...so I apparently don't have an application installed to watch videos online on the daily show's website (I tried to download and install the app, but the video still doesn't play from the website). However, embedding them into my blog allows me to watch them.
I was looking for the particular video which I have seen and even shared in the past. After taking a History of the Modern Middle East course during my semester in Rome last fall, I like to share this video(from August, 2007), as I feel it does a reasonably accurate job depicting America's foreign policy pertaining to the Middle East over the last several decades (despite its comedic intent).
Monday, October 27, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Personal Domestic Policy
About a month ago, republican presidential candidate John McCain's nomination of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin came out of left field. I was skeptical about her nomination, and even though I had already determined who would be receiving my vote in November, I tried to keep an open mind and give her a chance.
She seemed to energize and excite a lot of the republican base and many others who were not already energized and excited by Barack Obama's democratic nomination for president. Even though I disagree with many of her political stances, was baffled by the McCain campaign's strategy to abandon the only argument they seemed to have at the time (Obama is "inexperienced"), and saw her quickly learn the McCain campaign's tactics to twist Obama's statements and ideas and turn them into ridiculous and often incoherent arguments, I thought the excitement she was generating was good for American politics. (Maybe US voter turnout will crack 60% for the first time since the Vietnam War era).
But now I'm surprised the McCain campaign is still allowing Sarah Palin to not only appear in public but open her mouth in public (in front of rolling cameras, even). It's pathetic and embarassing when the script for a Saturday Night Live skit featuring Tina Fey can be taken almost verbatim from a Palin interview.
Readers of my blog from the very beginning might recall a YouTube video featuring 2007's Miss Teen South Carolina, which I linked in one of my first posts while en route to Italy.
Whether you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat, or Independant; whether you can see through the contradictory campaign policies, arguments, "logic", and catch phrases Palin spews, or you choose to blindly agree; whether you are a fan of Keith Olbermann or abandoned him when he left ESPN's SportsCenter in favor of expressing his political views; I don't think it is much of a stretch to make a connection or two between Sarah Palin and the former Miss Teen South Carolina. (Feel free to fast forward to about 0:48 in the Palin video.)
Former beauty queens and incoherent thoughts? Mrs. Palin, are you sure you're against gay marriage? That's a shame. You and Miss South Carolina seem like a perfect match.
She seemed to energize and excite a lot of the republican base and many others who were not already energized and excited by Barack Obama's democratic nomination for president. Even though I disagree with many of her political stances, was baffled by the McCain campaign's strategy to abandon the only argument they seemed to have at the time (Obama is "inexperienced"), and saw her quickly learn the McCain campaign's tactics to twist Obama's statements and ideas and turn them into ridiculous and often incoherent arguments, I thought the excitement she was generating was good for American politics. (Maybe US voter turnout will crack 60% for the first time since the Vietnam War era).
But now I'm surprised the McCain campaign is still allowing Sarah Palin to not only appear in public but open her mouth in public (in front of rolling cameras, even). It's pathetic and embarassing when the script for a Saturday Night Live skit featuring Tina Fey can be taken almost verbatim from a Palin interview.
Readers of my blog from the very beginning might recall a YouTube video featuring 2007's Miss Teen South Carolina, which I linked in one of my first posts while en route to Italy.
Whether you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat, or Independant; whether you can see through the contradictory campaign policies, arguments, "logic", and catch phrases Palin spews, or you choose to blindly agree; whether you are a fan of Keith Olbermann or abandoned him when he left ESPN's SportsCenter in favor of expressing his political views; I don't think it is much of a stretch to make a connection or two between Sarah Palin and the former Miss Teen South Carolina. (Feel free to fast forward to about 0:48 in the Palin video.)
Former beauty queens and incoherent thoughts? Mrs. Palin, are you sure you're against gay marriage? That's a shame. You and Miss South Carolina seem like a perfect match.
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