Will you pay more attention to risque campaign spoofs or the real thing? 

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 Posted July 18, 2007 – While campaigns work to raise millions of dollars for campaign ads they may discover the videos produced with sexy and bikini clad women may get more bang then their buck can buy. 

Barleypolitical.com’s Web site has been inundated with users wanting to check out the follow up to their first video hit “Obama Girl.” 

 Now the sequel features two rival girl gangs in short-shorts and bikinis facing off in support of their presidential pick.  “Obama Girl vs. Giuliani Girl” is a musical with political barbs flying throughout.  Lyrics like “Everyone get up on the floor if it’s Giuliani you adore, I’m gonna be wife number 4,” pokes fun at the candidate.

I understand why neither political camp wants to comment on the videos, but they can’t ignore the buzz they’ve created.  Could they be secretly hoping these videos do just what they are doing – bringing attention to their campaign?  

This is the third video of this nature to make the Web and create a lot of hype.  Sen. Hillary Clinton, (D-N.Y.) was the featured candidate in a video on a Web site Hot4Hill.com where bikini wearing songstress touted the virtues of the former First Lady. 

While the winner in the “Obama Girl vs. Giuliani Girl” video is determined by a pillow fight, with a win in the Obama column, the real winner may be any candidate featured in one of these on-line musical tributes – after all these videos don’t require cash from the campaign coffers.    

Will Their Effort Force Pres. Bush to Change Course in Iraq?

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 Posted July 17, 2007 - Democratic Senate and House members are going to burn the midnight oil and hold an outdoor vigil like those held in the 1970’s in protest of the war in Vietnam.

Tuesday night the chamber will remain open as members of the senate filibuster on a bill that would shift the role of the U.S. military to counter terrorism and training of Iraqi troops.  But that won’t be all – the Upper Senate Park will also host war veterans, military families and anyone else who wanting to join the call for a new plan of action in Iraq.
  
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wants to force Senate Republicans to allow an up-or-down vote on the Levin-Reed Amendment to the Defense Authorization bill, with language that will also reduce U.S. troops in combat.

Reid laid the ground work for tonight’s events from the Senate floor, saying “The American people deserve an up-or-down – yes or no – vote on this amendment.  A ‘no’ vote on Levin-Reed would be a vote to ‘stay the course’ – to continue the President’s failed strategy indefinitely.  A ‘yes’ vote would finally bind the President to responsibly reduce combat operations and return our focus to the real and growing threats we face.”

Senators are signing up to make floor speeches throughout the night.  Sen. Barack Obama didn’t do too bad; he’s scheduled to hit the floor Wednesday morning at 6:00 a.m. -  just in time for the morning news shows.

Pamela Gentry

Senior Political Producer