US Election Coverage 2008

[chichi]

Politics!!!!! who can explain it..............

 

[Icadon]

We here at AdReview are a tough crowd. There's stuff we like, stuff we dislike, stuff we hate. But hardly anything out there that we luuvvvvvv.

Thank you, therefore, John McCain, for giving us "Obama Love." We luuvvvvvvv it. Because it's funny. And because it's (more or less) true.

McCain's new ad is a political stunt and neither entirely evenhanded nor entirely true.
The stunt is this: two online videos on the McCain website, identical but for the music track. On one, the song is Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You." On the other, it is Valli's "My Eyes Adored You." Both, needless to say, are expressions of endless love and devotion -- and so are the images and sound bites stitched together in the video: news-magazine covers beatifying Barack Obama, network anchors traipsing to Europe to cover him, TV journalists going all gaga over him.

"It's almost hard to stay objective, because it's infectious," says Lee Cowan of NBC News.

"It's like the Rolling Stones tour coming to town," says CNN's Jack Cafferty.

And, the star of the "Obama Love" show, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who not only luuvvvvvvs the Democratic candidate but sees him as a Christ figure, a redeemer, a deliverer, a savior: "He's sort of a gift from the world to us in so many ways."

The joke of the thing is to solicit votes on which gooey love song best matches the gooey media lovefest for the Democratic candidate. Pretty hilarious, and pretty good strategy, too.

For one thing, as Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism points out, it's "playing the refs," shaming the media into a little more balance. Secondly, it prepares the electorate for what they are about to spend three-and-a-half months witnessing: a rock star vs. a really old white guy with a high-pitched voice. Thirdly, it raises this red flag: If the liberal media are so smitten with Barack Obama, let the buyer beware.

Clever, no?

Mind you, it's a political stunt and neither entirely evenhanded nor entirely true.

1) Many of the smoking-gun sound bites are from the likes of Tucker Carlson and other right-wing pundits explicitly floating the same biased-liberal-media argument.

2) It ignores the fact that much of the coverage of Obama has been quite skeptical of and damaging to his candidacy. Search "Reverend Wright" or "flip-flop." You'll see.

3) It's a bit ironic, and hypocritical, considering that pre-Obama, for 10 years, the biggest media darling in national politics was none other than Mr. Straight Talk Express, John McCain.

4) Of course Obama commands attention. He's a riveting orator, he emerged more or less from nowhere and -- duh -- he's a black presidential nominee. In other words, no matter your politics, he's a historic figure.

Nonetheless, the larger message is true. Journalists (owing to the journalistic mentality and values that coincide with liberalism) will overwhelmingly cast their votes for Obama, and their news organizations are paying disproportionate attention to him. This is not cause and effect, and McCain knows that, but this video isn't just a red flag; it's also red meat to (what passes for) the GOP candidate's base. And it also conceivably could train undecideds to be less susceptible to, and more suspicious of, the press' Obama fixation.

But it could also be a red flag of a different kind. Running against the media is a time-honored tactic but also a historically unavailing one, usually attempted in desperation by panicking campaigns unable to compete with the opponent himself. McCain would be wise to enjoy this funny interlude and then move on to the issues, lest his witty red flag be mistaken for a white one.

 

[Susuviri]

Huyu Babu McCain mwache kama alivyo! Anazidi kuhangaika sasa - hata chama chake kimeanza kumtilia mashaka:

In recent days Senator John McCain has charged that Senator Barack Obama "would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign," tarred him as "Dr. No" on energy policy and run advertisements calling him responsible for high gas prices.

The old happy warrior side of Mr. McCain has been eclipsed a bit lately by a much more aggressive, and more negative, Mr. McCain who hammers Mr. Obama repeatedly on policy differences, experience and trustworthiness.

By doing so, Mr. McCain is clearly trying to sow doubts about his younger opponent, and bring him down a peg or two. But some Republicans worry that by going negative so early, and initiating so many of the attacks himself rather than leaving them to others, Mr. McCain risks coming across as angry or partisan in a way that could turn off some independents who have been attracted by his calls for respectful campaigning.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

President John McCain.....say it loud and see how it sounds.....

 

[Susuviri]

Mmh! Sasa huko tunakoelekea 'Prez'McCain wa Nyani anaelekea kuwa Ze Comedy! Sasa wasemaji wake wanasema McCain is not speaking for the McCain camp???!!! WTF?!!! Hii haingii kichwani!

