so it is a positive thing to have one-less -- one less charismatic individual prey ing upon souls, and for ymen in particular. >> do you have more to add on that. >> i think he is emblematic of a new generation of english language preachers, so people who don't have the access to arabic but in english. and i think is especially telling that for the last couple of weeks there has been suggestion that al -aqwi was not very involved in ski add terrorist but in places where other people were killed would suggest otherwise. >> now how big a threat is al qaeda in yemen and to what degree are they independent or indigenous actors and to what degree are they somehow tied to the people in afghanistan and pakistan. >> well, its -- the simple paradigm has been to view ala as coherent and have its networks that follow clear commands from ala central and someplace in waziristan. i think in this instance there are with ala and yemen, there are legitimate links and associations but one shouldn't think of it as a direct subsidiary taking orders and only acting upon the orders. so associations growing

, my own traditions are the fastest-growing way of christianity today is what is called pentecostal charismatic movement, growing especially rapidly in latin america, and asia, in africa. even in china, in mainland china. and this is an expression of christianity in which the direct experience of the spirit often expressed in a very open and explicit way, with movement, with dancing, with shouting, is the mode of worship, healing is a very important part to. that's growing very rapidly. there are said to be now about 2 billion christians in the world. i think demographers tell us of home about half, 1 billion, are roman catholics. and the other half are now getting to be more or less evenly divided between the growing pentecostal charismatic movement, and all the rest of us garden-variety presbyterians and baptists and lutherans, and i guess especially lutherans in this part of the world. we share our -- with the pentecostal movement. i'd like to see more about that if you would likelier. i wrote a whole book which i think tim mentioned, it's called fire from heaven, about the pentecostal movem

charismatic than save ronald reagan who was an actor, and he wasn't on the member of the rot pack but peter lawford, on the cover, was in the ret pact and married into the kennedy family and it was considered the first marriage of politics and hollywood. >> of one to the back to sammy davis jr. very quickly because you said that see me davis, jr., was the first african-american to sleep in the white house; correct? >> that's correct, nixon ruled out the red carpet for sammy davis, jr., to have a date at kennedy because she wasn't at kennedy's inaugural so he invited a senior davis jr. into the white house. he set him up at the queen's bedroom and really kind of made it a night to remember and that became as far as the research i've pulled up at the library and the national archives and first african-american to be a guest at the white house. >> three more years. let's go to the next one. it's pretty ikon ag and i think most folks have seen this one, this is richard nixon negative elvis presley. >> sure, a good folk of elvis and nixon. the most requested photograph from the national ar

jfk was one of our most charismatic presidents. you have to really sort of count him even more charismatic than say a ronald reagan who was an actor. and, you know, he was not only a member of the rat pack but peter lawford, who's on the cover, was in the rat pack and married into the kennedy family and it was really considered the first marriage of politics and hollywood. >> i want to go back to the sammy davis, jr., very quickly because you said sammy davis, jr., was the first african-american to sleep in the white house; correct? >> that's correct. known rolled out the red carpet for sammy davis, jr., to have a dig at kennedy because he wasn't at kennedy's inaugural so he invited sammy davis, jr., set him in the queens bedroom and made it a night to remember and that became as far as the research that i pulled up at the library on the national archives the first african-american to be a guest at the white house. >> three more here. let's go to the next one. it's pretty iconic. i think most folks have seen this one. this is richa

the muslim cleric has been crafty enough to escape capture on three continents and charismatic enough to draw big crowds and comparisons. >> it was an opening. >> anwar al alaki. the radical yemen-based preacher seen herrion line. his followers say he is like osama bin laden. >> he reminds me of for example osama bin laden and za warhi. >> he said hand me over your scrolls. >> this is the same man who exchanged e-mails with major nidal hasan accused of killing 13 people at ft. hood. after the killings, he praised hasan on his website calling him a hero. the website is down now. six years ago he moved from the u.s. to london and this man was one of thousands who flocked to his lectures. >> people loved his classes. >> for these radical muslims in london, alwaki was god's messenger. >> he doesn't say fight until there is no more corruption. it is alla that says that. it is the verse that inspires the people, not imam alwaki. >> even though his website is down and he is in hidings, dvds of his teachings are still for sale openly taking a prominent place in bookstores like this in london

this is high velocity success from hurt charismatic personality and the modernist visual sophistication. at first as you see here, i the romantic the editorialist style dominating from the 1920's but she soon began to modernize the pictorial conventions. for anybody who knows anything about san francisco the man at the bottom is one of the most powerful men of his time. she attracted clients with herbal he be an elegance and her persona and photographs and ambiance pressure never used the painted backgrounds at the time or used props she discouraged formal poses coming she did not even ask her subjects to smile. she is dramatic shadows and angles and created a motion is sometimes hide her subjects. her success derived from her sensitivity to the class taste of what the clients wanted. it showed individualism in portraiture. she used what she had learned to suggest or to reveal individuality and in doubter subjects -- in doubt her subjects and they believe she had the power to capture their assets. they felt that education, culture, sensitiv ity shown no from the images that she made. as

