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Aug 10, 7:24 PM EDT

Clinton to headline second night of convention
By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer

HONOLULU (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline her own night at the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama's campaign announced Sunday in a nod to her strong second-place showing in the party's presidential primary.

The former first lady will speak on the second night, Tuesday, Aug. 26 - the 88th anniversary of the women's right to vote. The campaign and convention committee in a statement called her "a champion for working families and one of the most effective and empathetic voices in the country today."

The Obama campaign is trying to avoid hard feelings among Clinton's supporters at their carefully orchestrated convention. But they still haven't reached a deal on whether Clinton will be included in the roll call vote for the nomination, which could make the party appear divided heading into the final stretch of the White House race.

The campaign said Obama's wife, Michelle, is slated to headline the opening night on Aug. 25. The high-profile appearance at the kickoff is a chance for the potential first lady, who has been attacked by critics, to get more positive exposure. She can also help explain her husband to voters in the most personal terms.

"As the person who knows him best, Michelle will talk about the Barack Obama she knows and loves, the values that drive him, and why she believes he'll be an extraordinary president," said Michelle Obama's chief of staff, Stephanie Cutter.

The yet-to-be-named vice presidential pick will speak on the third night, as is the tradition. Democratic officials say Bill Clinton is also scheduled to speak that night, but only the headliners were listed in Sunday's official announcement, made while Obama was vacationing in his native state of Hawaii.

The former president plans to be in the audience Tuesday to watch his wife's speech. Democratic officials say she has not decided who will introduce her, but one option is her daughter, Chelsea.

One Clinton adviser, speaking on a condition of anonymity because speech preparations are being kept private, said she wants to deliver a "forward-looking" speech that pays homage to the historic nature of the primary between a black candidate and a woman candidate without dwelling on the divisions.

John Edwards, the 2004 vice presidential nominee who finished a distant third in the primary, was left off the speakers list as he grapples with revelations that he had an affair with a woman hired to produce campaign videos.

Obama is expected to become the party's first black presidential nominee on the fourth and final night as the convention moves from Denver's indoor Pepsi Center to a bigger venue at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium. It happens to be the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

Clinton told supporters she is seeking a way for her delegates to be heard at the convention and be united after the hard-fought nominating contest.

"Because I know from just what I'm hearing, that there's incredible pent up desire. And I think that people want to feel like, 'OK, it's a catharsis, we're here, we did it, and then everybody get behind Sen. Obama.' That is what most people believe is the best way to go," she said, according to video of the remarks taken by an attendee and posted on YouTube last week.

Obama told reporters Thursday he thought the negotiations with Clinton aides had gone "seamlessly," but he also rejected the notion that there might be a need for emotional release on the part of some Democrats.

"I don't think we're looking for catharsis," said Obama. "I think what we're looking for is energy and excitement."

Advisers to the New York senator said she will almost certainly not ask to have her name placed in formal nomination at the convention to avoid a divisive vote.

Under DNC rules, Clinton must submit a signed, written request to have her name placed in nomination, accompanied by a petition signed by at least 300 delegates. Some Clinton delegates have circulated such petitions, but the effort is meaningless without Clinton's signed request.

Delegates are not formally pledged to any candidate so Clinton does not need to "release" them to Obama. The rules also say delegates may vote for the candidate of their choice whether or not the name of such candidate was placed in nomination.

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Aug. 09, 2008
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Clinton campaigns for Obama in Henderson
By MOLLY BALL
REVIEW-JOURNAL

Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigns Friday for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama at Green Valley High School.
Photos by John Gurzinski.

Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigns Friday for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama at Green Valley High School.

Returning to a state that gave her a signal primary victory, Hillary Clinton preached Democratic unity in Henderson on Friday, making a case for her supporters to get behind her onetime rival, presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama.

"We had a hard-fought primary campaign, and it was exciting," Clinton told the crowd of more than 1,000 at Green Valley High School. "It was like the proverbial roller coaster. But we are now unified and ready to go forward together, and it is imperative that each and every one of us ..

