Obama’s New 2-Minute Ad

Now THAT is a President.

Not a good ad. Too long… too scripted. Obama’s best ads are the ads that go directly to John McCain then highlighting his plan towards the end.
From the most recent ones the most effectives were the “No Maverick” (Decent ad), “Fundamentals” (GREAT ad), and “The McCain Gamble” (Good ad)

“a new spirit of unity”?
If that’s what the past few days have been about – somebody needs to explain that phrase to Obama

Vanessa,
He needs to kill the complaint about not giving specifics and economics is tough to do with a sound bite. I think you have to address the problem on both fronts.

McCain received $117,500 from Lehman Bros.
Obama received $370,524
John McCain got $36,875 from AIG
Barack Obama GOT $75,899
Top Recipients of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008
1. Christopher Dodd (Chairman of Banking Committee) $165,400 in 15 years
2. Obama got $126,349 in 3 years!!
DO YOU THINK THEY EXPECT SOMETHING IN RETURN FROM MR. OBAMA? NO?

Wow! Brilliant. Thats what we want to hear.

Anon and Vanessa are correct. Obama comes across as too cerebral and too wordy. I’d love to see an add along the lines of anon’s post — Obama needs to remind voters how out of touch McSame truly is.

Does anyone have better answers….?
NO…………..
Obama/Biden 2008
God help us if we don’t…

Lez….this is too funny:
Part of the uncertainty in the markets is the risk that Obama could win and really mess everything up beyond repair.
How much worse can it get? Maybe a Depression?

This is the same dolt lying yesterday about his involvement in the stimulus package. And Obama wasn’t even there to vote for the stimulus plan.
More words, just words from Mr Teleprompter Obama.

He is ready to change this country and lead us in the right direction. This is the worse I’ve ever felt the economy. It’s hurting my own pocketbook. Something has got to be done and it looks like Obama is the only one stepping up to do it.

vanessa…enough with the attacks…McCain can have that territory.
Obama accomplished his goal. He told us all straight out what his plan is…if you don’t like it, vote for McShame and 4 more years of the same.
I haven’t seen McShame give any plan yet, probably because he is following Bushes.

Obama needs to look into the camera and explain why he uses the withdrawal of troops as a pawn to help his election.
How many times has he said on camera the surge will not work, has not worked.
Then when he tanks in the polls BO goes on O’Reilly and says it worked beyond their wildest dreams.
How can the troops trust this guy to be their Commander-In-Chief?

Democrats didn’t want oversight in 2003 when Bush recommeded it ….. they are responsbile for this mess….
from the NY times 9/11/03
The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.
Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.
The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.
The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt — is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and critics have said Fannie Mae does not adequately hedge against rising interest rates.
This should have been a no-brainer, right? With hindsight, we can see that the Bush administration had accurately diagnosed the problem in the lending market and had a plan to address it. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reluctantly supported the plan. However, Democrats objected (emphases mine):
Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.
”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
”I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,” Mr. Watt said

John McCain’s economic policy: Whistle a happy tune and hope it all goes away!

John McCain thinks that oversight means that regulators should overlook any wrongdoing on the part of Wall Street.

Earlier in the day, the Democratic presidential candidate spoke about the public’s deepening economic anxieties and portrayed Republican challenger John McCain as out of touch with the needs of hardworking people.
Then he flew to California for a night of hobnobbing with Hollywood notables.
Can’t wait for the Ad!

McCain attended a fundraiser at the Beverly Hills Hilton Monday night, which included a number of Hollywood Republicans, capping off a $4.7 million, two-event day in the Golden State.
The presumptive GOP nominee made little in the way of news in his remarks though he joked about his afternoon taping at the Tonight Show.
“I just came from taping the Jay Leno show so those of you that are up late tonight and don’t wish to watch any re-runs of the Democratic convention,” McCain said to laughter from the nearly 1,200 donors in the hotel ballroom. “So naturally we had to have a few age jokes and I told him that my Social Security number is 8. I am that old.”
And while Barack Obama has the majority of Hollywood backing his candidacy, McCain had his own small cadre of celebs in attendance tonight. Among those that were spotted:
Stephen Baldwin
Pat Boone
Wilford Brimley
Dean Cain
Jon Cryer
Robert Duvall
Angie Harmon
Patricia Heaton
Lorenzo Lamas
Craig T. Nelson
Gail O’Grady
Jason Sehorn
Gary Sinise
Jon Voight