>> she is an amazingly charismatic character to some but i must say i can't take her seriously. i think her position on issues are extremely correct, to me at least, but not to many others but doesn't sound lick a serious person and i don't take her seriously. >> tanya, how big a threat is she? >> not a threat. >> larry: said that about ronald reagan. >> sarah page, granted. the other side of the aisle. sarah palin is no ronald reagan and why think i'm alone in thinking that. sure, she has got some increasing poll numbers now but she has recently been charged with traveling around the country promoting a self-serving revisionist account of an election, whereas president obama, by contrast, has been presiding over a war or two and the economy. i mean, i don't think that her poll numbers mean much in terms of her long-term political credibility. >> larry: penn jillette what is your read on sarah? >> i didn't read it i didn't read her book and why know anything about t and i find it very difficult, even on tv with larry king talking to me, to care. >> larry: you don't care? >> well

but also charismatic. there is really a lot of similarities between them. and i was profoundly hopeful that his election represented some kind of turning point in the way we think about race. i'm less convinced of that now, actually. >> are you very political? >> i am not. like to say, i am canadian, so i have never quite wrapped my mind around american politics. >> of all the stories you have done since 1996, which one did you spend most time on? >> very easy one to answer. "late bloomers," which it took three years to get into the magazine. it went through so many drafts, i cannot even count how many. it was because i had a really interesting idea, which was, i read this book by an economist in chicago which i thought was so fascinating, in which he talked about how genius comes in two very different forms. we talk about the conceptual innovator, the big, bold idea, and the experimental innovator, who is the person who succeeds -- who creates through trial and error. the conceptual innovator is the prodigy, right? and the person who works through trial an

gordon brown is on charismatic. -- gordon brown is unchar ismatic. there is another factor which we have not mentioned it sufficiently, which is bad britain has turned dramatically against the post-9/11 conflict. there are 100 casualties in afghanistan for britain this year. that is the highest number, and that has poisoned politics for the incumbent governor. tony blair is a viciously unpopular in britain. there is no section of society where you mention his name and people don't -- people almost spit at the mention of his name. it is not surprising he spent so much time abroad. >> there are other reasons for that. >> what most people want for christmas is they would love the -- they would love tony blair to be convicted. it is expressing itself in [inaudible] >> in this blessed world we live and you are describing a situation where it is probably news that tony blair is so unpopular in britain. [unintelligible] >> obama was certainly more popular abroad. >> president obama is still much more popular abroad and his popularity has not rubbed off abro

>> he's charismatic? >> and that he's intelligent and that he's trying to do what's best for the country. >> lisa? >> his youth and his determination. >> pam lal? >> his family values -- pamela? >> his family values. >> he'll be a one-term president. >> ok. >> are you a republican? >> not -- >> ok. >> turn it around and i'll give you the first shot, john. and that is the thing that makes me most uncertain about barack obama is -- >> his leadership skills. >> pamela? >> the war, i guess -- afghanistan problems. i'm not sure. >> ok. >> his military knowledge. >> there's nothing about him that makes me feel uncertain about what he's doing. >> lack of qualifications for the position. >> and just let me follow up on that. is there anything that you feel in the first 10 months the way in which he's handled the job has shown his lack of qualifications? >> well, he's good of making public appearances and meeting with leaders, but i don't know that anything is actually getting done -- >> let me throw the question

jfk was one of our most charismatic presidents, i think you'd have to count him even more so than, say, a ronald reagan who was an actor. and, you know, he was not only a member of the rat pack, but peter love ard, who's on the cover, was in the rat pack and married into the kennedy family, and it was really considered the first marriage of politics and hollywood. >> i want to go back to sammy davis jr. very quickly because you said that sammy davis jr. was the first african-american to sleep in the white house, correct? >> well, that's correct. nixon rolled out the red carpet for sammy davis jr. in sort of a way to have a little dig at kennedy because he wasn't at kennedy's inaugural. so he invited sammy davis jr. into the white house, set him up at the queen's bedroom and really kind of made it a night to remember. and that became, as far as the research that i pulled up at the library in the national archives, the first african-american to be a guest at the white house. >> we've got three more here, let's go to the next one, and it's pretty iconic, and i think most folks have seen t

there's nothing -- best thing about barack obama is -- >> charismatic. >> and william? >> that he's intelligent and he's trying to do what is best for the country. >> and lisa? >> his youth and determination. >> and -- and pam has? >> his family values. >> all right. >> and okay. and john? >> he'll be a one-term president. >> okay. >> okay. >> are you a republican, john? >> not at all. >> okay. okay. turn it around and i'll give you the first shot, john. and that is, the thing that makes me most uncertain about barack obama is -- >> leadership skills. >> okay. >> and -- and -- >> pamela? >> the war i guess. -- and afghanistan problems. >> okay. >> okay. >> and -- and military knowledge. >> and uh-huh. >> nothing about limb that makes me feel uncertain about what he's doing. >> okay. >> lack of qualifications for the position. >> and just, let me follow-up on that is there anything -- that you feel in the first 10 months the way in which he handled the job has showed his lack of qualifications? >> well, he's good at going and making public appearances and -- meeting with

