SEO sunk Hillary’s campaign on the web
15 Jun
Posted by bumble as Barack Obama, Hillary, John McCain
Hillary Clinton should have succeeded with her campaign on the internet. Let’s face it – it was her husband’s VP Al Gore who invented the internet – remember? SEO or Search Engine Optimization (Not - Some Entitled Opportunist) was a big missing for Hillary and her campaign. Just having a web site doesn’t exactly mean you’re in the game. Perhaps hiring young, smart, internet savvy folks would’ve been a good move. Interesting that McCain – at his advanced age – beat Hillary big time when it came to web marketing. Obama really excelled in this arena. Here’s an excerpt from internet advertising site Adotas:
Hillary Clinton’s defeat has been widely dissected and analyzed with widely different findings – but one common theme has emerged. Clinton’s online strategy was a flop; Barack Obama and John McCain had her beat from the get-go.As one political analyst told The San Francisco Chronicle, the qualities that could help propel a successful digital campaign (flexibility, authenticity, etc.) aren’t necessarily hallmarks of Clinton’s personality.
“It’s like the Clintons, both of them, had sort of a ‘Sunset Boulevard’ thing going on,” George Washington University Professor and new-media analyst Michael Cornfeld told The Chronicle. “They were silent screen stars who couldn’t make the transition to talkies.”
McCain and Obama’s campaign greatly benefited from utilizing search advertising. Clinton missed the boat. Too little, too late. The war wages on between Obama and McCain:
Obama is broadening his online strategy and is building a team of cyber strategists who will form an online “war room” to report and react to incorrect rumors proliferating in chain e-mails or on blogs.
McCain, for his part, recently joked to supporters at a lunch in Richmond, Virginia that he’s using Google to research possible vice presidential candidates.
Popularity: 45% [?]
Much has been made of Barack Obama’s race. Mainly that he’s the “black candidate.” The last time I checked he is also half white. Hmmm. Not much on that. However, we have heard of Obama’s white grandmother from Barack himself.
Barack was born to a Kenyan (Black) father and an American (White) mother. His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii at Monoa. They separated when Barack was only two years old and later divorced. Following the divorce Obama’s father left to attend Harvard where he later earned a graduate degree in economics. He returned to Kenya and secured a high ranking position in the Kenyan government. He only saw Barack a handful of times. He was killed in a car accident in 1982.
Ann Dunham, Barack’s mother, was the parent who is credited with raising and most shaping Barack. Sadly, she passed away from ovarian cancer in 1995. So why is it that we hear so little of his mother? We certainly heard about Baracks so called “racist grandmother” supposedly afraid of blacks.
I believe Jesse Jackson was the true black candidate. Jackson competed unsuccessfully for the democratic nomination bid in 1984 & 1988. I remember seeing Jackson in Market Square in Pittsburgh, 1984. I can say he was charismatic from what I remember. I mostly remember the crowd and the fact that I was about to see someone kind of famous. Much was made of Jackson and the fact that he was the “black candidate.” But I digress…
Is the media that worried about talking about race? Or are they more focused on the fact that Obama is half black vs. half white. An interesting dichotomy. Martin Luther King Jr. once hoped for a day when people would be “judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.” I guess we’re still a long way off from that reality.
Popularity: 74% [?]
I recently came to a revelation recently that I thought I must share. This is a bit long but will be worthwhile, especially the poignant article below. I was wondering what all this Hope and Change stuff was about. At first, I thought Barry O had inherited the ‘empty suit’ throne from John Edwards, just with better dance moves, a better tan and cheaper haircuts. Then, I suddenly understood change. We’ve gone from the back of the bus in the 60’s (Rosa Parks) to under the bus in 2008 (granny Obama). So, I get change but what about hope, as there is nothing greater that we can strive for than hope, I needed to know. Peace, prosperity, success, happiness, all great things but minuscule compared to hope.
Well, a week or so ago I was driving by a Starbucks and there was a big bonfire outside with people circling it and throwing stuff in it. I stopped to check it out. So, there’s this group of people with very tiny glasses, there noses up in the air, all trying to outdo each other with stories of how they care about the poor and oppressed. Strangely enough, they all were wearing their W with a circle around it and a line through it buttons, but upside down. This was puzzling. When I looked to see what they were throwing in the fire, it was DVD’s of a movie called Glengarry Glen Ross (never saw it but heard it was good). Anyway, the crowd seemed rather raucous, kind of like the Hollywood gathering in Team America World Police (Penn, Sarandon, Moore, you can imagine, or your average Ann Arbor coffee house). As I didn’t think I was smarter than everyone else, I didn’t think I belonged and got the heck out.
