"Russert was born in 1950 in Buffalo, New York, the son of Timothy John Russert Sr. -- a newspaper truck driver and sanitation worker... and Elizabeth Russert, a homemaker."
BTW... we (with my wife) watch French TV (TV5 Monde) almost every evening... we have this channel in our neighborhood. It's a good thing (Martha is in my head) to get some regular dose of foreign movies, news, and culture.
I didn't have much time yesterday for TV... but one thing I would say is that it would be extremely bad if Hillary tries to "claim" a vice-presidential nomination based on some sort of "power sharing" and "power balance" in the party (between her and Obama). That would be really bad. Obama cannot have two powerful Clintons second guessing him at every turn of the difficult way ahead.
Posted in moondance_99 on Jun 2, 2008... modified on Jun 2, 2008
m_99,
You are a wonderful political commentator - every dismayed citizen is... and should be by default... a political commentator. Politics is our common space. America, particularly - because of the immigrant character of the country - is mostly a political community (and a community of laws).
BTW, I am pro-Obama... while having a huge respect for the Clintons. The hope - and widely held hope is extremely important for anything to happen in a large country like the US - is that Obama is more invested in the idea of deeper changes. Hillary seems more like "I can do better than the Republicans" - and that's not enough for me. Things should be done differently - at so many levels.
Posted in moondance_99 on May 27, 2008... modified on May 29, 2008
Hello m_99...
You are one fast blogger... early bird... first entrant... whatever... :)
PublicPost is about speaking out... and discussing the issues important to you... and hearing what other people may have to say. That's about all the "definition" I can come up with... :)
Thank you for spreading the word about PublicPost!
No, it's not "creative destruction" either... It is a really mean version of economic Darwinism as preached and practiced by a pathologically moneyeyed executive nomenclature. I found the article below after reading today's news about Bear Stearns:
"Wall Street's five biggest firms together paid a record $39 billion in bonuses [for 2007], even though three of them suffered the worst quarterly losses in their history and shareholders lost more than $80 billion.
Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers Holdings and Bear Stearns together paid $65.6 billion in compensation and benefits last year to their 186,000 employees. Year-end bonuses usually account for 60 percent of the total, meaning bonuses exceeded the $36 billion distributed in 2006 when the industry reported all-time high profits.
The bonuses are larger than the gross domestic products of Sri Lanka, Lebanon or Bulgaria."
"The median household earned $48,201 in 2006, down from $49,244 in 1999, according to the Census Bureau. It now looks as if a full decade may pass before most Americans receive a raise."
"NEW YORK (AP) -- The Federal Reserve says Americans' percentage of equity in their homes has fallen below 50 percent for the first time since 1945.
The Fed's U.S. Flow of Funds Accounts shows homeowners' percentage of home equity slipped to a revised 49.6 percent in the second quarter of 2007 and declined further to 47.9 percent in the fourth quarter. It marks the first time homeowners' debt on their houses exceeds their equity since the Fed started tracking the data in 1945."
No, it's not "creative destruction" either... It is a really mean version of economic Darwinism as preached and practiced by a pathologically moneyeyed executive nomenclature. I found the article belo...see full post
