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 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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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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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
This week's New Yorker cover shows Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim, Michelle outfitted as a Black Panther/terrorist, a flag burning in the fireplace, and Osama bin Laden in a gilt frame on the wall. It is, of course satire. Or it's supposed to be. It seems to be confusing ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Last month, on the June 3rd evening that Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, John McCain gave a speech that was panned for its delivery and for its horrible green backdrop. Stephen Colbert sent out a plea for help on McCain's behalf: take that speech, remix it, and make McCain more ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Sarolta Cump found this one. It's a sendup of carbon offsets -- the idea that you can neutralize your CO2 footprint by purchasing an equivalent amount of renewable energy, reforestation, etc. Offsets are controversial, and they figure somewhat differently in the McCain and Obama climate plans.
The video stars Remy ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Back to the Democrats for a second for an amusement found by James Mills. San Francisco-based web designer Wayne Bremser discovered this t-shirt on Haight Street:
[wayne bremser / Flickr]
Read into it what you will.
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Keight hails from Portland, Oregon, but she apparently photographed this street art in New York City two days after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination. It seems safe to assume the drawing was intended as a tribute to Clinton's candidacy. (Thanks Ann Raber and James Mills.)
[keight / Flickr]
Across the country in ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
A hilarious send-up of the relevance of Obama's connection to former Weather Underground member William Ayers -- which both Clinton and McCain have tried to highlight. Found, for you, by Sarolta Cump:
Could a candidate get away with wearing any of those?
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Lisa Nova makes videos. A lot of videos. Some of them are about the campaign, and they're clever. Up first, via Sue Salinger, a sharp parody of the last scene of Sunset Boulevard, with Clinton in the Norma Desmond role:
Nova plays lots of different characters in her videos; in this ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
These spoofs of Princeton professor Cornel West -- by Los Angeles filmmaker David McMillan, aka "Professor Clifton East" -- match up the presidential candidates with Beatles songs. McMillan created these in 2007, when the candidate pool was considerably larger. In Part I, the Democrats:
And in Part II, the Republicans:
When Sarolta ...
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