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...Despite a promise from the incumbent, President George W. Bush, that Obama could "count on complete cooperation from my Administration as he makes the transition to the White House," the next ten weeks mark a challenge that has frustrated many a President. John F. Kennedy, for example, didn't even have his predecessor's encouragement: when he took over the reins from Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower failed to take action on several issues toward the end of his presidency that would have made Kennedy's transition easier. Eisenhower's final term and subsequent exit from office have left a legacy...
Then, of course, there's the Katie Couric factor. Will Americans be able to forget the shell-shocked Palin of those early network interviews? This may be her greatest handicap; you know what they say about second chances at first impressions. But here too, it would be wrong to count her out. A friend of Track Palin, the governor's teenage son, once told me about having dinner at the Palins' house from time to time. He remembered seeing his buddy's mom watching the evening news and taking notes. This was before the klieg lights of the national campaign...
...stumping for Obama in precincts that she won decisively during the Democratic primary. She also continued to work at the unfinished business left over from her presidential bid, starting with a $25.2 million campaign debt. She has whittled it down to about $2.6 million, depending on how you count. That figure does not include the $13 million that she loaned the campaign out of personal funds and will not get back. Nor does it account for the $5.2 million that she owes her former chief strategist Mark Penn - who is a flash point with some of her donors and whose...
...ragged economy may be accelerating the trend. In Cadillac, Mich., Laurie Melstrom formed a giving circle in early October--just as the stock market was swooning. "This economic downturn has a lot of people breaking out into a sweat," says the 54-year-old homemaker. "Yet everyone said, 'Count me in.'" Individually, the group's 10 or 12 prospective members can't make much difference, but together, she says, "we'll be able to make the kind of donation that our small charities are really going to need in tough times...
...spare you all from reading the crazy thing I have planned for the 14th e-mail (and there have been events where the count surpasses 14), let me be brief: mass e-mails succeed only in pissing off the people on your lists. If I don’t want to cook dumplings at 12:46 a.m., barring any sort of national dumpling crisis, I probably won’t want to cook them...