Obama

Obama's opponents are accusing him of plagerising his friends speech. Obama did in fact use his friends speech, but he had his friends permission....therefore it's not concidered plagerism. Obama's opponents fear his success and the large numbers of people that he is drawing that they are now trying to sling whatever they can his way to try and make him look bad. It was a good speech that deserved to be heard and related to Obama's message. The Washington Post said-
"The clearest comparison, the experts say, is to John F. Kennedy, who like Obama was able to mix high seriousness and humor. The shared cadences with Kennedy are not entirely a surprise -- Obama's young speechwriters are steeped in the addresses of Kennedy and his brother Robert, and the campaign has been getting informal advice from Kennedy speechwriter Ted Sorensen. " Obama poses a threat to the Republican party and to Hillary Rodom Clinton...so they are trying to get anything negative to stick to him.

Doc's Lecture 2/19/08

Sullivan vs. New York Times

Facts:
Newspaper Ad was published
Ad never mentions Sullivan

Legal Issues:
Racism
Freedom of Speech
Libel
Defamation

3 Questions and Answers

Claire Keldermans

What is the clearest point that you have learned so far in COMM 317?
Don’t open yourself up to a libel law suit.

What is the most confusing point you have learned in COMM 317?
Due Process

What would you like to learn next as we go on?
I would like to learn how to play the guitar.

18th Century Politicians

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the United States Congress—which was waging an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War—and signed into law by President John Adams. Proponents claimed the acts were designed to protect the United States from alien citizens of enemy powers and to stop seditious attacks from weakening the government. The Democratic-Republicans, like later historians, attacked them as being both unconstitutional and designed to stifle criticism of the administration, and as infringing on the right of the states to act in these areas. They became a major political issue in the elections of 1798 and 1800. One act (the Alien Enemies Act) is still in force in 2008, and has frequently been enforced in wartime. The others expired or were repealed by 1802. Thomas Jefferson held them all to be unconstitutional and void, then pardoned and ordered the release of all who had been convicted of violating them.
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