whatever happened to edwards

[foxtongue]

The original Obama promo video:

The McCain parody via city_of_dis:

Comments

[inri33.livejournal.com]

He dropped out to become a hairstylist.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

After a week of cursing every day that he was neither a woman or non-caucasion?

[inri33.livejournal.com]

But oh-so-stylish...

[andi-sunrider.livejournal.com]

Can you put a hard return or something between the two? It's screwing up my friends page.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

They're in a table, actually, to make sure they stay a cohesive pair. A return will only put them farther apart.

[andi-sunrider.livejournal.com]

Ahh, so it's meant to be obnoxious. Good to know.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Sowwy. It breaks lines for a lot fewer people this way.

[jason0x21.livejournal.com]

Edwards was too much the raving Socialist for the Democratic Party Machine. He would have never made it to the finals.

(PS: Not that I think raving Socialists are bad, mind you)

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

That's funny, we all thought he sounded nigh Canadian.

[jason0x21.livejournal.com]

I rest my case.

[(Anonymous)]

While Obama is a good orator and he has a good machine behind him, people who expect change by voting for politicians are deluding themselves. If voting made a difference we wouldn't be allowed to do it.

[swingland.livejournal.com]

why not try?

i'm not ready to give up just yet.

[natowelch.livejournal.com]

Not voting makes a difference. Why are we allowed to do that?

.:.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___anomaly___/]

i always say ... what we need is a ecologist ... even better, one who minors in ethnomusiclogy; not a politician. ;)

[lucaskrech.livejournal.com]

Edwards had a coherent policy and talked about policy. US politics, and US culture in general, is about image not substance. In a way, Obama is an ideal American candidate and president not because of his actual policies but because of the idea he represents. It is enough to change the national dialog in this country to then make possible actual policy changes. Just like JFK made possible an idea that lead to the actual social changes in the presidents who followed him.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

I hadn't seen the McCain parody, and it made me laugh, thanks. My favorite bit is the sign language clip.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I think I like the girl at the mic who keeps looking as if she'll sing something, just as soon as she's not confused anymore.

[swingland.livejournal.com]

as an american, i think sometimes we look up at canada and sigh and think how much easier it would be. but we're here. i don't know if its the end of an old empire or the beginning of the same. i would like to think that there's still enough in us, as human beings, to elect someone to office who is trying to not kill as many people as possible.

i think there is an america where we are not constantly at war with somebody else. i think there is an america where its people are not more afraid of the criminals in power than the ones lurking in the alleyways.

if mccain is elected, well fuck, i don't know. i'd like to think at least some of us tried to elect obama. because the other choices just seem too dreary to really consider.

that and i would like a president who is able to address his people and the world and not sound like either a crazed madman or a complete puppet.

[swingland.livejournal.com]

not to say the cannucks don't have their problems. they do.

[(Anonymous)]

"not to say the cannucks don't have their problems."

We have exactly the same problems. That candidates that we are presented with are usually hand picked by the same organizations that pick your candidates. Our PM Harper is a CFR approved candidate. If you don't believe in the North American Union, you have a hard time getting to the front of the pack.

[(Anonymous)]

Gravel and Kucinic were good, honest candidates with platforms and values you could pin down. Ron Paul was also a man of integrity with a platform solidly spelled out. All of those men were good solid candidates of character and integrity and ideas. Only trouble is that none of them had a chance, and how do we know this? We were told it. Repeatedly. Until we felt foolish or embarrassed if we disagreed.

Or less than that, quite often. We weren't even told that they existed.

[swingland.livejournal.com]

you feel foolish if you want. i initially supported ron paul. he didn't make it. i move on. don't give up. don't feel foolish for trying. don't feel sad for losing, sometimes. a failure is as good as a victory in terms of learning and experience.

i just don't see how giving up and tossing one's hands in the air will solve anything.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Ron Paul but am in no position to support him in any sense other than mentioning his name a lot. I do not live in the US so I can neither send him money nor join the Republican party and vote in the primaries. Then again, a lot of people who were eligible to vote in the primaries were also not able to due to various suddenly added rules or "problems" with the ballots.

However, I'm not an advocate of giving up. It's just that I understand that the voting is a stacked game that the people don't own, and the bigger the election the more stacked it is.

The little elections are easier to win because less people care. Ah, but win enough of them ...

[swingland.livejournal.com]

that's why i always vote in the small local elections. alot of people overlook these elections but i think it's the power closest to home and shouldn't be ignored.

elections sometimes are a little stacked and aren't always quite fair. its important to be part of the process, though, because sometimes the big eye of sauron isn't looking and you can sneak some shit past him. and when he is looking it's good to be there so he can't sneak too much shit past you.

[natowelch.livejournal.com]

HAAAAA!

I have a hernia now.

Oh, and My health insurer just denied my coverage. Where do I send the bill?

[particle-man6.livejournal.com]

Heck, I am Canadian and *I* want to vote for Obama. The Canadian party leaders seem so boring by comparison. :)

Edwards would make a good Attorney General, though.

I guess we will know more when we see how Texas votes, though.