Pretty Tough Ad by Barack Obama?

Monday, March 5. 2007

Pretty Tough Ad by Barack Obama?

If the fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama wasn't on already, it is now...

Update: This ad is not part of Barack Obama's official campaign...

Man, it's going to be hard to keep track of what a campaign puts out and is responsible for and what it doesn't and isn't for the next eighteen months...

The ad says it's from BarackObama.com -- but as we wrote, it is not part of Obama's campaign...

Posted by Tom Elia in Politics at 18:10 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (75)

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Wow. I'm speechless

#1 Bratman on 2007-03-05 19:30 (Reply)

An Apple ad (or, perhaps more accurately, THE Apple ad), used in the campaign of someone running against the wife of Bill Clinton, whose Veep was current Apple board member Al Gore. Al is so outraged that he's turning up the thermostat on his Belle Meade mansion, causing brown-outs across Nashville. Only 20 months until the election!

#2 Pablo on 2007-03-05 19:42 (Reply)

Pretty good parody. Here is the original, directed by Ridley Scott. It is probably one of the best television ads ever produced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNy-7jv0XSc

#3 Timothy (Homepage) on 2007-03-05 19:46 (Reply)

John McCain and Russ Feingold better get busy quick.

#4 Stephen Macklin (Homepage) on 2007-03-05 19:50 (Reply)

Not only a rip off, but a pretty lame attack when you seriously consider the merits.

Apple offered a product that was sharply differentiated from IBM PCs while Obama offers platitudes even more devoid of content than Hillary's.

Want to impress me? Write an ad that isn't a ripoff of someone else's superior work.

#5 Bruno (Homepage) on 2007-03-05 19:53 (Reply)

So where did it really come from? It looks like a prank. Is it being run anywhere but You-Tube? I think that Apple might not appreciate having its ad usurped by a political campaign.

#6 AST on 2007-03-05 19:58 (Reply)

kinda stupid. reference was too obscure. and the original was dumb too. how are pc's like ingsoc?

#7 jummy on 2007-03-05 21:16 (Reply)

No matter how vapid, formulaic, or euphemistic, it's still hard to equate Hillary-speak with some form of totalitarian indoctrination,like the ranting guy in the original Apple ad. My instinctive reaction, like many people's, is just to turn her off in my head. Doesn't say much for her Democratic base either.

#8 edhesq on 2007-03-05 21:33 (Reply)

The best part is this portion of her speech:

"I don't want people who already agree with me. I want honest, experienced, hard-working, patriotic people who want to be part of a team, the American team."

Obvious Implication: The people who "already agree" with her are dishonest, inexperienced, lazy, and unpatriotic.

For perhaps the first time Hiillary has said something I agree with.

Notice too how smooth she is, and how carefully coached her seeming casualness is. I suspect every eye movement, every intonation, and every facial gesture has been carefully chorographed by friends in Hollywood. She's trying to escape the 'snarling bitch' image of her husband's presidency.

#9 Mike Perry (Homepage) on 2007-03-05 21:58 (Reply)

Does this mean the Mac zealots support Obama?

In that case, Hilary for President!

#10 commenter on 2007-03-06 07:00 (Reply)

It's the anti-Christ vs. the Whore of Babylon! All we need now is the false prophet for profit, Albert A Gore Jr.!

It's gonna be fun watching these two (or their surrogates and patsies) tear each other to shreds over the next 18 months -

and really, who cares who is running for President? wake me next April...

#11 Jeff on 2007-03-06 08:30 (Reply)

Yeah I've heard some good things about Barack Obama. I heard he had an Iraq de-escalation act. Even people who supported the Iraq war when it began, would probably now agree that it resulted badly, with civil unrest and violence still occurring in Iraq: so probably Obama's policy is favourable, there. I heard he also wanted to improve the schools, and increase literacy rates, and all of that. I guess I'll have to read what some of his detractors have to say, to learn the negative side. I'm trying to decide whom it would be best to vote for!

#12 Voter in USA (Homepage) on 2007-03-14 05:58 (Reply)

if Mac were president...it would do the job the way you wanted...in a way you understand.

And it would burn you DVDs of the whole exprience.

Just sayin'.

#13 cripeman on 2007-03-19 20:15 (Reply)

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