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Obama is Funny (OK, So’s McCain)
Hey, this is really funny. I wonder who’s idea it was to call Al Franken.
Hey this is really funny. I wonder who’s idea it was to call… that famous funny conservative guy… uh… Dennis Mil– I wonder when Al Franken decided to join the GOP.
Chris Rock On Letterman
Everybody and their blog has probably already shown you this, but it’s too great to miss. Chris Rock on the Clintons, Obama and Sarah Palin:
Note, the video may go down but you can find some transcript here, the first part of the video here, and a torrent here.
Update: President Clinton was great on the Daily Show last night. Would I vote for Clinton over Obama and McCain if he were allowed in the race? Without a second thought.
Hillary the Populist
One question that has bugged me over the past few months is, who exactly are Hillary’s supporters? I am, of course, not talking about the stereotypical aging “die hard” feminists who refuse to give up on their support for the first woman president. If this were the case, one would suspect that such a group would be dismayed by Hillary’s “conservative” appeal, as well as the reprehensible attacks on Michelle Obama. If, on the other hand, Hillary’s supporters are simply so-called “Reagan Democrats,” that is, white working-class voters (petit bourgeoisie), why do they not support John McCain? He is, arguably, the most hawkish on foreign policy out of all of the presidential candidates1, as well as the most “free market” orientated.
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- At the very least, this is the image that he has attempted to cultivate, although, as the L.A. Times has pointed out, his foreign policy record is, at best, mixed ↩
Hillary’s NAFTA Lie
Surprise, surprise.
Hillary and Font Choice
Wonkette has some great (and perhaps Advanced) remarks about Hillary’s new attack ad:
Now this is a peculiar strategy for the Clinton campaign. They seem to be eschewing their central Obama attacks — his kindergarten record, horrific plagiarism, being a Negro — for a criticism of his foreign policy judgment, and they’re using “solid evidence” from his Senate career to support it. Isn’t that mean and unfair of Hillary Clinton?
You can view the ad for yourself here. It’s still pretty reprehensible, but what political attack ad isn’t? Nevertheless, a lot has been written about Obama’s excellent taste in fonts, but one thing that stuck out for me was that this new ad uses a fairly popular Web 2.0 font called Interstate, and it doesn’t look half bad. How this will play it for the crucial “typographer” swing vote, nobody really knows.
National Security… Serious Business
A wonderful bit of FUD released by the Clinton campaign today:
Here is Obama’s response. The telephone has been replaced with a gritty, battle-hardened vet:
Both, of course, represent the kind of watered down “feel good” politics we’ve become accustomed to. So how do they stack up against national security ads from other eras? Take, for example, this epic Lyndon Johnson ad from 1964 (he was running against Barry “Shakespeare” Goldwater):
And lastly, here’s a great clip from Mr. Show:
(Via The Caucus.)