Aug 11th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Silly Season
You can tell it’s August because Barack Obama is now hitting back against John McCain and charging him with being the big celebrity:
This is a pretty baffling controversy — obviously both Obama and McCain are well-known famous people. It’s hard to imagine being a major party presidential nominee and not being a celebrity. And why is it bad to be a celebrity?
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August 11th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Well, the ad isn’t attacking McCain for being a celebrity per se. They are calling him a “Washington celebrity”, which as fleshed out in the ad is just a variation on the traditional “Washington insider” theme, and obviously they are only using the term “celebrity” to implicitly mock McCain’s recent ads.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Obama’s camp needs to stick with the issues, and if they are going to attack McCain not use his ridiculous framing. Time for real change in politics Senator Obama.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:47 am
The “celebrity” aspect of the ad is like the peanut butter you hide medicine in for your dog to get him to swallow the medicine. The sick dog is the press.
I think the ad is smart because it’s a hedge against McCain picking Lieberman as VP. Obama is calling out faux bipartisanship as “lurching left, lurching right, the old Washington dance”. That’s a good marker to lay down based.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:47 am
This is a start, the Ad is subtle but effective. McCain’s image as a maverick is what they’re going after. Overall, it is a good Ad but i still want him to hit harder next time.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:52 am
This is more about getting equal “Air time” than responding to the responding to the Celebrity attack.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:53 am
The irony is that each ad comes across as at least partly positive for it supposed target. Lots of nice pictures of the other guy, and if most people watch these the way I do that is pretty much all they will take away.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:07 am
It’s not bad to be a celebrity. It’s bad to be a Washington celebrity.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I don’t see the celebrity aspect of this ad as the primary message. At it’s core, this message reminds people that McSame has been there for years, flip-flopping as he reads the winds, and generally not doing anything that might have addressed what we now face. The Bush hugging celebrity is just icing on the cake.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am
The ad is really a quick response (yeah, McCain is a celebrity too) and is then dominated by the other messages of bad policies, not-a-Maverik, and too close to Bush. Only seconds 1-4 and 23-26 show McCain on talk shows.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Matt,
Of course they’re both famous, but the problem is that McCain is still trying to act like he’s some salt of the earth guy when in fact, we all know he’s anything but. I’ve been wondering if Obama was going to push back on this at all…and there’s ample stuff out there to paint McCain as not an “average” American.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am
“Lurching right, then left, the old Washington dance” … given the strategic position, which is that if its a referendum on whether to reward McCain for abandoning the Straight Talk Express shtick, Obama wins cruising away … a fine way to land a couple of counter-punches while continuing the rope a dope.
Of course, its only rope a dope if Obama with broad support from a range of surrogates comes out firing on all cylinders at some point. Given the degree of disorganization of the Democratic party, the Convention may be the only opportunity to do that.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:19 am
People may be right that it serves some grand strategic purpose, but it comes of as childish and reactionary to me. I thought the Britney/Paris ad was incredibly stupid and whiny too, so I’m obviously not the intended audience for these things.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:20 am
A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom comments on Senator Osama.
Sharansky calls Obama “a risk” for Israel, as candidate panders to US Jews
By Israel Insider staff August 10, 2008
Worth a thousand words: with West Bank constable Mahmoud Abbas and the “Rais”
Israeli statesman Natan Sharansky said that Democrat Barack Obama said “all the right things which Israelis wanted to hear” on a recent visit to Israel. But he called Obama a risk because of his lack of a record and dubious experience.
Sharansky, described by Shalom TV as “the world’s most famous refusenik” — after famously emigrating from a Soviet prison to Israel, he seved subsequently a minister in successive Israeli governments, and now is a distinguished fellow at the Shalem Center and is chairman of its Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies — made his comments in a phone interview. He said Republican John McCain would be a more certain bet for Israel, but said that “the main decisions” about Israel’s future belong to Israel.
“In the case of McCain, we know exactly where his policy is,” said Sharansky. “I know, personally, McCain for 20 years. He is a person of principle, and he’s also a person who has absolutely a great record of supporting Israel. Getting to Obama, there is no record. Nobody can know for sure what will be. It can happen to be good. It can happen to be very bad. It’s a risk.”
Obama has recently posted a PDF document in an Israel section on his website — few countries merit such in-depth treatment — which talks about his plans and details what his campaign calls “a strong record of supporting the security, peace and prosperity of Israel.” But more objective studies of his ultraliberal voting record actually put him among the bottom dwellers in terms of pro-Israel votes in the Senate, and comparisons of the candidates such as Haaretz’s Rosner put him in last place in terms of perceived support for Israel.
