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There are so few ways for Australian’s to support Barry so updating my tumblr theme is a small half-arsed way I can get behind him. Nice work Matt! Also, someone else has done a WordPress theme.

I have again been reminded of this Barack Obama quote from when he was speaking to his campaign staff in Chicago on June 6, 2008 after he won the democratic nomination. Had an unfreakingbelievable good day yesterday speaking to a media organisation I adore and respect. I was impressed by their energy, ideas and willingness to change to meet the social/cultural and technological shift in audience behaviour. But what the day really brought home to me was through their size and reach compared to me as an individual developer/producer/ideas person is their potential to collectively do truly amazing things.

Jon Stewart, whom I could barely hear over my ecstatic handclapping. (via cvxn)

I was clapping just then in my empty office as I watched this as well. OMG! We’re now BFFs!!! Here is the clip for those who have not yet seen The Daily Show gold from the RNC.

I am thinking this is the week when historians will say that the McCain campaign jumped the shark. BusinessWeek

via Robot Heart

Remember my inspired idea (how uber modest am i?) to take advantage of the surplus votes and sell them to interested people internationally? No. I bring it up pretty often. Well, my thinking was that the market price for a vote would have been $150-$250. $10??? Wow. Stuff in America really is cheap. I can have 12 pairs of tube socks from Wal-Mart or a vote in your election. Tough choice. Attention economists: please opportunity cost that and email me the result. Thnxkbye. Also, why are tube socks the yardstick comedic prop of America’s prosperity by Colbert, Letterman, etc??

Jon Stewart on the Daily Show last week after a joke about Barack Obama received a lukewarm response from his audience.

Jon has always said his show is not about Bush-bashing, nor bias towards the Democrats. The show is about ridiculing the hypocrisy of those in power.

However it seems to me that the jokes targeting Barack Obama have been a little desperate. Or perhaps they seem so following seven years of Bush, who was such an easy shot.

The thing is, do we want Jon to do take downs on Barack? In the end all that snark is a little dispiriting. And for once we feel like we can believe. But like a lover who’s been burnt too often, our adoration for Barack is fragile.

Jon’s poking makes us feel uncomfortable. Will he reveal our trust in this bringer of ‘real change’ to be nothing but a flimsy illusion?

(via kapookababy)

I’m totally comfortable and happy they take the piss out of Obama. Satirists aren’t advocacy journalists but merely comedians making jokes with statements/commentary behind them, so no public figure or institution should ever be out of bounds for satiric treatment no matter how much love is felt towards them. Satire needs to be enjoyed only in the context that it is getting made. Too often audiences take it as being some kind of major stealth attack to take down a government/individual.

(via somethingchanged + peterwknox + obama08 + via julyshewillfly)

Barack Obama’s first general election ad. According to AMERICAblog it’s currently airing in Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Virginia

The thing that ~~fascinated~~ distracted me most about this ad was the leaves on the tree swaying in the background. Do you think they had a person holding a branch who was moving it sporadically or was there really a tree and a fan was turned on to make the leaves move or was it just occuring naturally? Also, if it wasn’t natural I hope there will be a behind the scenes video leaked onto the internet of the meeting between campaign staffers and the production crew in which they are discussing the dire need for authentic looking moving leaves to top off the All American Home Style feel of the advertisment.

Barack Obama speaking to his campaign staff in Chicago on June 6, 2008 (found via julyshewillfly). This stuff is heaps better than The West Wing. The access they allow…gotta love the internet.

So has anyone made my idea from February a reality yet?

Considering so few Americans vote anyway. Why can’t the people who aren’t going to participate list their rights to vote on eBay so someone from a foreign country whose own Government is influenced and affected by US policy could buy that vote and make the US Citizen place a vote for whoever the buyer nominates? Put caps on the amount of votes from each country sort of like the green card lottery so as to not allow the process to be unduly affected by a country from the Axis of Evil etc.

It will boost voter numbers both directly and indirectly, put in an influx of foreign capital into the economy and make the world feel a lot less hostile towards the USA.

Or am I going to have to set this up myself?

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That’s right, I’m a MAN, says US president.

When I was occasionally in Florida training to be a to be failed wannabe tennis prodigy at Saddlebrook and Bradenton, the Jensen Brothers were regarded as giant dicks, epic wankstains and Douche 5000’s because they used to do chest bumps during their matches.

America: are you fucking kidding me? This is your President. The intellectual equivalent of Luke and Murphy Jensen - a couple of unknown freak show doubles players who entertained kids that scored free ground passes during the second week of major tennis tournaments in the mid 90s.

There is no freaking way ~~Jesus~~ Obama is going to be elected in November.

This is one half arsed fuck you to all the people who vote wrong in advance of the result. And, to the writers of The West Wing: screw you for getting our hopes up.

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