While many tech executives flamed out in the ensuing years, he steadily rose through the ranks at AOL, becoming the head of its then-popular instant-messaging division in 2004, at 27. Then venture capital — or the dark side, as it's sometimes referred to in Silicon Valley — beckoned.
The brain trust of the president's campaign arm led by Jim Messina, aka the creepy photographer in Blacksheep, and David Axelrod, aka the shady car salesman with a mustache, exploited these demographic divisions by messaging to them, mostly negatively.
"It's a message of division, bigotry and xenophobia.
"She'll have a message of division, us versus them, haves and the have-nots, men versus women," he said.
Though typical of the Bronx crowd, it sends a message of division when unity is called for.
If the difference between "Yes" and "No" is marginal, as the polls show at the time of writing, we will be in the odd position of having a clear message of division and ambivalence.
The danger here is that the all-important financial markets will take away a message of division and lost opportunity, and act accordingly in becoming even more cautious about the world economy.
When the coalition's agenda takes hold, the message of division will be diminished and the North Carolina that we believe in will grow.
Further, Muslims employed "good speech" effectively in the proverbial marketplace of ideas to morally defeat a message of division and hate, engaging in an important process of self-empowerment and community education.
This is the same party that painted a decorated veteran, John Kerry, as a traitor and coward, that said Bill Clinton was an evil draft dodger, that Al Gore was stupid...on and on...the same message of division over and over.
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