media, with her candidate. And many people believe she was the backbone, that, you know, John Edwards never would have gotten half of -- half of what he got without her pushing him, pushing him as a Senate candidate, pushing him as a presidential candidate, as a vice presidential candidate. The whole thing, the way it played out in public, I think I'm sure is something that a lot of loved ones of the entire Edwards family wish wasn't so public. And I think that is such a—it's such a complicated legacy that both of them lead.
MATTHEWS: Well, we're saying right now, NBC's reporting right now, confirming, rather, the news that Elizabeth Edwards has died just late this afternoon, just about a few moments ago, it's been reported.
Mark, it seems to me one of these issues about how we decide who our president should be. We have this attractive young trial lawyer known for winning big cases against big hospitals and important doctors, and yet he seemed like a cute guy, a guy who may not be that well read, for example, not that deep, if you will, on issues. And yet, he had this—what seemed to be this anchor of a wife, a very solid person who seemed to be in love with him, clearly. And yet here was this person who seemed weightier than he in terms of her background, her education, her knowledge, in fact, her seriousness. And yet it turned out that there was infidelity mixed right into this, and she apparently got knowledge of that ahead of the rest of us.
HALPERIN: Well, Chris, look, you know, John Heilemann and I, when we were reporting and writing "Game Change," out of so many interesting characters to right about and to report on—and John and I have had the same experience, which is there are no two characters in the book, a book that includes Sarah Palin and Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton—there are no two characters that had more resonance as we've talked to people about the book than John and Elizabeth Edwards.
The story of how he almost became vice president, how he ran for president twice and how she was a force behind the scenes and a very tough person is really an extraordinary caution for a lot of people to say we see these people put themselves forward for public life, we think we see them and get the sense to know them through their interviews with Oprah Winfrey and news contacts, and yet the story of John and Elizabeth Edwards and what actually was going on with them was one that was not revealed when he was putting himself forward and almost was vice president twice.
MATTHEWS: Rielle Hunter is, of course, the third part of this triangle. John had an affair with her. It's well known. It's publicized. There's nothing interesting about that, except that, Chuck, here we are looking back, not—this isn't ancient history here. This is the last couple of elections where we had a man like this. Like you and like Mark, I was in those magical rooms in Iowa and states like that, where this young guy, this attractive young lawyer, as I said, was able to mesmerize a room of 200 or 300 people, what we call the small room. He was the great man of the small room. He came so close with all these problems buried in his background.
TODD: You know, what's interesting is I feel like we do know Elizabeth Edwards. I feel like she was a—she's a real person. We did get to know her. We understand her character, understand her motivations, understand her beliefs. I don't think—I can't—I'm not going to speak for other people. I can't say the same thing about John Edwards. That is where—that is, he's still an enigma to me. I don't think any of us know, was he performing an act? When was he acting? When wasn't he acting? When was he genuine—
MATTHEWS: Boy, Chuck, I concur—
TODD: -- during that whole campaign?
MATTHEWS: I'm ditto-ing everything you've said. When I'd interview him—excuse me for interrupting, but it—you just strike me as absolutely true. I'd interview him and I'd look into his eyes and I'd say to myself, I can't see anything there. I don't know what—
TODD: That's right.
MATTHEWS: -- what this is I'm hearing from this guy. Who is he?
TODD: But not with her. That's what was so—she—frankly, she should have been the candidate.
MATTHEWS: Yes, well, there's an American story.
TODD: She had the passion. She had the principles. She had the belief. She had the spine. She had the ambition, frankly. And I think, you know, there's probably—you know, maybe some people would argue too much ambition at times or pushed John Edwards too much. But she had all of the attributes of a successful politician.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: He was—I guess he was acting. I don't know. Maybe someday, we will get to know John Edwards.
MATTHEWS: Let me get—
TODD: I don't think we know him.
MATTHEWS: Let me bring in Kelly O'Donnell. Kelly, thanks for joining us. You've covered Elizabeth Edwards, who's just passed away. We're just reporting that right now here live. And you know, the funny thing is, I kid around with people, as you know, even with you, Kelly, sometimes. And I once kidded around with Elizabeth Edwards. I said, Are you Catholic? You seem Catholic to me. You look Catholic. And she kidded me, said, Well, I was raised Italian. Maybe that's it. You got this notion of my face. But she had this big, wide face, you know, nothing to hide, it seems. Your thoughts as a person now that she's—we've lost her.
KELLY O'DONNELL, NBC CORRESPONDENT: Well, I've known her for years and I was able to speak to family just a short time ago. And the scene that they described was at 10:15 this morning, she passed away with family around her. Her late—her husband, John Edwards—they were not divorced. He had been there, as well, the children. Everyone had come together.
And one of the things that I was told is that she was really hoping that after her death, people would not describe this as losing a battle with cancer. Friends say that Elizabeth view this as a battle to live a good life, and in that context, they believe that she won. She was trying to create memories and experiences for her—especially her young children, to fill the void that she knew would come when this cancer recurred.
It first was diagnosed in 2004, right after the election. I remember being at Faneuil Hall when Kerry conceded, John Edwards conceded. The next day, they were at Boston Mass (SIC) getting this diagnosis. Then in 2007, amid the campaign, yet again, the recurrence was diagnosed. And more recently, after going through lots of different types of treatment, her doctor said that it was no longer possibly to aggressively treat it. It had spread.
