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Campaign '08 Photo October 25, 2008

"One Party" Scare Tactics

, With apparently nothing left in the playbook, the GOP is launching a last-minute, last-ditch effort to scare voters over one party rule.

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Honolulu

How poignant and profoundly unusual for Obama (or any presidential candidate) to have this moment-in-time, not just to spend with his grandmother, but to also wander his childhood neighborhood almost completely alone just 11 days before the national election.

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Campaign '08 Photo October 24, 2008

"B"

Ashley Todd photo

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Your turn: O U N T R / M A V E R I C K

Students at St. Anselm College display "MAVERICK" on their chests as republican presidential candidate John McCain speaks during a rally at the New Hampshire college

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Bush Focus Photo October 23, 2008

Well, Why Even Pretend Anymore

Like Anne Richards said, he was the poster boy of the silver spoon.

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Race Focus Photo

Obama, Race, And Moving Beyond The Webb

Regard ing "Appalachian Problem," not sure John Cuneo illustration still applicable http://is.gd/4zwo.

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Karl Escapes Citizen’s Arrest, Natch

of Rove being accosted on stage on Tuesday at a mortgage bankers convention in San Francisco.  (It's the pic the NYT ran, and which nearly everyone else seemed to use.)  My first take had to do with the visual media fronting for Karl once more, avoiding the instant where...

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Campaign '08 Photo October 22, 2008

Candidate By Design

No, the real picture here is this...  Sarah Palin is whoever and whatever she wants us to believe.  The outfit is a metaphor.

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More On Palin's Saks Scandal

In its coverage of the Palin clothing expense story, I was struck by this photo Huffington Post included in its featured slideshow. It shows Piper Palin toting Mom's VL bag -- unless it's Pipers! To really appreciate the image, however, you have to also know it was shot on...

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Campaign '08 Photo October 21, 2008

The Dunhams

I too am struck by the resemblance between Barack Obama and his grandfather.  Look at the chin, the eyes, the big ears, the forehead and widows peak.  Also, it might be where that "cocked head" gesture comes from.

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Newsweek — Swallowing GOP Attack — Positions Obama As Leftist

I take issue with the fact a politically centrist Obama is framed by Newsweek as looking leftward -- that, at the same time, in the closing days of the election, his inordinately rightward-looking competition is branding him as a socialist.

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Campaign '08 Photo October 20, 2008

Family Matters

What strikes me as most significant about this photo (which I dug up from the newswire) is that I somehow never saw it before today.  It was taken during Obama's vacation to Hawaii in August and shows him tossing a lei into the sea where his mother's ashes were...

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Cursor

Cursor will truly be missed.

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"I Feel Strongly About This Particular Point Because Of A Picture I Saw In A Magazine"

This is the image that crystallized, in Colin Powell's mind, how the GOP has completely gone off the tracks in polarizing this country.  Think what you will of Powell himself, his reference to this photograph as a statement of inclusion and as a rebuttal to the hate being spread...

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Media Focus Photo October 19, 2008

Blue State, Red State, Black State, White State

This latest NYT Mag cover captures the 2008 election media fallacy about America's extreme racial polarization.

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Palin Misses Her Match

Did Palin and her minders somehow restrict the Governor's role on SNL last night, effectively reducing her to a prop? Did the show merely bring out the fact she's "not ready for prime time?" Or, did the liberal entertainment complex flat out give it to Palin, just like Letterman...

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About Worn Out

The photo is a metaphor.  Bob Dole, like the GOP, is wearing out.

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Campaign '08 Photo October 18, 2008

St. Louis

In terms of timing as well as momentum, this shot of Obama in front of 100,000 supporters in St. Louis yesterday seemed remarkably familiar.

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