After a little research I was led to an article in the village voice with the screaming headline ….‘Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal‘ by David Mamet, who wrote and/or directed Glengarry Glen Ross (this explained the DVD burning). I’ve attached the article because it embodies hope more than anything Barry has said. Here is a NY elitist spawned from the age of stupidity (1960’s) and he has left the dark side forever. This, to me, is what hope is all about.
Popularity: 33% [?]
Barack Obama’s free pass may have expired
16 Mar
Posted by bumble as 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Dems
Barack Obama’s lunatic spirtitual leader Jeremiah Wright’s obscene comments have finally made the news and it can’t be good for Obama. The mainstream news media’s love fest may have just run out. Even the Los Angeles Times has run with the story:
But more than a year ago — long before some of Wright’s more incendiary sermons became hot-button videos on YouTube, forcing Obama to publicly renounce his pastor last week — the Obama campaign had a sense that Wright’s sharp tongue might spell trouble for the Illinois senator. (For a sermon sample, click on the Read more line below.)
That was the word anyway Sunday from Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, who acknowledged during a conference call with reporters that Wright was disinvited …
from Obama’s official candidacy announcement on Feb. 10, 2007, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill.
Wright had been expected to lead an invocation of some kind, but never appeared.
“There was no doubt that there was controversy surrounding him,” Axelrod said Sunday. “And we didn’t want to expose him … [or] make him the target and a distraction on a day when Sen. Obama was going to announce his candidacy.”
So if the savvy Obama campaign knew Wright was a problem a year ago, why did the Illinois senator, a parish member for two decades, wait until last week to disassociate and denounce the minister’s inflammatory statements?
The topic is clearly uncomfortable for Obama and his aides, personally and politically. Axelrod’s comments came only after prodding from a reporter and after he had initially suggested that Wright’s absence that day was due merely to the fact that the temperature was in the single digits.
And even as Obama has condemned some of Wright’s rhetoric and distanced himself from his longtime spiritual advisor, doing so has not been easy. Wright remained on an African American religious advisory committee for the campaign until Friday.
“Rev. Wright married him, introduced him, as he said, to the church, brought him into the church, into Christianity, baptized his children,” Axelrod said. “So this is a painful thing for him because he condemns the things Rev. Wright said, but he also knows him as a person.”
Wright has proven controversial in the past because of his association with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has made anti-Semitic remarks. But the controversy has grown in recent weeks with the spread of videos from Wright sermons where he condemns the United States for its foreign policy and treatment of blacks and takes on Obama’s rival for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton.
As Wright put it, “Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger! Hillary has never had her people defined as non-person.”
On Friday, Obama posted a message at the Huffington Post website, explaining that he had not seen such sermons in person and saying that he disagreed with them. “I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy,” he wrote
No worries though, Obama has had hundreds of opportunities to denounce this mad man. But in keeping in fashion with all other politicians, he only did so because the remarks came to light. Otherwise it would’ve been business as usual. Change? Not really, just more of the same.
Popularity: 60% [?]
New book claims liberalism actually is a mental disorder
21 Feb
Posted by yeti as Dems, Liberalism, Liberals
When I read this, it was nothing that I didn’t already know. Any follower of Savage or possessor of common sense can figure it out. However, what is important here is that it is a psychiatrist pointing out the obvious. Think of it, they have drugs for schizophrenia, manic depression, so why not liberalism. It would be like bottling common sense. A miracle drug of sorts. I’m an atheist but even I know when to pray.
Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts
Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorderJust when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.
“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.” “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.”
While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to “the vast right-wing conspiracy.”
For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.
Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only be understood as a psychological disorder.
“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,” he says. “A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation’s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.”
Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:
- creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
- satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
- augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
- rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.
“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,” he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”
Popularity: 37% [?]
This was one of my favorite commercials from the Superbowl. It features Democratic pundit James Carville and former Republican Senator and Majority Leader Bill Frist. When they both say “wrong” at the same time, Frist calls jinks then says to Carville “Buy me a coke.” The two end up spending the day together. It tops off at the end with the pair enjoying a coke together.
