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It’s an interesting and tightly targeted ad albeit presented slightly patronisingly by US TV star, Lena Dunham; creator and star of the excellent “Girls”.
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Fantastic clip from an Obama speech in April this year in which he has a go at Donald Trump (aka Dickhead) after he’d questioned Obama’s African roots.
To get him back he released not only his birth certificate but his birth VIDEO too.
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Interviewed at the Washington MTV party Kanye was asked for his take on Obama’s inauguration. His response?
“Man; first ipods, now this.”
What a philosopher.
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Classy. Thanks Stephen.
An ad for a female depilation cream in the Australian Daily Telegraph.
Today.
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Cometh the time. Cometh the man.
I didn’t see him deliver it but I’ve just read it and it is a thing of beauty. Balanced, potent, humble but strong, honest in that he positions America’s future from a point in time where the nation is in crisis. He speaks simply but uncompromisingly. (Essentially he is saying you are with us or against us. The subtext is ‘God help you if you are the latter.”)
Al Gore will be proud. He puts the climate centre stage.
He talks brilliantly about policy in a hugely Democratic way without actually uttering a word of rhetoric or specifying any particular bill. His critics might say this is vague. I see it as vision-setting and principled.
He talks about the ‘truth’ of America. America the brand. As an adman I buy into that full square. His vision is not of warmongering arrogance and doled out retribution for wrongdoings against the Bald Eagle. It’s about work – hard work – community, opportunity, reward and democracy.
In short this was a wonderful, humble, dignified moment in time, setting out his stall as a strong man of reason and very great intelligence.
Not one single word was difficult to understand, contrived, showy or jargony.
That is no mean feat.
So I say, Obama…Yes you can. (And he didn’t say that.)
I sincerely, truly hope and pray that I will not be eating these words a year from now, but I sincerely believe that I will not.
And why? Because Obama does not politicise, he engages and reasons.
Not a single word of overpromise was in his speech but its intent was crystal clear.
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The euphoria is over. And I must admit I shed a few tears.
McCain has given a wonderfully dignified speech upon losing, but more dramatic still was Bush’s brilliant endorsement of Obama’s premiership and his call to arms, so that the current administration do not drop the ball in the 75 days leading up to his governorship.
I liked that. That took humanity and a certain amount of pride-swallowing.
Good on ya dubbleya.
Hey, maybe we’ll all see the man in a new light.
Apparently Oliver Stone’s movie on the subject, starring Josh Brolin, is by no means sycophantic but certainly sympathetic.
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You may recall I blogged this image by Obey, a few weeks ago.
Well, a nice twist came out today.
Sorry the quality’s so poor, but that’s the credit crunch for ya.
If you want to enjoy the original’s quality click on the link.
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Is this the end in sight for McCain?
For one of the Republicans’ most respected figures to publicly put his faith in the opposition raises a great deal of doubt about the credibility of McCain’s challenge and the fact that he says it’s because McCain chose Palin as his running mate says it all.
What’s more he feels Obama could be a transformational world figure.
Ouch.
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Just when we all thought Obama had nailed it (short of assasination) McCain pulls a rabbit out of the hat.
Now, this is an interesting development.
Sarah Palin has a CV to die for.
She’s a much lauded Alaskan Governor. Check.
She’s a Christian. Check.
She’s an ex beauty queen. Check.
Obviously she’s a woman. Check.
She’s sporty. Check.
She’s in a steady and long term relationship. Check.
She’s a mother of five. Check.
One of her kids is going to Iraq in a few months. Check.
One of them is disabled. Check.
However the whole thing is all a bit random. McCain has only met her once so one could hardly describe this as a meeting of minds. She makes Obama look blessed with foreign affairs acumen and she’s called her kids Track, Piper, Bristol, Willow and Trig. (!)
I’m looking forward to this…
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Come on Barack. Cross the line.
Of course the real risk to Obama’s accession to world power is that some fanatic kills him.
The fact that a right wing white supremacy unit set out to pick him off on the anniversary of Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech might, in hindsight have seemed obvious but it remains a real and present danger to this man’s life.
And, in that respect it remains a real and present danger to this world being a better place to live in.
I think the FBI has to be congratulated (assuming it was them who did it) for uncovering the plot by a bunch of hick Nazis to kill one of the world’s most important people. And let’s not kid ourselves he IS one of the world’s most important people.
Scotland is an exciting place to live, from a political perspective, right now because Alex Salmond’s SNP-led government has thrown off the shackles of what couldn’t be done before. It has a real sense of the new and it’s genuinely rather exciting. So imagine if you took that same approachh to American politics.
Sheesh.
Lots of comfort zones blown to smithereens.
That’s why we need Obama.
We all know that.
That’s why the wierdos need to be kept on top of.
Please, no Lee Harvey Oswalds.
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Surely not?
He is rather right wing.
He does rather dwell on his Vietnam days.
TIME OUT! TIME OUT! TIME OUT!
(SFX: Pandemonium)
America hates/used to hate anything to do with Vietnam.
Here’s how he’s selling the new American Conservatism
624727.
If Zimbabwe had oil we’d be in there sorting the situation out.
But we don’t.
So we just sit back and watch. Totally immoral and total double standards. Maybe Obama will remember his roots and deal with this when he gets into the White House.
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You live through the last ten years of lying politics and suddenly things go a bit tingly.
Barak Obama is undoubtedly the most exciting introduction to the Western political world since Clinton (Mr , not Mrs) and some.
And in Scotland we are graced by Alex Salmond.
In between times Bush bombs; yes, I know, it’s a pun.
Brown just goes pear-shaped – but what can you expect when his boss/predecessor was an inveterate liar?
So. Bring it on. The Presidential election I mean. Because, although I am massively predisposed to Obama, I think we all need to see the debate unfold.
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You wonder whether the fight to beat Clinton has taken too much out of him. OK, America probably wants a break from conservatism, and McCain is about as enticing as Hilda Ogden in a rainstorm but it’s still a big ask.
And, oh it’s been a right riveting nomination campaign.
But let’s not forget he is black and there is a mountain of opposition to that.
However, I think it is a rather exciting political development and that he is, potentially, the man.
Bring it on.
(This is clearly the sort of post that one might look back on in years to come as supremely visionary or supremely foolish. Pray God it is the former.)
Or did I hear that Hillary Clinton claimed she landed under sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia?
Because this is the news footage from her arrival at the time.
I think you can welcome President Obama to the world stage.
Maybe it’s not just Britain that has a Bliar.
