RNC Attacks Obama In Web Video

Published May 9, 2008 in Barack Obama, John McCain and Republicans.

Um, guys, was this ad written by Mark Penn? Because it didn’t work for Clinton and it won’t work for McCain. Quite a weak effort.

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1 Duros62
May 9th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Well, that was stupid.
2 TroyJMorris
May 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

Those are the stupidest images ever.
3 Vanessa
May 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

These ads usually make me cringe because they are so dishonest and unfair. This one just made me feel sorry for the people who produced it.
4 Quaker in a Basement
May 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Can the GOP ask these questions? Sure! Be our guest!
5 midderpidge
May 9th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

I guess if they are worried about those tax forms like they pictured they should be looking at John McCain’s wife.
6 Duros62
May 9th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

I got a hint as to where to come up with funding. It rhymes with Blend the Boar.
7 Michael
May 9th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

Some things that come from this ad:

1. There must be no bad or embarrassing pictures of Obama. I mean really, he looks really good in every single on of the images they’re using there.

2. They’re using Obama’s own inspiring speech and for people that just kind of half listen to commercials this is going to come off as a pro-Obama commercial! It’ll just drive recognition.

3. None of these questions are deal breakers and most people will just compare them to the current commander in chief and say “Well, we’re in more debt now and our current president seems much less qualified than Obama.”

I think the RNC should put their entire campaign funds into this ad. Play it all the time! Hell, I’d even donate a little to get this ad on the air!
8 Sean D. Martin
May 9th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

“Those are the stupidest images ever.”
“There must be no bad or embarrassing pictures of Obama. I mean really, he looks really good in every single on of the images they’re using there.”

Actually, the final sequence after he says “Yes we can” does make him look a bit heavy-browed and creepy.

But it’s still an ad that looks more likely to cement the opinions of those who already won’t vote for Obama no matter what rather than one likely to more anyone else away from him.
9 Brendan
May 10th, 2008 at 12:27 am

The ad: “Can we ask him some questions?”

Sheesh, wingnuts. You’ve had a year and a half to ask him these questions. You chose to spend the time asking about lapel pins.
10 North of 49
May 10th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

Lame effort indeed. It looks as if the original “creative” was mediocre to begin with, then got pulled apart, smooshed back together and ultimately bland-ed down by some review committee of very non-creative types.

The ad points up another difficulty, too. I have yet to see an attack ad where the voice-over didn’t grate somehow. Picking the voice and tone for voice-overs is a black art, as an old colleague used to say (about everything), and this one, like so many, didn’t come off. The woman was clearly told, and trying, to be even-voiced and neutral, yet still sounded hectoring and, at the end, viciously smug.

Don’t know what one would do about that, except maybe not bother with attack ads in the first place.

And yeah, the RNC ought to run this LOTS.
11 somejackass
May 10th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

I really like how they zoom in to crop his pointer finger, leaving it looking like he’s giving the finger. Awesome.