Further pandering after the Jewish vote, the Obama campaign also sent a list of actions Obama has taken to support Israel in the U.S. Senate and the Illinois Senate.
In May, when he was still running against fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton, Gallup found Obama winning Jewish voters 2-1 over McCain in what was then a hypothetical matchup. Still, subsequent polls and analysts have indicated that Obama is polling well below previous democrats, and his latest slide in the polls is not helping his standing among American Jews, especially as polls show plunging poll numbers on “trust” issues.
Although Obama’s photo-op meet-and-greet visit helped his standing somewhat in Israel, his visit to the Palestinian Authority and the photo he took with West Bank chieftain Mahmoud Abbas under a photo of Yasser Arafat did not endear him to most US Jews. McCain still enjoys a comfortable lead in straw polls among Israelis, few of whom can vote, although the estimated 50,000 Israeli-Americans and is one of the highest concentration of US citizens abroad.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Senator Osama attracts Muslim terrorists.
Obama’s Muslim outreach director quits after being outed for terror ties
By Israel Insider staff August 6, 2008
The Muslim-outreach coordinator to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama has resigned amid questions about his involvement in an Islamic investment fund and various Islamic groups.
Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi, appointed national coordinator for Muslim American affairs by the Obama campaign on July 26, quit Monday after an Internet newsletter wrote about his stint on the board of directors of the fund, which also included a fundamentalist imam, and the Wall Street Journal asked some questions.
On July 30, he posted an introduction to himself on the Obama website. Some excerpts:
Assalamu-Aleikum. My name is Mazen Asbahi and I’ve been blessed and privileged to be serving the Obama for America Campaign as the National Coordinator for Muslim American Affairs. I’m also coordinating Arab American matters….
In order to get Senator Obama elected, the Campaign needs all of you to continue your support and if possible to take it to another level…. We need Muslim Americans to get excited about the Campaign, and there’s a lot to get excited about!
Sure, there have been mis-steps. And of course there are added sensitivities with our faith given the “smear” campaign trying to paint the Senator as too exotic and too un-American to be President.
If you have not plugged into the Campaign, please do. The Campaign makes it very easy to do….
Please feel free to contact me with ideas, critiques and suggestions for improvements on our outreach strategies. (Please keep in mind that I?ve just signed on
).
Well, apparently Asbahi got some ideas, critiques and suggestions which made him think twice.
“Mr. Asbahi has informed the campaign that he no longer wishes to serve in his volunteer position, and we are in the process of searching for a new national Arab American and Muslim American outreach coordinator,” spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement.
Asbahi tendered his resignation after he and the Obama campaign received emailed inquiries about his background from The Wall Street Journal. He did not respond to the email or a message left at his law office; the campaign released a letter in which Mr. Asbahi said he did not want to be a distraction.
“We need Muslim Americans to get excited about the Campaign, and there’s a lot to get excited about!” Mr. Asbahi wrote in a statement posted on a blog when he was appointed. “Sure, there have been mis-steps,” he added.
In 2000, Mr. Asbahi briefly served on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund, a Delaware-registered trust. Its other board members at the time included Jamal Said, the imam at a fundamentalist-controlled mosque in Illinois.
“I served on that board for only a few weeks before resigning as soon as I became aware of public allegations against another member of the board,” Mr. Asbahi said in his resignation letter. “Since concerns have been raised about that brief time, I am stepping down…to avoid distracting from Barack Obama’s message of change.”
The eight-year-old connection between Mr. Asbahi and Mr. Said was raised last week by the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report, published by a Washington think tank that tracks the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, a world-wide fundamentalist group with strong terror ties based in Egypt. Asbahi is a frequent speaker before US groups that scholars say are associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to the Wall Street Journal, The Justice Department named Mr. Said as an unindicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fund-raisers, which ended in a mistrial, and has been name a leading member of the group, listed as a terror group by the US government, in news reports going back to 1993.
Mr. Said is the imam at the Bridgeview Mosque in Bridgeview, a Chicago suburb. He left the board of the Islamic fund in 2005, Securities and Exchange Commission filings state. A message left by the Wall Street Journal for Mr. Said at the mosque was not returned.
Allied Asset Advisors is a subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust, supported financially by the government of Saudi Arabia, with title to many mosques in the U.S. It promotes Saudi-style fundamentalism and the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Don’t Americans kind of like celebrities? Aiya, why am I reading blogs in August?
