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Obama’s first NH TV ad – “Believe”

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Today we are providing you a sneak peak at our new television ad. Barack continues his dialogue with voters, talking to them about believing in him, believing in themselves and change we can believe in.

Tomorrow our ad will begin airing around the state.

Tim Foley

Proud to be a New Hampshire staff member for Barack Obama’s movement for change.

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    • Democratic catch phrases may be short, and nebulous, but you have to admit:  a large portion of this campaign is going to be about getting Americans to believe in the idea of America again.  After, the United States is as much an idea as a geographic place.  Seeing as how we’ve had eight years (arguably more) of utter disappointment in the Oval Office, we need to get Americans to believe in the virtues of executive leadership, and the promise of America, again.  It’s as much as challenge now as it was in 1980.

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      Besides, as near as I can tell, Mitt Romney’s mantra is “Reality is whatever I need it to be.”

  2. Lived in MA and spent a bit of time in the summer of 04 on vacation in Chicago volunteering in Obama’s office. I believed in him then. I even took a poster home to MA and put it in my window.

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    Since he’s been elected I haven’t found any evidence that he is a leader. He’s had ample opportunity to stand up and say something and DO something to help take this country back from the right wing fascists that are currently running it.

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    So far, nadda.

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    I wish I could believe, but actions speak louder than words and I have yet to see any action on his part.

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    Oh and by the way-really tacky of him to conveniently miss the vote to condemn an AD by one group of 3 million committed citizens who ARE trying to do something. If he doesn’t have the cajones to stand up for MoveOn he doesn’t deserve our support.

    • really tacky of him to conveniently miss the vote to condemn an AD by one group of 3 million committed citizens who ARE trying to do something. If he doesn’t have the cajones to stand up for MoveOn he doesn’t deserve our support.

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      So, your campaign advice to Barack Obama would be to hitch his wagon to the PR miscreants at MoveOn.org, whom many people believe greatly missed the boat with the Petraeus thing?  That sounds like a terrible idea.  If that’s the sort of candidate you’re looking for, Dennis Kucinich will gladly take your vote, and Rudi Giuliani will gladly be sworn in in January 2009.

    • The AP said Obama did not vote on the resolution even though he had voted “minutes earlier” for an alternative that condemned the MoveOn ad as an “unwarranted personal attack,” but also condemned attack ads that questioned the patriotism of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., both Vietnam veterans.

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      Obama actually condemned MoveOn but simply refused to do so without attacking the vicious ad hominem attacks on Cleland and Kerry. In that way, he was able to condemn MoveOn, but make that vote in the context of poor political dialog in general. In addition, he didn’t get labeled as supporting the “vicious left” as some people now call MoveOn or opposing a crucial part of the Democratic base. This is consistent with his overall message that we need to change the discourse in America.

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      This whole flap, in my view, underscores the focus of Obama’s campaign: on the right and on the left we’re not talking about the issues, we’re spending time on irrelevant resolution condemning an ad hominem ad. Our government cannot function in these types of conditions, so it’s time for a change.

  3. how does that statement jive with the diary a few days ago about obama making sure big medicorp lobbyists were satisfied?  can anyone enlighten me?

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    as to the whole “believe” thing, i’m inclined to agree with RevDeb.  I’ve seen no great leadership there.  not bad, perhaps, but certainly not bold or distinctive.  on the matter of equal justice for lgbt people, he’s running with the special-rights-for-heteros herd.

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    imo, obama would be superior to any republican candidate that is currently running.  but i haven’t seen him really distinguish himself from the other democrats.

  4. Advertising crack for his followers, a crack-up for anyone else.  He does slip some bio in, but the ad is all about hope and sepia tones.  If you want a warm fuzzy candidate in sepia tones, chances are you’re not going for Hillary anyway.  If you want someone with the chops to be president, you don’t find it here.  Oooh…”he took on the insurance companies” doing…something.  Hillary went to war with them in 93.  She lost, true, but she took them on in a way Barack can’t claim.  Oh, and he works great with Republicans.  Yay.

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    I don’t see how this ad gains him any voters, I really don’t.

    • …and as you may remember, I like Obama (but I have recovered from Obama fever.)  Sixty seconds to say basically mush…that could ahve been done in 30.  And was it my computer or was that a rather “dark” ad…shadows on the face of someone with a dark complication didn’t work for me.

      • Frank…your slip on “dark complication” has unintended merit…the race issue is a complication for Obama but one he seemed at first on the way to dispelling but I think he is losing ground now…not because others are coming on so strong but because people are looking for something in Obama that he is not offering.

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        David Axelrod appears to have only one playbook and one copywriter. I watched the Obama ad and, honestly, if I looked away from the screen and replaced the words “Washington” and “Congress” with “State House” or “Beacon Hill”…it could just as well have been a Patrick ad left over from the last election.

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        Believe…hope…trust…this is YOUR campaign…take back your government…such sweet and lilting rhetoric…makes you wish you could believe! But, I also read his book and must agree with the reviewer who also noticed it was “long on hope and short on audacity”…the same can be said for his campaign ad.

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        • During the summer they had the audacity to repackage reruns under the slogan “if you haven’t seen it–it’s new to you!”

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          That’s kind of the Obama campaign.  Of course we’ve seen it — by late summer it had become obvious that Deval’s campaign was a dry run for Obama’s campaign.  Same themes, same strategies for dealing with race, etc., etc.  We’re being governed by an understudy.

          • You are right…but go back further…the Patrick Ads looked amazingly similar to the Obama for US Senate ads in Illinois…same wizard, same copywriter…don’t fix it if it’s not broken…that’s Axelrod’s motto…but,  what works on the state level retail campaigns, may not make it wholesale…harder to connect without specifics, relying on platitudes and sweet sounding rhetoric…

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            I would like to give Richardson a swift kick because he has the resume, the ideas, the record…domestic, foreign, administrative and the right address for this year’s election…but, he just isn’t great on the stump!!

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