Word: schmidts
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...possible to be your "authentic self" and still run for President? -Mark Schmidt, Cincinnati, OhioI think it is difficult, [but] people are yearning for anyone who will talk to them in a candid and open way, acknowledging that they don't have all the answers but have thought about the problems in an intelligent...
When Angie Schmidt's seven-year marriage ended, there wasn't much to laugh about. But what she craved was a little levity. "There was nothing out there that really made people laugh at themselves and laugh at breakups," she says. "I thought, Wouldn't it be great to create a business that does this?" Last September she started an online store dedicated to lightening the mood -- smashingkatie.com named after "the other woman." By the holidays, the site was flooded with orders...
...Like Schmidt, many of the divorce entrepreneurs are people who have gone through the experience themselves. After Scott Schmeizer, an executive with a housewares firm based on Long Island, N.Y., got divorced in 2004, he worked with a designer to manufacture a knife rack that looks like a human figure. He called it the Ex. "It was cathartic," he says. Others apparently think so too; it now comes in six different colors, retails for $120 and is one of the firm's top sellers. Schmidt's online breakup boutique sells mugs that say things like BOO FRICKIN' HOO and books...
...spending" to the point of parody - resonated among the many voters who were looking for answers to Florida's economic slump. Fifty percent of those who turned out Tuesday said that the economy was their most important issue, and McCain won those voters by 38% to 35%. Explains Steve Schmidt, a senior McCain adviser, "People understand the difference between a very good salesman and a commander in chief...
...McCain's historic willingness to work with Democrats and an alleged McCain quote-that he has since denied-that he would not appoint judges in the mold of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. This last allegation sparked especially sharp words from the McCain staff. Senior advisor Steve Schmidt, pushing back against Romney's insinuation that McCain is not a "real" Republican, told reporters about his effort, at the 2004 Democratic convention, to have prominent Republicans be available to refute Democrats' attacks on George Bush and attack John Kerry. Many came to Boston, including Rudy Giuliani, but, says Schmidt, "Mitt...