Women Against Sarah Palin
Follow this link to the Women Against Sarah Palin web site.
Just since September 3rd, they have collected over 100,000 responses from women across the country.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
McCain Against Protecting Children from Sexual Predators
Follow this link to see the ad from Planned Parenthood attacking McCain for being against trying to protect children from sexual predators.
Could the Obama Campaign Be Improved?
Follow this link to the brilliant article from George Lakoff explaining why McCain is winning and Obama is losing this phase of the campaign. After you read this, you will know exactly what has to be done. One can only hope that the Obama team reads it and wakes up.
In this article he puts some real meat onto his theories of Framing. He discusses how brilliantly Obama ran his campaign to win the nomination. He discusses how he seems to have lost his way.
I thought of another example that Lakoff does not mention. If you watched the 2004 Democratic Convention, they did a devastating job of attacking George Bush. I believe that Bush went way down in the polls after the convention.
After that great performance, Kerry decided that he would stop attacking Bush and start being cool and statesmanlike. Things turned around pretty quickly when Kerry turned off the heat. Instead, he should have turned up the heat on the successful strategy that had gotten him to where he was.
Obama’s Ads on 09/12/2008
Follow this link for the ad titled Still. This is the one where McCain admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer.
Follow this link for the ad titled Real Change. Here Obama defines what he means by real change.
These are supposed to be examples of the new hard hitting ads that really take it to John McCain. Now I am really nervous about the Obama campaign. Does he really get it?
Follow this link to a pretty devastating analysis of the Obama campaign’s weak response. At some point it may be time to panic. Are we there yet?
Follow this link to the interesting discussion that I started on the Obama site about the effectiveness of these ads.
Follow this link to the George Lakoff article mentioned in one of the responses in the above conversation. In the Lakoff article, he gives some excellent examples of how Obama should get away from McCain’s frame and onto the Obama frame.
If Obama must remain cerebral, how about an ad where Obama tells you that his ads are trying to get you to think and McCains ads are trying to get you to react? Look where pure reaction has gotten us in the last 8 years or any time a Republican has been president in the last 28 years?
How about an ad where McCain is poking at a sleeping bear (Russia) and is totally surprised when it rears up and attacks him? Maybe Sarah Palin poking at a moose would do it.
Remembering 9/11
Follow this link to see Dennis Kucinich’s take on “Remembering 9/11 and Moving Towards a Re-United States of America”.
He suggests a truth and reconciliation commision on 9/11 and its politicalization.
The World of Lieometers
I find that I am not the inventor of the Lieometer. Look it up in Google.
There is this one
from www.gt7.net.
Then there is this one
from www.edinburghsucks.com.
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Jesus was a community organizer while Pontius Pilate was governor
There is nothing like Jim Hightower to put things in perspective.
Follow this link to his debunking of Sarah Palin as a populist.
This is no lie
Steve Carrell Nails McCain On Pork-Barrelling
Follow this link to an interview of John McCain by Steve Carrell in 2000.
Spoiler alert —
He asked McCain how he could reconcile his criticism of pork-barrel politics with the fact that “while you were chairman of the Commerce Committee, that committee set a record for unauthorized appropriations.” For a long moment, McCain was speechless.
1 Lie Per Minute
Video Proof John McCain’s Ads are Lies
Follow this link to see a video showing the lies that John McCain has approved.
The video mentions the following truths:
– McCain derides Obama for protecting children from sexual predators
– McCain derides Obama for wanting to talk to Iran although we talked to the USSR
– McCain misinterprets reason why Obama blocked from seeing troops by Pentagon
– McCain has frequently not supported the troops
– McCains campaign filled with lobbyists he claims to have restricted in politics
– McCain’s plan for drilling will have no impact for 30 years.
If the truth were on their side, they would tell the truth.
2 Lies Per Minute