Since she conceded the nomination to Obama in June, questions about Democratic unity have swirled around Clinton, who at this time last year was thought to be the unstoppable front-runner.

With Friday's speech, her first solo campaign appearance for Obama, Clinton aimed to dispel those questions and convince her loyalists to rally to the greater Democratic cause.

"I know Senator Obama," Clinton said. "I've served with him now for nearly four years in the United States Senate. I've campaigned with him and against him for more than 16 months on the campaign trail. I stood on stage with him for 22 debates -- but who's counting.

"I have seen his passionate determination, his grace and his grit," she added. "In his own life, he has lived the American dream, and what he wants to do is make sure that the dream is possible for everyone."

A vocal faction of Clinton supporters say they can't stomach Obama -- people like Las Vegan Lillian Livoti, 55, who attended Clinton's speech on Friday. Livoti said she will stay home on Nov. 4 if Clinton is not on the ticket as Obama's running mate, something political analysts consider unlikely.

"I really don't think that he's ready to lead," Livoti said of Obama. "I find him very inexperienced. He reminds me of my 35-year-old nephew."

Livoti said the talk of disunity in the Democratic ranks is justified. She said several of her friends, all "Hillary girls," are planning to vote for McCain. "We feel there's been a great injustice," she said.

Clinton drew overflowing crowds in the runup to the Jan. 19 Nevada caucuses, especially in Southern Nevada, her stronghold. On Friday, the high school gymnasium where she spoke wasn't quite full.

Rather than talk up Obama's personal qualities, Clinton, in her pragmatic style, stressed issues like health care and jobs to argue that Obama was the right candidate.

She reminded the crowd that Democrats have won only three of the last 10 presidential elections and said they will need all the help they can get this year.

"Winning a presidential election in the fall is challenging for Democrats," she said. "It has been for 40 years and it will be again this time, which is why Senator Obama needs all of us. He needs us working for him so that he then can go to work for us."

Clinton argued that Obama's opponent, Republican Sen. John McCain, would continue the policies of President Bush.

"In the end, Senator McCain and President Bush are like two sides of the same coin, and it doesn't amount to a whole lot of change," she quipped.

In what her staff said Clinton plans to make a prominent criticism of McCain, she stressed the issue of equal pay for women, noting that McCain voted against a Senate bill to bolster women's right to sue for gender discrimination after a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year sharply limited the timing of such lawsuits.

"If you care about equal pay, then the choice in November is anything but equal," she said. "Barack Obama will side with women and families."

Clinton also criticized McCain for voting against government funding for child care, against raising the minimum wage and against increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit.

"Anyone who voted for me or caucused for me has so much more in common with Senator Obama than with Senator McCain," she said. "I urge you to remember who we were fighting for in my campaign."

In a brief news conference after her speech, Clinton addressed questions about what role delegates pledged to her will have at the Democratic convention in Denver at the end of the month. She seemed to lapse back into campaign mode, referring to "my campaign" as if she were still in the running.

"We are working that out with Senator Obama, my campaign and his," she said. "We are going to have a very clear message about how the campaigns will cooperate, how the convention will be conducted, and when it's appropriate we'll make that announcement."

As Democrats feared during the heated primary, Republicans now have dug up the footage of Clinton's many critical comments about Obama to use as ammunition for their attacks on him. Clinton dismissed that as an "effort to divert attention from the inadequacies of your (McCain's) own campaign."

Her speech came just as news was emerging about another onetime competitor for the Democratic nomination, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who admitted Friday to having an affair while his wife was battling cancer.

Asked about the matter, Clinton said, "My thoughts and prayers are with the Edwards family today, and that's all I have to say about that."

Outside Clinton's speech, a few local Republicans staged a protest, carrying handmade signs. Diana Mleczewski and Kathy Jamison, both in their 50s, carried a sign urging people to vote for McCain.

"He knows we have to do more than inflate our tires to deal with higher gas prices," said Mleczewski, who identified herself as a homemaker.

"Obama and Clinton represent the elites," said Jamison, who also said she was a homemaker. She said Republicans like McCain are for the common man.

