The Barely Political folks took a sampling of opinion about the election at Comicon — the annual comic books convention. We’re doomed.
Archive for July, 2008
A middle-aged, balding white guy (You McCain voters all look alike) says he thought Senator McCain was a “principled guy” but “you let me and my kids down.” Why? Because McCain’s now in favor of off-shore drilling: “That’s not a solution, Mr. McCain. That’s a gimmick.”
John McCain has been smacking Barack Obama upside the head with some regularity (hey, that’s his campaign strategy and he’s sticking to it). Well, Barack’s had enough and he hits back in this new 30-second spot.
Sound Bite: “His attacks on Barack Obama: not true . . . false . . . baloney . . . the low road . . . baseless. John McCain: same old politics . . . same failed policies.”
Rapper Ludacris has released an upbeat tune in support of his man. Lyrics here.
Sound Bite: “Get off your ass, black people, it’s time to get out and vote!
paint the White House black and I’m sure that’s got ‘em terrified
McCain don’t belong in ANY chair unless he’s paralyzed.”
Sure, Barack Obama’s a media celebrity — just like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton — says this 30-second spot from the McCain campaign. But “is he ready to lead?”
Barack Obama spoke to the Unity convention of minority journalists in Chicago. The chatter I heard beforehand was concern about “the ovation problem.” What will it say to the nation when a hall filled with journalists gives a political candidate an ovation? As the video begins, the standing-ovation ends.
Obama makes a pitch for donations telling people that he’ll pick 10 donors and invite them to Denver to be backstage when he accepts the nomination. Who wants to be an Obama groupie?
Barack Obama meets with his economic advisers, telling them we’re in an economic mess, and the campaign posts a video. Except all we hear is Obama repeating what he has said. I’d like to hear the advice from the advisers.
The great cultural anomaly of the age is Jackie Mason’s popularity on YouTube. YouTube’s Steve Grove asks him questions and we see the problems with the asynch interview (questions asked separately answers given). Mason goes on about the sick, sadistic, lunatic people on YouTube and we don’t see Grove react at all. Mason also says he wouldn’t walk on the same street with Barack Obama.
The NY Times today shows how McCain’s ad attacking Obama for canceling a visit with wounded troops is getting more play on news and talk shows than as a commercial. Case in point: Keith Olberman complains:
Can’t wait for Oliver Stone’s biopic of George W. Bush? Here’s the trailer.
Sound Bite: [Bush pere to W] “Who do you think you are? A Kennedy. You’re a Bush. Act like one.”
VoteVets.org, which calls itself “The Voice of America’s 21st Century Patriots,” is running a 30-second TV spot in selected markets that’s critical of Senator McCain’s position on Iraq. (The ad doesn’t specifically mention Barack Obama but guess whose position it endorses.)
Sound Bite: “When the Iraqi people and their prime minister ask us to make a plan to leave, we do. ut Senator McCain would occupy Iraq indefinitely, against their wishes.”
At the opening of an Obama campaign office in Dearborn, Michigan, US Congressman Keith Ellison rallies Arab-American and other Obama supporters.
At a Women for Obama luncheon yesterday in Chicago, Michelle Obama tells a packed house that women are “going to decide the outcome of this race — whether the bad guys or the good guys win — it’s going to be up to us.”
She goes on to talk about her husband’s Blueprint for America’s Working Women and Families. Bottom line: Barack is going to do a whole lot of stuff for women and children once he’s elected. How to pay for it? Why, tax the rich, of course.
And that means he’s against gay adoption. At least that seems to be his position if you can parse his painfully convoluted answer to a question from George Stephanopoulos. More here.
