What Did You Think Of Obama's TV Infomercial?
Sen. Barack Obama is reflected on a glass table, as he appears on television screens at an electronics shop in Wheaton, Maryland.
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Did you watch Sen. Barack Obama's half-hour TV infomercial last night? If so, what did you think of it? New York magazine sums up the TV event this way:
Of course Obama's prime-time infomercial was sappy, overstuffed with images of Americana, and pretty much devoid of anything new for people who've been paying attention to the campaign. But it's not trivial that Obama appeared nothing like the terrorist-friendly, paycheck-snatching secret socialist he's being portrayed as in these closing days. We got so comfortable watching Obama calmly explain his solutions to downtrodden Americans that if he started reading Goodnight Moon, we would have passed out on the spot. Maybe that's exactly the feeling that those miraculously still-undecided voters were waiting for.
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Tags: Barack Obama | Obama TV ad | Obama TV infomercial
11:41 AM ET | 10-30-2008 | permalink
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