he looks like game sun king and is so handsome and charismatic. the lieutenant governor being the top constitutional officer is first in line in black tie. president kennedy reaches out, takes his hand, grabs it, looks at him, touches his lapel, "taking the job kind of seriously, are you?" [laughter] they went to the dinner and that is where jfk said he was talking to teddy and teddy told him he was tired of always running of the family name so he was going to change his name from teddy kennedy to teddy roosevelt. >> because he was born on february 22nd, jack his older brother wanted to call him george washington kennedy. >> before we close out, we have some questions from the audience. let's bring this to today. you first met barack obama in 1997 as a young cent -- young senator from illinois, the only member of the legislature not indicted. [laughter] do you think that any part of senator kennedy's endorsement of barack obama for president was rooted in the possibility that he heard his brother's voice in barack obama? >> that is an interesting

he was known as a dedicated, charismatic, and beloved letter carrier. survivors include his wife, shirley, and sons richard of houston, ryan of los angeles, and roy junior. mr. rondeno's accident and subsequent death came as a complete shock to those whom he loyally and lovingly served for and with during the past 37 years. the emergence and community members whom he served established a donation fund in his honor and organized a block party to raise funds for his family. shortly thereafter the community members and louisiana district postal employees asked that we dedicate this post office in his honor. according to "the times-picayune," those whom mr. rondeno served said they formed a close bont with him and described him as a happy man with a kind word for everyone and a dutiful postman who introduced himself to new residents. never delivered junk mail addressed to previous tenants and would stand outside in pouring rain to deliver even the smallest package. as one constituent, susan, expressed to "the times-picayune" regarding his service and passio

gordon brown is on charismatic. -- gordon brown is unchar ismatic. there is another factor which we have not mentioned it sufficiently, which is bad britain has turned dramatically against the post-9/11 conflict. there are 100 casualties in afghanistan for britain this year. that is the highest number, and that has poisoned politics for the incumbent governor. tony blair is a viciously unpopular in britain. there is no section of society where you mention his name and people don't -- people almost spit at the mention of his name. it is not surprising he spent so much time abroad. >> there are other reasons for that. >> what most people want for christmas is they would love the -- they would love tony blair to be convicted. it is expressing itself in [inaudible] >> in this blessed world we live and you are describing a situation where it is probably news that tony blair is so unpopular in britain. [unintelligible] >> obama was certainly more popular abroad. >> president obama is still much more popular abroad and his popularity has not rubbed off abro

i wouldn't even rank him as a charismatic person. he has a real difficult job. i believe the republicans feel they've been quheeted. they are trying to get back to barack obama to deal with anything that come as cross the desk. i believe there's a lot of the work. a lot of the decisions he's doing his best. it only takes one and it is all over. >> saying he's doing the best he canb managing a diverse gro of his own party. the scoring reached on tuesday. can it pronounce the package? this is a big tip given the body's approach. skins the house has already passed its own bill. only an intervention could stop it in the ensuing week. in addition to the fact mr. reed is using the confidence that they may be able to put the support through the chang chamber. within sitting distance of a conclusion. clear clear >> that goes on but that is a summary. indianapolis caller: the mayor from nevada has dn the best job he could possibly do? you here me host: we are listening to you caller: considering the way the democratic caucus is set up. all i hear on my radio is constant

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and they can't act impulsively, quickly and responsibly to a charismatic person that that makes them very volatile. >> how desensitized are these kids to violence and? >> i don't think -- the ones that i know, they are not violent by nature, most of them. and back, one of them wanted to be a doctor. they see themselves as healers, but they are desensitized to violence in their communities, subject to a lot of community violence. one of the kids who went to somalia was really struck by and wrote on his facebook page the drive-by killing of one of the kids in minneapolis, and said that could happen to me. and i think that changed his view of the world. to the point i want to make is, you know, it's kind of takes a village idea. teachers, parents, community leaders, not just one person in one conversation, but all these people have to be involved in the counter pole against that one recruiter there because ultimately we have got to convince a 17 year-old acting alone and impulsively to stay on our side and not to go to the other side of. >> thank you. >> thank you, madam chairman. >> th

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and gordon brown is intensely e not charismatic. and we haven't mentioned that britain has turned dramatically# against the post-9/11 conflict, for britain they have the highest number of casualties, it's small compared to the united states. and that has poisoned politics for the government that took us to war. tony blair is unpopular, and even though twice reelected, people don't necessarily spit at the mention of the name. and not surprising that he spent as much time abroad. >> there are other reasons for that. >> other reasons, he's making money. and the hope for christmas is they want to commit tony blair. >> it's peculiar in this globalized world, and you described and that is used to many people that tony blair is so deeply unpopular as you suggest in britain. and gordon brown is not the magic. >> obama was more popular abroad. >> that's right, president obama as you mentioned is still much more popular abroad. his popularity has not rubbed abroad to the extent that it has in this country. why is it that the reputations don't