AlvinBlah

I’m going to be in DC selling these on The National Mall stop by and buy one then…or just download it on your own.

See you in DC!

~cr

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Oh happy days are here again… The future looks bright and I helped turn my home state of Indiana blue blue blue.

Wallpaper For Obama

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Here is my Election night map:

I’m from Indiana, I’ve seen the ground game and turnout here first hand. I fully expect the state to go blue, but by a very narrow margin; 2% or so. I would not be surprised if Indiana becomes the poster child for Republican “voter fraud” after they lose this election.

I made this map nearly 2 weeks ago, so I’m standing by my guns from then, before new polling data that suggests that Georgia could be an upset, and before there was a chance that Florida would backslide. I have basically given Obama all the bellweather states and all the long standing battlegrounds and a few new ones.

Maine is split for me because Maine is nearly always split, but I expect Nebraska to stay solid red.

Anyway, that’s my basic rundown and I’m happy to discuss it further with people in the comments.

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So,

I’m sitting around the house the night before the election watching some admittedly biased liberal news in regards to Olberman and Maddow, and inbetween the programs, a familiar ad comes up on the TV:

It’s an ad that I’ve seen for the past week on tv. I’m not sure how long it’s been on air in Indiana. Long enough that I hadn’t ever really paid attention. Till tonight. Something peculiar caught my eye. Something that makes me accuse The Republican Trust PAC of stealing copyrighted material. I accuse The Republican Trust of stealing the following image of Barack Obama from the Associated Press unless they can provide evidence to the contrary:

See, I run a little website where I’ve been making wallpaper and posters for Barack Obama. I’ve been pouring over images of the Senator From Illinois since late June. I’ve seen almost all of them that you can on Google, and I know a few things about that giant head of Obama.

1. The picture is easy to find on Google and is Hi-Res (good for TV)

2. I took the Image from the AC 360 Blog

3. The image originally came from the Associated Press

I took the pic to make a wallpaper image for my site where I tried to be flattering, not distort stories and not to make any money from it. Here’s what I did:

Here is the Original from AC 360:

As you can see from the imagery used in the ad the picture is identical from the AC post and my wallpaper. If you look in the bottom right left hand corner of the original pic you can see the Associated Press watermark.

I would like to see the recipt from The Republican Trust for this image. Untill then, they stole the picture and used it for a swift-boat style ad the week before the election.

Keep it up you picture theivin’ shit heads.

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We can very easily get caught up in the shouting and bluster of a political season, especially when it’s as partisan and important as this. The tension couldn’t be thicker, and it gets hard to step back from the edge when everyone is marching full tilt.

I came across this picture tonight, and it has re-framed everything for me. It has reminded me that behind all the loud talk, accusations and rhetoric that the idea that we are actually and truly going to elect a black man president of the United States of America…well it’s overwhelmingly historic and I am just happy to be alive and part of the scene. This is what our country is all about and should forever be:

These two boys waited as a long line of adults greeted Senator Obama before a rally on Martin Luther King Day in Columbia, S.C. They never took their eyes off of him. Their grandmother told me, “Our young men have waited a long time to have someone to look up to, to make them believe Dr. King’s words can be true for them.” Jan. 21, 2008.

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