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The Power of Positive Campaigning
http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/the-power-of-passive-campaigning/?pagemode=print October 26, 2008, 9:30 pm The Power of Passive Campaigning By Stanley Fish In the aftermath of the 2000 and 2004 elections, the post-mortem verdict was that the Republicans had run a better campaign. They knew how to seize or manufacture an issue. They were able to master the dynamics of negative advertising.Barack Obama Named Time's Person of the Year
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Sorry, Oprah, Michael Phelps and David Cook, but Time's Person of the Year is Barack Obama, the magazine's managing editor, Rick Stengel, announced on Wednesday's Today show. "He hit the American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order," Time reports in its cover story. The president-elect, which was, by most predictions, the likeliest candidate for the publication's yearly honor, was singled out for being a "transformational figure" in a transformational year, Stengel said on Today.The Samaritan's Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor? (public)
By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet October 25, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/104040/ As folks watch the economy crumble, shake their heads in unison, it's hard not to admit that Americans are in this together. A new book by Deborah Stone, a Dartmouth professor and founding editor of the American Prospect, comes at just the right moment -- when we're all becoming painfully aware of how interconnected our fate is as citizens of this country.From eBay to the Treasury Department? (public)
Motherjones.com Does John McCain really think Meg Whitman would make a good treasury secretary, or was he just trying to win over a few Hillary voters when he was asked a question on this topic during Tuesday's debate? I suspect the latter. We all know that eBay is the province of millions of housewives making a few bucks selling yard-sale junk, votes McCain desperately needs.The Spirit Panel
I love Sin City and I love Frank Miller's comics, but I'm still not sold on The Spirit. It really irritates me when people talk about "Frank Miller movies" and his "film style" when they fail to realize that he has no style yet. Sin City was only co-directed by Miller; the actual directing was done by Robert Rodriguez.
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