tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14554498248851971092011-04-21T17:27:00.105-07:00Astonished, The Monocle raises its spectacles to take a closer look at the world of American Campaign Politics.The Flowergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626190642388853139noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455449824885197109.post-18591451115960210742008-06-04T03:48:00.000-07:002008-06-04T04:27:34.718-07:00

Barack Obama, the Senator from Illinois, is the Democratic party's nominee for President of the United States. It took Obama 400 years to wrestle this nomination from Hillary Clinton, and he has 5 days to campaign for the actual office of president, but...wait. There's plenty of time for that sorta talk. Stay with us, listeners. The Monocle had been watching the Obama YouTube channel, and it

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Dear Sir,It has come to our attention that certain of your good colleagues have overloaded on Dunkin Donuts, bleary back-seat cat-naps, incessant, blaring hotel-television news, debate-hall entrance music and constant deadlines, and have started to turn in copy like this:Last week was his worst since he launched his campaign in February last year. He was tested by an incendiary public

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Welcome back, y'all! Unfortunately the Monocle overloaded sometime around the 36th Very Last Primary, and we've just now stepped off the plane from a charming little retreat on an unamed island somewhere between cell-phone & broadband ranges, so we have no idea who the Democrats chose as their nom...what. The. F*ck? Seriously. No. Indiana? Are they MAKING UP STATES now?Maaargh, at this stage

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What could possibly have drawn the Monocle out of its coma? Was it the surprisingly viable Huckabee candidacy (WE CALLED IT! WE CALLED IT AGES AGO!)? Was it the moronic hooha surrounding Hillary's allegedly career-turning sniffle? Was it the inevitable race-based fracas between Hillary and Barack, a fight which proves, once and for all, that the Democratic party is perfectly capable of

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As our national football team miss-kick England's dreams in an operatic, mud-splattered failure, our minds turn to another booboo across the pond. Last week Hillary Clinton was polling at 46% in the race for the Dem's nomination. This week: 36%. What the he'? How'd THAT happen? Suffice to say, she has had a bit of a 'mare, these last few news cycles. Let's take a closer look.Suzanne

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Sorry, guess we must have passed out in a drunken stupor on the couch after the 300th New Debate Format Extravaganza. Even PAID bloggers don't try to do too much. Where are we now? Hold on a sec...ok. Right. Weeee're...pretty much where we left off! Turns out this race is like The Archers: 3 updates a day, and you could emigrate for fifty years without much happening. Though at least the

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Now a certain someone has finally come on out and said who they think's gonna win the democratic primaries. Pundits have been waiting with baited breath for this moment. But who is our mysterious political soothsayer? Is it Al Gore? Newt Gingrich? David Letterman? Britney Spears? Woah. Hold up. Check this, you guys: it's the President. You know, the President of the United States?

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Hello, birds, hello trees! All you need is love, da-da-dada-da, All you need is love - and a stupendously hot wife growing out of your left shoulder - da-da-dada-da. And possibly a small amount of high-grade, da-da-dada-da. Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich is no longer the Former Mayor of Cleveland, he's the Goddamn Mayor of Love. Unhuh, get down! And while you're down there

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Rudolph Giuliani has an iffy history with the National Rifle Association, to say the least. As mayor of New York F*ckin Citeh in its Taxi Driver days, he was kind of mean about guns. If you believe New Yorkers, back then a thirteen-year-old girl could buy a massive bazooka from her nearest Bodega and roam the streets unchecked, holding up steakhouses. So it's no wonder he said this:

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Here's a tasty taste of what happens when you don't let a candidate sleep for 40 days:Is it us, or does Hillary look like she forgot that her role as best man at a shotgun wedding wasn't over and got stuck into the 'poo way before lunch had even started, so that by the time the speeches rolled around she had to be poked in the gut by her beady-lookin' wife, slipped a little on her way to the mic,

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FINALLY! Someone somewhere has realized that England totally wasn't getting enough play in this election and sent a delegation to meet with the government. Only, they went to meet the government of 1984, as led by Big Bad Baroness Thatcher. And they sent Rudy Giuliani. But no matter! We're important! Before he jumped back on the plane to spend today with the National Rifle Association,

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For the longest time, we've felt that Republican candidate Ron Paul's supporters give the internet the worst name. They shout at you in BADLY SPELLD CAPTIAL LETTERS ON YOUTUBE RON APUL 4 PRESDIENT SPEAKIN TRUTH 2 POWER READ THE DESCRIPTION!!!!!!!! A new dawn is breaking, however, as one brave Paul-ista makes her voice heard above the crowd. And how? With her bare, pure, honest skin, of course.

