How Barack will win
I’ve been having this conversation a lot lately, so it seemed worthwhile to try and organize my thoughts a bit and see if I can’t make the case here. My support of Barack should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me, but lately a ton of you have been asking (mostly with an [...]
Peggy Noonan on Barack
What a difference a few years makes. In 2005, after he’d been elected to the Senate, Barack Obama wrote a “small piece in Time magazine”:http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1077287,00.html about his political hero, Abraham Lincoln. WSJ columnist (and presidential speechwriter) Peggy Noonan “was aghast”:http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110006884. “There is nothing wrong with Barack Obama’s résumé, but it is a log-cabin-free zone. So [...]
Obama Facebook app
This week’s “news”:http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/24/facebook-launches-facebook-platform-they-are-the-anti-myspace/ that Facebook is re-launching itself as a platform is important, for a number of reasons. As I wrote “a couple weeks ago”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2007/05/16/twitter-v-facebook.php, Facebook has become part of my routine: it’s a way to connect and keep in touch with friends, and it’s proving to be a fun tool to use. It’s designed [...]
Obama and MySpace
Maybe you saw the news about Barack Obama “taking back his MySpace profile from a volunteer”:http://www.techpresident.com/node/305. Jerome Armstrong, co-author of Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics with Markos Moulitsas (the guy behind “DailyKos”:http://www.dailykos.com/) “shared his thoughts”:http://mydd.com/story/2007/5/2/93621/10103 on what this meant, and Joe Rospars, the director of Barack’s New Media [...]
Turk on Thompson
One of the highlights for me at Politics Online a few weeks back was meeting Michael Turk. “Turk”:http://www.kungfuquip.com/about-turk/ was the eCampaign chair for the Bush/Cheney ‘04 campaign, and held a similar role at the GOP. In a panel discussing online campaign tactics, Turk consistently made sharp points, showed a depth of understanding of the need [...]
Thoughts on 2008
Barack’s news yesterday that he outraised all other presidential candidates in the primary (Hillary raised a bit more, but her number includes money raised for the general, which she can’t use unless and until she gets the nomination) is a remarkable turn of events. While I’m mostly thrilled, on a very personal note, I think [...]
Think Different
While everyone’s getting “all excited”:http://www.techpresident.com/node/172 about the pro-Obama “remake of Apple’s 1984 ad”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo, I thought I’d share another Apple ad, which I think is the absolute best one minute of video I’ve ever seen:
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I can still remember the first time I saw the ad, and every time I see it still provokes the same [...]
The shortfallings of the Bush Administration
Let’s sum up, shall we? New Mexico GOP Party chairman Allen Weh has a chat with Karl Rove in 2005. Specifically, he tells “Turd Blossom”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turd_Blossom himself that US State’s Attorney David Iglesias should be fired. “According to the AP”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/10/national/w194019S87.DTL&type=politics, “the GOP party leader made clear his dissatisfaction with Iglesias stemmed in part from his failure [...]
Let’s get to work
Barack Obama just concluded his announcement speech in Springfield. To a crowd estimated to be 10-15,000 supporters, he declared he’s officially running for President. The crowd’s a hearty bunch: it’s hovering right around zero degrees today.
Visitors to my site will see a link to a fundraising page I built using the new Barack Obama website. [...]
BarackObama.com - new site on the way
Just watched Barack’s “preview”:http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid474543990/bclid492760671/bctid492760670 of tomorrow’s announcement in Springfield. About half-way through, he talks about the new site that will go live as soon as his announcement’s official (transcription is mine, may not be 100%):
I hope that you use this website as a tool to organize your friends, your neighbors and your networks. The website [...]
