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Youth Warn of the Dangers of Voting McCain in PSA

SunnyChanel — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:34:00 GMT

Taking a cue from the public service announcements touting the dangers of drugs, Moveon.org produced an ad for the new website McCainFreeWhiteHouse.org where teens, who are too young to cast their own vote, can warn their parents of the dangers of voting for McCain. “Talking to your parents about the risks of John McCain isn’t as hard as you think.”

The ad, which was directed by Doug Liman (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Bourne Identity), features a slew of teens and young adults including Blake Lively and Penn Badgley of the hit show Gossip Girl, saying things such as “Talk to your parents about John McCain. For my sake? Please? Vote for Barack Obama. Before it’s too late.”

The website includes a "How-To" guide and a helpful list of "Warning Signs" to tell if one’s parents are at risk of voting John McCain such as “Being unable to accurately count the number of homes they own, cars they drive, or years the United States should remain in Iraq.”, “Referring to the past 8 years of American history as "The Golden Age.", and “Disparaging Spain for no apparent reason.”

To check out the site and video click here.

Political Nanny: Obama Gives MoveOn a Stern Talking To

Madeline Holler — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:27:00 GMT

Whoa! In a speech today from Indepdence, Mo., home to Harry Truman, Democratic candidate Barack Obama gave one of his biggest organizers and supporters hell.

The candidate called MoveOn.org's ad about General Petraeus, whom the liberal group dubbed "General Betray Us," a "treadbare argument."

Obama was in Missouri to deliver a big speech on patriotism -- defending his own, calling bullshit on anybody who questions another's. Political Nanny can't wait to hear how MoveOn responds. After all, they endorsed Obama early in the primaries -- much to the dismay of Hillary Clinton supporters. And they've organized and raise gobs of people and tons of money on behalf of the candidate.

Hmmm. Quite a demonstration of this new politics stuff. Fall out and responses will no doubt be interesting.

Here's a little more of what he said (from The Hill):

The Illinois senator said politics too often seems “trapped in old, threadbare arguments” that he called “caricatures of left and right.”

This, Obama added, was “most evident during our recent debates about the war in Iraq, when those who opposed administration policy were tagged by some as unpatriotic, and a general providing his best counsel on how to move forward in Iraq was accused of betrayal.”

“None of us expect that arguments about patriotism will, or should, vanish entirely; after all, when we argue about patriotism, we are arguing about who we are as a country, and more importantly, who we should be,” Obama stated in his speech from Independence, Mo. “But surely we can agree that no party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism.”

Yes, but was he wearing a flag pin on his lapel?

[via Salon]

Photo: CNN.com

Parody of Mother's Plea to John McCain

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:16:00 GMT

Moveon.org posted a video of a mother entreating John McCain to reconsider his stance on the Iraq War (he wants to stay there for "one hundred years"). It's got the usual blather about hearts beating fast and a mother's tears. It clearly deserves to be made fun of.

The following video is a parody of the original. What do you think? Is it funny?