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It's now confirmed: Junior Seau suffered what appears to have been a football-assisted suicide:
The former N.F.L. linebacker Junior Seau had a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma when he committed suicide last spring, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday.
The findings were consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy [CTE], a degenerative brain disease widely connected to athletes who have absorbed frequent blows to the head, the N.I.H. said in a statement.
Via ESPN, here's a quick summary of what that diagnosis implies.
CTE is a progressive disease associated with repeated head trauma. Although long known to occur in boxers, it was not discovered in football players until 2005. Researchers at Boston University recently confirmed 50 cases of CTE in former football players, including 33 who played in the NFL.
That gets at what's most troubling, to me at least, CTE has turned up again and again in the brains of NFL dead:
Since C.T.E. was diagnosed in the brain of the former Eagles defensive back Andre Waters after his suicide in 2006, the disease has been found in nearly every former player whose brain was examined posthumously. (C.T.E. can only be diagnosed posthumously.)
Researchers at Boston University, who pioneered the study of C.T.E., have found it in 18 of the 19 brains of former N.F.L. players they have examined.
I really like watching football. I've dedicated a lot of Sundays to the pleasure. I've got a friend down the block in my new neighborhood with whom I've become much more rapidly close that mostly happens with new acquaintances, a bond formed over our regular sessions in front of his TV and scotch bottle. Last season we caught just about every Patriots game together.
This year not so much. Partly, real life is to blame — mostly the desire to spend more time with a son on the verge of teenager-hood and the accompanying (and looming) irrelevance of Dad. But really, I'm finding it harder and harder to recover my eagerness for the sport given this knowledge: as I watch, say, this Sunday's Patriots-Houston playoff, I'll take my enjoyment from a game that — played correctly, within the rules — is doing an increment of what will add up to grievous harm for some of the people I'm watching right in front of me, at that moment.
A little context. I love great writing more than I love any sport, and I've long thought some of the best non-fiction I've ever read comes in the form of A. J. Liebling's boxing essays. After I read Liebling — way back in the early eighties — I started watching some fights. At its best, it's a completely consuming spectacle, full of all that sport is supposed to provide, stories of courage, skill, smarts, human weakness, pure athletic astonishment, the lot. But I couldn't stick with it. This was before Muhammad Ali's terrible decline became obvious, but it doesn't take such a high profile case to make the point. They coined the phrase "punch drunk" for a reason, and that reason is obvious to anyone who watches more than a bout or two.
Boxing's raw, obvious, stripped to the skin. The point is to render your opponent unconscious, to so rattle his (and now her) brain that he or she falls down.
Football is, of course, not quite so insistent on damage; the hits are in the service of the goal of advancing or preventing the movement of the ball. But still, stories like Seau's make clear the risks that flow from the game: especially at the level where everyone is so ferociously big and strong, there's a quite possibly large fraction of players who will suffer as Seau did — not to the point of suicide, necessarily, but to some form of damage.
Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote about this a few days ago, talking about his decision to walk away from watching the NFL, reached before this last season. I didn't come to his conclusion this last autumn; I didn't give up on the game altogether. But the moral and/or emotional logic that moved Ta-Nehisi is getting harder and harder for me to ignore. I'm just not sure how much longer I can keep watching. Might not make it through the weekend.
A last note: Here's Tyler Seau on his father's death (via TNC.)
"It makes me realize that he wasn't invincible, because I always thought of him as being that guy. Like a lot of sons do when they look up to their dad. You know? You try to be like that man in your life. You try to mimic the things that he does. Play the game the way he did. Work the way he did. And, you know, now you look at it in a little bit different view."
Tyler added: "Is it worth it? I'm not sure. But it's not worth it for me to not have a dad. So to me it's not worth it."
To get unreasonably personal with you: I lost my dad to an accident when I was 10. I learned a lot from dealing with the consequences of that event. I can't tell you how much I'd rather have foregone that education. You know what I'm saying?
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January 11, 2013 at 5:25 pm
I stopped watching last year—partly because I couldn't ignore what the game was doing to the people who played it, partly because of the Penn State scandal (I'm an alum), and partly just to see if I would miss it.
I didn't.
Now I'm just waiting for pitchers and catchers to report.


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Can a country enjoy a relatively high growth rate for a quarter of a century and still be unable to reduce its poverty rate? That's the case of my homeland, Costa Rica, which happens to have a critical presidential election on February 2.
