MakeFloridaCount.com archives articles, videos and other organizing resources to use with undecided voters.
I am developing section on Conservative and Republican endorsements of Obama. Please send me your suggestions (by e-mail or by commenting on the blog).
See extended blog for more detail of what is available on the site.
New organizing resources are added daily. In unity. Barbara Myers
barbmyrs@gmail.com
Need an article or video to convince an undecided voter to vote for Obama/Biden?MakeFloridaCount.com archives articles, videos and other organizing resources so that people making calls and going door to door can have easy access to the latest material. Organizers should look carefully at the left hand column of the site for useful resources. Here's a breakdown of some of what's there.Character Counts - What to expect from Barack Obama * The New Yorker endorsement * Press Conference on State of the Economy * Chicago Jews on their experience with Obama * Obama's speech on race and reaction to Rev. Wright Uproar * SFGate - Obama profile * NYTimes Obama archive
Character Counts - What to expect from John McCain * John McCain's Rage * NYTimes - Politics of Attack * Keating Economics * The Straight Talk Express (exposed) * NYTimes - McCain lifelong gambler * George Will - Can a dismaying temperment be fixed? * Nicholas Kristof - Impulsive, Impetuous, ImpatientNew organizing resources are added daily - MakeFloridaCount.com.
In unity.
Barbara Myers
please see extended post for more resources.
Here's a sweet song for a scary candidate...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM1inuK-7lo
Fans of Saturday Night Live should check out comedy genius Chevy Chase's review of this week's SNL season premiere on Huffington Post (Sept 15), as he makes some very interesting and pointed comments about both Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's performance, as well as the candidates who were portrayed.
Here's my favorite Chase quote from the article: "The more that the nation understands that McCain has lost his mind, the better it is really."
Okay. Before the campaign gets really serious again, here is your chance to vote for Sarah Palin -- that is for the best impersonation.
And there are two really great impersonators too. You may already have seen Saturday Night Live's "A Nonpartisan Message from Sarah Palin & Hillary Clinton". In case you missed it, click on the pic for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in their SNL opening skit:
But Tina's got competition! Here name is Lisa Vega (aka Lisa Donovan), who was once featured on MADtv, and she has done three Palin sketches already. The first had her corner Obama on a stairwell as he comes home, and she browbeats him till he turns into the "angry black man"; this may explain why the clip is no longer available. But her parental guidance skit called "Is McCain Palin's Bitch?" is already a YouTube classic, and showcases the other side of Sarah:
You can click on the photo. That's Dan Oster as John MCcain.
So here's your guilt-free chance to vote for Sarah Palin (impersonator, that is). Please cast your vote below on the comment section.
If you haven't seen it, go to the SNL site to see the opening parody of Palin and Hillary Clinton. RIGHT ON THE MONEY. The media needs to grow a pair.
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Sarah Palin missed her calling . . . she's a good actor.
By Michael Shelby
September 4, 2008
Watching Republican Veep nominee Sarah Palin's acceptance speech I was continually plagued by an unsettling feeling of where have I seen this personality before? Yes, she's a dead ringer for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler could play her in a SNL sketch but they don't capture her essence naturally. Then, about halfway thorough the well executed attack speech teeming with irony, hypocrisy, misinformation, outright lies, and devoid of substance, it came to me . . . this performance really is a movie sequel and Sarah Palin is Tracy Flick all grown up!
Tracy Flick, played by Academy Award Winner® Reese Witherspoon in the 1999 movie Election (also starring Sarah Jessica Parker's hubbie Matthew Broderick as Tracy's advisor and former lover), runs a ruthlessly ambitious, win at all costs, vote manipulating campaign for her high school class presidency. Tracy's narcissism perfectly transforms into the cult of personality that the Republican party is running it's campaign on today. John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, confirmed that "This election is not about issues," said Davis. "This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates." Translation: the Republican's are running on the cult of personality and away from the issues. This fits perfectly into a sequel for Tracy Flick that I am calling, for now, Election 2 – Tracy's Back and Badder Than Before!
