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...Less than two weeks ago, Obama had suspended his campaign to make a 22-hour trip home to Honolulu for a last visit with his 86-year-old grandmother, who had been in poor health for a long time. The Illinois Senator learned of her death around 8 a.m. on Monday, but carried on with his campaign schedule without making it public until late in the afternoon. "He was prepared for it, and he knew. I think he was very, very gratified that he had been able to say goodbye," his chief strategist David Axelrod said, in explaining Obama...
...unscheduled stop of the day, less than an hour after Dunham's death had been announced, Obama popped into his campaign office in Charlotte and made a few phone calls to uncommitted voters. He did not mention his grandmother to the campaign volunteers there, who were stunned and thrilled at his arrival. But his upbeat mood suddenly changed in the middle of one of the telephone calls, when the voter to whom he was talking brought up the subject of home health care for the elderly...
...that bare-breasted statue at the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzales politicizing the Justice Department, Harriet Miers, the oil lobbyist who edited those global warming reports. Also: Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Ted Stevens. Also: the Vice President shot a guy, and the President almost choked to death on a pretzel. (See the screwups of Campaign...
...Change some of the details above and you could have the Chinese Product Safety Scandal of 2007. That round was touched off when the death of more than 100 Panamanians was traced back to cough medicine tainted with dietheylene glycol from China. Then hundreds of pets in North America were killed by eating food made from Chinese raw ingredients, also tainted with melamine. As last year's scandal spread, problems were found with Chinese-produced toys, tires, seafood and toothpaste. Even as the Beijing took extreme steps to solve the problem, such as executing Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head...
...While some quick action was taken after last year's pet food scandals, the response was narrowly focused on the exposed cases. The country's top watchdog revoked the business licenses for two companies that produced adulterated wheat gluten blamed for the death of thousands of pets in North America and another that shipped the diethylene glycol used in cough medicine that killed more than 100 Panamanians."While China's State Council announced new rules for stricter controls on food producers and tougher punishments for violators, poor oversight allowed producers to adulterate dairy products and animal feed with melamine until...