Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
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Mike Keefe
Denver Post
Nov 22, 2008
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Obama outlines job-creation plan
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(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday offered an outline of his economic recovery plan and jobs were the top priority.
American workers will rebuild the nation's roads and bridges, modernize its schools and create more sources of alternative energy, creating 2.5 million jobs by 2011, Obama said in the weekly Democratic address, posted on his Web site.
"These aren't just steps to pull ourselves out of this immediate crisis," he said. "These are the long-term investments in our economic future that have been ignored for far too long."
Details of the plan are still being worked out by his economic team, Obama said, but he hopes to implement the plan shortly after taking office January 20.
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Obama Has Lunch At Manny's Deli
Causes Frenzy!
President-elect Barack Obama picked up lunch at the iconic South Loop deli Manny's Friday.
As he made his way through the throngs of well-wishers, Obama stopped to hug a woman he seemed to know. Asked how he was doing, Obama said, 'Well, you know,' to which the woman replied, 'Well you asked for it. I remember 12 years ago ...' then her voice trails off before she can offer any more than a hint of insight into Obama's early presidential ambitions. Obama also mentioned to the woman that his family is keeping its Chicago house:
'We're staying in there for awhile. Now's not the time to sell.'
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U.S. Muslim leaders denounce al Qaeda's slur toward Obama
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Spiritual leaders of New York's African-American Muslim communities lashed out Friday at a purported al Qaeda message attacking President-elect Barack Obama and, using racist language, comparing him unfavorably to the late Malcolm X.
The imams called the recorded comments from al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri, "an insult" from people who have "historically been disconnected from the African-American community generally and Muslim African-Americans in particular."
"We find it insulting when anyone speaks for our community instead of giving us the dignity and the honor of speaking for ourselves," they said in a statement read during a news conference at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center.
The al Qaeda statement, an 11-minute, 23-second audio message in Arabic with subtitles in English, appeared on the Internet on Wednesday. Its authenticity has not been confirmed.
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Deputy takes man's Xbox during traffic stop
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The known hazards of "driving while black" may have to be amended to add those of driving while black, dreadlocked, and toting an Xbox.
When Kenyatta Hillman and a friend were pulled over by a Orange County traffic cop for speeding outside Orlando, FL, the deputy claimed to smell marijuana and searched the car. No drugs were found, but the deputy did spot an Xbox and eight games and seized them from Hillman, alleging they might have been stolen.
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Bob Jones University in SC apologizes for racist policies, including interracial dating ban
By JEFFREY COLLINS
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Bob Jones University has apologized for racist policies including a one-time ban on interracial dating that wasn't lifted until nine years ago and its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971.
The private fundamentalist Christian school that was founded in 1927 said its rules on race were shaped by culture instead of the Bible, according to a statement posted Thursday on the university's Web site.
The university in northwestern South Carolina, with about 5,000 students, didn't begin admitting black students until nearly 20 years after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling found public segregated schools were unconstitutional.
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NY School Changes Name to Honor Obama
A school on Long Island has been renamed Barack Obama Elementary School in honor of his historic rise to the presidency. The move is among the first in what will likely be a wave of name changes now that Obama has won the White House.
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I Beg Your Pardon
The top prospects for a last act of Bush clemency.
We've rated potential pardonees' chances from zero to four "Get of Jail Free" cards.
SPORTS
 | Marion Jones: unlikely. This disgraced Olympic gold medalist returned five awards after she was sentenced to six months in jail in January for lying to federal agents about using steroids. She was released on Sept. 5. Jones' offense is considered mild, and her sentence was brief, but the president may not want to reward someone who cost the United States Olympic gold. |
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 | Michael Vick: no chance. The Atlanta Falcons' suspended quarterback is serving a 23-month sentence in Leavenworth, Kan., for criminal conspiracy relating to dog fighting. Yuck. There just isn't much of a pro-dog fighting lobby to pull for Vick. |
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 | Barry Bonds: unlikely. The former San Francisco Giants superstar who holds the MLB all-time record for home runs was indicted in November 2007 for lying about his involvement in a steroids scandal. Bonds became a free agent last year but has been unable to find a team willing to sign him while under indictment. As a former baseball team owner, Bush may be sympathetic to Bonds. But let's be honest—who in baseball likes Barry? |
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Being Black in South Carolina Is Not the Easiest Thing I've Ever Done
Old attitudes persist about race, but new arrivals could change all that. Just look at North Carolina
Until recently, my sister and I had two white cleaning ladies. And it seems so humorously ironic. My grandmother, the first in our family to move from the South to the North, made a living cleaning the homes of white people. I wished she had lived long enough to see my cleaning ladies.
