The show of shows

You don’t get a political night bigger than this. It’s not just an Americn election, it’s not just the American election that will end the disastrous Bush presidency, it’s the American election that will end the disastrous Bush presidency and be starting (fingers crossed) the Obama presidency, a black man with a completely un-American approach [...]

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The last days of a losing campaign…

No words, just pathetic…

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With players like these…why doesn’t England have a basketball league?

Check out this video. NBA player Devin Harris ( he plays as point guard for the Nets) one of the rising stars of the game got humiliated at a London playground by British street player, Stuart Tanner.
Watch minute 1:32 just to see what the kid can do.

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Best of Denver

Things are looking up for Barack Obama to become the next President in November. Although there is still a long way to go, including the presidential debates, it seems like the Democrats’ Convention served its purpose of reuniting and reenergising a campaign that was losing some steam in the past few weeks. On the other [...]

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Friday round-up

Well the weekend is upon us. Today it’s been an extremely unproductive day. I have watched most of the Olympics Inauguration Ceremony (really really impressive), failed to finish off the methodology section of my dissertation and not much inspiration for blogging today either. But just a quick post with a couple of interesting things I [...]

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New Obama video

Good work on the McSame front from Obama’s camp, message discipline is key in a race where both candidates’s political profiles haven’t yet been fully defined in the mind of the electorate.

Hat tip from TOK.
UPDATE: OK, so Paris Hilton isn’t precisely part of my top five all times favourite celebrities. But [...]

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My all time top five funny political moments

Another dissertation-writing break, another blogpost… I’ve been thinking about continuing my ‘all time top five’ series for a while now. So here they go, the next serie is on the funniest political moments of all times. Enjoy!
5- Bush and golf.

4- Clinton and Yeltsin (boy, those were the good old days!)
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That’s gotta hurt!

The Spanish Conservative Party (PP) today started its party convention in Valencia.
After his crashing defeat in the May 9 general election Rajoy has been openly criticised by several high-profile party leaders within PP. The party leaders in Madrid and the Basque Country, Esperanza Aguirre and Maria San Gil, as well as MEPs’ leader Jaime Mayor [...]

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Transparency web 2.0 style- Spanish chapter

TeleMadrid, the regional public channel of the Spanish capital, is well known for being under the tight grip of the Conservative Regional President Esperanza Aguirre. Accusations of news manipulation in the regional public channel for the benefit of Aguirre are widespread.
However in her last act of manipulation, Aguirre has found herself confronted by the reality [...]

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McCain: the last DIY-YouTube victim

Little he knew about the big mistake he was making when he got in front of that green screen. McCain’s campaign thought about changing a bit the mood of his town hall meetings by putting a green background behind the candidate instead of the more traditional blue one.
Some of McCain campaigners should have known a [...]

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