Barack Obama makes his closing pitch
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More later… on vacation with the family right now.
Predictions for the ‘08 primaries
No real time to write a long post about this, but here are my predictions for Iowa and beyond:
Barack wins Iowa, with 30%+ of the vote. Edwards comes in second, with 20-25%. Hillary comes in third.
Barack wins NH, Hillary comes in second.
Barack wins SC, Edwards comes in second.
Going into Super Tuesday, Barack has the momentum [...]
Barack Obama at the Jefferson Jackson dinner
The campaign’s already got the video up on YouTube:
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(You can see it “here”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tydfsfSQiYc if you’re having trouble seeing the video in a feed reader.)
Four years ago, Robin and I “drove to Des Moines”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2003/11/16/thoughts-on-the-jj-dinner.php to see Dean and the other candidates at this same event. It was a remarkable night, not so much because the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
