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The Smithsonian wants Aretha's Franklin's hat. Let's face it, when we think of the Inauguration of Obama, that hat does come to mind. Unless, it can pick up signals, Aretha may hand it over for historical purposes, but that is just the reason she wants to keep it.
News sources, including CNN, are reporting the disturbing news of Tom Daschle's failure to pay his taxes and report earned income correctly in the amount of $140,167.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate Finance committee will meet Monday to review the tax records of former Sen. Tom Daschle, President Obama's nominee for secretary of health and human services.
Former Sen. Tom Daschle answers questions during a confirmation hearing January 8.
According to a committee memo obtained Friday by CNN, the group's concerns include the use of a limousine and driver that Daschle didn't disclose on his income taxes and nonpayment of taxes on more than $80,000 he earned in consulting fees after leaving the senate.
Daschle also apparently once filed a tax form listing charitable donations to organizations that did not qualify for a deduction, according to the memo.
Mr.Marvin Schur fought for me and you a long time ago. Maybe he was already familiar with the dangers of cold. Perhaps he knew the cold too well from having fought in snowy woods during the Battle of the Bulge. Actually, I don't know where Mr.Schur fought as I write this, but he was from the "Greatest Generation", and we lost him about a week ago.
Dave Schechter
CNN Senior National Editor
Marvin E. Schur, a 93-year-old World War II veteran, was home alone in Michigan when he froze to death.
As he was laid to rest yesterday, a group of flag-carrying motorcycle riders made certain that Schur’s service to his country was remembered.
Members of the Patriot Guard Riders, motorcyclists whose mission is to attend the funeral of every U.S. military veteran, flanked the entrance of the Bay City funeral home. They, like people across the country, were shocked by the circumstances of Schur’s passing...continue
Obama and his opponents have talked about the urgent need for repair of America's infrastructure. America's great interstates were built as part of our national defense, but our roads and bridges,and waterways have been patched or neglected to the degree we can not score higher than a "D" by the American Society of Engineers. Most Americans agree this is a serious problem, and know we must look to our federal and state government to keep them in good repair from our own tax dollars.
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2012 is getting a lot of attention. The History Channel did a show on Nostradamus a few weeks ago, and of course they demonstrate how all these ancient cultures, including the Mayans, pointing to 2012 as being catastrophic. Nostradamus doesn't give us a break either. It will seem that way especially with Obama coming up for re-election...TRedwine
(CNN) -- Just as "Y2K" and its batch of predictions about the year 2000 have become a distant memory, here comes "Twenty-twelve."
The sun shines through the door of the Seven Dolls Temple, in the Maya ruins of Dzibilchaltun in Mexico.
Fueled by a crop of books, Web sites with countdown clocks, and claims about ancient timekeepers, interest is growing in what some see as the dawn of a new era, and others as an expiration date for Earth: December 21, 2012.
The date marks the end of a 5,126-year cycle on the Long Count calendar developed by the Maya, the ancient civilization known for its advanced understanding of astronomy and for the great cities it left behind in Mexico and Central America.
(Some scholars believe the cycle ends a bit later -- on December 23, 2012.)
Speculation in some circles about whether the Maya chose this particular time because they thought something ominous would happen has sparked a number of doomsday theories. READ FURTHER
Obama sounded too apologetic to a lot of Americans while being interviewed on the Al -Arabiya network. Fred Barnes said it best: "Nice guys finish Last." Still, I don't remember Americans going out on the street and rioting against Muslim groups after the "9-11" attack. Will the Far Left give America credit for that? Obama seemed "sheepish" when talking to the Dubai satellite station in Washington. Obama has promised to address the Muslim world from a Muslim capital in his first "100 Days".
CNN: Analyst Zaid Hamid said that Obama has yet to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
Hamid said the real litmus test for the Muslim world is what Obama does with the crisis in Gaza.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama said his administration will offer a hand of friendship to the Muslim world but will hunt down terrorist organizations that kill innocent civilians.
President Obama has taken an early interest in the Middle East peace process.
"My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy," Obama said in an interview with Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based satellite television network. "We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect."
