4.30pm US EST/7.30am Oz EST
Woohoo we’re all in Pennsylvania or close to. Sarah Palin’s up in Erie, Biden’s in Williamsport, Hillary and Bill are next door in Ohio, Walnuts will be in Hanoverton Ohio tomorrow. These towns - York, Johnstown, etc – used to interest me, their wealth of old industrial architecture and machinery, like [...]
1am US EST/Oz 4.15pm
Well, a hell of a night for Obama – the half hour vid, which led into a joint appearance by Obama and Bill Clinton in Florida – and the One was simultaneously on the Daily Show, which I’ll have to wait till tomorrow to see because this damn hotel doesnt have Comedy [...]
Somehow I dropped out of the main Crikey story that Harrisburg was the place to be because Bill Clinton had been there earlier that day…not that people really noticed. Today the Phillies – a local team duh – beat the Tampa Bay Rays in the baseball world series.
Tampa used to be called the Devil Rays, [...]
7pm US EST/10am Oz EST – Well, as I predicted yesterday, Joe the Plumber has disappeared. The McCain campaign’s ability to vanish him was truly impressive. He was even set to appear with McCain at a ‘joe the plumber rally’ last night but the thing went on with no Joe. Now comes news that he’s received a Nashville country [...]
Guy Rundle has filed his latest video report from the campaign trail, in which ‘Kim Jong Il’ extends the hand of friendship to the American people.
9.55 So we’re forty minutes in, and we’re onto free trade , and there’ something resembling a new encounter. McCain hacks into Obamas alleged antipathy to free trade, slating his failure to sign the colombia free trade agreement. Obama notes that this was because killing trade union leaders was standard business practice in [...]
Guy Rundle’s filed his latest video from the US campaign trail. This time he’s interviewing people about the link between Alaskan VP hopeful Sarah Palin and the successionist Alaskan Independence Party.
Video credit: James Norman.
Part 2 of Guy Rundle’s latest video report from the campaign trail has just landed. His latest despatch comes to us from Nashville, shot on the eve of the latest presidential debate. Check it out here.
View Part 1 here.
Video credit: James Norman.
Guy Rundle has filed his latest video report from the campaign trail. His latest despatch comes to us from Nashville, shot on the eve of the latest presidential debate.
Part 1:
Video credit: James Norman.
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