August 11th, 2008 at 11:25 am
It’s not bad to be a celebrity. This is just an attempt to use the perceived strength of McCain’s argument against Obama’s strength as a segue into an attack on McCain as a Washington insider. It’s sort of jiu-jitsu squared. The images of McCain embracing Bush, the mention of McCain’s lobbying ties (for the first time in an ad), and the repetition of the “old politics” meme are powerful.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I think the ad is fine. ‘Celebrity’ = ‘Washington Insider’.
BTW, welcome back to the ’sphere. You must have been jonesing!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Missed you Matt! Glad to have you back.
I think the ad is silly. I thought the McCain ad was silly too but I am certainly not the intended target for this. It is almost like they created this just so the pundits would have something to talk about during his vacation.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:48 am
SLC – Thanks for the 29 paragraphs of off-topic cut-and-paste!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Re joejoejoe
The post was about Senator Osama. I don[’t see that articles about the senator are off topic.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I think the point of the celebrity counter-attack is not so much to convince people that McCain is the real celebrity, but just to muddy the waters on this meme, and thus blunt the ability of the McCain camp to continue with it.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
SLC – The post was about Senator Osama
Stay classy!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
HITTING TOO LATE:
This particular meme is not taking into account a few important elements of this election cycle. First of all if Obama had responded to the initial attack ads, then for the past what 2 weeks, all we would have gotten is back to back attack ads which may boost our morale, but would be a disaster for Obama. Let’s be honest, what makes Obama a “risky” choice to some people is that people claim to not know enough about Obama. Obama unlike Cliton and McCain is a relatively unknown quanitity to some people. If he had spent the past 2 weeks countering attack ads, what would the people who consider him unknown have discoverd about Obama. The answer: NOTHING! Unlike McCain or Clinton Obama does not have the luxury of just running a counterattack campaign. He has to let those American who are looking for a reason to vote for him other than the fact that yes, we Libs/Dems bloggers like him. The way to do that is not by running a negative non-substantive campaign, one in which all Obama does is counterpunch negative ads all the time. While McCain has been running negative ads, what has Obama been doing, talking about the economy, energy, jobs, etc. He’s been giving those voters who wants other reasons to vote for him, exactly what may sway them…policy.
I really think that we sometimes forget that Obama and McCain are trying to reach different audiences. McCain wants to reach the people who are looking for reasons NOT TO VOTE FOR BARACK H OBAMA.
Barack wants to reach the people who are looking for reasons to VOTER FOR BARACK OBAMA, or even AGAINST GWB.
I really think that this should be the eyes by which we view this campaign. Because conservatives will ultimately vote against Obama by voting for McCain (or hopefuly Barr), and Liberals will untimately vote for Obama or against Bush. So I think it’s really about who can get out the most of the middle of the road voters.
Obama will not win the people who aren’t even contemplating voting for him, but he has a good chance of winning those who are.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
NOT HARD ENOUGH
This to me seems to be a particularly tiresome meme. Seriously some people just can’t be satisfied. Barack Obama is trying to win the presidency of the USA, not the president of DKOS.
The purpose of the Obama campaign isn’t to play puppet to all the wrongs that have been done to Democrats. Obama is not our personal avenger. He has to win all Americans. He can’t just make his whole campaign about avenging Democrats hurt feeling from the past 2 elections.
I really think that many of us are pushing our revenge fantasy onto the Obama campaign. I’m sorry, if the Obama campaign becomes all about “Repub done us wrong, so let’s cut off their balls” we will lose…period.
This is not an issue of policy here. So yes I think we should be holding Obama’s feet to the fire about his policy decisions (FISA, drilling, or whatever), but if you truly voted for Obama, and not just against Clinton or anyone else, then trust the man to at least run his campaign message the way that see fit. They have internal polling, we do not. We are just running on emotions which is fine, but not if you’re running a campaign (for an example of letting emotions rule your campaign see Clinton, H)
If Obama runs the dkos campaign, we would be satisfied, but the the 50% of the country would not, and we would lose.
Let Obama control his message and strategy and we should continue to volunteer, donate, and on Nov 4 GOTV. I don’t know about ya’ll, but I want to win.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
SLC, thanks for reminding me!
i’ve written a new Pie Filter for MattY’s new site.
now i’ll never have to read your inanity again!
August 11th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Hey, guess what, SLC? If you begin your post by likening a U.S. Senator and presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party to a terrorist, that’s an excellent way of signalling that you’re nothing more than a worthless troll and nobody’s going to read your drivel.
