Some Naral affiliates aren't happy, either, at their parent organization's choice to endorse Mr. Obama.
"It's always a tough race when you're not the organization's choice," he said.
The journalist, Yosri Fouda, works for Al Jazeera, the Arab satellite television network that has been Al Qaeda's news organization of choice.
In its July 30 issue, The New Republic fired off a salvo at NOW, criticizing the feminist organization's choice of positive female role models on television.
"Our goal is to become the organization of choice for nurses," said Marilyn Chow, an executive at Kaiser, which is already advertising its planned staffing changes.
"Don was extremely disappointed to learn today that he wasn't the organization's choice to fill the managerial vacancy," said a statement from the agent Ray Schulte.
OPPOSITION LEADER CREATES NGO: Irina Khakamada, a 2004 presidential candidate and outspoken critic of Mr. Putin, has begun her own non-governmental organization, Our Choice, after announcing she was resigning from politics.
But Republicans in the Legislature delayed the primary election, allowing Mr. Franks to replace Mr. DiFrancesco as the organization's choice and the clear front-runner, even though the filing deadline had passed.
They were introduced by Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx Borough president, who is the county Democratic organization's choice for mayor in the September primary election and whose campaign, pollsters say, has also benefited from the Vieques controversy.
This assistant works with students through the process of writing a longer piece, like an essay, by making suggestions about essay organization, word choice, and more, as the students work.