One reason our economy is bleeding, is mentioned, is Iraq-besides the failed policies. When you spend BILLIONS of dollars on it in just ONE MONTH, the money’s got to be coming from somewhere, no? Lots of investment that could have been used on the economy instead went to Iraq.
Look it up. We are also borrowing money from China to fund Iraq (because Bush wanted to wage a cheap war for American taxpayers), and there is good evidence that it is running into not billions, but trillions of dollars. They’re charging interest, and what’s going to happen when they finally ask for the bill?
EVEN IF you think that the US should stay in Iraq, we need to have the MEANS to do so. And that equals to having MONEY, aka a STRONG ECONOMY. Otherwise, who is going to pay for the taxes? Which means we had better overhaul the economy before fully breaks down-it’s already falling into pieces.

Lehman Brothers collapse is traced back to Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, the two big mortgage banks that got a federal
bailout a few weeks ago.
Freddie and Fannie used huge lobbying budgets and political
contributions to keep regulators off their backs.
A group called the Center for Responsive Politics keeps
track of which politicians get Fannie and Freddie political
contributions. The top three U.S. senators getting big
Fannie and Freddie political bucks were Democrats and No. 2
is Sen. Barack Obama.
Now remember, he’s only been in the Senate four years,
but he still managed to grab the No. 2 spot ahead of John
Kerry — decades in the Senate — and Chris Dodd, who is
chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
Fannie and Freddie have been creations of the congressional
Democrats and the Clinton White House, designed to make
mortgages available to more people and, as it turns out,
some people who couldn’t afford them.
Fannie and Freddie have also been places for big Washington
Democrats to go to work in the semi-private sector and
pocket millions. The Clinton administration’s White
House Budget Director Franklin Raines ran Fannie and
collected $50 million. Jamie Gorelick — Clinton Justice
Department official — worked for Fannie and took home $26
million. Big Democrat Jim Johnson, recently on Obama’s
VP search committee, has hauled in millions from his Fannie
Mae CEO job.
Now remember: Obama’s ads and stump speeches attack
McCain and Republican policies for the current financial
turmoil. It is demonstrably not Republican policy and worse,
it appears the man attacking McCain — Sen. Obama — was
at the head of the line when the piggies lined up at the
Fannie and Freddie trough for campaign bucks.
Sen. Barack Obama: No. 2 on the Fannie/Freddie list of
favored politicians after just four short years in the
Senate.
Next time you see that ad, you might notice he fails to
mention that part of the Fannie and Freddie problem.

enough with the sound bites. We need to see both candidates face off in debates so we can hear more of how they are going to perform the miracles they are throwing out there.

MCCAIN WONT LET WHAT HIM AND HIS PARTY DID TO US THE LAST 8 YEARS HAPPEN AGAIN!!!!
WOOOOOOT

Overall the add is a swing and a miss. Here we have a situation that Obama has been dreaming about (sadly), an economic crisis. He’s polling way ahead of McCain on economic issues. So what does he do? Dilutes the message by blathering on about big oil, mythical green energy jobs, the obligitory class warfare commentary and the Iraq war.
It’s the economy, stupid! I agree with Ryan C’s sentiments that Obama should be nailing McCain about his deregulation record when more regulation was needed. McCain is blaming Wall St. greed. Greed? Greed needs to be checked with regulation! You don’t give a pyromaniac a lit match and tell him not to start a fire! Americans would understand that. It’s the ultimate October surprise in September and Barack is blowing it. Instead he falls back on stump speech talking points. Who’s running the show there? This crisis was an 88 mph fastball right in Barack’s wheelhouse and he whiffed.

Personally, I’m not looking for a PR-focused president running the country from the Oval Office reading from a teleprompter. We need someone who knows how to reach across the aisle and get things done. Not a mere “willingness to work with others”.
Even the surrogates are having a hard time spinning the economy against McCain. They want to attack the “fundamentally strong” comment, like Reid began yesterday. But when you get to the point of calling today’s economy the equivalent of the Great Depression, it’s just fear tactics. And Reid backed off.
Let’s be real – times are tough. But the Great Depression was a result of the fed’s failure to recognize the emerging issues and act. Today’s fed has been more active – using whatever bullets they can find.
The Fannie/Freddie/AIG bailouts seem extreme – and they are. But ask yourself – would you rather the gov’t prop up the cornerstones of the housing and financial sectors or send you a check? Guess what – $1000 bucks in your pocket doesn’t mean much if 20% of the population is unemployed and the banks can’t extend credit to anyone.
The hubris of the housing bubble was not just the fault of the fed or Bush. Nobody held a gun to peoples’ heads to buy houses they couldn’t afford. Did the banks make it too easy? Absolutely. But do individuals have responsibility for their financial health? You bet. Recognize that the financial institutions have a history of being accused (sometimes correctly) of ‘redlining’ or discriminating against geographic areas populated by lower income or ethnic groups. You might say they went overboard in crafting products to expand homeownership to these underserved groups. They looked the other way too often – and people kept signing up for loans they could barely afford. And the investors bought the loans on the secondary market. There’s plenty of blame to go around.

