EZ’S TOP 3 ITEMS OF THE DAY

Jan 08, 2009 ezstreet Uncategorized 0

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President-elect Obama just keeps on making history. This week, he proposed a meeting with all of the living Presidents that came before him.

President-elect Barack Obama hailed a rare Oval Office gathering of all U.S. presidents as extraordinary on Wednesday, while President George W. Bush wished him well and pledged that the office “transcends the individual.”
<blockquote>“I just want to thank the president for hosting us,” the president-elect said, flanked by former President George H.W. Bush on one side and his son on the other.

Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, both smiling broadly, stood with them.

“All the gentlemen here understand both the pressures and possibilities of this office,” Obama said. “For me to have the opportunity to get advice, good counsel and fellowship with these individuals is extraordinary.”</blockquote>
Once the group lunch was over, Obama and Bush met privately for about 30 minutes. I would love to have been a fly on the wall during that conversation.

#2 Lil Wayne appeared ESPN’s first take and did pretty damn good! 

#1 – The officer that fatally shot Oscar Grant in a subway station in California has resigned from the BART force according to his spokesman.

BART spokesman Linton Johnson said in a statement that the officer’s attorney and his union representative submitted the resignation at a meeting Wednesday morning with BART police investigators. The officer was going to be at the meeting but did not show up, Johnson said.
The resignation was effective immediately.
Shortly before the funeral for the passenger, 22-year-old Oscar Grant, Johnson said the officer had received death threats.
The BART officer fatally shot Grant in the back after he and some friends were pulled from a train car following a report of an altercation, according to a BART statement.
On Tuesday, attorney John Burris filed a $25 million claim with BART in which he identified the officer as Johannes Mehserle. Several local media outlets had already identified the officer. Burris alleges in the claim, “Without so much as flinching the Officer Mehserle stood over Grant and mercilessly fired his weapon, mortally wounding Mr. Grant with a single gunshot wound to the back.

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