...The 28 hours Joe Biden spent in New York City at the end of last week were a whirlwind of activity—much of it feeding the mounting speculation that he is inching ever closer to launching a late-starting presidential campaign. Biden stood alongside Attorney General Loretta Lynch and announced an $80 million plan to clear the backlog of rape kits in police departments around the country. He appeared with Governor Andrew Cuomo at a rally with some of the city's most powerful unions to support Cuomo's push to hike the minimum wage. He made his now-famous appearance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He took part in an evening roundtable for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. And, the next day, he delivered remarks at a 9/11 memorial aboard the Intrepid Museum, at which firefighters, cops, and other first responders chanted, “Run, Joe, run!” Each of these events was freighted with political meaning. For some, the turn on Colbert, with Biden expressing his enduring anguish about the loss of his son Beau and his heartfelt doubts about his ability to rise emotionally to the rigors of a campaign, was the most telling, signaling what many in the political establishment have believed for weeks: that for all of Biden's dalliances with a bid, he would in the end find himself unable to get to yes. And that may still prove true. But fewer than 12 hours after the Colbert interview aired, Biden partook in a meeting that signaled something entirely different. The meeting appeared...
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...Speech Joe Biden: “Hello, my fellow Americans, it has been my pleasure serving our country as Vice President for the last four years. I appreciate that you have given me the opportunity to serve under President Barack Obama. Tonight, I want to talk to you about some of the accomplishments we have achieved over the past four years. We have stabilized the economy, reformed healthcare, and strengthened our foreign policy. President Obama and I will continue to lead our country into a more prosperous future if we are re-elected this upcoming November. I have helped President Obama in making decisions to improve our economy. We created jobs for our citizens here in our nation. During the recession, our auto industry created thousands of manufacturing jobs. By removing trade barriers we will increase auto exports by 2016. It will open up new markets and opportunities to trade freely and fairly for the benefit of all. Also the President and I will continue to provide lower healthcare costs for families through the Affordable Healthcare Act. This benefits Americans by providing affordable health care for every citizen. We’ve managed to accomplish this historic feat by covering every legal resident of America who is not already covered under Medicare or an employer-provided health care plan. Now, 19 million Americans have become eligible to purchase coverage – every American has the opportunity to acquire affordable healthcare. Thus, the President and I are hopeful for the...
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...The Vice Presidential Debate The debate between the two parties was truly an amazing one, to see these two debaters have made it very difficult for me to choose a winner, but if I must say based on my perspective of the information put out and how it have been displayed by Mr. Joe Biden, democratic vice president and Mr. Paul Ryan, the republican vice president candidate I would have chosen Mr. Paul Ryan for three main reasons these reasons are : His points are very clear and straight forward he stuck by his point even though Mr. Biden was a more experienced candidate than Mr. Ryan they debated about the topics such as taxes, Medicare , abortion, security, and a lot more topics which was very informative. The next reason why I think Mr. Ryan is the winner of the debate is that for all these topics which was mention and debated on, I recognized and came to the conclusion that he offered solution which were very suitable and long term goals in which would enable more people to vote for Republican party’s nominee Mr. Mitt Romney. My final reason for choosing Mr. Ryan is that he was in control of the debate he was very assertive yet polite unlike Mr. Biden who was aggressive and loud, Mr. Ryan was calm and displayed excellent speaking keeping a straight face and while keeping his cool and bring across his point. In conclusion Mr. Ryan was the winner of the debate because his points were clear and straight forward, he gave solutions...
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...RUNNING HEAD: College be more tax supported Should college be more tax supported? Jermaine Coble English 120 Dr. Sonya Brown February 17, 2009 As a student at Fayetteville State University you will pay $8,000 a year for tuition. For four years at this university, you will pay around $32,000, which is a lot of money. However, if you chose to enroll at the University of Chapel Hill, tuition would be $15,040 a year. For four years, you would pay around $60,160. (UNC 2008) This is a lot of money. Most people have to take loans out to pay for college and when they graduate they are already in debt to banks. Now, think about how the first thirteen year of your education was paid for by taxes and the government. The government should just pay for four more year. Are programs like Pell Grant working to help lower our tuition? What does our former president and president think about the topic? We go through thirteen years of free public education or what seemed to be free. According to The Washington Post, it cost on an average $8,322 a year for one child to go to public school. For a senior in high school tax payer have spent on an average of $108,186 on one child. If taxes pay for thirteen years of public schooling, why not pay for four more years of higher education at state supported colleges? The cost of college would be cheaper for tax payers’ then public school because only about three fifths of high school seniors who graduate from high school actually...
