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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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
Watching Obama in Berlin [stevegarfield / Flickr]
Sam Han is a sociology PhD student at CUNY. He didn't want to wade into campaign hoopla but couldn't help himself last week when people started saying, during Obama's trip abroad, that Barack "'needs to be careful' about not appearing like he’s already won ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
In some of the odder candidate street art, here are Obama, Clinton, and McCain as Marilyn Monroe, Warhol-style. Catherine from Hollywood, California, took the picture.
[catheadsix / Flickr]
What is this saying? That they're all actors? That they're all -- or aim be -- as American as the stars & stripes and ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
James Mills just turned up these two bumper stickers. The first, from Moltron 3030, was taken on a farewell tour of Eugene (Oregon?), where she and her friend Lizz (featured here) have lived since 2004:
[Moltron 3030 / Flickr]
DottComments lives in Louisville, Kentucky, likes the Rolling Stones, and apparently needs ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Media circus [Taz etc. / Flickr]
Political Lizard would like you to know that John McCain's recent trips abroad didn't generate anything like the media circus that will soon surround Obama in Europe and the Middle East. Obama will be shadowed by all three nightly news anchors: Katie Couric, Brian Williams, ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Barack Obama heads to Europe and the Middle East this weekend. It looks like he may receive some friendly greetings in Iraq, but it seems fairly certain he'll be welcomed warmly in Europe, where a vigorous strain of Obamamania has taken hold. Exhibit A: this ad for a 100-page special ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
[Ann Raber is a BallotVox co-curator.]
It is frequently remarked that politics makes strange bedfellows. Well, last week New Yorker editor David Remnick and Ron Paul Twin Rebekah, two media figures who would be hard pressed to have less in common, found themselves in similar positions. Both Remnick and Rebekah were ...
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