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Tag Archives: obama
Must See TV?
October 10, 2008 – 12:05 pm
From Reuter’s Obama buys half-hour of network primetime: “Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of primetime television on CBS and NBC, sources confirmed Thursday. The Obama campaign is producing a nationwide pitch to voters that will air on at least two broadcast networks. The ad will run Wednesday, October 29, at 8 p.m. — less [...]
Another Report From The Future
October 10, 2008 – 11:43 am
Firs there was Klosterman’s Brief History of the 21st Century; now there’s Cracked’s An Interview with McCain and Obama (In the Year 2012).
A President Who Predicts Problems, Not Reacts To Them
October 6, 2008 – 05:36 pm
From Sen. Obama’s March 2007 Letter to Paulson and Bernanke: “There is grave concern in low-income communities about a potential coming wave of foreclosures. Because regulators are partly responsible for creating the environment that is leading to rising rates of home foreclosure in the subprime mortgage market, I urge you immediately to convene a homeownership [...]
Why My Congressman Changed His Vote
October 3, 2008 – 05:41 pm
From Rep. Welch’s Statement on economic rescue legislation: “I spoke at length with Senator Obama. He shares the reservations I have about this legislation. He assured me that, as president, he will improve this bill in two essential ways. He is committed to assisting struggling homeowners with bankruptcy protections, and establishing a ‘recoupment’ fund so [...]
Take 20 Minutes To Read This
October 3, 2008 – 05:32 pm
From the New Yorker’s The Choice: “Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching -— that’s the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that [...]
The Candidates’ Tech Policies
October 2, 2008 – 03:07 pm
From Slate’s Obama vs. McCain on media policy: “Both campaigns have ‘tech plans’ that include plenty of feel-good generalities. But behind them lie fundamental differences between the candidates and a rift between their main advisers. The essential difference lies in the view each candidate takes toward private power over the public media. McCain and his [...]
Foreshadowing
September 29, 2008 – 08:20 pm
From NY Times’s On Bailout, Candidates Were Surely Themselves: “Aides and political allies to both [Obama and McCain] agreed Sunday that perhaps no episode thus far in the campaign better demonstrated how they would approach managing problems as president. Their instincts, temperaments, and leadership traits were in the spotlight in Washington, as well as their [...]
What You All Think of the Debates?
September 29, 2008 – 12:32 pm
I don’t think Obama hit a home run or anything, but he seemd 90000x more presidential than did McCain.
We were watching it on CNN, and they had a little thing at the bottom of the screen that (at least on West Wing) are called Dial Groups. It’s a real time measure of how Democrats, Republicans, [...]