For over 25 years Costa Rica's growth rate has averaged 4.7 percent a year – one of the highest in Latin America – and yet the country's poverty rate has been stuck at around 20 percent since 1994. Even worse, Costa Rica is one out of only three Latin American countries where inequality has risen since 2000.
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Looking at the upcoming NBA Draft's projected lottery picks, most of the players represent the big boys around the nation – Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas, Florida, Connecticut. But smack in the middle between guys that played in a Final Four is a kid from Weber State. Anybody who follows college hoops or draft scouting surely knows about Damian Lillard, but it's still surprising to see a player ranked so highly who most fans have never seen play a minute of college basketball. Will Lillard, who is projected to go in the top 10 as the draft's top point guard, struggle to adapt to the massive increase in competition from the Big Sky Conference to the NBA? We researched lottery picks over the past 15 years from mid-major conferences to judge how successful they were in their transition to the league, grading success based on extended NBA productivity in the form of minutes played and value added. We considered all conferences outside of the top six power leagues as 'mid-majors,' so even the Atlantic 10, Conference USA and Mountain West qualify for our criteria.
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1987 was the year civil aviation finally arrived in the digital era – with the A320 family. It was in the new short- and medium range Airbus aircraft that many systems that are now standard in most modern aircraft celebrated their premiere. Airbus still uses the A320's original cockpit philosophy
Even experienced pilots had to do some basic rethinking when the first planes of the A320 family came into service. Because they brought with them a minor revolution in cockpit design. Instead of the usual huge banks of instruments (nicknamed the "watchmaker's shop" because they all had analog clock faces), the A320 had just six display screens. Plus, the traditional joystick had disappeared. This former key feature of a passenger aircraft's cockpit, with which the pilot steered the plane with both hands, had been replaced by a much smaller "sidestick," not unlike a computer joystick, that is operated with one hand only. All of the new Airbus aircraft are equipped with sidesticks.
But the most significant innovation in the A320's cockpit was hidden behind the paneling. In conventional aircraft, these spaces had been occupied by steel cables, connecting rods and hydraulic systems that transmitted the pilot's commands mechanically to the wings, the elevators and the tail fin. Although these functions were supported by servosystems like the ones used in modern cars, they still had to be initiated by the pilot's own muscle power.
These mechanical controls had been replaced in the A320 by electronic systems. Sensors react to the commands received from the sidestick and transmit them digitally to the control surfaces. Known as "fly-by-wire," this control system has a whole raft of benefits. It enables significant reduction in overall aircraft weight – and consequently fuel consumption. Plus, it enhances safety, because digital controls can be linked to a flight control computer that verifies commands before passing them on. Where necessary, this computer can even take over steering the aircraft, for example, when the plane hits unexpectedly strong turbulence. Because modern computers can react more quickly than any human being in this kind of situation.
Tests of fly-by-wire systems in military aircraft and prototypes started as far back as the 1950s. And a simple, analog form of this technology was used to fly the Concorde super-sonic aircraft that came into service in 1976. But the A320 was the first civil production aircraft fitted with digital fly-by-wire controls. The system was finally able to prove itself in everyday use and is now standard equipment in all Airbus aircraft.
It goes without saying that even the older-generation pilots were quick to adapt to the new systems. As with every new aircraft type, they had to attend and pass special training courses. Some of them missed the old joystick and the feeling of direct control over the flight process that the mechanical system gave them, for example, when they made a minor flight correction with a light touch of the rudder. They didn't get this kind of feedback from the digital system. But the design engineers found an answer to that one too. They have built an artificial response into the sidesticks used in the latest fly-by-wire systems.


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Stem prostrate to erect
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Fruit: nutlets 23 mm, base 34 mm wide, tip erect, scar ± oblique
Chromosomes: 2n=48
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Cord, Jubilee set sights on North Eastern
Despite its small number of registered voters, North Eastern Province is turning out to be a major political battleground for the two frontrunners in the forthcoming elections — the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) and Jubilee.
The enthusiasm with which the leaders of the two coalitions have taken to courting candidates from the region indicates the importance they attach to the marginal votes that could sway the balance in the March 4 poll.
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With an estimated 350,000 registered voters, NEP residents have largely decided which path to take by aligning themselves to particular political parties they think can serve their interests best.
