My American Prayer is a Web site to promote the pro-Obama Dave-Stewart-and-Seth-Dalton-directed video (with a cast of thousands, including Joan Baez, Whoopi Goldberg, and Barry Manilow) called My American Prayer.
Wandering away from there I found there’s also the new “Yes We Can” video (a musical video with no connection to Will.i.am’s classic) out from Maria Muldaur and Bonnie Raitt. Recorded at Studio D Recording in Sausalito.
Count down to November.
Joan Baez, Whoopi Goldberg, and Barry Manilow?!?!! Yipes!
The indexing is superb. You can select one of the broad subject ranges and then one of the sub-sections. You can search for subjects. You can find all videos from the Hoover Institution.
Unfit for Publication [PDF] – the Obama campaign’s 40pp rebuttal to the “facts” in Jerome Corsi’s book.
Reminds me a bit of Usenet. If someone spouts a bunch of stuff and you can see there’s at least 30% of it that’s wrong right off the bat, you go looking to see what other “facts” might be wrong.
Perhaps, though, I should volunteer as copy editor when the campaign is writing up these lengthy, smear-fighting essays.
e.g. p2 As you might expect from the book’s shoddy foundation, many of its claims are also completely false. The Obama’s never gave a million dollars to a Kenyan politician.
misplaced apostrophe Maybe it started out as “Obama’s campaign” and morphed into “The Obama’s” without needed tweaking of punctuation.
p5 Obama Writes That His Father’s Third Wife Refused To Life With His First Wife
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And so forth and on. I tuckered out about page nineteen, but I’ve saved the PDF and I’ll continue reading later.
This election has the internet (columns, blogs, newsgroups, sites, videos, commentary, Web2.0 electioneering) playing a huge part, for those who use the internet.
And even for those who don’t, if they read the papers or watch TV.
McCain’s ad comparing Obama to Paris and Britney didn’t have much play in paid air time, but it was on the Web getting a zillion views and MSM picked it up and talked about it and wondered about it and speculated about it and suddenly a fairly small media budget got a factor of n more traction than it would otherwise.
But it’s not just the videos produced by professionals and paid for by campaigns or major political parties. I am stunned by the brilliance of some of the non-campaign videos that are popping up. (And stupefied by the webisodes that were shot of John Edwards and paid for by his campaign, but that’s another story. …)
The younger nib grew up making videos and belonging to movie/video clubs and competing in movie/video competitions from his teen years as did many of the Y generation.
Those years of practice show up too in the amateur videos made for YouTube distribution.
This morning I came across a link to “Republicans and military men on John McCain” in the comments tail of a Huffington post. Visuals. Captures. Background music. Amazing work from someone who seems to be the same age as the younger nib.
Seems Jerry Brown (formerly Governor Moonbeam, currently State Attorney General perhaps Governor again after the next election, who knows …) has authorized the following ballot language for Proposition 8: “eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry.”
Says he, since the time the petition signatures were collected, the court confirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry. Therefore, Prop 8, which reads “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” would disenfranchise those who just May 15th got the right to marry and his wording is fine and good and valid.
Prop 8 proponents claim Brown’s verbiage is “inherently argumentative and highly likely to create prejudice” and they aren’t eliminating anyone’s rights. They’re simply trying to reinstate the definition of marriage that existed in California before the judicial decision in May.
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, July 24, 2008
Backers of a November initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California plan to tell voters in the state ballot pamphlet that the constitutional amendment would protect children as young as kindergarten age from being taught in school about the virtues of gay and lesbian matrimony.
“If the gay marriage ruling is not overturned, teachers will be required to teach young children there is no difference between gay marriage and traditional marriage,” supporters of Proposition 8 said in ballot arguments that went on public display this week at the secretary of state’s office.
That marriage lesson is more than likely part and parcel of the sex education lessons for kindergarteners that the gay agenda is forcing on the good citizens of California.
Upcoming trip to Africa was to include South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. …
The organizers just called to say (surprise!) the Zimbabwe leg has been canceled. We’ll be going to Zambia instead. Organizers will pay for all Zambian visas &c. The visas we had for Zimbabwe won’t be needed after all.
You’d think that would make her electable. After all, she is not Bill. You’d think that would make her a better candidate. But shut my mouth, Americans don’t vote pragmatically. They vote emotionally. And the devil you know is always inferior to the angel you don’t know. Barack is currently that angel. How long he’ll keep his wings is anyone’s guess.
So here we go again. NARAL loves the new boy on the block — even if HRC was there at its founding. So does John Edwards. And Ted Kennedy. The fact that Barack has little experience makes him the hot new ingénue, whereas Hillary is old like your mother.
The truth is we know about her — and we know very little about Obama. That alone makes her detractors scream: Get Out! Off the stage with you! Give us that hot new boy! Give us that sepia Brad Pitt! Old women are so over!
First Ferraro, now Jong. The comments tail is whoo-boy interesting.
e.g. I have come to understand what “we don’t know anything about him” really means. I believe this is another set of code words for “he is not one of us.”