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President Bush on the Presidential Transition
11:12 A.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming. Mr. Vice President and Lynne, thank you for being here with us. Laura and I welcome you to the South Lawn -- better known as Barney's playground. (Laughter.)

I want to thank members of my Cabinet who've joined us. We've just finished a Cabinet meeting, and it gave me a chance to tell them how much I appreciate the good work they're doing during this critical time for our nation.

I also appreciate the men and women who make up the Executive Office of the President for joining us today. (Applause.) Some of you have been at the White House for just a few months. Others arrived the same day that we did nearly eight years ago. You're the ones who can tell that my hair has gotten a little grayer. (Laughter.) Others are career employees who have been here for 30, or 40, sometimes 50 years. I can tell that your hair has gotten grayer. (Laughter.)

Original: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/president_bush_on_the_presiden.html

Don't You Think The Hole Is About Deep Enough?
The core lyric of my favorite country song is "When you're in a hole, stop diggin'." That also sums up the message voters have given Republicans.

Tuesday night, our party suffered a resounding electoral defeat. President-elect Obama and his congressional partners deserve our sincere congratulations on their victory. As the country catches its breath, the conservative movement must regroup and set upon a course to prevent November 4th from repeating itself in two years.

Traveling around the country in the closing days of this campaign I heard the same frustration from voters over and over. We in Washington are long on talk and promises, but short on action.

Original: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/dont_you_think_the_hole_is_abo.html

What I Saw at the Obama Revolution
As I entered Grant Park on Tuesday night to cover the Obama victory party, I happened to glance up at the statues on either side of the broad walkway that serves as a gateway to this treasured Chicago landmark. They are identical bronze representations of a man on a rearing horse. At that moment, a flash of memory struck me like a slap across the face.

There is a famous photo snapped during the 1968 riots at the Democratic National Convention that shows a young man on top of one of these statues waving the black North Vietnamese flag. I then realized that the probable election victory of Obama meant that the argument over Vietnam that served as a cultural, political, and social divide in America for 40 years was either at an end or at the beginning of the end.

Original: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/what_i_saw_at_the_obama_revolu.html

Republicans, This Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Lives
For members of the Grand Old Party, this is a day to celebrate. Your long national nightmare, otherwise known as the Bush administration, is over.

Of course, there will be plenty of hand-wringing, finger-pointing and even internecine warfare among party activists and their interest-group allies over the next few weeks as various constituencies within the party seek to assign blame for Tuesday's Democratic sweep, though it was not nearly as bad as it could have been considering the public mood and the Democrats' financial advantage.

Some will predict the end of the GOP. Others will merely consign it to minority party status for years because of demographic changes.

Original: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/republicans_this_is_the_first.html

Obama Needs Help in Keeping Promise to Unify Country
New presidents habitually -- and often, mistakenly -- try to do the exact opposite of what their predecessor did. But after George Bush's record as "the Great Polarizer," President-elect Obama definitely should seek to be "the Great Unifier."

Just by getting elected as our first African-American president, he's gone a long way toward healing the country's ugliest historical division.

Obama's victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park Tuesday night was the capstone of a campaign built around the theme of ending partisan and ideological rifts in the nation, too.

Original: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/obama_needs_help_in_keeping_pr.html

Bull vs. Bear smackdown
These guys know how to laugh off a bear market.
Original: http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/galleries/2008/fortune/0810/gallery.cendrowski_bear.fortune?section=money_news_funny

Cashing in on Palin-mania
Businesses are milking Sarah Palin fever. Even when the connection is strictly by chance, products that evoke the Republican vice-presidential candidate are getting some serious attention.
Original: http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/galleries/2008/fortune/0810/gallery.palin_products.fortune?section=money_news_funny

Calling master chief
After making a ton of money in the advertising business, Michael Sepso and Sundance DiGiovanni decided six years ago that it was time to goof off. How did these two guys, then in their late 20s, pass the time? They played a lot of "Halo."
Original: http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/08/05/technology/mlg.fortune/index.htm?section=money_news_funny

