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Required Reading

Posted in Politics, tagged election, McCain, Obama on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If you’re still up in the air about the election here are two articles you need to read. Now. Make-Believe Maverick : Rolling Stone and The Choice : The New Yorker

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Reasons to Vote for Obama – Part 2: Economics

Posted in Politics, tagged Obama on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In the first installment I introduced some of the general reasons I’m voting for Barack Obama on November 4th. The feedback from the original note was positive so I wanted to dig deeper into some of my points. A lot of you asked about Obama’s positions on various topics. With the attention shifting this week [...]

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Reasons to Vote for Obama – Part 1: Introduction

Posted in Politics, tagged Obama, vote on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Family, Friends, and anyone else who cares to listen, Over the next few weeks I will be writing a series of posts as to why I feel it’s so important to vote for Barack Obama for President. I understand we’re all probably being barraged by TV ads and other media, but for what it’s worth, [...]

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Jon Stewart: Juxtapostion Genius

Posted in Politics on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml

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It Wouldn’t Be Appropriate

Posted in Politics, tagged Birthday, Katrina, McCain on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From McCain’s lips yesterday: “You know it just wouldn’t be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster.” Of course, where were you 3 years ago on the day Katrina was devastating New Orleans? Ohh right… now I remember. No, [...]

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But this is truly disgusting…

Posted in Politics, tagged Politics on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Could this be any more transparent, pathetic, or desperate? She has a year and a half of political experience as governor and she’s running for VP? You’re going to gamble the COUNTRY with her as the VP so you can still have a shot? Ohh my god… Updated At least one of the ‘Analysts’ at [...]

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These are beautiful…

Posted in Politics, tagged Obama on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton Joe Biden Word size is driven by the number of times it was said in each of their above speeches this week at the Democratic National Convention. As seen on Daily Kos.

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Obama in Berlin

Posted in Politics, tagged Obama on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Aside from an amazing photograph of 200,000 people cheering on Obama… this was one of the first things I noticed in the photograph… Ich bin ein Moblogger [Via Vanity Fair] When will this video be available on YouTube!?

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Obama Claims Nomination!

Posted in Photography, Politics, tagged Obama on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Obama Claims Nomination!, originally uploaded by -DjD-. Today is a great day to be an American! Congratulations to Barack Obama, everyone that made this happen, and everyone that will benefit from a refreshing change of direction in the White House come January!

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