You can look up Obama’s record in the State Senate, and then the US Senate.
He has sponsored ethics reforms bills to cut wasteful spending. TheCoburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, for one, which he pushed and it became law. Look it up. He has sponsored hundreds of bills. Voting “present” is a tactic used by senators to indicate that they agree with the bills message but want it to be amended abit, rather than “no” which means completely rejecting the bill.

Bhrandon,
Take a deep breath. Contributions matter quite a bit with regards to public perception. If instituion X is corrupt, negligent or both and you take money from them, you’re guilty by association. That’s how it works in the political arena. Surely you know that by now. Furthermore, if your VP Selection Committee chairman is a former CEO of said institution X it makes your “agent of change” mantra almost laughable.

Earlier in the day, the Democratic presidential candidate spoke about the public’s deepening economic anxieties and portrayed Republican challenger John McCain as out of touch with the needs of hardworking people.
Then he flew to California for a night of hobnobbing with Hollywood notables.
Oh that Obama! #57 in a series.

More BLAH BLAH BLAH talk from a Senator who does nothing but just talk and no action

Socialist policies, even then, are DIFFERENT from a socialist COUNTRY.

“I approved this message because bitter, partisan fights and outworn ideas of the left and the right won’t solve the problems we face today.”
Amen to that. At least now “he” gets it. The Spy Vs Spy comic strip IS more of the same and his own supporters are becoming his worst enemies in this election by continuing to spin up themes that divide us into elites and morons, whites and black, yadda yadda yadda.
Did you see the founder of AIG on GMA? He lost his entire net worth: 3 billion. As he says, he will get by but if you don’t think this economic tsunami isn’t dragging everyone in it’s wake, you aren’t thinking.
It’s time to get off the endorphin high, the addiction to rage and put down and talk to the problems. This election has come down to what less than 10% of the voters think and there is very little time left to talk sense to them.
So Obamabots, pay attention to what your candidate said. McCainiacs, pay attention to what Obama said. I know you both want to win but we’re melting down like the Wicked Witch of the West right now and there really are more important things than those dinners.

I’m having a sixth sense moment: I see teleprompters!

bingo, you wanna know more, just research illinois democrat official’s to see who he’ agree’s with and is in bed with! exactly the same polices! my state is being destroyed by the chicago liberal democrats, and where is obama from, hhmmm!

Alexa,
One thing I know is that people who write “THE TRUTH” with caps lock activated aren’t telling it.
According to the Tax Policy Center, only families earning more than $600.000/year would see their taxes increase under Obama’ plan. That is the richest 1% of the population. Most Americans would get a tax cut. Under McCain’s plan, the top 1% would get a 4% tax cut while ordinary Americans would be left with nothing.

el pajaro – correction! obama will give tax cuts to people who make $75,000 or less, will not raise taxes on people who make $200,000 to $250,000 or less. so his plans for that so-called 1% is actually at $250,000 or more. but what you fail to understand is that small business’s will be taxed along with big corporation’s. small business that create most of the jobs % wise will be tax and from the bottom to top, which starts at $50,000 to $1.5 million. that’s a big gap between number’s. the fact is that people with lower income may benifit, but their employer’s will pay literaly the price for his plans. take a look at his business proposal’s and not just the personal, because that’s what really matter’s, JOBS!!!

“small business that create most of the jobs % wise will be tax and from the bottom to top”
If you’re discussing payroll tax, that only kicks in after $200K and if your paying people $200K a year(beyond yourself), your company is probably not a small business.
From their website
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will eliminate all capital gains taxes on start-up and small businesses to encourage innovation and job creation. Obama and Biden will also support small business owners by providing a $500 “Making Work Pay” tax credit to almost every worker in America. Self-employed small business owners pay both the employee and the employer side of the payroll tax, and this measure will reduce the burdens of this double taxation.
They also seek to get small business a health care tax credit.
That is a huge chuck of overhead for small business.

jazzman – correction, we had a surplus the made in part of president clinton and the republican controlled congress came to the middle to get that done which is what McCain will do but will have problem’s with the left not wanting too. obama will not come to the middle which is why he is hoping to have a democratic congress so he can implement liberal, not democratic, polices! clinton did that to cover-up all his shortcomings by making people who prospered then not care because things were getting better, not great. that surplus was only going to be there if polices coencided with the policies inacted, by which the war’s and the recession before bush came into office did not make that happen. come back to reality!

