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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  • teresakopec

    Thank you. Great video.

  • yoshiattack

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

  • davemc321

    Nicely done, Jay.

  • mchampion

    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.

  • TOJAF

    Thank you. What fun!
    TOJAF

  • Volum

    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 :)

  • jarais

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

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    [...] 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. [...]

  • dennisdenuto114

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

  • http://www.inworldstudios.com jayackroyd

    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.

  • ymmartin

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

  • lynnanne

    thank you, Jay, that was nice

  • karen248

    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!

  • http://phd9.blogspot.com Paul Dirks

    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.

  • james

    That was really good. Thanks.

  • disgusted

    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

  • Jay Fan

    That was a beautiful video.

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

    Thanks.

  • james

    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.

  • http://time.com Jordan C. Fan, Prophet Of Environment

    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.

  • http://time.com Jordan C. Fan, Prophet Of Environment

    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.

  • http://www.myspace.com/darrentomlyn KeillRandor

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

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  • Chokora Fukara

    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.

  • Jay Newton-Small

    ymmartin: Craig is responsible for the music and those Xs you liked for the days Paul Dirks — I was just the shooter, he’s the expert who put it all together. KeillRandor, love the haiku. karen, I have, indeed, been very lucky and honored to have had a front seat to this amazing campaign. I can’t believe election day is actually here.
    JNS

  • pirate wench (demwoman)

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

  • http://time.com Jordan C. Fan, Prophet Of Environment

    Religious Implication Of The American Presidential Election.

    Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

    It is highly important that you will convey my messages to your readers or visitors to your websites. I am trying to help people of the U. S.

    Barack Obama cannot be elected as president because the Democratic Party has lied and deceived the Environment and God during the Bil 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 face. Uncontrollable final and total destruction 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.

    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 face. Uncontrollable final and total destruction 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 Prlean is a good example.
    The current U. S. A. presidential election should be what many prophets have prehesied as the Last Judgement, Apocalypse, or Armageddon. As I have mentioned earlier Armagddon is literary means “Battle Ground State” which is Maryland, the Capital of African Americans near the actul Capital of Washington DC.

    Since this election is so involving and important that many other nations therefore in adition to Americans are deeply affected by it. Even non-voters & non-United States citizens are not going to vote this particular election will still affect them for long time to come.

    As I have mentioned earlier about the relationship between Environment/God and mankind. To Environment/God, men are no better than the Guinea Pigs of the Environment who will be used for experimental purposes. Beginning with the year 2000, the Environment/God have decided that some human should no longer be treated as Guinea Pig as long as they can remain non-aggressive and will not make drastic changes to our planet and the Universe. In other words, they must be very passive & non-violent. Likewise, after long period of being subject to ambitious and exhaustive experimentation some men may deserve a break after such long history of aggression & violence.

    The Democratic Party, especially during the Clinton administration, has always preferred wasting resources in favor of massive development. Unfortunately, Obama has planned revived drastic changes to the society, world & Universe. Therefore whoever will vote for or support Obama’s ideology will continue to subject to Guinea Pig like episodes with great tortures & then horrifying death. Those who will vote against Obama along with their descendents will enjoy a relatively peaceful period of rest for many generation to come. Because they have proven to be intelligent people who had faith and trust in the Environment. The choice and judgement are ours now! Those ghosts & dead souls who are the victims of wars created by the Americans through the years have been let out of Hell to take revenge against the United States. They will prove My Prophecies from the Environment. The suffering of Democrat supporters will be intense.

    To begin this discussion, Bill Clinton and the Democrats had rejected the Kyoto Treaty to reduce “Green House” gases. The Clinton Administration never had any intention of slowing down the economy, development and expansion which wasting the largest amount of natural resources, most pollution and destruction to the Environment. While the Nixon Administration had initiated the EPA and subsequent Environmental works were performed by Reagan. Clinton never initiate any projects and improvement while the Democrat falsely claimed they are the political party for the Environment which was certainly a lie and deception to fool the Environment. Such deception has failed. The Democratic is a total racially controlled political party with no commitment to Environment but devoted exclusively for the some racial gruops to get rich at the expense of the Environment.

    If Obama is elected the U. S. will become a dictatorship with Democratic Party controlling all branches of the government. The political system will be without check and balance. The Democrats will be free to pass any legislature taking away all the freedom of all Americans. The rights to bear arms and guns will be abolished. All freedom, liberty and citizens rights for self protectin will be gone will be taken away in favor of the dictatorship of a Black minority group.
    It is definitely not the intention of the Environment or God for Obama and any Democrats to be elected to any office after such crimes have been commited against the Environment and God during the Clinton Administration. Try pushing Democrats into any American government office will only result in great disasters such as the Great Depression II we are current facing in addition to endangering themselves.

    Obama cannot be strong in business and economy because foreign investment, foreign and American companies will simply move out of the United States. Who would want risk their hard earned money on a country who would soon become communist or social as Obama has suggested. Besides Obama simply anti-anything big business and anti-Chinese and Russian, etc… Why would any one want to have anything to do with the U. S. After all, Obama is simpy a unlucky person whose mother was dead very young, supporter sch as Ted Kennedy is dying, his grandmother is dying, and many of his Black supporters are dying or dead in the last few month. How can he bring any good fortune to the U.S.?

    No one should run on adrenaline forever especially our planet earth and human race. Since the turn of the millennium human development and progress had reached its peak on the curve of the development of mankind. We are currently on a downward slope of constant decline until eternity. During this election, choose your support wisely. May the Environment and Great Spirits of Halloween prevail to help McCain and Palin.

