How exciting that Obama spent so much face time in Michigan. Gore's endorsement at Joe Louis Arena was a nice touch to boot! Granholm got some very nice pictures (at the Freep.com site) as well - she looked good and not tired for the first time in a long time, at least to me. I read something briefly yesterday (unfortunately, I can not remember where) saying Obama's team has a strategy laid out where he wins in Nov. without Ohio and Fla. - but he MUST win Michigan.
Those foolish Republicans, releasing an ad in Michigan saying Obama "didn't care about Michigan" until now. L-A-M-E. They will be turning off the independent voters that gave McCain a primary victory in 2000 and could have given him a real shot in this November. I am convinced that McCain's victory rests solely on independent voters given this years Dem. momentum.
Now... all that we need is Bill and Hillary Clinton spending as much time as possible working in Fla. and the Pittsburgh, PA area and others similar mid-western, "blue-collar" zones for Obama (I think Chelsea would be better suited in college towns - just seems more fitting for her and I think she did well in that setting for her mother).
-Fair, 06-16-08
Guess our one-week hiatus from politics is over. Yes, I thought Gore's speech was quite stirring, and a little bit old-school politics - except that climate change was never part of old-school. You know, don't you, that Jennifer had some emergency surgery a while back - it was rather ironic, because it was to correct a bowel obstruction situation that arose due to a car accident she was in during the inaugural festivities for Bill Clinton (I think in 1992). So that may have accounted for her visible tiredness.
I don't want to get over-confident, but I have a hunch that Obama is just going to clean McCain's clock! I'm not yet in to all the map-of-the-states electoral speculation because it seems a little premature. Of course I was glad to have Obama in Michigan - I hope he swings by a bit closer, like to MSU, perhaps - I'd try hard to get to that rally. I'd just love to be in the venue for one of his speeches - they can be so electrifying on TV - how much more so in person! By the way, have you donated yet? ;->
I know I'm behind sending you "reports" - I think Gongwer has been doing some stories on state races, the way MIRS does. I'll try to be better. Onondaga has been quiet weather-wise - Lansing had an actual tornado a bit over a week ago - MLK and Moores River Dr. area were hit hard - lots of big trees down.
-Ing, 06-16-08
Gore wasn't in robot mode as in 2000 - I think that anyone who's a politician and is introducing Obama knows that they have to step up their speaking game. I just read in the freep that Jennifer mentioned Hillary and the crowd booed. Then, "Taking off a navy blue pump and waving it aloft, she said, 'These high heels have carried a lot of weight for first women everywhere. But I'm proud to say that I'm supporting Barack Obama to be the next president of the United States.' "
-Ing, 06-17-08
I'm sure you've mentioned that before - I just forgot. Don't know if you've been following this at the Detroit papers web sites, and it's also in the Gongwer, but "big, pink, pig" Leon Drolet was defeated in his efforts to recall House Leader Dillon over the income tax increases - so THAT was a good thing.
-Ing, 06-17-08
I hope you get a chance to watch last night's episodes of the Daily Show and Colbert Report on TiVo. I will not spoil the content for you... other than to say Obama, Gore, and McCain are topics of discussion. The Daily Show's moment of Zhen is great - listen carefully.
-Fair, 06-19-08
You can spoil it for me if you want – M. always tells me the cliffhangers on the soaps if she is listening ;->
Do you watch the shows live or on TiVo? We TiVo, of course, since they are on past our bedtimes - when I first tryed doing Season Pass for these shows, even with the option of 1st Run Only, it would record showings throughout the day and evening. So I recorded by time and channel - but sometimes the timing gets off and the Daily Show recording will end right in the middle of the Moment of Zen and then the Colbert report will start up, missing some moments. Hope it didn't mess up like this last night.
