WOW! selling senate seats...who wudda thunk it

Gov Blagogevich has found himself in a world of trouble after being wiretapped. This investigation led to his arrest for allegedly trying to auction off the midterm Illinois senate seat after Obama's resignation from his seat. He was released today after posting bail! Wow, the government is starting to look worse then the NFL!

Jindal on Face the Nation

Jindal is bad!

After some email back and forth working on this collective project, one of the group members addressed the importance of monitoring and dismantling "bad" internet information/sites that would be detrimental to his campaign. Here is one that uses his "Bobby is good" meme and twists it.

Does Jindal have the appeal???

After reading this article from BBC about the success of Obama's grass roots campaign and why it was so successful, it raised a question for me. After reading all the details that made his campaign successful from the internet-based fund-raising to the dedicated follow up to the donors which ultimately led to Obama's troop having 4 times the campaign offices and more money then both 2004 contenders combined; there is one fundamental denominator in all of this. His name is Barack Obama. Whether you call him Barry or Barack Hussein Obama or a terrorist, he is a self made man who has become a phenomenon. So this is a round about way of asking, Does Jindal have that appeal to become a follow up to this phenomenon? He is certainly a tough act to follow. I am sure his strategists are already asking these questions. Does he have what it takes to wow his supporters? If not, all of this stradegy, foresight and planning all goes down the tube. I must again refer back to my interview with Roy Occiorosso who called Obama a phenomenon who might not be capable of ever duplicating. (I was thinking along the lines of a miracle. Something that just happens...it just happens that America really needed it!)
UPDATE: Lincoln Mitchell touches on just what I was getting to in this post. From a strategists' perspective, they've got a good mold for a Republican model. They've got the same racial, family and age backgrounds that certainly helped Obama to win, but doesn't it stop there? In fact Mitchell points to his ethnic background as the "only" reason why he would be nominated by GOP.

Tech crunch

Started looking for more interesting Jindal video posts and ended up finding a bunch more video sites then I never knew about and basically an article talking alot about technology and media. It talks about how Youtube has found itself having to degrade some of its quality and raising 11 million dollars to keep up with the demand from tubers.
UPDATE:browsing around I found some more interesting ways grass root efforts might be able to utilize web sites for videos like motionbox and jumpcut. On this jumpcut link it hooks you right up to the Obama area. Jindal better get going.

The real Bill Ayers

It was refreshing to read what felt like unadulterated truth. This op-ed by the man accused of being one of Obama's skeletons, is just a man who has had many experiences and regrets which have made him the man he is today, a well educated, well respected man. The media tried to take that away. I just read a quote from Lincoln a minute ago that is apropos for this very man, " Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thin." I am glad to know the tree now. It is clear reminder to us who have been drowning in media buzz around this election for the last 2 years. To remember that we all hold individuals truths that are often distorted and manipulated by whomever. This is only exaggerated ridiculously when there is something to gain:power. Then, all bets are off. Truths are stretched, pulled and often completely glossed over to paint a different picture entirely.

Education is a good thing....right?

So now Obama's latest criticism is found in this WP article. It states that 22 out of his 35 apointees are from Ivy league schools, "generally share a more intellectual outlook then is often the norm in government. Well, maybe that's the problem. Shouldn't the people leading our country out of economic crisis and war be the best of the best? Speaking from the only perspective I know, my own, I am tremendously grateful for the quality of education Trinity College affords me and when driving by Yale I am impressed by its staure in our society not only for its historical signifigance but for the students that fill that school, they are among some of the smartest and most dedicated academics in the world and if thats now a bad thing...well I for one would like to be considered bad. Experience only gets you so far...and being an "average American" is well, average. The WP is throwing stones at the academia elite reminding us that some of the "worst people" have gone to Harvard and Yale...oh you mean like G.W.??? The article cites that the collection of academic elites could lead to complicated politics, maybe its time when hundreds of billions of dollars of tax payer dollars are at state that they are a little more comlicated, they might even work, imagine that. I reiterate what Roy Occhiorosso said to me the other day, he said Republicans need "new ideas not new candidates" and I agree but we have this new huge change right now and change hurts. For many all of this change is probably more then overwhelming but if the smart people are truly taking over, I for one, have no problems with it.
UPDATE:I just found a second article on NEWSER that warns of the same thing. The pre Vietnam cabinet of JFK.