NEW ORLEANS — MoveOn.org is hosting a contest urging members to make their own 30-second spot for Sen. Barack Obama.
"Every day, political insiders and pundits tell Americans what to think about the presidential race. But now, it's YOUR turn to take the megaphone. We want to run ads that are of the people, by the people, and for the people. So consider making an ad," MoveOn tells members.
The deadline is April 1. The winner will get a $20,000 gift certificate for video equipment and their ad will run nationally.
The spots will be narrowed down by the public and finalists will be judged by A-listers Eddie Vedder, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Steve Buscemi, Moby, Markos Moulitsas, Russell Simmons and Oliver Stone.
Here's MoveOn's Eli Pariser explaining:
I doubt this anti-Obama video sent to me via my YouTube account recently will make the final cut. It's a "best of" rehash of Obama criticism that wraps up the plagiarism accusations, his foreign relations subcommittee and NAFTAgate, but includes some interesting video from 2004 I hadn't seen before following his Senate win explaining why he wouldn't be a 2008 candidate.
The YouTuber who made the video, which surprisingly features a cameo from me asking Obama about NAFTA on his press plane a few weeks ago, lives in Texas.
— Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (5)
why hasn't hillary produced this?
Posted by David Di Gregorio | March 14, 2008 6:48 AM
Dear Ms Bellantoni, I guess you are doing your bit to help Hillary. If Obama supporters like myself, are to make anti-Hillary videos and post them on Youtube, the whole system will come crashing down because there will be just so many of them and so much dirt. But very few of us bother doing that because we recognise 'mud-slinging' is a specialty relished by Hillary supporters just like their granny leader.
Posted by Barry | March 14, 2008 7:58 AM
Between Oprah and Obama, this campaign has left being a Presidential debate, to who has enough money to buy the public, with commercials and I am sure many promises of money endorsements. Lets face it, Obama did not stand a chance, till Opra paid off the media. That does not make him a possible good President, just backed with alot of money. That usually does not make for a good President.
Posted by Independent | March 14, 2008 8:22 AM
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Contest: Make your own Obama spot
NEW ORLEANS -- MoveOn.org is hosting a contest urging members to make their own 30-second spot for Sen. Barack Obama.
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LETTER TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA
Montreal, February 20, 2008
SENATOR OBAMA ,
The whole world has its eyes on you, on The United States Of America and its people.
Everyone expects you to be democratically elected and see that something happen in America.
In March 1983, one of humanity's most famous spokesmen, Pope John Paul II, came to our
country - 'Haiti' - and loudly proclaimed what each and every one of us had been whispering:
'Something must change here.'
Today, more than ever, a lot of people of The United States of America stand up, longing for something and working to make something happen.
And, like in March 9, 1983, beloved Haiti, History - (which from then and now on rests in thy hands) - tells thee: 'It is now time to let people speak to thee of love!', let's say today': 'Go thou America ahead and show us thy true countenance in a positive light.' It is up to everyone to play his or her part in order to let thee regain thy mark of excellence !'
With this letter, I am communicating with You, Senator Obama, and with the whole people of The United States of America.
You offer this country what it takes to be a 'Wonderfull Land.' Yes, let us say 'with a great people living together.'
Go thou, America, go ahead, following in the footsteps of one of thy sons who is now becoming one of thy statesmen.
With this in mind, Mr.Obama, to whom else could I entrust this letter sent to his Holiness Pope John Paul II when he set foot on Haitian soil for the first time, as well as its acknowledgment by the Vatican?
That letter to Pope John Paul II is intended to draw attention to the problem posed by anti-Black discrimination and its negative repercussions on the advancement of scientific progress in the West, and more precisely in the realm of Optics.
In the Western world, according to Newton's widely accepted theory, white is considered to be the synthesis of all colors. Actually, the opposite is true. White constitutes the analysis or 'visible' decoding of light or color, whereas black is its synthesis or 'invisible' composition.
In other words, darkness or blackness and, we might add, 'Black Holes' - a scientific misnomer designating invisible stars or 'Black Suns' - are a source of energy and light.
That basic raw material of light energy culminates, in its most radiant form, in the neutralization of all the colors of the spectrum in the form of so-called "white light."
Therefore "absolute blackness", the absorption of all the colors, is a divisible component of light. Needless to say, Newton's theory gives only a partial interpretation of the notion of light, by excluding black. Our contribution aims at demonstrating that the black color is not only an integral part of the color process, but its true synthesis. Light is therefore shown to be a divisible whole comprising an intensity or color scale in which black is the invisible or 'absorbed' form of the energy in question.
Allow me, Senator Obama, in order to support my statement concerning Black Holes and radiation, to pose a question asked by Hubert Reeves, Doctor of nuclear astrophysics and Scientific Consultant to NASA:
What would have become of the Sun, if it were plunged into a high temperature radiance like the one that existed at the beginning of the Universe? [our translation]
Instead of emitting light, it would absorb it and, in the end, it would be completely reabsorbed into the cosmic fluid.
The cosmic fluid is what, due to an "optical mistake", is called "darkness" or the "blackness of space". We are talking about the electromagnetic flux, that immeasurable ocean in which the planets and stars are bathed, like the sea which links all the continents together. Darkness is thus "The Sea of Space."
"What would have happened if, instead of an ordinary star like the "White Sun", a Black Hole or "Black Sun" were injected into that primordial radiation?"
"According to Einsteinian Physics, a Black Hole is a place where gravity is so formidably intense that nothing can escape it, not even visible light. Such a hole should suck in and absorb radiation and increase its own mass: E=MC2, always."
But after Einstein came Bohr, Heisenberg, and Quantum Physic. From then on, nothing was the same as before.
"The Einsteinian version of the Black Hole is equivalent to a statement that the matter inside the Black Hole is definitely there to stay, in that volume of space. Let us quote Hubert Reeves: "Such an absolute statement is thus contrary to the "Quantum spirit", affirming that nothing is definitely localized in one place. There is always a probability of escape. If the enclosing wall is too high, a tunnel will be dug; if the prisoners are patient, they will escape. One has only to wait. [our translation]."
"According to that principle, Black Holes "evaporate." Matter constantly escapes as radiation. Black Holes "shine!" Their surfaces behave like those of any body heated to a certain temperature and that radiation endlessly feeds that marvelous "Cosmic Fluid" which, wrongly and in bad faith, people keep calling "Darkness."
Nigra sum "sed" formosa. Yes, but should we not say instead, I am black "and" comely? Darkness, which is both source and vehicle of light, does not have to defend itself for being the beautiful and infinitely discreet raw material of the Universe. Darkness is the "Mother of the Universe."
Also, beautiful and discreet art thou, Haiti. Discreet, yes, but never outshone! Just like the Black Virgin who inspires and sheds her love on thee from the hilltop and even beyond Cit� Soleil (Sun City).
Our purpose was to offer a more constructive approach aiming at correcting the abusive traditional, so-called scientific, theories of Optics. That is why, we wrote to that authentic witness to the signs of this age, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the prophet of the new era.
Congratulations to You, Sir, and congratulations to the people of The United States Of America, for having made it possible for this day to mark the beginning of a "New Era of Hope !"
Lucien Bonnet
PLease, SEE :
LETTER TO POPE JOHN-PAUL II
in "BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGHT !"
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
Posted by Lucien BONNET | March 14, 2008 9:21 AM
I'm not usually one to comment on posts; however, I find that Lucien Bonnet was doing OK until he strayed too close to the black hole.
Posted by Jean Chevreille | March 14, 2008 10:47 AM