And so she had been preparing, especially for her younger children. And if you remember, she had lost her firstborn, Wade, and they're asking that in lieu of any flowers or things like that, for people who are close to the Edwards family to donate to a foundation in his name which puts computers in schools for less privileged children. So she had been trying to prepare for this, and the hard part is, those I have talked to who are close to her say that she was perhaps more prepared than they are, especially as this news gets out now and the reality of it sets in.
So as you and Chuck were talking about how she might have been the candidate, I always had that sense about her. Early in their life, it was Elizabeth who was the star of the couple. She was a terrific lawyer. She did not take her husband's name, Edwards, until the loss of their son at age 16 in a car accident. She really was her own person in her life before she became a national figure. She was a health care advocate.
And for those who don't know her childhood background, she grew up in Japan and most recently took her family there to show her kids where she had grown up. She was an Air Force brat. And so she had that background of military in the family, great intellect. And we all saw how she went through some very public struggles, not only the loss of her son, but the destruction of her marriage,. and the politics that is always (INAUDIBLE)
MATTHEWS: Wow.
O'DONNELL: -- losing elections and so forth. So she was a very special person to cover. She was one of those candidates' spouses who was always extra kind to those of us who were on the road with them, and that was certainly appreciated.
MATTHEWS: You seem like you liked her.
O'DONNELL: I did like her. I absolutely liked her. I found her to be warm and funny. I found her to be someone who understood when we chased after her, trying to get information, that we were doing our jobs. I had a sense that she really was passionate about the cause that they were running on back in the time before we knew all of the things that brought that to an end. But she was someone that I enjoyed covering.
And certainly—one thing you found about people who have gotten to know her, is in this time of her very public battle with this disease, there were many people who were able to express concern for her, and she was always very gracious about it, of how appreciative she was for people's interest in her and concern for her. And she was hoping that this would, of course, bring attention for women also to examine themselves and get the proper checkups, and so forth, on breast cancer. So she was really someone about a message, and she tried to do that right to the end.
MATTHEWS: Kelly, it's so great being your colleague. You're such a human being about this stuff. Thank you. Because this person is somebody I liked, too. And I—and it's—you know, you click on certain people you cover, and others you don't. And I think I'll stick with everybody else about her husband. I still find John Edwards a very hard guy to read, very cute, you know, the superficial dynamite. Apparently, he was great with juries, had a sharp mind. Has one.
O'DONNELL: But it's not about him today.
MATTHEWS: That's—
O'DONNELL: It's not about him today.
MATTHEWS: Well, thank you for reminding me. That's true. It's true. Why did I go that direction? But I cover politics. Anyway, Kelly O'Donnell, thank you so much.
We're going to be right back. Chuck Todd, thank you, sir. Thank you, Mark Halperin. We're going to have more about the death of Elizabeth Edwards ahead in the show.
Also, our other story, of course, the big news story breaking in this evening, this afternoon, was President Obama's spirited defense of the tax cut deal. He basically is saying this is the only deal that was on the table. The rest would have been skirmishing for months and months and months. It wasn't about values, it was about what you can get done for the people in a tough economic time. He thinks it's a better deal for the economy.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: My job is to do whatever I can to get this economy moving. My job is to do whatever I can to spur job creation. My job is to look out for middle class families who are struggling right now to get by and Americans who out of work through no fault of their own. A long political fight that carried over into next year might have been good politics, but it would be a bad deal for the economy and it would be a bad deal for the American people.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. That was President Obama, of course, today vigorously defending his deal with Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts and take other matters at hand. Chuck Todd's NBC's White House correspondent, of course, and (INAUDIBLE) and we also have "Time" magazine's Mark Halperin joining us again. He's MSNBC senior political analyst.
Chuck, I like the president when he's strong and doesn't try to pretend he's somebody else. He seemed like president today on the economy, and to a lesser extent on the politics.
TODD: Well, look, he was very fired up on the politics. It's a tough position to defend. He himself acknowledged it, right? He sat there and he said, Look, the Republicans wouldn't budge. He basically said, They outmaneuvered me because I'm up against the clock, and this December 31st is a real time—a real buzzer that he has to deal with. This isn't, as he said, a political debate that he can keep having and keep having because it has real consequences, was what he was trying to do.
I think the fieriness was fascinating. I can tell you already a lot of folks on the left are a little irked that it took this to fire him up, to show some passion, when he's lecturing the left, lecturing his own base. But the fact is, he had to do this because here's the political reality, Chris. Right now, he does not have the votes in the House, in the lame duck House, to get this deal through. He may end up getting them. Vice President Biden's got to—is helping whip votes behind the scenes, but that's why he had to do this press conference today, Chris.
MATTHEWS: You mean even with a combination of Republican—all the -
most of the Republicans in the House and perhaps the Democrats have been beaten that might want to help him for future friendship, there's not enough for 218?
TODD: The problem is, he doesn't—he can't—John Boehner has not guaranteed the entire House.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: John Boehner has guaranteed some support, probably half, maybe a little bit more than half, so you're not—you're still looking at a good chunk of Democrats that they're going to have to get. Now, look, we've done our own survey of at least some Democrats that eked out very narrow elections, and what we're finding fascinating—look, the loudest voices in opposition are those from the safest districts.
