(trigger) happy - an ironical look on the 2008 campaigns

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87038320946537473962011-11-27T18:54:32.928-05:00(trigger) happy - an ironical look on the 2008 campaignsA surprised, amused and critical look on the strategies of the campaigns during the american elections.claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-47184256719036773452008-11-11T19:32:00.001-05:002008-11-11T19:32:51.314-05:00Keith Olbermann's comment on Prop 8

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-75856608087109981162008-11-06T02:44:00.013-05:002008-11-06T14:32:06.502-05:00Why Barack Obama won

Although the first black President of the USA is a huge and meaningful step, welcomed with a surprising dignity by John McCain and George Bush, this is not because of his being black that Barack Obama was elected, which is probably even more meaningful, but because of the precision and the impressive hard work of his campaign, in which every single detail was thought.The Obama campaign's program

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-52824660192669633922008-11-04T23:13:00.002-05:002008-11-04T23:16:26.737-05:00Obama wins

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-55604033198511531652008-11-04T22:12:00.006-05:002008-11-04T22:17:07.962-05:00Thrilling election night

Ok we are waiting... Are they going to kiss? Oups... Sorry, I'm mistaking the series... Is he going to win ?

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-91883631120488139932008-11-03T13:54:00.004-05:002008-11-03T15:45:13.474-05:00Is there any good reason to vote for Obama?

As the dirty tricks grow, the polls are said to tighten and the so-called "Bradley effect" threatens, it must be a good time to consider the good reasons, if any, to vote for Barack Obama.First of all, his being a black man.This must be the main and the most important reason and this is probably a bad one. It may be a significant progress for the USA and the world to see a black man leading the

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-19854940626428220962008-11-02T17:08:00.005-05:002008-11-02T18:39:28.956-05:00Media are sexist and elitist against Sarah Palin

This Sarah Palin's getting pranked brings to a close a frankly disturbing sensation felt throughout this campaign. Does she deserve such a fuss?The joke is well done by the both masked avengers, really funny and fair enough, mind you...The way journalist are testing her with their gotcha questions, to which plenty of pundits would be having a bad time to answer, like the Bush doctrine" trick

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-81732709573214513792008-11-01T17:37:00.000-04:002008-11-01T22:06:02.063-04:00Barrack Obama snake charmer

The McCain campaign is pathetically splitting somehow, scapegoating Palin, talking about her as a "Diva", a "whack job", a "rogue", which is not entirely false since she seems to distance herself from those friendly advisers to aim at 2012, or frankly jump from the ship:Meanwhile, Barack Obama improves his tactical position:He offensively struggles in the republican states.He has given his "

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-87943834693835630602008-10-27T00:40:00.005-04:002008-10-27T02:25:52.164-04:00John McCain is done

We may see in front of us the consequences of the so-called "momentum". And we may see it enough to determine how it consists: confidence. John McCain lost his confidence few weeks ago. He is not convincing because, and perhaps only because, he doesn't seem to be convinced anymore.While Barack Obama staid focus, stuck to his lines, went on his campaign, without paying attention to the ups and

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-12582904740638790352008-10-19T20:42:00.006-04:002008-10-27T21:57:17.106-04:00When the conservatives stop acting dumb

Colin Powell strongly and solemnly endorsed Barack Obama today on "Meet the press".He went over the main points of this campaign: he deplored the negative tone of the McCain campaign, the lack of judgement in the pick of Sarah Palin, the confusion of McCain about economy and the republican party's sliding toward the right, which makes McCain become "narrower and narrower", while Barack Obama

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-91401238216413181852008-10-18T19:19:00.001-04:002008-10-19T21:12:32.771-04:00Did John McCain screw up by saying he screwed up?

We underlined how McCain's hesitations to suspend his campaign were a turning point after what he lost his credibility. His canceling his appearance on the Late show was the worst idea his campaign had, since they gave the opportunity for David Letterman to make fun at him by pointing he stayed in New York... McCain had obviously to move on... But I wonder how many people work in his campaign?