August 11th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Here’s campaign reform for you (too bad it would require a constitutional amendment!
TV ads are only allowed to have the candidate himself speaking. No other people. No pictures of the other guy or 3rd parties (GWB, Paris Hilton). No music or thimping heartbeats.
Skip the I approved this message part, because after all the commercial was just words coming out of the candidate’s mouth.
Same idea for radio.
Voila! No subliminal messages. No emotional manipulation through ominous music. A lot fewer attacks because it is all seen coming directly out of the candidate’s mouth.
August 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Re Adam Villani
If Senator Obama persists in getting into the pen with the pigs, he can’t complain if he emerges with a coating of mud.
Re cleek
The truth hurts Mr. cleek so much that he can’t stand it.
August 11th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I think the advert makers are playing on the semantic distinction between fame (earned by notable deeds) and celebrity (bestowed by tabloids for frivolous reasons). Under this rubric, it seems like both candidates are arguably celebrities.
Intuitively, it would seem like Obama is more frivolously known. He’s new to the seen, and largely famous because of qualities of presentation: his writing and speaking skills, his baritone voice, his newness of appearance, both in his being young and his being black. McCain, by contrast, has been around for a while. This distinction, however, would cast politics itself as a rather frivolous trade. What politicians do, in a democratic society, is try to persuade people rhetorically. It is perverse to punish Obama for doing this so well. Similarly, his speech on race seems to me far more importantly substantive than anything John McCain has ever done.
August 11th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I think the ad’s just fine. As several others have pointed out, it only uses the ‘celebrity’ bit as something to pivot off of, into the ad’s real point, which is McCain as Washington insider, flipflopper, friend to Bush and to lobbyists.
I disagree with lamh re ‘not hard enough.’ In a campaign, you want to do two things: define yourself, and define the other guy. This is about defining McCain before he can define himself. The more thoroughly the Dems can do that, the better. The main thing is, the defining has to be believable: if it’s over the top, people will just ridicule it. But if Obama can hang McCain’s record around his neck, there’s no way McCain can get enough voters to win.
This isn’t about the championship of DKos; it’s about who the low-information undecided voters are going to vote for. If ads like these can turn them off to McCain, then they won’t vote for McCain, and we win.
August 11th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Best part of the ad? The old-timey jazz! When’s the last time you heard something so upbeat in a negative ad?
Of course, that old-timey jazz just made me focus on… how gosh darn old McCain is. I wonder if that was intentional or not? Hmm….
August 11th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Agree with #10 above. It’s not a problem, per se, to be a celebrity. The problem is that Obama and probably everyone else in his corner are getting mightily annoyed and McCain talking on and on about it. Of course Obama is a “celebrity” — he’s running for president! Should we be surprised he gets on magazine covers and draws crowds?
It would be nice if Obama could stay pure and not make ads like this, but I do think a “STFU” was in order. The whole celebrity thing needs to be put to bed, and I was starting to have trouble imagining it going away unless Obama responded this way. A lot of us were waiting for it, I think.
I also agree that it’s a fairly nifty move to use the celebrity meme as a segue into more substantial topics, as the ad does. To me, it says, “McCain’s a big celebrity too, but more importantly, did you notice this other stuff about him?”
The “Nothing for You” caption is classic, BTW. And the music. Great ad, I think.
August 11th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I think it’s a brilliant ad. Beats McCain black and blue on his supposed strength. And it’s mostly true.
Only criticism I’ have is that it did not show some McCain pictures in black and white to show just how long he’s been a Washington celebrity.
August 11th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
It is not bad. My daughter told me McCain is running that ad again about Obama being too popular. Do you think he is jealous??
August 11th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
DTM and neil hit the nail on the head here. The point of the ad, as I see it, is to contrast Obama-as-world-celebrity with McCain-as-Washington-celebrity. The latter is something people want to change, but the former is still probably something people are wary of. I think Obama’s misstep here is accepting the label of world celebrity rather than claiming the American mantle. If McCain is Washington, Obama wants to be the rest of America, not the whole world.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
After watching that, it made me wonder if the Obama’s people might be attempting (in a very subtle way) to draw attention to McCain’s disability (with respect to his arms). It seems that a decent percentage of the shots (on first glance) are of McCain raising his arms. Not that this should be something that is judged at all negatively. If anything it should be a reminder of something that many think of as a huge political positive for him, that he was a POW. But seeing McCain attempting to raise his arms might draw the attention of many to Obama’s relative smoothness and physical attractiveness.
