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Monday, November 17, 2008

Your Morning News: 11.17.08

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What’s that? Oh nothing, just the President-elect’s first YOUTUBE VIDEO!! Though the weekly radio address has been a Presidential standard for years, Barack Obama has added a weekly Youtube address. Though it seems like this is a leap forward in Presidential accessibility, it is worth noting that comments on that video have been turned off. That is probably for the best, it really wouldn’t do to have some schmuck tell the President-elect “GEEZ KILL YO’SELF.”

Iraq’s cabinet on Sunday overwhelmingly approved a proposed security agreement that calls for a full withdrawal of American forces from the country by the end of 2011. The overwhelming nature of the vote bodes well for the agreements full vote in Parliament because it is likely all of the political parties will support it. So the war is over - maybe?

President-elect Obama and Senator John McCain are meeting today in Chicago to attempt a reconciliation after a bitter campaign. Here is an interesting debate to have in your office: What role will John McCain play in the upcoming years? Will he lead the Republican opposition and through his mastery of the ins and outs of the Senate change or kill President Obama’s proposals? Or, will he give a big F.U. to the Republican base and lead the moderate Republicans to compromise with the Democratic majority. I don’t know, but I feel like having to suck up to Joe the Plumber may have been the last straw.

Finally, a note of major concern to 2.0somethings, Total Request Live ended last night after a ten-year run as the anchor property of MTV. The show launched the careers of artists like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync, Eminem and Christina Aguilera, so it would be easy to joke that the world would have been better off without it. But for a lot of people our age, TRL was was the first exposure we had to the communal experience that is pop culture. I am going to celebrate by heading over to MTVmusic.com and throwing on some videos of LFO, The Bare Naked Ladies, 98 degrees, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Sugar Ray or whoever, closing my eyes and for a brief second, pretending that I just got home from school.

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