Showing posts with label pandering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pandering. Show all posts

Sunday, June 15, 2008

A new kind of politics


Hope. Change. Greed.

Rendell, who plans to campaign on Obama's behalf and raise money for him, said tonight's event in Philadelphia is a joint fundraiser for Obama and the cash-strapped Democratic National Committee.

But in a sign of the urgency to raise campaign cash, Rendell said Obama didn't want to reschedule tonight's fundraiser, even though the governor warned him that many Philadelphia donors were headed to the New Jersey shore for the weekend. Rendell said Obama told him: "We don't need the people. We just need the checks."


Monday, May 19, 2008

The audacity of blatant pandering


Here's a quick and easy way to read Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope: 

click to enlarge


The Senator mentions his own suits with the same frequency as either feminists or Hillary Clinton--but those are all mentioned half as often as dogs.



Thursday, May 15, 2008

Jesus F. Christ


Defecating on Blurring the separation of church and state, one pandering brochure at a time.

Let's play count-the-phalluses. Ready? GO!


The greatest of these is love ... change?
[as in changing your image, just like Madonna]



If you look closely, you can see Jesus (the original) trying to give Jesus (the actor) a high-five... and being denied:


This reminds me of the art activist installation I whipped up on the day of the Pennsylvania primary. We had Obama people coming to our door 3 times that day (on the 3rd visit the campaign worker actually admitted that she would keep coming back until my partner voted):

Having a stuffed Jesus doll comes in handy.