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Let's all hope....
Posted by portland native | October 29, 2008 6:59 AM
Voting for the lessor of two evils still leaves us with evil. Corporations run both the Rebublicans and Democrats. Please consider 3rd party. Nader or Mckinney
Thank you
Posted by smithse | October 29, 2008 8:37 AM
Please consider 3rd party. Nader or Mckinney
OK, consider it considered. It worked so well in 2000 with Nader.
Posted by Allan L. | October 29, 2008 8:55 AM
If "They Get It" means a check in the mail for their acting services, I'm sure you're right. Not that I don't support Obama, but the well-produced, lighted, void background with fitting library music cut, regular-folk-looking actors with great diction and talent in reading a prompter scroll, consistency in delivery and sound (indicating production in a finite period of studio time by professionals on both sides of the booth..., this is simply a nicely worked promo. Better than the negative campaigns for sure, but any of these actors could be voting for anyone in any party or no one at all. They're doing their job.
Posted by PDX Native | October 29, 2008 11:02 AM
Better than the negative campaigns for sure, but any of these actors could be voting for anyone in any party or no one at all. They're doing their job.
But lets compare this nice, well done production, with one of McCain's productions, aka Joe the Plumber.
These guys and gals in the Obama video are very well spoken, look good, smile alot, and overall are pleasant to watch and listen to. Obama's campaign shows very high standards of production in this video.
Joe the plumber, on the other hand, isn't even first-named Joe, is not yet licensed to plumb, doesn't yet own his own plumbing business, and looks kinda regular guy-ish to me, if I regular guys are totally bald. In the Joe the plumber video, the lighting is bad, the audio quality is bad, the written script he and Barack were following didn't flow very well, in my opinion.
Overall, McCain did a lousy job vetting his actor, versus Obama. You have to give this one to Obama, in my opinion.
Posted by Harry | October 29, 2008 11:23 AM
Harry, I'm with you. I'd love more class and high standards in our culture from the top down!
Posted by PDX Native | October 29, 2008 5:56 PM
...any of these actors could be voting for anyone in any party or no one at all. They're doing their job.
True. However, this video nevertheless does address a reality in this election that I believe is entirely authentic: There are many, many Republican crossover voters not just for Obama, but for Democratic candidates in general. I know of a couple myself. The converse, I believe, isn't true, at least on any broad basis - notwithstanding disenfranchised Clinton supporters who formed the so-called PUMA group to support Palin because of her gender. And they've been pretty quiet lately.
Posted by john rettig | October 29, 2008 9:56 PM