Like Him Or Not, Best Political Ad Ever
posted by Terry Glavin at 4:55 PM
Sunday, February 03, 2008
About Me
- Name: Terry Glavin
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Author, journalist. Editor, Transmontanus Books. Columnist, Ottawa Citizen.
BOOKS
- Come From the Shadows
- FOLLOW THE BOOK HERE
- Warten auf die Aras
- The Lost and Left Behind: Stories from the Age of Extinctions
- The Sixth Extinction: Journeys among the Lost and Left Behind
- Waiting for the Macaws
- The Last Great Sea
- Dead Reckoning
- A Death Feast in Dimlahamid
- This Ragged Place
- A Ghost in the Water
- A Voice Great Within Us (with Charles Lillard)
- Nemiah (with the Xeni Gwetin)
- Amongst God's Own (with the former students of St. Mary's Mission)
- Transmontanus Books
- Ottawa Citizen columns & miscellany
- Ottawa Op-Ed page blog
- UNSUNG HEROES - A TRAVELING EXHIBITION
- National Post - Recent
- National Post - Archive
- Dissent - Recent Archives
- Chronicles - Archives
- The same old radical-chic mélange of aromatherapy & deconstructionism?
- Revolutionary Suicide
- How will Canada be remembered?
- Gadhafi Poisoned All He Touched
- Capitulation Sold As Compromise
- How Terrorism Works
- Obama's defeatist policy in Afghanistan
- Behind The Massacre In Mazar
- Liberalism's Long Walk
- At The Wall In Jerusalem, with Yossi Klein Halevi
- Jews Behaving Badly: Fact and Fiction At R&D
- The Great Gaza Flotilla Fraud of 2010
- 'Reconciliation' Talks A Charade
- Why Is Ottawa Criminalizing The Iranian Opposition?
- Stay Firm Against Taliban: Abdullah
- The Island of Canada - Review
- Surrender By Any Other Name
- Wrong Exit In Afghanistan
- In HRS Internasjonal: Peace At Any Cost
- In Vancouver Review: Inside The Wire
- All That We Say Is Ours
- What Afghans Need To Hear From Us
- When Hell Freezes Over
- What The Hell Were They Thinking?
- Tweedy Academic or Would-Be Suicide Bomber?
- Tehran's Worst Nightmare
- The Uprising: Which Side Are You On?
- Bernd Heinrich's Summerworld
- In Canadian Geographic: Green Power And Its Contradictions
- Food Riots in Haiti, Janjaweed Raids in Chad - Everything Is Connected
- Save The Seals, Kill The Elephants. Way to go, Europe.
- The Fighting Spirit of May Day
- Equal To A Million Buffalo Moving Across The Plains
- In Vancouver Review: Taqunya in Kabul - The People Come From The Shadows
- I Want From Now And Everlasting
- Platypus 1917: Afghanistan, Internationalism and the Left
- In Afghanistan, An Air of Hope
- In Democratiya: A Choice of Comrades
- Young Afghan Democracy Faces its First Big Test
- The New Kabul
- In Kabul, Obama Fans Ready to Party
- A Tribute To The Canadian Volunteers In The Spanish War
- The Secret Death of Bees
- All The Fish In The Sea
- In Defence of Difference
- Point Taken: Our New Viceroy
- The Other River
- 'Der Andere Fluss' (Letter International -Berlin)
- 'Our Generation's Spanish Civil War'
- Why Are We In Afghanistan?
- On the Virtues of Bottomfeeding
- The Cairo Clique
- The Quiet Assault on Free Speech
- Lost On The Long March To Kandahar
- Fashionable Antisemitism
- Talking To The Taliban
- Out of the Wilds, Into the Burbs
- The Apple is a Kind of Rose
- The Triumph of Darwinism
- Looking for Mr. Bing (Vancouver Review)
- Roter Blitz Im Grünen (Lettre International - Berlin)
- The Land Democracy Forgot
- Callum Roberts' "Unnatural History"
- "With Friends Like These. . ."
