I was thumbing through some photos a couple of days ago and came across IMG0127.jpg, which turned out to be a photo I took at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. I was there as one of the 30 or so bloggers who had been given credentials. The DNC did it up right for us, including a breakfast meeting, in front of which they trotted dignitaries, including Howard Dean and the skinny, promising Senator-to-be. All I remember was that he was shy, charming, and seemed as unsure as we were of what to make of a room full of bloggers with press credentials, all being recorded by mainstream journalists who had been confined behind a railing at the back of the room.

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Meanwhile, my friend Tim Hiltabiddle has posted at Facebook a gallery of beautiful photos he took of Obama in New Hampshire last week. Gorgeous.

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This 6.5 min video from DailyKos edits together Colin Powell’s argument in favor of Obama with brief supporting clips from the McCain campaign:

Send it to the fence-sitter in your family. (Here’s a link straight to the video. Ans Mike Wendell, in the comments, recommends this one, without the intercuts.)

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Click on an issue listed at Ask Obama Now and you’ll see a video clip of Obama addressing it, along with a build of bullet points on the side – useful if you’re not sure where he stands on the issues that matter to you.

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I thought this was a pretty charming video from the Boston Globe.

Getting that close to a potential president — Dem or Rep — is pretty thrilling. I still remember the day I shook Bobby Kennedy’s hand as he campaigned through a town near where I lived in 1967.[Tags: politics obama new_hampshire ]

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A happy day! I voted for Obama! Right next to the slightly scary, life-size cardboard cut-out my daughter gave me!

Happy, happy day!!

PS: I tagged the photos “ivotedforobama” at flickr. [Tags: obama ivotedforobama ]

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This is some ad:

And here’s McCain trivializing women’s health, and equating consideration of women’s health with extremism:

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This post by Trapper John at DailyKos I think gets something really right:

… Barack Obama isn’t just cool — he’s redefined cool in politics. He’s gotten past 20 years of presidents who equate anger with passion. There hasn’t been a president who could keep an even keel since Reagan — and even then, he was more easy-goin’ than cool. Reagan was detached. But Barack Obama is engaged, intelligent, and calm…

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My reaction to the past three debates have exactly mirrored America’s reaction overall. This never happens. Usually, I’m convinced that my guy totally ruled, and the next day I find out that America couldn’t get past his sighs, his lock box, or his seeming complacency about the hypothetical rape of his wife.

I’m scared, too, kids*…

*Genuine Simpsons Referenceâ„¢

Remember what Bush said he was going to do internationally? Have a good, rueful laugh:

You might also enjoy this moment of Bush cowardice. But, of course, I’m, wrong about how America took it.

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Zack Exley, who knows a thing or two about political organizing, writes about the Obama campaign’s use of top-down and lateral connectedness to get out the vote. And Patrick Ruffini, at The Next Right, is worried that Obama got it right. (Via Andrew Sullilvan)

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