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Assistant minister Aden Sugow, the Fafi MP and Wajir West MP Adan Keynan are the latest among a host of the local political elite including former MPs who have made an early decision. Their defection has changed and energised the political direction of the locals, throwing a spanner into the political works of the Jubilee coalition because they were initially learning towards The National Alliance.
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This has been more so following the last elections in 2007, where the dominant Garre community went into loggerheads with the minority Degodia clan, escalating the tension to the neighbouring Wajir County.
The powerful 21-member Mandera Council of Elders chaired by Maalim Ali Noor, which heavily influences the political direction of the county's residents, has opted to go against the grain of their Wajir and Garissa counterparts, by adopting William Ruto's United Republican Party.
And the man who has been entrusted by the elders with the responsibility of carrying the mantle on behalf of the people of Mandera in the high-stakes political game is the articulate aviation industry expert, Ali Ibrahim Roba, who is gunning to become the country's first governor.
In an interview with The Standard On Sunday, the council of elders' chairman, accompanied by aspirants for the available elective seats, said Roba had all the qualities of steering Mandera to prosperity in the developed system of governance.
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Roba himself says he is equal to the task and explains his community members' decision to link up with Ruto's URP. "We looked at what all the political parties had to offer before we resolved to align ourselves with URP, because the party has the interests of the Kenyan pastoralist communities to which we belong."
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Reports from the ground indicate there have been differences between candidates affiliated with TNA and those in URP, but the elders' decision appears to have sealed their fate.
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The elders also had identified nominees to four of the six parliamentary seats (Banisa, Mandera West, Mandera South, and Mandera North) and the senator's post widely touted to go to former Mandera Central MP Billow Aden Kerrow.
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Expenses are a big part of Buffett's complaint against hedge funds -- a subject about which this blog also grows hoarse. Why are we all so lathered up?
The longer you hold an investment, the more those fees hurt. Stewart Neufeld in the Journal of Financial Planningestimates that Wall Street takes home 46 percent of your returns over a decade -- leaving you 54 percent -- if the fund's management fees, trading costs and such cause it to underperform the benchmark by 250 basis points, or 2.5 percent.
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How Come We Didn't See This One Coming?
La Nación of Argentina reports today [in Spanish] that—shocker!—the Argentine government used funds from the nationalized pension funds to finance its current spending.
Let's remember that over a year and a half ago, the administration of Cristina Fernández announced the nationalization of the private pension funds—$30 billion worth of assets—under the claim that the international financial crisis threatened to wash away the retirement savings of Argentine workers. However, it was clear from the beginning what the government's real intentions were, especially since a surtax imposed on farmers had just been repealed by the courts and defeated in Congress.
Even Argentina's populist hero, Juan Domingo Perón, warned 35 years earlier about a similar move from the government as Ian Vásquez pointed out in late 2008.


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The WHO publication International travel and health is a comprehensive guide regarding the prevention and treatment of all diseases potentially affecting travellers. It includes information about the geographical distribution of malaria, epidemiological details for all malaria-endemic countries, and all recommended preventive measures. It also contains WHO recommendations on protective measures against mosquito bites, information about possible serious side-effects resulting from the use of various malaria medications, and the state of antimalarial drug resistance in countries.
Malaria worldwide
International travellers could be at risk of malaria infection in 89 countries around the world, mainly in Africa, Asia and the Americas. People infected with malaria often experience fever, chills and flu-like illness at first. Left untreated, the disease can lead to severe complications and, in some cases, death. Malaria symptoms appear after a period of 7 days or longer. Fever occurring in a traveller within 3 months of possible exposure is a medical emergency that should be investigated immediately.
Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite and is transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes which bite between dusk and dawn. There are 5 different types of parasites that infect humans: P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi. Of these, P. falciparum and P. vivax are the most prevalent, and P. falciparum is the most dangerous, with the highest rates of complications and mortality. This deadly form of malaria is a serious public health concern in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
WHO estimates that 228 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide in 2018 (confidence interval: 206–258 million) and about 405 000 people died from the disease, mostly children under 5 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Prevention of mosquito bites between dusk and dawn is the first line of defence against malaria. Measures to prevent mosquito bites include sleeping under long-lasting insecticidal nets, and using protective clothing and insect repellents. Depending on the malaria risk in the area to be visited, international travellers may also need to take preventive medication (chemoprophylaxis) prior to, during, and upon return from their travel.
