Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I can’t believe that I posted this link 3 years ago, and it’s amazing how it’s still relevant.

Hearing what McCain had to say yesterday is further proof our only shot is a Democrat for president in 08.

What a mess.

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Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Barack Obama delivered what was an absolutely outstanding speech earlier this week, and if you have not watched it yet, I urge you to watch it now. If you don’t have the time or the inclination, at least do yourself a favor and read the text. I truly believe that this speech is the most mature, thoughtful, and honest look at race and race relations in our nation that I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. One more reason to feel he will be an outstanding leader if he’s elected this November.

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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Five years ago today, the United States invaded Iraq. Since that day:

U.S. Deaths: 3,990
U.S. Casualties: 40,229
Iraqi Deaths: Unknown (estimated between 650,000 to 1 million)
Total Cost: $504,000,000,000.00

What started out as a war to rid the world of an evil dictator with weapons that were ready to strike at any moment has morphed into a war about a another false promise -– we have to stay in Iraq until it is a shining beacon of democracy, or we have failed.

Enough. It’s time to end this war.

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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

There is an interesting article over at the Helvetica website about ‘a font we can believe in’, the typeface called Gotham. I always find it so fascinating to read the history of the hows and whys behind the creation of typeface families, and when you can combine that with politics, I’m in heaven.

When you go back and take a look at where and why Gotham was commissioned in the first place, it’s interesting to note that the influences behind this typeface closely mirror the goals of the Obama campaign: idealism and social change. Additionally, the typefaces that were used as examples by GQ magazine, the company that requested this new typeface, had a very interesting summation: a ‘fresh”new’ typeface with an ‘established’ and ‘trustworthy’ look at the same time. Some of the typefaces that were referenced by the client were very trendy, very new designs (think night clubs, techno, things of that nature) that would not really mesh well with a magazine like GQ. However, they really wanted something that expressed that type of energy but still held onto the magazines classy, established feel. Sounds like a tough task. From the article:

GQ had a dual agenda of wanting something that would look very fresh, yet very established, to have a credible voice to it.

I think Hoefler & Frere-Jones knocked this one out of the park, and so did the Obama campaign by choosing Gotham as their campaign font. Don’t even get me started on the excellent choice of Perpetua as his secondary typeface which is another great choice. I know it’s corny, but I think that one’s taste in typefaces says a lot about them. The Obama campaign certainly has good taste in that regard. Does this make the guy any more or less electable? Of course not, but I’m just glad I don’t’ have to stare at McCain’s site or Hillary’s font catastrophe very often.

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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

A Daily Kos reader has suggested that, in celebration of Lincoln’s birthday, we should donate $5.01 to Obama’s campaign to show that small donors are what drive his candidacy. I love the idea (much like Ron Paul supporters have shown) of getting a ton of small donors together to make a statement about their collective influence & power (not to mention personal ownership). From the article:

I propose that on February 12th (Lincoln’s Birthday) we have a money bomb extravaganza of small donations of $5.01 for Senator Obama. The reasons for this amount are easy to see:

1. Small donations are powering Obama’s campaign
2. Lincoln is on the $5 bill and the penny
3. .01 is also for us online progressives making a statement to the campaign that we are here and we’ve got money. That we aren’t the huge bundlers for campaigns. We sacrifice parts of paychecks that mean more proportionally to those of us with smaller incomes. We buy into Barack Obama because we do dream of a more hopeful future instead of cynicsm. I would much rather be called a Hopemonger than a Warmonger. So if you believe in the hope that small donors are powering the Obama campaign, please join me in showing that when Americans united with Hope can wield large influence with small donations!

I urge you all to donate $5.01 to his campaign. It’s a small, easy amount to give and will go a long way if a large number of us can pitch in.

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