The Summer Olympics, Brought To You By Obama
Tweet
Spreading the word
Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal’s Olympics coverage. In the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years, the Obama campaign has taken a $5 million package of Olympics spots that includes network TV as well as cable ads.
24 Responses to “The Summer Olympics, Brought To You By Obama”
GOP Rep. Spencer Bachus Facing House Ethics Probe For Insider Trading
Jennifer Aniston Reportedly Pregnant With Twins
PHOTOS: Tamara Ecclestone At The Langham Hotel
Red Front? “Center For American Freedom” Logo Echoes Communist Style
Romney Calls For Defunding Planned Parenthood, Wife Was A Donor
GOP Fundraising Email Asks Supporters To “Knock Out” Obama
Romney Comes Up Limp In Nevada
Obama Opens Lead On Romney In New Poll
Latest Entries
Why Do Liberals Support Drone Strikes?
Weekly Standard Rolls Out The Iraq Argument For Iran
Equal Polarization, My Ass
Some Crazy Stuff That Happened In World War II
Maryland Republican Campaign Funds Used To Defend Voter Suppression
The Obama Jobs Record In One Graph
Martin O’Malley All In For Marriage Equality
Newt Gingrich, Filled With More Excrement Than Your Average Politician
New Year, Powerline Still Stupid
Thanks Again
Meta
Blogroll
Disclaimer
The views on this site are mine and mine alone, and do not reflect the views of my employer, Media Matters for America
© 2000-2011 Oliver Willis
Will any of these ads be touting his experiences as a member of the Senate Banking Committee, boasting of his deeds there?
Oh, that’s right. He ISN’T ON THAT COMMITTEE, despite his attempts to take credit for a measure they passed recently.
It’s the audacity of hoping no one catches you lying your ass off.
J.
Jay Tea:
What about the Webb GI Bill that McCain tried to take credit for? And for which he never voted on it in the Senate.
He’ll reach out to the Israelis by telling them Israel is their best friend.
“What about the Webb GI Bill that McCain tried to take credit for? And for which he never voted on it in the Senate.”
Hell, McCain actively fought against that bill.
But that’s Jay Tea for you. His word means zero.
Yay! Go Obama. Looks like the Olympic rings just got an extra ‘O’!
Aw c’mon … the Olympics are supposed to be non political. Just because a candidate has the dough, doesn’t mean it’s right to use these games for personal political gain. The credo of the Olympics is … It’s not whether you win or not, it’s how you play the game. Once again, it appears that Obama will disregard and disrespect any and all traditions in order to win. Once again, Obama will do anything, or say anything to win. The end does not always justify the means. Extreme arrogance and ambition can be a very distasteful character flaw.
Calvin, are you sure you want to argue like that? Are you sure you want to argue “McCain is just as bad as Obama?” Wouldn’t you rather argue from the position that “Obama’s better than McCain?”
J.
Is this Obama’s way of showing “respect [for] the dignity, security, and human rights of the Tibetan people”?
So much for the idea of boycotts. That was just another primary ploy for the leftists.
Calvin, are you sure you want to argue like that?
Jay Tea: “Something about Obama completely unrelated to the post Oliver wrote!”
C.S.: “Okay, but McCain worked against a bill providing benefits for U.S. troops.”
Jay Tea: “Why are we talking about this anyway?”
Ahahahahahahahahahah
Looks like persona non smarta Jay is itchin’ for a fight (the online kind, God forbid active duty) after having his shit sandwich breakfast and telling imaginary hippies to get off his lawn.
Obama now: Corporate sponsor of the Beijing Olympics.
Obama 17 days ago: “Democrat Barack Obama took issue Monday with President Bush’s decision to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, saying he would go to Beijing only if he saw progress between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama.
‘In the absence of some sense of progress, in the absence of some sense from the Dalai Lama that there was progress, I would not have gone,’ the presidential candidate told reporters at a news conference.
Obama previously has called on the Republican president to boycott the ceremonies.”
McCain thinks the Olympics are in Taiwan, right on the border next to Greenland.
Don’t you know that it isn’t nice to pick on the mentally retarded Pollak.
Obama now: Corporate sponsor of the Beijing Olympics.
Uh, no. He’s not paying any money to the Olympic committee. Zero. Zip. He’s buying ad time from a television network.
That’s lame, Quaker. NBC is paying billions for the broadcast rights, and Obama is helping them pay for it by purchasing ads specifically during the show.
Feel the nuance.
Short Quaker:
Money talks and bullshit walks.
NBC is paying billions for the broadcast rights, and Obama is helping them pay for it by purchasing ads specifically during the show.
That does not make Obama “corporate sponsor,” as Matt621 asserted. Just because you don’t like someone’s car doesn’t mean you can accuse him of stealing it.
Every once in a while I like to remind people that Jay Tea is a fucking moron.
This is one of those times.
The Summer Olympics, Brought To You By Obama
I knew he was going to lower the oceans and heal all of America’s ills, but bring us the Olympics too? Is there anything the Obamessiah can’t do? He’s like the duct tape of politicians.
I imagine there are those out there who will view this (and President Bush’s involvement, whatever that ends up being) as a tacit approval of Hu’s administration and all its activities, in Tibet and otherwise.
This is nonsense, more of the same kind of thinking that gave us diplomatic black holes in Iraq and Iran. There is nothing to be gained by some sort of boycott of the games and a cover-our-eyes attitude towards the PRC unless it bends to our will. They don’t actually need us at the games; as much as they sell to us they don’t even really need us as an economic partner. They can sell their goods to anybody, and they have no compunctions about where and from who they buy and sell.
Constructive engagement has done nothing for the nutjobs that run Myanmar, but it has done wonders for the PRC. The three generations of leadership since Mao (and the normalization of relations with the US) have improved incredibly, both in maturity of administration and human rights. Taking part in the Olympics held there (or buying ad time during them) is in no way an approval of the Chinese Tibet policy, and will probably only bring their governance further along.
Dave in SoCal, Jul 25th, 2008 at 1:07 am
I knew he was going to lower the oceans and heal all of America’s ills, but bring us the Olympics too? Is there anything the Obamessiah can’t do? He’s like the duct tape of politicians.
He does seem quite capable of making Reich wing Republican’t Putsch fellators line up for the fainting couch…
But I don’t think that even he could put enough lipstick on the pig that is the current Republican’t executive sadministration to make it look like Kim Kardashian to the american sheeple.
And by the way, Tom, you might want to work on your canned insults a bit.
“Reich wing Republican’t Putsch fellators”? ‘Putsch’ is the German word for ‘coup d’état’ (i.e. the overthrow of a government). How exactly does one fellate a coup d’état?
He does seem quite capable of making Reich wing Republican’t Putsch fellators line up for the fainting couch…
You seem to have quite the obsession with Fellatio, Tom. Freudian slip?
And regarding your HI-larious ‘Reich wing’ crack, remember that it’s Obama, not Bush or McCain, who is proposing the creation of a large, powerful and well funded paramilitary organization, similar to the Sturmabteilung brownshirts:
the american sheeple
These would be the same “American sheeple” who are swooning over Obama. Check.