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...Obama seems not to have fully assimilated what should be the message of his campaign: It's the economy, egghead. The economy was almost entirely missing from his dialogue with Pastor Rick Warren at Saddleback Church - and there were more than a few opportunities to insert it. When Warren braced him on abortion, Obama fumbled around, attempting to sound reasonable. He should have said straight out, "We're gonna disagree on this one. I respect your view on abortion, but I'm pro-choice ... And you know, Pastor Rick, Jesus never mentions abortion in the Bible. He did say, though...
...with good reason. The formerly charismatic Obama had undergone a transformation of his own: from John F. Kennedy to Adlai Stevenson, from dashing rhetorician to good-government egghead. He derided the gas-tax holiday as the gimmick it was, gambling that Democrats would see through the ruse. He trudged through the Wright debacle, never allowing his impeccable disposition to slip toward anger or pettiness. On the Sunday before the primaries, he gave a dour, newsless interview to Tim Russert, enduring another 20 minutes of questions about the Reverend Wright. Meanwhile, Clinton was spiky and histrionic in her simultaneous duel with...
Every presidential campaign is occasionally bedeviled by two things - media firestorms over controversial remarks and egghead policy advisors who stumble naively into a political mess. Dealing with two such flaps in virtually the same week is bad enough. But when two separate media firestorms are caused by two policy advisors, as happened to Barack Obama last week, a campaign has to do some serious damage control - and rethinking...
...made Tintin a world traveler, meeting cultures that his creator encountered only in books and magazines. Over the course of the books (Hergé would call them albums), Tintin acquired a panoply of colorful companions: his faithful dog Snowy; his hard-drinking, foul-mouthed friend Captain Haddock; egghead Professor Calculus; bumbling detectives the Thompson Twins; and overbearing opera diva Bianca Castafiore...
...still has a fortune north of $15 billion and has remained active in the tech world, investing in a series of start-ups, from AOL to early wireless networks. He scored big with such outfits as DreamWorks and Ticketmaster, while some of his other investments have struggled, like Egghead Software and Purple Moon, a failed CD-ROM venture...