Wednesday Sept 10

[8 weeks to Election ]

RC session 8 AM to 9AM

Hyperpartisanship

Brownstein, The Second Civil War; ch 1 "America Divided", ch 2 "The Age of Partisan Armies", ch 3 "The Age of Bargaining", ch 4 "The Age of Transition", ch 5 " The Age of Transition II, the Rise of Hyperpartisanship"

Brownstein, pt 1

RC & VSPU session 9AM to 11:15 AM

Week of Sept 4 to Sept 9

Republican Convention

September 03, 2008 Sarah Palin gives a Historic speech, Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced he had chosen Palin as his running mate. She is the second female vice presidential candidate representing a major political party, after Democrat Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and the First in the Republican Party. Sarah Louise Heath Palin ( born February 11, 1964) is the current governor of the U.S. state of Alaska, and is the Republican vice presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election. In 2006, Palin was sworn in as the governor of Alaska, becoming the first woman and youngest person to hold the office.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 04, 2008 John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presidential nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 presidential election. McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers.

 

 

 

 

a. Polls

b. viral videos: Sept 9

c. Newsview:

1, TV

a. Chris Matthews: Hardball

b. Daily Show:

John McCain's Big Acceptance Speech Surely, the change John McCain wants to bring to Washington is different than the change George W. Bush wanted to bring.

September 4, 2008 Sarah Palin - Vet This! Sarah Palin proves she has Wikipedia, and denigrates community service.

 

c.Fox News:

September 05, 2008 Did you see Barack Obama go on The O'Reilly Factor last night—right into the belly of the beast? While we didn't want Obama to appear on FOX initially, he wisely chose the same night John McCain delivered his RNC speech (the same night FOX received some of its highest ratings) to make an appearance. Talk about stealing the GOP's thunder! Obama was no doubt trying to appeal to conservative voters, since 88% of FOX viewers voted Republican in 2004. But FOX won't let their conservative base go without a fight. That's why O'Reilly needled and interrupted Obama, trying to get him to simplify many of his answers—a far cry from the softballs O'Reilly lobbed at many prominent Republicans like Rudy Giuliani in the past. And that's why FOX has been attacking Obama with the same relentless smear tactics that they used against John Kerry four years ago. Watch them use the exact same attacks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM3oww9Vk-c

 

2. press editorials:

a. US:

b. Overseas:

d. Political cartoons: Cartoons for week of Sept 9

http://www.markfiore.com/

http://cagle.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/cagle.asp

http://www.danzigercartoons.com/

http://cartoonbox.slate.com/hottopic/?image=0&topicid=80

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/telnaes/telnaes_main.html

http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/cartoons.aspx?src=ADCARTN

http://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/opinion/luckovichelection08/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.html

Kurtzman blog

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Political-Cartoons/

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/election2008/ig/2008-Election-Cartoons/

Kurtzman blog

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Political-Cartoons/

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/election2008/ig/2008-Election-Cartoons/

e. Russian News on Vote 2008:

September 05, 2008 In the United States, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader says last month's armed conflict over South Ossetia was provoked by Republican John McCain and his colleagues in Washington.