Some groups of travellers, especially young children, pregnant women and individuals with a weakened immune system, are at particular risk of developing serious illness if they become infected with malaria. In pregnant women, malaria increases the risk of maternal death, miscarriage, stillbirth and low birth weight, as well as the associated risk of neonatal death.
Pregnant women should avoid travelling to areas where malaria transmission occurs, and parents are advised not to take infants or young children to areas where there is risk of P. falciparum malaria. When travel cannot be avoided, it is very important to take effective preventive measures against malaria, even when travelling to areas with P. vivax malaria transmission.
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Plaintiffs Should Be Cautiously Optimistic about Latest Obamacare Appeal
CINCINNATI — Now for something completely different, and not just because the spirited Sixth Circuit judges were much more skeptical of the government's position than the Fourth Circuit was last month. Unlike the panel in Richmond — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli probably started outlining his cert petition as soon as court adjourned — here there will be at least one vote to strike down the individual mandate, and maybe even all three. And this panel should produce one or more opinions in which there will be much for the Supreme Court to grapple with.
The appellate argument didn't even begin until after a skirmish over standing provoked by the motion to dismiss the government filed last week. That mini‐argument — what Judge Martin likened to his time in Jefferson County (KY) circuit court — will likely not prove decisive. Nor will the Anti‐Injunction Act, the tax statute on which the court requested supplemental briefing but which the government conceded didn't apply.
Not surprisingly, this case, brought by the Thomas More Legal Center, will almost certainly be decided on the issue of whether the federal government can compel people to engage in commerce — "regulate inactivity." The government's theory that "health care is unique" came under harsh attack from Judges Graham and Sutton because it didn't seem to offer a constitutional (as opposed to factual) limiting principle for federal power. Judge Martin was more circumspect, but he's considered among the most liberal circuit judges in the country, so all things being equal would probably try to uphold the law (or find a way to decide the case on procedural grounds so as to avoid losing on the merits). Judge Sutton — one of the more conservative jurists nationwide — was also scrupulously neutral, picking at weaknesses in both sides' presentation and appearing open to a narrow technical decision.
All in all, it was a fascinating day in court that proved again that no matter how much one studies the Obamacare challenges, there's always something new to learn. Be sure to read Cato's amicus brief in this case for more background.


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For decades, El Alto, Bolivia's second-largest city, was not exactly an architectural gem, but since 2005, Freddy Mamani Silvestre has been brightening the place up and causing quite a stir.
With their opulent facades reminiscent of Gaudí and Hundertwasser, Freddy Mamani Silvestre's buildings defy the otherwise thoroughly drab face of El Alto. Since 2005, self-made architect Silvestre has built some 60 mini-mansions in his native Bolivia. His vernacular is "Neo-Andean" and borrows motifs and colors from many Andean cultures, providing an aspirational style for the growing indigenous wealthy class that buys his houses. As always, there are some who mock, calling his houses "flamboyant spaceships for the nouveaux riches."


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So it turns out that Brian Cashman's skydiving mishap from earlier today probably didn't result in him suffering a compound fracture. That's good, because compound fractures are gross. Cashman did end up with a broken fibula and a dislocated ankle, though, and he just got out of surgery for the latter. Thanks to what we assume was a hefty dose of painkillers, he remains chill.
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IRAN: Story of martyr Imam Hussein fires the protest drama
December 29, 2009 | 8:37 am
It was a political slogan soaked with Iranian history, religion and cultural identity.
"This month is a month of blood. Yazid will be defeated," they chanted on the streets of Tehran last weekend in a popular uprising that roiled the Iranian state and spurred a massive ongoing crackdown.
Beeman-Cov-011The rallying cry referred to one of the Iranian nation's founding myths, the story of Imam Hussein, who fought against the despised Caliph Yazid for the throne of Islam in a 7th century battle.
The story is so central to Iranian national identity that it is reenacted regularly before and during the holiday of Ashura in plays called tazieh that have been explored for years by William O. Beeman, an Iran expert and professor of theater and anthropology at the University of Minnesota.
"People live with this very central event in their religious life," said Beeman, who has written a book on tazieh called "Iranian Performance Traditions," due out next year.
