Month: May 2006

Chris Dodd, D-Conn., announced yesterday that he was preparing to run for President in 2008.
From Dallasblog:

One day after Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2008, reportedly “bombed” in a Washington speech on energy at the National Press Club Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut announced that he was preparing to run for the Democratic nomination for President. The Financial Times reports today that Mrs. Clinton “faces intense scrutiny from within the Democratic party.” Some Democratic leaders are worried that “she is such a polarising figure…that, they fear, she stands no chance of winning the general election. And still others worry about what could be called Clinton fatigue and a hesitancy to return to the scandals that plagued Mr. Clinton’s tenure. The New York Times provided a reminder of that yesterday with a front-page story about the state of the Clinton marriage,” reports the Financial Times.

From the email files:

I was on my way to a Chruch session meeting where I was supposed to lead the devotional. I was looking for the chapter and verse in the NT for (roughly translated) “Now we see in a glass dimly, but then face to face.” I searched my concordance and couldn’t find it. I was in a hurry and thought you might know off the top of your head what book in the New Testement it is in.

Anyone know where this might be found. I can’t think of anything.

MSNBC is posting pretty extensive coverage about Bono and Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams’ trip to Africa.

“What about sexual behavior, do you teach on this subject?” he asks the teachers. “Do you teach people about HIV?”
Bono asks the questions like any investor would. And that’s what he’s doing here — he’s checking up on the investment he’s made — in time, and in the massive amount of money he’s raised.
A teacher at the school told me they need classrooms most. They have just nine rooms for 700 students ages 5 to 16.
As Bono sees it, the message being taught here is also important.
“They love America in there,” he says. “They love the United Kingdom, they love the Irish people, they love democracy. In there they have classes about democracy. Not far from here there are madrassas, where they are teaching people to hate us. This is a smart thing for us to be involved in, as well as a wonderful thing.”

Kinky was on the NBC Nightly News this week.
Watch the video here.

From NPR:

Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who represented the state in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton’s first treasury secretary, died Tuesday morning, his family said. He was 85.
Bentsen, also the Democratic 1988 vice presidential nominee, died at his home in Houston.

About Lloyd Bentsen
Born: February 11, 1921 in Mission Texas.
Education: University of Texas Law School, graduated 1942.
Military: U.S. Army, 1942-1945
Political Career:
— U.S. House of Representatives from 1949-1955,
— A four-term United States senator from Texas, from 1970-1993.
— Unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976.
— Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988.
— Treasury Secretary under President Clinton, 1993-1994.
Sources: The Associated Press, Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress