Let's all watch Obama's 30 minute gross display of excess

[RobMoney$]

I'll be glued to my TV set.

[Laver1969]

This would have been grosser if there would have been some blood. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xnk9aqih8o&feature=channel) (y)

[RobMoney$]

HEY AMERICA, YOU CAN'T NOT LOOK AT ME.
I COMMAND IT!

What's next? Should we just list the job for POTUS on Ebay and auction it off to the highest bidder?


Creepy.

[AceFace]

you know, he's not the first one to do something like that. i think McCain should have done something too. it's more informative to me than a debate.

i'm glad my donation went toward that half hour.

[RobMoney$]

It was nothing like the efforts of Adlai Stevenson, the first to buy 30 min. blocks back in '52 (probably for $20 a block), or the entertaining but creepy H. Ross Perot who used his own money to air several 30 min. spots to argue his case against $4.1 trillion debt that he called "unconscionable".
BTW, today were operating at roughly a $10.5 trillion debt.

If not for ABC insisting on airing "Pushing Daisies", Obama would have completely road-blocked every major TV network with his Orwellian infomercial.
CBS, NBC, Fox (pre-empting the World Series), BET, Univision, and MSNBC were all locked up.

Let's face it, nobody likes the hard sell.


And no, "Pushing Daisies" wasn't an ad about McCain's campaign.

[kaiser soze]

No more Orwellian than those robocalls and terrorist pamphlets that mccain has endorsed :rolleyes:

It sucks it is on almost every channel, definitely overkill but not all areas get every station clearly

[Documad]

Rob, if you're going to be a republican, you have to embrace the market. TV stations have the option of selling their air time for pretty much anything they want (except cigarette ads).

BTW, the reason we don't have more regulation of campaign spending is because of republicans. They equated campaign spending with free speech and said it was protected by the first amendment. The supreme court agreed with them. That's not McCain's fault because he was a maverick on that long ago, but this year he is also benefitting from all those other republican smear groups that are advertising on his behalf. I'm so thankful that for once the democrat has the financial power to try to counter the republican smear machine.

[kaiser soze]

Talking about smear campaigns, did you see the news about the call center workers who walked out in protest of a mccain sponsored script smearing Obama? How come it didn't make it onto the major "liberal" media outlets?

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/dozens_of_call_center_workers.php

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.

Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."

Williams' daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it's located in Hobart, IN.

[RobMoney$]

I'm not a GOP apologist, so I'm not about to defend them for anything.
But just because it's legal to out-spend the other guy and over-expose one's self doesn't mean I have to like it, right?

I don't like the McCain robocalls either, but I haven't gotten any at my house so they're not on my radar. The 30 min. Obama doctorine I was almost forced to watch while waiting for the World Series to start so I could see my Phils win this city's first title in 25 years was inconvienient and just felt smarmy to me.
I mean at least Perot had the guts to go live in his spend-fest. This was nothing more than an over-produced and over-indulgent display of excess.