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...Part 1: Chart House vs Senate | | | | | | HOUSE | SENATE | 1 | Size | 453 | 100 | 2 | Length of term | 2 years | 6 yrs | 3 | Term limits? | No limit | No limit | 4 | Election schedule: how often | | | 5 | Apportionment of representatives: which is by state and which is by district | District | State | 6 | Minimum age | 25 | 30 | 7 | Minimum citizenship | 7 years | 9 years | 8 | Inhabitant of state represented (for how long) | 7 years | 9 years | 9 | Filling vacancy (death, resignation, retirement, expulsion or election to another government position) | Special/general election | Governor or state of vacancy | 10 | Official Leader | Speaker of the house | Vice president | 11 | Describe organization: which is more centralized, more formal | Formal, more rules | Informal, less rules | 12 | Which has stronger leadership? | No | yes | 13 | Interrelations with constituency- how many do they represent | 710,767 people | Half the state | 14 | Greater expertise/specialization | Experts | | 15 | Name the four types of committees in each chamber (they are the same) | Standing: continue from 1 congress to the nextJoint: members of both chambers conduct investigations/special studies.Conference: members of both chambers work out differences on bills.Special: members from 1 chamber conducts special investigations | same | 16 | Who has more committee/subcommittee assignments | Less | More | 17 | Which chamber has...
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...Running head: ETHICS Ethics Paper Stacey Avery University of Phoenix MGT/498-On-line Rob Inglis May 21, 2012 This paper is written in fulfillment of the MGT/498 class at the University of Phoenix. The assignment calls for a paper in which explains the role of ethics and social responsibility in developing a strategic plan while considering stakeholder needs and agendas. Include at least one example of a company overstepping ethical boundaries for stakeholder agendas, and what type of preventative measures could be taken to avoid this type of situation. When a company is developing their strategic plan, ethics and social responsibility will play a major role in how the company’s plan is devised. The company will also need to take into consideration all the major stakeholders of the company and their needs as well. By doing so, a company will be able to develop a strategic plan that is socially responsible, ethical and approved by all stakeholders, which should lead to a successful strategic plan. As companies develop a strategic plan, ethics and social responsibility will drive the company’s vision, mission and values. These three parts of a strategic plan are the foundation on which to build policies and procedures that will drive the plan through to success. When a company is developing their vision, mission and values, they will need to take into account all stakeholders involved, such as the employees that will be living the...
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...The Battle Biased Against Women In American history, the battle between Congress and the president has never stopped for even one second. The check and balance system guarantees both Congress and the president can oversee each other`s powers and veto its opponent`s decisions. Especially when the ideas come from female, Congress is always hard to be persuaded on these opinions. In the very beginning, there was no business related to women in this inherent war because those sexist founding fathers did not give voting right to female voters. After ladies got right to vote from the Amendment XIX of the Constitution, American women thought that they finally have same discourse power equal to men. However, actually, even in today, it is harder for any female candidate to compete for power than a male candidate. It is because that the whole government system, which includes legislative, executive, and judicial, is biased against women. And people can easily find the evidence from Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Elena Kagan`s experience and encounters. Congress had defeated Hillary Clinton`s healthcare bill when she was still First Lady. This tarnished her reputation considerably, and was looked upon as a rebuke from Congress. The 1993 reform of health care was considered a bill would be submitted by Congress by most citizens. However, after an over one year debate, neither the Senate nor the House wanted to enact First Lady`s proposal into the law. Republican senators Bob Dole...
