Comments on: Hey Obama! Run (A Version Of) This Ad!

By: schmi

schmi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:59:21 +0000

If you dial that same number now a woman’s voice recruits you to a 900 line where you can “have a good time together.” Symbolic?

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:38:06 +0000

Another interesting way to look at this is that it took Clinton 8 years to turn the country around, and it took Bush II another 8 years to knock us back to where we were in ’92! I mean, are we really back to worrying about the same issues that were prevalent in the early 1990s? You gotta hand it to the Bush family, they sure know how to take a country back a step or two

By: schmi

schmi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:10:23 +0000

This was the full link I meant to post…

http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1960/sills-family

By: schmi

schmi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:06:16 +0000

Very nice. There are even earlier precedents. I like the idea of Obama in somebody’s living room chatting rather than off by himself at a rostrum.

http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1960

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:54:59 +0000

The interesting thing is they have a book that they just released in bookstores a couple weeks ago. I dunno if they are pushing it or what, but I’ve seen it in the wild.

President Clinton’s plan is still available.

By: jerry

jerry — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:41:16 +0000

I don’t watch TV, so I haven’t seen any ads that don’t get discussed and put up on YouTube, but what I really like about the ad is his holding a copy of his plan, and telling people to call to get a copy of that plan.

I really have no idea what Obama has done in this regard in his commercials, but as much as we are all surfing the net, just having various urls to his plan, is just not the same message as holding it in dead tress version in his hand, and telling people to call up to get a copy of it snail mailed to them.

By: jerry

jerry — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:38:34 +0000

Big Dog FTW!

By: JD Lasica

JD Lasica — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:50:35 +0000

Yes!

It’s clear, gets the point across, reassures fence-sitters that Obama’s on top of the economic mess, and focuses on the issue that will carry Obama over the finish line.

Hope someone at Obama HQ is paying attention.

By: Michael Del Muro

Michael Del Muro — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:42:15 +0000

I think if they are going to run a hopeful ad like that, they need to run a hard-hitting one taking ownership of GOP issues like this:
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1992/leaders-2