Jack Cafferty thinks Obama might be having second thoughts about a few actions that took place his first few days in office. Here's my take as well:
New Yorkers seem very happy with the choice of Kirsten Gilllibrand, but the kick back from the messy process will end up on the shoulders of David Paterson come 2010.
Since Christmas,the leaks from Paterson's own aides didn't help matters concerning the Caroline candidacy, as they served to only embarrass and enrage the Kennedys. At the same time, according to the Buffalo News,Chuck Schumer was promoting the lesser known Killibrand to the Governor. According to a Schumer surrogate, Senator Schumer was tired of sharing the stage with Hillary.
(CNN) — More than three times as many New Yorkers in a new poll blame Caroline Kennedy and her team for the messy process surrounding the search for Hillary Clinton’s Senate replacement than fault the state’s governor, David Paterson — although, on balance, his final selection meets with their approval.
John McCain stated today that he would not support the stimulus bill as it now stands. Obama hopes to have the bill on his desk by mid-February, but it seems that would be unlikely considering the comments that have been coming from Republicans, and even a few noted Democrats. McCain complained that there are no end-times to the money being spent, but most of all there has been no Republican input.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, who arguably won a large chunk of political capital in the 2008 election, is now looking to cash in as he urges Congress to pass a massive economic stimulus package. President Obama is urging Congress to pass a massive economic recovery package by February 16. But questions about how to spend the money and concerns about the last stimulus package under former President Bush, may create a roadblock. It's something the newly minted president is hoping to avoid. But like most things in Washington, cooperation doesn't come easy. And that may be why Obama painted an extremely grim portrait of the nation's economy on Saturday -- just hours before he met with his economic team, and days before he meets with Republicans leaders on Capitol Hill.Will Obama's economic plan stimulate bipartisan support?
From Ed Hornick
CNNstart here:
Remember when Republicans were accusing Obama of flip-flopping on the the income level at which he would raise taxes? First it was 250k, then 200k, and finally Biden said 150k. Obama supporters along with the Democrats in Congress responded with glee. Meanwhile, republicans were warning how the repealing of Bush's Tax cuts would discourage business growth.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democrats hold a strong majority in Congress, but with power comes a power struggle, and a potential headache for President Obama.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have made it clear that they don't agree with President Obama on everything.
Just two days into his term, the president is already facing pushback from leaders of his own party.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have made it clear -- it's not their job to answer to Obama.
To a certain degree, the president-Congress tension is simply politics at play -- something that happens every time a new president comes in.
Jew hatred is alive and well in the world. It has found a comfortable home among the cloaked words of political correctness in Europe and the United States. It's alarming. It is something that never goes away, but lies just below the surface to emerge when the world needs a scape-goat. It is rearing its perverted head as evidenced by the response of politicians and much of the liberal press to the latest Israeli attacks against Hamas. Exaggeration? Not in the least.
With George Mitchell appointed as special envoy to the volatile Middle East, no doubt the U.S. has a seasoned negotiator. Mitchell accomplished things for peace in Northern Ireland that most thought would be unattainable after a turbulent 800 years of strife with England.
"The situation in the Middle East is volatile, complex and dangerous. But the president and the secretary of state have made it clear that danger and difficulty cannot cause the United States to turn away," he said.
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Now comes the biggest challenge of all for Mitchell: peace in the Middle-East. Mitchell has a simplistic theory that all problems are caused by human beings and can be solved by human beings. This is logical, but Mitchell has to conqueror the anti-Semitic problem that has plagued the world for thousands of years up to the present day problem of the anti-Semitism among the far left media, and leftist leanings of Europe. With the liberal left now dominating politics and media in the United States, anti-Semitism is finding a politically correct way to express itself in coded terms such as "disproportionate response." Swirsky says it best: Make no mistake about it. The outrage, protests, U.N. resolutions and biased media coverage are not about the latest Israeli-Arab conflict. Rather, they are symptoms of the greatest pandemic of hatred the world has ever known - plain, old-fashioned anti-Semitism.
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One way for us to wake up and pull our heads out of the sand is to read Joan Swirsky's article.
