Be the signal » Issues http://bethesignal.org where we're going, we don't need roads... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:47:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en QoTD: Bill Clinton http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/03/02/qotd-bill-clinton/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/03/02/qotd-bill-clinton/#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:44:29 +0000 jdub http://perkypants.org/blog/2008/03/02/qotd-bill-clinton/ “Now one of Clinton’s laws of politics is this: If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.” — Bill Clinton, supporting John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign

Bill Clinton on Fear vs. Hope at YouTube

]]> http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/03/02/qotd-bill-clinton/feed/ Recommended election listening http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/11/20/recommended-election-listening/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/11/20/recommended-election-listening/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:03:13 +0000 jdub http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/11/20/recommended-election-listening/ Here’s a listening suggestion for Saturday, November 24th, 2007: Powderfinger’s 1998 platinum release, Internationalist. Put the album on, open the windows, and crank it up!

Vision is rejected, the peoples choice is tested
So ignorance has won
Children are infected, remedy suggested
Dont drink from poison cup
Overpopulation, media sensations
The damage has been done

Powderfinger: Internationalist

]]> http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/11/20/recommended-election-listening/feed/ John Howard, facing * defeat http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/11/18/john-howard-facing-defeat/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/11/18/john-howard-facing-defeat/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:04:13 +0000 jdub http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/11/18/john-howard-facing-defeat/ You shouldn’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched, but you can definitely count your Google hits before election day.

We’re having what we’ve called an “election party/wake” next Saturday, but if the consistency of the polls over the last twelve months (and more recently) is anything to go by, there’ll be more chardonnay than tears at the Waugh household.

Howard and Costello

Here are some of the most popular adjectives used to describe what John Howard and the Liberal Party are facing on Saturday, linked to the search results that mention them (check my guide to Australian politics for Americans if you’re wondering why we’re toasting a “Liberal” defeat).

Regardless of all the polls, betting odds, embarrassing campaign screw-ups, flagging morale of conservative opinion writers and radio jocks, or nerdy enthusiasm of the progressive number-crunchers: Labor still has a fight on its hands.

It’s the last week of the campaign — when anything can happen — and the electoral statistics are no better now than when they were described as “impossible” six months ago.

Maybe I’ll wear black shoes, just in case.

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