Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
While on the topic of negative campaigning, here's another sharp video calling Obama on the way he distorted McCain's willingness to keep Americans in Iraq for 100 years or so. Obama (and, to be fair, Clinton) claimed McCain wanted to continue waging war for 100 years; McCain's comment pretty clearly ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In the last month or so, to inject his campaign with new energy, John McCain promoted several staffers who were part of Karl Rove's hard-hitting re-election bid for Bush in 2004.
Since then, McCain has accused Obama of wanting to lose the Iraq war, insinuated that he's a socialist, and juxtaposed ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
[Jayel Aheram / Flickr]
About a month ago, Congress passed and President Bush signed a new GI Bill proposed by Senator Jim Webb. This is a bill that Bush threatened to veto and McCain opposed (and didn't vote on) because they were afraid it would encourage people to leave the military. ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
James Pence of Glendale, Kentucky, doesn't mince words. He explains here, in a calmly biting commentary on the Bush administration's handling of the economy, healthcare, civil liberties, and other issues central to the election, how he -- if he were a terrorist -- would undermine America:
That rocking chair somehow takes ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
[Machine Envy / Flickr]
Toni_w from San Francisco made this video (which is cool4pro and not embeddable) for LinkTV's Dear American Voter project. She believes Bush stole the election in both 2000 and 2004 and feels America needs international election monitors -- preferably with voting machine savvy -- to ensure a ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Is he working for peace? [Our Enchanted Garden / Flickr]
As a coda to Obama's whirlwind tour of the Middle East, two Arab angles on what he offers that part of the world:
Twenty-eight-year-old Wassim, a Syrian Arab, describes himself as "awakening in a modern and bewildering world gone insane." He feels ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Prayers in Western Wall [beggs / Flickr]
The prayer that Obama slid into the Western Wall in Israel has been much debated since a Jewish seminary student and his friends filched it and passed it on to the media. Some people feel it was a piece of political polish written ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
PJ Chmiel from Louisville, Kentucky, is a vegan graphic/web designer who'd like to make his own clothes someday. He was rooting for Kucinich, but now he'd be happy with a choice of Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney. He thinks the two-party system is "bullshit" and has no love for McCain ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
In the town of Obama in Fukui Prefecture in Japan, there's a group called "Obama for Obama." And Obama for Obama in Obama has a special song, recorded here by undochu (thanks, Sarolta Cump):
That little kid totally caught some air at the end.
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Alexander Main lives in Germany. He says he put some effort into this creative video to express his feelings of responsibility for "what's happening to our world, to our planet, to all the people who is paying the consequences of our acts." It seems safe to assume he'd like to ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Jed Lewison, a former Democratic Senate staffer turned Nevada novelist, apparently decided to counter charges that Obama is "elitist" with this video. He says he was "inspired by the McCains' recent tax default...to go on a little Google Earth tour of their many homes across the nation." It's difficult to ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
The stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process is one piece of the Middle-East dynamic that McCain or Obama will inherit. Obama got a small taste of its complexity on his visits to Israel and the West Bank last week. Eddie Vassallo recorded this sentiment in Er Ram, on the West Bank side ...
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