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Week 34 – Yes, President Barack Obama can!

November 9, 2008 Bush

Good Evening! So I guess you all just went crazy along with everybody else this tuesday? Huh? Did you watch the news when Barack Obama got closer and closer to the seat? Over here we didn’t. We sleep at that time – or at least we used to. This election wrote TV history. Everybody I [...]

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Week 33 – Presidential Election Doubt

November 2, 2008 Bush

Tuesday is the day! Everybody’s talking about the so-called ‘Bradley-effect’. In 1982 the afro-american Tom Bradley lost the election for governor of California despite being way ahead in the polls. The reason being that many decided to vote against him for racial issues once they stood in the booth. Right now the question – a [...]

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Week 28 – Sarah Palin, hockey mom and pitbull

September 4, 2008 Bush

Hi everybody. I just came back from a quick visit to Seattle and the Bumbershoot Festival. It was really nice and what FANTASTIC people there!! I had a really good time chatting to people at the festival. Sometimes we europeans think that we are all alone – we certainly have some good pals over there! [...]

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Week 20 – John McCain

May 25, 2008 Election

Hi! Another week went past. I chose this week’s subject from a requst. I wrote about everyone else in the american primaries (except Huckabee) and until now McCain has only been mentioned in the song about Mitt Romney. Some days ago McCaine released his medical journals so that eeryone would have PROOF that this man [...]

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Week 16 – China and the Olympics

April 20, 2008 Bush

Hi. This is episode 16 of One Weekly Gun. It’s really beginning to take form this project. 16 smashing songs are already on the page. If this is your first time here, go check out all the other posts and songs here. Don’t forget to comment if you are happy, angry og something else. These [...]

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Week 2 – Clinton and Obama

January 13, 2008 Clinton

Another EXCITING week went by. One story seemed to domintate the headlines.: The unexpected victory of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. We all thought Obama would prevail, but at the last minute Clinton played the winning card: Tears. Maybe the effect wasn’t caused by a candidate showing emotions. Maybe it was because she gave the [...]

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