In Retrospect, Was Concern About Obama's 30 Minute Ad Correct?

[BlooInBloo]

Yes or no?

[PBS Poll-435]

1. HOLY SHIT

I voted NO

To make two "No" votes!

It counted as a "Yes"

[BlooInBloo]

2. Skinner is Diebold!!!!

:rofl:

[PBS Poll-435]

3. This explains so much..

:scared:

[endthewar]

38. ...

:rofl:

[mmonk]

4. No. The people that won't like it are already McCain supporters.

They get their opinions and instructions from Fixed News.

[JI7]

5. what was the concern about it ?

i haven't seen it myself. it's actually coming on now where i am but i'm waiting to see the Obama rally with Clinton instead.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Just the DU Handwringing Brigade whining about how the ad might screw things up for Obama...

Don't ask me how, because I don't pretend to know how crazy people think.

[wileedog]

7. Yes

I still think it was a Hail Mary in a game you are up 30. And already it has opened up the talking point on various shows about the money advantage as if Obama is winning unfairly because he can afford to buy something like this and McCain can't. (and yes, ignoring the reasons why).

Just because you connected on a 50 yard bomb in a game like this doesn't mean you should have thrown it.

[BlooInBloo]

8. Yah! That's it! NEVER admit to being wrong!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[wileedog]

17. To continue the football analogy, even Vince Lombardi didn't get em all right

And Obama himself will tell you the "Cling to God and guns" was a major fuckup. He's not perfect. He will make mistakes as President too.

I personally think it would have been a perfect, awesome move in a close election. I don't personally think this is a close election anymore, and I think this only opened up a route for the opposition to come back.

IMO, don't think it was a game changer either way, just wouldn't have done it myself.

[elkston]

33. You obviously have no idea how much reassurance certain white people need

Some are absolutely terrified of electing a black man. We cannot let any "soft" support slip away. There must be constant reassurance that Obama is NOT a radical.

It sounds crazy but until it is PROVEN a black man can be elected President, Obama has to play by special rules this election and take nothing for granted.

[TheKentuckian]

13. Dance with the girl that brung ya

Obama didn't get here by playing 3 yards and a cloud of dust.

Remember when the run n shoot Oilers blew that huge lead to the Bills in the AFC Championship in 91 or 92. They lost because they got up and went into a shell and tried to be something they weren't to salt the game away while the Bills kept at the K-Gun and beat them.

[BlooInBloo]

14. No, no, no. He CLEARLY knows better than Obama how to run a campaign!

:rofl:

[wileedog]

18. My opinion, of course.

I thought it was overkill, and the media has begun to play it as such. It may well override the message of the piece itself.

Just sayin.

[BlooInBloo]

19. Yah. We're doomed.

Sheesh - you people never quit.

EDIT: It's almost admirable. After being wrong over and over and over and over, most people woulda concluded that they just don't have the skills or intellect to give campaign advice. BUT NOT YOU GUYS!!! :rofl:

[wileedog]

20. WTF are you talking about?

I have been pro-Obama on every damn thing since last January.

I thought this was an un-necessary risk with a potential for backlash. They probably planned it a while back before the polls had broken so convincingly for Obama, but still it is throwing hail marys when the game seems to be in hand.

Its just a fucking opinion, relax.

I still think he's going to win, honest.

[Drunken Irishman]

27. Everyone in the media I've heard from loved it.

Who you watching, Rush and Lou Dobbs?

[BlooInBloo]

32. It doesn't matter. They'll never admit to being wrong.

[leftofthedial]

36. yo, wileedog...

ANY time you connect on a 50-yard bomb, you should have thrown it.

[puerco-bellies]

9. So far no.. It is 21 minute mark here on the West Coast.

So far so very good.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Oh sorry - I just watched it on youtube. Didn't realize it wasn't over yet out here.

[AtomicKitten]

11. If by now people aren't sure whether or not Obama knows what he is doing,

they haven't been paying attention.

[BlooInBloo]

12. That's more or less the correct conclusion to draw.

[DearAbby]

15. Bloo....do you have a paper ballot?........n/t

[BlooInBloo]

16. Early reports of vote-flipping have been determined to be largely overblown.

:P

[leftofthedial]

21. what concern?

[BlooInBloo]

22. See #7, for one example.

[Iggo]

23. What 30 minute ad?

B-)

[mwei924]

24. Going to Europe and Mid-East was supposedly "risky" too.

It all paid off though.

[BlooInBloo]

29. haahah! Apparently according to the DU Handwringing Brigade....

Obama must be the luckiest motherfucker EVER! He's like 2.463 and 0 on his risky maneuvers!

:rofl:

[sampsonblk]

25. Absolutely. Yes.

Even if it works out fine in the end, and that remains to be seen, it was still risky. IMHO, there was no need to take a big risk at this point in the campaign.

[BlooInBloo]

26. There ya go!

:rofl:

[Pithlet]

28. I have to admit

While no one can accuse me of being among the concern trolls on DU - I've been firmly in the positive "we're going to win this" camp for some time - there was a teeny, tiny part of me that was just a little bit worried about this. I never thought it would lose the race or anything, it just made me feel a little uneasy. I don't know why. Once I watched it though, I felt better. I can understand why some were a little worried though. I think we were in good shape either way. This ad is icing on the cake. It will win over some more undecideds and inspire people to get out the vote.

[LynnTheDem]

30. So we have 6 rightwingnuts in here, I see.

They're right; for them they were correct to be worried.

:rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

34. Nah - they're Democrats. They should just NEVER be let anywhere near...

a campaign advisor position.

[Life Long Dem]

31. Ah.... can someone check the calibration?

:rofl:

[genna]

35. The concern was TIRESOME. It reminds me of Gore and Kerry paying attention to each media fit of

hysteria. It never did them ANY GOOD. Why should Obama move when the media tells him to move, stop when the media tells him to stop, or any other media induced action?

They continue to show their main objective is press forward until they find something scandalous or problematic. That is no way to govern or to run a campaign. Their attention to the dramatic caused them to lose sight of the soldiers and civilians in the Iraqi War and made them miss the behind the scenes chicanery in this financial debacle.

They pretty much got in right during Hurricane Katrina but didn't stick with it. They covered this recent storm that hit Texas initially but they have failed to follow through with how the government is responding now.


The MSM needs to check itself.


As far as DUers regurgitating ever single fear/concern the MSM has...


Eventually you concerned DUers will notice a trend in coverage and be more discriminating, it took me a while before I recognized propaganda from a possibly true story. I think feedback on news websites have allowed them to see that people really don't believe what they are being told anymore.

[Supersedeas]

37. It was risky...very risky...but DAMN, did they ever pull it off!!!