- Lost Cities: The Archeology of Metrotown
- Telling True Lies About Ignatieff
- Why Truth Matters - Benson and Stangroom
- Whales Are Also For Killing
- Shake It To The Left
- Excerpt, "The Sixth Extinction" (San Diego Union-Tribune)
- Going, Going, Gone With The Wind
- The End of Soviet Canuckistan?
- A Catastrophe in Indian Country
- No Neolithic Hippies Please: We're Ethnobotanists
- Close to the Point of No Return
- Night of the Living Dead
- The Eco-Wars Begin
- Biddy's Ruin
- The Parable of the Beast
- Russia's "New Capitalist" Giant Killers
- Canada and the New Internationalism
- The Hulqiminum Cartography of My Home Archipelago
- The Unquiet Grave of Louie Sam
- Against Revisionism, For Whales and Whalers
- A Dissent on the Question of American Deserters
- A Dissent on the Question of Jackmormons
- A Dissent on the Question of the Greens
- Climate Change and Democracy
- A House On Fire
- Remembering James and Amelia
- The Lessons of Air India
- Cutting The Premier Some Slack
- Bush Not Alone In Being A Moron
- The Paris Review
- Byliner
- Shannon Rupp's Fresh Hell
- The Vancouver Review
- Democratiya
- Dooney's Cafe
- Guernica
- Geist
- 3:AM
- Lost Magazine
- Grant Shilling
- Professor Richard
- Tom Hawthorn
- Zachariah Wells
- Elaine Beale
- Lines Magazine
- David Leach
- Fade to Black
- The Front Line
- Central Committee
- Anti-Censorship
- Padraig Reidy
- World Focus
- Freespeechists
- New Humanists
- Kick The Machine
- Secularists
- The Syndicate
- Human Journalists
- Exiled Journalists
- Iraqi-Kurdish Journalists
- Samizdat
- Canadian Journalists
- American Journalists
- Borderless Journalists
- Little Atoms
- Marc Edge
- Lisa Goldman
- Poumista
- The Propagandist
- Texas Deliverators
- Bob from Brockley
- Internationalist Workers Tendency
- Euston Station
- Platypus 1917
- Asayake
- Workers Liberty
- Hamburg Antifa
- Workers International
- Snarksmith
- Shiraz Socialist
- Engage
- Marko Attila Hoare
- Salmon Guy
- Toddish McWong
- Centrist Contentions
- The Tyee
- Victoria Nullis
- The Perfect Crime
- Maisonneuve
- Keefer Guy
- Hocemolinakafu
- The Flea
- The Singing Bob
- Rick Mercer
- Andrew Potter
- Public Eye
- Double Plus Ungood
- Torontoists
- Vancouverites
- Bill Tieleman
- Warren Kinsella
- PO&GG, eh?