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For many decades after World War II, Eastern Europe was completely Judenrein, a Nazi term meaning free of - actually rid of - Jews. Small wonder, given that the region's concentration camps and crematoria - Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Majdanek, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Flossenburg, Mauthausen, Ravensbruck, et al.- had incinerated millions of Jews in the Nazi's reign of terror. But even in the utter absence of Jews, anti-Semitism flourished! And let's not forget that even after the Holocaust, this intractable hatred persisted - in France, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, the list goes on and on. Even today, this age-old venom thrives and in many places has grown to monstrous proportions. The same can be said of countless places on earth where no Jews have ever lived and no inhabitants of those places have ever met a Jew.It's The Jews, Stupid January 22, 2009
By Joan Swirsky
The stories coming from the Inaugural Festivities last Tuesday created a lot of unhappy people. Cnn reports: "On Tuesday, optimistic chants of "change" and "O-bam-A" morphed into angered shouts of "Let us in!" outside the security gates to the inauguration. end quote
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. senator in charge of the Congressional Inaugural Committee has acknowledged there were "significant problems" handling crowds that kept thousands of people with valid tickets from witnessing the inauguration of President Obama.
Meaghan McCamman photographed this Inauguration Day crowd stuck in an underground tunnel.
Some were stuck underground in a tunnel jammed with lines of people that took hours to clear. Others made it to a designated gate only to find it had closed.
Obama has made it very clear to us that his administration will be one of openess and transparency. The other night he told Americans the following:
(CNN) -- Just a couple of nights ago, we heaped praise on the new president for announcing what he called a new era of openness, where in his administration, transparency would rule the day.
And the lobbyists that he was so critical of during the campaign? Well, he told us they will now face even tougher new restrictions. Continue
This is more like it! A real conservative Blue Dog, Kirsten Gillibrand,wins Hillary's old senate seat.
Shamsia and Atifa were making their way to school last November in Kandahar,Afghanistan when two men approached them throwing acid on the face of the youngest sister,Shamsia, followed next by Atifa. One of the men asked them if they would be returning to school.
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Shivering in pain and calling for her mother, Shamsia's hands shake uncontrollably, her eyes swollen shut and her skin peeling from terrible acid burns.
Shamsia and Atifa remain determined to get their education despite the attacks.
The 19-year-old was heading to school along with her 16-year-old sister, Atifa, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It was a warm November morning last year and their only anxiety was being late for class.
"We saw two men up ahead staring at us. One was standing off and the other one was on their motorcycle. I wanted to go but there was a black object in his hand and he took it out," Atifa says.
The girls thought it was a water pistol. 
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"He grabbed my arm and asked, 'Will you be going to school anymore?' He then threw acid on my sister and threw acid on me," Shamsia says.
They weren't the only ones attacked that day. Several other teachers and students were targeted on their way to Meir Weis Mena School in Kandahar, the nation's third-largest city and one where the Taliban have long been influential.
Only hours later yesterday, Obama's White House Counsel,Greg Craig, advised Obama to take the oath a second time in order to stop any controversy about his being the "legitimate" president.
Editor's note: In our Reporter's Notebook series, CNN correspondents reveal stories behind the news. Here, senior White House correspondent Ed Henry describes how a story can change in a moment.
President Barack Obama takes the oath of office -- his second in two days -- in the White House on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- What a long, strange trip Barack Obama's first full day as president turned out to be.
He began the day pushing for more transparency in government, only to end it by keeping TV cameras out when Chief Justice John Roberts re-administered the oath of the presidency.
All this started at Obama's historic swearing-in on Tuesday, where Roberts flubbed a line in the oath of office, leading to this comical scene, via transcript at CNN.com:
Roberts: ... that I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully ...
Obama: ... that I will execute ...
Roberts: ... the off -- faithfully the pres -- the office of president of the United States.
Obama (at same time) ... the office of president of the United States faithfully.
At least my headline tells the truth. I wanted to see what major Bush rule had been scrapped by Obama because that was CNN's leading headline. It seems that Bush had a very strict rule that anyone in the Oval Office was to have his jacket on. I don't know if there were any rules for women.
(CNN) — It's the same Oval Office. The same desk. Even the same curtains. But President Obama has already made one major change: Go through eight years of White House photos, and you won't find one of former President Bush in the Oval Office without his jacket on.
