Arnold Swarzenegger: I think marriage should be just between a man and a woman, but the people of California should decide. Then, with Proposition 8, the people do decide, and:
"It's unfortunate, obviously, but it's not the end," Schwarzenegger told CNN. "I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area."
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Oh, yeah, this is just the attitude we need to get the country back on the right track:
Hey, President-elect Obama, Northwest Indiana calling with a few favors.
After all, you rolled up a 76,000-vote plurality in Lake and Porter counties and took Indiana by just 26,163 votes.
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But seriously ... Might Northwest Indiana fare well now that Chicago's favorite son is the most powerful man in the world?
President-elect Obama's first major appointment is drawing fire:
Barack Obama's designated chief of staff -- responding to Republicans' concerns that his tough, partisan approach might run at odds with Barack Obama's administration -- said it's up to the new president to set a bipartisan "tone."
OK for this part, though it sounds a trifle ambitious:
The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation's challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps.
But, good lord, no, on this part:
On the way back from lunch one day this week, I caught Rush Limbaugh saying this:
It's just like I said. I hope you people in Ohio, I hope you Democrats, I hope you lose your coal business. I hope he does bankrupt the coal business. I do. I hope you learn what you've done here.
Our front page last night featured two ideas that we're probably going to hear a lot about in the coming months. The first, in a Kevin Leininger column, is the notion that Barack Obama's election to the presidency will take race off the national table:
There's saying no to reporters, then there' saying no to the president:
Still being talked about for secretary of state, Indiana Senator Dick Lugar continues to say "no thanks" and would tell Barack Obama that if he calls.
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"I feel that I can do the most for my state for my country by serving in the United States Senate," said Indiana's senior senator.
Sarah Palin still has a "what might come" to look forward to. Hillary Clinton is now stuck with "what might have been":
This is a bad year in a bad decade for newspapers, but at least we're having a good week:
It was a good day to be in the newspaper business. The historic November 5 editions proclaiming Barack Obama's White House victory flew off the newsstands and major newspapers struggled to keep up with the demand for copies.
So much attention was focused on what the presidential election tells us about America that we gave scant attention to a bunch of state ballot initiatives. Those can tell us where we are -- or aren't -- even better. Apparently, we're not ready to be led down the (green) garden path just yet, for example:
