Posts Tagged “LDVUSA”

Jim Messina and “the single most infamous congressional ad in contemporary history”

by Stephen Tall on August 3, 2013

The Conservatives have hired Barack Obama’s election strategist Jim Messina to advise on their 2015 general election campaign. The Guardian describes it as “a coup for the Tory team to have been able to hire a strategist who proved such a vital figure in Obama’s presidential campaigns in both 2008 and 2012.” Those unfamiliar with […]

Steven Spielberg presents… President Obama: “I’m Daniel Day-Lewis.”

by Stephen Tall on April 28, 2013

The 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the annual event which disproves any notion the Americans can’t do irony… (Watch it on YouTube here.) And here’s the full 20 minute Obama routine: (Watch it on YouTube here.) * Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, a Research Associate for the liberal think-tank CentreForum, and also […]

And so the ‘Romneyshambles’ rolls on…

by Stephen Tall on September 18, 2012

Here’s the video footage of US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressing a private fundraising event: And here’s the killer quotes: “There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are […]

LDVideo: The West Wing explains the US debt ceiling in under 60 seconds

by Stephen Tall on July 31, 2011

Everything you needed to know about the current ‘epiphenomenal imbroglio’ ((C) Will Self at 0:48 here) engulfing the US economy, courtesy series 6 of The West Wing: (Also available on YouTube here.) And as a special treat, here’s a bonus West Wing clip of presidential contenders Santos and Vilnick debating ‘liberalism’ — all together now: […]