Well, now it’s time for something completely different.
The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.
The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.
Feh. Take that Slayn. 
HT: Andrew Sullivan
including a post mortem of a lot of the Republican screw ups out here (especially in the Congressional races - are you seriously telling me that Darren White was the best the Reps could come up with out here?) including some media tips for these clowns, since I guess they don’t have anyone to advise them on media relations, and a look at the 2010 election scene.
Thanks again, Club for Growth. You’re idiocy enabled Big Blue to sweep your asses out of New Mexico. And the best you clowns can do is to claim that Obama’s election is the equivalent of Senator Palpatine’s in the Star Wars movies? Nice. Stay classy, Hair Club for Growth.
Heading to bed, g’night John Boy…
I don’t believe it! The best man won! This hasn’t happened since the ‘96 election! 
And tonight the United States has taken the first step back from the brink of wiretapping, torture, violating the Geneva Convention. Congratulations America, I was afraid you didn’t have it in you. I don’t know what else to say, we’re still so choked up here are the house.
And congratulations to Senator, now President Elect, Barack Obama.
Many news outlets to the left of Genghis Khan have called the Senate race between Tom Udall and Steve Pearce for N.M.’s open Senate seat for Democrat Udall. That’s not really a shock, Udall has been fairly popular in this state, and he was boosted by the fact that the Republicans picked the worst possible candidate to run against him this year.
Thanks a lot, Club for Growth! Helping Steve Pearce beat Heather Wilson this year, that put this election in tbe bag for Udall. You guys fail.
This just in, Tim Johnson, incumbent Democratic Senator from South Dakota, has been declared the winner of his race in South Dakota. Johnson, you might remember, suffered a serious brain aneurism back in 2006. He almost died, and took over 9 months to recover enough to return to the Senate. He wanted another chance at the job, ran, and won. Congratulations Senator Johnson.
Tell Old Man Dole to bust out the blue pills, looks like Libby dear is coming back home! Congratulations to the NEW Senator from North Carolina, Kay Hagan!
Fox News, of all people, called the race for Hagan. Libby dear, take those “Godless” ads and shove them right up your a$$!
“When did the Republican party stop being the party of ‘pulling yourself up by your bootstraps’ and become the party of ‘pulling up Fortune 500 CEO’s by your bootstraps’?”
Now, I know that most Republicans and Conservatives (of which there is a difference) don’t agree with the congressional bailout of Wall Street, and the Democrat party is just as culpable as the Republicans for the current cluster going on in D.C. But if the $700 billion that the Bush government ensured got passed out to Wall Street barons went to every man and woman above the age of 18 in the U.S. (which I estimated at around 200 million), everyone would have received $3500 to use as they wish.
And let’s be honest, the majority of people would have used that money to pay bills, or buy stuff they wanted (I would have seen a nice new Mini-DV camera, or used motorcycle to get to work with, in my future). This would have put more money directly into the economy.
Instead, it’s more important to make sure Robert Rubin’s pals on Wall Street got to pull themselves up higher by the bootstraps of average Americans. I just have this vision of Bush leading the group-dive into Scrooge McDuck’s vault of cash. Go figure.
Albuquerque’s hardest working blogger and radio reporter correctly called me out here:
It’s relatively simple. People respond to charisma. They respond to hope, they respond to winners. The moment someone loses on CBS’ “The Price is Right” they are off the screen. The instant they lose. Fortunately for McCain he’ll be able to return to the Senate. He has an important voice in our community and it won’t be hushed completely. It’s simply time to try a new direction. By the way, the “real” reporters kept audio from both speeches. These politicos had better keep their word…we have them on tape.
To which I respond:
You’re right Peter, people do respond to charisma, and I’m guilty of it a bit as well at the end of my blog post. People in the U.S. do tend towards a winner (look at all of the Dallas Cowboy/Denver Bronco/whichever team won this week, fans in Albuquerque).
But I really think there is something to this Obamania gripping the nation (Whatcha gonna do when Obamania runs wild on you?). I wanted to see more out of the Republicans than I’ve seen so far, and the election hasn’t happened yet and a week’s a long time to go before election day (just ask Patsy Madrid).
We will be lucky that McCain can return to the Senate and work on the issues that really are important to him. I’m not looking forward to the idea of the Democrats having a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a huge gain in Congress. That’s too much like a one party state for my taste, and we saw how well that has worked out here. (So come on guys, let’s vote for Darren White, who I’ve teased mercilessly on here. After Heinrich’s recent media crap I can’t support someone that tight-assed.)
I get the gut feeling that McCain is still trending farther to the right than he wanted to, look at his choice if Palin for VP (I dunno if it’s true that he wanted Ridge or even Lieberman for that spot but was told that he would lose the base vote). I hope that when he returns to the Senate he can veer back to the McCain I knew and loved back in 2000.
As my bro and I have discussed, I like Obama’s energy and some of his ideas, but I’m not a big fan of his foreign policy views, which are the real strength of the presidency. Not in domestic policy, which is the purview of Congress. And when the president of France, for crying out loud, is calling you a naive pussy, then you have a bit of a foreign policy conundrum.
But I don’t like McCain’s choice of Palin, who quite frankly (as the friends of Pagans who Palin’s pastor wants to hunt) scares the hell out of me. So where do I go for a vote? Probably to Ginger of course, Ginger Cat for President that is!
(although there is part of me that wants to write Ron Paul in)
Hey man, I try to be a “real-ish” guy at the events I’m at. Granted I’m a PR guy, and not a reporter, and only cover the stuff going on at UNM right now, but I’m determined to save both of the speeches I have for the future. (you have a valid point there, though)
But as my friends in school and at my old PR firm can attest, I saw this coming from a mile away.
I’ve been wondering who would be the first campaign to pick up on this idea of using online video game ads. Since I first read about the potential for online video game ads I’ve played around with the idea of how companies, campaigns, etc can use them to their advantage and told some people (ad nauseum at the old firm I’m sure) about this potential. It looks like the Obama campaign decided to go ahead and use them to target younger voters (the people more likely to play online racing games). There is a huge gold mine of potential voters or other consumers who play online games and can be targeted through video game billboards and other real-time changing advertising spaces. This is one way to get at the coveted 18-35 demographic, now the video game companies can really make some money if they can rotate the ads so everytime you drive by the video game billboard the ad changes between 3 or 4 different varations.
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