The Top 10 Everything of 2008

Although it is already end of February I think it still is a good moment to take a look back at most important and newsworthy events of the last year. That is exactly what the online version of Time has done. They have made up a list consisting of various topics from the last year called "The Top 10 Everything of 2008". What makes the list great is the fact that all the dirty grunt work is done for you and the news are nicely organized in topics thus giving us a neat overview. The list has been available for some time but still serves a good opportunity to get some laughs and perhaps even a small amount of new information about events that took place during 2008.

The list of topics are organized into various categories but I'm going to concentrate on "Top 10 Campaign Video Moments" that gives us the overview of ten best or in some cases most embarrassing ads or clips related to last years US presidential campaign.

Some of these stories give a nice example how everything can go so wrong that it really starts to physically hurt. Best examples come from the last years US presidential elections. Main character of these mishaps and mistakes is Sarah Palin, who was the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee for the 2008 United States presidential election, on John McCain's team. She gets confused in an interview and manages to participate in a turkey slaughter while giving a traditional pardon to a Thanksgiving turkey (although the video that Times.com has linked to has been removed, thankfully the clip is still available here).

All fans of HBO's mob series "Sopranos" will definitely appreciate the tribute paid in Hillary Clinton's campaign video.

Other personal favorites include a presidential candidate making a strong message by staring into the camera, a one word response from Joe Biden, best celebrity endorsement ever and the bittersweetly hilarious clip "Wassup".

All these clips show that when it comes to local political TV ads here in Estonia, US thanks to it financial advantage, is light years ahead of us. Still some of these clips show that you don't need a huge amount of resources to make a video that would stand out from the crowd, as a truly unique idea guarantees that. It remains to be seen if during the shortly coming EU elections we'll see clips as strong as these.