"They're encouraged to personalize it," he said in an interview this week. "It's been recast in symbolic terms. Imam Hussein is the central figure in Twelver Shiism, He occupies the same role as Jesus in Christianity. It's a perpetually recited story, pervasive throughout society."
Iran's street-protest traditions have long been laced with elements of theatrical drama, as explored by The Times a few days ago. More explicitly than ever last weekend, the protests were fueled by the tradition of tazieh and the story of Imam Hussein, who Shiites believe was robbed of his rightful leadership role, just as Iran's opposition believes Mir-Hossein Mousavi was robbed of the presidency.
Iran-ashuraWhen protesters chant, "Ya Hossein, Mir-Hossein," they're directly "equating Mousavi with Imam Hussein," Beeman said.
Last weekend, some protesters held aloft green flags of Islam commemorating the first 10 days of the Islamic month of Muharram, when Hussein was matyred in battle on the fields outside the Mesopotamian city of Karbala.
According to Beeman, anthropologists believe all societies are interlaced with such founding myths, social dramas that people fall back on at times of grave crisis.
"In order to restore social order, they have to go through a ritual period," Beeman said. "People gravitate quite naturally to the ritual expressions that already exist in their cultural vocabulary."
But as far as myths go, Hussein's is particularly powerful when it comes to galvanizing the Iranian public at this particular time.
Iran-beeman Just as Hussein fought under the green banner of Islam and the family of the Prophet Muhammad, the opposition has adopted the color as its own, in contrast to the red worn by Yazid.
And these colors have become identified with Mousavi -- green -- and his hardline opponent, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- red.
During the tazieh plays, the audience is encouraged to identify with the people of Karbala, who did not come to Hussein's aid during the fateful battle, just as protesters today are calling upon ordinary Iranians and members of the security forces to join in the struggle against Iran's establishment.
"By their inaction, the people of Karbala were less than admirable people," Beeman said. "In present-day mourning rituals, they're asked not to just stand by."
Iranian authorities tried hard to avoid being cast as Yazid but ultimately failed, according to Beeman.
"When you start beating on people who support you, you break a bond between leader and follower," said Beeman (pictured), who speaks fluent Persian and has traveled frequently to Iran.
If Iran's history is any guide, the current group in power is doomed, Beeman said. "I think that the chance that this leadership group is going to be changed or out of office is very strong," he said.
But Beeman and others worry that Iranians will hue too closely to the Hussein narrative.
On the fields of Karbala in AD 680, one relative of Hussein after another was slaughtered by the mighty army of Yazid. One was an infant. Another was killed on the day of his wedding.
"Every possible tragedy you could imagine is projected onto the Karbala story," Beeman said. "In this situation on the street, if you identify with the Karbala story and you're a protester, you're emboldened to go up against anyone who is attacking you."
So far, Iranians have been adept at protesting while avoiding being killed. But some worry that could change. Hussein's myth may be powerful as theater and as a cultural backdrop to social change, but it also is a tough act to follow.
"Hussein knows he was going to be martyred," Beeman said. "He rejects all attempts to save him because he submits to the will of God. In his death and refusal to compromise, he serves as an example for the rest of us. But it's an unattainable example. Nobody can be as good as Imam Hussein."
-- Borzou Daragahi in Beirut
Photos, from top: The cover of "Iranian Performance Traditions." Credit: Mazda Publishers. A still from amateur video footage showing a protester holding a green flag during Ashura protests in Tehran. Credit: YouTube. Portrait of the author. Credit: University of Minnesota
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Holy cow, it's a dog that can drive! Sort of. Granted, we've seen dogs driving actual cars before, but this one is an enormous dog in a tiny Power Wheels. Plus he has no idea how to steer. The technical skill may not be as impressive as those well-trained dogs in New Zealand, but the cute factor is waaaay up here, folks. Way up.


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'Glee' Planning Whitney Houston Tribute
According to reports, 'Glee' will be working on an episode that celebrates the music of Whitney Houston. The FOX show is planning to film an episode containing eight of her most popular songs. Ace Showbiz hints that the episode will center around McKinley High School's graduation. The students will be having a hard time saying goodbye to each other.
Lea Michele has been dropping hints on the possible tribute to Houston. FOX has yet to make an official announcement, but that didn't stop her from tweeting, "Singing a really great rendition of one of my favorite songs today with @MsAmberPRiley @NayaRivera and @chriscolfer ."
