Friday, October 17, 2008

Blog Post #4

Throughout the course of the past week, my blog has changed dramatically. It updates many times a day so it is hard to keep up with everything going on. Now that I have a feel for what this blog is sharing it has become more interesting to me. Basically this blog presents issues with commercials, articles, and opinions. This blog shares both the Democratic and Republicans parties feelings on various issues.


(These updates posted a video from youtube and since I can not not link it directly to Ben Smiths blog, I have the link to youtube)
I found this update to be very interesting. It takes place in Johnstown, PA. People are protesting against Obama by calling him Obama Bin Laden. They are also calling him a baby killer based off his ideas on abortion. This really stuck out to me because of the behaviors of the "Obama Haters".
This video is mocking John McCain. It not only humiliates McCain but it states that McCain stupidly brought Sarah Palin into the election by indirectly calling her dumb. It "tells the truth" about who Joe the plumber really is. This is interesting to me because I find the whole Joe the plumber issue to be very thoughtout and I am having trouble understanding it.
ARTICLE THATS ON BLOG: October 17, 2008
Webb knocks Palin

Appearing in Virginia with Barack Obama, Sen. Jim Webb was characteristically blunt, taking a few shots today at Sarah Palin and defending Barack Obama against attempts to cast him as an outsider, saying voters in more conservative southwest Virginia could trust him, Carrie Budoff Brown reports."Do you really think Sarah Palin is the most qualified person in the Republican Party?" Webb asked as he introduced Obama in Roanoke.The crowd yelled "no" at the mention of her name and booed."I don't know how many people here like country music," Webb continued. "I like country music. There was a song about two years ago, 'I know what I was doing, but what was I was thinking?' John McCain is probably singing that song right now."Webb moved onto the vice presidential debate. "Gov. Palin turned around and said, 'Nice to meet you, can I call you Joe?' I was thinking, Joe, what you really outta do is say, 'Yeah, you can call me whatever you want. In two months, you're gonna be calling me Mr. Vice President.'"In making the case for Obama, Webb said the Illinois senator has ties to the region — a fact that one Obama aide had not known about."There's a lot of comments that have been made about certain ethnic issues in this campaign," Webb said. "I would like to say we know Barack Obama's father was born in Kenya. Barack Obama's mother was born in Kansas by way of Kentucky. We are going to see on Election Day the election of the fourteenth president of the United States whose ancestry, family line goes back to mountains of this area."Barack Obama understands you. The first place he visited after he was officially nominated — he came here to southwest Virginia. This will be his seventh trip to southwest Virginia. And you can trust him — I trust him."
This update makes a very strong point. I like where Webb quotes the country lyrics 'I know what I was doing, but what was I was thinking?' because he has great information to his idea up.
He is saying that John McCains VP (Sarah Palin) is not the brightest for the job. Then this article goes into Barack Obamas family, and explains why you should trust him.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Political Blog

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

This blog is basically about the 2008 election. From just glancing at it you can tell that this blog supports Obama. There are various videos/commericals and usually a few sentences underneath to back up what the clip is trying to say.

This "professional" blog very much differs from the other blogs I have looked at because not only is it about politics, but there are tons of videos on it. The blogs main attraction is the commericals posted that support Obama. Directly below is a sentence or two summary sharing the point of the commerical.

An issue in this blog is gun control. There is a commerical of a hunter/NRA life member who supports Barak Obama and appreciates his choice to support gun rights. This issue is presented through a character who seems to be just a regular everyday American. I think that it is important to advertise that way because then the viewers will have an easier time relating or understanding. The commerical then touches onto different branches from such a small clip. I think that this is a great way to support Obama because it is definatly a commerical that has grabed my attention and made me respect Obama in this decsion.

Take a specific issue presented in the blog, describe how that issue is presented, and provide your own response.