It wasn't just a personal preference. In the Bush administration, it was a rule: Jackets in the Oval Office — and now, it seems, one of the first Bush-era regulations to get scrapped in the Obama White House.
– CNN's John King contributed to this report...............more
Both Bidens will now be immortalized by SNL. This is one gaffe that will keep on giving for at least the next four years.
As Obama was making his way to Washington via the rail tracks, he sent a message out to his supporters announcing his new group called: "Organizing for America." It is Obama's tech savvy method to keep his supporters organized on a national level. His supporters will continue to receive messages to make calls etc. to their legislators for anything deemed necessary to ensure Obama's agenda is enforced. Brilliant move, and it is celebrated by Obama supporters as noted in this statement taken from an Obama blogger:
As you know Obama started as a community organizer but was mocked by some, but they soon found out a community organizer is someone that organizes the community to send the likes of McCain and Palin back to their community.
What Barack has simply brought street level community organizing to the net, it's very dynamic and powerful as some will find out soon. Over the course of the campaign he has reached out and assembled about 20 million or more e-mail addresses and untold millions of cell phone numbers for text messaging and by organizing on the web including his own website, YouTube, Facebook, My Space, etc. The elected official that opposes affordable health care for all Americans and public works programs may have their phone ringing off the hook in a few days. They are going to face something they never faced before. from Gather. end Quote
For those who didn't vote for Obama (many democrats, republicans,and Independents as well) now is the time to organize. Yet, we continue to see the splintering off of conservative groups who wish not to be identified with the Republican party because they are "compromising" with those who tend more towards the center. It is understandable no one wants to compromise their beliefs, but there still has to be a unification of groups if there is any serious hope of winning against Obama in 2012. To be goal-oriented is necessary. If the goal is to not see Obama win re-election, then people must unite for that one purpose.
To alienate well-intentioned organizations because one disagrees on some issues is not going to win any election...TRedwine
Read More on Obama's New Organization:..
NY Daily News: Obama's 'Organizing For America', by Elizabeth Benjamin
The Inaugural Committee of Barack Obama has announced that on January 21, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) will have a prayer service at Washington's Cathedral. The Inaugural Committee says this is being permitted in the interest of tolerance, unity, and understanding.
The U.S. government listed ISNA as an unindicted co-conspirator in the recent trial and retrial of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), a charity charged with covertly funding Hamas. Last November the defendants were convicted of all 108 counts. Prosecutors rejected ISNA's request to have the designation removed, citing "evidence establishing both ISNA's and NAIT's intimate relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood ... and the defendants. ... They were intimately connected with the HLF and its assigned task of providing financial support to Hamas." End Quote.
A Post-Inaugural Prayer, Courtesy of Islamists,
by David J.Rusin
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A Young Muslim Female: Fabria
I was busy scouring the Hillary Clinton updates on my news-reader because I had been concerned with Hillary's toughened talk against Israel during her senate hearings last week. Then comes the news from the India Daily with some long head-lines, but stunning words. Not that many of us would be shocked to learn of Obama operating behind closed doors (transparency), but the angle this article is operating from is something some would have to absorb.
Israel withdraws from Gaza just in time for Obama inauguration – a well-staged drama planned in August when Obama got the nod for the oval office
Satinder Singh
Jan. 18, 2009
Obama knew in August that he and not Hillary Clinton will be the next US President. It was decided behind closed doors. Obama had to agree to betray the common people of America who funded him with skipped lunch money, worked for him free, and voted for him with full trust. It was then Israel was given a green flag to continue to blockade Gaza and finally thrust into the territory in late December. Plans were to withdraw just before the Obama inauguration. That will set the tone, make Obama look independent, although Obama will be surrounded by the agents of the rich and power industrial base taking orders directly from them....CONTINUED
From what we are reading, Obama has 6-9 months before he starts taking blame for the state of the economy. CNN commentator, Reuben Navarette,Jr. takes a quote from the movie "Independence Day" when the president turns to the engineer charged with saving the planet and says, "We're going to see if you're as smart as we all hope you are." End Quote.