This is not the first time that 'Glee' has done one of Houston's songs. Amber Riley sang, "I Will Always Love You" in the Valentine's Day episode. It is unknown if that track will get a reprisal in the Houston tribute episode, but it would be fitting. This will be the second time that 'Glee' has done a posthumous tribute to an artist. In 2009, they did an episode paying tribute to Michael Jackson.


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The Expectation Of Change
November 23, 2008
Driving throughout the largely liberal Los Angeles area, everything from Barack Obama bumper stickers to tee-shirts suggest what has rarely been suggested before in such a large volume: mass change –accompanied by a single date: January 20th.
Of the many emotions this provokes from me as a self-proclaimed liberal and Obama supporter, satisfaction and rejoice are overshadowed by disappointment in the form of political rhetoric and greed. To me Barack Obama is a new kind of politician — eloquent and prolific in the limelight — but as shown in his campaign, strategically and politically brilliant. He has somehow transformed and captured the majority of the United States and brought it to one voice and one meaning, hope.
But within this word, a sanctuary of hope that delivered to millions of Americans an image of the "American dream," a utopia of economic prosperity and governmental perfection, only a handful of Obama supporters see hope in the practical sense, only they see hope attached to patience.
I, myself too young to lay my respective punch-hole in the ballot box for another two elections, acknowledge that in fact I have not been captivated by Barack Obama because of his mantra of hope, nor have seen him as the leader that millions of Americans do.
But I support him in the way that I have never supported one single idea or campaign in my life. He, in my humble opinion, was the best candidate running for President — carrying the necessary policies to help the United States of America prosper and thrive.
But in no way do I link the date January 20, 2009 to economic wealth and political prosper. Obama is simply a liberal politician who is in fact the right leader for this country that beckons political guidence and leadership.
But in the same way the better life that seems so close away from all Americans will not be handed over by Obama on January 21. And in the end, America will see a political disappointment that this nation perhaps have never seen before. They will have to be patient and forgiving to a president Barack Obama, while they let him politically dig out the country from the deep hole it has been forced into.
The Media and The Republican Ticket
November 9, 2008
In conclusion of two gruesome years of brutal campaigning and rhetoric, global attention and nationwide anxiety, a president has been elected in the form of an eloquently-speaking 46 year old — Senator Barack Obama.
The opposing party has since acknowledged their defeat and seemingly ambled in the direction of moving on, but anonymous political finger pointing from John McCain's aides at to past running mate Sarah Palin and back have sparked various amounts of media airtime, and again the media bias topic has been thrown onto the table.
So in final closing of the election, this question is more or less ready to answer: is the media in fact biased to one side and if so, by how much?
I think that in looking at this topic, many can see it in very different ways, based on their political views from the election. It is not a rare sight to see both liberal and conservative blogs and strongly left or right press outlets sending out daily attacks at the media, and that is not where or what would be constructive to do in actually answering this question. Instead, what we have to work with are simply facts and what has happened.
Blame in this corner generally comes from clips of news anchors strongly defending or attacking a political figure, which can be taken in different ways based both on the context and the topic.
Fox News, attacked daily for bias, has in fact been "exposed" numerous times of taking anti-Obama clips from interviews and failing to air the rest, which most of the time is in fact against McCain. And respectively, frequently attacked MSNBC has not only been accused of bias toward Obama, but has also devoted air time to attack the supposed "right" media.
But with this aside, to accuse the media of bias is more or less a completely impossible argument to complete in a non-partisan manner. The talking heads most politically attacked are merely hosted by media outlets and not necessarily backed by them — with the exception in my opinion being Bill O'Riley. But in fact, I enjoy viewing O'Riley even though I know him as conservative, in the same way I enjoy watching Keith Olbermann because I know him as a liberal.
But above this, I honor both O'Riley and Olbermann for simply attacking each other, brutally pointing out mistakes in simply the form of media that we Americans have come to know. I personally perceive Fox News as conservative and MSNBC as liberal, but have come to not simply face these facts, but absorb both in light of what each media outlet has to say, and take it into context when choosing what to believe how to believe.
So I'll open this up to the commenters: What do you think — is there bias in the media, by what magnitude, and how is it perceived by you?
A Unique Strategy: Why Obama Won and What It Means
November 6, 2008
An interesting point was raised in a past comment section by Huxbux, who questioned that the recently news-absorbing election wasn't as unique as it has been perceived to have been.