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...Chief of Staff for the Illinois Student Senate August 2014 - Present Creates weekly agenda for general meetings and executive meetings. Edits and reviews resolutions and packets. Sends bi-weekly reports to Senate members, records minutes for executive meetings. Runs the monitor during general meetings. I am also involved with the It’s On Us Task Force, a sub-committee of the Senate. For the past two years I have worked with others on promoting awareness for our campaign, getting students on campus to the sign the pledge and had the honor of being part of an organizational group to host Vice President Joe Biden to speak on behalf of our work on campus. Was the intern to the previous Chief of Staff my freshman year. Copy Editor and Executive Board Member for Re:Search March 2015 - Present Re:Search is the undergraduate research journal for the university. Executive Board member as a copy editor for the student-run journal. Edit journal articles for grammatical errors and general MLA Style. Treasurer position includes making room reservations for events, buying food, and taking attendance of events. As an executive board member, I work on selecting authors and pieces for the journal. LAS 101 Freshman Seminar Intern August 2015 – Present Teaches a weekly Freshman Seminar Class, which includes creating lesson plans and grading assignments and teaching the students about campus resources and student opportunities. Senate Committee on Student Discipline September...
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...for child pornography, sexual harassment, and various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden (Kravets, 2011). The criminal was Barry Ardolf the victims’ neighbor (Kravets, 2011). The victims were Matt and Bethany Kostolnik his new neighbors who lived next door to Mr. Ardolf (Kravets, 2011). Mr. Ardolf wanted to destroy the careers and professional reputations of Matt and Bethany Kostolnik, to damage their marriage, and to wreak havoc on their lives. Mr. Ardolf spent two weeks cracking the Kostolnik’s WEP encryption (Kravets, 2011). He then used their own Wi-Fi network to create a fake MySpace page for the husband, where he posted a picture of a pubescent girl having sex with two young boys (Kravets, 2011). Mr. Ardolk e-mailed the same child porn to one of Mr. Kostolnik’s co-workers, and sent flirtatious e-mail to women in Mr. Kostolnik's office (Kravets, 2011). In May 2009, the Secret Service showed up at Mr. Kostolnik's office to ask about several threatening e-mails sent from his Yahoo account, and traced to his IP address, that were addressed to Biden and other politicians (Kravets, 2011). The subject line of one e-mail read: "This is a terrorist threat! Take this seriously." "I swear to God I'm going to kill you!," part of the message to Biden said (Kravets, 2011). 2. What do you think was the underlying motivation of the criminal in the case? Mr. Ardolf wanted to get back at his neighbors after...
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...In today’s era of Youtube, the mass media plays an important role in covering facts and features of elections. Right from the campaigning to voting to election of a candidate, all news events are covered by the media. Politics is a tough and rough game and each country needs a democratic nominee who is willing to protect the country from all evils. The recent elections of 2008 were indeed the most historical presidential elections in the history of U.S. Illinois Senator Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United State. During the election, there was this first lady, named Hillary Rodham Clinton, who expressed her interest in the presidential election of 2008. Until then, in the history of presidential election in United State, none of the woman had ever won the major party nomination. Well-educated Hillary Clinton had a good experience of public service and managing the Oval office. She emerged as a dedicated and hard working lady from the American women’s perspective. The staff members and policy team of the campaign The initial team of her campaign was supported and run by a group of advisers and political operatives. Mark Penn, Penn, Schoen & Berland were considered as the stategic genius of Clinton’s campaign. The chief operating officer of the campaign was Evelyn S. Lieberman while Howard Wolfson was the spokesperson of the campaign. Many other well-known senior advisers and subject specialist formed the focus group of the campaign. Ann Lewis was campaign’s senior...
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...Obama's victory speech rhetorical analysis. The democrat Barack Obama held a famous victory speech after being elected for president on November, 4th 2012 in his home town Chicago, Illinois. If we starting of by introducing the pentagon model, we know that a speech usually is centred around an intention of the speaker and is depending on the interrelationship between the listeners, the topic, the writer, the language and the circumstances. The topic of this speech is the political campaign, the election, the American population and having high hopes in the future America. The listeners is mostly Obama's supporters as it was being held in Chicago in a building full of democrats, but also for the entire United States and the world in general, considering that America has so much influence on the world. President Obama starts off by being grateful and appreciating the audience. He says thanks three times, which is to calm down the audience but also to highlight his thanks. Afterwards he voices his opinion on how America has been moving forward” It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an American family, and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people.” This sentence shows his patos. Obama develops the cohesion by speaking about the...
