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Day One: Lunch
As Wolf Blitzer recapped President Obama's 100 days in office, we ate bagged lunches (vegetarian choice was yummy) and watched clips from CNN's coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign. Blitzer gave a run-down of his own resume as a news man, including "watching the red flag come down off the Kemlin in Moscow." in the 1980s, at the beginning of the end of the cold war, and the moment that he announced Barack Obama had won the presidency on November 4, 2008. "in 240 countries, people were watching CNN international," he said with a smile. One audience member asked a tough question about journalists falling prey to the idea of WMDs in Iraq, and Blitzer recanted with "if I'd known then what I know now." One wishes ther'd been more time for questions when somone posed the kicker, "As one of the most influential voices on television, why not lend yours more often to defending dignity and fighting poverty"? --Kristi York Wooten
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