posted from Sarah Palin Tundra As Obama slowly reveals his policies on meeting with Iran, we can remember basic human rights are essential and many feel this should be part of pre-conditions. "Given that the third person managed to pull himself out of the hole, the verdict was not carried out," Jamshidi told reporters. Fox News also reported how under Islamic law that men are buried in stone up to their waist, while women are buried up to their necks! Where does this Muslim sexual anxiety come from anyway? It does get meaner especially in Iran when the cleric gets involved in governmental affairs. Is it any wonder that the Christian world is threatened with crucification on sight? Take an in-depth look at how women are treated by the Muslims from this Times Article: TIME MAGAZINE: December 3, 2001 "The Prophet Muhammad improved the status of women in 7th century Arabia. In local pagan society, it was the custom to bury alive unwanted female newborns; Islam prohibited the practice. Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls sacred duty and gave women the right to inherit property. It is clear that the religion has been used in most Muslim countries not to liberate but to entrench inequality. The Taliban, with its fanatical subjugation of the female sex, occupies an extreme, but it nevertheless belongs on a continuum that includes, not so far down the line, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan and the relatively moderate states of Egypt and Jordan... Sources: CNN: Men stoned to death for adultery, murder in Iran Source: Fox News: Men stoned to death for adultery, murder in IranJust this week, Fox News and CNN reported the stoning of three men accused of adultery. It seems one man survived the stoning and was able to crawl out of the pit.AP reported: under Islamic rulings, a man is buried up to his waist, while a woman is buried up to her neck. Those carrying out the verdict then throw stones until the person dies. If the person manages to escape from the hole, he or she will remain free under Islamic law.
Obama's "Whistle-Stop Tour" does sound quaint and historically nostalgic, but we know the event to end all events will have Washington literally bursting at the seams unlike anything ever witnessed for an inaugural event. Diane Feinstine seems to be a little perplexed in trying to describe to us what to expect. Rep.Eleanor Holmes,(D) Washington,D.C. has requested an extra 15 million from Congress to help cover costs. That's an extra 15 million that Congress has authorized for all of D.C.'s events for the entire year of 2009. Oh well what the heck.
A post-inaugural parade proceeded down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House for a reception. The highlight of the procession was a red, white and blue float drawn by four white horses and sponsored by the local Republican Association, which carried 34 pretty young women in white gowns, representing each of the states of the union. At the White House, French introduced the new president. According to French’s daily journal, a charmed Lincoln asked “to be allowed to kiss them all, and he did so,” to much applause. Several newspapers reported the kisses, but Carl Sandburg, esteemed Lincoln biographer, commented that the story “made interesting reading but was neither true nor important.”
Earlier, we wrote about Roosevelt and his pound-cake. There is more to the story in that Roosevelt really wanted to serve chicken a' la king, but Nesbitt complained there was no way she could keep it hot for 2000 guests. Instead Franklin served a rations-styled feast of cold chicken salad, rolls without butter,pound cake,punch, coffee with no sugar. To make matters worse, most of the chicken salad was spoiled and had to be thrown out. No exaggeration.
We will see the big change in inaugurations this year with Obama. CNN reports the following: On Sunday afternoon, Obama will help launch a star-studded free event at the Lincoln Memorial, which will be broadcast live on HBO and other cable and satellite providers.
Musical performers, according to the inaugural committee, include: Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, John Mellencamp, Usher, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, will.i.am and Stevie Wonder. End Quote
No doubt this is an historical event,and one that we hope embraces all Americans and that there is no exclusion to any race or class of people. At this moment though, a dominance of star studded celebrity and excess seems to dominate the new order. Maybe Obama and his supporters know something we do not, perhaps it is Obama's Camelot...TRedwine
sources:
Obama's whistle-stop tour chugs on to Washington, Ed Hornick, of CNN
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Lessons learned. Obama and his operations are tech savvy and left Hillary Clinton's campaign and the McCain team wanting in this area...so wanting.
Obama has more than 1 million MySpace "friends" and more than 3.7 million "supporters" on his officialFacebook page -- some 700,000 more than when he was elected in November. His campaign also has a database of almost 13 million supporters and their e-mail addresses." End Quote from CNN
Though Obama staffers are no longer posting to Facebook, their main line of communication with supporters will be through "You Tube" and 'Change gov." . For the first time, Obama supporters will be communicating back to Obama with questions and concerns.
