JEFF JOHNSON- Because SMART IS SEXY!

Jeffrey Johnson is a political motivator. He often appeared on "Rap City", where he spoke about such issues as violence and voting.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Johnson was an active leader as a child. Johnson was also active in track and field.

Johnson furthered his education at the University of Toledo. At UT, Johnson was president of the UT Student Government and the UT Black Student Union.

Johnson also served as National Director for the NAACP's Youth and College Division, as well as Vice President for the Hip hop Summit Action Network.

Johnson's involvement in these organizations piqued interest with BET, who thought that he could use his knowledge with cultural and political affairs on the show Rap City. He was on the show for two seasons, playing the part of "Cousin Jeff."

Johnson spreads his leadership advice and passion for activism to churches, universities and local communities across the country.

Johnson has spent the last decade merging the worlds of politics and popular culture. His roles as a political activist have included work as Senior Advisor for Media and Youth Outreach for People for the American Way, National Director of the Youth & College division of the NAACP, and Vice President of the Hip Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN).

Johnson earned a reputation as a positive force among youth and young adults through his politically conscious television personality, “Cousin Jeff” on the Black Entertainment Television shows,“The Jeff Johnson Chronicles”, and “Rap City.”He has been dubbed the "conscience voice" of Black Entertainment Television.

Johnson is the only American reporter to interview Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state and Liberia’s first elected female president. Johnson is also one of only two news correspondents to interview Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir, who had not granted interviews with American media outlets for thirteen years.

Johnson has also interviewed President Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, and Minister Louis Farrakhan. In 2007, he testified before the Committee on Homeland Security regarding recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Johnson has published social and political commentaries for CNN.com, The Root.com and Black Politics on the Web.com. Johnson has also been quoted by Newsweek and The Boston Globe. Johnson currently contributes commentary and analysis about issues related to race, politics, popular culture and socio-economics for MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, XM radio, Sirius Satellite Radio, BET and The Dr. Phil Show.

Johnson challenges audiences to innovatively weigh solutions, resolve historic and systemic social imbalances and inequalities. He is also slated to host talk show The Truth with Jeff Johnson, set to air on Black Entertainment Television fall 2008.

He also signed a six-figure deal with Smiley Books for a book tentatively titled Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am.

More information about Johnson can be located at www.jeffsnation.com or www.4thdimensionmngt.com.

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Healthcare fight was Obama's proving ground

The president chose a goal and held to it steadfastly. Now he must build on that momentum.


Rarely does a president bet everything on a single card, but Barack Obama did it on healthcare. Almost from the beginning, the White House was guided by one priority: Nothing must get in the way of healthcare. Everything else would have to wait.




Sunday night, the president who was criticized for winning a Nobel Prize without much of a record finally won a signature achievement -- victory on the kind of massive healthcare overhaul that Democrats had sought and failed to achieve for nearly half a century.


In the months ahead, Obama will face the question of whether his healthcare victory is a high-water mark for a now-exhausted administration, or instead becomes the leaping-off point for victories on other big issues, such as energy, immigration and financial regulation.


But what became clear in the healthcare debate is that Obama is a president with a combative stubbornness, one that was not often visible in his cool, above-the-fray public demeanor. And he has demonstrated that a president who picks a goal, adopts a battle plan and sticks with it, come what may, is not easy to knock out.


In the 14 months of the healthcare fight, Obama saw his popularity plunge 20 percentage points. Voters, whipsawed by high unemployment, lost savings and the other ravages of a devastating recession, boiled over in anger at a president seeming obsessed with his own priorities.


From the beginning, GOP strategists saw the healthcare debate as a chance to cripple Obama's presidency. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) cast the stakes in military terms, predicting that a defeat would be Obama's "Waterloo."


In perhaps the White House's darkest hour, Obama suffered a stinging rebuke -- and lost the Democrats' filibuster-proof Senate majority -- when Massachusetts spurned a last-minute presidential appeal and gave the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's seat to a Republican in a special election dominated by healthcare.


Yet if Obama wavered, it was only briefly. Even some Democrats counseled him to drop the attempt at massive change and settle for smaller healthcare goals. Although he toyed with the idea at least once, in the end he held fast.


And while he was criticized even within his own party for delegating to Congress the early shaping of the healthcare bill, Obama mobilized in the weeks after Republican Scott Brown won the special election in Massachusetts.


From that day, it was clear that the endgame for Obama would come in the House of Representatives. He fought with a combination of tactics that played to his strength -- campaigning -- but also required a skill that was less tested -- negotiating.


On both fronts, he showed a level of pragmatism that frustrated some of his most liberal and idealistic supporters -- a willingness to trade a perfect bill for a somewhat less ambitious one that could pass.


Exploiting the bully pulpit, he traveled to places like St. Charles, Mo., and Cleveland, and exhorted rank-and-file supporters with the rhetoric he honed during his 2008 campaign. He invited both Democrats and Republicans to a televised healthcare "summit" -- notable not for any breakthrough accomplishment but for underscoring just how far apart the Democrats and Republicans were on the issue.


As late as Saturday, he traveled to Capitol Hill to lead a rally of House Democrats.


In between such events, he and his aides tirelessly lobbied fence-sitting members of the House.


Obama bluntly told skeptical members that for his presidency to be strong, he needed them to pass the bill.
 
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