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-54626743996661592292008-10-17T00:34:00.001-04:002008-10-20T00:45:55.450-04:00McCain and Obama: both casual people

Both candidates John McCain and Barack Obama happen to be normal and casual people at this Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner... They both have to be polite and hypocrite, doing boring things while pretending to have fun... They might have even enjoyed this dinner , being flattered by so many "distinguished", "influential" and conceited persons' surrounding them.By the way they both take

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-36547691980661099562008-10-16T18:23:00.006-04:002008-10-16T22:06:07.481-04:00Joe the plumber

I didn't drop any line here since a while. I happen to have a life, sorry, too information gets easily alianating and anyway the last Townhall debate was... boring...But the third and last debate between Barack Obama and John McCain happened yesterday. The confidence of Obama was strong enough to make fun of every McCain's smart or tough move, for whom everything appears to be too late and

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-43602912525254534702008-10-04T21:31:00.006-04:002008-10-16T18:55:22.585-04:00Vice-presidential debate: strategies and margins

I knew people do read coffee ground, even though I still don't know what they actually read, but I happen to hear others read eyebrows:More seriously, since no one was expecting anything of Sarah Palin, after the National Review's article or the SNL's sketches, but her to wipe the floor, she did, of course, a really good job. I was impressed by her memory's ability and her reading so fast the

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-44585357952797845502008-10-02T05:47:00.003-04:002008-10-02T06:19:08.242-04:00When a quality turns out to be a flaw

Poll shows John McCain is weakened while Barack Obama significantly leads.In times of crisis, people usually turn to the republican, who are supposed to be more reassuring, as we saw the Bush campaign using 9-11 against John Kerry.John McCain is known, and makes him known, as someone who shoots from the hips, while Barack Obama is considered to be an intellectual. We remember on the faith forum

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-24421066288474663062008-09-29T14:39:00.012-04:002008-09-29T16:35:16.275-04:00Bailout rejected: Politics or Management?

House Voted ‘No,’ 228-205 for highly political reasons : this crisis threatens an economic and political basis: the free-market.Republican, like Jeb Hensarling, argue that "the country was on a 'slippery slope toward socialism'." He explains: "If we bail out risky behavior, we will soon see even riskier behavior". And he's right. Considering the free-market logic, to his merit, he's coherent.This

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-21084756820134764182008-09-28T15:47:00.004-04:002008-09-28T16:16:20.241-04:00McCain's gambling past: end of bets

Since we may say this financial crisis began because of a kind of gambling with mortgages, I assume McCain's gambling past, which the New York Times pointed yesterday, is quiet ironical.More seriously, this article underlines: "Mr. McCain portrays himself as a Washington maverick unswayed by special interests, referring recently to lobbyists as “birds of prey.” Yet in his current campaign, more

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-56852375041549287772008-09-27T17:57:00.012-04:002008-09-29T17:46:38.104-04:00Some conservatives call Sarah Palin to quit

Kathleen Parker writes in the conservative magazine "National Review", that "to express reservations about [Sarah Palin's] qualifications to be vice president — and possibly president — is to risk being labeled anti-woman."She explains that she watches "her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-16720026364510951812008-09-26T23:16:00.011-04:002008-09-27T20:05:21.115-04:001st one-on-one debate: Both candidates stuck to their lines

Maybe because Barack Obama was too well-prepared for this first presidential debate and McCain threw up screens of smoke: they seemed to stick to the lines of their campaigns.McCain saved times on the economic issues and had not a lot to say, except this overused point : Barack Obama will increase taxes... He finally succeeded to slide the debate to Iraq.He insisted on how Barack Obama does not

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-21197784294299879482008-09-26T12:47:00.003-04:002008-09-26T12:56:46.159-04:00MCain's shambles

Suspending his campaign was a bright idea of the McCain's advisers, since no other move seemed to be possible for him. But, as any stunt, it asks the man to stick to his line to be convincing.This shambles on the Late show underlines how dishonnest this posture was...

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-27331955818833593952008-09-25T19:20:00.004-04:002008-09-25T20:01:38.926-04:00State vs religion: Is Sarah Palin a witch?

