NEW YORK - Circuit City Stores Inc., the
nation’s second-biggest electronics retailer, filed for bankruptcy
protection on Monday but plans to stay open for business as the busy
holiday shopping season approaches.
It
filed under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, which will allow it to
hold off creditors and continue operations while it develops a
reorganization plan.
The
Richmond, Va.-based company has been struggling as nervous consumers
spend less and credit has become tighter, and the retail industry
overall is facing what’s expected to be the weakest holiday season in
decades….
Senator Barack Obama retained BSD to manage the online fundraising, constituency-building, issue advocacy, and peer-to-peer online networking aspects of his 2008 Presidential primary campaign. To date, the campaign has used the BSD Online Tools to mobilize well over a million donors to contribute over $300 million online, to motivate over 850,000 social networking participants, and to create and promote more than 50,000 events across the country.
I just recieved a funny email about impeaching Obama even before he takes Office. It claimes to be from The McCain News Center
Here is what is said: I have removed the malicious link.
McCain Lawyer Impeach Obama! McCain has reached an agreement with the Obama lawyers that makes Obama resignation effective November 11. Barack Obama can lost President’s Chair. McCain video report 7 November:
Proceed to the election results news page>>
2008 USA Government Official Web Site.
Will people just accept that Obama is the next president and hope he follows through with at least some of his promises, instead of the continued slander. Let’s try and help rebuild America not cause a divide and continiously tear the country down.
I like to see such rapid response by the president elect. He doesn’t have whitehouse.gov yet, but he has already hit the ground running. Not sure he ever stopped “running” since his campaign to be president of the Harvard Law Review.
Anyhow, we asked for change (and the global community is right there with is) and we have Change.gov
“I said before the election that if the Democrats win the House, the lion’s share of the credit should go to [Rahm Emanuel],” says Rep. Ray LaHood, an Illinois Republican. “He legitimately can be called the golden boy of the Democratic Party today. He recruited the right candidates, found the money and funded them, and provided issues for them. Rahm did what no one else could do in seven cycles.”
Alternately, Emanuel has been described as a shark, a pit bull, a barracuda and a host of unprintable names — by Democrats!
“Rahm Emanuel is a very ambitious person,” Rep. Charles Rangel (D- N.Y.) said yesterday, glowing in his own reelection and the possibility that he will be named chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. “There’s no question that with the election, he’s picked up a lot of political clout. But he’s also lost some friends along the way. He curses a lot. He’s blunt.”
Rep. Rahm Emanuel considers Sen. Barack Obama a close friend. The Illinois Democrats had dinner just last week. They are both from Chicago and socialize together with their wives. But Emanuel got his big break in national politics from Bill Clinton and worked for him in the White House. And now his worst-case scenario has come true - - both Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are running for president and want his support.
Emanuel declared on television early last year that he was supporting Clinton, but that was before Obama expressed interest in running. Now he is officially neutral. And both sides are lobbying him to take a top campaign post. “I’m going to call Rahm and talk the issue through with him and see what he thinks,” said Mickey Kantor, who chaired Bill Clinton’s campaign in 1992 and is now backing Hillary Clinton.
Obama has been calling, too. He had dinner with Emanuel on Thursday, which the congressman called a longstanding personal engagement. Asked where Emanuel will come down in the 2008 race, Obama recently told the Chicago Tribune: “Rahm knows the right thing to do.”
Nobody understands the new Washington power dynamic better than [Rahm Emanuel], who helped create it. As chief strategist and fundraiser for the Democrats’ recapture of the House, he understood before most others that the nation was angry with [Bush] and his party. Now, with Bush binding himself even more firmly to an unpopular war, Emanuel wants to use that rising anger to make the Democrats the nation’s true governing party.
With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Emanuel plans to use Bush’s Iraq speech to pose what amounts to a vote of “no confidence” in Bush’s leadership — framing the new strategy as a congressional motion and voting it up or down. Emanuel is certain that Bush’s strategy will be voted down and that a sizable number of Republicans will join the Democrats in rejecting the military escalation. Rather than try to restrict funds for the troops (which he sees as a political blunder that would delight Republicans), Emanuel instead favors a proposal by Rep. John Murtha to set strict standards for readiness - - which would make it hard to finance the troop surge in Iraq without beefing up the military as a whole. The idea is to position the Democrats as friends of the military, even as they denounce Bush’s Iraq policy.
The secret for the Democrats, says Emanuel, is to remain the party of reform and change. The country is angry, and it will only get more so as the problems in Iraq deepen. Don’t look to Emanuel’s Democrats for solutions on Iraq. It’s Bush’s war, and as it splinters the structure of GOP power, the Democrats are waiting to pick up the pieces.
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