Ruth Marcus:
“Ideological differences aside, John McCain’s campaign has been more dishonest, more unfair, more — to use a word that resonates with McCain — dishonorable than Barack Obama’s.
McCain’s transgressions, though, are of a different magnitude. His whoppers are bigger; there are more of them. He — the easy out would be to say “his campaign” — has been misleading, and at times has outright lied, about his opponent.
He has misrepresented — that’s the charitable verb — his vice presidential nominee’s record. Called on these fouls, he has denied and repeated them. “

ryan c – then were is your number’s of when gross stops before your not considerd small anymore? don’t forget, you have all kinds of taxes from employee, insurance, shops(more acres = higher taxes), epuipment bought and insured, plus high fuel and gas prices bring even more of a burden. so i guess you think it’s not a small business over a million dollars gross. the payroll is a small part of that! start adding taxes to reality and you might figure it out. to high and to many tax’s make profit a drop in the bucket, so how can small companies grow with your number’s?

BTW:
Rex’s post below put’s it quite well……

rex – do research on the state of illinois which he represent’s or even ask the it’s citizen’s about his policies and his past, his proposal’s are just the same as the illinois govenors and my state is in shambles because of it. democrats here hate both, period! the rest of the country might love him, but his own state does not. why do you think you hardly ever see him in illinois campaigning? he only come’s back to go home to his family?

timmaaa7
I’m glad you don’t disagree with the main point and tenor of the post, that being… the McCain and Palin campaign’s blatant dishonesty.
Looks like a McCain economic advisor, with all respect to Elvis… ‘has left the building’.
“Fiorina was booked for several TV interviews over the next few days, …. Those interviews have been canceled.”

timmaaa7:
Clinton running the show = surplus
Bush & Cheney running the show = massive deficits and near bankrupt economy
“facts are stubborn things”

timmaaa7:
re: “rezko and ayers and is now under investigation”
your right, ..
REZKO is under investigation….Obama is NOT
Ayers is whatever you would like him to be, but.
Obama is NOT being investigated for anything with regard to Ayers.
You can imagine anything to justify your position but that doesn’t make them true..
“facts are stubborn things”

timmaaa7
re:
“rex – what tv or radio station’s are those, liberal?”
no, they’re the ones that actually ask almost real questions…unlike Faux ‘News’
re: … “but obama’s past”..
why don’t you share with everyone your unbiased and extensive knowledge of ‘Obama’s Past’..

rex – their the one’s who ALMOST ask real question’s, lol! foxnews report’s fact’s and truth 100% of the time in their report’s and interview’s. you making that statement is all i needed to know, lol! read my posts again about obama’s past in illinois and do real research about illinois legislature facts and event’s. you liberal’s keep leaving illinois past with obama out of the equation.

ryan c – shows what you know about illinois politics. his housing scandal with rezko is only the begining.

“That pop you hear in the background is the Palin bubble bursting in the polls.”
You’re not running against Palin except in your own minds. Women seem to freak the Obama camp out. I still don’t get that.
What you hear in the background is 401ks melting down among the Boomers who are just about to need them.
If Obama continues to issue ads talking about pulling together in English, and then in Spanish, ads falsely linking McCain to Limbaugh, etc., at some point the hypocrisy of the first message will be so obvious he will not be able to recover.
Beating up Palin in the sexist way that has been done for the last two weeks will get you a little relief from the pressure particularly given the financial fears, but it will take very little to push it back the other way.
Caveat vendor, Ryan.

Loved the ad!
Obama has the youth and intelligence to lead this country forward.
He also has the experience. Meaning, he knows what poverty feels like. Not just because he was exposed to it as a child but because he worked daily with poor people for 3 years in South Chicago.
I trust him more to look out for the little guy.

At last, an effective and substantive ad from the Obama campaign. This one is a very powerful and direct appeal to intelligent independent voters. This is also a good time to be running it, as the McCain/Palin campaign is foundering trying to formulate a response to the financial meltdown.