Voting Bitterly for Obama
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Theres no way home saw this bumper sticker in Gary, Indiana (thanks, Sue Salinger): [theres no way home / Flickr] It could be about guns and religion. Or about FISA and campaign finance.
Theres no way home saw this bumper sticker in Gary, Indiana (thanks, Sue Salinger): [theres no way home / Flickr] It could be about guns and religion. Or about FISA and campaign finance.
McCain and Obama “Reading Lists”
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Google just came up with another innovation: Google Reader reading lists from the McCain and Obama camps. Silver Smith provides a nice screenshot of the announcement on Google's homepage (thanks, Sue Salinger): [Si1very / Flickr] Google claims the feeds allow you to "read what they read, and see what's on their minds ...
Protesters and Activists at Saddleback
Thursday, August 21st, 2008There may not have been many people protesting the fact of the Saddleback Church forum, but activists outside the church were certainly fired up about the candidates and issues. From stirnaman.photo (hat tip to Sue Salinger), here's a Bush (and, in smaller print, McCain) supporter: [stirnaman.photo / Flickr] Stirnaman.photo also captured this Obama-masked, ...
Warren Better Than Network Anchors?
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Rick Warren [kev/null / Flickr] You remember the Gibson/Stephanopoulos-moderated Democratic debate, right? That may have been on Mike from LeftFielder.org's mind when he decided Pastor Rick Warren was better at interviewing candidates than most network anchors. Actually, he just plain feels Warren did a great job: In my mind [...] the real ...
Another Reaction to Saddleback Church Forum
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Outside Saddleback Church [Bjarne B. Sunde / Flickr] Kate Stone writes an eponymous blog, and, unlike Erica, she was happy to miss the whole Saddleback frenzy while she was camping in New Mexico. She was curious to catch up on it at the end of her trip, though. After meeting a ...
Reaction to Saddleback Church Forum
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Erica is a journalism student from California. She tried very hard to get a ticket to Pastor Rick Warren's recent forum with Obama and McCain at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest -- and she felt rather sour when she learned that the seats had sold out at high prices (thanks, ...
VP Predictions
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008DrBombay1559 from the US Virgin Islands wants to start a political blog, and this video is a test run. Don't let the blurry scratchy quality deter you -- his commentary/prediction about VP candidates is interesting. (Hat tip to James Mills.) And just in time, too, because it looks like ...
Russia-Georgia Conflict — Part II
Friday, August 15th, 2008Boxing gloves [Addictive Picasso / Flickr] There seems to have been no fighting in Georgia so far today, but the new US-Polish missile-defense agreement -- apparently a result of the conflict -- has infuriated Russia. This is a quick follow-up post on the way the hostilities are playing out in the ...
Fighting for Medical Marijuana in Minnesota
Friday, August 15th, 2008KK Forss is a photographer in Ely, Minnesota. He suffers from excruciating chronic spinal pain and has been trying to get the Minnesota House to pass a medical-marijuana bill (which never came up for a vote in the last session). KK says that when he could use medical marijuana, it ...
Obama: Hip Hop and Hustle in Detroit
Friday, August 15th, 2008Some youth and some senior citizens performing for Obama in Detroit. (Thanks, Sarolta Cump.) Lady Te is a young Motor City rapper. In this music video, she appeals to her peers to dig into important issues and go vote for Barack: If you're a Detroiter on the senior end of the ...
Homeland-Security Street Art
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Hat tip to Sarolta Cump for all of these Homeland-Security finds. Some of the photos were taken before the presidential race got going, but they present issues that have very much carried through into the campaign. First: John Ryan Brubaker from Portland, Oregon, captured this street commentary a couple of ...
McCain: A 3:00 am Email
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Ballotvoxregular, former Democratic Senate staffer, and Nevada novelist Jed Lewison adds to the pile of spoofs of Hillary Clinton's 3:00 am ad -- in this case to chide McCain for his lack of web savvy (thanks, Ann Raber): Will McCain's staff pull this one up to show him?