MATTHEWS: Yes. Sure.
TODD: And guess what? The folks that are more likely to support this deal on the Democratic side are the ones that just got out of tough races.
MATTHEWS: Yes, that's so true. Let's go right now—let's take another look before Mark gets in here. Here's the president talking about the American people being held hostage. This is powerful language, to say that the people are being held hostage by the opposition and he doesn't want to see them get killed in the hostage—attempt to save the hostages. Here he is. Let's listen.
OBAMA: I've said before that I felt that the middle class tax cuts were being held hostage to the high-end tax cuts. I think it's tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers, unless the hostage gets harmed. Then people will question the wisdom of that strategy. In this case, the hostage was the American people, and I was not willing to see them get harmed.
MATTHEWS: You know, this show, Mark, is about debates. I'm always interested in both sides. What is the actual alternative argument against the president's position from the left? What would they like him to actually—not talk, not yell, not get red-faced, actually do?
HALPERIN: Chris, you booked the wrong person if you want to hear that. I have extraordinary intellectual sympathy for the president. I think everything he has said leading up to this agreement and everything he said today on the merits is absolutely right.
I think he's making things worse for himself, though, by having, as Chuck pointed out, more energy and apparent pique at the left than he does, or at least as much, at the Republicans. He showed, I thought, no grace today, no humor—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
HALPERIN: -- no sense of bigness. That's what he needs. He's now put himself in the middle. The Republicans are no great friends of his all of a sudden. They're taking shots at him. The left is very angry. He's putting himself in a risky place, in the middle, where there's a lot of people—as he pointed out repeatedly, the public's with him. But he needs to be bigger, I think, than he was today stylistically.
MATTHEWS: Well, good point. Let's listen to him now today. Let's see what he's doing today. Here's another piece of what he had late this afternoon.
OBAMA: To my Democratic friends, what I'd suggest is let's make sure that we understand this is a long game. This is not a short game. And to my Republican friends, I would suggest I think this is a good agreement because I know that they're swallowing some things that they don't like, as well, and I'm looking forward to seeing them on the field of competition over the next two years.
MATTHEWS: Wow! There's somebody home, Chuck.
MATTHEWS: Did you see those eyes wide open? His eyes—I've never seen his eyes so wide open—if that's human language, he's directly talking to people, if you will. He's saying to the Democrats, I don't like your barking at me. And maybe that's natural human—you know—all three of us know, watching politics, that the—the fiercest fights are always within your own party. The toughest shots come from behind you.
TODD: Always, yes.
MATTHEWS: And that's the ones that go after your character.
All this talk about manning up and being tough and wussing and Bill Maher going after him, and I would think that would be tougher to take than John Boehner taking some shot across the aisle at me. I could laugh at that.
TODD: Well, that's right.
I think what you saw is Barack Obama, the radical pragmatist. What's different from him than Bill Clinton is, Bill Clinton is true—I think more of a centrist ideologically than perhaps President Obama is. But President Obama is a pragmatist. He ran as a pragmatist.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: His entire campaign was about pragmatism.
And think this was their—look, I will tell you this. The White House is pretty happy with this performance today. I think they feel like as if this was the president showing that he's in charge. It's his town. He will do what he has to do to get some of these things through.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: But I do think the very muted response so far among Democrats in response, we have not seen many actual lawmakers go public since the president talked.
Now, part of that is because there's still a few things happening behind the scenes. He is going to have to very early now, if he gets this vote, and I think he is going to get it, very early, in January, February, he's going to have to show backbone and go after the House Republicans a little bit and McConnell a little bit to sort of regain the faith of the left.
MATTHEWS: I got a bigger point. Rather than going after them, I would say challenge them to do something about long-term debt reduction. Do it, guys. You're the party of fiscal responsibility? You Tea Party types out there, start blowing some steam out of your teapots and actually do something about reducing the long-term debt. Don't just try to get yourself elected again. That's what I would like to see.
Anyway, Chuck Todd, thanks so much for the reporting.
Thank you, Mark Halperin.
Up next, let's get some reaction from the left on what the president said today.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This country was founded on compromise. I couldn't go through the front door at this country's founding. And, you know, if we were really thinking about ideal positions, we wouldn't have a union.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
That was President Obama being somewhat philosophical this afternoon.
Democratic Congressman Peter Welch of Vermont circulating a letter on Capitol Hill addressed to Speaker Pelosi, it reads in part—quote—"We oppose acceding to Republican demands to extend the Bush tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. It is fiscally irresponsible. It is grossly unfair. The president should not back down. Nor should we."
Congressman Welch joins us right now.
Basically, if you can take a minute, Congressman, lay out the alternative, not just the bellicose opposition to the president. Everybody's doing that now out on the left, the progressive roots. But just tell me, how would you proceed between now through the rest of December, through however long it took? How would you fight this fight, if you will?
REP. PETER WELCH (D), VERMONT: Well, the president said that the American people agreed with him that we shouldn't be going on the credit card to extend tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. And I think he should have hung in there.
MATTHEWS: And done what? And tell me that route and where it goes.
Lead him. Tell him where the president should have gone.
