Archive for August, 2008
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Flickr is amazing sometimes. Today we found great shots of Saturday's first Obama-Biden rally in Springfield, Illinois. Lots of citizens with a good eye wielding cameras out there. This photo by Bradjward is a quick preview; we'll feature more tomorrow. It shows part of the 35,000-strong crowd in front of ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Yep. At New York state's Erie County Fair, people made scultpures of McCain and Obama. Out of butter. Here they are in progress, in a photo by Timothy Finucane, a programmer/developer from Lancaster, New York (thanks, James Mills):
[speljamr / Flickr]
Jessica Tanny, a processing archivist from Buffalo, caught them a ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
She likes Dr. Pepper.
There aren't any CC photos of a nonpartisan Christian voter.
[Darwin Bell / Flickr]
Dee is a Christian blogger with dyslexia and dysgraphia who has taught herself to like writing. She's also a fan of theme parks and Dr. Pepper, especially if it's bottled in Dublin, Texas. Last month, ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Acumensch from Tacoma, Washington, filmed Seth Manzel, an Iraq veteran, talking about the enormous profits he believes some companies are making on the war. (Thanks, Sarolta Cump.)
Seth is a member of the Seattle chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Not too hard to guess what some of the ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Miss_glass from Oakland, California, worked diligently "around the clock" for almost two weeks to create this embroidery. Even while camping. She submitted it to the Manifest Hope exhibit of Obama art that's showing in Denver next week during the Democratic convention. Miss_glass doesn't think she'll win, but she deserves some ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
[riot jane / Flickr]
This is amusing and at least partly true. Jennifer Killpack-Knutsen, who's from Salt Lake City and likes green living, makes the case that elections are like dating (thanks, Ann Raber):
Most people see only what they want to see in the candidate or potential partner. Well, they might ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
John Sadowski is an "abstract artist and graphics guy" from Chicago. He took this original photo, switched some heads around, and came up with the mashup below (thanks, James Mills). With the conventions and debates right around the corner, the bell for the heavyweight-title fight is about to ring.
[johnsadowskiii ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Theres no way home saw this bumper sticker in Gary, Indiana (thanks, Sue Salinger):
[theres no way home / Flickr]
It could be about guns and religion. Or about FISA and campaign finance.
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Google just came up with another innovation: Google Reader reading lists from the McCain and Obama camps. Silver Smith provides a nice screenshot of the announcement on Google's homepage (thanks, Sue Salinger):
[Si1very / Flickr]
Google claims the feeds allow you to "read what they read, and see what's on their minds ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
There may not have been many people protesting the fact of the Saddleback Church forum, but activists outside the church were certainly fired up about the candidates and issues.
From stirnaman.photo (hat tip to Sue Salinger), here's a Bush (and, in smaller print, McCain) supporter:
[stirnaman.photo / Flickr]
Stirnaman.photo also captured this Obama-masked, ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Rick Warren [kev/null / Flickr]
You remember the Gibson/Stephanopoulos-moderated Democratic debate, right? That may have been on Mike from LeftFielder.org's mind when he decided Pastor Rick Warren was better at interviewing candidates than most network anchors. Actually, he just plain feels Warren did a great job:
In my mind [...] the real ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Outside Saddleback Church [Bjarne B. Sunde / Flickr]
Kate Stone writes an eponymous blog, and, unlike Erica, she was happy to miss the whole Saddleback frenzy while she was camping in New Mexico. She was curious to catch up on it at the end of her trip, though. After meeting a ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Erica is a journalism student from California. She tried very hard to get a ticket to Pastor Rick Warren's recent forum with Obama and McCain at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest -- and she felt rather sour when she learned that the seats had sold out at high prices (thanks, ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
DrBombay1559 from the US Virgin Islands wants to start a political blog, and this video is a test run. Don't let the blurry scratchy quality deter you -- his commentary/prediction about VP candidates is interesting. (Hat tip to James Mills.) And just in time, too, because it looks like ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Boxing gloves [Addictive Picasso / Flickr]
There seems to have been no fighting in Georgia so far today, but the new US-Polish missile-defense agreement -- apparently a result of the conflict -- has infuriated Russia. This is a quick follow-up post on the way the hostilities are playing out in the ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
KK Forss is a photographer in Ely, Minnesota. He suffers from excruciating chronic spinal pain and has been trying to get the Minnesota House to pass a medical-marijuana bill (which never came up for a vote in the last session). KK says that when he could use medical marijuana, it ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Some youth and some senior citizens performing for Obama in Detroit. (Thanks, Sarolta Cump.)
Lady Te is a young Motor City rapper. In this music video, she appeals to her peers to dig into important issues and go vote for Barack:
If you're a Detroiter on the senior end of the ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Hat tip to Sarolta Cump for all of these Homeland-Security finds. Some of the photos were taken before the presidential race got going, but they present issues that have very much carried through into the campaign.
First: John Ryan Brubaker from Portland, Oregon, captured this street commentary a couple of ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Ballotvoxregular, former Democratic Senate staffer, and Nevada novelist Jed Lewison adds to the pile of spoofs of Hillary Clinton's 3:00 am ad -- in this case to chide McCain for his lack of web savvy (thanks, Ann Raber):
Will McCain's staff pull this one up to show him?
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Tbilisi, Georgia, at night [pazavi / Flickr]
In the last week, long-festering animosity between Georgia and Russia turned into bombing and heavy fighting. Some say the US is peripherally implicated in the escalation due to the mixed messages it has been giving President Saakashvili. It's clear, in any case, that the ...
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