We're asking you to put some of the money you plan to give Obama "in escrow" until he demonstrates progressive leadership on the issues we care about, like warrantless wiretapping. [Link]
The report notes that the administration has gone to “unprecedented lengths to control and suppress information about the human cost” of the wars. [Link]
"We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes," Hansen said during his appearance at the National Press Club. "The Arctic is the first tipping point and it's occurring exactly the way we said it would." [Link]
It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration. [Link]
"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be ans [Link]
It gives me a terrible mental image of the whole country linking arms and goose-stepping in unison, with the politicians out in front doing a straight-armed salute. [Link]
BOULTON: There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom. BUSH: Of course, if you want to slander America. [Link]
In a subsequent e-mail to the employee, Cargol described himself as “a rub-your-belly, grab-your-balls, give-you-a-hug, slap-your-back, pull-your-dick, squeeze-your-hand, cheek-your-face, and pat-your-thigh kind of guy.” [Link]
Democracy Now! Radio and TV News [Link]
Let's take a look at how the Los Angeles Times covered the new Senate Intelligence Committee report on the claims made as part of selling the Iraq war, and compare it to how the editorial page of the Washington Post, by which I mean Fred Hiatt, sees the e [Link]
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" an [Link]
Hertzberg's analysis is noteworthy because he appears to be able to allow several ideas to coexist in his head simultaneously, which quite an achievement these days. [Link]
That night, George Stephanopoulos, who was then a top aide to Mr. Clinton, declared that it was “mathematically impossible for Brown to get the nomination” — the start of a campaign to declare Mr. Clinton the presumed nominee, even as several other [Link]
If Obama is the nominee, Tonay said, McCain will be just fine with her. "In the end, I won't vote for Obama because I don't know who he is, and I don't trust him," she said. [Link]
Robert Reich, who went to Yale Law School with Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton and later served in the Clinton administration, called Hillary Clinton's attack on Obama "absurd,&q~ adding: "That carries guilt by association to a new level of absurdity. [Link]
Some speculate the Senator Clinton would want the spirit-killing Vice Presidency because she would be willing to wait for two terms so as to be the likely nominee in 2012. I believe that she could well contemplate this scenario. [Link]
A subsequent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research showed that gas prices fell by 3 percent, meaning that only three fifths of the savings from reduced taxes was passed on to consumers. [Link]
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is filing a complaint with the IRS today challenging the conservative group Freedom's Watch status as a non-profit. [Link]
For Barbara, Hillary has become the screech on the blackboard. From First Lady to Lady Macbeth. [Link]
So what's changed? I asked Reich. "I saw the ads" — the negative man-on-street commercials that the Clinton campaign put up in Pennsylvania in the wake of Obama's bitter/cling comments a week ago — "and I was appalled, frankly. [Link]
December 1st, 2006 at 4:32 pm
There is something wrong with your link.
I have a similar idea, that until a strong progressive contender for President in 2008, that people make fictitious YouTube commercials and documentaries for the candidate espousing policies and dreams that they would have their eventual candidate support, if one ever emerges.
This dream candidate is, of course, Cash Flanners who seduces an army of door knockers and phonebankers with his charm and reputed sexual prowess, and the campaign theme song Kiss by he artist formerly known as Prince. Here in the Minneapolis area, the grassroots/Wellstone model, and Prince are sacred, so this should play well in my area, but your version of Cash might be entirely different and localized for your community.
She might be a cowgirl. I have no idea. Cash Flanners is going to be the early front runner, and is going to be the candidate you make him or her out to be… but earlyinvolvement in the Cash Flanners campaign, like early involvement in any campaign, is going to get you more mileage when it comes to forming policy, framing, and tenor ofthe campaign…
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Political mocumentary, particularly in the form of political ads, is an unmilked goldmine (a mixed metaphor, but you get the idea). I’d love to find some other bloggers who like doing this kind of thing, and promote the crap out of it.
In my previous life I did a lot of comedy shorts including a fake political ad with Joe Huang, a comic up in Boston. The hook was that he was the first only citizen from a Communist regime running for Congress. Sample scene: Joe discusses trickle-down economics while reading from a book clearly labelled “Science Fiction.”
I’ve talked with a few bloggers who see making their own video shorts as too time-consuming, and so don’t consider it. I really believe that if you can write a blog post, then you can write the script for a short.
On the link, I’ve run into this before, and I’ll try to sort it out on Monday. Windows doesn’t like it when you link to a .mp4 file. In the past, I changed the format to .mov and everything worked fine. That may be what I end up doing here.