Blogging about bloggers

I cant seem to get back on track and this can be blamed on my AMST jr.seminar class and the FLU...but I digress......
After watching a JFK ad on Caroline's blog I am reminded just how different it was for my parents growing up...and truly how amazing this election is! We've come a long way baby.
But I have to be honest, this week I am coming off my second break from blogging and am just now getting back on track by CHEATING!!! I am basically viewing ads from everyone's blogs. I know, I know shame on me! I have seen my share of ads but since I can't seem to learn the technique of embedding, I figured I would start by watching others picks which expose all of McCain's "honest" campaign strategies.

So many polls so little time...

This article on how polls are driving journalists into a frenzy is so geeked up on links it had be linking like a pro! Check it out! This WP guy talks about everything from the bias of the media to the landslide democratic with warnings in between about the dangers of giving too much credit to polls ie. Obama's loss in New Hampshire during the primaries to Clinton....but this is the BIGTIME...Clinton who?

RE:SP on SNL

Silly little poll on whether or not it would hurt Palin to go on SNL overwhelmingly showed it would hurt her...but imagine that she did anyways....and it was genius but I do give props to whoever it was that showed the Kimmel with Wahlberg because I was a little lost and way more interested in in him then in Sarah!

When we get to racism....

When we do discuss racism in class this is a pretty interesting site.

Double standards

While googling for some humor I came across something a bit more interesting and wanted to post on it. It is the double standard surrounding McCain's association with G.Gordon Liddy compared to the Obama/Ayers connection. Of course McCain's sounds more more incriminating.

WARNING:FELON?PARKING TICKETS ???dont show up to vote

This is a story that I have been looking for and haven't heard too much about:Voter suppression propaganda. I had heard this "rumor" that I just did not want to believe because the messenger said it was the democrats warning "its" people...well needless to say I knew "this" messenger was wrong but couldn't find the evidence until now. NPR reports about an anonymous flier that has showed up to warn that if you have outstanding warrants, tickets and felons you should either clear them up before voting or don't vote! The poster is written in a letter format and seems to originate possibly from the Obama campaign, mainly by mentioning an Obama rally the author of the letter attended. This is scary propaganda to me and a reflection of just how ugly this race is going to get.

Obama and fraud...say it ain't so...

Found this article on NYT involving fraudulent voting registration and .....drum roll please...Barack Obama!!!

Palins and AIP

CNN is reporting on a pretty interesting connection with the Palins and the Alaska Independence Party. I am presently watching a program which is reporting breaking allegations that they are and have been connected with this fringe group. They include a video of Palin speaking to the party, she wished them luck and her blessings. It is also repsorted that she went to the 2006 convention. Wow! CNN is going out on a limb here, in fact the McCain campaign asked them NOT to run the story, calling it part of the media's smear campaign.hmmmm sounds like the pot calling the kettle black to me.

MKKKAIN...

...not sorry to think it about Mr. McCain because John seems way too "good ol boy" for me, in fact he scares me. So I would love to know what "supremacist groups McCain has been associated with...any in AZ were he was behind not passing MLK as a holiday for years and this seems to be the tip of the iceburg...if I find anything I will post...but this little nugget is an interesting comparison.

Race in the Race

I heard some very interesting perspectives that a show on CNN hosted by Campbell Brown called Race in Race, last night proposed. With 4 panelists, including a black (Republican) woman and a black man(Roland Martin), they discussed racism in this campaign. They discussed a book Political Brain that discusses how racism is most accurately found in the subconscious which ultimately will affect how voters perform. They talked about the difference between "gut level" polling results with the actual physical action of voting, determining that polling vs. the vote are 2 different things. ( Martin did mention twice that blacks in the past 3 presidential elections predominantly voted democrat).
The concept of racial identity was touched on and how Obama has talked about why he refers to himself as African-American and not specifically bi-racial. In an earlier interview he explained African American refers to a hybrid of African. He explains race has been a tool used against him and for him. An article by James Burnett talks about "Obama is White" by discussing, from a black perspective, how if he's black, then's he's white also...he argues he should be referred to as bi-racial.
The tool of race bating is also discussed and how the McCain campaign is "fostering an atmosphere of racial hostility". They intentionally use Obama's middle name"Hussein" to use fear that he's a terrorist in disguise. Martin argues that Palin's deliberate use of "hockey mom and joe 6-pack" is not talking to a black audience but the white population. This is where the republican began to come out of the black panelist because she argued that she felt like that is just a way of continuing to pigeon hole blacks and that she felt included in this audience. She talked about the necessity for this election and beyond Nov.2 to raise the relevance of race discusssions, specifically because of all the issues that this campaign has brought up.
There was hopeful discussion that the concept of change could really be internalized and that Obama is really the man who can do it.

My fellow prisoners...

NICE JOHN....senility is bliss

Have woman come a long way???

Interesting article on women relating-or not relating- to Palin.

Fear Factor

It seems like fear still works. Palin decided to target Obama as chumming with "terrorists" and received plenty of boo's from the audience as she goes onto unfold his connection with ex-Weatherundergrounder Bill Ayers. It sounds like this article/Palin's speach could have been written during the Cold War. While her counterpart was asking his audience"WHo is the real Obama?" a member of the audience screamed "terrorist"... and although this article doesnt capitalize on the heckler, many others did....wow and the meme beats on....

ONE MONTH and counting....

Well I took a little hiatus from blogging due to technical issues...but I'm back! Just in time to watch and comment on the debate this evening.YEAH...can't wait to see Palin make it WORSER!!!!yes, worser! Just when you thought it couldn't get worse then her stroll with Katie the other night...ohhh let the games begin....DING DING DING!!! Let's hpe shes come up with some new jokes for tonight!
I will be watching all my faves for their comments and will check in later.....