On Wednesday, the Tax Policy Center released a report finding a $2.8 trillion gap between Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) public economic proposals and his advisers’ private assurances. McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin responded yesterday to the report, saying that McCain’s public statements are not necessarily “official” policy. Slate reports:

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain’s chief economic adviser, says the numbers he provided to the TPC aren’t secret—they’re the same ones he provides to anyone who asks. He also disputes the way the study takes suggestions McCain has made on the stump out of context. “This is parsing words out of campaign appearances to an unreasonable degree,” Holtz-Eakin said. “He has certainly I’m sure said things in town halls” that don’t jibe perfectly with his written plan. But that doesn’t mean it’s official.

Alafu tena:

On Sunday, ABC’s George Stephanopoilos asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) about his plans to fix Social Security. McCain said repeatedly that “everything has to be on the table” regarding possible reforms — including a payroll tax increase:

STEPHANOPOULOS: So, that means payroll tax increases are on the table, as well?

MCCAIN: There is nothing that’s off the table.

The comments drew a “sharp rebuke” from the Club for Growth, who wrote McCain a letter calling the comments “shocking because you have been adamant in your opposition to raising taxes under any circumstances.” In fact, just last year McCain explicitly told the National Review that he refused to consider any sort of tax increase. He also told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “No new taxes.”

Trying to stymie the conservative blow-back over his boss’s recent comments, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds insisted to Fox News this morning that the senator hadn’t really been speaking for the campaign. When Fox host Megyn Kelly insisted Bounds stop “waffling” and answer whether a tax increase was “on the table,” Bounds replied, “No”:

Wana kaaaazi kwelikweli!

 

[Susuviri]

Icadon uliona jinsi Rachel Maddow alivyompiga chini Pat Buchanan ambaye alikuwa anajaribu ku-imply that Obama is presemptous or Uppity?
This is the quote of the day:

"Pat, when you're on here ignoring the fact that McCain has run ads calling himself president McCain, but criticizing Obama for saying something far less damning, I think that says a lot more about you than about the candidate."

Nyani, this one's for you!!!!

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Icadon uliona jinsi Rachel Maddow alivyompiga chini Pat Buchanan ambaye alikuwa anajaribu ku-imply that Obama is presemptous or Uppity?
This is the quote of the day:

Nyani, this one's for you!!!!

put the video in which McCain calls himself president McCain....

 

[Susuviri]

put the video in which McCain calls himself president McCain....

mi si mzuri sana wa picha na video lakini nakumbuka kuona McCain Ad that called him President Mccain na alieleza atakachofanya in his first year as president. Mzee wa magraphix Icadon, hebu nisaidie kuitafuta ilikuwa wakati primary ya Democrats inaendelea.

Alafu Nyani, umeona zile Ferragano shoes za babu yako inayogharimu 520 USD? Alafu unasema Obama is elitist!!!

 

[Susuviri]

put the video in which McCain calls himself president McCain....

NYANI!!!!!! THIS ONE'S FOR YOU - YOU ASKED FOR IT HERE IT IS! MCBUSH LABELS HIMSELF PRESIDENT
Check the graphics it reads PRESIDENT MCCAIN!!!!

http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/02/mccain-wraps-up-week-long-health-care-push-with-new-tv-ad/

I rest my case for now lakini bado natafuta ile aliyosema anatoa plan yake ya mwaka wa kwanza kama prez.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

NYANI!!!!!! THIS ONE'S FOR YOU - YOU ASKED FOR IT HERE IT IS! MCBUSH LABELS HIMSELF PRESIDENT
Check the graphics it reads PRESIDENT MCCAIN!!!!

http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/02/mccain-wraps-up-week-long-health-care-push-with-new-tv-ad/

I rest my case for now lakini bado natafuta ile aliyosema anatoa plan yake ya mwaka wa kwanza kama prez.

Na presidential seal yake iko wapi?

 

[Susuviri]

Na presidential seal yake iko wapi?

Sorry, Obama did not have a presidential seal either!!! It was an Obama seal!!! Hahahaaa! Lakini vipi vile viatu vya Babu mbona umeshindwa ku-respond?!!

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

NYANI!!!!!! THIS ONE'S FOR YOU - YOU ASKED FOR IT HERE IT IS! MCBUSH LABELS HIMSELF PRESIDENT
Check the graphics it reads PRESIDENT MCCAIN!!!!

http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/02/mccain-wraps-up-week-long-health-care-push-with-new-tv-ad/

I rest my case for now lakini bado natafuta ile aliyosema anatoa plan yake ya mwaka wa kwanza kama prez.

It's one thing to say President so and so in a campaign commercial and it's another to act like one before even a single vote has been cast. The latter is your boy. Shame on him.