99 bottles of beer
Fortune's home-brewed (and highly-opinionated) guide to classic American beers.
Original: http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/magazines/fortune/storysupplement/beer/2008/?section=money_news_funny

Bing: Worry less! Spend more!
You can feel it. Like air hissing out of a tire. Like a banana shrinking and turning black as it goes bad. The shiny, can-do engine of consumer confidence is running down. We're losing it. And with it goes the last shred of hope that the spiral to the center of this vortex is not inexorable.
Original: http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/07/31/magazines/fortune/stanleybing/confidence_game.fortune/index.htm?section=money_news_funny

Republicans, This Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Lives
For members of the Grand Old Party, this is a day to celebrate. Your long national nightmare, otherwise known as the Bush administration, is over.

Of course, there will be plenty of hand-wringing, finger-pointing and even internecine warfare among party activists and their interest-group allies over the next few weeks as various constituencies within the party seek to assign blame for Tuesday's Democratic sweep, though it was not nearly as bad as it could have been considering the public mood and the Democrats' financial advantage.

Some will predict the end of the GOP. Others will merely consign it to minority party status for years because of demographic changes.

Original: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/republicans_this_is_the_first.html

The Task Ahead
WASHINGTON -- The celebration of Barack Obama's victory was genuine and heartfelt, as it should have been. No one who has lived in this country and knows its history can be insensitive to the significance of his election.

Symbolically and substantively, it sends a message here and abroad about the distance we have traveled from our segregated, racist past.

As John McCain acknowledged in his gracious concession speech, whatever one's partisan preference, the rise of this talented and eloquent black man to the highest office is worth celebrating for what it says about this nation, its people and our democracy.

Original: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/obama_must_signal_for_consensu.html

Historic Change
NEW YORK -- Up in Harlem, on the boulevard named for Malcolm X, stands the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a branch of the New York Public Library, and it was to its Langston Hughes Auditorium, named for the great black poet, that I went Tuesday night, notebook in hand, to interview History and marvel at what it had done. Where in the world had the past gone?

Charlie Rangel was wondering the same thing. He is the congressman from Harlem but, more importantly, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, a Korean War veteran, tough as the nearby streets and vaccinated against disappointment by life itself. He mounted the stage, talked about seeing parents taking their kids to the polls and, in a voice perilously close to cracking, said, "I never thought I'd see my country take the children of slaves and make one of them the leader of the free world."

Original: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/historic_change.html

Obama's Economic Challenge
WASHINGTON -- We Americans are progress junkies. We think that today should be better than yesterday and that tomorrow should be better than today. Compared with most peoples, we place more faith in "opportunity" and "getting ahead." We may now be on the edge of a new era that frustrates these expectations. It is not just the financial crisis. The crisis coincides with other changes -- an aging society, runaway health spending, global warming -- that imperil economic growth. Barack Obama will take office facing the most daunting economy in decades: certainly since Ronald Reagan and double-digit inflation; and perhaps since Franklin Roosevelt and 25 percent unemployment.

To be sure, the U.S. economy has often defied pessimistic predictions. Our national culture, with its pervasive ambition and its proven capacity for innovation, favors expansion. These are powerful forces. But it's equally true that economic progress has periodically stalled. The Great Depression lasted a decade; unemployment in the 1930s averaged 18 percent. The inflation of the 1970s arrested living standards and the stock market (it was no higher in 1982 than in 1965). By 1979, inflation hit 13 percent. Americans do not have a divine right to rapid economic growth.

Original: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/obamas_economic_challenge.html

Make Haste Slowly, President Obama?
Festina lente. Make haste slowly. That was the motto of the revolutionary minded young Augustus who soon grasped that he needed to build upon Rome's past, rather than dismantle it.

Amid the celebration of the historic victory of Barack Obama, the country should now quit the bickering, appreciate a fair and peaceful transference of power, and unite behind its new commander-in-chief.

But in turn our new President Obama would do well to heed that ancient Roman wisdom, appreciating that the real world after Nov. 4 is not exactly the same as its frequent caricature during the hard-fought campaign.

Original: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/make_haste_slowly_president_ob.html

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