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...behavior, calling attention to her hunch that blacks lag behind whites when it comes to investment, planning for retirement and putting money aside for college. The firm also started the Ariel Community Academy, an inner-city Chicago school that teaches elementary school students how to invest. Hobson takes her stump speech-- essentially a crash course in investment strategy--to PTA meetings, union halls and schools, and she is a financial consultant for ABC's Good Morning America. She agitates on corporate and civic boards, from the Chicago Public Library to Princeton University. "Mellody has a deep set of values about...
UNAUTHORIZED LEAKS Two months before the election, unnamed CIA, Pentagon and State Department professionals began grumbling to reporters that Iraq was in much worse shape than Bush was claiming on the stump. After the leak of a July National Intelligence Estimate predicting Iraq could be in civil war by the end of 2005, conservative columnist Robert Novak accused the CIA of trying to undermine the President's re-election...
...which sounded nice--except that Kerry didn't buy any of it. When he saw the gauzy stump speech his staff had produced from the memo, Kerry told the advisers aboard his plane--Shrum, Sasso, Cutter and McCurry--that the last thing he could afford now was to start sounding like Oprah. Not while Americans were hearing of hostage beheadings and car bombs every night on the news; not while Bush and Cheney were stoking the voters' fears with ads about wolves in the forest and hints of a postelection nuclear holocaust. A warm and fuzzy message now, Kerry said...
...independents to events where they could be registered and courted by the campaign. He let direct mail go out under his name to swing states. He recorded radio spots in New Hampshire, where he pasted Bush in the primaries in 2000, and agreed at the last minute to stump there the weekend before the election. At times, McCain's television appearances were scary duck-and-cover drills for the Bush message team, as McCain was perfectly capable of breaking ranks with the President on issues ranging from Iraq reconstruction to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth...
...doing a mistake. What kind of message would he be sending to the troops who were in precisely the same position 35 years later? And if he said he would never have invaded Iraq, wasn't he admitting the point that Bush was making every day on the stump, that if John Kerry had been President, Saddam Hussein would still be in power...