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Hey everybody! People keep asking, "Is America ready for a woman President?" To this, we reply: Is America ready for a FEMALE president. FEMALE. In what eaarthly world is "woman" an adjective? GodDAMMIT. Back when The Monocle was in college, and there was nothing to do but get high and spend our student loans on box-sets of HBO shows, we sure did watch a lot of Sex And The City. Aaah,

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The Republicans are totally going to win this election without the vote of a single minority, everybody. Who needs black people? Who needs Latinos? Last week all the Republican candidates except John 'At This Point, Anything' McCain refused to debate on Unavision, North America's largest Spanish-language TV channel. Yesterday it emerged that the top 5 Republican candidates certainly weren't

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Surprise! Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are still scuffling about that pesky war. Poor Hillary: one tiny vote for the war in Iraq, like, AGES ago, and people just won't get off her case about it. This latest bout of playground pushing comes in the wake of a f**king stupid advertisement in the New York Times taken out by liberal campaigners MoveOn. The ad dubbed General Petraeus 'General

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It turns out that no matter how many smart people you have working on a campaign it still kinda matters whether or not yer candidate is at least a little bit on top of his shit. Ever since Fred Thompson kicked off his run, Arthur Branch, DA has been blundering about, tripping over every important conservative issue in sight. First he hated on Jesus, now he can't totally recall the details of

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Wooh. That picture's kinda scary. Anyhoodle, today we're going to talk a little bit about Jeezus. Jeezus will be watching over the next few months reeeally carefully. Everywhere you turn, there he'll be, tripping up perfectly ordinary issues with his big old feet, shouldering his way into debates you never even dreamed he might show up at. in 2004, George Bush Junior won 78% of the

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Yesterday was was the anniversary of 9/11 - and what better way to Remember Our Heroes than with a Memorial Nasty Anonymous Website Casting Wild And Certainly Libelous Accusations At Your Opponent? Mitt Romney's campaign may or may not have been hurling secret poo at Fred Thompson on the internet, and they got caught. Next time, they should make sure the website they say mean things on can't

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Ok FINE, let's talk about Mike Huckabee. It seems that A Small Town Called Hope, Arkansas has a machine out the back which just SHOOTS out little Presidential candidates. First Bill Clinton and now former lardass Huckabee have made the journey all the way from Hope, through the Governor's mansion, and onto the election tour bus. The reason we're shining the desk-lamp of fame onto Mike today is

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Man, now that Fred Thomspn has put on his best dress and finally been coaxed from his bedroom to make an appearance at the Republican party, he's gonna be SO PISSED about this. Turns out Mike Bloomberg, the Mayor of Noo York Citeh, might, you know, make a little cameo himself. How do we know this? Well, he's only gone and got himself a FACEBOOK page, hasn't he. These days, beefing up your

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Fred Thompson has announced. And announced. And announced. It's worth taking a look at this for as long as you can before you, you know, wander off to make yourself a drink. But when you do mix that highball, make it a strong one.Look at those ol' puppy-dawg eyes. Sh*t.

