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WOW! A High Honor For A Really Great Guy!

Congratulations are in order for Alan Nochumson, who has been named an “Influencer of Real Estate” by The Philadelphia Inquirer. This awards program honors Philadelphia’s leading real estate professionals who are rising higher than the rest.

As a winner, Alan was evaluated by an expert panel of judges who felt he has helped shape, change, and transform the industry. The winners bring a mix of credentials, viewpoints, and backgrounds from all walks of the Real Estate Industry. Alan will be among those honored at an awards ceremony, as well as profiled in a special section in the Sunday Inquirer. The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, July 25, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at the Crystal Tea Room in Philadelphia. The event agenda includes a network reception and a panel discussing the Future of the 10-year Tax Abatement. The panel discussion will be led by Caitlin McCabe of The Philadelphia Inquirer followed by a formal lunch. You can purchase tickets for the event here.

Elites To Dems: Don't Fizzle

The elites in the media are beginning to worry about the prospects of their beloved Democrats. They are issuing stern warnings in the hope that the party will get its act together. Listen to Dick Polman in today's Philly Inquirer:
If the Democrats somehow contrive to blow this presidential election, they should be consigned to the dustbin of history - or to a display case at the Smithsonian, where perhaps they can share space with the Whigs.
Seriously, think about it. The economy is tanking, yet their autumn opponent, John McCain is on record saying, "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." The Iraq war continues to kill our kids and bleed us to the tune of $3 billion a week, yet McCain, who sometimes confuses the Sunnis with the Shiites, remains its unapologetic cheerleader. Meanwhile, nearly 80 percent of the American people think the country is on the wrong track - a legacy of the current Republican president, who now has the highest disapproval rating (69 percent) in the history of the Gallup poll.
Yet, McCain is deadlocked in the polls with his two Democratic rivals. He is traipsing around the nation on his "Time for Action Tour," blissfully unscathed and husbanding his septuagenarian strengths, while the Obama and Clinton armies burrow ever deeper into their respective trenches, emerging every so often to impale themselves on barbed wire, generally mimicking the bloody stalemate on the western front in World War I . . .

Thrown On Defense

Tom Fitzgerald in the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Sen. Barack Obama was thrown on the defensive about everything from comments by his former pastor to his friendship with a member of the radical Weather Underground, to why he rarely wears an American flag pin in his lapel.
It could not have been the performance Obama wanted to have six days before the state's primary, at a time when he needed to reassure voters who might have been put off by his recent remarks about "bitter" small-town residents in the state who "cling" to religion and guns because of their economic frustration.
At one point Obama said, "I revere the American flag – and I would not be running for president if I did not revere this country." That is not a good thing for a candidate to have to say.

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