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LOL! Election 2008.  Barack Obama knows what I'm talking about. Welcome to an election in the digital age!  TXT MSGing and all.  The idea of celebrity has taken this country by storm.  Most popular Halloween costume next to Lindsay Lohan/Samantha Ronson was... Sarah Palin? Paris Hilton for president?  Are we a country obsessed with making people in the spotlight become characters in the narratives of our lives?  More importantly, are we obsessed with the spotlight- and dare I say- who it burns?    Of course Sarah Palin is burning in that spotlight and making feminists everywhere cringe at the very thought of her THINKING she's a feminist.  (I like this celebrity angle KA) (Celebrity is filler. Nobody really cares, we all know it's foolish, but even a committed anti-tv guerilla will find their way to a LOST fan site eventually. MK)

****Warning Next Paragraph contains graphic criticism of Mccain/Palin campaign-Brought to my attention by the excessive amount of videos I have seen.

(possibly something about this election that is different from any other election)

Que Sarah Sarah whatever will be will be Que Sarah Sarah the future's not yours to see.

Dear Uncle Bruce,

I know you sent me that email today telling me that republicans vote today and democrats vote tomorrow.  

Uncle Bruce, I'm so disappointed.  Is it because I'm a female, college grad, 18-24yr old?  

But really, Uncle Booie, I have babysat kids who know more about what the president does than Sarah Palin.  And furthermore does Mccain even care, or was he just trying to give the Hilary voters a new female.  I don't get it.

Love Whitney

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(personal family tidbit, good humor injection KA)

Sitting here on election night I feel relatively happy, and it's not because I found the video of Barack Obama's speeches getting cut up to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".  Which is truly something hilarious, and emotionally satisfying - as if Obama is actually telling us this. (Obama is a you tube celebrity! KA) (It seems we forget the falsity of television charisma until we find someone who really has it. MK) I believe Election 2008 has been a comedy and not just of errors! (Great phrasing! KA)(insert vid of Katie Couric/Sarah Palin)  With coverage of the Al Smith Dinner we heard Obama and Mccain tell joke after joke- and they were funny, I found myself in my car listening to MPR not laughing at, but WITH John Mccain.  A comedy also in the way it seems your not running for office until you're on SNL. (Which is beyond me, SNL is not funny these days).   

(it would be cool, and very digital age, if there were videos inserted! KA)

***Who Doesn't Want to See Palin in an American Flag Bathing Suit Shooting a Gun?? aka the magic of the internetz.

Everyone's a pundit.  With the internet we have an instant ability to dig up anything on anyone.  Pregnant daughter, embarrassing video of _______________ (insert anything Sarah Palin's done here), a SMOKING (oh no) Barack Obama... etc.  Is the internet better or worse for the globe?  Are we learning/seeing too much about our candidates?  Is that a bad thing?  Are we creating biases on what we see or read? (Elizabeth Hasselback I'm askin' you).  Are more people shouting their opinion from the rooftops, because it's more accessible?

right now Obama is up-- and that should make us all a little nervous. 

If there's anything we have all learned it's that the president elected can change from when we go to sleep to when we wake up!

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