Posted on 10/10/2008 12:40:48 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Obama buys airtime on networks for anniversary of Black Tuesday in 1929
By MARGARET TALEV McClatchy Newspapers
Barack Obama is buying a half-hour slot on television networks in prime time Oct. 29, the anniversary of Black Tuesday of 1929, when panic in the stock markets set in ahead of the Great Depression.
Obama, leaving a campaign stop in a diner in Georgetown, Ohio, on Thursday evening, declined to say whether he plans to address the current economic crisis in the context of the depression.
He wouldn’t talk about the nature of the programming, saying, "We’re going to be talking about it tomorrow."
Linda Douglass, a senior adviser to Obama, confirmed Thursday evening that the campaign has bought time on NBC and CBS.
She said the campaign will buy airtime on Fox, unless the network is carrying a World Series game that night, and that no arrangement had been made with ABC.
Douglass also wouldn’t release any information about how much the airtime is costing the campaign or any information about the programming.
The last candidate to make such a purchase was Ross Perot in 1992.
The ads will run six days before the Nov. 4 election, following weeks of economic crisis, including massive stock-market losses, global investor panic and Congress’ passage of a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street.
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I have a feeling there is a lot to that argument.
Hubby has heard that theory around his "water cooler". The market situation is bad, but folks are starting to wonder with all the "fixes" that keep failing to work , that there has to be another reason for this collapse.If the Dems gain all 3 branches, Wall Street will consider today as a "good day" compared to what would happen in the future.
OBAMA CRASH!
(bet markets plunge the next day)
I wonder...was the Obama campaign given a discount for this air time? The networks would probably charge the McCain campaign triple.
FNC has a satelite map graphic showing how rezko, ayers, and LOUIS FARAHKAN all live withing walking distance to OBAMA.
its a little radical enclave.
Maybe he will ask his supporters to not burn down the cities if he loses the election.
HAH! what you said! all the talking heads should be saying exactly that. mccain should run a ad too. i thought about it since reading about it yesterday. why the hell is this guy spending MILLIONS for air time, asking hard working and poor people (his main voting block) for more and more cash and then be so wastful. aint like folks have lots of spare cash these days. and who are his big donors? that should be asked to and the 24/7 obama chanel. mccain and the msm can beat obama over the head with this til the 29th, if they do it wisely.
“Certainly one could argue that the stock markets are reacting to the possibility that the party behind this mortgage back security financial crisis is about to be rewarded at the polls.”
Yep, if there is a crisis in confidence, it is due to the massive coverup of the ACTUAL causes of the F&F meltdown, spearheaded by the whiny ranting of Pelosi.
The failure to get to the heart of the issues, the pretending is it all the Repubs’ fault, the BS of the politics, has served to undermine public trust.
the bailout isnt the answer according to what the market did and what the polls reflected anout the bailout.
the lack of a genuine answer to resolve the economic crises resulted in selloff.
Signs point to more of the SOS on Capitol Hill- hence, confidence plunges.
They did at least 3 rallies that I’m aware of here in Wisconsin yesterday - La Crosse, Waukesha, and Mosinee. There may have been one more...
He's pretty much "Tokyo Rose" in drag...
His background is filled with scandal...people like Wright and Ayers but "his people", don't care....He's clean and articulate and a pure socialist.
God, help us!!!
Or “word of the day” posters ala Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood! ;)
I’ve got a few suggestions if he goes that route:
Word of the day list for Mr. Obama’s Neighborhood
1. SOCIALISM
2. TERRORISM
3. LIES
4. FRIENDS
5. NEIGHBORS
Rasheid Khalidi lives about 8 blocks south of the Obamas.
Khalid al Mansour, however is different. He's a northsider. (Cub fan?)
And Mazen Asbahi's digs are in the Loop.
LOL!!! I get it. I’d honestly hoped I’d be the first to post that.
Obama wants to go on TV on the anniv of the 1929 stock market crash, just like FDR went on TV to address the nation on that fateful day.
Biden had better be prepared for jokes.
I’m very sorry to hear about your father’s health problems. I’ll be praying for him, and you, and your whole family...
I’m not an expert either, but even SNL brought up Soros in their skit about the bailout bill last week.
There has been a LOT of “chatter” about Soros and the exact possiblity you have discussed. The goal? Destroy the United States and institute Socialism on a world-wide scale. Their goals haven’t changed since the 50s, really.
This might have worked 30 years ago, when people didnt have other choices.
In my house, with no prompting by me, my kids declared that they would just watch the TIVO’d shows.
Obama is pissing away millions. Is this what you want for President? (that was rhetorical, not directed at YOU.)
Rasheid Khalidi lives about 8 blocks south of the Obamas.
Khalid al Mansour, however is different. He's a northsider. (Cub fan?)
And Mazen Asbahi's digs are in the Loop -- or maybe that's his office.
Oh yeah -- and I don't see where Soviet booster, Alice Palmer lives.
And Raila Odinga and his Machette Men live back home in Kenya.
Marxism
Whatever else he may be Obama is not original. That nomination speech at the stadium was was first done by Roosevelt in 1936.
Do you have a link to that map?
Does anyone here have the ability to recreate the FNC satelite map graphic of where theyse people live in proximity to each other?
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