Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.
He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in North Carolina's 1998 Senate election. Towards the end of his single six-year term, he sought the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2004 presidential election. He eventually became the 2004 Democratic candidate for vice-president, the running mate of presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts.
Following Kerry's loss to incumbent President George W. Bush, Edwards began working full-time at the One America Committee, a political action committee he established in 2001, and was appointed director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He was also a consultant for Fortress Investment Group LLC. Edwards launched a second bid for the Democratic nomination during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
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Saturday Night Live celebrates the 2008 Presidential Election with a best of clip show featuring some of the best sketches about the election. Sketches include Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton talking about the presidential nomination Katie Couric interviewing Sarah Palin, Hillary Clintong talking about the nomination process, Bill Clinton giving a non-endorsement of Obama on Weekend Update, George W. Bush giving an endorsement to McCain and Palin, the 2008 vice presidential debate between Biden and Palin, the CNN Univision Democratic Debate 2008, the town hall debate between Obama and McCain, and a montage of best moments. The special also features political comedy from SNL's history including Carter giving drug advise, Ronal Reagan mastermind, Perot and Stockdale in a car, a Michael Dukakis advertisement with puppets, a debate between Bush and Dukakis, and a debate with Gerald Ford. John McCain and Sarah Palin also appear.
Keywords: sketch-comedy, u.s.-president
Step Right Up! The Freakmaster will scare the very life out of you!
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Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from its day in 1897, until he dies, some time after she has died from cancer. It is a "love" that endured wars, an "other" woman, and the death of their favorite son. The episodes are bridged and linked by cartoon sequences done by UPA (United Productions of America.)
Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, based-on-play, bed, bedroom, ceremony, death-of-son
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Secret Service Major Steel ('Joseph W. Girard' (qv)), is one of the few men in American aware of the fact that Captain Albright ('Dave O'Brien (I)' (qv)) is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America. When murderous bombing attacks are made on West Coast munitions plants, Steel sends for Albright and asks him to track down the mysterious Ivan Shark ('James Craven (I)' (qv)), the foreign agent mastermind behind the attacks. Shary has learned about an ingenious range finder, invented by John Edwards ('Bryant Washburn' (qv), and makes plans to obtain a model of the invention. Edwards instructs his daughter, Joyce ('Dorothy Short (I)' (qv)), to bring the model to Albright for safekeeping in his mountain laboratory. Shark takes Edwards prisoner by Albright assures Joyce that her father will be saved and an end put to Shark's reign of terror. Dressing as Captain Midnight and enlisting the aid of his friends, Chuck ('Sam Edwards (I)' (qv)) and Ichabod Mudd ('Guy Wilkerson' (qv)), Captain Midnight delivers on his promises fourteen chapters later.
Keywords: 1940s, abduction, airplane-truck-crash, ambulance, ambush, amnesia, aviation, based-on-radio-series, bombing-raid, california
Tracking down spies...cracking down on killers...the airwaves' great fighter zooms to glory!
RADIO'S GREATEST THRILL SHOW ZOOMS TO GLORY ON THE SCREEN! Captain Midnight battles enemy plotters in the mightiest of serials!
ENEMY SPIES DREAD HIM...GANGS BATTLE HIM...YOU'LL THRILL TO HIM! Radio's ace fighting aviator...in a great action serial!
Zooming into new and ever greater perils, Captain Midnight fights on!
Maj. Steel: And just a minute, Lieutenant. Have they succeeded in locating Captain Albright?::Lieutenant: Not yet, sir.::Maj. Steel: Albright's former experience in the service will be invaluable to us in this crisis. He has volunteered to help if needed and he must be found!
Fury Shark: What do you want me to do?::Ivan Shark: Get the "Manners" outfit, of course.::Fury Shark: Really, Father, I don't know what you have in mind.::Ivan Shark: Of course not. If you did, you'd be running the place and I'd be getting the suit.
Maj. Steel: Where was John Edwards taken?::Henchman Kraus [Ch. 1]: I-I can't tell you that. I don't know!::Maj. Steel: Then you'll have to accept the responsibility for the death of Captain Albright.::Henchman Kraus [Ch. 1]: You can't make that charge stand up. What can you do to me?::Maj. Steel: I shall do nothing, but you will receive a visitor at midnight who will be your judge and your executioner!
[after stealing a car and escaping from Ivan Stark's henchmen, John Edwards is pulled over for speeding]::Motorcycle Cop: Going to a fire?::John Edwards: Well, don't stop me, man. I just escaped from a gang of cutthroats. I'm on my way to government headquarters to protect my invention.::Motorcycle Cop: Well, if that isn't a new one.
Ivan Shark: He beat you all as usual! It is useless to proceed further until we definitely dispose of this Captain Midnight. Fortunately, I have a plan that cannot miss. We'll use the plane they're looking for. I'm willing to sacrifice many planes to be rid of this menace!
[first lines]::Narrator: Captain Midnight! His country calls and aviation's greatest hero flies again in a one-man war against crime. The odds seem unsurmountable, yet his courage never flags. Single-handed, through fog and sleet and snow, he daily risks his life in the cause of justice. And while he lives, the underworld dares not rest!