The Obama half hour.
October 29, 2008 in Obama
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The Edge of the American West 
18 comments
October 29, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Josh
This half-hour has only 27 minutes and 10 seconds?
October 29, 2008 at 8:39 pm
rja
It’s great, but where’s the bear?
October 29, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Artemis
“ask you to be involved in your own democracy again.”
This is one of the main reasons I’ve been excited about Obama (regardless of how he will disappoint). I like that his idea of service to this country extends beyond the military. This is the first election for which I’ve volunteered (I phonebanked Nevada), and I’m pretty proud that I’ve gone beyond voting to involve myself in my democracy.
October 29, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Levi Stahl
I’ll admit that I teared up. The calls to serve–both to serve the country and, at the end, to serve the campaign, if you believe in it, were effective.
October 29, 2008 at 8:53 pm
urbino
This half-hour has only 27 minutes and 10 seconds?
The gov’t took the rest to spread among the other candidates.
October 29, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Megan
I loved it. I’ve hated being cynical about my government.
(Remember that I don’t see much visual media, so I’m all susceptible to the moving pictures.)
October 29, 2008 at 9:16 pm
tf smith
I liked it a lot; I thought the interweaving of the individual families’ stories and the policy segments was very well done, actually All four of the families profiled – Missouri homemaker/tire plant worker; retired Ohio railroad worker and spouse; widowed New Mexico teacher; and Kentucky husband/wife 3rd generation Ford workers – were archetypes that also make clear how key industrial and manufacturing jobs still are in this country, despite all the service/information economy buzz…perhaps that is my labor/economic history bias, however.
The spouse and I watched with our children; some excellent teachable moments there that not everyone is anywhere near as fortunate as we are.
I think Rachel Maddow’s comment “he had me at the waving fields of grain” was cute…
Six days.
October 29, 2008 at 9:31 pm
bitchphd
That didn’t suck. Thanks for posting the video.
October 29, 2008 at 9:33 pm
teofilo
widowed New Mexico teacher
Wait, was this my family? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t, but I didn’t watch the video so I can’t be sure.
October 29, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Walt
I found it fantastically boring.
October 29, 2008 at 10:04 pm
andrew
I had it playing in a tab in the background, so I only caught some of it. Anyone know if a transcript has been posted?
October 29, 2008 at 10:53 pm
eric
I thought it was good. Moving, even.
Less than a week, now.
October 29, 2008 at 11:46 pm
The Constructivist
Why did he start talking about energy independence and war after the second family profiled set up a discussion of health care?
October 29, 2008 at 11:58 pm
The Constructivist
And why did he save the stuff on his own family–like reading every Harry Potter novel to/with one of his daughters–till past the halfway mark?
October 30, 2008 at 12:05 am
The Constructivist
Why, oh why, did Bill Richardson grow a beard?
All in all, though, not a bad 27:10!
October 30, 2008 at 5:16 am
rosmar
I like Bill Richardson’s beard.
October 30, 2008 at 10:18 am
chris y
And why did he save the stuff on his own family–like reading every Harry Potter novel to/with one of his daughters–till past the halfway mark?
Satanist! Indoctrinating children with witchcraft and black magic!
October 30, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Robert Halford
Presentation: A-. Actually liberal-ness of policy changes proposed: B-.