Cracker: Bye Wellington
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Damien,
I'm a bit surprised a photo developer feels its OK to take extra copies of your photos and put them on display.
Doesnt that constitute a breach of copyright or similar?
I mean, sure its flattering to have others appreciate your work.... but shouldnt they ask first?
Do you get to keep the (somewhat pricey) blow-ups as payment for them using them?
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Even if Clin-ton can manage the economy better, can create more jobs and provide better healthcare, is that really more valuable than someone who can restore a sense of dignity and direction to the nation?
Jeez Keith, you need to add your sarcasm tag when you say stuff like that, I nearly took you seriously :)
Americans don't seem that keen on policy wonks, they know you can buy that sort of expertise in. They want leaders. It's a bit hard to point to a real visionary leader since Kennedy, and his reputation (like Lennon's) is mightily helped by his early death. As much as I hate to say it, Reagan is probably the only viable candidate.I'm pretty sure all three leading candidates would make good leaders of the free world, certainly better than the incumbent (a baboon would make a better leader, to be fair), but only Obama is really appealing to that need for vision that the Yanks seem to need. (Disclosure: if I were entitled to vote, I'd probably vote for Hilary)
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Oh yeah. You want rhetoric in the classic black style?
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I'm a bit surprised a photo developer feels its OK to take extra copies of your photos and put them on display.
Shit Fletcher, of course they asked me first! And yes I get to keep the <plug>(in my opinion, very reasonable at $20 for a 12" x 18")</plug> enlargements when they're finished with them in a month. Did you think I just wandered past and happened to notice my photos in the front window?! LOL
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Vanity Fair's Raising Obama backgrounder paints a picture of a remarkable and focused individual.
Compare and contrast with the White House incumbent.
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I don't know how many of you saw the Daily Show the other night when he interviewed Madeline Albright, but I thought it was telling (perhaps?) that Jon Stewart indicated he'd be pretty happy with McCain, Obama or Clinton in the Whitehouse. Albright of course didn't agree, but I wonder how widely that view is shared among other liberals?
I got talking to an old American in a bar a couple of months ago. Nice guy, Republican but seemed quite liberal. He put it simply.
"America ain't ready for a black President."
I think that's worth remembering. I think if Obama gets the nod ahead of Clinton, McCain will win, and only because he's white.
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John McCain's constant appearences on The Daily Show made me go "oh, he's pretty cool - for a Republican" until I found out about his abortion stance.
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I think that's worth remembering. I think if Obama gets the nod ahead of Clinton, McCain will win, and only because he's white.
Dunno ...
The Democrats are on a winner for this year's 2008 Presidential elections, with three polls showing the party likely to storm the Presidency from George W. Bush's Republican Party.
Three major national polls, including those conducted by Gallop and The New York Times show that the Democrats are likely to win the November elections, with most Democrats also now preferring Junior Illinois Senator Barack Obama as their party's candidate. ...
The polls also show that Obama would be the better candidate to beat off likely Republican nominee John McCain, who is aged over 70 and is considered to be light on conservatism - the key plank of the Republican Party.
When you take into account Democratic voter turnouts for the primaries, O looks a pretty good chance.
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The polls also show that Obama would be the better candidate to beat off likely Republican nominee John McCain
Were these the same polls they used to predict the outcome in New Hampshire?
Maybe I have a less optimistic view of human nature, but I think people's prejudice is more likely to come out in the privacy of a polling booth, than when someone calls them on the phone and says something along the lines of "Excuse me Sir, but as a registered Democrat, would you vote for a black man?"
It's the same reason when you survey people about what they want on TV, many will say 'more current affairs, longer interviews, hard hitting international news' etc, but when it's offered, they pass it up in favour of America's Funniest Pet Renovations Gone Wrong.
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Maybe I have a less optimistic view of human nature, but I think people's prejudice is more likely to come out in the privacy of a polling booth, than when someone calls them on the phone and says something along the lines of "Excuse me Sir, but as a registered Democrat, would you vote for a black man?"
I think to some extent that's probably true. But I also think that most of the people that think that way, would have voted Republican anyway. They might just now have more reason for doing it.
The groundswell, which seems to be turning into a tidal wave of activist support for Obama, I'm sure that there are some closet racists in the party as you've indicated, but I can't imagine there's millions.
And I think there's a balancing effect. While only a relatively small proportion of African Americans vote Republican, that proportion is going to drop even further, and I'd imagine, their turnout increase a fair bit if Obama is on the top of the ticket.
America's Funniest Pet Renovations Gone Wrong
Seriously, take America out of that, we need it to be eligible for NZ on Air.
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