Obama to air TV ad during the Super Bowl
EmailABC’s Sunlen Miller reports: Barack Obama will go on the air with a targeted TV ad during the Super Bowl tonight in key February 5th, 9th, 10th, and 12th states.
According to a source inside the campaign, the total cost of the buys together was $250,000.
The ad, entitled "Join," mentions Obama’s intention to end the war in Iraq, the environment, jobs and the need for something "new."
The ad airs in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
In addition to this Super bowl ad, Obama is on the air in every Super Tuesday state except Illinois and Alaska.
Below is the script and link.
http://my.barackobama.com/sb_join
“I’m Barack Obama and I approved this message. We want an end to this war and we want diplomacy and peace. Not only can we save the environment, we can create jobs and opportunity. We’re tired of fear; we’re tired of division. We want something new. We want to turn the page. The world as it is is not the world as it has to be."
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Love Obama, but the ad sucks. They need to do something that appeals to older votes as well.
Posted by: cg, nyc | February 3, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
For how long does the truth get supressed? Yet the media keeps shouting that Obama is the candidate of new action and ideas. Hillary is as much for change and new ideas; besides, she’s never been prez before and should be given a chance. Her only difference in this matter, from Obama, is that Obama has nothing by which to prove his “change” promises. One can look at Hillary’s records and see changes she’s made on many fronts. Obama’s record is a brief documentation of high ambition and alot of sitting back after promising the world.
Posted by: GT | February 3, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
Obama is changing America already, are you blind????Clinton and her shady friends will bring more corruption to this country, just read the NY Times..
Posted by: carmen | February 3, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
Well, Obama’s supporters aren’t as loyal as Hillary’s: 49% of Obama’s supporters say they’ll never change their minds, but 62% of Hillary’s supports say the same. Vote Hillary, or else have a republican president!
Posted by: Strong79 | February 3, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
This is going to tick off every voter that is watching football. How dumb is this campaign? The superbowl is supposed to be a break.
Posted by: brian | February 3, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
Strong79: I think I’d need to see a source for those statistics.
What is a fact is that Obama has far more cross-over potential than the Clintons. Plus, primary results consistently show Obama doing well with younger voters and in rural areas.
Clinton is poison in rural America, whether you like it or not, and until the Democrats can compete in rural areas we will always be behind in the red/blue arithmetic.
The future of the Democratic Party is Barack Obama.
Posted by: Ward | February 3, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
All the more reason I will not watch the NFL superbowl, the cost and drama has taken from major issues this world needs to have the publisity spent on. Instead of hiding or diverting them with sports hype. The idoling of players and of course barama going to place an ad, not shocking news. He’s an idol not a president. Sorry, but you didn’t pledge the US flag so you should never run that flag’s country. Our fore fathers died and did the dirty work making this the land it is, this reps, resembles, and should remain to be pledged.
Posted by: callenfallen | February 3, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
Thank you, Hillary, for letting us enjoy guacamole,
family, friends, and “the game.” We NEED a break
from the sport of politics!… If Obama had grown up
in mainland America, he surely would have known that. His ad will intrude on our interlude. His bummer
choice, but shows you something, doesn’t it?
Posted by: minddancer | February 3, 2008, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm
I think it’s an appropriate ad. It’s positive, fast-paced, breezy, with upbeat music and high energy. It’s just one ad, so I don’t think people will find it obtrusive or overly political, especially because it isn’t your typical political ad.
Posted by: Gene L | February 3, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm
God, I am so sick of Obama.. sick sick sick of him. Now I can’t even watch the superbowl in peace?
Posted by: A reader in Georgia | February 3, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
If The democrats keep trying to push Hillbilly Clinton down our throats like they did with Kerry, We will have a republican president and I will be voting for him!
I have already changed my party from democrat to Indepent and I urge all democrats to do the same. The democratic party keeps selling us out to the highest bidder and I am fed up with it.
Bush and his republican Bushbots have done more damage to this country than all the terrorist nations combined and the people are fed up with it and will replace them all.
The Democrats are in perfect position to have a clean sweep of every office and yet they are going to blow it by trying to force another lying, deceiving, self-serving Clinton down our throats. If they loose this election it is because they asked for it!
Posted by: Dave Peck | February 3, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
Cg from N.Y.,
One can look at Hillary’s records..”? Ah, no we can’t. They are currently blocking our ability to look into their records.
Gosh, who donated so much money to Bill’s library? We don’t and can’t know!
Why do you defend these con artists? Vote for anyone you like, but don’t blindly defend these people!
Posted by: kurt | February 4, 2008, 12:05 am 12:05 am
I’m a lifelong Republican with a very conservative background–grandfather fought for the Confederacy and I used to work for Strom Thurmond. Yet, I hope that Obama is the nominee because I’m voting for him–it’s time for a change–not the old politics of deceit and deception practiced by the Clintons. A vote for Hillary is a vote for Bill, unfortunately.
Posted by: ncf | February 4, 2008, 7:53 am 7:53 am
I am so sick of people joining on the band wagon to bash Hillary. Obama is as inexperienced as George W, and it shames me to think that everyone believes that people are gathering to him for “change,” they gather around to become the next Dick or Karl. Wake up people, we don’t need another charismatic puppet in office!
Posted by: janet | February 8, 2008, 1:39 am 1:39 am
I’m not going to vote for Obama. He is a young “hot-shot.” I’m also not going to vote for Clinton, because one it is a two-for-one deal (I don’t want to put Bill back in the white house) and She is over pushy person. I would love to have a black president or a women president, but neither of the two running should do it. I’m probabily going to vote for huckabee (if he gets the primary) or not vote.. it’s a messy world out there…
Ps: I SUPPORT BUSH!!!
Posted by: Lucy | February 20, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
I am worried about Barak’s wife’s attitude as she had all the advantages of a Princeton Education, A successful husband and upper middle class lifestyle and governmental connections and still she said what I construe as race-centric-critical of whitey remarks.
Sure a lot of people are less than we hope in life, but that doesn’t make them racist idiots. Instead sometimes its just the way the culture or mindset is going that is oppressive rather than white people. Its fine to criticize that in my book, change is good often. But I felt that hostile thing emenating from her that is so unfair to the many of us that really don’t look at the world in a race-centric way these days. That tells me there is a strong element of race going on in that family. I would rather see her in a career or cause that is all people affirming or in some productive mode.
Posted by: Brian | February 25, 2008, 3:11 am 3:11 am