Politics and religion.

[lizbud]

Obama's group at Indiana University is offering students 2 free tickets
to see a Dave Matthews Band concert.They only have to register to vote.
Ummm, I wonder who they might vote for?

[RICHARD]

Obama's group at Indiana University is offering students 2 free tickets
to see a Dave Matthews Band concert.They only have to register to vote.
Ummm, I wonder who they might vote for?

Wasn't the DMB the group that emptied the waste tanks off the bridge onto the sight seeing boat?

What would Al Gore do?

[smokey the elder]

I think pitching to the audience is as old as representative politics itself. The candidate has to market him/herself, after all.

[RICHARD]

I think pitching to the audience is as old as representative politics itself. The candidate has to market him/herself, after all.

Yes, but in these days of more info across the wires you'd think that people would pay more attention to the messenger, as opposed to the message.

Brett Favre in '08?

[lizbud]

Anybody want to volunteer? You just have to be a "typical white person"
to get in. Geeze.




Political Punch
Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper

Jake Tapper is ABC News' Senior National Correspondent based in the network's Washington bureau. He writes about politics and popular culture and covers a range of national stories.


"We Need More White People"
April 09, 2008 8:47 AM

At a Michelle Obama event, reporters from the Carnegie-Mellon University student newspaper "observed one event coordinator say to another, 'Get me more white people, we need more white people.' To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, 'We're moving you, sorry. It's going to look so pretty, though.'

"'I didn't know they would say, "We need a white person here,"' said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. 'I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn't know it would be so outright.'"

(For those who would criticize this blog for relying on a college newspaper, please recall how much the Obama campaign in its TV ads relied upon the support for his health care plan by the college newspaper the Daily Iowan.)

In any case, that Michelle Obama advance staffer just summed up the candidate's issues in Pennsylvania. They do, indeed, need more white people.

[RICHARD]

Anybody want to volunteer? You just have to be a "typical white person"
to get in. Geeze.




Political Punch
Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper

Jake Tapper is ABC News' Senior National Correspondent based in the network's Washington bureau. He writes about politics and popular culture and covers a range of national stories.


"We Need More White People"
April 09, 2008 8:47 AM

At a Michelle Obama event, reporters from the Carnegie-Mellon University student newspaper "observed one event coordinator say to another, 'Get me more white people, we need more white people.' To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, 'We're moving you, sorry. It's going to look so pretty, though.'

"'I didn't know they would say, "We need a white person here,"' said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. 'I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn't know it would be so outright.'"

(For those who would criticize this blog for relying on a college newspaper, please recall how much the Obama campaign in its TV ads relied upon the support for his health care plan by the college newspaper the Daily Iowan.)

In any case, that Michelle Obama advance staffer just summed up the candidate's issues in Pennsylvania. They do, indeed, need more white people.

LOL,

Don't you start with that TWP stuff!

Why the Eff does MO need her own event?

Sounds like the Tah raise Ah Kerry bug has bitten, again!

[lizbud]

LOL,

Why the Eff does MO need her own event?

Sounds like the Tah raise Ah Kerry bug has bitten, again!

I think you're right.