WELCH: Well, first of all, I think he's got the bully pulpit and he ultimately has the veto pen. He's got a lot of power. And what he's dealing with—and I have a lot of sympathy on this—is an intractable Senate-Republican leadership that will not cooperate.
And the two things that are a problem here—and this is why I think, down the road, this leads to much more difficulty for us—is, one, a trillion-dollar deeper hole on our deficit.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I know. Congressman, I have only got a little time.
I want you to tell me what he should do. If you don't cut a deal with the Republicans, the taxes goes up for everybody this January 1. Are you willing to accept that? Because the Republicans are not going to give you 60 votes to do it your way in the Senate, as you point out.
WELCH: He says no. We have got 53 votes in the Senate. And the president has to say no to them and engage the American people.
Here's the bottom line. If the American people know that the choice is between the Republican position to hold unemployment benefits hostage and the middle-class tax cuts for 98 percent of the people hostage, or the president's position, they are going to come down, I believe, on the side of the president.
And will that then be expressed by them against senators who are holding out with a filibuster? The president's got to have, as I think all of us have to have, ultimately some confidence that the American people are going to know what's good for them. A trillion dollars added on to the debt is not good for them. This is the political trap that the Republicans have been so successful in setting before.
MATTHEWS: OK. So you believe that the average tax—the majority of the American people out there would support not getting their tax cuts because the president comes out and says, the reason you're not getting your tax cuts, or you're actually going to get a tax increase, is because they're trying to fight for the rich?
And you think they would buy that?
WELCH: You know, Chris, I think the American people are getting pretty cynical about what is going on here, because this is an absurd situation, where literally 98 percent of the people would get a tax cut under President Bush—or under President Obama's plan, and the Republicans are holding it up.
WELCH: And then we blink. I think we blinked too soon. There's a couple more innings in this game.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WELCH: We could keep—
MATTHEWS: I think he wants to use those innings to get don't ask,
don't tell through, to get the New START nuclear treaty through. And if he
does go a couple more innings, as you suggest—I'm just making his case -
right through Christmas—
WELCH: Yes.
MATTHEWS: -- nothing gets done. Republicans get control of the House next year. Nothing's going to get down on don't ask, don't tell, and they're going to cream you guys.
WELCH: You know what? And that's absolutely the position that they have used. And they have done a stick-up—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WELCH: -- time and again.
Well, let me finish and make one last point.
MATTHEWS: Sure.
WELCH: This is the political trap that they have set. And before the ink is dry on this deal that they have demanded, the Republican leadership will accuse the president of being a budget-buster, fiscally reckless, and accuse him of adding a trillion dollars to the deficit.
And just look at what John Boehner is doing. He's saying, let the Democrats do the dirty work. He's not even telling the president he will get the voters to get this passed.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WELCH: That should tell us something about what is going on here.
MATTHEWS: Well, we're going to be watching that, sir.
Congressman Welch, we're going to be watching the House for the next couple weeks to see if he does get to 218. I always like to remind people, it takes 218 to do anything.
Thank you so much for joining us. Happy Christmas to you, sir.
WELCH: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Let's go right now to Governor Ed Rendell, Democrat of Pennsylvania.
And I'm always fascinated to know what the governor thinks.
MATTHEWS: I think the president did what he had to do, because I look down the road to Christmas, Hanukkah—well, Hanukkah has already passed - - this hellacious situation where everybody's taxes are going up, we're not getting unemployment compensation, we're not getting don't ask, we have got a nuclear thing with the Russians blown to hell. And nobody's really saying to the president, good work, good—keep fighting like that.
I don't see a lot of hurrahs if he did that route. My thoughts.
Yours, sir.
GOV. ED RENDELL (D), PENNSYLVANIA: Well, you're right, Chris.
Congressman Welch didn't lay out an endgame. And there is no endgame here. The president did a good job. Number one, he only extended the millionaires tax cut two years. After that, we can go back and peel it back to Reagan-Clinton level. That's number one.
Number two, what the left or certain people on the left are not saying is, we got five very, very important things in return, extension of the earned income tax credit for our poorest Americans, extension of the college tax credit, 13 more months of unemployment insurance for hundreds and hundreds of thousands and millions of Americans desperately in need, 2 percent payroll cut for average working people who make less than $100,000.
So, if you make $50,000, you're getting a $1,000 cut in your federal income tax. That helps the people we care about very, very much. And expensing, for small businesses to be able to expense, to write off 100 percent of their investments in their own business in the first year and 50 percent in the second year, that will get this economy humming.
And those are the things that we needed. So the president just didn't concede. He got a lot back in return that we might not otherwise have gotten.
MATTHEWS: I think about the guys in Pennsylvania you and I know, friends of ours, Carney and Murphy, that all lost these elections the last fall, just a couple weeks ago. I think they would have been better off with this kind of a deal. It's the guys in the safe seats that say fight like hell.
And it's the ones—you know, when you're trying to get moderates and suburbanites and rural people, they do want the tax cut. And they don't really care if the rich get them. They want the tax cut.
I'm just making his argument, the president. There's another argument, I know.
RENDELL: No, but it's a strong argument.
And, look, I hate the fact that we didn't do the—that we gave a tax cut to the very rich. When Bill Clinton did it in 1993, as you recall, there were all these talks it's going to be a job-killer. It's hurting the job-creators. Baloney.
