The War JournalThe War Journal - LiveJournal.comFather's Day- June 16, 2008 Today, apparently, Barack Obama gave a speechsermon at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. (Cause you know he's never going back to Trinity.) It's already on YouTube. It's 24 minutes long and it's worth listening to, even if you, like me, are going to find yourself bristling at parts of it.It's a speech tailored for an urban African-American audience, and much of it is about trying to restore the father to the African-American family. He lists a lot of statistics about how much better...http://plaidder.livejournal.com/279014.html Fighting the Internet with the Internet- June 13, 2008 Anticipating the full-on Swiftboating that is sure to ensue, the Obama campaign has decided to set up their own personal Snopes.com:Fight the SmearsThis is a site where the campaign will debunk rumors circulating about Obama. Instead of basically trying to be above it all, as the Kerry campaign did, they figure that it's better to make available the evidence that falsifies the claims. I'm glad they're doing something different from what Kerry was doing, and I hope it works.You can sign up to be.http://plaidder.livejournal.com/278600.html FOX News: Setting the Tone for the General Election- June 12, 2008 Now that the primary is over, I am cautiously re-entering the political sphere. Poking around on DemocraticUnderground tonight, I found a link to this charming story:FOX News Labels Michelle Obama "Obama's Baby Mama"Yes, someone in the production room thought it would be...cute funny hip and edgy and now and whatnot to identify Michelle Obama in a caption as "Obama's Baby Mama." As the Salon piece indicates, the caption reappeared several times during a fairly short segment.For those not up on..http://plaidder.livejournal.com/278525.html |