Posts Tagged with ‘democrat’

The presidential race taking place on the ground today in the US in the lead up to the big day in November 2008 – more specifically, the start of the caucus season - is mostly focused one place and one place only: Iowa. Four years back, New Hampshire fought the Midwestern state for media coverage tooth and nail. Now? Not so much. It still gets traffic, but it’s not where the great majority of sound bytes are now being tossed [...]

Lawrence Lessig is at the pulpit again, and he’s talking about fair use, again. Which is great. Everyone wants fair use. (Except, you know, some media companies who'll remain unnamed here.) But Lessig’s talking politics, too.
He’d like to see recorded presidential debates be made available for presentation, and even “remixing”, on the Web. Can’t say I don’t agree.
Whether or not the presidential debates scheduled this year and the next (the first with all Democratic hopefuls in attendance occurred [...]

What are you doing this January 1st and 2nd? Oh, attending a string of parties? Sweeping up confetti? Drinking the champagne left over from the 12:00am bash? (That doesn’t make any sense. Who ever has leftover champagne?) Well, if you happen to be free of a hangover (Headaches and politics don’t go togeth— Actually, they kind of do mix.) hours after the proverbial ball has dropped and have some precious moments to spare for the politicians cool enough to be [...]

You need to know how to socialize to be the president of a nation. You should certainly know how to work a room, and if that isn’t in your repertoire of strengths, you’ll need to do a great deal of feigning to pull off a successful meeting with your cabinet, the rest of the staff, and quite a few world leaders; this is especially the case if you’re the President of the United States. The country is in dire straights [...]