By Denis Campbell
In the middle of our worst economic crisis since the Depression, the McCain campaign wants to change the subject from issues to nonsense because his policies of the past 26-years cannot be defended. From the Keating 5 to the current guilt by association attack gambit, this silliness has snarky Sarah going gutter, no… [...]
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On the Brink of Country Divorce
Posted on 06 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 000 people in Amsterdam, 120, 1973 trip to Washington DC, 1973-74, 2000 (s)Election, 21-million people, 24/7/366 travel, 3-minute campaign newscycle, 30-days of slimy Swift-Boat attacks, 664 cities around the globe, 93rd Congress, a failed burglary at the Democratic National Committee, a group of scoundrels who would be forced from office, a step I never believed I would consider taking, Acorn, angry old man, before PC’s, Black Panther William Ayers, campaigning for 21- and 19-months, cares more for her people and their rights than my own, Carl Albert, cause of the Fannie/Freddie and broader financial meltd, cesspit, change the subject from issues to nonsense, chanting U.S.A.!, citizen of the United Kingdom, Close-Up program, CNN, dangerously small-minded, declaring “Homeland security” the answer to any questio, Denis Campbell, dividing and destroying the country, economic disaster, Edward Brooke, end the war in Vietnam, equal parts education and inspiration, European Union, even municipal ones, former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan and I would ag, FOX News, further eroding my ability to even question or write th, Gerald Ford, global conflict, guilt by association attack gambit, Her Majesty’s subject, hide and obfuscate, his policies of the past 26-years cannot be defended, hooker patron, I have no choice, ideologue Supreme Court appointees, if we make yet another (s)election error, increasingly negative campaign, internet, Iraq, John Anderson, Keating 5, lead to his resignation in disgrace a year later, Living abroad for 10-years, make a difference, many flaws, marched in Amsterdam, McCain, Mike Mansfield, Nelson Rockefeller, news cycles were 24-hours long, obama, On the Brink of Country Divorce, our leaders led, Paris Peace talks, Patty Hearst, paying US taxes, perpetuating the mantra of fear, petty our nation has become, Phil Hart the ‘Conscience of the Senate’, placing flags on every stationary surface, polarisation, politics a part of my life forever, radical far-right team in the White House, re-elected President Nixon, reached across the aisle to broker compromises and gove, reached the point of no return, Robert Byrd, Roe v. Wade, rude, Sean Hannity, Senate and House roll call, Senate office building would be named, shared directorship, snarky Sarah going gutter, son of a US immigrant, special interests, Symbionese Liberation army sympathiser, Ted Kennedy, then Soviet Union, Tip O’Neill, today they would just lie, transparency and fairness to help inner city and low in, unchecked deregulation, Uncle Walter Cronkite, US Trident missiles, voters are stupid enough, voting in every election, Watergate Office complex, went after Obama, White House dismissed us as “a focus group”, will file divorce papers with my country, worst economic crisis since the Depression, Xaviera Hollander, ‘Country First’ as more than a slogan
A Campaign as Business
Posted on 25 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $20 million dollar personal debt, $500 million dollar business, 19-months, 2 million people raising millions of dollars $96 a time, 57-locations, asked good questions, Bill Gates’ Foundation’s, Business Week magazine, Campaign as Business, campaign out of money before he secured the nomination, can Obama lead, choosing his Vice Presidential running mate, Clinton supporters, community organiser, e-mail addresses, executive decision, field organisation, good CEO, GSM technology, Howard Dean, internet, Joe Biden, knee-jerk nor rushed, listened to input, McCain, mindless tax cuts, new fund-raisers, new media, obama, party consultants, pinpoint and find areas of greatest need to target spen, planning protests, pragmatic, Republican attacks, run up enormous debt, sided with a President, special interest money at arm’s length, special interests, state legislator, technical strategist, thoughtful, tried to run traditional campaign, US economy, VP announcement, war entered into under false pretences, young people
The question many undecided voters ask is can Obama lead? They point to his time as community organiser and state legislator as not being ready for national office because the ultimate choice must run a multi-trillion dollar US economy in some trouble.
For 19-months Senator Obama has led a $500 million dollar business in 57-locations, convinced [...]
