Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Please give a warm welcome to the stage dave barry. [applause] thank you. Thank you. It is great to be back in the Rancho Mirage even though its a [bleep] hole. [laughter] im just excited that in the new climate its okay to say the black hole. Last week was the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post and w cnn was l [bleep] hole all the time. [laughter] is a bright new era and happy to be just right no, rancho is a wonderful place. I always feel obligated and im not to the point of the book anymore but a little updated to defend my city. I live in miami and i moved there in 1986 from the united states. [laughter] and miami has a bad reputation. I know that. Every year the organization is a poll where they asked people what they think of various major metropolitan areas in every year miami some people like it but it always gets categorized as a potentially dangerous and violent place which hurts those of us who live there and we want
Thank you. [applause] the writers festival continues now with a discussion on us president ial elections with Arthenia Joyner and historians mark and morley. Karl rove, your moderator. [applause] good morning. What a pleasure to be here to talk about some of the most important subjects that are on everybodys mind. Today we are going to have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three outstanding experts about the election that changed our history. Somebody who once worked on many campaigns, i will be fascinated to hear the assessment of my colleagues here. Lets start with you, hw. How these we should be looking at transformation as an overarching theme for discussion, president ial leadership . When i think about a. Elections i talk about two categories, those elections whose importance is not known until after the election because the election sets up certain conditions, brings in a certain officeholder and things happen. The election of 1942 where Franklin Roosevelt becomes president an
Now. This comes after two of the nurses who helped care for duncan were diagnosed with ebola. One of those nurses took a round trip commercial flight from texas to ohio in the days before she was diagnosed, triggering concerns about anyone who may have come into contact with her. It is a lot. I mean between the new cases, the growing criticism of the response from federal Health Officials and now a new ebola czar, its a lot. But, everyone, take a breath for a moment. Because the next few days may be critical, not just in terms of how we handle the ebola cases, but in how we handle another contagious threat. Hysteria. Yes, ebola is scary and often deadly. Yes, there are more than 9,000 cases around the world. But only three of those have been diagnosed here in the u. S. And getting ebola is not easy. As the cdc points out, ebola is spread through direct contact with blood or bodily fluids of an ebola patient, which is why Health Care Workers are particularly vulnerable. It is not spread