{"id":11029,"date":"2008-01-21T03:22:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/21\/watching-the-candidates\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T03:22:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T00:22:50","slug":"watching-the-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/21\/watching-the-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;m not usually very political.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t care much about elections, campaigns, politics or policies, and things like that.\u00c2\u00a0 But that didn&#8217;t stop me from watching the USA presidency candidate talks at Google.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are the names and what I think\u00c2\u00a0 of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yCM_wQy4YVg\" title=\"Candidates@Google: Ron Paul\">Ron Paul<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This was the only video that I watched in full length.\u00c2\u00a0 This guy speaks good, and he has plenty of common sense in him.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s also pretty popular on the Web, but, somehow, I doubt that he will make it to the president.\u00c2\u00a0 He and his campaign contradict the interests of too many people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cwYKIsJwi2c&amp;feature=user\" title=\"Women@Google: Hillary Clinton\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 She speaks like a politician with a lot of experience.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s probably why I don&#8217;t understand much of her.\u00c2\u00a0 Watched the video for about 10 minutes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m4yVlPqeZwo&amp;feature=user\" title=\"Candidates@Google: Barack Obama\">Barack Obama<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have much interest in hearing how he reads &#8220;I think&#8221; and &#8220;I believe&#8221; of the paper.\u00c2\u00a0 He looked very much like someone who haven&#8217;t written those notes&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rG-_VHAITtI&amp;feature=user\" title=\"Candidates@Google: John Edwards\">John Edwards<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the case of one picture being a thousand words. 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