That Tracy has private scandals that are kept relatively secret, questionable decision-making rules, and a moral code that could at best be described as being governed by situational ethics seem to embody the history of Republican Veep candidate Sarah Palin as well. Tracy loses to the popular good guy jock whose innocence, sincerity, and honesty earns him a squeaker win much to the surprise of Ms. Flick. Flick has gone through numerous underhanded manipulations of the election to win including looking into the vote counting room to get advance information that she has won (however, it is her advisor who actually steals the election away from Tracy in a futile act of redemption for his earlier indiscretions and to blunt the evil ambitions of his once promising student). After recovering from the shock of a loss she had not expected, the end of the movie leaves open what lies ahead for Tracy. Clearly she has gained no insights or epiphanies and is instead driven even more so to “succeed.” My grown up Tracy will take into her future the unbridled ambition, narcissism, authoritarian archetype, selfishness, and self-centered attributes that are quintessentially Tracy (and Republican), apply them as needed during her stages of development toward adulthood, only to emerge as Sarah Palin in the flesh.
Tracy's base pandering to Jesus, that will later be exploited by John McCain and personified in the religiosity of Governor Palin who believes the Iraq war (causing the deaths of thousands of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines and over a million innocent Iraqi children, women, and men) is ordained by God and didn't object to or leave the pew, thereby tacitly approving her pastor's spewed hate speech, that said acts of terrorism on Israel were God's punishment for not believing in Christ, who denies the science of evolution and stem cell research in favor of the fantasy of creationism and prayer, and who thinks abstinence only sex education is effective (DUOH!); is predicted by Tracy's prayer for deliverance into victory I have paraphrased from the movie: Dear Lord Jesus, I do not often speak with you and ask for things, but now, I really must insist that you help me win the election tomorrow because I deserve it and [Barack Obama] doesn't, as you well know. I realize that it was your divine hand that [rescued me from obscurity] and now I'm asking that you go that one last mile and make sure to put me in office where I belong so that I may carry out your will on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.
The possible plot lines to Election 2 are thick with possibilities, twists, turns, back stabbings, dirty dealings, and plain old wicked good story telling. SPOILER ALERT! My version of the sequel ends once again in defeat for Sarah, er, Tracy in ignominious defeat as another presidential candidate from Arizona is historically defeated in disaster once again. Unlike Senator Goldwater who was true to himself and authentic to the end of his admirable life, Senator McCain has screwed the pooch vis-a‘-vis integrity and so-called “straight talk” and will, if he's lucky, just fade into obscurity. But Sarah, dammit I mean Tracy, will go on like the plucky oblivious to the real world girl she is as she quotes her mother from the original movie, “It's like my mom says, The weak are always trying to sabotage the strong.”
Sarah, oh there I go again, Tracy we couldn't have post-rationalized it better ourselves.
It can't have escaped anyone who's watched Saturday Night Live for the past three weeks that the show is overtly indulging in a pro-Clinton propaganda campaign. For three consecutive weeks, they've launched attacks on Senator Obama and given Hillary the most glowing endorsement. Oddly, the show's Republican producer Lorne Michaels claims to support Sen. Obama (!) One would think that after destroying Al Gore in 2000 by blurring the lines between him and Mr.Bush that SNL would have learned it's lesson. But, alas, no. Tina Fey has coined a dumb, sandbox slogan "b#%ches get things done"- oh please! This isn't about gender. We should be better than that. We've had a retard in office for 8 years and now we're meant to get stuck with b#%ch too? Since when has being a bully become a pre-requisite for becoming president?
The show is a reminder that some Americans can't handle a worthy candidate. Instead they'd rather see us get stuck with a nominee who's main qualification is that she is married to a former president who is a felon and was, for all intents and purposes, impeached. Worse still, Mrs. Clinton will lose in the general. It's exasperating!