Popularity: 30% [?]
I can’t tell who I’m running against sometimes
22 Jan
Posted by bumble as Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary
That was my favorite Obama quote of last nights democratic debate. The exchange went like this:
CLINTON: Now, I just — I just want to be clear about this. In an editorial board with the Reno newspaper, you said two different things, because I have read the transcript. You talked about Ronald Reagan being a transformative political leader. I did not mention his name.
OBAMA: Your husband did.
CLINTON: Well, I’m here. He’s not. And…
OBAMA: OK. Well, I can’t tell who I’m running against sometimes.
(APPLAUSE)
CLINTON: Well, you know, I think we both have very passionate and committed spouses who stand up for us. And I’m proud of that.
But you also talked about the Republicans having ideas over the last 10 to 15 years.
OBAMA: I didn’t say they were good ones.
CLINTON: Well, you can read the context of it.
OBAMA: Well, I didn’t say they were good ones.
CLINTON: Well, it certainly…
OBAMA: All right, Wolf.
The slumlord comment levied by Mrs. Clinton was racially charged and unnecessary:
CLINTON: It certainly came across in the way that it was presented, as though the Republicans had been standing up against the conventional wisdom with their ideas. I’m just reacting to the fact, yes, they did have ideas, and they were bad ideas.
OBAMA: I agree.
CLINTON: Bad for America, and I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Resco, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago.
(APPLAUSE)
OBAMA: No, no, no.
Obama’s response was no, no, no. Nice comeback. Obama could’ve pointed out Hillary’s shady contributors. A missed opportunity for sure. But overall Obama dished it pretty well to ‘ol Hillary.
Popularity: 100% [?]
Presidential money race
21 Jan
Posted by bumble as Barack Obama, Hillary, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are way ahead their Republican counterparts when it comes to presidential fund raising.
On the Republican side, Romney and Giuliani are the front runners. Giuliani has put all his money into winning Florida. I live in Florida and have seen nothing but Giuliani ads running since late December. Now that the Florida primary is quickly approaching, I’m seeing more ads for Romney, Huckabee and McCain.
Popularity: 40% [?]
Former 2004 democratic presidential nominee John Kerry endorsed democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama in South Carolina today. Wait a second. Didn’t John Kerry run for president in 2004 with his pal John Edwards? Isn’t John Edwards running for president now? Not only did Kerry endorse Obama, but he did so in Edward’s home state. Blasphemous John! Do you have any sense of decency at all? You wanted the nation to vote for you back in 2004 because of your great character. As it turns out, you sold out your own running mate. How were we to trust you with the country when you had the conjones to sell out one of your own.
And while we’re on the subject John. Do you remember your ‘ol pal Al Gore. If you remember, he ran for president in 2000. You know, the election that George Bush stole from Gore. Gore’s VP running mate in back in 2000 was non other than Joe Lieberman. If memory serves correct, Al Gore said he was the best choice for vice president.
Fast forward to the 2004 election when Joe Lieberman was fighting to be the democratic presidential nominee. What did Lieberman’s ex-running mate do? He endorsed nut job Howard (Yahhhhaaa) Dean. Gore, the man who invented the internet, threw his ex-veep running mate under the bus. It was an ugly hit and run. Lieberman never saw it coming. Anyway Al – by the way – I would like to congratulate you on your Oscar by pointing out the global warming threat. Thanks buddy!
When it came time for Lieberman to run for re-election back in 2006 he was sold out by his own party – the Democrats. They endorsed his opponent Ned Lamont who went on to win the nomination instead. They rallied against Lieberman mostly because he supported the war effort. Howard Dean called for Lieberman to quit the race, saying he was being “disrespectful of Democrats and disrespectful of the Democratic Party.” Even Hillary Clinton vowed to support the nominee Lamont. Lieberman best revenge was winning as an independent. Technically, he’s no longer a Democrat.
Once again the Dems show their true colors. With that kind of carrying on they should be punched in the face. Hard. Real hard. It surprising to me that none of this has been brought up in the mainstream media. Scratch that. Actually, it’s not that big of a surprise after all. It’s just business as usual.
Popularity: 37% [?]