We created 23.5 million new jobs right after that happened. We set off a spiral because we balanced the deficit. That's the important thing. So, the Republicans are full of bull.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RENDELL: But they had the cards here, and the president had no choice. And he created a very good bargain for working-class and middle-class Americans.
MATTHEWS: Any chance you will be chief of staff in this administration?
RENDELL: Well, Colin Powell said it again today, but—but I want Colin Powell to be chief of staff.
MATTHEWS: OK. I think you would be great.
Anyway, I will see you in the Pennsylvania Society, hopefully, in New York this weekend.
RENDELL: Thanks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Thank you, Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania, a deal-maker and an executive who knows that you have to cut deals at the endgame point. When you reach the head, when you get to the end of the line, you have got to cut a deal.
Up next: Tea for all? The head of the Tea Party Nation says you shouldn't be allowed to vote unless you own property. This is—are they Federalists? These guys are supposedly populists. It sounds like they're plutocrats. You have got to have money to vote. Hmm. That's what the Tea Party stands for?
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The Tea Partiers have famously said they want to take their country back, but no one thought they meant back in time, until now.
A small group of conservatives are clamoring right now to change the country's voting rights. Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips recently said that the right to vote should be limited to property owners.
Here he is on his own radio program.
JUDSON PHILLIPS, FOUNDER, TEA PARTY NATION: The founding fathers originally said they put certain restrictions on who got the right to vote. It wasn't just you were just a citizen and you automatically got to vote.
Now, some of their restrictions were—you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of them was, you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because, if you're—if you're a property owner, you actually have a vested stake in the community. And if you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry, but they—property owners have a little bit more of a vested stake in the community than non-property owners do.
MATTHEWS: Well, Pat Buchanan is an MSNBC political analyst. I'm not sure where he stands on property requirements for voting. David Corn is a Washington bureau chief for "Mother Jones" and a contributor writer to PoliticsDaily.com.
Pat, this is a throwback. I mean, there's nothing in our founding documents, certainly not in the Constitution of the United States, requiring landownership before you have the franchise, or the suffrage, if you will.
PAT BUCHANAN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, the right to vote, Chris, as you know, is restricted to the states.
MATTHEWS: Right.
BUCHANAN: They make the decision, and that's why you needed a constitutional amendment to make sure African-Americans could vote and women could vote.
And I understand the principle behind it, but I'm afraid we're pretty far beyond that. A lot of folks who are very wealthy and contribute to a community rent property, or they rent in places. A lot of retired people do.
I have thought that maybe it ought to be restricted to folks who pay taxes to the community, but can you really do that, when some young 18-year-old is not paying any taxes, but he is on some hill in Afghanistan?
I think you should leave it to the states. And I think the restrictions on the franchise, I don't think any of them, realistically, are going to get through in any state.
MATTHEWS: Do you support, if you had the opportunity, a landowning requirement to vote? Do you support it in principle, if it could pass?
BUCHANAN: Well, no, I would not restrict it to that.
But the idea of owning property—let me say this, Chris. I often thought when I was out in Saint Louis and I was renting, I don't bother voting and stuff. I was having a good time. And the people that lived there and owned houses were really concerned about schools and about traffic and about—and they really get concerned in the community.
And there's no doubt, in that sense, they were a better citizen of the community than I was, and then I am right now, when I'm a property owner in McLean, as you are in Chevy Chase.
So, I think there's an argument that can be made, but, as a practical matter, it ain't going to happen.
MATTHEWS: So—but I can't get you straight. Do you like the idea?
One last thought here we move back to Corn.
MATTHEWS: Do you think, in principle, it's a good idea to have land requirements before you vote, yes or no?
BUCHANAN: Well, let me say this.
MATTHEWS: You keep—you waffle.
BUCHANAN: Winston Churchill—no, I'm not. Winston Churchill said it very well. Anybody who thinks democracy is the best form of government ought to spend five minutes with the average voter.
DAVID CORN, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, "MOTHER JONES": Whoa.
MATTHEWS: No, he said it's the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time.
MATTHEWS: Don't challenge me on Churchill. I'm the Churchillian.
You're the guy with Chamberlain. Remember that.
MATTHEWS: You're the Chamberlain guy.
CORN: Pat, you didn't say that—Pat didn't say that when he was running in New Hampshire back in '96 and beforehand.
But you came real close to endorsing this. I mean, Pat, you've wanted to take us back to the 1950s. But Judson Phillips wants to take us back to the 1750s. I mean, this is just nonsense.
And the funny thing about this guy is, Chris, he wants property owners to have a right to vote. Well, what about people who go bankrupt? Because he filed for bankruptcy a few years. Does that mean you get your right to vote taken away? I mean, it's just nonsense and it shows you what's happening with the leadership of the Tea Party.
BUCHANAN: It is not right. Look, the proposition (INAUDIBLE) is true, but the idea that there is, that the franchise is universal—Chris, you had a little test the other day with (INAUDIBLE). Four—they have four answers you had. A multiple choice, who's the chief justice of the United States? John Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Antonin Scalia or Joe Lieberman. Twenty-eight percent got John Roberts.