  • http://time.com Jordan C. Fan, Prophet Of Environment

    What’s Wrong With “W”? — George W. Bush’s Political Troubles. By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet Of Environment. This title are words all started with “W.” If you have seen the movie “W” you certainly will know what “W” represent — George W. Bush. The following are my observations about “What’s Wrong With W.”: (1) George W. Bush’s first mistake was to hire all Blacks for his foreign relation departments. To start his administration, Bush used Colin Powell as Secretary of State and Coni Rice as Foreign Policy Advisor. After firing Powell, Bush still insisted on using a Black woman – Rice as Secretary of State. Together, Powell and Rice have initiated numerous foreign policies which made the U. S. failed on all fronts. Quite obviously, they are all spying for Democrats especially when Powell is currently endorsing Obama. (2) Since the Secretary of State also control U. S. embassies aboard, they can make it much easier for Africans to immigrate to the U. S. whereby increasing the population of voters who will vote against the Republican Party. (3) Bush and Chaney were to too greedy in thinking Iraqi oil can bring them great fortune. Saddam Hussein had problems making money from his oil reserve during peace time. How can Bush and Chaney get profit from oil during a war? (4) Even before Bush took office, the United States was already in a recession. The U. S. government was simply presenting fictitious economic figures to recover up their financial troubles. They also try to improve the economy by increasing military spending. Increase military and related civilian employment will also improve employment statistic. (5) Ever since the Civil War, the United States were never “United.” All the Americans could do is to tried to escape from their troubles by expanding westward based on their “Manifest Destiny” ideology. (6) When they had reached the Pacific, Americans started to invade countries such as Hawaii, Philippines and Japan to start World War II. Until finally they reached China and its Korean ally, and were being stopped right at its track. China is simply too vast and Chinese are too strong and intelligent for the American to defeat. So are the Vietnamese. The U. S. was defeated in Asia. There were little or no more colonies for the U. S. to fulfil its ‘Manifest Destiny.” Therefore the U.S. will have to disintegrate. George W. Bush has aggressively extended his destiny too far which have crossed over into other people’s destiny. He had unwisely claimed the domains of Russian, French and British territory as his own which caused his failure in Iraq. battles are raging between corporate executives and stockholders. Greed plays an important role in the downfall of the Bush administration. There are plenty of corruption in the Federal, state, and local government. Even civilian and military personnel aboard are corrupt. The t(7) Also since the Civil War, the U. S. has been trying to destabilize the world. First they attacked Britain, Spain and then China during the Eight Nations Invasion (Boxer Rebellion) of the Qing Dynasty. After that, the U. S. had exported their rebellious ideology to countries such as Serbia to initiate and then participate in World War I. The U. S. also supported the British to start WWII. In addition, the U. S. has continuously staging revolutions, coups, protests and demonstrations using freedom, liberty, human rights and racial independence as excuses. Finally such U. S. strategy came back to haunt Bush and his efforts in the Middle East. The expansions have all failed due to human rights violation issues. Same situations also caused the American failure in Vietnam. (8) In addition to unity problems, the American economy have collapsed since the Great Depression of late 1920-30. The only reason they are still surviving is to use the method of “robbing Peter to pay Paul.” To achieve such goal, the U. S. resort to massively wasting our world’s natural resources on unnecessary and redundant projects. In many cases, Americans will simply throw away perfectly functional items so that they can manufacture new ones to stimulate industry. There were also welfare and research programs which have little or no clients. Their government also encourage fraud in those programs, in addition to forcing and harassing other countries into supporting American wasteful policies. (9) Failure of education programs. No matter how hard the American government has tried, their education programs failed. Americans are simply not in the mood to study. More than half of the school children never even bring their books home. Others are too busy participating in extracurrricular activities in sports and social events. At home, students are often too busy arguing, dating, watching movies/TV, playing music, video games, chatting on the phones and Internet. Most children were seriously affected by their financial and family problems to pay any attentions to study. Little or no one were interested in studying or other activities which could improve their employment qualification. Rich families will send their children to private schools. Most companies already have plenty of well trained high level workers and have no need to support education. In fact they need more lower level labors to fill routine jobs. The United States have no choice but to bring in immigrants or outsourcing to India to fill the gaps. This also resulted in income and export shortfall. The failure to overturn affirmative action at the Supreme Court has damage the quality of education further. (10) Seriouswo major political parties are too busy choking each other’s throats than to care about corruptions and government inefficiency. Racial tension will prevent both side from criticizing each other especially on racial sensitive matters in the workplace and society. Political correctness forbids anyone from commenting on anything. (11) Lack of cooperation from the media. American media are extremely bias. Bush’s strong arm policy and his challenging of the press have worsen the situation and washed away media supports. The situations were especially serious when many of Bush’s policy are implemented without good reasons and full of loopholes. His confrontation with the media brought about his final demise. (12) I don’t think John McCain should be penalized by mistakes made by his predecessors. George W. Bush is a spoiled heir to a well-to-do family while McCain is a well polished, fully trained, disciplined, tough and no nonsense soldier and politician. They are simply men of totally different breed. McCain will certainly perform better and have more motivation to achieve his objectives. McCain will challenge America’s highly bias media, reuniting Congress and stamping out corruptions in government and corporations. (13) During this Halloween Season, election and other important matters especially those of competition in nature will undoubtedly control or release by my supernatural and spiritual forces. Anything can happen now with little or no predictions and protection to anyone. More than likely some Scarecrows who hidden behind the Bush will suddenly jump out to scare you or haunt us. So expect the unexpected! Additional branches on Bush should continue to grow or fall here during this highly catastrophic Fall Season and beyond, or you may want to add or subtract some of his failure. May the Great Spirit of Halloween prevail and bring about my success!

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