mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 17 2008 | economics, barack obama, president, campaign, politics, 2008
Austan Goolsbee (what a cool name), is an Economics Professor at University of Chicago and Barack Obama's economic advisor. It is refreshing to have a presidential candidate who surrounds himself with SMART people, for a change.
Watch this interview and you'll have a lot more faith in the depth and quality of Obama's economic strategy, if you were skeptical before.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 06 2008 | funny, politics, President, paris hilton
Paris's energy policy is REALLY GOOD!
Quoted: An ad for The Paris Hilton Presidential Campaign. Paid for by Funny Or Die.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 31 2008 | news, clinton, obama, 2008, president, campaign
Hilary's new campaign slogan:
"Better White Than Wright"
(I have half a mind to print these myself - ain't I a stinker?)
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 08 2008 | video, politics, obama, clinton, president, 2008
click to playObama's "Yes We Can" speech, set to music by will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas). It's an amazing speech of optimism, which is made even more impactful set to music.
In 6 days this video has garnered:
- 2.5 million views
- 16,000 commentsQuoted: Celebrities featured include: Jesse Dylan, Will.i.am, Common, Scarlett Johansson, Tatyana Ali, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kate Walsh, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adam Rodriquez, Kelly Hu, Adam Rodriquez, Amber Valetta, Eric Balfour, Aisha Tyler, Nicole Scherzinger and Nick Cannon
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 30 2007 | politics, president, cheney, bush
Frontline has done a really great job of summarizing what the White House has been doing to take as much power as possible in the name of the War on Terror.
I was amazed at how much they have gotten away with - even getting to the point of mass defections from the Justice department over their power grabs.
Cheney is the front man in this effort to strengthen the White House - this is a must-see documentary.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 24 2007 | seattle, hillary clinton, president, 2008, politics
Much of Hillary's speech last night was repeat for an audience at Microsoft today. I was able to attend and must say I was very impressed with her. It's refreshing to hear from a presidential candidate that's intelligent and not afraid to state her mind.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 26 2007 | news, election, president, 2008
Oh puh-leeze!
Let us all vow not to elect fear mongers or other crass manipulators.
Quoted: MANCHESTER, N.H. —- Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 12 2007 | politics, president, election, campaign
Quoted: Enter JohnMcCain.com ... Ewww.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 01 2007 | audio, politics, biden, obama, president, 2008
click to playRecording of the Obama comments by Biden. Just what we need, another Old White Guy for President who shoots his mouth off w/o thinking first.
Quoted: "I mean, you got the first, sorta, mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man!"
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 04 2006 | 2008, president, elections, democrat, obama, politics
How can Obama be considered a serious presidential candidate?
Qualifications:
- Law degree (magna cum laude, Harvard)
- One term in Illinois State Legislature
- Lost 2000 bid for US House seat.
- Won his 2002 Senate race by default (opponent withdrew after embarrasing divorce disclosures, and then replaced by the wacko Alan Keyes).
- Served only 2 years as US Senator to date - he'll have 2 years more experience by 2008 - but most of his time will be dedicated to his campaign.What fairy dust has attracted so much attention for him? Is an intelligent, well spoken black man so rare (is an intelligent, well spoken, *politician*, so rare)?
Of course, compared to Bush, Obama is at least articulate and comes across as a deep thinker. But why is someone with so little experience in politics the supposed front runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination?
