16 Nov 08 Barack Obama first post-election interview on CBS 60 Minutes with Steve Kroft - Webcast !
Well, as my regular readers know, I’m a pretty big fan of CBS 60 Minutes – and tonight’s episode is no less interesting and enticing.
Once the football game is over (it’s 19:00 and the game is still on) CBS 60 Minutes will have Barack Obama (yes, that one) on the show in his first interview since winning the election. Steve Kroft is the one who is going to interview Obama and the subjects covered include:
- How Obama plans to help homeowners facing foreclosure
- What Obama thinks obout Secretary Paulson and the $700B aid package to the banking industry
- Obama and his opinion on a bailout package for the auto industry
- What Obama learned from reading Abraham Lincoln
- The challenges ahead
Since 60 minutes is a no-fluff kind of show, I expect it to be a pretty interesting episode to say the least!
CBS is a relatively tuned-in kind of news organisation, so they already have the webcast of the interview available and here it is:
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Television
05 Nov 08 Gobama - Obama connects with a little fan outside the SUV
Tags: Funny, Kids, obama barack, Politics
19 Oct 08 Levaquin, bronchitis, Passchendaele, vascular surgery and time with Oma & boys & the DFW / SO
So the Levaquin antibiotics seem to finally have gained the upper hand on the nasty (acute, as per the pre-admissions physician at the Jewish General Hospital said) bronchitis and accompanying fever etc that has hounded me for the last 3 weeks.
It was a great, relaxing weekend, with an early Saturday rise (somewhat) and the DFW/SO starting a well-needed re-organising of the boys’ rooms and cleanup in general. I had 3 eggs, 10 slices of bacon, 3 toasts with butter for breakfast (appetite is back) and 2 tuna/mayo/mustard sandwiches for lunch. After that it was finalising the cleanup and reorganising and furniture moving around, followed by relaxing and watching “So you think you can dance, Canada” (man, all of them in the top 20 can really groove!… all of them, but the blonde in the blue outfit, mmmmmmmm)…
Then some absolutely scrumptious Lamb Balti and Basmati before heading out for the 22:00 late showing at the ScotiaBank cinema of the new war & romance flick Passchendaele by Paul gross… it was great, if not quite in the “sequence” that we both felt it would be. The second half of the movie has most of the actual combat scenes and as it is a WW1 movie there is very overt and visually intense depictions of how close the combat was in the 1st world war….
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Tags: boys, Food, Health, Love, Passchendaele, surgery, Tristan, Zachary
14 Oct 08 So I voted for… / J’ai voté pour
I was undecided between 3 parties up until yesterday, and even today I was see-sawing between 2 parties… the conundrum between contributing to the popular vote overall point spread, the local candidates platforms, which one of my local candidates’ web positioning (or lack thereof) appealed to me most…
and of course, the impact on which Federal leader my riding vote would ultimate commit to.
There are, of course, long term (long tail?) strategies involved in voting (keep in mind that tonights election numbers will be used as part of the long tail strategy for the elections in 2009 LOL…)
Anyhow, so today I was caught between two parties… and finally I decided in the last minute based on a blended analysis of metrics from analytics at various levels from a glocal point of view.
The important thing is to vote.
So, for those who follow my updates on Twitter, you already know that my riding polling station experience was most efficient!
That, combined with the lack of DART troop deployment and police escorting voters in and out (remember that happens in many countries)…, made the experience most satisfying.
We’ll see about the end result / endgame. My boys have already started learning about taxation and the reasons behind it.. from yours truly ….
Tags: Politics