That tells you, why are people—let me ask you, it's a valid question to ask—why are people voting for the next president of the United States who can't even name or don't even have any idea—
CORN: You want a test, pat? I mean, go back to literacy tests? Maybe a poll tax? I mean, what do you want? Maybe English only? I mean, where are you going to restrict it?
MATTHEWS: No, no. I don't mind. Let me go back to Pat. Pat—
BUCHANAN: Yes, English. Yes, English only, I'd go for that. Yes.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let's go to your requirements. Your requirements are land ownership, sufficient knowledge of world events and history. Where are we at? You have to have some geography in there or not? Or where else do you need to go for education?
Seriously, Pat, I think you would have a very elitist—
BUCHANAN: Philosophically.
MATTHEWS: -- I thought you were anti-elitist. I think you didn't like the cultural elites.
CORN: Elite is his position.
BUCHANAN: Let me just say, I know—listen, what I'm saying is that the idea of universal franchise, I don't think that's the greatest idea in the world. It's what we've got.
BUCHANAN: And we've got to live with it. But I think people who put out these ideas ought not to be thrown out simply because they violate some ideological cannon of people's political religion.
MATTHEWS: Look, I know people in our business, Pat, who I don't—I mean, on television, who I don't think know hardly anything about America's political history or politics today. They can express left wing or right wing opinions easily. That's easy. That's gut stuff.
But I would like to see a lot of people that I work with around this business and I'd like to ask them, just name the presidents in your lifetime. I think they would falter.
MATTHEWS: I think Sarah Palin might have a serious problem with some basic information. She was talking the other day about Ronald Reagan going to college out in California. She doesn't even know his life, the hero of your party. I mean, the ignorance is so overwhelming.
MATTHEWS: How if you want a requirement for people to run for president know something, Pat? How about that for a test?
BUCHANAN: Chris, you're making a very good point. You're making a very good point, which is—which is this. Look, I mean, do we get the best possible decision on who our leaders should be from folks who don't know about anything—
MATTHEWS: Anything, right.
BUCHANAN: -- politics or issues? Do we? And what I'm saying is why not that these Tea Party guys when they at least are raising a valid criticism of—
CORN: -- also know—they said they want the government out of Medicaid. They don't even understand the basics of things that they are arguing for or against.
MATTHEWS: You had a press secretary, Pat, recently, a couple of years ago in your brilliant George W. Bush administration, which didn't—they didn't want to know a lot of the facts, they had a press secretary, a president of the United States had a press secretary who had never heard of the Cuban missile crisis, had never heard of it. And she's representing the president on national and international affairs.
So, I'm baffled sometimes by the people that are put in these positions.
BUCHANAN: But you're making my point, Chris. If—
MATTHEWS: These plutocrats can find plutocrats.
BUCHANAN: Well, let me just tell you, suppose in 1963, after the missile crisis, somebody said, I don't know what this is. And they say, who you're voting for? I don't know. Whoever—they take me down on the bus, whoever they tell me to vote for, I'm going to vote for him.
How do you get the best possible person elected when this is what's going on?
CORN: Pat, do you believe the voters you had behind you in New Hampshire and elsewhere could have passed all these tests? Were you ready to give them a test?
BUCHANAN: Well, they were committed enough to be out there in the middle of winter at a rally. They know what I was saying and believed. And it was—
CORN: OK. Wait a second, a lot of people do that.
BUCHANAN: Sure.
CORN: Anyone who's committing to have to go to a voting booth deserves a right to vote.
MATTHEWS: You know, they do things you didn't know. They know what night the Knights of Columbus met. I'll tell you that, out there. Pat, your crowd, though.
BUCHANAN: Are you knocking the Knights of Columbus?
MATTHEWS: No, I'm kidding.
MATTHEWS: No, I would never. My family has grown up in that group. But there were certain bits of knowledge, I'm being lighthearted here, that some people know and other people don't know. That's all. But I think you should know about American history before you become president of the United States.
BUCHANAN: Right, Chris, wouldn't you agree that we want the best educated electorate we can with knowledge and understanding of issues and principles and beliefs and history? I don't care who they are without regard to race, color or creed, but who really know something. That's who we want selecting our leaders.
MATTHEWS: You know what I want?
BUCHANAN: That's all I'm saying.
MATTHEWS: You know what I want Pat and David? I want to have a button with all this button communications that we can do—go to your laptop, your computer at home, and before you vote, the week before you vote, or the weekend, sit there and push a button that tells you, call it citizen or whatever, that tells you how the people in your district voted, state Senate, state assembly, U.S. Congress. And it just tells you everything about their voting record and issues like life that you care about or foreign policy.
BUCHANAN: Sure.
MATTHEWS: I'd like to have all of that. And by the way, with computer technology today, voting knowledge should be easy.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, we got to go. Property rights, yes or no, Pat?
All right. Can I put you down for property rights for voting?
CORN: I think he's a maybe on that.
MATTHEWS: Property rights?
CORN: I think he's a definite maybe.
BUCHANAN: Yes, stocks are included.
CORN: I'd say no.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you, Pat Buchanan—a little undecided on the issue of property rights. I think he's back with John Adams on that maybe.
Anyway, David Corn as always, I know where you stand. No property rights, but intelligence rights.
