Thursday, May 15th, 2008
It looks like yoovie moon took this picture at a festival on the streets of Lafayette, Louisiana, last month. It's sort of a surreal trio: John McCain meets Bob Marley meets... an Obama/Adam Sandler hybrid? (Hat tip to Ann Raber.)
[yoovie / Flickr]
Is there really a healthy market for presidential art?
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Telluride's Free Box for free trades
[markschoneveld / Flickr]
Republican, corporate lawyer, and Cubs fan Pat Allen feels that John McCain -- unlike his two potential Democratic rivals -- has shown admirable consistency on free trade (thanks, Ann Raber):
During the Ohio primary last month, Senators Obama and Clinton were in a race ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
This sarcastic engineer is armed with a calculator, and he's no fool. He tells John McCain that his proposed summer "gas-tax holiday" (which Clinton supports and Obama opposes) is ridiculous. The engineer figures it will save each American a grand total of 30 dollars. Which, compared to what we'll be ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
John McCain recently took an "It's Time for Action Tour" of "forgotten places" where Americans have been left behind. Last week, after visiting the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, he headed to Baton Rouge, where supporters waited calmly in line at the airport to see him. Paul Dietzel II, ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Undecided [iluvrhinestones / Flickr]
Libertarian Jason Kuznicki is still undecided about how he'll vote in November. It's a tough election for libertarians because it's forcing them to weigh some core priorities: divided government, free trade, and withdrawal from Iraq. Kuznicki explains (thanks, Ann Raber):
So… depending on one’s priorities, a libertarian swing ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
For a light start to the week, some fantastic election kitsch. Londoner fintag, who writes a hedge-fund blog, took this photo on the streets of NYC (thanks, Ann Raber). It's hard to believe it, but they actually exist: electric sconces decorated with pictures of McCain, Obama, and Clinton... and a ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Distortion [curson / Flickr]
The blogger Tom Maguire at JustOneMinute highlights an instance of Obama mischaracterizing -- by omission -- something McCain said about the economy. (Found by Ann Raber.) Maguire compares what Obama said McCain said with what McCain actually did say.
Obama: "John McCain went on television and said that ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Driving in to Bozeman [meganpru / Flickr]
An anonymous moderate Republican student at Bozeman High in Montana attended the local Republican caucus on Super Tuesday. He/she may be voting for the first time this year but is already an astute observer of the way primaries can play to polarized voters (hat ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
In the crowd at a John McCain rally in Prescott, Arizona (via Misa Dayson). It's not clear whether the man is lost in time or sending McCain some kind of message...
[PaisleyPitbull / Flickr]
In another picture from the same rally, you can see people dressed in what appear to be pioneer-era ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
McCain, Clinton, and Obama (here and here) have all given big speeches recently to mark the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war. The Kibitzer, a midwestern Lutheran who is "temperamentally conservative with a weakness for radical politics," points out that both McCain and Obama are staking out moral positions on ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Via co-curator Ann Raber, a largely conservative student perspective -- from the University of Dallas and the University of Texas at Dallas -- on the Democratic candiates:
Sirmontag, who made the video, grew up in Dayton, OH, and currently lives in Dallas. He is a man of many hobbies, from blacksmithing ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Can Meghan reel in this generation? [dlemieux / Flickr]
As the de facto Republican nominee, John McCain, unlike the Democrats, now gets to focus on the general election. One of the items on his to-do list: a vice presidential candidate. Which inevitably raises the question of McCain's age (he's 71), whether ...
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