 | The American Handshake Dan Fishel from Columbia Business School explains how to identify and shake hands with an American. From J-term orientation. |
 | Silly Season: Ayers, Obama, Hyde Park, and The University of Chicago: examining Republican code words Silly Season: Ayers, Obama, and Hyde Park Of the many ludicrous political discussions of the last six months, the most ludicrous may well be the discussion of the alleged association between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, former member of the Weather Underground. Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, have lived in the Hyde Park area in Chicago. So has Barack Obama. (So have I.) If you lived in Hyde Park for (say) a decade, there was a good chance that you'd run across Ayers, and maybe even be at a social occasion with him. And if you were a social person, or someone who was running for political office, you would meet a lot of people, and it's pretty likely that you would run across Ayers, or be at some social occasion with him. Ayers is one of numerous people, in the Chicago area, whom Barack Obama has run across. Obama has much closer relationships with numerous conservatives on the University of Chicago faculty, many of whom have given money to Obama's campaign, and many of whom have talked to him at length and been at social occasions with him. I know for a fact that Obama has actually played basketball with Richard Epstein, a libertarian on the law school faculty who has written some pretty controversial things on property rights and government regulation. I also know that Obama has had a number of conversations with former law school dean Daniel Fischel, a Reagan Republican who has written some pretty controversial things on corporations and government regulation. True, Ayers apparently had a small party for Obama back in 1995; true, Ayers gave some small sum of money to one of Obama's campaigns; and true, Ayers and Obama simultaneously served, for a time, on a board of a local organization, the Woods Fund, which helps disadvantaged children. But there was nothing even vaguely like a close relationship between them; and it would be easy to identify countless people, since 1995, with whom Obama has had much closer associations. Of course many legitimate questions can be raised about any candidate for public office. But it is a gross understatement to say that the alleged Ayers-Obama association is not one of them. http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/open_university/archive/2008/04/17/silly-season-ayers-obama-and-hyde-park.aspx John McCain's campaign released a list of 100 former ambassadors endorsing the GOP presidential nominee. Second on the list, though her name is misspelled, is Leonore Annenberg, currently the president and chairman of the Annenberg Foundation and widow of ambassador and philanthropist Walter Annenberg. Ms. Annenberg was herself the "chief of protocol" at the State Department under President Reagan. If the last name sounds familiar, it's because it also graces the name of the Chicago education board where Barack Obama and William Ayers sat in the room six times together. In recent days, the McCain-Palin ticket (and particularly Palin) has faulted Obama for having served on that board with Ayers, who was a founding member of the radical 60's Weather Underground group when Obama was in grade school. Since then, however, Ayers has been rehabilitated in Chicago society, carving out a niche in education circles. As a former Republican representative in Illinois told NPR on Monday, smearing Obama for his board association with Ayers is "nonsensical." "It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier ... It's ridiculous," Republican Rep. Diana Nelson said. "There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It's nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It's so silly." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/mccains-trumpets-endorsem_n_132954.html The gutter politics of the McCain campaign is reaching down once again to denounce Obama for his distant past links to Bill Ayers in an unprecedented guilt-by-association attack for a presidential campaign. Sarah Palin declared, "This is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country." Hannity's America featured more of these absurd lies about Obama and Ayers in Hannity's infomercial for idiocy, including an amazing interview with legendary anti-Semitic crackpot Andy Martin: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-k-wilson/30-lies-refuted-about-aye_b_132109.html |
 | International Student Experience Part 1: Culture Shock Columbia Business School Orientation, January 2008 |
 | International Student Experience Part 2: Culture Shock Columbia Business School Orientation, January 2008 |
 | International Student Experience Part 3: Social Adjustment Columbia Business School Orientation, January 2008 The American Phrasebook is taken with permission from http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/american/ |
 | International Student Experience Part 4: American Handshakes Columbia Business School Orientation, January 2008 |
 | International Student Experience Part 5: Academic Adjustment Columbia Business School Orientation, January 2008 |
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 | AP Yahoo Poll: McCain "old;" Obama "outsider" PlusAP Yahoo Poll: McCain "old;" Obama "outsider"AP Yahoo Poll: McCain "old;" Obama "outsider"The Associated PressAsk people to blurt out their first words about the two presidential candidates and one in five say "change" or "outsider" for Barack Obama and "old" for John McCain, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll. (July 7)When you ask Americans what word comes to mind when they think of John McCain, there's a good chance they'll say this: (SOT: DAN OLSEN/SARASOTA, FL)(13;18:53) OLD. I GOTTA SAY OLD.Ask the same question about Barack Obama and you'll probably hear this:(SOT: VICTOR FORMAN/BALTIMORE, MD)(13;22:04) I THINK OF CHANGEAn AP-Yahoo poll of more than 17-hundred Americans put those two responses about the presidential candidates at the top of the list.19-percent picked "old" for the Republican. 20-percent picked "change" or "outsider" for the Democrat.Nine percent gave this response to McCain.(SOT: TRAVIS CHIPLE /BALTIMORE, MD)(13:11:02) I THINK PRISONER OF WAR. I THINK THAT'S THE ONE THING HE HAS GOT UP ON OBAMA IS THE FACT THAT HE SERVED.While 13-percent cite Obama's lack of experience.(SOT: CINDY HUNT/BALTIMORE, MD)(13:13:43)I THINK HE TALKS THE TALK BUT I DON'T THINK HE CAN WALK THE WALK.Eight percent see Obama as "inspiring."(SOT: HARRIET FISCHEL/ BETHESDA)(13;23:30) I THINK HE'S A NEW FACE AND A NEW VISTA AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED.Nine percent think of Obama as "dishonest." While seven percent associate "Bush" with McCain.Further down the list--six percent rank Obama as "liberal." The same percentage relates McCain to Iraq and terrorism. (SOT: DEBBIE CHIPLE/CHICAGO)(13:15:00) JOHN MCCAIN I THINK OF IRAQ. I THINK OF THE PEOPLE WE LOST. AND A COUNTRY THAT CAN NEVER BE WON NO MATTER WHO IS IN OFFICE.With just four months to election day, the survey also suggests Obama faces a bigger problem than McCain from growing negative impressions. Both are seen favorably by roughly half of those questioned. They are seen unfavorable by about four in ten people. ___ ___, The Associated Press. |
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