A Thanksgiving weekend message from Barack Obama--video
The president-elect has a few gloomy words of inspiration before you go out shopping today.
But he says we'll pull through because Americans are tough and resillient.
--Andrew Malcolm
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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So the AP takes a YouTube video, drops an ad before it, and then distributes it to news outlets that pay for the service?
But they want bloggers to put AP credits (and pay associated licensing fees) for two lines of text. No wonder news orgs are dropping them left and right.
The original video from Obama's YouTube account -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XblF3z-ST0Y
Posted by: sheatsb | November 28, 2008 at 01:12 AM
I have noticed two themes running through all of Pres-Elect Obama's statements: a reiteration of our sense of unity, and a more subtle indication that all of us are going to have to swallow some very bitter medicine in order to fix the mess the country is in. I have hope and confidence that he has the leadership skills (contrasted with former Pres Carter's "cardigan" speeches) to pull this off.
Posted by: LKitsch | November 28, 2008 at 11:41 AM