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  habes @ 2008-10-23T09:32:00

  Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 10:37am MDT by Josh

  Check out my pictures from Phil and Mary's wedding. They turned out awesome, thanks in no small part to this snazzy $1500 lens that I rented for $30. I never could have gotten those low-light portrait shots without it.
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  habes @ 2008-10-09T10:54:00

  Posted: October 9th, 2008, 12:25pm MDT by Josh

  Whoa this is getting ugly from the Republican side:

  At rallies this week in Florida, crowds jeered and taunted members of the news media. One man hurled a racial epithet at a black television crewman, telling him, "Sit down, boy".
  
  Yesterday, for the second time in three days, a speaker at a McCain rally in Pennsylvania referred to Obama's middle name, Hussein, in an effort to cast doubt in his religion and background. Obama is a Christian.
  
  At the same rally, shouts of "terrorist" and "liar" could be heard following references to the Democratic candidate. On Saturday, McCain running mate Sarah Palin sought to link Obama to Ayers. "Kill him!" one man in the crowd shouted, not specifying who.
  
  --The Guardian

  Holy crap, it's the two minutes hate! It is sad and truly frightening that this is what the Republican party has come to. They have turned themselves into the party of xenophobia and hate.
  
  They are spreading insinuation about Obama's link to a 1960s "domestic terrorist" without recognizing that they are breeding a new brand of extremism themselves! If guys at their rallies are shouting "terrorist," "liar," and "kill him," how far are they from actually doing something violent? The McCain campaign is taking a scorched earth strategy here, which is dishonorable and wrong.
  
  One lesson I take from this is that no matter how decent a guy is when he's nominated to the Republican ticket, he'll never survive the experience with his decency intact. Because winning on the Republican side requires "mobilizing the base," and the base demands red meat. The base thrives on culture wars. The base has this need to find an "other" and demonize them.
  
  It's a dark moment on the Republican side of the aisle.
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  habes @ 2008-10-05T12:56:00

  Posted: October 5th, 2008, 2:10pm MDT by Josh

  Dear Sarah Palin,
  
  You want to talk about questionable associations? How about addressing a political party whose founder openly hates America, and who died buying plastic explosives on the black market?
  
  
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  video candy

  Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 1:07am MDT by Josh

  Stop winking at me Sarah!!
  
  
  
  Yep, you really said all those things:
  
  
  Why does Senator Obama believe that McCain and Bush agree on almost everything?
  
  
  Finally, FOXNews attacks Obama with the same attacks they used on Kerry:
  
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  habes @ 2008-10-01T10:26:00

  Posted: October 1st, 2008, 11:36am MDT by Josh

  Check out this really interesting video from the New York Times about the debating styles of Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. It shows some highlights of their previous debates (Palin for Governor of Alaska, Biden in the primaries).
  
  One thing to take away from this is that despite her embarrassing performance over the last week or so, Sarah Palin has in the past been a formidable opponent who has a maddening way of being being cutting and aggressive in a way that viewers love. The LA Times article Underestimate Palin at your own risk, former rivals say comes to the same conclusion. That article ends with:

  "When you try to prove she doesn't know anything, you lose, because audiences are enraptured by her," Halcro said. "And her biting comments give you a sense of how competitive she is. Anybody who doesn't take her seriously does so at their peril."

  So playing the expectations game that the campaigns love to play, I'd say that we should expect to see an aggressive and in-control Sarah Palin, judging by her previous performances.