Ads

I discovered both of these through Daily Kos – two of the most moving campaign ads I have seen:

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Plan for Change

Barack Obama has done something out of the ordinary for this US Presidential campaign – recorded a two-minute ad addressing substantive issues:

The ad then points viewers to his web site for more information on his economic plan.
It will be interesting to see what impact this has – being two minutes long, [...]

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Mavericks

A decent ad from the Obama campaign – and, most importantly, it calls a lie a lie:

And as Palin starts to emerge from the controlled environment of the RNC and reveal her ignorance about economic issues, the Democrats should look to start pressing hard on the issues.

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Joining the dots

Matt Yglesias has kicked off a discussion of the apparent dilemma the media comes up against when a campaign lies but rebuttal involves repeating the lie. (NB: Matt has apparently edited his post – the original content is currently reproduced in comment 7 to the post).
I don’t see much of a dilemma. Point out the [...]

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John McCain is a sad little liar

Yet again.

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What to do

Interesting how politicians (of all denominations) always know what Parliamentary reforms are needed as soon as they no longer have the power to change them:
Outgoing Federal Senate President Alan Ferguson says Question Time is a farce and there need to be radical changes in the way it is handled.
I would have thought that the period [...]

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Hilton > McCain on energy (and marketing)

John McCain ran an ad comparing Obama’a celebrity status to Britney and Paris. Paris Hilton responds.

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So colourful

Ms Overington:
There was a rumour that Cate Blanchett was going to narrate the ads, but since when is Ms Blanchett an authority on climate change? Let’s be sensible, and wait to hear what Angelina Jolie has to say.

You mean that you need to be an authority on something before providing a public voice to somebody [...]

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Four more years

MoveOn.org has a new ad:

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Capitulation

The people who brought you this:

are now whistling a different tune:
Mr Gailey said despite the concerns during the election campaign about the power of union leaders, he was not worried about the government dominated by newly-elected union identities such as Bill Shorten and Greg Combet.
“We’ve worked successfully with Labor governments in [...]

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