Looks like the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest and most respected museum, is in talks to purchase Shepard Fairey’s giant Obama portrait for their National Portrait Gallery (where Colbert got his portrait hung by the bathrooms). The piece was created for the Manifest Hope gallery show, and it carries a $75,000 price tag. Word is the museum is close to raising this figure through donations, so this may be nearing reality. This is a huge step for street art, and the poster/print scene in general.
Barack Obama has never set foot in the Oval Office. Talk about making an entrance. In a sit-down discussion Monday with President Bush, the president-elect will get his first feel for the place where momentous decisions will soon fall to him.
Bush invited Obama for the private talk, a rite of passage between presidents and successors that extends for decades.
The moment is sure to be steeped in history, part of a symbolic changing of a guard to Democratic leadership and the country’s first black president. But it will be substantive as well, as Bush and Obama are expected to review the nation’s enormous economic downturn and the war in Iraq.
“I’m going to go in there with a spirit of bipartisanship, and a sense that both the president and various leaders of Congress all recognize the severity of the situation right now and want to get stuff done,” Obama said last week when asked about his meeting with Bush…
I know this is as old as the internet by now, but it’s still amazing:
For anyone not familiar with the Palin shopping spree story:
The Republican National Committee has reportedly spent about $150,000 on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s wardrobe since she was chosen as John McCain’s running mate less than two months ago.
Alaska is a state where women are more commonly seen in Mukluk boots and heavy furs than stilettos and expensive tailored suits, but thrust into the national spotlight Mrs Palin has adopted a new look.
A self-professed adorer of high heels, she has sported a number of new styles on the campaign trail.
It looks as though Mrs Palin’s “the heels are on, the gloves are off” comment was more firmly based in reality than was previously thought.
The general theme of the articles is that her claim to being just an ordinary hockey mom doesn’t fit well with buying $150,000 worth of clothes.
Say it ain’t so, Sarah!
EDIT: Here’s the amazing photoset where this Obama picture comes from.
The photographer writes:
Senator Obama was doing press interviews by telephone in a holding room between events. Sometime later as he was getting ready to begin his event, he asked me if I was photographing his shoes. When I said yes, he told me that he had already had them resoled once since he entered the race a year earlier. Providence, R.I., 3/1/2008.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is airing an unusual two-minute TV ad about the economy, calling for “shared responsibility” and “real regulation” to rein in an “anything-goes culture on Wall Street.” The ad is part of the campaign’s effort to respond confidently and convincingly to this weekend’s financial meltdown. Two-minute ads are sometimes used in the opening or closing days of a campaign, but are rarely seen in the heat of the fall.
The ad begins running Wednesday on national cable stations, and will air in Florida and other battleground states - in some states, heavily.
“But now suddenly, John McCain says he is about change, too. He even started using some of my lines. Suddenly he says he wants ‘to turn the page.’ He had an ad today that he started running that he and Gov. Palin would bring the change that we need. He had this in an advertisement. Sound familiar? Let me tell you something, instead of borrowing my lines he needs to borrow our ideas,” Obama said.
He followed up with a dig at lobbyists, saying “..if you think those lobbyists are working day and night for John McCain just to put themselves out of business, well, then, I’ve got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska.”
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I called it.
For anyone unfamiliar with Joe Biden, Electoral-Vote has a good synopsis of the man. Pretty interesting. Commuted from DE for 35 years so he could take care of his sons.
I got my freakin’ text at 3 am. Obama the night owl. But anyway, there’s some sort of VP rally webcast going on at 3 pm on Barack Obama’s website.
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