I Rob Banks Because That’s Where the Money Is
Posted on 11 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1984, 28.8 dial-up modems, 40-million credit card numbers and passwords, 600 MOD laptops, ADSL, afraid, auto-generated SPAM comments, bank robber, big ad company cookies, BT Broadband, cable, CD’s and data cards, click-through ads, DoubleClick, dozens of other agencies, employees who sell data, Encryption software, everyone wants to own search and advertising business s, FBI, frightening accuracy, google, hackers attack and steal data, hassle of changing e-mail, highest level ever, Home Office, I Rob Banks Because That’s Where the Money Is, important security and personal identity stealing data, inside companies, internet, Internet security, large players in this game, meaningless whether I say no or not, missing, obscure ISP, oxy-moron, pingbacks, privacy cost, recognition software "cookies", size and ability to share and mine my viewing behaviour, surfing the web, UK MoD (Ministry of Defence), Web transaction, web-crawling tools, web-traffic, Willie Sutton, worried, Yahoo!
Willie Sutton, uttered that famous line after a long career of bank robberies a century or so ago. He would have loved the Internet.
This topic was first written about in January over Internet click-through ads. I said that unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Now with [...]
Let the Games Begin
Posted on 09 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 in the cast, 15, 2012, 204-nations, 24-hour newscycle, 29th Summer Olympiad, a year to rehearse, armed struggle between Russia and Georgia, audience of 4 billion, China, China’s global coming out party, Chinese officials, covered the Bird’s Nest, dancing, deported, drumming, festival of colours and digital effects, flowing words, held in a country known for brutality and suppression o, internet, less than ideal conditions, modern Olympiad, NBC, NBC Today show, Olympiad, opening ceremony, prisons, relative anonymity, shined, show a surreal city in a surreal time, smiles, spit polished, Synchronised fireworks, the world will now focus on Beijing, these Olympic Games will be the best ever, whitewash
The most spectacular opening ceremony of a modern Olympiad is in the bag. 15,000 in the cast. Synchronised fireworks, drumming and dancing wowed an audience of 4 billion globally on the telly. A remarkable festival of colours and digital effects combined with movements that took a year to rehearse under what had to have been [...]
Thank You Keith Olbermann for Both Inciting Right and Left
Posted on 11 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 22-minute national newscast, ABC, annoying, Appointment telly, archive, balance, BBC iPlayer, BBC News, boring, brave new world, Brian Williams, Brighton, brutal, bulls**t meter, but did you like it?, CBS, CNN, combining cable and network, cynical, disagree without becoming personally disagreeable, double entendres, e-magazine, England, every 3-5 minutes, expert, feedreaders, few bugs, flogged to death products, forced to watch adverts, FOX, honest, Ian Shaw, impressed with his/her language skills, Inciting Right and Left, inside joke, internet, Keith Olbermann, limits of blogging, milquetoast, movie reviews, MSNBC, MSNBC.com, mute the player, NBC, news franchise, News when I want it, Nightly News, no opt-out, one-dimensional, open, playlist clips, podcasts, raw emotion, real dialogue, ripped and read, Tech savvy folk, Tiffany broadcaster, Tom Brokaw, tone of reaction, truth, UK, US, use technology to help in ways never thought possible, Web convergence, wider and faster pipelines
Talking ‘With’ Rather Than ‘At’ Each Other on the Campaign Trail
This e-magazine had its busiest day ever last week by mentioning one man’s name – MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. I happen to like the guy and his work even if he periodically goes off the emotional deep end. Keith is mostly honest, open and brutal and [...]
Denver, Sioux Falls, Billings, San Juan… Aboooaaarrd!
Posted on 31 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 50-state campaign, Bill Clinton, By laws committee, change, clinton, Democratic Primary wind down, Denver, Hope, Howard Dean, internet, Mark Penn, Michelle Obama, Michigan and Florida, Montana, obama, Puerto Rico, Raock Star appeal, Rush Limbaugh, South Dakota, Super Tuesday, wander off the reservation, White Voters Outside Appalachia, WVOA
The Democrat Primary local heads this weekend to a crucial (yawn) convention by-laws committee meeting that seems certain to have the thrill and impact of a wet firecracker vs. Hillary’s much feared nuclear option of three weeks ago. The Michigan and Florida delegations will be seated but with a 50% penalty and the delegates split [...]
Somebody’s Watching Me and You!
Posted on 22 April 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1984, Business & Economy, data-mining, Double-click, George Orwell, google, hijack worm, internet, Microsoft, privacy, spyware, technology, web surfing, Yahoo!
I’ve become hyper-cautious with Internet click-through ads. Unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Back in ’00 I pulled a team out of a web development contract because of
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