- Vladimir Torres
- Over The Top, Lads
- Jonathon Narvey
- Ian King
- Jim Monk
- Patrick Ross
- Raphael Alexander
- Human Security Project
- Michael Ignatieff
- New Democratic Eustonians
- Daimnation
- Simon of Montreal
- Irwin Cotler
- Arash Kamangir
- Mehrtash
- Azarmehr
- Generation Y
- Chinese Workers' Rights
- Progress Online
- David Abstract
- Peter Ryley
- Mick Hartley
- Global Amazon Patrol
- Max Dunbar
- Max Dunbar
- Francis Sedgemore
- Paul Evans
- Standpoint
- David Aaronovitch
- Harry's Place
- Harry Hutton
- Oliver Kamm
- Nick Cohen
- Norm Geras
- Olly's Onions
- Anthony Cox
- Kurdish Media
- Blather
- Your Chum In The Six Counties
- Eamonn McDonagh
- Slugger O'Toole
- Rainy Day Eamonn
- Mick & Portmarnock
- Noreen & Ballbag
- Canada Afghanistan Solidarity Committee
- Afghanistan Solidarity - UBC Campus
- W4WA
- Indus Asian Journal
- Pakhtunkhwa Times
- Pakhtunkhwa Peace Forum
- The New Afghanistan
- Registan
- Quqnoos
- Safrang
- Sun Leaf
- Conflict Monitor
- Senlis Council
- Mohammad Amin Wahidi
- Afghan Women's Network
- Abdulhadi Hairan
- Afghan Analysis
- Afghan Journalists
- Afghan News
- Ismaili Mail
- At Home in Kabul
- The Dreaded Z Word
- Just Jooz
- Ami Isseroff & Friends
- Debbie Lipstadt
- Nina
- Jewcy
- Springtime
- Tooters
- Transparents
- Last of the True Liberals
- Danny Postel
- Dissent
- Kansas Reasonables
- Demosthenes
- Telos
- New Liberals
- Jeff Weintraub
- Doug Ireland
- Eric Reeves
- Joe Katzman & Chums
- Infotainment
- Wind-Up Dolls
- The joyful kind
- The cut-up kind
- Transparents
- Liberals
- Pluralists
- The Unrepresented World
- Counterknowledge and its Critics
- Butterfly-Wheel Antifadists
- The Internationale
- Afghanistan Solidarity Party: "Unite against the t...
- An Afghan appeal: "I would like to thank you. . . ...
- The Strange And Sordid Persecution Of Afghan Repor...
- You know what you've just done, don't you?
- Free Speech For The Taliban!
- Dude.
- It takes one to know one
- The Story of Larry Kwong: Bellhop, Shipyard Worker...
- About "a piece of paper on which it was written th...
- UN's Ban Ki-Moon Says Troops-Out Stance "Almost Mo...
THE SERIES
SOME RECENT ESSAYS
LITERATI:
FREE PRESS PARTISANS:
ANTIFASCHISMUS:
FELLOW TRAVELLERS:
True North
Canuckistan Popular Front
Eye on Iran
Havana Club
Across the Western Ocean
Brits
Free Kurds
The Auld Place
Afghan Solidarity
Elders of Zion
Arabesque
Yanks
Deutchlanders
Allah Time
The Stateless
THE REAL WORLD
THE WHOLE WORLD
Previous Posts
-->
11 Comments:
Yes we can...what?
Er, em, you know. Em, change.
Still. Am I right or what?
Odd that it is all so embued with the imagery and tone and language and feel of liberal idealism, but when you you bore into it the primary ore appears to be an appeal to national unity and old-fashioned patriotism. Fair enough, mind. The Yanks could do worse.
Change what?
I find Obama to be pretty vague about 'change' but very good at raising expectations about a noun to a fever pitch. He is therefore likely to greatly disappoint.
I know, I know.
"It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed the trails towards freedom."
What was whispered?
"Hey, this Underground Railroad leads out of the United States, straight into Canada."
Not "on message," exactly, but still. Great, great ad.
Yes, a terrific ad. I try really hard to be cynical, and usually there's good reason for it, but Obama is doing a nice job of making it feel like an effort.
Even though I think McCain might pick up enough independent voters in November to win....
I have no idea whether Obama "can change" anything or will be given the opportunity but I must admit he's the first candidate since Bobby who actually speaks to my heart instead of over my head. I call that substance, or at least, substantial.
I also think McCain would slaughter Clinton in the election, but with Obama as candidate the Dems could take it.
And I sure don't like the "substance" of the Republicans who want to usurp Jefferson's crowning achievement: A secular republic.
Guess we'll find out tomorrow.
I am emailing this to my sister.
Who seems to forget that our family helped run that there Underground railroad.
It's good to know your history, eh?
"... I call that substance, or at least, substantial."
I never thought of that.
Good point.
Is this on message?
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/obama-girl-didnt-vote/
Fuck fuck fuck stupid google formatting shite!
Fuck it again!!!!
is this on message?
Right on message, comrade.
Post a Comment
<< Home