45 Minutes
(the first five minutes are just applause and ass kissing)
It has momentum, it has spirit and it has character. Great speech for the troops and the media. Let’s see if the Americans are willing to elect this guy and change their great nation.
Let the muddy fight begin!
I am a big fan of the American liberal TPM media, because they look at the details of American politics and media interaction. Today the media is so self obsessed that it creates it’s own politics around politics. So called experts and pundits are framing the issues where there are none - and create a storm of media attention where it is wasted. Big issues like the war in Afghanistan get under-reported.
The clip above perfectly illustrates how one false citation can keep the cable network news happy and busy for a whole day. The pundits simply create work for themselves. This is not journalism, but simply a propaganda business that has nothing to do with the real needs of people and essential political issues.
God bless America and TPMtv!
Click for a bigger flyer.
Excellent flyer! It’s dynamic, features all colors of the American Flag and communicates all esssential infos in three main ‘lines’. But it’s also a simple and clean - almost humble design - so it communicates the character of Obama and his mission.
Good work.
Some words of sanity compared to McCain’s dribble.
So it’s Obama vs McCain = young black Kennedy vs Grandpa Munster. But I am pretty sure the Democratic Party will find ways to fuck it up.
After all that bullshit - this expresses my thoughts perfectly (at the last quarter of this video). Thanks Bill!
Not everybody grows up with the perfect (grand)parents and in a perfect time. But that’s not important - what’s important that you want to change the presence for a better future.
We all have family members that have weird or simply terrible opinions and convictions. But we can’t be held responsible for that - only for our own actions.
Journalists should be able to read / understand what some people said - analyze them and put the into context.
But most US journalists lack these skills today.
Mass media seem only to deliver triggers for scandals instead of content. Stoking anger on all sides seem the only mission.
Anyone remember that saying “A house divided against itself cannot stand” by Abraham Lincoln. But hardly anyone in American Politics or Journalism is capable of delivering or understanding such great speeches anyway.
Finally Obama delivered some beef. This is the first speech I have heard from him that got dirty and down to business. No longer all that “feel good” and “come together” crap.
Good for you Sir!
Politics is a lot about symbolism. One thing people expect from the leader of the pack is vitality, health and potency. That is why kids and wives are always dragged onto the political stage to prove that these politicians are strong males and provide well for their offspring.
Many pundits and voters perceived McCain (now 71) before the vote as too old. He was considered ’seasoned’ when he ran for the big office back in 2000 against President Shrub.
But in contrast to Obama (aged 46) he is an old fart - and his disability from being tortured in Vietnam doesn’t help either. No matter how often McCain drags his stone old mother onto the political stage - he doesn’t stand a chance against the fresh looking Obama and his jumpy two kids.
As a non-American one has to follow US politics closely - because anything these people vote for has serious - and I really mean serious - consequences for the rest of the world.
Thanks to MSNBC’s live stream I was able to watch the whole drama unfold last night (thanks to MSNBC for being so kind and allowing foreigner to watch their video as well - many American media outlets block foreigners).
Overall I am not the least bit surprised about the current state of affairs - and the obvious conclusions. (I know that this is only the first state of over 50 to cast their votes.)
America’s so called conservatives haven’t learned a bit from the dreadful Bush experience - nor have the Democrats.
Where is our next Christian Preehehehesident?!
Once again the born again citizens have pushed the next professional Christians to the top. Huckabee came out as the top dog followed by the equally christy Romney. Once again the religious affiliation reigns superior. The sheep demand a Shepard.
The Bush White House has hardly delivered any of the goods the evangelicals wanted, he didn’t fight poverty, nor did he overturn unpopular abortion laws. But still these religious people believe another one of ‘them’ will fix it this time.
On the Democrat’s side the picture is equally bleak. I consider Obama as the ultimate liberal excuse and fantasy: he is young like Kennedy and represents the biggest black icon Martin Luther King. This is a terrible addiction to symbols of the past, because neither Kennedy nor King did ‘finish’ their projects. And they both had some serious political deficits.
A small sidenote: I find it really strange that most popular Democratic icons (Clinton, Kennedy & King) are womanizers.
He is dead - get over it Democrats.
So America’s voters are still addicted to the same old qualities that make no sense in politics at all: likeability and electability.
Once again they are looking for a person that everybody likes - once again the search for the beer buddy. (Remember when they sold Bush to Americans as the presidential candidate you want to have a drink with?).
Electability is even worse. It just means finding a person that looks presidential enough to be elected. It does NOT mean finding the person who is best suited for the job.
Go for the transvestite: President and First Lady in one person!
That is why experienced leaders like John McCain, Joe Biden and to a certain degree Hillary Clinton did so badly in the polls. Also the analyses of the voter’s decision process shows that they give a shit about political experience and good (international) network to make things happen.
They want change - whatever that is to them.
Apart from unelectable ‘weirdos’ like Ron Paul and Denis Kucinich none of the candidates have shown any solid ideas or visions - nor commitment - for true change - just more of the same.
All that talk about health care and getting out of Iraq is just that - cheap talk. None of them really touched farm subsidies, a REAL energy policy, a reduction of military spending and a working solution for immigration. Not to speak of breaking up big media, a real reform of the educational system, etc. …
Overall America is still entrenched in it’s ignorant ways: it’s voters as much as it’s politicians. It doesn’t matter if the president will be Hillary, Obama, Romney or Huckabee - the military industrial complex will grind on without mercy. American troops will still be in Iraq in 2010, Americans will continue to guzzle oil in huge amount and the decline of the country will take up even more speed.
A new President will just change the face of Americanism - and maybe a Democrat will do some ’stuff’ to soften the social and economic pressure on Americans, but the system itself will be untouched. And most of the draconian laws and limited civil liberties will stay in place.