This past election was in itself extremely fragile, but in my view held a surprising turnout as far as the political paths both campaigns took.
Previously I analyzed a surprisingly accurate quote in conclusion of both parties' conventions, reading:
"The party that can't lose [Dem.] has nominated a candidate that can't win, and the party that can't win [Rep.] has nominated a candidate that can't lose."
This quote's accuracy, however, flows directly against reality. The McCain campaign was in its entirety a momentum stricken campaign with one weakness: the party and president it was overshadowed by. But what proved to be a more or less fatal flaw and now a strategic focal point, McCain essentially played away from his original advantage — and into the hands of Barack Obama, the Economy and George Bush — via a relentless blacklash attack campaign and an obvious disregarding of past political strategy with a PR boost as a running mate.
And this is precisely what game Barack Obama the political momentum he needed, and as it is said, the rest is history.
But in a completely different manner, I believe that the main reason Obama won is also the main reason that this historical election was indeed unique — Obama didn't win purely on strategy, the most notable show of this being the youth.
In short, never before has one political figure been so extremely accepted by the youth and never before has such a political barrier been placed between the youth, but most impressively — never before have I personally felt such an urgent and strong vibe within my surrounding classmates and school on any issue.
I think that if studied from a less strategic standpoint, Obama has truly been a transcending figure across the United States, and the globe for that matter, but his and this past election's uniqueness has been shown almost completely by the youth.
Analysis: Why McCain Has Lost The Election
November 1, 2008
On the morning of August 20, Barack Obama and John McCain were in a virtual dead heat for the White House.
Obama was five days away from the Democratic Nation Convention, where his campaign hoped to put in a press swing that would ride him through the GOP's Convention. He was also riding up attention for his extremely anticipated Vice Presidential decision, as his anxious base and the country alike stood at a standstill.
But as the infamous truth holds, none of this essentially played out — Sarah Palin was standing in the way.
Blanketing world news, Palin's entrance to the global stage both wiped clean any and all publicity from Obama's historic convention and in doing so started a "press wildfire," exploding into the media for weeks, then months.
But now, as we look back on late August, the daunting shadow in our minds looms between McCain, the press, and the oval office — the polls. Gone from a dead heat to a widening eight point Obama lead, McCain's promising late August media swing has seemed to backfire.
And as early ballots begin storming in, the McCain campaign finds themselves in a run against the media, the independents, and finally, against Sarah Palin.
Politics is an extremely fragile game in itself. Taunting some and seeming vague to others, political moves are to be perceived by opinion — the Sarah Palin pick being no different.
As a thirteen year old not effected by voting week or polls, it is more or less clearer to see the strategic effect rather than the emotional toll, and in that respect I believe that the choice of Palin as running mate has essentially the snowball that has turned into an avalanche.
Palin's political entrance in the McCain campaign put an extremely positive effect onto the conservative base, but in doing so moved the McCain campaign significantly to the right.
In addition to strategically abandoning liberal Republican voters and the center, Palin opened the McCain campaign up for examination from almost every political side of the isle, detailing that Palin was the female form of President Bush — far right in many of her individual policies.
But what interests me is that the McCain campaign didn't solely defend Palin, but set off an array of attack ads to the left, sending off the first signs of agitation from his campaign.
And as Obama simply defended them with response press statements and ads himself, the media simply caught on, causing many have accused the media of — bias. The Obama press endorsements kept racking up, backing the McCain campaign closer and closer to the wall.
The press had caught the strategic unstableness of the McCain campaign, and simply reported it. McCain, in a deeper and deeper hole, executed the response that ultimately will keep him out of the oval office — more attack.
Strategic failure and a political gamble have brought the McCain campaign to their knees — and this is why, as the Fall leaves are raked off the street and world politics comes to a standstill on November 4th, we will see a President Obama elected.
Tactics On the Stump: Obama's Closing Argument
October 27, 2008
With less than a week until the voting booths draw themselves open, both candidates find themselves in the vital battlegrounds, but also engaged in arguably the most tactically important stretch in the election.
And because of this, we are now starting to see different strategy in the press and in both campaign's speeches.
Dubbed "the closing argument," Obama has, perhaps surprisingly, fully reworked his recent string of stump speeches reminiscent to his early primary victories, in a sense summing up his campaign.
