Hillary 1984 Macintosh Spoof

Well, this is the video that seems to have everyone in the political blogosphere up in arms. "Vote Different" (aka the 1984 Hillary video) has over 2 million views already on YouTube.

The poor guy who created the video lost his job at Blue State Digital. Bummer dude.

Personally, I kind of like the video clip. Always liked this famous ad, and while i'm sure it was pretty easy to splice in the Hillary stuff, it still took some creative energy to come up with the idea. I think Hillary should hire the guy!

Here is the link to the youtube page with the original video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo

Hillary 1984 YouTube Video

Wow, this is a powerful video attacking Hillary Clinton and supporting Barack Obama. The imagery from the 1984 Macintosh Advertisement for Apple is strong stuff. This one's only had 100,000 or so views so far, but I'm sure it'll get more attention soon.

I expect to see more and more "home' videos impacting this presidential election cycle. It is so much easier to mashup videos and commercials to make a political statement now.

Roger Ailes, chairman of the Fox News network

In a letter to Fox, Nevada’s two most senior Democrats complained that Roger Ailes had gone “too far” when he joked on air that Barack Obama was “on the move” and that President George W Bush might call President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan to ask: “Why can’t we catch this guy?”

The joke flamed well known rivalries between conservative FoxNews and liberal groups. But it seems clear to me that Roger Ailes wasn't trying to push a conservatiev agenda. Instead, I think he was smack-talking to his main rival, CNN. CNN accidentally aired a "Where's Obama" title for a story about finding Osama bin Ladin.

I'm not part of the Democratic political machine, but if I were, I wouldn't make a big fuss about this remark. It just creates more news associating Obama and Osama. Forget it, move on, talk about the issues, point out all of the many many problems with the current administration's policies, and move on.

Barack Obama Parking Tickets Make the News

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge, MA between 1988 and 1991. Now, many many years later...those parking tickets are making the news.

The Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation office finally got paid in January of this year - just before Barack began his formal bid for the presidency. And this week, the news media picked up the story.

Personally, I don't think this matters. Who cares... I get parking tickets all the time. I forget to pay them all the time.

But, that's all the news available on Mr Obama today...so, tune in next week and hopefully there will be something better going down.

Why is Marack Obama my top referring keyword!

This is a relatively new blog about Barack Obama and his presidential race. So far I've posted mostly breaking news or short blurbs about his campaign trail.. I'm still personally learning about Barack as a candidate, so it is too early for me to write deep analysis yet.

But I've been watching my blog stats and noticed something kind of funny. My most popular search keyword so far is "Marack Obama"! Well, I guess M is close to B on the keyboard, but then I would have expected Narack Obama or Varack Obama. Oh well, I guess readers who can't type well are still better than no readers at all. For those of you with a typing problem, welcome to my blog!

I also noticed that the most popular post so far is the full text of Barack Obama's DNC speech. Yeah, it was a good one and worth reading for a second time.

I'll write more soon...

Barack Obama on the Scooter Libby verdict

Barack Obama made the following statement on the Scooter Libby verdict.

"The conviction today underscores what happens when our foreign and national security policies are subverted by politics and ideology. Leaks and innuendo in pursuit of a flawed policy lead to shameful episodes such as this. It should never happen again."

Barack Obama on Monday Night Football

This video clip is from back in December, but I just found it on YouTube and thought is was worth re-posting on my Bring Obama Barack blog.

Here ya go...