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‘Sesame Street’ company asks Obama campaign to take down Big Bird ad
Sesame Workshop, the company that owns the rights to “Sesame Street” and its characters, has asked the Obama campaign to take down its recent campaign ad featuring the character Big Bird. The company has released a statement that said, “Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not…
Ohio judge restores early voting after suit by Obama campaign
A judge in Ohio has ordered election officials to restore early voting in the days before the election. According to the Ohio Capital Blog, U.S. District judge Peter C. Economus has ruled that in the interest of placing “all Ohio voters on equal standing,” the state must reinstitute its popular…
Pro-Bradley Manning protesters occupy Obama campaign’s Oakland headquarters
A rally on Thursday demanding justice for whistleblower Bradley Manning was followed by a group of at least sixty protesters showing up at the Obama campaign headquarters in Oakland, California. According to the Washington Whispers blog at U.S. News, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War handed a letter…
Obama gets it
The Obama campaign just posted this on their Tumblr: While conservatives are all getting the vapors and claiming that women on the pill must be pulling trains night and day, let’s be clear about the real issue here: The basic right of employees to have a private life out of…
The Mysterious Time-Warping Of The Obama Campaign
A conservative blogger proves with startling alacrity that the MSM is taking its talking points from the Obama campaign. However, if you look at his in-depth comparison, what strikes you (besides the fact that the entire body of “proof” is both the campaign and NYT shockingly mentioning things like “last”…
Bad Photoshop Says Obama/Bayh
No offense, but the Obama campaign is not going to launch their ticket with a bumper-sticker that looks like warmed-over ass*. *Unless, of course, they do. UPDATE: NBC says that Bayh and Kaine are out, and that the text message won’t go out until tomorrow morning. CNN will still be…
Veepstakes Observation
I keep reading an undercurrent, both on blogs and in the press, that the longer Obama “makes us wait”, the better the pick has to be. It would probably seem like much shorter of a wait if the press wasn’t making it 50% of the campaign coverage (the other half,…
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