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Last night the Republican party barely snatched victory from defeat in their televised New Hampshire debate, despite the fact that they were only debating each other. Eeesh, it doesn't look good out there. In all the liveblogging The Monocle has perused this morning (so you don't have to! Cos you totally would otherwise!) everyone seems to have been drinking heavily. Here's a list. Everyone

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Right. We'd better...zzzzoh! Sorry! We should talkzzzzzok! Yup! Fred Thompson. Time to talk about him again. Now I'm sure you've all been on the edge of your seats, wond'rin when old Fred is going to announce that he's running for President. Yes sir. Or perhaps you thought he already was, hmm? He's been playing the world's media (valiantly represented by one of the Washington Posts's

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John Edwards, the Little Mill Worker that Could, was endorsed yesterday by the Steel and Coal Mining Unions. Since Edwards has been pole-dancing frantically for organised labour for the last few months, this isn't going to come as a body-blow for Hill and Barry. Also, Chris Dodd, (you know HIM. You know, that guy with the silver hair. No, silly, the other one) just got the Firefighter's

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Last weekend was Labour day across the pond. To The Monocle, Labour day (or Labor Day if you will) is the moment in which New York City stops being a blissful, empty adventure playground and fills up once again with a**holes back from their Hamptons house shares. To the names on the 2008 sign-up sheet hung outside the Cafeteria of Destiny, Labor Day heralds the gunshot that starts the sprint

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And so. A Nation Mourns. A Life in Pictures. Stop all the clocks. Shut all the shops. Karl Rove is no more. August 31st was his last day at work. In the Roosevelt Room, at 7:30 a.m., the man we have come to know as MC Rove was presented with a slide show of his days in the White House. He was too choked up to speak. So are we. Or at least, we're overcome with...some feeling. A really

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Oh yeah, ages ago Mitt Romney won the Iowa Straw Poll, shocking literally nobody. Huckabee came second. None of this means anything, and nobody cares about it at all. Except for Mike Huckabee. Mike Huckabee's pretty stoked right now.

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You have to feel for Larry Craig, the Republican Senator for Idaho. There you are, in June, minding your own business, using a regular old bathroom stall/public park/badger reserve to solicit same-sex sexual encounters with strangers, and whaddya know! That blue-eyed charmer you're do-si-do-ing with whips out his police credentials! And, unfortunately, that is not a euphemism. This June,

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that so far 2008:The Endless Campaign has been a bumper-pack of R&B videos, thinly disguised racial slurs and sopranos-related japery. There is no earthly reason why the world SHOULDN'T already have settled on the couch, chips n dips at the ready, to watch it unfold. But the Monocle is going on holiday, and before we go, like Jerry Springer, we'd like to

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And so to the YearlyKos Convention, a great gathering of political nerds, elves and unemployed college grads, aaand the perfect setting for the latest installment of this month's Key Theme: Hillary vs. All You Motherf*ckers. While the YouTube debates are moderated by a talking puppet and require the candidates to submit their answers in song form only, the YearlyKostravaganza consists of 400

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This weekend, you couldn't swing a cat without hitting a Presidential Candidate debate. They were practically standing in your supermarket aisles while you chose your cereal, "clarifying your question for you." At the YearlyKos convention the Dems were trotted up and down in front of an elite squadron of liberal bloggers, while the Repubs enjoyed the benefits of TV scheduling, going out live to

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Welcome to Ames, Iowa, everybody! Have a cookie! The Ames Straw Poll is the small town of Ames's way of helping the Republicans figure out how everybody's doing out there. Sometimes these campaigns get so crazy, it's nice just to check in, you know? Have a little dinner, raise a little money for the GOP. Debate some, drink some, poll some. It's super-fun. Republican candidates even buy

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You remember in high-school when you didn't have all that many friends, and, like, the system was oppressive, man, but you were sure you were destined for intellectual world domination yourself? You remember your diary entries? You know how you read them now and vow that no-one, but no-one, will ever be allowed to see them? Imagine if your little brother put them on the internet. Imagine if

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Let's see, McCain still has no money, but his campaign has taken on the thrilling tint of an heroic insurgency, which should be good for a few more months. 'Matinee' Mitt Romney told everyone to 'lighten up' about 9/11, and Rudy had a pretty serene month. Democrat Joe Biden (who was once famously busted for nicking an autobiographical speech off Neil Kinnock, of all people) has been answering