Obama has selected Va. Gov. Tim Kaine to head the Democratic National Committee. The idea is for Kaine to model the party after his own grass-roots campaign . No doubt, the party will be wired as Obama clones his campaign. It will be a different party.
The first instance of this Presidential live communication will begin as Americans watch (as CNN's Brandon Griggs describes it) "proclaimed the President" on the internet.
What Obama and his operation realize is this: He can control the communication and information going to the public without having to rely on the media. Sarah Palin or any other opposing rival to Obama would find this an excellent way to fairly communicate with supporters. Palin would be able to by-pass the MSM, and she would have an unfriendly medium out of the way. There is always the threat of control and abuse of information as well. That is what is so upsetting about journalism today. The American public cannot rely on the media due to bias. Truth must be searched and weighed heavily. Rivals and their supporters will need to organize now. It is all happening on-line...TRedwine
Sources: Obama poised to be first 'wired' president, CNN
What will Obama do with his millions of online 'friends'?, CNN
"Even though the editorial board is divided along political lines, we all agree a staged show and dance are not the way to communicate either our thankfulness or our traditions. In the first inauguration since Sept. 11, 2001, is the image we want to present abroad one of upscale excess? As our soldiers fight and friends on the other side of the world suffer through one of the worst natural disasters in our time, do we really think it's appropriate to throw a boy-we-can-waste-cash bash?"
Average American workers should not have to pay for a pompous party they weren't invited to attend, nor consulted about how millions of their dollars are distributed.
As our commander-in-chief, Bush should set an example for his constituents - one that represents our nation as one of compassion instead of all-consuming capitalism. In 1945, Franklin Roosevelt, who also considered himself a wartime president, decided an indulgent inauguration was not in line with the tone of the nation or the world. He made a short speech, served some pound cake and decided to forgo parades and parties."
No one is suggesting pound cake for Obama. Most of his money has come from contributions, and many of us got requests from Michelle Obama for more. Obama is making history, but so is our economy, and the repercussions from the recession are so devastating for those who will be watching from home.
This all brings to mind the historical tales of how Americans would go to the movies in the 1930's, and watch the glamorous parties of the Hollwood stars if only to escape for a few hours at the downtown "picture shows".
Let's wish Obama well, so that we survive the next four years...TRedwine
For more on Obama's flurry of events:
From the AP
For inaugural balls, go for glitz, forget economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — So you're attending an inaugural ball saluting the historic election of Barack Obama in the worst economic climate in three generations. Can you get away with glitzing it up and still be appropriate, not to mention comfortable and financially viable?
To quote the man of the hour: Yes, you can. Veteran ballgoers say you should. And fashionistas insist that you must.
"This is a time to celebrate. This is a great moment. Do not dress down. Do not wear the Washington uniform," said Tim Gunn, a native Washingtonian and Chief Creative Officer at Liz Claiborne, Inc.
"Just because the economy is in a downturn, it doesn't mean that style is going to be in a downturn," agreed Ken Downing, fashion director for Neiman Marcus.
And if anyone does raise an eyebrow at those sequins, remind them that optimism is good for times like these. "Just say you're doing it to help the economy," chuckled good manners guru Letitia Baldridge.
Yes, we understand the historical significance of soon having our first bi-racial President, Barack Obama.
Editor's note: The n-word appears in this piece because CNN feels the context in which it is used is pertinent to the story of James "Little Man" Presley.
SLEDGE, Mississippi (CNN) -- James Presley stands amid chopped cotton, the thick Mississippi mud caked on his well-worn boots. A smile spreads across his face when he talks about voting for Barack Obama and what that might mean for generations to come. His voice picks up a notch. He holds his head up a bit higher.
"There's a heap of pride in voting for a black man," he says....continue at CNN
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I can’t believe she said that! Now that she is the wife of a Vice President, she is going to have to learn discretion. What she said may indeed be true, but she should have realized the firestorm of conversation that comment would unleash.