Though Jamison acknowledged that President Bush came from wealth, she said: "At least he gives barbecues for people."

Another Republican protester was dressed as a panda bear -- make that a Pander Bear.

"Somebody stole my feet," said the black-and-white plush mascot, whose human feet were visible and wearing sandals.

Nobody stopped to listen, but that didn't stop Pander Bear, who wouldn't give his real name, from accusing Obama of pandering to "left-wing organizations like Greenpeace."

Review-Journal writer Paul Harasim contributed to this report.

Contact reporter Molly Ball at mball@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-2919.

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Aug 8, 6:51 PM EDT

Clinton says she wants Obama to win White House
By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY and DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press Writers

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Clinton says she wants Obama to win White House

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton told an exuberant crowd Friday she wants Barack Obama to win the White House, even though he dashed her own presidential dreams - and she wants her supporters to vote that way, too.

"Anyone who voted for me or caucused for me has so much more in common with Sen. Obama than Sen. McCain," Clinton told her cheering audience in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson. "Remember who we were fighting for in my campaign."

Though she has endorsed her former rival, the speech was Clinton's first appearance at a rally for Obama since the two appeared together in Unity, N.H., in June.

In another sign of growing detente between the House of Clinton and the House of Obama, Democrats said Bill Clinton would speak on the third night of this month's national convention in Denver.

The Clintons' efforts on Obama's behalf may ease worries within the party that bad feelings from the long primary battle might erupt at the convention.

She said Friday that "we may have started on two separate paths, but we are on one journey now." She said her long primary campaign against the Illinois senator showed her "his passion, his determination, his grace and his grit."

The crowd let her know they still held her in high regard. They cheered Obama's name and waved his campaign signs, but no mention of him won as loud a roar as Clinton's introduction.

Still, she kept her focus on making his case, mentioning key Democratic issues where Obama and McCain would differ - U.S. Supreme Court nominations and health care reform, for example.

She noted Democrats have had difficultly reaching the White House recently and said Obama would need a surge in turnout - and registration - to win in November.

"Which is why Sen. Obama needs all of us, he needs us working for him," she said.

Some of her backers have complained loudly about the way the only female candidate was treated during the primaries. And Clinton supporters have succeeded in getting language into the draft of the Democratic Party platform that says, "We believe that standing up for our country means standing up against sexism and all intolerance. Demeaning portrayals of women cheapen our debates, dampen the dreams of our daughters and deny us the contributions of too many. Responsibility lies with us all."

The platform committee will be reviewing the draft Saturday in Pittsburgh.

After weeks of private talks about exactly what the Clintons will do at the national convention, no decision has been reached on whether delegates will actually hold a roll call vote that includes her candidacy.

Such a move could disrupt or distract from the point of the convention - showing a unified party raring to return a Democrat to the White House.

On the other hand, she has suggested that letting her supporters whoop and holler for her might provide a catharsis and help the party move on.

"It's as old as, you know, Greek drama," Sen. Clinton told supporters in a recent speech to a private gathering, which was later posted on the Web.

In this particular drama, the Clintons insist they are doing everything they can to get her supporters on board with Obama. Any reluctance, she says, is not hers, but comes from those who committed to her historic bid and are still unhappy that she did not prevail.

Clinton did not mention any convention disputes in her remarks Friday. She later told reporters the two campaigns were still in negotiations.

"We're going to have a very clear message about how the campaign will cooperate and how the convention will be conducted when it's appropriate to make that announcement," she said.

Clinton and Obama may be on the same team, but in the past week they seemed to be running in different directions.

In political terms, one candidate's catharsis is another's car wreck. Conventions at which the party appears divided can prove disastrous to the nominee's chances in the general election.

Obama told reporters Thursday he thought the negotiations with Clinton aides had gone "seamlessly," but he also rejected the notion that there might be a need for emotional release on the part of some Democrats.

"I don't think we're looking for catharsis," said Obama. "I think what we're looking for is energy and excitement."

