Posted July 24, 2008 1:05 PM
by John McCormick
Amid swimming and sprinting and gymnastics, there will be $5 million of "Change We Can Believe In."
There is no word yet on the exact spots that will run, but Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is planning to run commercials on the NBC network during its broadcast of the Summer Olympics next month, AdvertisingAge is reporting.
Obama has already done some advertising on national cable channels, but his campaign has kept most of its focus on television spending in 18 states it is targeting.
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Comments
I'm interested to know how effective such a major ad buy will be. Will Obama get the right bang fir his buck? Regional or state ads might b a better value (he;s worried about that now without Hillary's cash).
http://www.political-buzz.com/
Posted by: matt | July 24, 2008 1:16 PM
I'm surprised he is not have the athletes wear plackards with his picture on them waving and smiling.
Posted by: RFB-IL | July 24, 2008 1:41 PM
If you're John McCain....You don't know how to use the internet, you don't know that Czechoslovakia is no longer a country, you don't know Sunni from Shia, you don’t know much about the economy, you're uninformed about women's health issues, you don't know whether you're for or against gay adoption, stem cell research or setting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, you don't know what countries share a border with Pakistan, you don't know when the surge began, you no longer object to waterboarding or closing Guantanamo, you don't tell the truth about your votes on veterans issues, you said Putin was the leader of Germany, you think alternative energy means switching from regular to premium, you say you know how to win wars but you haven't actually won any, your idea of a funny joke is suggesting different ways to kill people in other countries, you want to keep giving tax breaks to the wealthy but not the middle and lower class, you confuse Somalia with Sudan, you thought voting for the Iraq war was an exercise in good judgment, you once said "I disagree with what the majority of Americans want," you think Social Security is "a disgrace," your idea of health care is apparently 'take more vitamins,' you voted to support Bush's policies 95 percent of the time last year and 100 percent of the time this year, and over the course of a single week you unfairly attacked both your opponent's patriotism and his humanity...
Then tell me again, Senator McCain: why should Americans vote for you?
Posted by: Patty Hayes | July 24, 2008 1:59 PM
Off subject....I just saw the speech from Berlin. Can't for the life of me understand why the media would cover that and not some millionare telling us the price of milk from the aisle of a handi mart.
Posted by: bill "Hussein" r. | July 24, 2008 2:02 PM
Is it possible to shun the Olympics in China and at the same time monopolize on their wide reach. Apparently. I'm surprised he's running change we can believe in. Shouldn't that be a 5 million worth of ad against China's treatment of Tibetans. Now that's change.
Posted by: Moe | July 24, 2008 4:16 PM
bill "H", have you got nothing better to do with your time than to listen to a wanna be, thinks I am spout off at the mouth. They loved him so much in Germany maybe he should stay there; I understand there is an opening left by someone by the name of Adolph.
Posted by: RFB-IL | July 24, 2008 10:28 PM
Matt-what do you mean without Hillary's cash? They say he can gain big with her donors.
Patty 1:59 wouldn't you have saved more space if you instead listed Obama's qualifications : )
Posted by: Teresa | July 25, 2008 12:17 AM
Patty Hayes for V.P.!
Posted by: Bubba | July 25, 2008 1:04 AM