Good products sell themselves, Obama could run any kind of ad and people would consider them good. What's not to like about the guy?
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
Nice contrast between the two ads. The Rear View Mirror is very clever.
gwpriester
· 1 year ago
Morning in America was done by one of the most creative agencies in the country, Hay Riney and Partners in San Francisco. And while I never agreed with Hal Riney's politics, that was one of the best ad campaigns, ever.
Contrast those ads to the schlock hatchet jobs coming out of the McCain and other republican campaigns.
We come a long way. Mostly down.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
McCain could have gotten more money running outside of the system.
Caribou Barbie would have generated a ton of small donor money.
But he didn't know he was going to pick Caribou Barbie and she was going to fire up the base when he made the decision to take public funding.
Because he's a feeble old idiot with no forethought.
icruise
· 1 year ago
McCain keeps implying that Obama is getting money from shady sources, but I think the numbers are realistic. Personally, I've donated several times as much to Obama as I did to Kerry (who was the first candidate I ever donated to).
martha
· 1 year ago
I was for Kerry, Gore and Clinton but never gave any money. I gave 1600.00 to Obama over the primary and general election.
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
from TPM and Open Secrets:
"Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of Richard Nixon and grand-daughter-in-law of Dwight David Eisenhower has maxed out to Barack Obama."
martha
· 1 year ago
Today I bought 150 little flaqs to put in my yard the day after the election next to the Obama sign. My HOPE side is so hoping,
grandma
· 1 year ago
Sullivan:
"If the GOP decides that Palin is the future of their party, the GOP won't have a future. Simple, really. And the same goes for those who promoted her."
Good...I hope they decide she is their future.
sherifffruitfly
· 1 year ago
I've had about enough of your damn flash-popup ads. Looks like this entire site is going back on flashblock.
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 1 year ago
Run your antivirus, run ad aware, turn on your pop up blocker. It is your computer not this site.
anneeeliz
· 1 year ago
Donate, donate, donate. Give them money to run these ads all over the place. One last time for Barack.
grandma
· 1 year ago
NY Times: Growing Doubts on Palin Take a Toll, Poll Finds
A growing number of voters have concluded that Senator John McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, is not qualified to be vice president, weighing down the Republican ticket in the last days of the campaign, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
All told, 59 percent of voters surveyed said Ms. Palin was not prepared for the job, up nine percentage points since the beginning of the month. Nearly a third of voters polled said the vice-presidential selection would be a major factor influencing their vote for president, and those voters broadly favor Senator Barack Obama....
This was always going to be a more expensive campaign for Obama than for McCain. It's not just that Obama was less well known. It's that he knew there would be smear attempts based on racism that he would have to counter. ALONE. Because he isn't getting as much help from the Democratic Party in attacking McCain as McCain is in attacking and smearing Obama and I suspect that was a major factor in how his team felt they had to raise funds. If Obama had surrogates more on his side, they would have raised the USS Forrestal and pushed it. Or Schanberg's POW coverup story, which is worse for McCain than anything the GOP has pulled out about Obama. It's anti-hero, and the Democrats don't have the cajones to fight. Obama doesn't want to do that, to win this way, and has made it clear. He wants people to vote FOR him, rather than against his opponent. But the surrogates have to give him room, like a quarterback, and he's just not getting it from the Democratic Party...too full of people afraid to speak up, or the Rahm Emmanuel opportunists who somehow have their gateway to the White House already planned and just need to decide who to step on to get there. He had to go even bigger, because there are too many small democrats around him.
JohnGaltSpeaking
· 1 year ago
I do not want a tax cut at the expense of another’s tax hike. None of us should. Yet that is exactly the type of class derision and vote buying the Obama campaign is conducting.
The “wealthy” of this nation (who by the way are also the producers of most of our goods, services and jobs) will remain “wealthy” precisely because they will continue to do the things that made them “wealthy” in the first place. They will find ways to protect their assets from the draconian tax policies of an Obama Administration. If this calls for such measures as cutting jobs in order to keep their businesses financially healthy, they will do so. They will have to. Then you shall hear the shouts of “this is unfair, you mean selfish business owners!!” from the media and the Democrats. But this will be an effect of their own causes.
When is the last time you got a job from a lower income person?
Once the “wealthy” have protected themselves (or been bled dry) from the Obama tax plan, from whom then will the new Administration extract the necessary taxes with which to pay for their social engineering? The floor for their tax hike has already dropped from $250k to $200k (Mr. Obama said both of these figures in the last debate), to now $150k, per Mr. Biden. Gaffe? Or “foaming the runway”?
You are next. I am next. We all are. Believe it. Protect your assets now.
The world will begin to change only when you are truly ready to pronounce this oath: I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. – Ben Franklin
PrincetonDem
· 1 year ago
Good "Rearview mirror" ad ... indie ad "Truckers for Obama" used similar metaphors:
All Comments
Contrast those ads to the schlock hatchet jobs coming out of the McCain and other republican campaigns.
We come a long way. Mostly down.
Caribou Barbie would have generated a ton of small donor money.
But he didn't know he was going to pick Caribou Barbie and she was going to fire up the base when he made the decision to take public funding.
Because he's a feeble old idiot with no forethought.
"Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of Richard Nixon and grand-daughter-in-law of Dwight David Eisenhower has maxed out to Barack Obama."
"If the GOP decides that Palin is the future of their party, the GOP won't have a future. Simple, really. And the same goes for those who promoted her."
Good...I hope they decide she is their future.
Growing Doubts on Palin Take a Toll, Poll Finds
A growing number of voters have concluded that Senator John McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, is not qualified to be vice president, weighing down the Republican ticket in the last days of the campaign, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
All told, 59 percent of voters surveyed said Ms. Palin was not prepared for the job, up nine percentage points since the beginning of the month. Nearly a third of voters polled said the vice-presidential selection would be a major factor influencing their vote for president, and those voters broadly favor Senator Barack Obama....
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/us/politics/3...
Uneducated Forklift Driver to Address Nation on Rush Limbaugh Radio Show
Nation Eagerly Awaits Ohio Man's Profound Insight Into Current Events
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48941
The “wealthy” of this nation (who by the way are also the producers of most of our goods, services and jobs) will remain “wealthy” precisely because they will continue to do the things that made them “wealthy” in the first place. They will find ways to protect their assets from the draconian tax policies of an Obama Administration. If this calls for such measures as cutting jobs in order to keep their businesses financially healthy, they will do so. They will have to. Then you shall hear the shouts of “this is unfair, you mean selfish business owners!!” from the media and the Democrats. But this will be an effect of their own causes.
When is the last time you got a job from a lower income person?
Once the “wealthy” have protected themselves (or been bled dry) from the Obama tax plan, from whom then will the new Administration extract the necessary taxes with which to pay for their social engineering? The floor for their tax hike has already dropped from $250k to $200k (Mr. Obama said both of these figures in the last debate), to now $150k, per Mr. Biden. Gaffe? Or “foaming the runway”?
You are next. I am next. We all are. Believe it. Protect your assets now.
The world will begin to change only when you are truly ready to pronounce this oath:
I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
– Ben Franklin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdJiGXyd9SU