"We have been talking about the same problems for decades---and nothing is ever done....The final verdict on eight years of failed policies." Amen. Well done, Barry O.
Gawker has a list of admiring reactions, some grudging. Joe Gandelman has analysis here.
Tomorrow, the Daily Show interview! Bonus:
UPDATE: Balloon Juice makes an excellent point about the Barack show that the far right wingnuts have simply failed to take in, asking what would a McCain version of the same 30 minutes have looked like?
Notice what is missing from that, conservatives? Attacks on John McCain. For 30 minutes, Barack Obama talked about what he thinks are the problems currently facing the country, about what he thinks he can do to help fix them, how you can help him, and why it is important to elect him. He did not spend his time telling you why you should not vote for McCain, he spent his time telling why you should vote for him. You may not agree with his ideas, but you can not argue he has them and is presenting them to the country in a clear and nonthreatening manner.
Now, for a moment, consider what the Republican 30 minute infomercial would look like this year- if I had to guess, it would be ten minutes about McCain as a POW, ten minutes of McCain saying he isn’t Bush, and then ten minutes of bullshit smears about Ayers, Khalidi, socialism, celebrity, and maybe Rick Davis could go before the cameras and pull a tire gauge out of his ass. For sheer nostalgia, maybe the lead McCain blogger could put those table-top gamers back in their place again. All the while, McCain could pepper his speech with folksy rejoinders about earmarks. And now that we are done with a hypothetical Republican 30 minutes, how did McCain actually respond to the commercial? In case you missed it, he whinged about public financing (when did that become a Republican cause) and then muttered something about Obama delaying the World Series, and even that was a lie.
As Benen says, Obama responded to McCain's gibes in a speech in Raleigh today:
"[B]ecause he knows his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book," Obama said. "Lately, he's called me a 'socialist' for wanting to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week, he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich."
Memeorandum has blogger reactions to the Raleigh speech.
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I really liked his speech. Well done, Barry O!
-Daniel
Posted by: Infomercial production companies | November 26, 2009 at 09:10 AM