Monday's Daily Brief

Monday, September 19, 2011 Arianna Huffington: For Voters to Believe Obama's Second Term Will Bring About Change, He Needs to Acknowledge What Needs to Change in Himself Arianna Huffington: We don't know yet what the overarching theme of President Obama's reelection campaign will be, but the word "change" is likely to once again play at least a co-starring role. But this time it's different. We've now seen the ways in which the president went about trying to effect that change over the last three years. So while his ideas about the changes the system needs in his second term are welcome and necessary, there is another kind of change he needs to talk about if the change he proposes is to be believed. He needs to make clear the changes he intends to make in himself, in the way he governs, and in the way he approaches the big, systemic changes he claims to want to see. In order for voters to believe that things will be different in the president's second term, there has to be some recognition of what didn't work in the first. POLITICS Obama Will Veto 'Super Congress' Plan That Cuts Medicare Without Raising Taxes ENTERTAINMENT 'Mad Men' Rules Again! TECHNOLOGY Netflix Makes HUGE Announcement WORLD DSK Set To Give Public Interview WORLD Pakistan Explosion: Deadly Bomb Explodes Outside Senior Police Officer's Home BLOG POSTS Robert Kuttner: Muddled Class Warfare Deficit reduction as a cure for a prolonged jobs recession not only mixes the message, it does nothing to put unemployed people back to work and it deprives government of the resources it needs to help the needy and get the economy back on track. Mark Penn: Strategy Corner: Obama -- Don't Bring Back Class Warfare Obama should be working as a president, not a candidate. He should be claiming the vital center, not abandoning it. And most of all, he should be bringing the country together rather than dividing it through class warfare. Mohamed A. El-Erian: Market Preview: What to Look for This Week Global markets again find themselves in the uncomfortable back seat of a car driven erratically by policymakers. The hope is that policy responses in both America and Europe will enable them to build on last week's solid gains. But certain things need to happen first. Lesley Ryder: Don't Pay College Athletes College athletes will never be paid a salary to play for their school. There are far too many logistical, economic and legal hurdles that would have to disappear before paying students could even become a reality. Susan Liddy, M.A., PCC, CPCC: Master Your Emotions, Achieve Your Health Goals Rather than spending the rest of our lives feeling defeated, thinking things will never get any better, how can we achieve the health goals we set for ourselves and learn to eat for the purpose of providing proper nourishment to our bodies?

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