The speeches consist less of attacks to the other party, rather a more "dreamy" and crowd pleasing stump made up of policy proposals.
But what is the most interesting is that the Obama campaign has essentially changed its entire framework from the present economic situation and policy attacks to a more or less futuristic tone.
Obama has, however, hit home on one present-oriented message, what he calls the one week campaign, where the Democrats have stressed that the "future of America" depends on the action in the next week of campaigning. The Obama campaign has also leaked and later confirmed reports of a thirty-minute campaign ad set to air in most national television stations, and most notably during an (if necessary) world series game 6.
But the most ironic catch to the Obama campaign "closing argument" and PR ploy has been that it simply has not been countered.
Seemingly unaffected, the opposing McCain campaign has not yet put up any hint of tactical rework in their campaign in response to Barack Obama's future oriented campaign change.
McCain's latest Pennsylvania campaign stop was capped off with nothing less than expected, a well-rounded attack and policy proposal speech that showed no sign of contrast from recent weeks.
To open this up to the commenters, simply: what does this mean for the remainder of the election — and will McCain change his campaign in response to Obama?
Analysis: Is The McCain Campaign Imploding?
October 26, 2008
In the final stretches of the now slightly Obama leaning presidential campaign, the trailing McCain/Palin camp has truly let loose their steam, and people have noticed it. CNN just recently released information from a McCain aide among other things, quoting that "Palin is going rouge."
And some of the loudest voices on the internet as well as the media have questioned: Is the McCain Campaign Imploding?
And this in fact raises a very good question.
It is not disputed from either party that regardless of the current attacks, since both parties entered the political spotlight and are now close to ending the election, we have seen two very different strategic McCain campaigns.
So a question like this can in fact be raised. The answer? Not entirely.
This essentially boils down to the circumstance of the situation McCain has been in, as well as the fact that their original strategic goals have not fallen through.
And this in a sense involves Sarah Palin and also doesn't. As detailed in my other work, the Palin strategy has not been a long term success, at first creating a press frenzy but lately failing to deliver enough positive media attention toward the McCain campaign.
And in part, because of this McCain has lost ground.
But regardless of the past, I believe that the McCain campaign is trapped in a position they truly can't dig themselves out of any other way than what they are doing strategically right now.
But what is interesting is that the strategy they are using in a fact has put forth the sense that McCain has been negative enough to look like it is imploding, as reports of both McCain and Palin coming are off as desperate.
And this is nothing short of true — but my main point here (in plain words) is that the only thing the McCain campaign can do is desperately attack via the press and public statements – the reason being the political position they are in.
But in the same sense, the Obama campaign is doing the most strategically sound thing to do — point this out. The highlight of this backfire tactic has been this quote recently hammered in by a seemingly fired up Joe Biden:
Barack Obama has a backbone of steel — he can take 8 more days of attacks. But the American people can't take 8 more years old George Bush in the form of John McCain.
So to the commenters: is the McCain campaign imploding, and what strategies are both campaigns using?
The Race Factor: What Importance It Holds
October 25, 2008
In the already delicate presidential election, race has truly worn many masks from the start. Bloggers and the media alike have thrown out suggestions of the race card, and the issue has now become the latest talking point among the press.
But truly what amount of votes will actually swing because of a candidate's race?
I think the reason that this question is so debated is because there is truly no answer. In an election that I still stress is different from every other, many issues will not truly be answered with previous election trends, but to correctly answer the race question would be essentially impossible.
Why? After a comfortable dinner at home, a somewhat race affected voter leaning Obama most likely will answer his phone to a pollster and tell him that he will be voting Obama come November 4th.
But in a sense this means less than what it its importance is perceived. After a half-hour drive to the polls, that same man will stand in front of the ballot and thousands of questions will be screaming at him, one being race.
Am I saying that this man won't vote Obama because he is African American?
No, I am essentially saying that not a single pundit predicting race's affect in this election will be looking over the voting booth at that man's vote, nor will that pundit know what that man was originally going to vote if race was not the problem.
But what we can debate is the volume of people who may be swung because of race, which the answer being completely not enough. In my opinion, the amount of people who will vote McCain because Obama is African-American will be close to the amount of people who vote Obama because he is African-American.
So again I'll open this up to the commenters with the obvious question: What importance does race truly hold?


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