What Do You Think?

By: Christy Hardin Smith Thursday August 23, 2007 6:55 am

Sen. Joe Biden’s first ad in Iowa.

I’m not really a Biden fan, but I like this ad.  Something about the starkness here, just the candidate and the camera, and an up front discussion on the realities that families are facing when they have a loved one serving in Iraq, that works for me.  Maybe it is because Biden’s son, Beau, is set to be deployed to Iraq in the next few months, but

CYA

By: Christy Hardin Smith Wednesday August 22, 2007 10:02 am

Bush White House allies in the private sector have begun a campaign to swiftboat their own GOP members of Congress — in an enormous ad buy of over $15 million dollars nationwide — that can mean only one thing:  the WH is in full panic mode over how bad the report is going to be in September.  And that GOP members are getting far more pressure at home from constituents than the

Everything Old Is New Again

By: Christy Hardin Smith Sunday July 22, 2007 8:16 am

Newest campaign ad from the Edwards campaign that just started running in New Hampshire this week.  See what you think…

Jamison Foser has a great snapshot peek at the coverage that John Edwards has received from the political press — and how it seems eerily familiar to the treatment that Al Gore got in 2000.  From Media Matters:

Marc Ambinder was one of the founders of ABC’s The Note and is a contributing

What Do You Think?

By: Christy Hardin Smith Wednesday June 27, 2007 9:35 am

I’ve been keeping an eye on the early television spots being run by Democratic Presidential candidates.  The above YouTube is the most recent one from the Edwards campaign — it’s a sort of feel good introductory ad with lovely patriotic visuals and a bit of a twist.  Edwards uses a line from his stump speech that has resonated well with audiences:  that it is time for the President of the United

The Heart Of The Heartland

By: Christy Hardin Smith Wednesday May 9, 2007 10:17 am

The Edwards campaign began broadcasting an ad in Iowa yesterday.  I've linked up the YouTube of the ad above for everyone to view — and I wanted to take a bit of time this morning to talk about what is and is not effective with this particular campaign ad and its message.  First off, I [...]

Roots Project Action: Fire Up the Engines!

By: Pachacutec Thursday April 26, 2007 7:12 am

Christy hosted a great chat the other day with Tom Matzzie of MoveOn, and in the post she featured these terrific ads by Americans United For Change.  As Christy pointed out, there are a series of them targeted at the following vulnerable, pro-occupation Bush sycophants in swing states and districts: House  – Rep. Mary Bono (CA)  [...]

Your Constituents Or George Bush? You Choose.

By: Christy Hardin Smith Tuesday April 24, 2007 10:00 am

[FDL is pleased to welcome Tom Matzzie of MoveOn.org to chat with us about the work that MoveOn.org is doing with Americans United For Change to force elected officials to listen to the will of the majority of their constituents who want out of Iraq -- or go on record as supporting George Bush over the people [...]

Shaking Up The Status Quo

By: Christy Hardin Smith Friday April 20, 2007 9:30 am

Wanted to give everyone a heads up on two upcoming chats that we'll be having here at FDL. This Saturday, April 21st at 2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT, Howie's guest for Blue America will be the fantastic Victoria Wulsin.  You guys will no doubt remember that Vic Wulsin very nearly unseated Mean Jean Schmidt in [...]

Hilarious

By: Christy Hardin Smith Friday March 30, 2007 9:15 am

The political heat is ramping up all over the nation's…preschools?  This satirical take on political commercials really brings home the juvenile idiocy of so many political campaigns these days, and I could not resist showing it to you guys.  The above "commercial" is actually a response to this initial "attack ad," which also cracked me [...]

Late Nite FDL: Occam and I (And the Litvinenko Case)

By: TRex Monday December 4, 2006 8:01 pm

The mystery surrounding the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko continues to spread and darken like a cloud of squid ink, and tensions are mounting between the Russian and British Governments.  The Russians apparently feel that it was irresponsible for the British government to allow Litvinenko to publish his deathbed letter implicating the Kremlin in his [...]

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