Posts with the tag photo op

Palin the Alaska Disasta

Obama Twin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:39:51 EDT

30 Sep 2008

Radio description of Palin's activities prior to the November 4th election

She's running for VP with Senator John McCain

Palin is already following in the footsteps of George Bush, abusing her powers, lying to the public to make her ethical failures seem like strengths, using her office to block government investigations into her wrongdoings, hiding personal information from the public that public law requires she provide.

Palin is the only candidate who hasn't released her tax information to the public. She promised to provide it twice before, but is again postponing the release date, till after the televised debates.

During the ongoing government investigation into charges Palin abused her powers, tried to fire the police chief because he dumped her sister, ten (10) witnesses were ordered by the courts to testify. Palin's office defied the courts, shielded witnesses and said they don't have to appear. Palin is exactly like Bush, who claimed his staffers can ignore Congressional subpoenas.

Palin is being kept in a protective bubble, like George Bush during his campaigns. Just as the White House press corps is now hand-picked to keep out reporters who confront him with hard questions, reporters are being kept away from Palin on the campaign trail.

Palin is making very rare public appearances, one a day or fewer. And reporters complain they aren't even allowed within shouting distance (they can't even yell questions at her). Palin claims in her speeches she is out there to "get our message out to everyone" but no one is allowed to ask about the message.

When making public appearances, Palin isn't even giving access to local reporters at the events she stages. Her speeches are all for political show.

While giving these carefully choreographed public speeches, she keeps recycling the highly successful speech someone wrote for her at the Republican convention. Nothing new has been added, but two very big pieces are missing:

(1) She no longer brags about stopping the "bridge to nowhere" - that pork barrel project her administration used to get its hands on federal funds - a $100 million waste of tax money. Palin quit bragging about stopping the project because it is now commonly known she supported the bridge until Congress and the national media made a stink about it for months.

(2) She no longer brags about putting the former Governor's plane on e-bay. It turns out no one bought the plane, so she gave it to one of her campaign contributors as a gift.

This doesn't mean Palin has given up on grabbing federal money for her state and business cronies. She managed to move forward with a $40 billion natural gas pipeline that would go through Alaska. That's a ton of construction money.

That protective bubble keeps the public from seeing how completely unprepared she is to run this country. It even shields her during staged events, those made up photo ops to convince people how competent she is. When Palin was rushed into a United Nations photo op, to counter her pathetic lack of exposure to foreign affairs, the media was only allowed 29 seconds to see her talking to a foreign head of state! The only ones allowed in the room were photographers to make that photo op happen, and a news producer for CNN. No reporters were allowed.

Obama supporters in PARIS, FRANCE this Friday--Photo Op

Meredith — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:15:47 EDT

Calling all Paris-based Obama supporters!

Please convene at the Pont Neuf this Friday at 3pm for the photo shoot
for the Obama Bridge Project.

All nationalities welcome!

WEAR any OBAMA gear, BRING or MAKE a poster or banner.
(Bring your own digital camera to document the doing of this too!)

(To get ideas, look at what other groups have done: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bridgesforobama/pool/show/)

You can't make it?

TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

Encourage others to attend.

The media are already expressing an interest in this event.

Yes, WE SPAN!

Organized by the Obama Paris Meetup group--Zach Miller contact: 01 42 26 10 89

“BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR BARACK OBAMA” TOLD ATTENDING HILLARY PRESS CONFERENCE WAS “PART OF CLASS” http://fitsnews.com/2007/10/18/fitsnews-exclusive-clintons-claflin-crackdown/

Danielle Clarke USA Vietnam Vet — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:14:50 EDT

http://fitsnews.com/2007/10/18/fitsnews-exclusive-clintons-claflin-crackdown/

Students at Claflin University, a historically black college in Orangeburg, S.C., are accusing the school's administration of prohibiting them from forming a "Students for Barack Obama" chapter, yet simultaneously compelling them to attend a press conference supporting his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton.In fact, several students who serve as volunteers on Obama's presidential campaign tell FITSNews that they were coerced into holding Clinton signs and standing behind State Sen. John Matthews, who unveiled Clinton's higher education plan at a press conference held at the school last week.
About three weeks ago, an honors student at Claflin University says she approached the administration about establishing a Students for Barack Obama chapter at the school. The student was told that she and fellow students could not form such a group on campus, but no reason was given for the school's decision.
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Which would probably explain some of the unenthusiastic expressions visible in this photograph

SEE PICTURE AT HILLARY CLINTONS SITE BELOW AT SITE

“STUDENTS FOR BARACK OBAMA” TOLD ATTENDING
HILLARY PRESS CONFERENCE WAS “PART OF CLASS”

Uhm, I smell a "photo op"

Marjani — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:23:09 EST

2,000 cheer presidential hopeful Barack Obama in Orangeburg

February 17, 2007

An enthusiastic crowd of nearly 2,000 people repeatedly cheered and applauded U.S. Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential hopeful spoke at Claflin University in Orangeburg on Saturday morning. The big surprise of the day was that Sixth District U.S. Rep. James Clyburn changed his schedule at the last minute so that he could formally introduce Obama. Clyburn, who has declared that he won't endorse any Democratic candidate in the presidential primary, nevertheless said he wanted to "thank (Obama) for giving new hope and inspiration to a new generation."