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Obama launches campaign in Spanish with catchy slogans

i signed up for the truthteam thing on his website, and now i get 5 emails everyday from "Barack Obama", "Joe Biden", and "Michelle Obama" themselves asking me for ca$h money. i'm just a little annoyed about the all around audaciousness in the way that his team is going about it.

What do you guys think of this? Seems ridiculous to me..

Dude I'm sorry if I made you feel like you were under attack. I respect your opinion. I really would've liked to have this conversation elsewhere so that I don't spam everyone's inbox. My main concern is not that you have these opinions but that you refuse to question them. You seem so certain about everything. I myself change positions on the same subject 100 times before settling on one opinion and I've learned to do that thanks to people around me who keep challenging me. And I wanted to hear your arguments precisely to reconsider my positions once again. PS: sorry about the word "sane" I had no right to say it like that and I certainly wasn't directing it against you. Peace, Love & Such Positive Vibes *_*

haha you have no idea what I had to go through to arrive at these conclusions. Self-doubt, head splitting pondering, constant self-criticism, etc. But as you said it always helps to be challenged, it reveals flaws. I'm glad that you made me think hard about what to say. No need to worry I considered this a strictly political debate from the start and I'm also sorry if I said something messed up. Peace.

US politics starting to resemble Lebanese politics...

Obama is technically a shoe-in for the Democratic candidacy, the final vote on Tuesday will determine the end of the low-key primaries which were taking place. As the article states, it's almost "party time".

We wanted infotainment, we got infotainment ;-) 

This is another part of the episode, covering the Secret Service Prostitution Scandal, some replies to twitter questions and a good point made about Super PACs and their role in negative advertising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEG31QE4y9w&feature=relmfu

still makes me laugh!

"Here's the buzzed-about anti-Obama political ad in which Barack Obama's oppressive coolness is exposed. There's a lot about this strategy I don't understand. Is being cool a problem when you're a president? Does this ad make Obama's fans like him any less? Could Mitt Romney ever pull off Al Green?"

Infotainment blurs the line between politics and entertainment? - Just thought it was an interesting read.

Interesting how both articles are published by the same source. Even more interesting is the gap between the articles. This one is far better argued and developed than "10 Reasons O will NOT be re-elected"

WASHINGTON: Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney hit an off note when he told a "humorous" story about his dad shutting down a factory. Actor Robert De Niro managed to get both Romney's fellow Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Obama campaign riled up when he joked at an Obama fundraiser that America isn't ready for a white first lady.

This article is heavy on the Economics side, however, very contentious theories about the re-election of incumbent presidents places a very heavy emphasis on the economic situation, immediate manifestations of it, mainly the state of the job market. This is a factor that falls outside the direct control of political communication campaigns, but is usually spun in a certain way.

Interesting analysis of the US motives from the Kony intervention

Actually, it doesn't necessarily mean "dishonest" at least in the way the campaign developed. Just because the NGO didn't roll out their entire agenda in a video doesn't mean they're hiding anything. The video itself was aimed at a component of their objective in Uganda: Make Kony a household name. Dishonest here is a matter of opinion, in terms of how the campaign construction and evolution (encoding) is done. Calling it a scam is like saying advertisers are trying to steal your money, they don't tell you we want to make profit, but rather you need to consume our product. If you choose to participate and donate, it is your job as an activist to do the necessary research, at least in my opinion. The rest can be chalked up to the debate: should campaigners give its audience all of the information or should they give them enough and have them make a decision (lethargic & informed vs. active & smart). Then we seek to define how much is enough, which gets down to opinion. The bottom line however is over such a short period of time and the quick rise of the deviant opinion is something we should definitely examine. The "hidden" motives are basically the motives that weren't included in the video KONY2012 video. However it fulfilled its purpose as a medium, raise awareness about the cause (itself, but not the NGO's agenda), involve as many people as possible. In the end it comes down to framing the issue. As for Invisible Children as an organization, it has its Vision and Mission Statement set clear on its website. There were very broad headlines concerning their Kony initiative, they offered a step by step plan when major criticism began to surface. They have updated their page accordingly: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html - and cracking down because of their funding of the Ugandan army is a matter of political debate. Either you prefer to arm the Ugandans (past human rights abusers) and have them expel the threat themselves, allow the threat of the L

RA to grow, or allow foreign intervention to deal with the issue. From here it's a matter of perspective, and which proponent is thinking of the case of Uganda.

Take that, Mitt Romney. Also, check out www.barackobama.com/truthteam. even our dear obama is subject to framing, please check out the blog! it's just a tad ridiculous.

Watch campaign ads in the 2012 presidential campaign and track campaign ad spending by candidates and interest groups. Super interesting site, I didn't know Romney was spending THAT much on ads (more than all the other candidates combined), it's crazy! Plus, if anyone still couldn't find ads for the position papers, there are plenty here, enjoy!

I looked into Romney's ads, and when you see his campaign strategy, it's not too surprising. He has made ads targeted at individual states (new hampshire, missouri) and is attacking candidates left and right (mainly Santorum and Obama). These are distinct from the general platform ads he has running on TV.

Almost exactly four years ago, Barack Obama made one of the worse gaffes of his political career. He told highfalutin donors at a San Francisco fundraiser that "bitter" voters in rural Pennsylvania "cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them... as a way to explain thei...