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Sunday art special: The audacity of dope pope hope

Andrea — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:01:23 +0000

So, today’s edition of England For Obama comes with a special cut-out-and-keep section celebrating Obama-related art. Well: look at, print off and then cut-out-and-keep.

And we’ll kick off with this gem of a picture gallery from The Guardian:

(Thanks to John Q for the link.)

A whole generation moved

UKCZ — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:59:05 +0000

When you see music videos created as well as this one, you know that you’re a different kind of politician.

Click here to view the embedded video.

…and life imitating art

Andrea — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:07:44 +0000

So, like I say, I’m catching up where I left off with The West Wing.

Take a look at the end of the episode I watched this morning (*SPOILER ALERT* – do not watch this if you haven’t got as far as mid-way through Season 6 and/or don’t want to know what happens!):

Click here to view the embedded video.

*Update* Turns out the Santos/Obama similarities are neither coincidence nor prophecy: the writers on TWW modelled his character on the young Senator Obama. Ha! Read this (although again: *SPOILER ALERT*).