Just a thought.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:32 am
“Silly” though it may be, it was needed. Obama needed to hit back, directly, to those 3 McCain ads.
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I haven’t gotten anything done , but whatever. Today was a loss. So it goes. I’ve just been sitting around not getting anything done. I can’t be bothered with anything these days, but I don’t care.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Don
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Good thongs don
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Between two stools you fall to the ground,
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
A stitch in time saves nine,
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Do not exclaim “Up” having not yet make a jump,
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Better a tomtit in your hand than a crane in the sky,
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step,
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
give a flying fig,
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Fine feathers make fine birds ,
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
More or less nothing seems worth thinking about. I guess it doesn’t bother me. I just don’t have much to say right now. My life’s been completely bland lately.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
fat chance ,
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I haven’t gotten anything done , but whatever. Today was a loss. So it goes. I’ve just been sitting around not getting anything done. I can’t be bothered with anything these days, but I don’t care.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
As you make your bed, so you must lie on it,
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I haven’t been up to anything today. I’ve more or less been doing nothing to speak of. More or less not much notable going on today. That’s how it is.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
fly will not get into a closed mouth,
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
fly will not get into a closed mouth,
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Good thongs don
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
A good example is the best sermon,
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
feel things differently,
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
A fly won
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
He who pays the piper calls the tune,
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
from mouth to mouth,
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
God doesn
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Don
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I just don’t have anything to say these days. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me recently. It’s not important. I feel like a bunch of nothing, but that’s how it is. I’ve basically been doing nothing worth mentioning. My life’s been generally dull recently.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
A little help is worth a deal of pity,
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
East or West, home is best,
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
If the cap fits, wear it,
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
get a pig in a poke ,
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
for the sake of glory ,
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:51 pm
like as chalk and cheese,
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Today was a complete loss. I feel like a complete blank. I don’t care.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Let a sleeping dog lie,
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
every Jack has his Gill,
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
diamond cut diamond,
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Basically nothing seems worth thinking about. My mind is like a void. So it goes. What can I say? I haven’t gotten anything done today, but maybe tomorrow. Eh.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
eat no fish,
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen,
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
follow on,
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, A ,
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
fuck around ,
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
If you can
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
eat no fish,
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Very informative and well designed website. I’m sure, you will be successful with it, have a nice day!,
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
from under one
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Very useful. I found this to be a joy to browse in. ,
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
A fine kettle of fish!,
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you,
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
A fine kettle of fish!,
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
like as two peas in a pod,
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
best part of time,
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I’ve more or less been doing nothing , but oh well. Basically nothing seems worth thinking about, but such is life. I don’t care. I haven’t been up to much.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
All is not gold that glitters,
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
from all quarters,
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 pm
As one make his bed, so he will sleep,
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Every dog has his day,
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
I’ve posted the series over on my education blog, so commenting is open.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen,
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Currently the website is just a convenient place to post and collaborate on models used in fundamental equity research. Right now you can find versions of a LVLT model I am developing in the “Project” folder of that website.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Sehr guten site. Alles arbeitet deutlich, schon eben storungsfrei. Wer machte? Vielleicht vom Weg?,
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Fretting cares make grey hairs,
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I just don’t have anything to say recently. Today was a total loss, but it’s not important. Not much on my mind to speak of, but that’s how it is. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me. I can’t be bothered with anything recently.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
follow suit,
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Get A Life,
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
A rolling stone gathers no moss,
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Don
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Every seed knows its time,
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I really appreciate Ms. Frizzle’s thoughts; I wish that we had her school’s culture of collegiality in our California junior high school.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I haven’t been up to anything today. I’ve more or less been doing nothing to speak of. More or less not much notable going on today. That’s how it is.,
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Better to ask the way than to go astray ,
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Game is worth the candle ,
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:59 pm
best is an enemy of good, The,
September 24th, 2008 at 12:05 am
All things are difficult before they are easy ,
September 24th, 2008 at 12:13 am
from every quarter,
September 24th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Sehr guten site. Alles arbeitet deutlich, schon eben storungsfrei. Wer machte? Vielleicht vom Weg?,
