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What Barack Obama is teaching brands and media about young consumers’ brand loyalty

November 4, 2009

The news media is all abuzz about explanations as to why Barack Obama voters did not come out to elect Jon Corzine in New Jersey and Creigh Deeds in Virginia. It must be the Obama effect or a referendum on the Obama administration spending, health care, etc. And they seem genuinely surprised!
It’s just not that [...]

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Dear Minority Leader John Boehner; this I fear more

September 20, 2009

A few days ago, I saw a video of you saying that Americans most fear the US Federal Government is spending beyond it’s means and that we are leaving a mountain of debt to our kids and grandkids. (I can’t find it right now, but when I do, I’ll post it.)
I think you are wrong.
Here [...]

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Kill the beast! The public option in health care reform

September 14, 2009

The title of this post is taken from the lyrics of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and explains what the right is doing with the so-called public option of health care reform. Love or hate him, Robert Reich explains the public option clearly, at least to us who laugh at the notion of “competition” with [...]

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Professor Gates’ case is not about race, it’s about power

July 25, 2009

Here’s the story as printed by the Boston Globe on July 20, 2009. Here’s what I think really went on.
Gates got home in the middle of the afternoon, the key got jammed in his door locking him out of his home. This was probably the last straw of a stressful, very long trip from China. [...]

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Sometimes a dog is just a dog

February 20, 2009

The New York Post issued a statement about the infamous chimp cartoon published Wednesday. (Here if you need to see it.) At the end they stated “Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon – even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.”
First, let me remind everyone that this is the New York Post [...]

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It is not about the weather, people

January 29, 2009

Barack Obama made one comment about schools closing because of a little bit of snow. According to the Washington Post, he said:
My children’s school was canceled today… Because of what? Some ice? . . . We’re going to have to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town.
And he wasn’t really talking about the weather. [...]

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Annoying little kids at the New York Times

January 23, 2009

Today, the New York Times is “the annoying kid at the magic show shouting, ‘I know how you did that trick!’”
Why did you have to spoil the illusion? Did we really need to know this? Why couldn’t you just let the magic happen instead of stirring a pot nobody needed to watch?
There are facts and [...]

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Obama uses a MacBook Pro?

January 22, 2009

This photo appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times. Probably others. Thanks Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer. I’m not sure if we can use these photos. Do tax dollars pay for the official White House photographer? Pretty sure someone will slap my paw if I’m wrong.

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Congratulations, Mr. President

January 20, 2009

Following that speech, my new resolutions for 2009 and beyond are:
- To reject negative thinking and reject anyone who says, “That is not possible” and seek out those who say “How can we do that.”
- To reject any and all who speak racists comments and to speak up without hesitation, whether friend or not.
- To [...]

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I know nothing, but let me tell you about it anyway

January 7, 2009

Few things make me more upset than “journalists” who have no knowledge of the facts of a story, write about it or get on television, answering phantom questions about hypoteticals. Then the anchor or host treats their answers like they relate to the story at hand. Then they guide the reader or listener through [...]

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I want my O back!

December 31, 2008

I don’t really have an opinion about the Blagojevich thing other than the following:
Blagojevich IS the elected governor of Illinois
In America, you are innocent until proven guilty, even if they have tapes of you admitting a crime. Ask Rodney King
The Illinois state constitution gives the governor, not the legislature or the voters, the power to [...]

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What would you do if you had $1 million dollars?

December 10, 2008

Dear President-elect Barack Obama;
I am a small business owner. I do quite well for myself as I am in a knowledge-based business servicing the youth sporting market and the retail services industries. I also dabble a bit in coffee and Web 2.0 consulting.
I was running some numbers this afternoon on the bail-out plans that [...]

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Truemors was being goofy.

November 17, 2008

So here are my comments to 
Palin Calls Bloggers “Kids in Pajamas…in Their Parents’ Home”
Here is the quote from the Fox News site:
–QUOTE–
VAN SUSTEREN: Is there anything else that has been raised or said about you in the media, either during the convention — I mean, during the campaign or since the campaign ended, that you [...]

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This takes guts

November 10, 2008

I was driving along Hwy 68 just south of Xenia, Ohio. This is a pro-America part of the country where there is so much nothing that nobody can hear you scream. And this is a very, very big sign.

Posted by email from rufus’s posterous

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No party for old men

November 7, 2008

It is sad what the Democrats are doing to Joe Lieberman. The only “sin” Sen. Lieberman committed was having opinions that did not quite align themselves with the new leadership. 
I looked up the Senator Oath of Office. It reads:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United [...]

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Americans DO care about puppy dogs

November 6, 2008

Wow, win the presidential election, promise your kids on national television in front of 71 million viewers that they will get a new puppy and the press EXPLODES with puppy dog stories.
Rufus reported this way back in March when he posted a story about Sam Zell, when one of his reporters declared “all Americans care [...]

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Brought to you by some upstanding, God-fearing Christians

November 4, 2008

The family down the street flies the flag every day, even puts a light on it at night and takes it in during the rain. At Christmas time, they decorate their house with a large Nativity star, a manger set and a large sign that reads “Jesus is the Reason for the Season.”
It makes [...]

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Joe Mamma?

October 29, 2008

First, just watch the video. All the way to the end.

I know Alaska is part of these United States, but how ignorant of racism is Sarah Palin? It is almost as surreal to watch as John McCain singing “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” to a Beach Boys tune! Before she can lead America, she [...]

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A conundrum of massive proportion

October 24, 2008

My paper shredder just crapped out on me. In this economy, I can’t afford to buy a new one. But, in this economy, I can’t afford to have my identity stolen either.
Barack and John, these are the kinds of things that we “Joe the Dog” living on “Main Street” have to worry about. And while [...]

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The price of stupid and ignorant

October 18, 2008

The Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated distributed the flyer above with their newsletter. They claim it just represents food and the chicken, watermelon, Kool-Aid and ribs were not racist.
Yeah, right. How big of a rock was the president of the GOP group, Diane Fedele, living under for how many years? And, her daughter gets on [...]

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