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At the end of the Democratic Primary season, this was the situation:

Popular Vote
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton: 17,857,446, (48.04%)
Senator Barack Obama: 17,584,649 (47.31%)

Pledged delegates

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton: 1,730.5 (39.17%)
Senator Barack Obama: 1,747.5 (39.55%)

(source)

Then, for no apparent good reason, in June Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosis decided THEY, not the delegates chosen by the electorate and not the superdelegates appointed via proper party procedure, were going to decide who would represent the top of the ticket for the general election. Now that same leadership wants YOU to legitimize their undemocratic and unprincipled methods by putting their selected candidate into the White House on November 4.

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Obama’s New Ad; For Some Reason The First Part Made Me Real Happy…

The second part not so much, but I REALLY like the first part.

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UPDATE:  Looks like they pulled the advert…

 

Basically, the first 3/4ths of the ad consists of a fake news cast showing that McCain won the election and part of an acceptance speech, etc…  then at the end it says “It doesn’t have to be that way” “Change” or something like that…

Anyway, I really liked the imagery of McCain winning and the anonymous broadcaster saying “NBC news predicts that John McCain will be the 44th President of the United States!”

Another Ad, Another Friend… 527′s Are Kickin In

Ouch.

McCain/Palin Reframe The Campaigns

McCain/Palin = Change

Obama/Biden = Same

What do you think…  effective?

Obama v. Palin – A New Advertizement

McCain Snark Update #4 – McCain’s Crashing The Party

Following my 3 previous updates, HERE HERE and HERE, comes the newest update on the unexpectedly colorful McCain campaign…

From The Washington Times:

Sen. John McCain has so much spare cash on hand — he collected a record $27 million in July — that the Republican candidate plans to run campaign ads during the networks’ coverage of the Democratic National Convention later this month.

Because Mr. McCain has agreed to accept $84 million in public financing for the general election, the presumptive presidential nominee has only until Sept. 4, when he accepts his party’s nomination, to spend the more than $21 million he has on hand.

Political strategists said airing ads during an opponent’s convention makes sense.

“The McCain camp is building a case about Obama’s ability to lead and needs to keep the pressure on his weakness with voters.”

WOW…  McCain is full force attack…  and being a snarky irreverent smart alec about it too!

Most times candidates will go quiet during the others convention.  A sort of respectful nod to the special moment that the nomination is…  but McCain has been doing far more fundraising than ever expected and needs to drop $21 million dollars by the time the Republican convention happens or he has to return the money to the donors…  so why not drop it on advertizements during one of the most heavily watched television moments this month?  The DNC Convention….

They gotta have a special advert just for this…  I wonder what it is?

Thanks to Goldie

The McCain Campaign Goes… Snarky?

Politics and comedy don’t traditionally mix very well…  but whoever is doing marketing and advertizing for the McCain campaign is a master.

I am not one of those PUMAs that wants McCain to win, but I have to admit that the McCain campaign is going full snark ahead and it’s funny as hell!

It’s about time humor made it’s way into politics…  and good humor at that.  I mean, did they hire someone from Saturday Night Live or MadTV to do their ads?

First, we have the Spears/Hilton advert… 

This was just the test, to see how the snark would go over.  And it went over pretty well.

Next, the Republicans came out with http://www.barackbook.com.  This is a fake Facebook page with working links that puts together profiles of Obama and all his friends…  brilliantly snarky.

Then came the remarks from the McCain campaign in response to Obama backing out of the townhalls…

“John McCain looks forward to debating Barack Obama as often as possible, but it’s disappointing that Senator Obama has refused his offer to do joint town hall meetings. We understand it might be beneath a worldwide celebrity of Barack Obama’s magnitude to appear at town hall meetings alongside John McCain and directly answer questions from the American people, but we hope he’ll reconsider. The American people expect and deserve no less. Unfortunately, it appears that Barack Obama’s tough-guy talk on ‘duels’ this week was just more empty words. Americans are quickly coming to the conclusion that it’s better to look at what Barack Obama actually does and not listen to what he says.”

Way to make him look trite as hell!!!  They just keep pounding that Paris/Brittney thing (no pun intended…  DIRTY!!!!)

And now today we have the newest snark… 

Obama recently said that we could save all the oil we would get from drilling in ANWR and Florida if we just kept our tires inflated properly….  Though he is right about the importance of proper tire pressure, it is a stupid statement to make and minimizes the massive energy problems we have…  problems we have that are a direct result of the energy legislation he voted for I might add.

So, how does the McCain campaign go snarky?  The Republicans are going to offer a free gift with a donation of $25 or more…  tire pressure gauges with the words “Obama’s Energy Plan” on the side! (click here)

 

That is seriously friggin hilarious!  They gotta have SNL writing their jokes?!?!

Worst Campaign Advert EVER.

This is Moveon.org’s new campaign ad for Obama.  I have never ever seen a more vacuous or inane advertizement for a political campaign ever.  There is ZERO substance to it.  It says absolutely NOTHING.

God damn it, this makes me friggin crazy.  There is no substance to this man or his campaign.

You might as well say “Vote for Obama cause he makes you tingly in the pants.”

Is this what we are reduced to?