= a thousand words

[lollardfish]

Picture here, protected from embedding.

This picture, alone, is worth a percentage point in Texas, I bet.

The hat was a gift. This is not posed, I think.

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

That's a really good picture. But I'd already decided to vote for him. Since it seems that for the first time ever, my vote will mean something! Woo-hoo! Hey, and by election day, I'll be living in somewhere that isn't Texas, so my presidential vote might count too!

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

I think Texas is in play against McCain, but I could be smoking something. We'll see what Dem vs. Republican raw turnout is in two weeks.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Srsly?! Dude. I'll believe it when I see it, but it's a beautiful thought.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

The question is how seriously the evangelical vote in Texas, and similar states, will come out for McCain. If they stay home in droves, then such states come into play.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Probably 2/3 of my Shiny Halo freshmen think Bush is laughable--which is a large change from 7 yrs ago, when 100% thought he was the Second Coming.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

It's amazing. His approval rating dropped again. When someone last week decides they disapprove of him it means that they approved of him up to last week! So they liked the war, the torture, the economy, the environment, FEMA, and everything else ... and now decides it's too much. So each percentage point of dropping is an astounding "accomplishment."

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Maybe fundies aren't as braindead as I've always assumed. That'd be nice.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

He used to play pickup with my brother at Harvard. I've lost the link to the article another guy who used to play wrote about it a few years back, but perhaps my brother will chime in.

Ok, I'll bite

[regularpapi.livejournal.com]

That SI story is funny to me--a small, personalized example of the way the media crafts its stories in a presidential election. Or, maybe he's improved his shot. But I doubt that. Obama was a middling player in an intense grad school pickup game. I basically remember him as skinny and tall without the muscle to play inside or the shot to be killer outside. When I first became aware of him as a political figure, in 2004, I said to myself "that guy looks familiar: could he have been one of the Harvard law school contingent who came to the gym?" But I didn't trust my memory until I read this, from a friend of mine (Marshall Poe, who is now an Associate Prof in the History Dept at Iowa):
http://www.memoryarchive.org/en/Playing_B-Ball_with_Barack_Obama%2C_1988/1989%2C_by_Marshall_Poe

[pameladean]

That is a great photo indeed.

Here's what the photographer said, in the (currently) last comment on that photo:

"It actually wasn't a posed shot. Obama was wading through a heard of event volunteers when someone passed the hat through the crowd to him and he put it on for a laugh. There just happened to be a ton of photogs in the vicinity. He probably wore it for maybe a minute before giving it back."

Herd! Herd! Herd! *whew*

P.

[tesla-aldrich.livejournal.com]

Not to threadjack, but you reminded me of an exchange that my boyfriend and I had about my 18-pound cat:

"Look out, it's a galloping herd of kitten!"
"Heard of kitten?"
"Of course I've heard a kitten, he's so loud that I could hardly avoid it!"

[pameladean]

(Nobody will notice if we do it way down here at the bottom.)

That said, this made me chortle inordinately.

P.

[madtruk.livejournal.com]

Me too! Me too!

That was awful!

:)

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

He looks good in the hat, but I'm relieved to know that it wasn't a posed shot. One Northerner pretending to be a cowboy is enough! Spontaneity is cool, though.