Obama Heads to Oaktown
Yesterday, Barak Obama was in Oakland, CA for a rally. A sure sign that California is going to be more important this year. Here is video of the event put together by a local news team covering the event. He is running strong.
Tags: 2008 Presidential
OBAMA CAMPAIGNS IN OAKLAND – Political video smack-down
San Francisco Chronicle | 3/17/7 | Carla Marinucci
‘Hillary 1984’: Unauthorized Internet video for Obama converts Apple Computer’s ’84 Super Bowl spot into a generational howl against Clinton’s presidential bid —
It may be the most stunning and creative attack ad yet for a 2008 presidential candidate — one experts say could represent a watershed moment in 21st century media and political advertising.
Yet the groundbreaking 74-second pitch for Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, which remixes the classic “1984” ad that introduced Apple computers to the world, is not on cable or network TV, but on the Internet.
And Obama’s campaign says it had absolutely nothing to do with the video that attacks one of his principal Democratic rivals, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Indeed, the ad’s creator is a mystery, at least for now.
(To see the video, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo)
The compelling “Hillary 1984” video recently introduced on YouTube represents “a new era, a new wave of politics … because it’s not about Obama,” said Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank on politics and new media. “It’s about the end of the broadcast era.”
But some say the ad is just the latest attempt by outside activists to influence political campaigns — or the newest way for campaigns to anonymously attack their opponents.
The video is a sophisticated new take on director Ridley Scott’s controversial Apple ad that caused shock waves with its premiere during the 1984 Super Bowl, and shows the same blond young female athlete running with a sledgehammer toward a widescreen — where an ominous Big Brother figure drones to a mass of zombielike followers.
…The tagline for the attack: “On Jan. 14, the Democratic primary will begin. And you’ll see why 2008 won’t be like 1984.”
Well, not exactly new as it appears to be the third or fourth remix of the “1984” ad (on utube) to take a poke at Hillary.
warning: if you have dial-up it’s about a 6 minute download.
Thanks, HC. I heard about the video, but had not checked it out yet.
Effective Ad. There is something unsettling about Senator Clinton for many Democrats and the ad taps into that.
And, happycon is on dial-up. Tee-hee.
Geez. There’s a nasty contrast between the footage of Obama speaking and this add on Youtube.
Obama did not make the ad. It was some fan.
HC sidetracked the thread. The real story is that Obama is legit.
Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama spoke in Oakland Saturday before a crowd of at least 10,000 that whooped and hollered like you usually only hear in the final days of a winning campaign for President.
Not only was the crowd huge for this stage of the Presidential campaign, it was also made up of a diverse blend of all races, ages, and walks of life.
The “even more good news” for Dems and the country is that I think Obama will help downticket races much nore than Senator Clinton.
We could be looking at a double wave election.