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Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes

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Follow this link to the New York Times article on Sarah Palin’s political history.

Just for the record, I am not too thrilled with the New York Times for its recent history of promulgating administration propaganda without caring to look into its veracity.  This means I am not necessarily endorsing or trusting the report to which the above link points.  Just take it in as a piece of data to consider.

While I am at it I might as well include this link to the Huffington Post item that pointed me to the above story.

While reading comments on Huffington Post, I found this link to a guest column in the Juneau Empire.

Oh, what the heck, this link points to a Washington Post story titled Report: Palin Did Not Visit Iraq. In turn, that mentions this link to a Bloomberg.com story titled McCain-Palin Crowd-Size Estimates Not Backed by Officials.

I hate to pile on, but this link shows a video of some reactions from Alaska residents about the choice of  Palin as VP. Then there is this link to the story on an Anchorage TV station Alaska Women Rally Against Palin And Are Threatened.

Greenberg’s Law of the Media

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Follow this link to see The Worcester Telegram & Gazette’s publication of my letter that states Greenberg’s Law of the Media, “If an item has a number in it, it’s probably misleading.”

I was taking them to task for an editorial that misused numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to make the case that Bush’s performance on unemployment has not been too bad.

Is This The Real John McCain?

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Follow this link to the story about a “Whistleblower breaks 15-year silence to allege McCain hid wife’s drug abuse”.

Don’t blame me if this story turns out to be a hoax.  At least that is what John McCain would have us believe.

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Remember, “I am fair and balanced.  I report, you decide”.  Now let me see … where have I heard that before?

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Could the Obama Campaign Be Improved?

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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

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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.

Remember to Register to Vote and to Vote

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The voter registration deadline is fast approaching.

You’d be surprised how many people you know aren’t registered — and in this election, every single vote matters.

Invite your friends to use Vote for Change to check their voter registration and help spread the word about the importance of voting in this election.

Follow this link to the Vote For Change web site