Campaign '08 Archives - Page 2 of 25

Notes Photo November 3, 2008

Mario Tama: The Picture From Birmingham

Following up yesterday's image here of college students retracing the "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, Mario forwarded this powerful photo from Birmingham.

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Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (October 26, 1922 – November 3, 2008)

Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (October 26, 1922 - November 3, 2008)

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’08 Closing Shots: Mother Sarah

This close-up feels like the final distillation of so many photo-ops of Palin we've studied since the RNC. What the image demonstrates -- as the starry-eyed candidate poses with someone else's special needs child -- is how Palin, thoroughly glossy and made up with that far away gaze, became...

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Frame Job

The sleaziest thing about the Obama-Wright ad running nationally now is how, using a tabletop and picture frames, Obama is pitched as more wedded to Wright than he was to his wife on their wedding day.

Notes Photo November 2, 2008

Muslim Issues

I just got my hands on the October issue of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It featuring John McCain squaring off against Obama, but he might as well be the angry brother of Jafar from Disney's Aladdin.

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Campaign ’08 Final Weekend 3: Saturday’s Best Contrast of How Obama – McCain Shaped Up

George Allen versus Selma? You couldn't give me a more dramatic contrast of how Obama - McCain shaped up.

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Is The NYT Effing Kidding With This Grant Park Election Night Preview?

I'm just stunned. Is this any way for America's most influential media organization to set the table for a Grant Park opening night of America's first African-American administration?

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Live From New York … McCain Acting Himself!

The fact McCain looked so relaxed last night alongside the anti-Palin, Tina Fey, drove home just how little chemistry he has with the real one.

Notes Photo November 1, 2008

Campaign ’08 Final Weekend 2: Goblin For Attention

With the official Halloween politicking over, Palin took her daughter Piper trick-or-treating in Dauphin. ...Funny how Obama and his daughter couldn't catch a moment of piece on Halloween night (among family, friends and their children's friends in their own neighborhood), while the attention-thirsty Palin clan, exploiting their kids yet again,...

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Campaign ’08 Final Weekend 1: Presidential Suspect Escapes On Foot

Not surprisingly, there's a lot of nasty business going down this election weekend. Drudge never runs a photo credit so I don't know where he got this shot of Obama and Sasha on Halloween. I couldn't find it anywhere else.

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Parity

I think Americans decided weeks ago that Obama exceeds McCain in both judgement and strength of character. In that regard, scenes like this go a long way.

Notes Photo October 31, 2008

Your Turn: Miami

I haven't thought about McCain and his campaign exactly this way before, but what Times photographer Stephen Crowley seems to be going for here is how much Mac and his operation has been about kitsch.

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God, Obama

While raising anxieties about a President Obama's exercise of power, framing Obama as an aspiring deity also works like a red cape in the face of the Christian right by flaunting the notion Obama somehow sees himself as a God, God himself, or, the son of God.... But be...

Salon Photo October 30, 2008

BagNewsSalon: Campaign 04 vs 08: Are We Seeing The End Of Identity Politics?

T his election edition of the BAGnewsSALON, an on-line discussion series, included moderator C ara Finnegan; producer Ida Benedetto; host Michael Shaw; professors Paul Lester; Nathan Stormer and John Lucaites; photographers Alan Chin, Nina Berman and Aric Mayer, as well as members of the BAGnewsNotes readership. ...Considering the images...

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Birth Of The Cool

Well, I've been working on a "What Next" post detailing how thoroughly excited I am about the post-election BAG. Because part of it speaks about bringing new content and fresh creativity to the site, I thought I might exemplify it with this. Remember "McCain's Heath Ledger Joker" you saw...