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't, .••• --- -~----~--~--~~--- ~~l~a's first months fulfill promise of change Stoff Reporter Last year as we began the The NASDAQ is also up and is at 2050. These Gu:tntanamo Bay closing down and a real plan school year, the nation was are good signs. However, the employment sta- drawn up to get our of Iraq. Obama has made a in frenzy over the upcom- tistics from the monrh of August are not very real effort to be a different kind of president. ing election. Some peo- promising. True, rhere were fewer layoITs than A few weeks ago, Obama gave a speech to ple wanted McCain, some expected,asign that job losses are slowing; bur ninth graders and he didn't talk ro the teens about Obama, and others were that still leaves rbe prcblem of wber is going to his policies or attempt to indocrrinare them like JUSt happy to be gwing happen 10 people who los! their jobs months rnany of his opponents feared he would. Instead, rid of BU5h. Now, that ago. According the Bureau of Labor Seaeisncs, he kept politics OUtof the speech and appeared 216,000 jobs were lost in August, bringing the truly gtnuine and personal, something few poli- O~ma has been in offi~:~oS;:~:r ~;:e!o::~~~~ total loss since December '07 rc jusr less than ricians know how to do. 7 million. While some sectors seem to be re- It's true that Ob:tma has nne magically ;;::::n t~ew:u;~7n i~:~~~fr. a very different covering, others arc still curring jobs. Trans- changed our country in die last few months. It portation, leisure, hospitality, and retail jobs is nlsc rrue th~t the enrbuslasm over hi~election ~he,~~t:::17e~I:~~O~~~~eu~u~:0~:~~~j~:~ remained mostly f1ar, while health care jobs has waned since he rook office, and perhaps this posted slight gains. But manufacruringand fi- is due 10 the lnrensely high hopes tim people had :;etl;:~::uh:nat~m~~i:::~io;u~O :r:~d~:tSth~~ nancial sector jobs continued to decline. The rorhim. Bur u has only been seven months,lnd Slnc~ launched his well-known stimulus pack- biggestlosercondnues to be construction, 105- real change will take lime. We won't JUStwake ing65,000 jobs in August. up one day lnd realize rhar Obama has made the ; ;~!~I~~~:rt~:~51~ ~r~i~~::f;~o:e:s~;v:~ Of course, Obama has had more success in recession go away and secured victory in Iraq. ~.IV~S who Say that in reality, his plan has done other areas. He has madedforts to reach OUtto BUIwith a good plan and good execution, many Obama policies have a real chance m make a lusr- J~~e t? ease the crisis. As I writ.e this, the Dow the Arab world, and no matter what right-wing es 15 up for the day and IS Just over 9500. conservatives say, most people are happy to see ing, positive change. Palin should be out of public spotlight TRAVISCOMPTON StoHReporter It's been nearly a year presidential candidate, with less than acceptable dered her immune to the normal ramifications blame any single person for her fame, not her or her fitmily, nor even her secessionist husband. I of not speaking coherendy with Katie Couric, since we last saw a reason credentials, minimal experience in an executive or winking during a debate, or blatantly lying blame the masses of people rhac warch her. for Sarah Palin to matter position,and no sense of senrence structure, has ahour seejng Russia fmm her house. We say she The question then comes up ~ifthe media in the nadcnal scheme managed to make a name for herself in a political wasthrusccd to the front linl'.SortheRepublican is supposed to bring us news, then why is :t of things; and even then parry rhar has heavy hitlerslike, Carl Rove and Party; she was inexperienced and might not be campaign Contribution from Palin eYenon the most people thought she Michael Steele. Normally I'd be bashing P:.l.linon able to handle [he pressure. Yet, as th~ possible radar~" It's a simple answer. Sonlewhere along wasn't worth a second some Iitcle thing like not knowing the Bush doc- the lines tbenews industry became a corporation look. Bue as October ap- trine ... However, for this piece I will spare you vice presidenc to a man who's health came inco that became interested in profit margins instead the pro.acheswe still see her in my personal rhetoric and go back to the maTter question during che eleclion, her less than ade- of actual SIQrles.Stories that Ithink should lake quate resume dl'.Stroyedthe chances of her emer- nn' My question is why? at hand. Why is she still in the news? up the time that Palin is getting are, the r~ason lifo e tide of, governor of Alaska isn't really Is it because of her daughter's pregnancy? Yes, ing the White House. why rne U.S. hasn't stepped in in Darfur, the of- time that CNN and FOX NEWS are she has explicidy told dle media to layoffher family Let's fast-forwatd 10 today. She is consistent- ficial death toll from hurricane. Katrina which has islt because she is a woman? Hilary butwe srililaugb about former President BillClin· ly seen or heard bashing the current administra- mO." di'.pp,=d, with minor excep- ton's shenanigans so I'll pursue rhe topic none-the- tion and making up lies about [he bills being put up until this point not been revealed even when So ag3;n I ask. wha. ~~.~~:!~~l;.~.!~.wv°L= ~-.u:endorsements, after her primaries defeat t~..,~~~'C';,~!l$nk;p~~.w&a ~;it~~.r..~~~::-;~~~!!? ..~~i ~ tb e d ?f the Obama c~. rion. Asidefinm the irooyofi<, .........