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There were questions in the form of a song, in the form of a talking snowman; there were questions from a man who called his gun his 'baby.' There was a probably-insightful question about No Child Left Behind that had such an embarassing heavy-metal soundtrack that the Monocle couldn't bear to watch another second. It wudn't really a debate. Monday's Youtube thing happened; everyone decided

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If You watch a lot of Youtube, you'll have already noticed that most political posts are followed by a comment that goes something like this: RON PAUL FOR PRESDIENT HE IS THE GREATEST THING EVERYBODY SHOULD GET OUT AND VOTE FOR RON PAUL THE ONLY HONEST MAN IN POLTICS. But and why does everybody on the internet think he's so cool?Let's see if we can untangle this little ball of yarn. Ron Paul

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Ohmahgagh! The world's first...wait, the world's second...well, whatever. The Democratic Youtube debate starts tonight at midnight. Be there or have better things to do. The beauty of the youtube debate is, in essence, the beauty of the 2008 campaigns. If it all goes without a hitch, no-one will pay the slightest bit of attention to anything anybody says. If, however, a candidate makes a

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A leaked Memo from the newly, uh, streamlined McCain campaign has stunned the internets. Making a comparison between McCain's recent financial booboos and the 1979 meldown of Ronald Reagan's White House-headed juggernaut, this memo advises the Senator to "Live off the Land." And while the poor guy crouches behind a New Hampshire oak tree gnawing on discarded hotdogs his advisors have hit upon

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Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you Former Senator Fred Thomson of Tennessee. And his wife. Damn, Fred. Naughty boy. Although...Jeri looks kinda shy. We hope she's ok. She actually seems a little bit...sad. Is she looking at us? Is she trying to...Is she trying to speak to us with her eyes? No, gentlemen, her EYES. Oh, but it gets better. Much better. The New Dark Horse of the

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Pain. Drain. Strain. John McCain has had a really, really bad week.

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The slogan of the State Tourist Board reads 'Welcome to New Hampshire, You're Going To Love It Here." Apparently,the fall foliage is to die for. It's over 97 % white, and 80% Christian. It calls itself the Granite State, and it casts the very first votes in the presidential election cycle. Nobody really knows why. The people of New Hampshire take their responsibities very seriously indeed.

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While the Democratic party romps all over the media, well-slept and neatly dressed, the Republican party has emerged into the 2008 campaign looking absolutely knackered. (Having said that, it has long been clear that the Democrats couldn't pump a bullet into the GOP if they were given a free shot from three inches away.) Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, has suggested that the

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Al Gore + Television + Democracy = Our serious article of the day. Cut and Paste the URL, if the link doesn't work. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200705u/gore-television

The Flowergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626190642388853139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455449824885197109.post-71256164443702308442007-07-18T02:59:00.000-07:002007-09-13T09:04:18.721-07:00

The Monocle was j-u-u-st about to upload some white-knuckle footage of the all-night Democratic fillibuster on a bill to pull American troops out of Iraq within 120 days. There were close-ups of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dozing in his chair! An exact count of the amount of water-glasses consumed by Senator Clinton! Then I saw this.And I just...knew.

The Flowergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626190642388853139noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455449824885197109.post-80441306180949412792007-07-17T05:42:00.000-07:002007-09-13T09:04:51.179-07:00

The Monocle would like to draw your attention to the following clip. We assume this isn't the first time you've seen it: in the days following the incident, it was shown 633 times by cable and broadcast news networks. But what, you may well ask, does it have to do with this election? WELL. Howard Dean gave this speech just moments after having lost the Iowa Democratic Caucus. He was

The Flowergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02626190642388853139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1455449824885197109.post-24720549517717718012007-07-17T05:32:00.000-07:002007-09-13T09:05:22.487-07:00

Barack Obama! A Man of Destiny! A Man of Change! A New Hope! The Second Coming! So far, he has raised...golly, even more than Ms. Rodham Clinton. But...why? Well, he's dishy, but not, The Monocle personally believes, quite as dishy as John Edwards. No, the real reason for all this Obamarama is the following clip. At the Democratic National Convention, the man from Illinois gave the

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