K.C. Ligon's Blog

The Choice 2008

This FRONTLINE documentary looks like must-see TV, and they hear Cohen's Democracy the way I do:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice2008/

Who is Barack Obama?

A perceptive behind-the-scenes look:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/4days

Barry Levinson: Don't Start Shooting without a Script

The genius who gave us Wag the Dog weighs in on the McCain campaign:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barry-levinson/hollywood-memo-to-mccain_b_133426.html

Letter to the NY Times and other national newspapers

To Whom It May Concern: I'm writing you to express intense disapproval of John McCain and Sarah Palin's recent smears of Barack Obama. Not only does this attack now form the core of their campaign for the Presidency, it is character assassination that is incendiary, and is reminiscent of attacks that led to the actual assassination of Rabin. Please do not support this action of the McCain-Palin campaign. Sincerely. K.C. Ligon

Open letter to Barack Obama

Barack sent me an email this morning (many others too), and I wanted to share my responses to him with you:

He writes:

Subject: What did you think?

KC --

I thought the differences between John McCain and me were pretty clear tonight.

Absolutely clear to me. Whatever the causes or the reasons for the causes for his behavior last night, he seemed angry, self-absorbed, oddly disoriented, fatally out of touch with actual issues, flailing about in a search for rhetoric to win people over yet engaging in empty gestures that did not truly connect with the voters in the room. 

That the McCains left immediately following the debate and that you and Michelle stayed to meet and speak with audience members said it all for me.  It was the 'answer' to the last question, "what don't you know, and how will you learn it?" for that would be, it seems to me, a) what the people are really thinking, and b) you learn that when you speak with them.

I will fight for the middle class every day, and -- once again -- Senator McCain didn't mention the middle class a single time during the debate.

I think you will. He doesn't think of us in any real sense. He's a rich man from a rich family, it turns out.

If you agree that we need to cut taxes for 95% of working families, reduce health care costs, and end the war in Iraq responsibly, then I need your help right now.

It's yours, because I do believe in all of the above.

And if you heard John McCain push more of the same discredited policies, including tax cuts for the wealthy and giant corporations, tax increases on health care, and continuing to spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, then now is the time to act.

I agree.

Four weeks from tonight, we'll know which of us will be the next president.

I am pretty sure I know now--you are. 

The time to make a difference in this election is running out -- please make a donation of $5 or more right now.

I have, and very pleased to do it.

https://donate.barackobama.com/townhall

Thank you,

Barack

Thank you, Barack, and God Bless the United States of America.

Knowledge is Power

Please take a moment to review the full video, for a stunning reminder of the choice before us:

http://www.keatingeconomics.com/index.html#home

Ari and Andrew

I visit them every day now, and follow the places they suggest for further reading, because frankly, these days?  I need all the perspective I can get.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Let the word go forth

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--
John F. Kennedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OETwbVBPI1U

 

 

Dave & McCain's cancelled appearance

"The road to the White House runs through me."

---David Letterman, 9/24/08

You know, Senator, I think it does.

Congratulations

To friends and colleagues for Emmy nominations and awards given last night, John Adams' Laura Linney (a splendid Abigail) and David Morse (a phenomenally good George Washington), as Mad Men's sly devil of an adman Roger, John Slattery, and as Weeds' incomparable Nancy, Mary Louise Parker. 

And am very pleased to see Jeremy Piven win one for his Ari.