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...Tweet 20 12 100 VIEW SHOW DESCRIPTION Advertising Advertising SLIDESHOW CENTRAL LOCAL NATIONAL VIRAL MOST VIEWED Photos: 150 cats found in home of known feline hoarder Behind the Scenes: Coakley, Baker Debate Tattoos of sex assault suspect released 2 years later: Remembering Sandy's impact 1-4 of 12 COMMENTS The views expressed are not those of this site, this station or its affiliated companies. By posting your comments you agree to accept our terms of use. Latest from WCVB NewsCenter5 News Weather u local On TV Boston, MA Son who admits killing mother held without bail 43min Alerts (0) Closings (0) Radar FEATURED WEATHER LATEST HEADLINES 63° Biden campaigns for congressional hopeful Moulton 22min Vice President Joe Biden has made a stop in Massachusetts to rally Democrats in the 6th Congressional District, where political newcomer Seth Moulton is locked in a hotly contested race with Republican Richard Tisei. Read More » Baker's emotional fisherman story 5 years old 37min Son who admits killing mother held without...
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...Marketing Application Class A Task – Political Marketing Mohamad Alshafei (AKA Leo) 1|Page Contents 1. US presidential election 2012 Overview ..................................................................................... 3 2. Political Program and Positions ................................................................................................... 4 Barak Obama ............................................................................................................................... 4 Economic policy ....................................................................................................................... 4 Health Care .............................................................................................................................. 4 Foreign policy .......................................................................................................................... 4 Mitt Romney ................................................................................................................................ 5 Economic policy ....................................................................................................................... 5 Health Care .............................................................................................................................. 5 Foreign Policy .......................................................................................................................
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...Why did Obama win the 2012 election? The 2012 US election saw Democrat Obama come up against Republican Romney. Obama was the favourite throughout and in the end won with 332 electoral votes, with Romney only gaining 206. There were several reasons as to why Obama won the election, such as the October surprise, a majority of Hispanic and Women votes for Democrat, and Romney as a man himself. However the main one can be considered Obama being an incumbent President, giving him a huge benefit in terms of the public. Obama being an incumbent President was a massive benefit for the election as this gave Obama a foot to stand on and was also able to attack Romney from the start. History has proven the benefit of being an incumbent President, for example Johnson in 1964, Nixon in 1972, Reagan in 1984, Clinton in 1996 and Bush in 2004 were all re-elected as incumbents. The benefit of being incumbent is that you have already shown leadership in the past four years, and can be very popular with the public. Therefore Obama is able to state his achievements and show his leadership when campaigning, such as stating that unemployment was less than 8% for the first time in four years during the campaign, gaining him support, whereas Romney had not been proven and had no major achievements to support him. Therefore more ‘undecided voters’ listened more to Obama, meaning being an incumbent President gained him more popularity and support during the campaign. Being incumbent was also beneficial...
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...GAME CHANGE OBAMA AND THE CLINTONS, MCCAIN AND PALIN, AND THE RACE OF A LIFETIME JOHN HEILEMANN AND MARK HALPERIN FOR DIANA AND KAREN Contents Cover Title Page Prologue Part I Chapter One – Her Time Chapter Two – The Alternative Chapter Three – The Ground Beneath Her Feet Chapter Four – Getting to Yes Chapter Five – The Inevitables Chapter Six – Barack in a Box Chapter Seven – “They Looooove Me!” Chapter Eight – The Turning Point Chapter Nine – The Fun Part Chapter Ten – Two For the Price of One Chapter Eleven – Fear and Loathing in the Lizard’s Thicket Chapter Twelve – Pulling Away and Falling Apart Chapter Thirteen – Obama Agonistes Chapter Fourteen – The Bitter End Game Part II Chapter Fifteen – The Maverick and His Meltdown Chapter Sixteen – Running Unopposed Chapter Seventeen – Slipping Nooses, Slaying Demons Part III Chapter Eighteen – Paris and Berlin Chapter Nineteen – The Mile-High Club Chapter Twenty – Sarahcuda Chapter Twenty-One – September Surprise Chapter Twenty-Two – Seconds in Command Chapter Twenty-Three – The Finish Line Epilogue – Together at Last Index Author’s Notes About the Authors Copyright About the Publisher Prologue BARACK OBAMA JERKED BOLT upright in bed at three o’clock in the morning. Darkness enveloped his low-rent room at the Des Moines Hampton Inn; the airport across the street was quiet in the hours before dawn. It was very late December 2007, a few days ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Obama had been sprinting flat out...
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