Video - The Democratic Race in Eight Minutes

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Dissecting Hillary Clinton's Failure to Win the Nomination
Published 6/8/2008 by Jen Chung at Gothamist
Now that Senator Hillary Clinton has officially conceded the Democratic presidential election (but never used to words concede) to Senator Barack Obama and pledged to support him, everyone is weighing in with what went wrong her campaign. The NY Times has long, fascinating article, "The Long Road to a Clinton Exit," that starts with an anecdote about former President Bill Clinton screaming about Indiana primary returns being too late. Politico breaks down "Hillary Clinton's 5 mistakes." The Daily News lists some of its favorite memories from her campaign, from "Let ...

Democratic Primary In Eight Minutes [Things We Actually Like]
Published 6/9/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
Slate put together an eight-minute video of basically everything that happened in the Democratic primar... Wait! It's not so bad! The primary may have been near-eternal mental torture that ate away at our nation's soul, but it's all over, so now we can sit back and laugh at the lowlights, and forget that we ever thought about jamming ice picks into our ears. For example, I had somehow completely forgotten about the Obama headdress scandal, Samantha Powers calling Hillary Clinton a dragon and when the term "viability threshold" entered the zeitgeist (did that last one ever actually happen?). Laugh ...

The Democratic Primary Explained
Published 6/9/2008 by The Cajun Boy (noreply@blogger.com) at Cajun Boy in the City
In the event you've been cryogenically frozen for the last 18 months or so, woke up and said "OMG...WTF just happened," have I got the video for you, courtesy of Slate.com. And even if you've been following the whole trainwreck since the beginning, it's still a pretty entertaining eight minutes... (via Slate) ...

Seven Months in 8 Minutes
Published 6/9/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
[image] Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is ...

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW...
Published 6/9/2008 by Zack Taylor at HOTORNOTGOSSIP.COM | THE AUTHORITY ON WHAT'S HOT OR NOT IN POP CULTURE BY CELEBRITY BLOGGER ZACK TAYLOR
You should already know that Obama won the White House Democratic Primary... But many don't know about all the drama that went on over the last year leading up to his victory... Slate has put together an eight-minute video of basically everything that has happened... If you want to seem smart and get brownie ...

VOTD: The Democratic Party’s Presidential Race in Eight Minutes
Published 6/9/2008 by slashfilm.com at /Film
The Democratic Party’s Presidential Race in Eight Minutes by Slate The Pitch: I know this isn’t a political site, but I found the Slate’s eight minute round up of the democratic party’s presidential race better edited than most political documentaries. It’s also a good primer ...

Lowest Common Denominators
Published 6/9/2008 by Whitney at Mollygood
• The Democratic presidential nomination process, summed up in eight short minutes. [SH] • Amy Winehouse’s father thinks she should have a baby to stay off the drugs. Because we saw how well caring for another living thing worked out for Pete Doherty and his cats. [DListed] • It’s safe to say Anne Hathaway should probably breakup with her sketchy boyfriend. [TMZ] • Paris Hilton and her stupid reality show went to Vegas, where we’re sure the remaining contestants fit ...