Obama Infomercial

[Ptarmigan]

Why does Obama need infomercials?  There are too many flooding the airwaves on TV. Just turn on any channel and you will see one. I think Obama knows he could actually lose. He already has an all Obama channel. Is he that desparate????????? Obama has a huge ego.

[Tess Anderson]

he really does believe he's already president 

like i keep saying, i cant wait to see what the ratings are on this stupid idea.. and i think america will be less than impressed.

Well, I don't know about Americans, but members of the media elite were less than impressed - you'd think this was a Rush Limbaugh critique of the informercial, not somebody from SeeBS:

Without question, the Barack Obaminfomercial served as a very slick and powerful recitation of the biggest promises he's made as a presidential candidate. But the very bigness of his ideas is the problem: he seems blind to the concept his numbers don't add up.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/29/eveningnews/realitycheck/main4557520.shtml

Associated (with the Committee to Elect Barack Hussein Obama for President) Press actually fact-checked it:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was less than upfront in his half-hour commercial Wednesday night about the costs of his programs and the crushing budget pressures he would face in office.

Obama's assertion that "I've offered spending cuts above and beyond" the expense of his promises is accepted only by his partisans. His vow to save money by "eliminating programs that don't work" masks his failure throughout the campaign to specify what those programs are — beyond the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

ap

 

Failure? By the messiah? From AP? This speech must have SUCKED big time, but rats will desert a sinking ship . . .

[DumbAss Tanker]

Chris Matthews apparently creamed himself over its fantasticness.  Since he is an idiot, that's probably bad for Obama.

Seriously, I'm sure the already-converted loved it.  Whether it affected anyone else in a way favorable to Obama I can't say, but two-minute spots are more than I want to see from even my own candidates.  Obama is better at saying nothing beautifully than anyone around, but a whole half-hour of nothing doesn't strike me as likely to bring over a bunch of people who are still holding out for a sign at this point.  As far as I gather from the morning coverage, and reading between the lines of it all, it seems like the speech was indeed another half-hour of Obama worship without any substantive policy content, domestic or foreign.     

[Splashdown]

He should have filmed it in that half-animated style of 300. That would've increased his godlike qualities.

[NHSparky]

"But I can promise you this -- I will always tell you what I think and where I stand."

I call bullshit.  He hasn't done it yet.  And anytime anyone tries to call him on what he REALLY is, they get shut out from access or are smeared by their minion brown-nosers in the MSM.

[Wretched Excess]

Chris Matthews apparently creamed himself over its fantasticness.  Since he is an idiot, that's probably bad for Obama.

Seriously, I'm sure the already-converted loved it.  Whether it affected anyone else in a way favorable to Obama I can't say, but two-minute spots are more than I want to see from even my own candidates.  Obama is better at saying nothing beautifully than anyone around, but a whole half-hour of nothing doesn't strike me as likely to bring over a bunch of people who are still holding out for a sign at this point.  As far as I gather from the morning coverage, and reading between the lines of it all, it seems like the speech was indeed another half-hour of Obama worship without any substantive policy content, domestic or foreign.     

there is a historical precedent on the whole "buy the national networks for night" exercise;  ross perot tried that in 1992, and I doubt that it did him any good.

[NHSparky]

he really does believe he's already president 


like i keep saying, i cant wait to see what the ratings are on this stupid idea.. and i think america will be less than impressed.

I can tell you that the American public as a whole doesn't like presumptuous people--this is not exactly good for him.  He really didn't close the deal, and the display of hubris is going to sway a good many people who might otherwise have voted for him.

[Hawkgirl]

Well this plot was a failure because as of today, all of the networks are reporting a tightening in all polls and especially in the battleground states.  I think this stunt may have just been the last nail in the Obama coffin.  Arrogant Prick.

[Hawkgirl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_on_el_ge/fact_check_obama_ad

Rats running from sinking ship for real.

[Chris]

The final numbers for the Obamammercial are in...

More than 33 million people watched the Democratic presidential nominee's paid political ad Wednesday night on seven networks, delivering a bigger television audience for that time period than the usual viewership so far this season.

On an average Wednesday night, the same networks get an audience of 30.3 million people between 8 and 8:30 p.m., according to Nielsen Media Research.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/10/obamas-ad-draws.html

[Baruch Menachem]

I get the subtle feeling that he jumped the shark here.  People have been talking about his presuptiousness, but now they got to see it entire.  There seems to have been something missing in the demeanor of his supporters at work since Thursday.