I guess I’m more of a fan of Jeff Jarvis than he is of me. I’ve always liked his appearances on the various cable shows and BuzzMachine blog is very good. His PrezVid site mentioned me a few months ago, saying…
A guy named Lee Stranahan has started turning out parodies of campaign commercials that aren’t bad. Each has its chortle op.
Search for stranahan at PrezVid
‘Aren’t bad’ isn’t the highest praise, but can’t expect people to be anything but honest and different people have different tastes.
But last night, I saw an anti -Obama rant from Jarvis, who is a Hillary supporter and maybe I understand the digging me gap more because my videos have been pretty hard on Hillary going back to my very early Open Letter To Barack Obama, which is more true today as it was when I produced it in December.
Hillary supporters didn’t dig that one and it was (I think) the 3rd video I made. This morning, he’s written a new post quoting an Arkansas paper….
Democrats were outraged that, due to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush vs. Gore, not all of Florida’s presidential votes counted. In 2008, advanced thinkers supporting Sen. Barack Obama have persuaded themselves that fairness dictates that none of them should count.
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Say Amen
Which leads me to a question that I don’t think Hillary supporters would answer honestly - if the shoe were on the other foot and it was Obama who had broken the rules and their agreement in Michigan and put their name on the ballot instead of Hillary - would they feel the same way?
And of course, they wouldn’t. This is about Hillary, not about the voters. It’s about Hillary doing or saying anything to win.
The Hillary supporters don’t seem to understand that the reason many of us are Obama supporters is because he didn’t put his name on the Michigan ballot. He’s not saying or doing anything to win. He is markedly different then Hillary in this regard which is exactly why we like him.
March 27th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Fandom has little to do with opinions or I could name plenty of stars I like whose opinions (if I dare ask what they are) I don’t.
On Florida and Michigan: Clinton’s camp could have tried to insist on seating the delegates but they didn’t. They asked for a fair primary so those voters are heard. Obama’s camp fears that and would rather disenfranchise them than find a means to include them. Tactically, I’ll repeat, that is stupid and I’ll predict that will likely lose the election for the Democrats, no matter who the nominee is. It gets Obama nominated but it doesn’t get him elected. Damned short-sighted and not very democratic or Democratic, I’d say.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Well, that’s why like I like you - actually taking the time to comment on a blog.
But I think there’s a big difference of opinion about here about what actually happened - you seem to think that Obama is the one who put the kibosh on the re-votes. I don’t see it that way at all; Obama doesn’t have the power to do that. The re-votes were stopped by money and internal fighting. The idea that Obama is the one who stopped the voters is a meme spread by the Clinton camp.