Showing posts with label Politcs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politcs. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Vote Obama. Vote McCain. Whatever. Just Vote. And Watch This Clip.


Say what you want, but Johnny Mac is absolutly hilarious in this clip. This is the funniest campaign speech I've ever heard. He rips on the Clintons and himself so much. Barack was dying. This is the first campaign I've watched where i get the feeling neither guy has any real hatred for the other. Yeah, they both did some real slanted ads against each other, but that's more business than personal. Anyone who thinks Barack is the messiah (and, at the same time, anyone who thinks he's an anti-American terrorist) is sadly mistaken. I like Barack, but he's not going to single handidly change this nation. Same goes for John McCain. Yeah, he was a P.O.W., but that doesn't mean he's going to save the situation in Iraq. Both sides need to stop their respective pole-jockin.

The best part about this speech: "Oprah calls him the one. I got another name for him: that one"

Note: he's mearly making fun of himself. He's not meaning any harm to Obama. Oh, and by the way: the anchor in the 2nd video, Keith Olberman, is a douchebag who is looking to stir the pot for absolutly no reason. He's like the bizarro Bill O'Reilly. Can there please be an anchor who isn't absolutly biased, one way or the other?

Friday, October 3, 2008

Sarah Silverman knows politics


The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.Jimmy Kimmel's ex knows whats up. Old people in Florida hold the key to the election. As scary as that sounds, its true.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Greg Oden Loves "Nsync, Barack Obama


Here is everyone's favorite well-dressed big man working the kareokee bar.... ur party. Even though he has played only one half of a season over the last two years (including college), we consider him to be one of the most talented players in the league. Well, if nothing else, at least he isn't afraid to embrace his love of 'N Sync, which was the hottest band when he was in middle school. Oden's passionate rendition of It's Gonna Be Me is a little shocking because
A) He's a famous black man
B) He's in a business that is not exactly embracing of going against the grain (see Amaechi, John)

If you watched the video, I'm sure you noticed the trendy Obama 08 shirt. Oden said he was a little apprehensive about Barack Obama until he met him and found out Barack was a hooper himself (but it was in Hawaii, so I don't know how much that counts. Now, that Sarah Palin girl, she can ball). It isn't surprsing that Oden backed Obama because
A) He's a famous black man
B) He's in a business that is not exactly embracing of going against the grain (see Amaechi, John)

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Barack Obama-YES WE CAN

I'm glad to see musicians making songs about things that actually matter. Not to say that "Low, Low" dosen't touch on important matters, but I think the presedential election is a little more important than whatever instructive dance song is being pumped out of the radio right now. First Kidz in the Hall's Work to do (Check it on their myspace if you haven't heard it), now Will.i.am is making a video based on Obama's New Hampshire's acceptance speech.

Having said that, I'm kind of pissed that people are making this election, or at least the primaries, about gender and race rather than the candidates' stance on issues. To be honest, the only things I know about Barack Obama is that he is a black senator from Chicago (along with some other stuff about his personal life) and all I know about Hilary is that she was the wife of Bill Clinton and a senator from New York. Besides that, I assume that they both have traditional Democratic stances.

A lot of the Hip-Hop community is jumping at the chance to support Obama simply because he is the first black man with a legitimate chance to become president. I know a lot of people, black and white, who are going to vote for him just because he's a black man (actually he's biracial, but that's not important). Thirty years ago, nobody would vote for him because he was black, now its become the exact opposite. America is still racist, its just not discriminatory. Many white people become uncomfortable with situations involving race. Its not that they dislike people of other races, they're just unsure of how to handle non-white people.

I'm a white man, and I'm not voting for Barack Obama. Does that make me racist? No. Its just that I am for a smaller government, which is a republican concept, and Obama is a democrat. But even though I will not be voting for Obama, I would have no problem with him as our nation's leader. I admit that the Bush administration, led by a white man, has made a lot of errors running America which has devistated our economy. Which brings me back to this video. I may not be for Obama, but I am for Hip-Hop and this movementis great for the genre. Finally rappers are begining to take a stand for something important. Now, about Hilary...