Sep
9

McCain gets BarROCK Rolled

Posted in politics at 9:38 am with tags: •

Popularity: 40% [?]

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Sep
4

TDS destroys GOP flip flopping.

Posted in politics at 11:40 am with tags: • • •

Perfection. In an age of digital archives, tagging, and immediate retrieval of any clip, blatant contradictions and flip flopping talking points are just going to make you look STUPID.

Popularity: 45% [?]

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Sep
1

Trig is a person first. Not a political ‘choice’

Posted in politics at 3:04 pm with tags: • • • • •

From the MinnPost:

The national surge in affection for Palin among Christian conservatives is typically credited by pundits to her support for teaching creationism in public schools, her recent decision to have a baby she and her husband knew to have Down syndrome, and a staunch pro-life stance.

[emphasis mine]

Cara, writing at The Curvature, finally voices something that’s been bugging me since coverage of Palin began this weekend:

You know, it’s the anti-choicers who use “it’s not a choice, it’s a child” as a rallying cry to force women to give birth. And yet here I am, as pro-choice as can be, really fucking annoyed that conservative assholes are portraying this very real, actual child as a political choice rather than the human being that he is.

Seriously. Trig is a person first, and just happens to have Down’s Syndrome. As someone who worked with teenagers and kids with developmental disabilities for a few years, the narrative about Palin’s brave “choice” to keep her child was really starting to piss me off. His having Down’s should have had no influence whatsoever on her choice to keep the child, unless you’re someone that believes a child with down’s is somehow ‘worse’ than a normal child.

And painting her child as a sacrifice specifically because of his disability treats him as a less worthy and valuable human being.

Exactly. Saying her choice was more honorable just because he was diagnosed with Down’s immediately implies that there’s something less human about him.

Trig may have Down’s, but he’s a child first! I have no doubt he’ll grow up to be a radiant and amazing child with all the usual lovable eccentricities and personality quirks that ANY child has. Her choice isn’t anymore heroic just because he was born with a developmental disability, and claiming so is insulting to Trig as a human being that has just as good a chance at leading a long, full, and meaningful life as any other child.

Rant over. Best to Palin and her growing family.

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Jul
29

What Would You Do for a Klondike Bar?

Posted in Challenge '08, media, politics at 3:26 pm with tags: • • • • • •

Would you vote for our video and enter yourself to win $25k? I hope so!

Watch here: http://tinyurl.com/59bcyk

Popularity: 79% [?]

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Jun
8

Yes I Can [be excited about Obama]

Posted in politics at 7:39 pm with tags: • • • • •

This is the first time I’ll be voting for a candidate, not voting against another.

The game changed in ‘60 when Kennedy faced Nixon on television. Kennedy and his folks understood the medium, and understood how to better use it. They had conscious competence of the most important medium of the day.

2008 is the first presidential election in which a candidate’s team has a conscious competence of the newest and most powerful medium: the internet (see below). McCain is going to be crushed.

This is a candidate that understands my generation, my technologies, and is of my world view. Fuck yeah I’m voting for Obama.

Popularity: 68% [?]

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May
21

Concise

Posted in politics at 8:42 am with tags: • •

This is the first election the power of the net is being used with a conscious competence. As 1960 and the televised nixon/kennedy debates changed the political game forever, so will ‘08 and the power of the net. Everything you ever say in your political is becoming tagged, recorded, and indexed. Transparency and truth are the only way to not look like an ass on the daily show or in clips like this. People are watching and listening.

Popularity: 40% [?]

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