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Palin – A Media Created Celebrity

Much talk has been made over the lack of experience Governor Sarah Palin brings with her to the Oval Office (if reached). Even more talk has been made of her outside relation to politics, even referencing herself as an outsider. And as of late, Palin has become a household name, a household face, and a laughing matter. How did she become a relatively unknown Governor from Alaska to a well-known and well-disregarded Vice Presidential candidate for the Republican ticket this election year? The Me...

The Internet

My name is David, I am a blogger, and I have found the Internet. Blogging has offered an outlet to those in need of having their voice heard, their situation, or conflict that traditional news outlets have perhaps ignored, killed, or buried. Once stuck with the problem of having an article only to have an editor or newswire kill it, essentially knocking the story dead in its tracks, reporters, journalists and writers now have alternative methods of getting their story published - through ...

Endorsement

Top news article of the day, perhaps of the weekend, is the endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by General Colin Powell. More to follow when I wake up in the morning, for now, the video feed from MSNBC: Continued... General Colin Powell’s (retired) endorsement of Barack Obama came just as expected over the weekend, a detrimental setback to the McCain campaign. In the seven minute long interview with NBC’s Tom Brokaw, Powell dissects the reasoning that went into his decision, a clearly...

A Brighter Day Will Come

While John McCain managed to make an appearance on the Letterman show after abruptly canceling his first appointment and Sarah Palin made her official debut on Saturday Night Live this week, Barack Obama has been gaining insurmountable momentum. Fielding questions professionally, eloquently, and most importantly, with effective answers, Obama represents the hope that we all want and need in this country. The below video, found on the social news site Digg was the top news story of the day. You w...

Web 2.0

As I sit here on campus scouring through the websites, blogs, and news articles on our two Presidential candidates, I cannot help but notice the presence of something, and the clear lack of a presence of another. Sitting adjacent to the campus’s central park, I have already seen, in the hour or so I have been here reading, several Obama campaign shirts, clothing apparel, stickers, pins, etc. One would expect to see a similar footprint of merchandising and support for the Obama camps rival, John ...

What is a Maverick?

Just thought this would be an interesting topic to answer. A quick Wikipedia search yielded a one line definition to the question, what really is a maverick? A maverick is an unbranded range animal, especially a motherless calf; it can also mean a person who thinks independently; a lone dissenter; a non-conformist or rebel1. So often referred to as a maverick by his political campaign team, including Governor Sarah Palin, is John McCain a maverick? Does he think independently? Is he a non-confor...

Don't Vote

It is more important than ever to go out and vote, a statement I can not stress enough. The last eight years have not only changed our nation, they have changed the world. From political relations to economic markets, the world has become a worse place because of the Bush administrations agenda. What was once an economic system in surplus under the Clinton administration, George W. has managed to muster up a multi-trillion dollar deficit. The election is less than a month away, and change is not...

894th

Way to go John, you managed to avoid finishing last in your class in the Academy. 894th out of 899, congratulations. Your goofball, hellish attitude and fiery temperament towards your superiors should have left you with more insubordination demerits than acceptable to graduate, but you had your daddy and grandaddy there to bail you out, financially and politically. Let’s face it, you are no more competent than the W in office right now, and that is not saying anything to begin with. Do us all a ...

Governor Sarah Palin

It was only a few weeks ago that Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska was introduced to the world as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee. A seemingly unknown woman, a year and a half into her first term as Governor of the state of Alaska, Palin was thrown onto the international floor. I remember waking up the morning the McCain camp announced they had picked Palin to be his running mate to the sound of my dad yelling on Skype to our relatives in Brasil. “Obama just won the election!” he screa...