Obama
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Bringing light to the world
Via PurpleSlog, this is priceless
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Massive insight – Obama in Europe edition
With the rich, popular, and good looking candidate playing in Europe to adoring crowds, and with McCain unable to draw flies here in America, despite being the more experienced deserving candidate; McCain must feel like he’s in an Adam Sandler movie.
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The amazing McCain
According the the wonderful site, Electoral-Vote.com, Clinton (who won’t be the nominee) beats McCain 280-241 in the electoral college, whereas Obama loses to McCain 237-290. Granted, it’s quite early, but it’s amazing nonetheless.
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Random Obama thought
While reading something about the possibility of Jim Webb as the VP nominee, the thought occurred to me; what political figure could they find that wouldn’t highlight all of Obama’s weaknesses of age, inexperience, authenticity and personal history? Webb trumps Obama on all those counts by several orders of magnitude, and any other reasonable candidate that isn’t a total apparachik would do the same.
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Random insight not yet noticed by the media about Obama
Given his pastor’s speeches coming to light, can anyone thing of a better way to convince people he’s not a secret Muslim? I can’t.
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Quick Link Roundup
- ASP.net best practices
- The Georgia Encyclopedia
- A quick start guide to SilverLight
- A periodic table of visualization methods
- Patrick Lang on Obama – featuring the notable line that Obama is the “Trophy Messiah”
- The first look at SilverLight 2.0
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Obama gets interesting
Firstly he has stopped wearing American Flag pins. While to some degree the president serves a double role as chief executive and president of the fan club I think this is a good thing. There’s nothing more hollow than a red Aids ribbon or the yellow “Live Strong” wristbands. It’s good to have someone running that doesn’t find meaning in 17 pieces of flair. That doesn’t mean his ideas are any good, but there’s more to loving America than wrapping oneself in internal marketing.
Secondly he apparently has a serious person as his chief economic adviser. All in all a good sign for him. Not that I’ll be voting for him, but he’s at least showing signs of being interesting, which he hasn’t up to now.
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Today’s quote of the day goes to…
Cokie Roberts who characterized Barack Obama as “the candidate from Whole Foods”.
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Similarities
I think I’m the only one to see the similarities between Barack Obama and Paris Hilton, namely they’re famous solely because commentators and not reporters talk about them.
This is a correlation of no significance mind you, it is odd though. I think I’ll create the term “Media Famous” to describe it.