The election is past, but this video is still interesting.

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More of my political information. Certainly not unbiased. I have long considered myself a Republican. I voted for Bush the first time (but was severely disappointed in the final resolution). This page continues my contribution to the political discourse of our current election campaign.

The Republicans For Obama website is here: http://www.republicansforobama.org

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Here is more information, clearly not “independent” relevant to the current election campaign. The source of this video is http://www.keatingeconomics.com. The NY Times has a brief story about this at http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2008/10/06/06gigaom-obama-puts-keating-economics-short-online-9540.html. The LA Times story is here http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-keating7-2008oct07,0,7970180.story. The second video below is CNN’s review of the video pronouncing the video TRUE.

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 Please note that the investigation cleared John McCain of all criminal wrongdoing; instead the Senate Ethics Committee reprimanded him for “poor judgement”.

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Ok … if you get this via email you can click here to see the video http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/gov-palin-cold-open/773761

This is just another in my series of video links relating to the election.

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Lawrence Lessig is one of my favorite authors and commentators. This commentary struck me as one great example of how isolated snippets can be easily used to justify the wrong information.

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Sometimes when people are interviewed on camera, they assume that when the interview ends, it really ends. And sometimes when they assume that they say things they later regret.

On Wednesday, 03.Sep.2008, John McCain’s former campaign chief Mike Murphy and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan talked after an NBC interview. Their comments were caught on tape. Their comments seem to reflect their their real thoughts on McCain’s judgment in his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate.

Noonan asked, “The most qualified? No.” Then, she called the selection of Palin “political [B.S.].”

Murphy called McCain’s selection “gimmicky and cynical”.

The video is above. The transcript (courtesy of MoveOn.org) is below.

TRANSCRIPT (from MoveOn.org):

Mike Murphy, former McCain advisor: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor work. Engler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. And these guys, this is all like how you want to (inaudible) this race. You know, just run it up. And it’s not gonna work.

Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter: It’s over.

Murphy: Still, McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.

NBC’s Chuck Todd: Don’t you think the Palin pick was insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too (inaudible)

Noonan: I saw Kay this morning.

Murphy: They’re all bummed out.

Todd: I mean, is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

Noonan: The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political [B.S.] about narratives and (inaudible) the picture.

Murphy: I totally agree.

Noonan: Every time the Republicans do that because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at and they blow it.

Murphy: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism and this is cynical.

Todd: And as you called it, gimmicky.

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