Second presidential debate, Obama’s word cloud

Posted on October 8, 2008 by randomjohn

Word clouds were created by TagCrowd.com. Unfortunately, the HTML they supplied didn’t work with WordPress, so I took a screenshot and cropped it.

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Second presidential debate, McCain’s word cloud

Posted on October 8, 2008 by randomjohn

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Annenberg fact checks the debate

Posted on September 27, 2008 by randomjohn

FactCheck.org: FactChecking Debate No. 1.
Again, the worst Obama comes out with is a few misleading statements (eg 95% of households, not people, get a tax break), McCain misleads on his own record, and Kissinger flip-flops on Iran.

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Factchecking the debate

Posted on September 27, 2008 by randomjohn

Check Point: The First Debate – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com.
Obama had a few possibly misleading statements. McCain also had a few misleading statments backed up with some outright lies. Obama’s a bit of an idealist when it comes to energy, McCain wants to drill, baby drill and nuke, baby nuke.
Bonus: Kissinger debates self on [...]

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McCain loses his self-made game of chicken

Posted on September 26, 2008 by randomjohn

McCain to attend debate :: WRAL.com.
Dumb idea to even float the cancellation in the first place.

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