What will Obama talk about for 30 minutes?

Obama would have thrown Dr. King under the bus if he got in the way of his ascending to the throne.

Which might actually be a reasonable or applicable comment, if A) There were the slightest chance that Dr. King would have spoken out against Obama, or B) Dr. King were still alive.

What sort of interaction do you think McCain would have had with Martin Luther King, Jr.? ... I mean, other than voting against Martin Luther King Day, voting against affirmative action, and even voting against measures to stop discriminatory hiring practices.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/us...ll&oref=slogin

Obama Infomercial, a Closing Argument to the Everyman

WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama will use his prime-time half-hour infomercial on Wednesday night to make what is effectively a closing argument to a national audience of millions. At times he will speak directly into the camera about his 20-month campaign, at others he will highlight everyday voters, their everyday troubles, and his plans to address them.

Mr. Obama’s campaign agreed to provide The New York Times with a minute-long trailer for the 30-minute program, which is to run on four broadcast networks at 8 p.m. It will be the first time in 16 years that a presidential candidate has bought network time, in prime time, for a prolonged campaign commercial.


The trailer is heavy in strings, flags, presidential imagery and some Americana filmed by Davis Guggenheim, whose father was the campaign documentarian of Robert F. Kennedy. As the screen flashes scenes of suburban lawns, a freight train and Mr. Obama seated at a kitchen table with a group of white, apparently working-class voters, Mr. Obama says: “We’ve seen over the last eight years how decisions by a president can have a profound effect on the course of history and on American lives; much that’s wrong with our country goes back even farther than that.”
Then, while standing before a stately desk and an American flag, Mr. Obama, in a suit, says: “We’ve been talking about the same problems for decades and nothing is ever done to solve them. For the past 20 months, I’ve traveled the length of this country, and Michelle and I have met so many Americans who are looking for real and lasting change that makes a difference in their lives.”


Jim Margolis, Mr. Obama’s senior advertising strategist, said the program would then go on to feature “the stories of four different Americans, or American families, and kind of what they’re confronting.”


He said the stories would highlight “the challenges people are facing and what we should do in terms of solutions.” He said Mr. Obama would also share the story of his mother, “who struggled through her bout with breast cancer and the difficulty she had with her insurance company, to help viewers understand why his health care reform program is what it is.”
It will also have a live component, featuring Mr. Obama at a rally in Florida. The infomercial has been under production for weeks in the Virginia office of Mark Putnam, whose firm, Murphy-Putnam, is part of the Obama advertising team.


The program is to be shown on NBC, CBS, Fox, Univision, MSNBC and two cable networks that cater to African-Americans, BET and TV One. Ross Perot, the last presidential candidate to run similar programming, broadcast eight long infomercials to an average of 13 million viewers, with one of them getting 16.5 million viewers.


Costing the campaign more than $3 million, the infomercial is the ultimate reflection of Mr. Obama’s spending flexibility. Mr. McCain, with far less money in the bank, has been unable to produce a similar commercial.
The McCain campaign has seized on the advertisement as excessive, with Mr. McCain pointing to reports that Mr. Obama’s infomercial would bump back the World Series on Fox by 15 minutes. “No one will delay the World Series with an infomercial when I’m president,” he said, in Hershey, Pa.
(Fox executives have said that they, and not the Obama campaign, had initially asked Major League Baseball to move the start of Wednesday’s game to 8:35 p.m. from 8:20, to make way for his infomercial. But as it turns out, such a delay was not necessary anyway; none of the World Series games has started before 8:30, and two started after 8:35.)

For its part, Mr. Obama’s campaign said it was not worried about turning off viewers.

“Many people have 150 channels; they’ve got plenty of other choices,” Mr. Margolis said. “Or they can drop into a video game.” Then again, Mr. Obama is advertising in video games, too.

Did he take any questions from reporters? I don't take giving a prepared statement in front of press as much of a press conference.

I was wrong with his not having one... That was the first one in over a month though.

BTW when was the last time you admitted you where wrong about anything?... I have yet to see that you are more than robot for Obama.

Can you name one thing you like about McCain? I know I can name one... I liked that he has stood for tort reform. Even if it was long ago... You don't tend to see that in a lawyer. I've known for years how badly we need tort reform.

Now... Let's see if you have the cahonies to name one about McCain.

I used to like McCain (circa 2000) when he was more independent. Now, he resembles a carbon copy neo-con Bushite. He used to stand up to the GOP, now he touts all of their very same policies.

I'm not a Democrat, but please, when has Republican policy ever worked? Democrat policies got us out of the depression, got us out of the Reagan deficits, got us the Civil Rights Act, the Wilderness Act, the Persons with Disabilities Act, and the National Park System, Medicare, and Social Security.

What have Republicans done? Brought about the culture of greed of the 1980s? The Patriot Act? War on Drugs? Made us one of the most hated nations in the world?

The rest of the West is far more progressive than we are and yet Republicans cling to the idea that fiscal and "moral" conservatism is the best way to go despite the fact that the EU was out-doing economically and socially (health care, education, public health, retirement) until this recent economic recession.

And yes, we're in a recession. Even Wall Street knows it. Just because it hasn't affected the area where you live doesn't mean the thousands of people who were just laid off aren't hurting.

I used to like McCain (circa 2000) when he was more independent. Now, he resembles a carbon copy neo-con Bushite. He used to stand up to the GOP, now he touts all of their very same policies.

I'm not a Democrat, but please, when has Republican policy ever worked? Democrat policies got us out of the depression, got us out of the Reagan deficits, got us the Civil Rights Act, the Wilderness Act, the Persons with Disabilities Act, and the National Park System, Medicare, and Social Security.

What have Republicans done? Brought about the culture of greed of the 1980s? The Patriot Act? War on Drugs? Made us one of the most hated nations in the world?

The rest of the West is far more progressive than we are and yet Republicans cling to the idea that fiscal and "moral" conservatism is the best way to go despite the fact that the EU was out-doing economically and socially (health care, education, public health, retirement) until this recent economic recession.

And yes, we're in a recession. Even Wall Street knows it. Just because it hasn't affected the area where you live doesn't mean the thousands of people who were just laid off aren't hurting.

Note the big 3 socialist propaganda machines he couldve just ask them and save the money

The problem with that is that ABC isn't running the infomercial and FOX is. Are you calling FOX a socalist propoganda machine?

I wouldn't expect McCain to have any comfortable relationship with King .. it would be expected of Obama .. and there is a C) it's a hypothetical comment.

Obama has a long history of tossing people under the bus he no longer needs.

Which might actually be a reasonable or applicable comment, if A) There were the slightest chance that Dr. King would have spoken out against Obama, or B) Dr. King were still alive.

What sort of interaction do you think McCain would have had with Martin Luther King, Jr.? ... I mean, other than voting against Martin Luther King Day, voting against affirmative action, and even voting against measures to stop discriminatory hiring practices.