So maybe you had better tell me what you heard/saw ;->
-Ing, 06-19-08
I'll begin with Colbert. He does a great piece tying McCain to "four more years of George W. Bush." Colbert spends time talking about the differences highlighted between Obama and McCain on reaching out to rouge nations - the diplomacy issue. While the piece is of course packed with humor, it raised some new (at least new to me) points about which I was not aware. Probably one of the more 'less-satirical/more news like while still being satirical' commentaries I've seen.
The Daily Show moment of Zhen ends with a long capture of Obama sitting on stage at Joe Louis Arena with Gore at the podium. After about 20 or 30 seconds of simply showing the two on stage (with the crowd going crazy for the two, of course) Gore thanks Gov. Granholm and the state of Michigan, which, he recalled, supported him in 2000 and will be forever grateful (or similar). A very "Michigan" moment - I thought it made us look great.
I should probably do like you and T. - at least for Colbert - to be sure I get enough sleep. All that TV after playing kickball in the rail after work.
-Fair, 06-19-08
I saw exactly the moment you are referring to, what Al Gore said about Michigan. Sadly, have you heard about the latest trivial Obama campaign mistake? Some muslim women in headscarves were told at the Joe - by volunteers for the campaign - that they couldn't sit where they would show up in the podium imagery, with the headscarves on. Later, the Obama campaign officially apologized and said the volunteers were not under their direction on this point, but - damage done in this climate of excrutiating sensitivity to slights, real or perceived.
-Ing, 06-19-08
I was reading the Free Press after sending you the e-mail and saw the article. Unfortunate - but who's to say that would not have happened at a McCain, Romney, or Hillary rally... I'm sure the story will be on all the news networks.
Did you see where McCain, on camera, admits that he is unable to operate, for the most part, a computer without his wife's assistance? To me that's a gaffe too (excepting the senior citizen crowd - even my grandparent’s talk with me via e-mail).
-Fair, 06-19-08
No - I didn't see that about McCain being computer-illiterate. But it goes with what I heard when the McCain camp first offered the Obama camp to participate in 10 town hall style meetings? McCain's camp sent the offer by hard-copy letter - and Obama's folks looked at it and said, why didn't he just send an e-mail?
-Ing, 06-19-08
Finally - yes, we watched Jon/Daily Show last night, from the previous night, and saw the part with Gore saying kind words about Michigan. . . Do you have any opinion about the campaign finance issue and Barack's "flip flop"? It was the right and rational thing for him to do, and it meets the spirit of campaign finance reform, in that he has so many small donors adding up to big dollars. But that's a subtle point, that gets lost . . .
-Ing, 06-20-08
Hi - Well, I'm now up to $100 for Obama - I think. I'm not sure if my contribution took or not - sometimes the online stuff doesn't work quite right - I'm waiting for a confirmation e-mail.
-Ing, 06-24-08
Hi. I've just made one donation to date to the Obama campaign to date. The car rentals in Detroit are eating away at my "extra" cash :( . The Obama e-mails have not been as bad as I thought - frequency wise. I'm also receiving messages from Hillary Clinton's campaign (something makes me think she isn't going away by the tone of her e-mails - no mention of Obama at all in the last three that I've read [some I delete before reading]. In fact, no mention of Obama in any of her campaign messages other than the ones that followed her "suspension" speech in DC).
-Fair, 06-24-08
Have I sent you this link before:
http://thepage.time.com/
Anyway, they have a terse reference from Bill Clinton that he will do whatever he is asked to do to help Obama. And then the author also mentions an upcoming joint appearance between Hillary and Obama (this page updates often and throughout each day).
I just don't understand the female Clinton supporters who say, it was sexism brought her down, and then they're still mad at Obama. Hillary just didn't run a good-enough campaign plus she just wasn't as attractive a candidate in so many ways - she could have been a man of any race or age and still have had those problems - it's just like when an African-American (Kwame, perhaps?) is in trouble and they blame racism when it's their own fault. I've never gone to her web site or received e-mail from Clinton so I didn't know that her offerings still made out like it was just about her. That's sad.
I say "just" too much.
-Ing, 06-24-08
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