VDOV.NET POLITICAL EDITION [AD ROUNDUP]
Vdov.net has rarely waded into the turgid waters of politics. The political landscape made by the contributors here is non-canonical, defying normal political affiliations. We find ourselves in the “libertarian” position of wanting both social and economic freedom. The issues we value are strong on tech and science initiatives (rather obviously). Perhaps our biggest gripe is that there is a certain inherent lack of pragmatism that goes along with political life. Political life seems to easily become too dogmatic which is why we have shied away from political posts to keep this from becoming too blog-like and avoid the reactionary “BoingBoing” tech politics.
The big difference in this arena between acosta, shollen and myself is that they have a large disdain for the theatrics of election time politics. Whereas, I view it as a national spectacle along the lines of high school prom queen drama. October in even numbered years is really my O.C. In the spirit of glorious political dramatics I have decided to play around with embedded YouTube links to bring you the very best of this year’s political attack ads, ad remixes, and general election brouhaha.
Judy Baar-Topinka vs. Rod Blagojevich (inc.)
In the Illinois governor’s race Blagojevich has done a bang up job of making everyone hate Topinka mostly by simple association with George W. Bush. For example this fine ad in the “What’s She Thinking Series:”
More in the “What’s she thinking?” series: [1], [2]
I think that this just about captures the message:
Here is another by the same author.
And one final remix:
From this one responding to Topinka’s attack ads which was just screaming for the cut and paste.
A couple more fun ones
anti-Ron Kind (WI congressional race):
Ben Nelson killed a giraffe! (Nebraska senatorial race)
Vdov.net official campaign endorsement: Reelect Senator Ted Stevens
i admit i was a bit nervous to jump on the political scene here at vdov.net when i saw afischer’s post — but c’mon, these things are just hilarious.
i also had never listened to this full clip of sen. ted stevens. highly recommended.
it’s a series of tubes!!!
I realize that in case people didn’t know… the videos don’t appear in RSS feed readers.
i would vote for TUBES for mid-term election any day….
they are round
I will cast my vote for Tubes… 6am tomorrow morning. You had better believe it.
I think Tubes is a “write-in”, but I’m pretty confident they’ll take the house and senate, its the first time in history one human will cover both jobs. Working overtime for sure.
human!? The tubes trascend the human fleshness.
On a side note, I cast my votes today with the good ol’ paper ballot (thank God). That way the haxors can’t tamper with my democracy in action. My house also has 100% civic duty participation minus of course the foreign national who cannot [legally] participate in the election. However, since my ID was not checked at the polling place I assume he could have participated if he wanted.
has anybody seen a report on buses transporting “non-legal working class foreigners” back and forth from tijuana to cali. im sure george soros funded the bus passes.
…im moving to monte carlo, where life starts @ 10 million dollars