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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Julie Phillips is a writer and "aerial dancer" from Athens, Georgia. She's also the features/art-and-entertainment editor for the Athens Banner-Herald -- for which she shot some probutcool footage on her inauguration trip to DC. In this clip, a young woman and a girl from Atlanta explain what they liked about ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Jayel Aheram (a ballotvoxregular featured here and here) just filmed Isaac, a friend and fellow Marine, reacting to his new Commander-in-Chief's inaugural speech. Isaac's favorite line: "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals."
Bknittingagain gives Isaac a ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
[**** j a z z z i *** / Flickr]
Yesterday, President Bush bid farewell to a nation that apparently is largely glad to see him go yet mostly feels he's a good person.
A few end-of-administration reflections on his speech, his legacy, and some burdens he passes to Obama:
Miranda, a stay-at-home ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
In Grant Park, watching Obama's speech
[Gregwar / Flickr]
Reactions to Obama's election-night speech are still turning up as people recover from election hangovers and resume blogging. Although 46% of voters chose McCain last Tuesday, negative critiques of Obama's speech haven't been easy to find. So here are a few positive reviews. ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Conceding [janeyhenning / Flickr]
McCain was widely praised by mainstream media and political blogs for a gracious concession speech, though sometimes with a footnote that it contrasted in tone with his campaign. Those same two sentiments were largely reflected on regular blogs.
Broodingcynyc at Brooding Cynyx voted for McCain and felt his ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Jesse Jackson was far from the only American with tears streaming last night after Obama's victory was announced.
Gueorgui Tcherednitchenko, originally from Moscow, now calls Paris home. He's a talented young photographer who explained via email that he's not a professional photojournalist -- yet! Last night/this morning in Paris, he attended ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Obama started talking about sweet-potato pie in his stump speeches earlier this month. It started as an anecdote about a Republican diner owner who is unhappy with the state of the country -- and became a way of connecting with his audience. At a rally in West Philadelphia on October ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
DeHoll is a grandfather in the DC area who likes to tell stories. This one is visual: in the bread-line statue from FDR's memorial in Washington, DeHoll recalls FDR's Depression-era "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" -- and he mixes it up with current financial-crisis headlines. ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Anapaprika has made a quirky animated short starring Lady Liberty, who is waking up to her clock radio playing excerpts from the Republican convention. (Thanks, Sue Salinger.)
How do you read this one? Is it simply a "day in the life" of Lady Liberty aka average American? A commentary on wall-to-wall ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
In the last few days, both Obama and Biden have accused the McCain/Palin campaign of dishonesty and nastiness in its attacks and ads. Many of their fellow Democrats feel similarly about the tone McCain and Palin have adopted.
Jay Smooth is a hip-hop vlogger and ballotvoxregular who "leans left." You'll find ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
On the fence [slavetothemusic / Flickr]
Ann Raber just discovered an interesting new blogger. He writes anonymously at Black Men for McCain. He says he's a black Republican and a Christian who dislikes Obama and intended his month-old blog to support McCain.
Until, at least, McCain picked Palin:
I’m a Republican because this ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Drill, baby, drill [kellyandapril / Flickr]
Anne from Ann Arbor is a Democrat, a teacher, and a lover of folk art. She also has near and dear Republicans in her life (with whom she avoids talking politics). Anne saw nothing resembling them at the Republican convention last week (thanks, James ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
One of the most memorable one-liners from the Republican convention came from the crowd: "drill, baby, drill." It started during Giuliani's speech and caught on immediately.
Jay from Baltimore found it "slightly troubling" -- and so do his penguin friends:
[hoodwinks / Flickr]
Jay diplomatically encourages people to look into the matter: "No ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Brian Glanz from Seattle captured this screenshot during McCain's convention speech. Brian says under the photo that he feels NBC and CNN did an inadequate job of reporting the protests in their written accounts of the speech. (Thanks, Sue Salinger.)
[brian.glanz / Flickr]
If you'd like to do your own fact checking ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
A wordle word cloud of McCain's and Palin's speeches
[mattlehrer / Flickr]
It's been a long two weeks of conventioneering. And so without further ado, here are three reactions to the very last speech: John McCain's.
Lori is a Republican "Army brat" who has settled into Arizona and its dating scene. The whole ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
[Tom LeGro, NewsHour / Flickr]
There were lots of favorable headlines in the mainstream media about Sarah Palin's convention speech. Here, from the blogosphere, is some of that same feeling as well as some edge.
Jeff from Elk Grove, California, is going to vote for Obama, but he thought Palin nailed her ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Speaking at the convention [Tom LeGro, NewsHour / Flickr]
Some reactions to Joe Lieberman's speech last night at the GOP convention in St. Paul:
Crystal Clear Conservative is a "Libertarian-leaning Republican" Yankees fan who writes mainly about Virginia and national politics. S/he thinks Liberman gave a "great speech" overall:
Lieberman was a breath ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
[leh4 / Flickr]
Catching up now on Day 3 of the Democratic convention. Bill Clinton's speech was generally declared a big boost for Obama -- so here are some qualified assessments of its effectiveness.
Kaylin, married 29 years and from New Jersey, seems to think Bill would have been more believable if ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
[talkradionews / Flickr]
The general consensus seems to be that Hillary Clinton delivered party unity in her convention speech. Here's some blogjuice about other aspects of the speech.
Kyle E. Moore is "vehemently partisan, proudly democratic, and unapologetically liberal," and he felt Clinton met every "astronomical" expectation -- she stared down the ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
[rklau / Flickr]
Lots of emotion out there surrounding Kennedy's determination to speak at the convention despite his illness. Carrie from Reston, Virginia, was also moved by his commitment to service that was highlighted in the tribute video:
One of the parts that hit me from this video was the statement that ...
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