For someone who stands strongly up for separation of church and state, this is impossible to make any difference between this prayer at DNC, which mixes politics and religion and uses both in a confusing way:And this delirious worship :

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-88648244373395602702008-09-25T10:52:00.006-04:002008-09-25T11:08:18.676-04:00Barack Obama resists

The Obama campaign found a good idea to answer to McCain's skillful move: "It's going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once." This may lower the impact of the surprise by making fun of it.Morevover, Barack Obama insists not to postpone the debate and starts to connect the favorable subject of foreign policy to the more dangerous matter for McCain: the economy,

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-39144276423116187162008-09-24T18:08:00.006-04:002008-09-24T18:46:45.972-04:00John McCain's surprising trick

We saw how uncomfortable the crisis was for John McCain, unable to take a frank position without either alienating a part of his base or sounding too close to the Bush administration. His own record disproves his arguments somehow anyway.The McCain campaign finds a skillful idea to wriggle out of this positioning deadlock: suspend campaigning! And to minimize the damages of McCain's taking

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-46387528962823757282008-09-24T09:15:00.007-04:002008-09-28T14:34:09.710-04:00to raise or to lower expectations before the debate : two different strategies

The Obama campaign seems to raise expectations before the first one-on-one debate.They schedule three days for "intensive preparation" and call for hosting "Debate watch parties":Of course, this is a part of the whole Obama strategy to imply and motivate people, but it also makes a fuss about it.John McCain chose the opposite posture and lower expectations by praising Obama's eloquence.Barack

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-49115143676447312072008-09-23T20:43:00.004-04:002008-09-23T20:53:26.377-04:00Hillary Clinton: slogans producer

After her "no way, no how, no McCain" at the DNC, here is the fresh slogan Hillary Clinton made up with her talented easiness of producing them by the dozen : "don't ask who are you for, but instead ask who is for you"... Enjoy it at the end of this well-prepared and straight to the point interview :

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-36277797303986855632008-09-23T15:33:00.014-04:002008-09-23T19:29:35.786-04:00McCain's embarrassing situation : where are the democrats?

After the fuss around Sarah Palin, whose nomination was close to succeed to make the whole journey of Barack Obama looks dusty, this economic crisis opens more difficult times for John McCain, who looses all his margins on this subject. Do democrats take enough advantage of this crisis?We know John McCain can not afford to move too far away from a part of his base, who has supported deregulation

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-87240985870624420052008-09-19T06:59:00.012-04:002008-09-23T17:08:05.634-04:00An example of the McCain campaign's strategy...

The McCain campaign's redefining the idea of "change" to make it match to their "maverick" slogan is a smart strategic trick. The "change", according to the republican camp, is the ability to reform "across party lines", as Tim Pawlenty said in this interview.The strategy bypasses McCain's problems with his conservative base, and lower the impact of Obama's main point.You can watch with this

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-21719981068308641852008-09-18T15:59:00.006-04:002008-09-23T17:08:18.739-04:00McCain's flip-flop on the economy

How McCain was embarrassed by his claiming "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" is delicious.His several attempts to try to justify this gaffe and to make it sounded different that it does are a real beautiful exercise of trial and error in a deployment of a strategy.Finally, he succeeded to connect it to a more favorable matter, saying the "fundamentals" are the workers themselves. This

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-71863807090470984292008-09-17T05:20:00.002-04:002008-09-23T17:08:32.572-04:00Is the McCain campaign running against Sarah Palin?

I'm not sure Sarah Palin's refusing to testify in this "Troopergate" is such a good idea for her long-term career and I wonder if the McCain Campaign's advisors are just saving time and minimizing the damage for the campaign... Do they only care for their own interest? Are they ready to sacrifice her career for this campaign? I'm just wondering...

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-50963106672157992582008-09-14T12:10:00.005-04:002008-09-23T17:08:47.001-04:00McCain campaign spreads lies : who cares?

This is quiet fascinating to see that the fact that the ads of McCain campaign are airing inaccurate information or complete lies about Barack Obama doesn't matter that much. What seems to matter the most is the movement those attacks launch.Is being in movement more important than being reliable?

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-37750409015472285402008-09-12T11:40:00.002-04:002008-09-23T17:09:00.980-04:00Sarah Palin's using is sexist

I'm surprised no voices are raising to denounce the fact that Sarah Palin's picking up and her using as a puppet, a marketing trick or a schoolgirl by the McCain campaign is outrageously sexist.

