Posted on 10/29/2008 8:33:19 PM PDT by fightinJAG
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama blanketed the airwaves Wednesday night with an unusual 30-minute advertisement on seven television networks in a splashy demonstration of the extraordinary financial resources at his disposal with less than a week to go before Election Day.
There was nothing particularly special about the ad itself — which conjured up images of a country crying out for change against a suitably patriotic background — except for its length. Not since 1992, when independent billionaire Ross Perot self-financed a series of infomercials, has a presidential candidate aired program-length advertisements in prime time.
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The campaign hired Davis Guggenheim, executive producer of former Vice President Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and director of the HBO series “Deadwood,” to direct the ad, which aired on NBC, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, BET, Univision and TV One.
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McCain launched a pre-emptive strike before the ad aired, calling it a “gauzy, feel-good infomercial” that he said was paid for by “broken promises,” a reference to Obama’s circumvention of spending limits by his refusal to accept public funding. He also released a traditional 30-second ad recalling his attack on Obama last summer as a lightweight celebrity, dismissing him as a candidate of “fancy speeches, grand promises and TV specials.”
But the ad buy was a powerful statement of Obama’s financial advantage with the campaign in its final week.
At about $4 million, it ranks as one of the most expensive political ads in history. But that is only about 1.7 percent of the campaign’s total spending on television, which is projected to hit $230 million by Election Day.
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600 million dollars goes along way.
BTTT !
Agree as usual !
Stay safe !
Why buy a 30 minute plug? He has CNN and MSNBC doing 24 hour plugs!
I had the opposite reaction.
If you're selling sh!t, there ain't enough ad money in the world to convince some of us to eat it.
Proof that his money skills are lacking.
McCain on the other hand just surfed that pipeline for a while.
That is because you are a principled person, the networks principled only sold to the highest bidder.
amen to that!
600 million dollars and this barry guy manages to be ahead of the American patriot by three lousy points?!
Is that how he wants to manage OUR money when he pilfers it from us?
Yeah.. I believe him.. Not
Exactly, well said.
The Obama Network (TON) : NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC
I happened to see the beginning of one NBC Nightly News last week. Some analyst said McCain should keep campaigning, even though it was almost impossible to win.
AMERICANS need to answer the call and show Georgie Soros and his Camp Obama Chicago thugs that the White House IS NOT FOR SALE!
When I Reached ‘McCain can’t keep up’... Hell, nobody can keep up. You’d have to be exempt from the law to collect that kind of money and stay out of jail. Only a select category enjoys that perk.
Infomercial didn’t help Perot at all.. I think it hurt him.
Payback for their avid support.
Financed not only by broken promises but by illegal campaign contributions it seems. Oh well, Barry flaunts his illegal millions for everyone to see. It’s a DEM trait.
I missed the big show but just caught him on a late night Orlando rally. He was explaining how he is taking over all aspects of life for the poor little incompetant boobs who were in attendance. He has a big government program for everything. I am waiting for his cut your grass and do your dishes plan. That is about the only thing he has not nationalized yet in his mind. Maybe that will be his closing argument next week. Maybe Corsi was right. The way to beat Obama is just give him a microphone.
I noticed that. Biden said $150K the other day. I think they switched the direction of the threshold: tax cuts under 200, tax increase over 250. Bullshit anyway, since a tax credit ain't a tax cut. No matter how you pitch it.
If this were McCain with this kind of money, all you’d be hearing day in..day out...THE MONEY CORRUPTION IN POLITICS.
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