Barack Obama began scaling back TV advertising for the convention week, pulling ads in Republican strongholds in the South and Mountain West to concentrate on ad wars with rival John McCain in battleground states.

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Democratic and Republican officials familiar with Obama’s ad purchases said the campaign had decided to pull ads from Alaska, Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Montana and North Dakota during next week’s convention. Two Democratic officials, speaking not for attribution because they were not authorized to discuss ad strategy, said the campaign intends to return to those state airwaves the following week.

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In what could be an ominous sign for Barack Obama just days before he is formally named the Democratic presidential nominee, a new CNN poll of polls out Tuesday shows the Illinois senator’s lead over John McCain has been cut in half in recent days.

American voters are becoming increasingly worried about Obama’s complete lack of experience, according to CNN. Political ads released by the McCain campaign are pointing out the dangers of Obama’s inexperience. (more…)

I must thank my loyal reader CTMom for this wonderful link on the new Obama fashions.

While I don’t imagine that thirty years from now people will be coveting these items in the same way they seek original Grateful Dead T-Shirts, this idea is sure to hit the fashion industry by storm, albeit for a short-lived period of time.

Obama fashions will be hitting the market next month. This will give you roughly two months to wear your Obama fashion statement before relegating it to the Car wash pile out of shear embarrassment. After all, do you ever see people wearing a Kerry shirt now?

Anybody? Anybody?

For $80 you will be able to purchase this lovely design among many that will appear for sale on Obama’s web site, so that you might press it close to your own personal body. Toss in a vibrating cell phone and you have got a full evening of Cool coming your way. (more…)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWXqpHEsrxc[/youtube]

I was struck by the high quality of the ad. It tweaks Obama’s celebrity status, and then unleashes a full-throttle class attack on Obama. “Life in the spotlight must be grand,” intones a woman’s voice, dropping her voice off for emphasis, “but for the rest of us times are tough. Obama voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000.”

Contrast this ad with the lingering image of Obama in Europe, a trip which I think cost him dearly. Obama is trying to stretch his image into that of a statesman; he tried to fill the shoes of real presidents by going on the Euro-Disney tour of historic moments of American presidential history. But these staged events actually make Obama seem smaller, like the scared guy hiding behind a faux presidential seal:

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Imho, that alone is reason enough to not nominate Barack Obama. “Words? Just words?” Well, sadly, that is all they are, Mr. Obama. When push comes to shove, you ALWAYS side with your money men. You didn’t give a single thought to the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

I just had to get that off my chest. If every American voter KNEW that Barack Obama voted WITH Dick Cheney and George Bush on energy and profiteering for big energy companies, there’d be no doubt who should be nominated.

This ad is about the average American family:

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–> McCain’s video channel comes in 5th. Its 230 videos have been viewed by 1,155,207 people this week.

–> BarackObamadotcom’s video channel comes in 36th. Its 1,079
videos have been viewed by 364,351 people this week.

– That, by the way, puts McCain AHEAD OF, and Obama BEHIND, the likes of some comedian named Fred, another comedian named kevjumba, a Taiwanese named gar6301 (do check this one out!), the chatty sxephil, and even the Associated Press and johnbytjohnb (photo right), for pete’s sake. Obama is also behind pussycat0930:

Now that’s sad, Barack.

Well, it can’t be that people are simply sick to death of hearing about you.

(2) McCain has bested Obama in ad buys during the Olympics, $6 million versus $5 million.

(3) Gas Station TV (who knew?!?!) — which reaches 17.5 million trapped customers per month — has announced it will not run Obama’s ads, according to Advertising Age magazine: (more…)

“Gee, I really want to suck my thumb.”

But after I saw it on the internets a few times, I realized that this is not what most adults would be thinking if they saw this ad. Instead, they would more likely recognize their own Gen-Y kids who are hanging around still being supported by Mom and Dad, pretending to be “upscale” on their parents’ money. The parents would be thinking about how their charming and sensitive little dependents don’t seem to be offering the slightest indication that they have any intention of actually getting off on their own and paying for silly things like their own own heat, food, property taxes, car insurance and cell phones–for a change.

This condition, of course, allows a generation known as America’s longest-running parental dependents to hang around all dreamy-eyed, thinking of Hopey-Changey - while pushing the age of 30 in some cases. So I would imagine that their parents’ actual reaction if they saw this ad would be,

“Am I going to have to support that baby chick!???”. (more…)

This picture was sent to me earlier this year by a friend that is a buddhist monk. We are both of the faith typically called “Tibetan” Buddhism. As such, we’re pretty much automatically labelled enemies of the Chinese People. I wanted to share this picture with you because of several things going on right now concerning His Holiness the Dali Lama, the candidates for President, and the upcoming Beijing Olympics.

This picture demonstrates the real force being the so-called rioting monks and the violence last April in Tibet. It was posed so China could justify the disappearance of over 10,000 Buddhist monks and nuns. You are seeing this correctly. It is a group of Chinese soldiers holding monk garb. This was taken by a friend of ours right after some of the riots. I think you can figure out the rest for yourself.

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The Obama campaign has made a $5 million dollar ad buy during NBC’s coverage of the Beijing Olympics that start on August 8, 2008.

Via Advertising Age:

It’s official. Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal’s Olympics coverage. In the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years, the Obama campaign has taken a $5 million package of Olympics spots that includes network TV as well as cable ads. According to NBC’s political file, the campaign had initially requested information about 500,000, $2 million and $4 million package of Olympics spots. The network also offered the candidate a $10 million package.

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I don’t think it’s helpful to refer to a presidential candidate as a liar. I will not refer to Obama as a liar. That kind of talk lowers the civic discourse, it impugns the name of a public servant, and distracts us from the important duty of selecting a president. So, please ignore the image above.

However, since we happen to be on the subject of veracity, it’s come to my attention that Mr. Obama is now running an advertisement, titled “Dignity,” in which he claims to have passed welfare reform legislation. ABC News reports:

Barack Obama aligned himself with welfare reform on Monday, launching a television ad which touts the way the overhaul “slashed the rolls by 80 percent.”

Here’s an image from the ad:

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