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-74350670751403670662008-09-10T05:48:00.009-04:002008-09-23T17:09:25.290-04:00Are candidates free of speech?

There's something you surely do when you watch and pick up so carefully every single word or act, jokes or mistakes of both candidates, as this screen behind McCain, Joe Biden's saying Hillary Clinton "might have been a better pick than (him)" or now this "pig with lipstick" affair... You question the freedom of speech. And this is more serious than it sounds through these dishonest quarrels.

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-69304315757835205712008-09-07T07:43:00.002-04:002008-09-23T17:09:37.950-04:00John McCain's cheek

Such an operation to take possession or steal every single democratic argument with a complete cheek is astonishing...Watch CBS Videos Online

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-38796970943116634882008-09-06T10:01:00.003-04:002008-09-23T17:09:49.692-04:00Sloppy and serious mistakes in McCain' acceptance speech

I'm not sure whether this fuss about the screen behind McCain during his acceptance speech is just a joke or do people really intend to make it mean more than it is : probably a mistake? Isn't there enough serious matter-of-fact to discuss about to use the confusion between a picture of a school and an other of an army hospital?For those who want to argue, what about about this overuse of the

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-67346199293608434542008-09-05T05:28:00.006-04:002008-09-23T17:10:03.908-04:00RNC : Day 4 : John McCain's acceptance speech

What happened to John McCain? Isn't he supposed to have a great sense of humor? Did the speech writers use all the jokes and others wisecracks they made up last weeks for Sarah Palin's speech? It sounded like they did actually...Or did they find appropriate to lower McCain's talent to emphasize by contrast Palin's ability to read?

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-59294606877186339882008-09-05T01:45:00.006-04:002008-09-23T17:10:14.519-04:00Are Republican cynical?

So, I was not the only one to think it was cynical to pick up Sarah Palin as veep nominee... Even Republican agree :

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-62665765715913764432008-09-04T11:28:00.002-04:002008-09-04T11:34:19.976-04:00Sarah Palin's speech

Ok we were expecting a lot of this first national speech, so now we know : she can read!

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-29336598449851412672008-09-03T02:45:00.006-04:002008-09-03T05:50:21.530-04:00Scandals and gossip

There is something quite strange for someone bored by details of the privacy of others, to see the media, starting with those "serious", enjoyed with things, which are nothing else than gossip. What is surprising is the implacable march of something incredibly reactionary and normalizer.It's not only that we know that this one (John Edwards) has cheated on his wife with this one, nor even that we

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-22270097320205941372008-08-30T12:51:00.008-04:002008-09-23T17:10:29.853-04:00McCain's running mate

I wonder to what extent this is not misogynist to pick up a woman just because she is a woman?Anyway I do not perfectly understand a pro-lif... anti-abortion woman, as I would not understand a pro-slavery black for instance... oups, sorry...

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-34461815583790570492008-08-29T15:03:00.007-04:002008-09-05T08:57:25.740-04:00DNC : Day 4 : Obama's acceptance speech

Of course, the man must have become completely crazy before the bubble he represents in the eyes of others ; of course the man intends to get into a sleight of hand by confiscating the power of a people, whom the expression is reduced to moronic and compulsive applause, but it would be cynical and kill-buzzer for not enjoying this speech by Barack Obama, who embraces all oratorical technics with

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-45683542214516227812008-08-28T10:29:00.003-04:002008-09-05T04:06:41.120-04:00DNC : Day 3 : Boring

There's something highly conservative in this endless succession of all these speeches, all built with the same pattern, respecting, with such a rigourous care, whith so little inventiveness, the same rules.Those variations or stylistic composition, repeating over and over the same slogans, using the same old anaphora, and cynically scattering real stories of real lives of real people, are tiring.

