Archive for the 'president' Category

"President Obama speaks about moving forward to create jobs, out-compete in the global economy by investing in innovation and education, and win the future for our children and our country. This enhanced version features charts, graphs and other visual aids that accompany the President's speech. January 25, 2010."

Its sort of amazing that all the high-profile jabs that Republicans have made against government spending have been against totally reasonable science programs that, on the whole, don't really cost that much.

A tumblr aggregating posts to Twitter about dreams involving Barack Obama.

Record of campaign promises kept by the Obama administration. The little widgets with the Obama faces on them are sort of ludicrous, but I'll be checking this thing every few days. Also, No. 502 is getting his daughters a puppy.

Official Presidential portrait of Barack Obama. First presidential portrait taken with a digital camera.

Nice chart from Good Magazine comparing the first 100 days of the last 12 US presidents.

The New York Times profiles members of Obama's administration.

Žižek on the presidential election and what the election of Obama means.

Steven Heller interviewing the man behind the O, the most incredible thing to happen to presidential campaign design since the color blue.

Newsweek's 7-part exclusive tell-all on the last 2 years of American Electoral politics. I can't tell if it's biased towards McCain, or if McCain just comes off better in private than he does in public, but reading this definitely made me like him more, especially in the wake of his concession speech. No way I would have voted for him, though.

I'll probably be making this for the big night.

"This Was His Best Debate So Far. He Was Able To Set The Agenda On A Lot Of Issues Like Taxes, Especially With Joe Wurzelbacher." McCain adds a new plank to the Republican platform.

This was a definite "Whaa?" moment for me during the second debate. McCain called Obama out for earmarking $3 mil for an "overhead projector" for a planetarium. Nevermind that those things could only barely be called "overhead projectors," never mind that they're used to teach science, never mind that museums across the country get federal funding for this stuff. And never mind that the earmark was not in fact, funded.

The result seems to be essentially meaningless, I think because the sample size is underwhelming. Might make more sense divided into pre-tv and post-tv. Notes: Carter's little interpolated grin is charming, G. W. Bush's hook hands less so; Madison was really small, and Taft was not.

Visual distribution of electoral votes for every single presidential election in US history.

"This moment, this moment, this election is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive."

Full record of which superdelegate is supporting which candidate. There are 3,253 delegates chosen by primary voters and 832.5 superdelegates. Superdelegates hold as many votes as NY, TX, IL, PA and NC combined.

Primer on the war in Iraq, and its political origins and ramifications.

"Due to the length of this list, it has been divided into the following sections..."

I haven't had a chance to sit down and watch this in it's entirety yet. I sort of want to devote 40 minutes of undivided attention to it, because I'm pretty sure it's going to make me want to punch the air in an upward motion.