Comments for Election 2008

Comment on “I’m just happy to say we both love Israel…” by Poppy Bison

Poppy Bison — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:42:45 +0000

God bless you and yours this Thanksgiving.

Comment on This Volunteer Makes Sure Voters Don’t Feel Blue by Maryanne

Maryanne — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:58:39 +0000

The involvement of younger voters who are as emotionally invested as Blu and the young man who burst out of the voting booth in song and dance warms the heart of 60+ yr. old voters like me who have been so discouraged these past many years by the cynicism of the electorate in general. As a child I was so proud to be an American and in the 50’s our music teacher taught us every patriotic song which would give us “shivers” to sing. Watching the response of people world-wide reinforces that what we do really matters because as Blu said the world is watching and what we do impacts future generations.

Comment on Live from the College Republicans results-watching party by shrestha singh

shrestha singh — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:21:51 +0000

Yeah…unfortunately for him, the number of party attendees didn’t exactly double or triple. It more like halved.

Comment on Penn students take to the streets, converge on City Hall by John

John — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:33:59 +0000

That’s only because conservatives perpetuate fear to keep their base. Fear and religion.
It’s quite genius, but sad at the same time

Comment on Penn students take to the streets, converge on City Hall by Scott

Scott — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:44:24 +0000

It’s funny how so many liberals “lost faith” in their country just because they disliked the President. I do not and will not like Obama — his socialistic leanings and lack of executive experience scare me. But I can say that I’m proud of my country — proud that we elected an African-American to the highest office of the land and proud that democracy proved, yet again, to be the best form of government in the world. Liberals’ faith and pride in America may waiver. Conservatives’ will always love America, regardless of who’s in charge.

Comment on Eclectic Chicago crowd by John Smith

John Smith — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:02:42 +0000

Good Job Pennsylvannia! You just elected someone with very little experience. I hope affirmative action sits well with you. By the way, if you have a Government job, you might as well start looking for another one because the one you elected is planning on slashing federal spending.

Comment on Health care as commodity? by FuseBulb.net

FuseBulb.net — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:29:04 +0000

Health care as commodity?…

Obama says that the issue is breaking family budgets, and that we have “moral commitment” to do something about the crisis. In his plan, he argues that people can keep plan and that he’ll work with small businesses to provide…

Comment on Obama speech recap by DP

DP — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:48:59 +0000

That’s funny. The DP did cover the McCain speech in Media.

Comment on Obama speech recap by '08 alumnus

'08 alumnus — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:30:35 +0000

Funny how the DP liveblogs this Obama speech, but didn’t cover the McCain speech in Media, PA.

Comment on Obama speech recap by mike

mike — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:06:19 +0000

Democrats will vote for the Democrat. Republicans will vote for the Republican. That’s how it has always been.
John McCain and Joe Biden are politicians. They know their numbers, and they know Washington.
What is different about this election is culture. Where is America going, culturally?
This is where Barack Obama and Sarah Palin come in.
Some say race is a factor against Obama, but I say it is the opposite: Obama has been propelled upwards by his skin color. The positive ‘racism’ (Black-Americans supporting him, White-Americans feeling guilty about the legacy of slavery) far outweighs the few remaining pockets of negative racism (traditional bigotry) that still exist in our country.
Whereas Black-Americans account for 12 percent of America, women number about 51 percent.
This is where America’s reaction to Sarah Palin gets interesting. It is not only sexism at play, but regionalism too. Keep in mind that America’s reaction could be vastly different from the media’s reaction, which tries to intervene in how America thinks and observes for itself.
For the last decade, American women have been trying to become either the fifth ‘Manhattanite’ cast member of ‘Sex and the City’ or a ‘Desperate Housewife’ on Wisteria Lane. The White male executives who created, packaged and marketed these female stereotypes have made plenty of money as women across America spent time and money trying to become ‘Carrie Bradshaw’. But somehow, these wanna-be’s never lived it up as glamorously.
Sarah Palin is all about God, Family, Country and Shot-Guns. She is a completely New American Woman. She was not constructed by a Public Relations agency in either New York City or Los Angeles. She is not a Hollywood creation. Sarah Palin is simply a product of American small-town wholesomeness: happy childhood, hard work, self-discipline and a bright, and almost chirpy, outlook on life.
Sarah is not the high-maintenance, drama-seeking, bulimia-suffering fragile caricature of a working woman as peddled by TV.
Her husband, Todd Palin, is not a neurotic metro-sexual obsessing over the price of organic arugula, or whining about his commitment phobias to his shrink. He is a man’s man, and frankly, a woman’s man: just your regular American guy—wholesome and uncomplicated.
Sarah and Todd are American ‘retro’, but it is retro made cool all over again. They are a brand of Americana that has been tested and true—genuine, confident and mature.
Something happened to the Obama brand on the way to the election. It is as if the fashion gods decided that “Didn’t you know? No one wears Obama after Labour Day.”
Once exotic and different, the Obama brand has been turned into something weird and creepy. “Obama’s Witnesses,” “Obama’s Blue-Shirts,” “The Obama Youth Fraternity League”…Plus, after the initial swooning over him, most people still think that there’s something “off” about Obama; as if he’s hollow, or hiding something.
Today, the Obama brand has become decidedly “uncool”. That’s why people tuned out from watching him debate McCain.
On the other hand, Americans are discovering that they are intrigued by Sarah Palin. The TV pundits may want to spin things their way, but the surest measure of who won the Vice-Presidential Debate is that, at the end, the vast majority of viewers walked away from their TV sets and said to themselves, “I’d like to see more of Sarah Palin—unfiltered and uncut.”
The Obama camp may be celebrating too early. There are still plenty of people out there that haven’t made up their mind, and Obama’s triumphalism may begin to sound like arrogance, and he’s already been accused of that.
This is indeed a culturally interesting time to be an American.