I concur. Why can't the Obama people GET OUT IN FRONT ever?
dc20008
· 1 year ago
This is the best ad i have seen so far.
Poor McCain. He should have stayed home.
jr
· 1 year ago
"Dozens see videos that millions should see. Send us money! Bob Shrum, Lanny Davis and Howard Wolfson rule!"-Democratic Party fundraising email
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Terrific spot with good narration and good music... Makers should strive for :10 :20 :30 and :60 lengths if they want actual airtime. Local cable and radio rates for spots are very reasonable. I wonder if there are any legal issues raised by an individual or a groups of regular people purchasing local airtime for a federal candidate? Anyway, I'd rather browse thru youtube this week rather than seeing replays of weeks old stuff on the dinowebs...
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
a little time shrinking, it'd work.
the ad is only 1:03... just need to shave 3 seconds off. that's just a matter of speeding it up slightly, no biggie.
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
I've been seeing a lot of top-notch vids like this lately. Let the floodgates open. I don't want to see anything too polished, just individuals and small groups plainly stating facts in a short, succinct way.
The traditional media will take note.
SarainKC
· 1 year ago
Wow, how do we help get this on the air? It should be sent to the Obama campaign...
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Excellent! But . . . the Dean-controlled DNC will bury it because . . . they've cut a deal with the Bad Guys?
davec53
· 1 year ago
This is perfect! Can we get this to the DNC? I' actually send them$$$$$ if they'd put out stuff like this. A no-brainer!
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· 1 year ago
Where are our 527s to run these ads?
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
The people making and posting these clips are their own 527s. Without all the silly numbered titles and restraints.
Go intertubes!
unclemike
· 1 year ago
I would gladly give money to Obama and the DNC if they start producing ads like this...
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· 1 year ago
Hell, they don't have to produce them. We have the talent. Just run them. What's the fucking problem? Who do we donate to? Has MoveOn gone mainstream, too?
mangoes
· 1 year ago
yeah, I would give money to run the other ad farther down the page.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
nice... very professional, clear, concise... just pointing out the facts that a lot of mccain voters/fence-sitters are missing.
maverick? yeah, right.
this should be on EVERY network.
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· 1 year ago
I wanted to give bush the 'benefit of the doubt' after 911 but less than a month after that, he hops off the helicopter with goldberg's book, bias, tucked just a certain way so the cameras would catch it. I'll never forget that. I'll never forgive the betrayal I felt.
econprofes
· 1 year ago
It seems that the Obama campaign is falling into the same death trap as John Kerry did, “taking the high road while your opponent out right distorts who you are.” This is the classic flawed strategy of your opponent playing offense while you defend yourself. The best defense is a good and aggressive offence. You can only combat or deflect distortions by telling the truth, no matter how harsh it is, on your opponent. McCain finished 3rd from the last in his class and George Bush finished at the bottom of his class. This means Bush is a good indicator of what we would get in McCain. McCain acted as if he was President during the Georgia conflict and he was unpatriotic when he said “We are all Georgians”. His foreign policy advisor is a paid lobbyist for Georgia and convinced McCain to act on Georgia’s behalf and not on America’s. This is the most recent example of McCain's making bad judgments. THESE TRUTHS SHOULD BE BLASTSED ON EVERY CHANNEL.
I would be willing to donate to a group who would make national commercials like this one that would state these truths and go after McCain since the Obama campaign will not.
Reason0Politics1
· 1 year ago
A Very AWESOME piece. Of course, the DNC won't use it. Michael Moore wrote a great piece recently about how the Dems will squander what should be a walk in the park.
But that's a surprise to anyone? When day one Pelosi proclaimed Impeachment ( Accountability ) is off the table?
Holy Jeebus peeps... please wake up. Dems = Repugs in this corrupt political world. Elections are PROVEN to be charades. Participation is an ILLUSION.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
It's a great ad. But a helluva lotta Joe Six Packs would not understand the graph.
SociologistTina
· 1 year ago
Really outstanding.
I agree with you, John.
qi6588
· 1 year ago
I agree with all. This is a great and there's nothing really controversial or slanderous in it. Can't the Dems just buy some airtime, speed it up to be 1:00 long and saturate the airwaves? As for the other one further down on the page -- the "fake" attack ad -- again, I see no reason why not to float it and see.... The Republicans are great at this. They put out a vaguely slanderous ad which gets pulled about a day later due to protest but it gets a ton of "free" airtime since everyone wants to see and talk about it. Might be worth the gamble but the MSM may ignore it what with their liberal mindset and all.
Mike_G
· 1 year ago
What this needs also is the shot of McCain awkwardly hugging Chimp. And the video clip where McThuselah appeases the reich wing by bragging that he votes the Chimp party line 90+% of the time.
ewastud
· 1 year ago
I agree, too. It is brilliant and there isn't anything untrue or overtly negative about it. I wish Obama's campaign would pick it up and use it under its own banner.
Valentinefrey
· 1 year ago
Agree, agree, agree. This is absolutely useable - nothing slanderous, nothing below the belt, gets the point across. It's all very well to email this stuff around to each other, but readers on this blog already know what they think. This needs to be on people's tv sets. (It will come as a surprise to some people here but McCain is not the last guy in Ameica not to use a computer.)
By the way to any of the Obama people reading this, or to anyone who had a babysitter who had a cousin who went to law school with someone who knows someone on the campaign I would say poitical advertising is an inherently sleazy medium - it's either sleazy or not effective - you think there's a way to effectively influence someone's decisions by exposing them to images and sound in thirty and sixty second incrememnts without being sleazy? Good luck. Political commercials are either distortions or ineffectual pablum. Don't go the Kerry route. Don't waste money on pablum. Just because we can't mention McCain's adultery and questions about his war record, (and his pre-war record) doesn't mean that there isn't a lot to talk about.
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Poor McCain. He should have stayed home.
Makers should strive for :10 :20 :30 and :60 lengths if they want actual airtime.
Local cable and radio rates for spots are very reasonable.
I wonder if there are any legal issues raised by an individual or a groups of regular people purchasing local airtime for a federal candidate?
Anyway, I'd rather browse thru youtube this week rather than seeing replays of weeks old stuff on the dinowebs...
the ad is only 1:03... just need to shave 3 seconds off. that's just a matter of speeding it up slightly, no biggie.
The traditional media will take note.
Go intertubes!
maverick? yeah, right.
this should be on EVERY network.
I would be willing to donate to a group who would make national commercials like this one that would state these truths and go after McCain since the Obama campaign will not.
But that's a surprise to anyone? When day one Pelosi proclaimed Impeachment ( Accountability ) is off the table?
Holy Jeebus peeps... please wake up. Dems = Repugs in this corrupt political world. Elections are PROVEN to be charades. Participation is an ILLUSION.
I agree with you, John.
And the video clip where McThuselah appeases the reich wing by bragging that he votes the Chimp party line 90+% of the time.
By the way to any of the Obama people reading this, or to anyone who had a babysitter who had a cousin who went to law school with someone who knows someone on the campaign I would say poitical advertising is an inherently sleazy medium - it's either sleazy or not effective - you think there's a way to effectively influence someone's decisions by exposing them to images and sound in thirty and sixty second incrememnts without being sleazy? Good luck. Political commercials are either distortions or ineffectual pablum. Don't go the Kerry route. Don't waste money on pablum. Just because we can't mention McCain's adultery and questions about his war record, (and his pre-war record) doesn't mean that there isn't a lot to talk about.