GrooveShark.com - Better than Pandora?

I know I already wrote about pandora. However, if you only got your 40 free hours of music this month from pandora and are hesitant about spending the $37 for unlimited music then switch to Grooveshark.com. Tons of music flows through Grooveshark and you can pretty much personalize it to yourself. It has great functionality and is very user friendly. I am not an avid user yet so I cant exactly fill you in on all of their great functions. I do know one thing though, If you’re Canadian you can actually use Grooveshark, unlike Pandora. Check it out, its easy to use, its sleek, and most importantly it has a lot of great music.

The Next Rev. Wright for the Right...really?

McCain was endorsed by Reverend Rod Parsley and McCain has refused to denounce Parsley's statements. Parsley wants to see the "false religion" of Islam "destroyed." According to McCain, any endorsement is a good endorsement, but will he say anything about Rev. Wright? He has already spoken out and said Hammas has endorsed Obama and we can not have a president that endorsed by terrorists. When confronted by Jon Stewart on the issue, he talked around it.

Use of Humor

Hilary Clinton shows her humorous side on the Colbert Report on April 17th. Despite numrous parodies of her 3am phone call, which is remarkably similar to Walter Mondale's campaign ad of 1984, she agrees that Colbert can call her, even at 3am. I believe Clinton is trying to soften her edges after allegations for months, and even years, that she is trying to over compensate for being a woman in a predominately male arena. She is perceived as too serious and by appearing on shows such as this, she is slowly combating this (mis)conception

Being True to Yourself?

Arianna Huffington was on the Colbert Report last week to promote her new book. She claims that the right has hijacked John McCain. I remember thinking the past few years that McCain would be the one Republican I would be ok with voting for if necessary to be President, but over the past several months, he seems to have changed, to have bought into the GOP establishment in order to win the White House. Arianna Huffington even makes the parallel that McCain endorsing torture, is like Stephen Colbert becoming the President of the Grizzly Bear Fan club (Grizzly bears "on notice" for the Colbert Show and were recently featured on the "threat down" segment). McCain has always been adament against allowing torture of any prisoners, as he himself was a prisoner of war for 6 years in Vietnam. It just seems that as McCain needs to appease the Republican base, he loses he appeal the the centrists and several Democrats and his "maverick" status is revoked.

Change of Focus

Parent often tell us that if you are able to focus on the big picture instead of the tiny details on the way to the goal, its a sign of maturity. If this is the case, then Obama is showing more maturity than Clinton, or at least, he has a campaign staff that is. While Clinton was heavily campaigning in West Virginia on Tuesday, awaiting for her big celebration speech for her expected landslide win. Obama, instead, was campaigning in Missouri, which is expected to be a swing state in the general election. Obama may have gotten less coverage on Tuesday, but he may have made a more efficient use of his time with regards to the "big picture."

By using this time to speak to voters that may vote for either party in November, Obama is combatting the work that McCain has been doing since the Democrats started to tear each other apart. With this mindset, Obama has a greater chance of moving into the White House this fall.

John Edwards Endorsement

John Edwards endorsed Obama on Wednesday with the hope to unify the party by the time the DNC Convention comes around. Although many analysts state that this endorsement may have been more useful several months ago with the nomination was still up in the air, the Obama campaign certainly did not turn it away.

This endorsement has helped Obama get closer to the delegate count in order to cinch the nomination outright, only 135 delegates away. Edwards could have held out his endorsement until the convention to unify the party under a common value system and image of America. However, by announcing now, he took away some of the media attention Clinton was receiving for her large victory in West Virginia. This may have been an attempt to convince the party that although Clinton did win that contest, she has essentially no chance of winning the nomination.

Although John Edwards may have endoresed Obama on Wednesday, his wife Elizabeth did not. Elizabeth believes that Clinton has the stronger health care plan and is not a part of the Edwards endorsement.

Looking Towards November

Although the Democratic Party is deeply divided, a recent poll by Quinnipiac University showed both Democratic candidates beating presumptive Republican nominee John McCain by greater than the margin of error. The polls accounted for plus of minus 2.4 points in either direction and Obama was said to win 47% to 40% against McCain and Clinton to win with 46% to 41% against McCain. There was no further information about the demographics from which the poll was conducted.

This information does not account for other recent statistics that show supporters of Clinton and Obama not supporting the other candidate based on values, experience, or call for change.