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Besides some language, this video has a good point. I know I've been posting some stuff on this, but I think this is the most important election we've had in years and this video is both informative and funny. Unless you've lived under a rock, I know you've heard some cuss words, so relax. It's all in good - but important - fun.
HOLLYWOOD DECLARES THEMSELVES
October 3rd, 2008 - 08:23
heh Saw that the other day. If you can get past the pretentiousness of some of the actors, it’s pretty good.
I’m curious… do you guys on the team ever feel like you don’t have the freedom to express your personal political opinions? Given that management has done so much to revamp the team’s image over the last couple of years, I’d guess that they’d be a little afraid of alienating some fans if their players endorsed politicians.
October 3rd, 2008 - 10:45
Justin, did you see the pictures fro Greg Oden’s Summer Slam? He wore an Obama shirt. I know that at least the guest services staff was talking about how cool we thought it was that he wasn’t worried about showing his support. (It was an easy shift, there wasn’t a lot else to do)
October 3rd, 2008 - 14:15
I didn’t see the pictures, but I remember hearing that Obama called Oden around the time the senator was in town a few months back, so I assumed Oden was on Team Obama. And I remember that there was an Obama banner on this blog not too long ago, too.
I imagine the Good Owners and managers probably try to take a hands off approach to it. And frankly, it wouldn’t matter much to me if a player I liked came out as a McCain/Palin supporter…
(Ok, it would a little. Please don’t come out as a McCain/Palin supporter.)
October 3rd, 2008 - 15:31
Channing, you and your friend NBA ballers need to do a video like that one.
October 4th, 2008 - 10:57
Hey Channing, so what’d you think of fanfest?? I know you weren’t out there playing, which sucks, but you were there right? Sorry if you have a thread about this already.
Anyway, good luck this season man! Can’t wait to see ya out there ASAP
October 4th, 2008 - 13:48
Channing,
I know you’re a good guy, so I’d genuinely like to know your opinion about a few things.
1. Do your approve of Obama being married by Jeremiah Wright, and attending his church for 20 years while he’s saying things like “God Damn America” and “Our government introduced AIDS into black neighborhoods”?
2. Do you approve of Obama palling around with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers and serving on a board with him for 3 years?
3. If John McCain had friends like this, don’t you think the press would crucify him?
October 5th, 2008 - 16:16
congrats on M.O.W.
you deserve it
and JustinS hit the link in my name
October 6th, 2008 - 11:20
Hey Channing!
I’m so glad that you are in Portland. I really appreciate your being out there in the community. As far as your political views go, thanks for sharing them and for helping to get people to vote. Kudos for your participation in democracy!
Mel:
1)The truth hurts
2)I wonder how many terrorists McCain pals around with? I can only think of the one, at the moment, GW Bush.
3)Hopefully, the press will dig up the many skeletons in McCain’s many closets.
October 6th, 2008 - 16:50
@Lamar – Thanks for the link! That’s brilliant! Good for Oden, too.
@Mel –
Granted, some of Rev. Wright’s rhetoric sounds a bit extreme, but it’s not like we have a great track record for helping out African Americans. I can’t really blame any black man who holds a grudge against our government, especially if he’s Wright’s age.
Take the HIV thing. OK, so trying to pin that one on the government is a bit far-fetched, but when you have a disease that disproportionally affects the black population (they’re 13% of the population, yet make up 49% of the infected, http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/aa/resources/factsheets/aa.htm) and couple that with the fact that our government has admittedly experimented on black citizens with STDs in the past (Tuskegee syphilis experiment, http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/Story.asp?s=1207586), well, it’s a little easier to see why someone might have Wright’s opinion. I don’t agree with him on that one, but I can see why someone might make that leap.
As for Ayers, you’re just repeating the GOP talking points. Hell, I think you quoted Palin directly with your “Palling around with…” line.
Ayers has said he didn’t regret planting bombs, true, but the GOP has twisted some of his words around for their ads. For instance, Ayers has said on record that, when he said “we didn’t do enough,” he didn’t mean anything like “we didn’t plant enough bombs, etc.” Instead, he meant “we (the collective “we,” as in “the nation”) didn’t do enough to get us out of Vietnam.”
And the board the served on together was that of the Woods Fund of Chicago, http://www.woodsfund.org/about/mission, an antipoverty charity. Would it have been better if Obama DIDN’T lend his support toward that cause?
As for the treatment McCain would have received…
Obama and Ayers weren’t friends. The press already dug into that and multiple sources found that the connections between them were weak. That’s why there’s no witch hunt, not because the “liberal media” has it in for poor McCain.
October 7th, 2008 - 10:20
I liked that video. It made me check to see if I was registered to vote at the right address. You can check your registration status in Oregon here.
October 11th, 2008 - 12:32
Word, JustinS.
And well done, Greg. It’s okay to share your opinion of where you want this country to go. A democracy depends on people being able to respectfully disagree with each other. We should welcome other people to feel free to say things we may not agree with.
And, Greg, since you are in a tax bracket that will almost surely see a raise in taxes, I appreciate you voting to raise your taxes for the gain of the rest of us who don’t make so much (i.e., almost all your fans).