Again these two candidates - Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman - made me waste my time listening their latest debate. Yep, the one that happened yesterday. What did they say? Nothing new! So, based on my current knowledge I think they are not good enough to be the next Governor of California. One does not have such good history as a public servant and the other one has a questionable ethic in the business sector. In case you don't believe me (you should always question anything you read online), just play their corresponding TV ads attacking each other.
On the election day, I guess, we are all better off voting for the other candidate that was not invited to the latest debate (in fact, she was arrested as she was attempting to enter the building): Laura Wells from the Green Party of California.
Politically.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
The Obama brand
The following are excerpts from the article "How Corporate Branding Took Over the White House" written by Naomi Klein and posted in AlterNet. Naomi is an award-winning journalist and syndicated columnist, and the author of an earlier international best-seller: No Logo.
"The Obama's team has marshalled every tool in the modem marketing arsenal to create and sustain the Obama brand: the perfectly calibrated logo (sunrise over stars and stripes); expert viral marketing (Obama ringtones); product placement (Obama ads in sports video games); a 30-minute infomercial (which could have been cheesy but was universally heralded as "authentic"); and the choice of strategic brand alliances (Oprah for maximum reach, the Kennedy family for gravitas, and no end of hip-hop stars for street cred)."
"Though it's too soon to issue a verdict on the Obama presidency, we do know this: he favors the grand symbolic gesture over deep structural change every time. So he will make a dramatic announcement about closing the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison - while going ahead with an expansion of the lower profile but frighteningly lawless Bagram prison in Afghanistan, and opposing accountability for Bush officials who authorized torture. He will boldly appoint the first Latina to the Supreme Court [Sonia Sotomayor], while intensifying Bush-era enforcement measures in a new immigration crackdown. He will make investments in green energy, while championing the fantasy of "clean coal" and refusing to tax emissions, the only sure way to substantially reduce the burning of fossil fuels. Most importantly, he will claim to be ending the war in Iraq, and will retire the ugly "war on terror" phrase - even as the conflicts guided by that fatal logic escalate in Afghanistan and Pakistan."
"Obama played the anti-war, anti-Wall Street party crasher to his grassroots base, which imagined itself leading an insurgency against the two-party monopoly through dogged organization and donations gathered from lemonade stands and loose change found in the crevices of the couch. Meanwhile, he took more money from Wall Street than any other presidential candidate, swallowed the Democratic party establishment in one gulp after defeating Hillary Clinton, then pursued "bipartisanship" with crazed Republicans once in the White House."
So, "the problem is that his actions do not come close to living up to the hopes he has raised."
Simbolically.
"The Obama's team has marshalled every tool in the modem marketing arsenal to create and sustain the Obama brand: the perfectly calibrated logo (sunrise over stars and stripes); expert viral marketing (Obama ringtones); product placement (Obama ads in sports video games); a 30-minute infomercial (which could have been cheesy but was universally heralded as "authentic"); and the choice of strategic brand alliances (Oprah for maximum reach, the Kennedy family for gravitas, and no end of hip-hop stars for street cred)."
"Though it's too soon to issue a verdict on the Obama presidency, we do know this: he favors the grand symbolic gesture over deep structural change every time. So he will make a dramatic announcement about closing the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison - while going ahead with an expansion of the lower profile but frighteningly lawless Bagram prison in Afghanistan, and opposing accountability for Bush officials who authorized torture. He will boldly appoint the first Latina to the Supreme Court [Sonia Sotomayor], while intensifying Bush-era enforcement measures in a new immigration crackdown. He will make investments in green energy, while championing the fantasy of "clean coal" and refusing to tax emissions, the only sure way to substantially reduce the burning of fossil fuels. Most importantly, he will claim to be ending the war in Iraq, and will retire the ugly "war on terror" phrase - even as the conflicts guided by that fatal logic escalate in Afghanistan and Pakistan."
"Obama played the anti-war, anti-Wall Street party crasher to his grassroots base, which imagined itself leading an insurgency against the two-party monopoly through dogged organization and donations gathered from lemonade stands and loose change found in the crevices of the couch. Meanwhile, he took more money from Wall Street than any other presidential candidate, swallowed the Democratic party establishment in one gulp after defeating Hillary Clinton, then pursued "bipartisanship" with crazed Republicans once in the White House."
So, "the problem is that his actions do not come close to living up to the hopes he has raised."
Simbolically.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Castañeda, los árboles y el Perú
"A buen entendedor pocas palabras" reza el dicho, no?
Pero, si en caso no estas familiarizado con la politica peruana te dire que AGP son las siglas del actual presidente de Peru Alan Garcia Perez, las siglas AKFF se refieren al ex presidente de Peru y ahora encarcelado Alberto Kenja Fujimori Fujimori, y la referencia arborea se debe a los hechos ocurridos recientemente en Lima que puedes leer aqui y aca.
Ademas, el caricaturesco rostro del actual alcalde de Lima Luis Castañeda Lossio, fue extraido de una imagen que aparentemente creo un tal "Cherman", a la cual llegue por el twitt de delucious. Si sabes donde esta el post, articulo o nota original donde aparece la imagen en cuestion, por favor, deja tu comentario.
Politicamente.
Pero, si en caso no estas familiarizado con la politica peruana te dire que AGP son las siglas del actual presidente de Peru Alan Garcia Perez, las siglas AKFF se refieren al ex presidente de Peru y ahora encarcelado Alberto Kenja Fujimori Fujimori, y la referencia arborea se debe a los hechos ocurridos recientemente en Lima que puedes leer aqui y aca.
Ademas, el caricaturesco rostro del actual alcalde de Lima Luis Castañeda Lossio, fue extraido de una imagen que aparentemente creo un tal "Cherman", a la cual llegue por el twitt de delucious. Si sabes donde esta el post, articulo o nota original donde aparece la imagen en cuestion, por favor, deja tu comentario.
Politicamente.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Obama and California Legislature
I found this one in Cronicas Canallas...
"Obama after visiting Michael Jackson's doc, his attempt to reach the conservatives and republicans who criticize him for being statist, because of unemployment is higher, because of the money given to the financial institutions is not to be seen yet, so the money in the 401Ks is wasted on everything and the people can reactivate the economy... anyway... after that visit he ended up like this." (I know it is not a good translation, but you got the idea, right?)
And I found this one a few days ago in the newspaper called Argus-Courier...
Stephen Rustad for Petaluma Argus-Courier on Jul 23, 2009
EditorialCartoonists.com
Funny.
"Obama after visiting Michael Jackson's doc, his attempt to reach the conservatives and republicans who criticize him for being statist, because of unemployment is higher, because of the money given to the financial institutions is not to be seen yet, so the money in the 401Ks is wasted on everything and the people can reactivate the economy... anyway... after that visit he ended up like this." (I know it is not a good translation, but you got the idea, right?)
And I found this one a few days ago in the newspaper called Argus-Courier...
Stephen Rustad for Petaluma Argus-Courier on Jul 23, 2009
EditorialCartoonists.com
Funny.
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