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Video: Obama's Last Campaign Days

So I've been toting a little video camera around this week and our video guru Craig Duff assembled the footage along with some of Callie Shell's amazing photographs.

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  • 1

    Thank you. Great video.

  • 2

    Liberal bias! Where's the camcorder log of McCain? :)

  • 3

    Nicely done, Jay.

  • 4

    JNS,

    Thank you. Remember when we used to fuss at you? Your waffle-gate story is what started my desire to comment - but not in a good way. Since then you have posted many very insightful and thoughtful stories and I (and many others) are very grateful for your resiliency and knowledge and willingness to interact with a somewhat cranky set of commenters.

    Tomorrow will provide us with a new direction for our country - what a gift we've been given to have witnessed it.

    Again, great video, photos, and comments. Many thanks.

  • 5

    Thank you. What fun!
    TOJAF

  • 6

    Great stuff, sir. Thank you for such a job well done. Most people here at Swampland really proved their worth during this election season, and some of you now aren't the sloppy, white house stenographers that you've been for the last 8 years.

    You may have just been accepted back into mainstream society :)

  • 7

    Great stuff, sir.
    It's been a really sad evening, but this put a smile on my face.

  • 8

    [...] Time magazine’s Jay Newton-Small vith the help of Craig Duff assembled video footage along with some of Callie Shell’s photographs about the last days of the Obama campaign. [...]

  • 9

    JNS: very nice, thank you. I really enjoyed that.

  • 10

    The Obama organizational effort is going to legendary. And a paradigm shift. All of those little self-empowered organizers are going to have been schooled on how to run a campaign.
    .
    http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/on-road-atlanta-georgia.html
    .
    People credit Nate, rightly so, for his number crunching. But he has honored Bill James in his focus on what really matters. The numbers are meant to lend insight, not to create distance.

  • 11

    @JNS just wondering did Craig suggest the music or did you put your stamp on it. Have to say I like it.

  • 12

    thank you, Jay, that was nice

  • 13

    Thank you for sharing. I hope you realize how fortunate you are to have been a part of this historic campaign. I'd love to hear more about your experiences.
    .
    And by the way, folks, Jay is a SHE!

  • 14

    Very nice.

    I like the effect of juxtaposing all those "X days" quotes so you really get the feel for how much effort campaigning actually entails.

  • 15

    That was really good. Thanks.

  • 16

    I'm surprised that you got such good video and sound from that far up Obama's ***.

    The contrast from the McCain...umm...black-and-white tribute to the sides of Secret Service agents' heads and whatnot is hilariously beyond parody.

    It was nice while it lasted, but American journalism is now most certainly dead. See: http://tinyurl.com/5qycbm

  • 17

    That was a beautiful video.

    Can I also take a moment to say that the camera person is beautiful?

    Thanks.

  • 18

    Heil to disgusted. But those who must endure your rant surely deserve that nick more than you. Tell us what Christian church you worship in. You are surely one of those pious Christians who preach hate out of the side of their mouth. Go...nevermind...I stiffle my potty mouth at this point.

  • 19

    By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

    As I have written many many time before the Democratic Party has betrayed the Environment and breaking its promises to protect the Environment while claiming it is the political party for the Environment. To God and Environment, the Democrats have committed an unforgivable sin which is worse than not doing anything at all. The Republicans have done more to saving the Environment and resource even though they said they will not. Such doublecrossing of the Environment will be punished with the greatest and harishest tortures ever known to men happen to all Democrats and whoever voted for the Democratic Party. The death of Obama's grandmother is a good example so is the dying of Ted Kennedy. So were other media people and the Press. This election will will be a good way to decide who will be receiving these punishments. As Prophet of Environment, I am writing and trying to help all you. Don't vote for Obama and the Democratic Party or you will suffer greatly. It is certainly wrong to lie to and betray the Environment.

  • 20

    The Obama Mistake
    From: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet Of Environment.
    THIS IS THE MY MOST IMPORTANT VOTING TIP:

    Obama's last campaign days will be his last campaign days. He can have no more campaign days in the future. Meaning it will be all over for him.If you are not sure who to vote for or you are planning to vote for Obama, you are about to make the most important mistake in human history. If you vote for Obama, the U. S. will be "changing" from a capitalistic nation into a communist nation in 11 month since Obama first campaign for president. This is a enormous change in such a short time. Shouldn't you at least wait for another four years and find out what will be involved in such a drastic change? Besides, Obama is still very young and can be elected after another four years from now. His personality and abilities have been well proven. McCain has start campaign for president since the year 2000 every terms for eight years. He is getting old with much great experience and naturally should become president as his time is running out. The U. S. will beome a one (Democratic) party dictatorship if all three branches of the government (executive, judiciala and legislative), also both House and Senate turn Democrats. The rights to bear arms and guns will also be taken away by Obama. By losing guns, you also lose all opportunities to revolt later if you don't like your government. More importantly, if you are mixing racial dominance and dictatorship, you are inviting halocaust, secret police, concentration camps and lost of your jobs and houses by another race different from yours. Electing a Black president is very dangerous when the U. S. is not fully integrated. When mixing racial issues with dictatorship is an invitation to holocaust, concentration camps and taking away all the belonging of a particular race. Obama is simply neither trustworthy nor electable. If you don't believe my facts, simply look at what's happening in Congo today. To associate issues such as abortions and gun control to a specific political party who is based race are wrong. We simply cannot identify with White as owning guns and pro-"life". We cannot identify Blacks as pro-choice or gun control. In short, you are voting Obama to give away everything you own. It is especially true for Environmental Protection, Black are the worse pollutor in the U. S. and the world. Barack Obama cannot be elected as president because the Democratic Party has lied and deceived the Environment and God during the Bill Clinton Administration as the U. S. political party for Environmental Protection which in fact their record are much much worse than the Republican. In fact Clinton and the Democrats have created the worse Environmental problems our world will or have ever faced. Uncontrollable final and total destuction of the U. S. will come if Obama or Democrats were elected to any government offices. Hurricane Katrina destroying the Black Democrat community in New Orlean is a good example. As great a historian, I can never find something more stupid than what msot Americans are trying to d now. It will be mistake of historical proportion to elect Obama.

  • 21

    Last days on the trail
    Obama exits the plane
    Time has been frozen

  • 22

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  • 23

    JNS:
    A good time was had by all (- including those who were blogging about the food).
    Great work. Thank you for sharing.
    --
    off topic!
    Maybe the old style of having a password to your ID/name was better. I hate having my ID mimicked.

  • 25

    Nice work, Jay! Hope you keep recording at the victory rally this evening!

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