Giving both Clintons big speeches at the convention may help generate excitement, but it also gives them a lot of attention at a gathering that's supposed to be about the nominee, Obama.

And Bill Clinton in particular has at times seemed grudging in his praise of the man who stopped his wife's able ascent.

Asked earlier this week if Obama was ready to be president, Clinton gave a philosophical, not political answer.

"You could argue that no one's ever ready to be president. I mean, I certainly learned a lot about the job in the first year. You could argue that even if you've been vice president for eight years that no one can ever be fully ready for the pressures of the office and that everyone learns something, and something different. You could argue that," Clinton said.

The Clintons argued through much of the primary that she, a former first lady, was ready to be president on "Day One," suggesting Obama was not.

The Obama campaign is pretty tired of that argument, particularly since it has become a key refrain of Republican John McCain.

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Obama campaign: http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

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　　腦中浮現： 天才的聚集地、工作者的夢幻天堂、矽谷最新的朝聖地標；眼前則是：沙灘排球、五色洋傘廣場、還有小果園。是的，這是位於美國加州山景城(MountainView)中佔地超過100萬平方英呎的“Googleplex”，搜尋引擎龍頭Google的全球總部，近年來掀起網路科技革命的心臟。

　　Google台灣工程研究所所長簡立峰在門後出現，他今天要為遠道而來的《Cheers》雜誌“導覽”。

　　“再過幾分鐘就會很熱鬧了，”簡立峰說。週五下午是Google兩位創辦人賴瑞.佩吉(Larry Page)以及瑟吉.布林(Sergey Brin)與內部員工例行對話的時間。跟著簡立峰穿越一大片辦公空間，迎面而來的女員工牽著半人高的長毛狗，有人在打乒乓球，有人帶著小孩喝咖啡，還有一個人被某種白色的橢圓型設備完全罩住。“那是按摩椅，”簡立峰解釋。

　　來到半圓形的會議室，音樂已響起，陸續湧進人潮。有一區的員工都戴著嵌入一盞小風扇的彩色小帽，這是Google給“新生”的識別標記。

　　“昨天是季辛吉來，”簡立峰邊走邊說。

　　又是一個驚嘆號！季辛吉？是那個已經高齡85歲， 在冷戰時期擔任美國前尼克森總統國務卿的季辛吉！

　　找最聰明的人來好好做事

　　Google，一個代表驚人創新能量的名字。《Cheers》深入現場，尋找它的基因密碼藏在哪裡？

　　事實上，今天對Google來說並不是個好日子。Google今年第2季獲利“只”成長35%，扣除股票選擇權費用後的每股盈餘為4.63美元，未達分析師估計的4.74美元。白天時才因財報結果不如預期，引發賣盤，重挫科技類股。

　　“像股價這種尖銳的問題，待會也會有人問嗎？”

　　“一定有，”簡立峰回答，“你可以質詢任何事。”

　　自由、開放、直接， 這就是在Google呼吸的空氣。

　　兩個六年級生創辦人佩吉跟布林無疑是打造一切的靈魂人物，他們兩人的辦公室隱身在角落，牆壁漆成鮮豔的紅色。

　　簡立峰對佩吉跟布林有非常有趣的觀察。“這兩個founder是我在Google英文最聽不懂的人，每個字都聽得懂，但合起來不懂，”他笑著說。剝掉“老闆”身份，他們就是兩個極度“跳躍性思考”的大男生，若拿“教授”的標準衡量，還會覺得他們講話不夠有邏輯。

　　但也正因為如此，佩吉跟布林對Google的思考可以不落俗套。“我覺得他們對創造一種全新的管理模式，比對產品更有興趣，”簡立峰認為。

　　怎樣的管理模式？簡單說，就是“找到最聰明的人，讓他們好好做事”，把這句話發揮到淋漓盡致。

　　讓最好的人彼此競爭

　　過去3年，Google的員工數都以倍數翻轉，如今在“Googleplex”20多棟建築物中穿梭生活的“googler”已突破1萬人。

　　沒有任何事比找到好人才更重要， 在平均年齡約25歲的美國總部，不少員工都是大學一畢業就直接延攬進來。“找教授來就是當headhunter， 找到人才算交差，project做好倒是bonus，”說起對“找人”的重視，簡立峰拿自己的身份開起玩笑。

