Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Biden speaking in Springfield [aka Kath / Flickr]
McCain is now ahead of Obama in the national polls, and one of Joe Biden's new roles -- at least judging by his Springfield speech -- is to play bad cop to counter McCain's recent offensive.
Mary, who lives "in a Blue State, in ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Yep. At New York state's Erie County Fair, people made scultpures of McCain and Obama. Out of butter. Here they are in progress, in a photo by Timothy Finucane, a programmer/developer from Lancaster, New York (thanks, James Mills):
[speljamr / Flickr]
Jessica Tanny, a processing archivist from Buffalo, caught them a ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
John Sadowski is an "abstract artist and graphics guy" from Chicago. He took this original photo, switched some heads around, and came up with the mashup below (thanks, James Mills). With the conventions and debates right around the corner, the bell for the heavyweight-title fight is about to ring.
[johnsadowskiii ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Google 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 ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
There 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, ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Rick 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 ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Erica 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, ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
DrBombay1559 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 ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Boxing 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 ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Ballotvoxregular, 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?
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Tbilisi, Georgia, at night [pazavi / Flickr]
In the last week, long-festering animosity between Georgia and Russia turned into bombing and heavy fighting. Some say the US is peripherally implicated in the escalation due to the mixed messages it has been giving President Saakashvili. It's clear, in any case, that the ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Seen by Orlando-based Cavale in a Florida campground she wasn't fond of, this car-window graffiti (thanks, James Mills):
[Cavale / Flickr]
Cavale ended up leaving the campground even though she had a new tent and couldn't get her money back. It seems this car wasn't directly to blame.
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