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Friday, March 7, 2008 12:00 AM

Does "Obama Girl" help Obama?

Author Clay Shirky explains how the Internet's capacity to create ad hoc groups has altered the media, business and politics -- especially the 2008 campaign.

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  • Thursday, March 6, 2008 10:18 PM

    Maybe It Is a Fuckin' "Fairytale." And a Sexy One at That

    I am non-partison.

    I do not own a functioning TV.

    Therefore, Obama-TV has not been something I follow. Nor have I seen his YouTube promotions. (An error I will not repeat.)

    I would not vote for HRC simply because the idea of 28-yrs of Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton makes a mockery of our democratic system of government. We may as well have princes and emirs and sheiks if we allow 2 families to govern the USA for decades.

    Viewing this Obama presentation has so diminished him and his campaign in my mind that he too becomes unsupportable.

    An utterly vacuous 3 minutes, of (primarily) attractive females purring pathetic platitudes is as disgraceful an approach to campaigning as anything the Clintons have ever perpetrated upon the public.

    As much as I loathe the cynicism embodied in Mark Penn of the Clinton organization ("Small is the new Big), at least her campaign uses Language to make its points. Obama's people apparently have adopted this approach to presidential politics: Pure Form, No Content. Pretty faces. Bedroom eyes.

    But those girls sure are sexy. And are gonna get him lotsa male votes.

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