Obama More Or Less
Having watched Obama closely in the debate last night (and since we were discussing him earlier in the week), I wanted to come back to him ... but from a more psychological point of view.
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Swiftboat Anatomy
When a reader forwarded me a piece of anti-Obama email this last week, I dismissed it. Because its gone viral, however, I thought I would take another look.
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Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll
I'm amused by the latest way John McCain chose to frame Hillary Clinton in relation to what he was doing during Woodstock.
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Hillary: On The Face Of It
When the "Hillary laugh" business came up about two weeks ago, I didn't pay much attention. It seemed mindlessly superficial. I'm taking notice now, however, for the way its wormed into recent campaign imagery, and especially, the newswire stock.
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And Veep Makes Three (or: Who's Whispering Behind My Back?)
This image accompanying Vanity Fair's dish on the Clinton-Gore-Clinton WH triangle, appearing as it does now, conveys relevance beyond mere historical (or gossip page) fascination.
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More On The Obama Front
I know my post yesterday dealt with TIME turning the lights out on Obama, but that was from the previous week's edition. This week's catch is even better, illustrating how the right-wing noise machine is starting to kick in to high gear. The screen grab above comes from TIME's...
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Obama Reaching
Left-to-right and top-to-bottom, the media message is fairly clear: Obama's campaign has become... a reach, a stretch, a dream beyond his grasp -- and, in a more bodily sense... a fading, a falling back, a disappearing act. I have my own theory about Obama's reach, however....
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AdDressing Willy
I'm suspicious, and I can think of at least one good reason why Bill Clinton has been so neutered.
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The McCain Payload
If the most interesting element in John McCain's new batch of ads is the footage of his Vietnam captivity, what is less apparent is the revised framing of what was formerly "The Iraq War."
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Bush To WAPO: I'm Truman, You're … Eating Out Of My Hand
While corporate media was being spun this week on the evils of Iran, it was also getting played on the campaign front. This example involves a cute little post at WAPO's campaign blog, The Trail.
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Rudy PM
The Caucus piece conveys the surprise, on the part of London press, that Gordon Brown would afford Rudy the venue. What's behind that? (And then, the visual coordination seems, uhm, "tailored" also.)
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Rudy: Super-Sized For 9/11
What the Times also accomplishes is to add more cement to the structural association between Rudy and 9/11.
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To Hell With The Fair
I think they picked a shot for the cover that shows Fred Thompson in healthier shape than he is now.... What with the intimation throughout the piece that Thompson lacks drive (Newsweek effectively calls him lazy on the cover and describes how he hardly ever went after a political...
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Tower Of A Man (Or Is It, Man Of A Tower?)
Given the controversy surrounding Rudy Giuliani's commemoration of 9/11, and shifting thoughts about what profile the day merits six years out, TIME's "Person Of The Year" cover for 2001 seems to grow that much more audacious.
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Candidate Abuse
Did you happen to notice Sunday's front page NYT piece, "In 2008 Race, Little Ones Go on the Trail With Daddy" ? After the read, the pictures and the video, the one thing I can say for certain now is: this campaign is way too long to do anybody...
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The Fighting Romneys
This past week in Bettendorf, Iowa, Mitt Romney --the “family values” candidate who looks like Ward Cleaver -- was asked whether any of his five sons had served in the military or were planning on enlisting to fight the "war on terror."
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YKos Break Out: Hillary Lets Down Her Guard .. Sort Of
One way to look at YearlyKos '07 is as a candidate authenticity test. (I wish I had a business class upgrade for every time one of them finish a comment with: "Sorry, but that's what I believe.")
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More YK07: Without Elizabeth
My sense from watching him closely is that Edwards is in a lot of pain.
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