　　像少林寺18銅人陣一樣繁複的面試過程，無非是想測驗來人的態度與素質。遇到難關能否愈“過”愈勇？面對壓力耐受度有多高？

　　為了讓進來的人才專心又愉快地工作，Google把管理者的角色淡化到最稀薄。工程師可以自己決定工作目標，對團隊的影響力不靠頭銜，而是專業。

　　就拿最敏感的績效評估來說，打分數的不限於主管，包括所有合作過的同儕。每一項意見回饋都要求事實根據，再彙整給由比當事人高兩個職級以上主管、隨機組成的委員會審核。“『理』放在非常前面，『法』的部份很淡，”簡立峰觀察。反過來說，若成績不好，殺傷力更大，因為完全沒有藉口推託。

　　游泳池、免費洗衣房與理髮廳、名主廚擔綱的員工餐廳......，從這些匪夷所思的福利第一次在媒體上曝光後，Google就成為工作人想望的標的，更連續蟬聯美國《財星》雜誌(FORTUNE)“最佳企業僱主”。

　　但僅看這一面是不夠的：“這是非常競爭的地方，”簡立峰說，愈是聰明人，愈難以忍耐落後。“因為心理壓力都很大，環境更要特別好。”

　　歡迎玩樂，但打仗時請秀實力

　　100多公尺的路上，至少經過3個休息區跟吧台，跟10個人以上打招呼說“嗨”，整個Google像是超大型的社交社區，頻繁的人際互動讓他們是一群共事的天才，而非與世隔絕的“怪胎”。

　　“我們不要員工在電梯間才有機會相遇，”簡立峰解釋Google的“空間創意學”。人與人間的碰撞往往是創意最好的來源，為此，Google不分職級大小，座位設計開放，走道更特別寬敞。

　　另一方面，為了營造戰鬥與合作氣氛，放眼望去，辦公室內隨處可見“蒙古包”──一種白色帳篷搭起的專案辦公室，3～5名工程師隨時任務編組，機動作戰。遠從世界各地飛來的團隊成員近在咫尺，轉個頭就可以開會，不用浪費時間到處找人。“一進到蒙古包，大家就知道要打仗了！”

　　每個月Google都會推出新服務，時間的轉輪在這裡是加速前進，並沒有因為“relax”的環境慢下來。“人當然會有惰性，”簡立峰說，“但破壞的人會被別人當面告訴你。”就像佩吉與布林的名言：“Don't be evil”(別做壞人)。

　　Google讓企業文化當起如影隨形、無所不在的教練，也難怪它在2年前破天荒地增設這個企業界獨一無二的職務——“文化長”(chief cultureofficer)。

　　下午5點半，不想去聽CEO講話的googler已開始打包下班，從窗外看下去，黑色的Google巴士一批一批把人載走。彩色洋傘下，拍賣小孩二手衣跟玩具的員工跳蚤市場準備告一段落，員工三三兩兩喝著啤酒，接下來會有戶外烤肉Bar-B-Q。

　　遠超過個子的撼動力

　　去年，Google年營收近166億美元，相當於台幣4,980億元，差不多是台灣製造業第一大鴻海精密三分之一強的營收。但Google撼動世界的力量，顯然遠超過它的個子。

　　今天的優勢就是明天的課題。當1萬人的Google擴張到10萬人，或是在經濟壓力下，無法持續高成長時，Google還能一直用同樣的方法激勵員工嗎？“福利是給了就收不回來的，我認為它已經給盡了，”簡立峰說。Google員工享受的福利已幾乎跟薪水是相等的份量。

　　從創新到偉大，永遠要通過時間考驗。1998年創立的Google在第一個10年寫下漂亮的一頁，但下一個10年呢？

　　這不是用Google目前可以“搜尋”出的結果，這是等待Google未來要“創造”的答案。

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