 

[Susuviri]

Shame on McCain for the SEX CHANGE!!! Kwikwi! A great quote:

Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger looks at John McCain's tax policy and concludes, "This isn't a flip-flop. It's a sex-change operation." He continues:

What I'm asking is, does John McCain have the mental focus, the intellectual discipline, to avoid being out-slicked by Barack Obama, if he isn't abandoned by his own voters?

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Why as well shouldn't the Obama camp exploit all of this? If Sen. Obama's "inexperience" is Mr. McCain's ace in the hole, why not trump that by asking, "Does Sen. McCain know his own mind?"

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Yes, Sen. McCain has honor and country. Another month of illogical, impolitic remarks and Sen. McCain will erase even that. Absent a coherent message for voters, he will be one-on-one with Barack Obama in the fall. He will lose.

The Chicago Tribune's Frank James comments: "More evidence that Sen. John McCain is giving fits to many conservatives, like those who comprise The Wall Street Journal's editorial board: they're asking aloud if he's stupid."

When Wall Street Juornal goes against the GOP canidate that is BAD NEWS!!!

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Shame on McCain for the SEX CHANGE!!! Kwikwi! A great quote:

When Wall Street Juornal goes against the GOP canidate that is BAD NEWS!!!

Yaani wewe huna objectivity kabisa. Umejawa na ushabiki kupita kiasi

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Halafu umemsikia Ludacris na wimbo wake mpya? Nobama anazidi kuchimbiwa kaburi...

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Yaani kadri uchaguzi mkuu unavyokaribia Mr. Community organizer naye anazidi kuwa desperate. Sasa kaanza kucheza kadi ya race. Totally classless!!!

 

[YNIM]

Y'all,
Straight talk express imechomoka matairi!! I warned you NN, kwamba "Makopo" aki-resort kwenye attacks, we will hit back harder......Ooooops he did it again!! what a line!?

Old tactics za ku-drill offshore, sijui gay marriage, taxes, affirmative actions/quotas zimepitwa na wakati...kama Makopo ni experienced kwanini haji na kitu mpya?? same old same, watu wamegutuka, yay!!

Hivi mnaweza ku-explain vipi record profits za Exxon Mobile na wenzao!? Daniel Perle ( one of the Iraq War archtects) kutaka contracts za "black gold" huko kurdistan?

Campaign 2008 begins..........bring it on.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Y'all,
Straight talk express imechomoka matairi!! I warned you NN, kwamba "Makopo" aki-resort kwenye attacks, we will hit back harder......Ooooops he did it again!! what a line!?

Old tactics za ku-drill offshore, sijui gay marriage, taxes, affirmative actions/quotas zimepitwa na wakati...kama Makopo ni experienced kwanini haji na kitu mpya?? same old same, watu wamegutuka, yay!!

Hivi mnaweza ku-explain vipi record profits za Exxon Mobile na wenzao!? Daniel Perle ( one of the Iraq War archtects) kutaka contracts za "black gold" huko kurdistan?

Campaign 2008 begins..........bring it on.

We were pumba free until your return....gademu!!!!!! Where is the Berlin bounce? kwikwikwiiiiiii

 

[YNIM]

We were pumba free until your return....gademu!!!!!! Where is the Berlin bounce? kwikwikwiiiiiii

..ile Berlin stint ilikuwa sio kwa ajili ya bounce ktk polls hapa "unyamwengani." Hallow!!? ilikuwa ni gesture kwa dunia kwamba there is "nu flavor in da air" here comes Obama....Makopo kajaribu ku-capitalize -vely, ikabuma.

Chances are mie na wewe tupo kwenye strata tofauti!! Funga mkanda babu, tupo kwenye Dar-Dom expressway! bwahahahahahaha.

 

[Icadon]

Ha ha eti Dar Dom Expressway....ebanae ulikuwa umepotelea wapi wewe?
NN, sidhani kama Obama alikuwa anatafuta bounce ilikuwa ni kujitambulisha kwa mataifa ya upande wa pili wa Atlantic...Akina Hannity, O'reilly na Greta walikuwa wanataka achemshe sana kwenye hiyo trip ila ndio hivyo Jaluo hakuchemsha sasa hivi mnaspin ooh bounce this oooh bounce that ila ukweli ni kuwa kimewauma kuwa hakuchemsha na kabla ya kuondoka alimtwanga dongo Hannity lol...!!!

YNIM, ningekuwa smart na extra tujisent mwaka 2000 ningewekeza kwenye moja ya hizi kampuni za mafuta...sasa hivi tungekuwa tunapuliza moshi wa cohiba tuu...