Up next: which potential Republican contender for 2012 was actually looking strong right now against President Obama? Actually, there are some that are looking pretty good. In fact, one of them beats him. Let's talk about that when we get back. What's the strongest, well, elements, in the Republican field right now?
This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Late today, we learned that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the former presidential candidate John Edwards, has lost her battle with cancer at the age of just 61.
Norah O'Donnell is MSNBC's chief Washington correspondent and, of course, covered—you covered her so many times, Elizabeth Edwards. What do you feel about this and think of it all?
NORAH O'DONNELL, MSNBC CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's obviously a very sad day, not just for the Edwards' family, but also for many who liked and admired Elizabeth Edwards. We're told that she died at 10:15 this morning.
She'd been struggling with breast cancer, diagnosed more than six years ago with breast cancer. It had spread to her bones and to her liver, and she was told in the past couple of weeks that doctors thought that it would be unproductive to continue further treatment. She was sick over Thanksgiving. She was briefly hospitalized and so she's been back at home with her family and friends in these final hours and finally passed this morning.
Her family put out this statement that I will read to you, Chris, that says, "Elizabeth Anania Edwards, mother, author, advocate died today at her home in Chapel Hill, surrounded by her family. Today, we have lost the comfort of Elizabeth's presence but she remains the heart of this family. We love her and will never know anyone more inspiring or full of life. On behalf of Elizabeth, we want to express our gratitude to the thousands of kindred spirits who moved and inspired her along the way. Your support and prayers touched our entire family."
She is, of course, survived by her older daughter, Cate, a Washington lawyer, who's 28 years old, as well as two children, Emma Claire, who is 12 years old, and Jack who is 10 years old. The Edwards lost their son, Wade, at 16 years old who died in a car crash. And Edwards family had said that it was their son's death, Wade that propelled John Edwards into politics when he first won that race for the United States Senate in a big upset victory.
And many people always saw Elizabeth Edwards as someone who remade the role of political spouse. She was in many ways the chief strategist, the chief campaign manager in some ways behind John Edwards, a brilliant woman in her own right, a lawyer who practiced under her maiden name for many years before she entered politics with her husband and became an advocate in later years for health care reform and also was a best-selling author of two books, "Saving Graces."
And, I think many way, too, she grew into her own kind of political figure and well-beloved figure, Chris, because—not only because she suffered breast cancer publicly, talked about it express her loneliness about dealing with breast cancer and struggling with terminal cancer for so many years, but also as a mother who lost a son at the age of 16 and then also as a wife who had been scorned by her husband, who had cheated on her and had a child with another woman, and she talked about that quite publicly in the end.
She is separated from John Edwards—
MATTHEWS: Well, OK.
O'DONNELL: -- but they were—he was with her at the end, I'm told, by friends—Chris.
MATTHEWS: That was good. Thank you so much. Great reporting. Norah O'Donnell, who covered so much of the political life, at the end especially on Elizabeth Edwards, who died today.
When we got word of Elizabeth Edwards' death late today, it turns out that I was just returning from a memorial service for Ted Sorenson, my friend and top aide to President John F. Kennedy. My tribute to Ted Sorenson—when we return.
MATTHEWS: This afternoon, there was a memorial service here in New York for the great Theodore Sorenson who served as counselor and most notably as speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy.
A good speechwriter can hear the voice of the president as he or she drafts his words. A great one can hear the years. Ted Sorensen can hear what Jack Kennedy could hear, this brightly (ph) cadence of a country young in spirit venturing out to new frontiers. He sensed in the air that Kennedy and he both breath the brisk aspiration of a young generation come to authority, the changing of the guard from the old generals of World War II to the young officers come back to lead the revelry of that torch being passed.
Ted once said that it's not the words John F. Kennedy spoke but the nobility of what he said. As with Hemingway, the authority of that nobility arose from the back story.
When you have lost a brother in war, when you have heroically saved your crew members in the South Pacific, you can call upon your fellow Americans to ask what they can do for their country.
Here was the war, the young PT boat skipper who carried on his back his badly burned chief engineer for four hours through Japanese-held waters, the strap of the man's life jacket clenched in Jack's teeth. Here was the conscientious objector with the same determination to prevent a far worse war.
Ted may not have known, I hope did he how Jack once wrote a war buddy in 1945 that the wars would only end when the CEO gets the same admiration as the fighter. Such moral respect he had for this man he called his intellectual blood bank.
People asked what comes first, the president or the speechwriter? What comes first when the composer works with the lyricist? It's the music that drives the words. There's a meeting of souls and writing of words for history.
Ted and Jack spent a decade together. They spent years writing in a small plane, just the two of them, these two young guys out to win the trust of their country. In that small plane, they carried the ideas that would become the new frontier.
I think Ted Sorenson cherished those years and together, they found the words. "So, it is apparently necessary for me to state once again—not what kind of church I believe in, for that should be important only to me, but what kind of America I believe in. We are confronted primarily with a moral issue it is as old as the Scriptures and as clear as the American Constitution. Our problems are man-made, therefore, they can be solved by man and man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human history is beyond human beings, man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable and we believe we can do it again."