September 24th, 2008 at 12:27 am
empty barrel makes the greatest sound,
September 24th, 2008 at 12:35 am
I base these views partly on the success of a comparable approach to making models generally available in cognitive modeling (Google for “ACT-R cognitive architecture” for more details.) Good luck!,
September 24th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Fine feathers make fine birds ,
September 24th, 2008 at 12:48 am
best is an enemy of good, The,
September 24th, 2008 at 12:53 am
All is not gold that glitters,
September 24th, 2008 at 1:07 am
I feel like a complete blank. Eh. I haven’t gotten anything done these days. More or less nothing seems worth bothering with. Not much on my mind lately. Shrug.,
September 24th, 2008 at 1:12 am
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it! ,
September 24th, 2008 at 1:19 am
fall between two stools ,
September 24th, 2008 at 1:24 am
I’ve more or less been doing nothing to speak of. I just don’t have much to say these days, not that it matters. Basically not much noteworthy going on worth mentioning. So it goes.,
September 24th, 2008 at 1:31 am
fathoms deep in smth.,
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do the dirty on smb.,
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As someone who does see stagflation lite on the horizon, perhaps even the near-term horizon, i would like to know why greenspan thinks it “doesn’t” seem that we are entering a period of stagflation.,
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A man can
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flying high ,
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best part of time,
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Do not look at gift horse’s mouth,
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flying high ,
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Currently the website is just a convenient place to post and collaborate on models used in fundamental equity research. Right now you can find versions of a LVLT model I am developing in the “Project” folder of that website.,
September 24th, 2008 at 3:14 am
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Can
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Every cloud has a silver lining,
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drop hollows out a stone,
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leave one’s cheese out of the wind,
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There are tantalizing hints that improvement can be more dramatic when diversity is eliminated, such as single gender classes, blacks performing better when reinforced by their own successes.,
September 24th, 2008 at 4:16 am
ear to the ground ,
September 24th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Better a tomtit in your hand than a crane in the sky,
September 24th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Regarding the open-source “rules”, have you considered releasing the models under a Creative Commons license? ,
September 24th, 2008 at 4:45 am
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If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have,
September 24th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Curious Varvara’s nose was torn off,
September 24th, 2008 at 5:06 am
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow ,
September 24th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Pretty much not much going on worth mentioning. I can’t be bothered with anything recently. Maybe tomorrow. That’s how it is.,
September 24th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Basically nothing seems worth thinking about. My mind is like a void. So it goes. What can I say? I haven’t gotten anything done today, but maybe tomorrow. Eh.,
September 24th, 2008 at 5:26 am
best mirror is an old friend, The,
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East or West, home is best,
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flog a dead horse,
September 24th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Don
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best mirror is an old friend, The,
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Empty vessels make more noise,
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Between two stools you fall to the ground,
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I really appreciate Ms. Frizzle’s thoughts; I wish that we had her school’s culture of collegiality in our California junior high school.,
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Give me fire and I’ll give you light,
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Fine feathers make fine birds ,
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free as air,
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from under one
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A little help is worth a deal of pity,
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A stitch in time saves nine,
September 24th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Early bird gets the worm,
September 24th, 2008 at 7:52 am
If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have,
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Do not look a gift horse in the mouth,
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beat about the bush,
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Do not swagger going to battle,
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best of friends must part, The,
September 24th, 2008 at 8:24 am
a screw loose,
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best is oftentimes the enemy of the good, The ,
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Don
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feather one
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get back on track,
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better than one’s word,
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Let a sleeping dog lie,
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A man can
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empty barrel makes the greatest sound,
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I feel like a fog. My life’s been really boring today. I haven’t been up to much.,
September 24th, 2008 at 9:45 am
fool’s paradise,
September 24th, 2008 at 9:52 am
My life’s been pretty unremarkable lately, but pfft. Oh well. My mind is like a void. I haven’t gotten much done.,
September 24th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Sehr guten site. Alles arbeitet deutlich, schon eben storungsfrei. Wer machte? Vielleicht vom Weg?,
September 24th, 2008 at 10:13 am
All cats are grey in the dark ,
September 24th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I just don’t have anything to say lately. Pfft. Maybe tomorrow. I don’t care. That’s how it is.,
September 24th, 2008 at 10:40 am
It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen,
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a high time,
September 24th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Being in a hurry one can make people laugh,
September 24th, 2008 at 11:07 am
end is the crown of any work,
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If you try to overhaul two rabbits you can catch no one,
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birds of a feather,
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Let a sleeping dog lie,
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He that would eat the fruit, must climb the hill,
September 24th, 2008 at 11:40 am
All cats are grey at night,
September 24th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Regarding the open-source “rules”, have you considered releasing the models under a Creative Commons license? ,
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Appetite comes with eating,
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a fat job,
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