My grandmother moved North in the early 1950s seeking better opportunities as a black woman. I moved back South four years ago in search of cheaper property, warmer weather and less traffic. Having two white women clean my house was an added bonus: Welcome to the New South!!
Now I believed South Carolina was the New South until I started seeing the results of post-election surveys: The South is not as new as I thought. In spite of knocking on doors, making calls and driving people to the polls, neither me nor the other Obama campaign volunteers here in South Carolina could turn the state blue. According to polls, the main reason is because of old-fashioned racist beliefs, the same kind that forced me and classmates to attend a sometimes unheated, crumbling and segregated elementary school when I lived in Beaufort, S.C. decades ago.
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A Church for the Obamas
By Sally Quinn
Along with the speculation on what kind of puppy Sasha and Malia will choose, where the kids will go to school (it's Sidwell Friends), and, oh yes, who will be appointed to the White House staff and the Cabinet, the matter of where the Obamas will choose to worship is drawing a lot of interest in Washington and elsewhere.
I would like to recommend Washington National Cathedral. The cathedral sits atop a hill overlooking all of Washington. It is an extraordinarily imposing structure whose beckoning towers can be seen from nearly every point in the city. It is also "The" National Cathedral. It's the place where, in recent years, presidents have gone for the inaugural prayer service the day after being sworn in, where ex-presidents are mourned at their death, where presidents and Americans as a people congregate during moments of crisis, as they did after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "The reality is that the cathedral serves as a sacred space for the nation," says Sam Lloyd, dean of the cathedral. "A place the nation looks to in critical times."
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Churches Vie to Attract The Newest First Family
By Jacqueline L. Salmon and Michelle Boorstein
There have been letters, discreet inquiries and bold appeals. Some are using their connections; others are just seeking a foot in the door.
It's part of the spirited competition among Washington churches to land the most sought-after Christians in town: the Obama family.
Methodist, Baptist, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Episcopal -- all have been courting the Obamas to be regulars in their pews on Sunday mornings.
When Amy Butler, pastor of Calvary Baptist in Northwest Washington decided to woo the Obamas, a friend in the local faith community had some advice: "He just laughed and told me that I should get in line."
She made a pitch to the Obamas that includes the following: We're diverse and multigenerational, we're 10 blocks from the White House, the pastor (Butler) is from Hawaii and attended Obama's rival high school, and "the sermons rock!"
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Roanoke Rapids charity rebuffs turban-wearing donor
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. — A Halifax County man was turned away from a local mission when he refused to remove his turban while trying to make a donation.
When Gary Khera, went with his wife to the Union Mission on Roanoke Avenue to make a donation, a staffer asked him to remove his turban.
"She said, 'Sir, you have to take your turban off. This is the United States,'" Khera recounted. "That made me a little upset. I am a United States citizen."
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Foreign Policy and the New President
President-elect Barack Obama will assume the presidency in a tumultuous world, and one of his first challenges will be managing two wars — and their consequences — in the Middle East. Foreign policy experts warn that Obama must not only be ready to deal with Iraq and Afghanistan, but also with the complicated interplay of powers and interests in the Middle East, both regional and international.
Journalist Elizabeth Rubin of the NEW YORK TIMES and columnist Fred Kaplan of SLATE.COM join Deborah Amos on BILL MOYERS JOURNAL to explain the challenges facing President-elect Obama in the Middle East, how they think his approach will differ from that of President Bush, and what that could mean for the region.
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Uproar in Maine over
Obama assassination sign
BOSTON (Reuters) - Passions flared in a Maine town on Thursday over a sign in a store asking customers to place bets on an assassination of President-elect Barack Obama.
The Town Council in Standish condemned the sign on Thursday in a 6-0 vote and declared it reprehensible at a meeting where some residents defended the store owner, saying he had a right to free speech even if in bad taste, local authorities said.
"The town of Standish condemns in the strongest terms any such alleged activity calling for violence against any individual no matter their position, race or ethnicity," said the resolution posted on the town's website.
The sign in the Oak Hill General Store asked customers to place a $1 bet on the date of Obama's assassination, and said "Let's hope someone wins," the Portland Press Herald reported. It was called the "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool."
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Saxby Chambliss gets into the thuggery business
Apparently the Republican Senator from Georgia doesn't like it when asked normal questions by a reporter about refusing to honor a subpoena in the lawsuit against a sugar company that sought his help to insulate them from culpability in the wake of an explosion at one of its plants that killed 14 people.
As he makes the cameraman say hello to Mr. Hand, he mutters:
"You can take it away now."
So evidently, not only is Chambliss above the law, he's above any kind of accountability to the public. Sounds like a classic Republican to me.
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