I was on the Rhodesian Railroad 40 years ago, the overnight train from Mozambique. I was reading a paperback edition of "Kennedy" by Ted Sorensen. When I got home to the United States in my years in the Peace Corps, I wanted to be like Ted Sorenson, a legislative assistant to a U.S. senator and someday write speeches for a president. A few years back, I saw an honest memo my friend Rick Herzberg (ph) wrote in getting me approved for the job my hopes, quote, "He is a fast solid writer, politically very savvy, but Chris is no Sorenson."
A few months back when we were on a panel together at the Smithsonian Institute, I told the man we honored today how I had long wanted to be a Ted Sorenson. "You can't," he said, "the position's already taken"—the truest word he is ever spoke.
Ted was unique and always his own and we will dearly miss him, as a friend, as our noble countryman, as a moral pathfinder.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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OAKLAND — Caltrans has released 15 volumes and hundreds of pages of inspection and test data on thousands of high-strength steel fasteners installed on the eastern replacement span of the Bay Bridge.
The documents are part of the ongoing probe into why 32 out of 96 very large high-strength anchor rods snapped on the span in March, and whether the remaining 2,210 fasteners made out of the same grade of steel are vulnerable, too.
The three agencies overseeing the $6.4 billion bridge construction project — Caltrans, Bay Area Toll Authority and California Transportation Commission — have commissioned extensive testing of all the steel.
In the meantime, Caltrans and the contractor, American Bridge/Fluor Joint Venture, are installing an external saddle and cable system designed to carry the loads in the seismic stabilizers where the bolts broke.
The bridge team has not yet said when the contractor and the retrofit fabricator, XKT Engineering, Inc. of Vallejo, will finish the repairs or if it can be done in time for the Labor Day opening.
The retrofit schedule and bolt testing and analysis will determine whether the bridge opens to traffic on Sept. 3 as scheduled. The bridge team will brief the authority on the construction status on July 10.
Metallurgists have already concluded that the broken bolts fell victim to a well-known embrittlement phenomenon where hydrogen atoms invade high-strength steel under heavy loads, causing them to fracture and break.
, The rods — 3 inches in diameter and 17 to 24 feet long — were part of a batch fabricated in 2008. They are embedded in seismic stabilizers called shear keys on the large pier east of the suspension bridge's main span tower.
Caltrans' first two volumes of bolt fabrication and test data released in April contained documentation on the 2008 rods as well as 192 bolts in adjacent shear keys and bearings that were manufactured in 2010.
The 15 new volumes Caltrans released midday Friday feature similar agency manufacturing site audits, inspectors' reports, certified material test results, shop drawings and a plethora of test results for the fasteners of varying sizes and purposes installed throughout the self-anchored suspension span.
With relatively few exceptions, the fasteners passed all the requisite tests. Although some of the steel would not have passed the new, lower hardness threshold the state set in April after the bridge bolts snapped.
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The documents also offer a window into the day-to-day decisions on-site state inspectors made at the facilities of contractors that performed work such as fabricating, galvanizing, sandblasting, painting and machining.
In June 2009 at Dyson's Ohio facility, for example, nuts for hex bolts failed what is called a "go-no go gauge"an inspection tool used to check a workpiece against allowed tolerances, which in this case measured the threads to ensure that pieces fit together. But the inspector noted that the pieces assembled properly and recommended acceptance.
An inspector in April 2011, however, ordered the return of a Dyson shipment of 3½-inch spherical nuts and washers that had been shipped before Caltrans had finished its quality assurance testing and approved the products.
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An inspector also ordered Monnig Industries, a Missouri steel galvanizing company, in July 2011 to stop using brake parts cleaner on the ends of galvanized threaded rods intended for use in the suspension span's anchorages.
A load of the same type of rods fell off a truck in Nevada, and a Caltrans inspector deemed 13 out of 55 damaged beyond repair. The others were fixed and the state later accepted them for use.
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Educational Background: I completed my MLS from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) in December 2006. From August 2005-December 2006, I worked as the GIS Graduate Assistant in the Department of U.S. Gov. Information, Maps, & GIS Services at McKeldin Library at UMCP. My academic background is in History. I completed all my graduate course work in the Ph.D. program in History at Northern Arizona University (NAU). While I was working as the Reilly Summer Intern in the Department of Special Collections and Archives at Cline Library at NAU, I decided to pursue academic librarianship as my career and applied for the MLS program. I have a Master of Arts in Modern European history from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (SIUE). I worked as a Graduate Assistant both for the Department of Historical Studies and for the Library Instruction Services at Lovejoy Library at SIUE. I have always enjoyed working in public services. It has been a rewarding experience for me. Before I came to the United States in 2000, I completed my Master of Arts in History from Meenakshi College in Chennai in India with a main focus on Indian/South Asian history.
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Rapper Tone Loc didn't want to be hospitalized after collapsing on stage during a weekend performance in Iowa.
Loc, whose real name is Anthony T. Smith, collapsed after finishing a song during a Saturday night concert on a downtown Des Moines bridge.
The concert ended abruptly while the 47-year-old rapper was treated. Three employees of the Des Moines Register who were at the show said several minutes after Loc collapsed, fans were asked to leave.
Police Sgt. Steve Woody told the newspaper that paramedics responded after Loc collapsed, but he refused to be taken to a hospital.
Loc's representative did not respond to messages Sunday, and it wasn't clear why he collapsed.
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