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-77758695489109412642008-08-27T16:13:00.005-04:002008-09-05T04:06:06.892-04:00DNC : Day 2 : Hillary Clinton's stylistic composition

Something enabled me to recognize a political meeting today, more easily than the day before. Something, which happens in every political meeting throughout the world, in democracies as well as in dictatorships : the compulsive repetition of watchwords.Dozens of people came, thus, to say at some moment in their speeches, for instance : "McCain more of the same".Those different slogans ("Unity", "

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-68569082959171329212008-08-25T02:21:00.004-04:002008-09-05T02:29:13.327-04:00Joe Biden's biography

On Saturday, I received, like everyone, this......wondering why nobody raised the question about who had organized the visit of Joe Biden in Georgia: Himself to get in the race for vice-presidency, which he refused 3 weeks ago? ; Obama's staff to launch the two weeks of hysterical speculation which followed? ; A coincidence due to his chair in the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate?In

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-41984057281554136882008-08-18T02:06:00.002-04:002008-09-23T17:10:48.280-04:00McCain/Obama : Example from the forum of "faith"

I'm very amused by the subtleties of political verbiage of the candidates in the forum of "faith", in which, even if one of them, McCaine, puts forward its opposition, and the other, Obama, tries to temper it somehow, as a matter-of-fact both come out against marriage between people of same sex and for letting each state legislate.

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-77110044165352872602008-08-17T16:56:00.002-04:002008-08-31T05:36:58.244-04:00Does Hillary Clinton suffer from stammering?

It's not so much that we sneak around the hustle-bustle of Hillary Clinton Campaign's kitchen with those memos and e-mails provided by The Atlantic, because we don't give a... dime, but to see clearly this feeling we had so far taking shape : her inability to make decisions underlined by the newspaper:"Above all, this irony emerges: Clinton has competed on the basis of its management skills, his

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-45021121250118316032008-07-31T22:39:00.003-04:002008-08-31T05:37:33.842-04:00Barack Obama : a marketing strategy

It has been almost 18 months that Barack Obama declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination and therefore as many months that we are expecting with an impatient curiosity the slightest sign of an early concrete proposal.While some assume the blur of his speeches is due to a strategy of the primary, promising a presidential campaign more precise, the last 2 months seem to be at least as

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-61164090629774440322008-07-25T22:11:00.001-04:002008-08-27T01:50:18.492-04:00Barack Obama in Berlin

I was alternately thrilled or amused by the talented Barack Obama's silver tongue in his speech in Berlin. His ability to strike chords, his taste for empty words, which aren't even scared of their own powerlessness, his blind recklessness.I noticed that nothing concrete had given any strength to his speech and no analysis had brought any slightest new dimension.I noticed the new positioning in

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-9380742097618217192008-07-19T15:27:00.003-04:002008-08-27T01:51:19.135-04:00Jesse Jackson on Obama

Obama's speech about absent fathers was really weird for me, because it sounded like he was teaching a moral lesson, also because it took place in a church and above all because it was addressed to black people. It turns out I was not the only one to be surprised :

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-51525211501518277032008-06-25T15:15:00.002-04:002008-08-26T21:09:23.656-04:00Obamas' clichés

I'm not sure whether this marketing strategy to polish the image of Michelle Obama as an activist and Barack Obama as a muslim doesn't end up in a racist message for him and a conservative and misogynist cliché for her ?

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-20484287208122077512008-04-08T16:33:00.002-04:002008-09-26T16:52:21.714-04:00Is Barack Obama lazy?

Hillary Clinton used the occasion offered by this waited hearing of general Petraeus to make her point and proove one more time how accomplished, rigourous and hard at work she is.Barack Obama contented himself with asking several questions to the general, which is, after all, what senators are supposed to do during a hearing, even though they sounded nearly vague.He may not have taken enough

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-50800940483588943152008-03-18T14:34:00.003-04:002008-08-26T21:48:26.298-04:00Obama's speech about races

Still unable to get what was all that fuss about Reverend Wright and how the most of american people could be so ignorant about the african american struggle and be surprised by his claims, I listened to Barack Obama's speech about races. He puts into perspective Wright's assertions, takes distances with him without condemned him, and subtly change the subject of the debate to get involved the

claude pérèshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10757041048688179823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703832094653747396.post-65268249471658058042008-01-08T05:44:00.001-05:002008-08-31T05:57:30.979-04:00Hillary Clinton overplays

“Several New Hampshire women, some of them undecided until Tuesday, said in interviews that a galvanizing moment in the race had been Mrs. Clinton’s unusual display of emotion on Monday when her eyes filled with tears and her voice cracked as she described the pressures of the race and her goals for the nation. “As voters began to see the choice they have and heard Hillary speak from her heart,

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