Changing Opinions or Hypocrisy? You Decide!

The current presidential race certainly is heating up, and with the GOP's recent choice of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as the vice presidential nominee many people are certainly curious about her ability to assume that role.

Here's a clip from this past week's Daily Show with John Stewart. I think it definitely shows some of the hypocrisy that exists within the opinions expressed in the media by some Republicans. Some of the issues that these individuals use in support of Sarah Palin are the same issues that were discussed when criticizing Democrats. A very interesting, and funny, take.

Political Humor

JibJab is at it again. They have put out a very good video about campaigning for the upcoming presidential election. It is very clever and I just felt the need to share it.

Obama Girl...And Mike Gravel?

I've been feeling the time crunch as of late. Unlike many of my friends who have finished their spring semesters I still have 2 weeks and finals. And my daily schedule has been really chock full of things to do.

But I came across this video today. I found it both odd and entertaining.

Presidential Primaries and Professional Wrestling

Sorry for two professional wrestling related posts in a row, but when stories like these occur I can't help but say something.

This week on WWE Raw the three remaining presidential candidates appeared to speak to the viewers. That would have been fine so to reach out to possible voters, particularly those sometimes hard to reach 18-25 year old males, but their use of wrestling catchprases in their statements seemed more than odd. Is this really the image that all three of the candidates want to put forth.

See their statements below in the first video (they're played back-to-back) and form your own opinion. The last two videos below is the set-up to an actual wrestling match that took place on the show, between wrestlers imitating Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama. Their actual match ended when one of the WWE's wrestlers, Umaga, came in and pummeled both candidates. I watched that wondering what kind of a message the WWE itself is trying to put forth about these two Democratic candidates.

Branding the Candidates

This morning while surfing the net I saw an interesting story taken from a recent CNN broadcast of Election Center. In it an expert came in to discuss the branding of each presidential nominee and based it on the typeface that each is using in their logo.

Here we have the logo for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The expert stated that the typeface, which he identified as being a form of Baskerville, was bold, assertive, and in-control. He even went so far as to call it a little relentless. But in an interesting move it is her first name on the logo and not her last. CNN’s expert said that this lends an air of familiarity to her while possibly maintaining an idea of solidarity.

Next we have the logo for the John McCain campaign. The expert identified the typeface as somewhere between serif and sans-serif. Based on that alone the expert stated that he thought McCain and his campaign didn’t put nearly as much time into the choice as those in Clinton’s campaign did. Instead it appeared to be a quick choice, which may translate to voters who see it that they may not actually know who he is or what kind of a president he hopes to be.

Finally we have the current logo for Barack Obama’s campaign. I say recently because as Obama started to pick up steam the logo changed. Originally it was his last name with the O capitalized and the rest in lower case letters. The campaign recently kept the same classic, old-fashioned Roman typeface but changed it to caps and small caps instead of using lower case letters. CNN’s expert thought that this typeface communicated a feeling of elegance and sweetness to the candidate, and thought it was the typeface that could be considered the most presidential.

I must say that listening to this story, and how the campaigns are attempting to brand each of the candidates, was a fascinating one. I truly wonder if the opinions of this “expert” really do hold true to the opinions of the American public.