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I really liked Obama's show yesterday, very well done. But why the need for a multi-station 30 minute uninterrupted info-mercial? I guess it is like Sarah Palin likes to say, sometimes you want to speak directly to the people without a "media filter." The need to reach out to the remaining undecided voters with just 5 days before the election is reason enough. Barack's need to get his story and his plans out to voters has been made more important by the constant deluge of negative ads from the McCain/Palin and Republican National Committee slime machines.
McCain has been whining about Obama fund raising advantage that allows Obama to purchase the media time for his video. George Will has an article in the Washington Post, "John the Careless" that commented on public verses tax payer financed elections:
McCain revived a familiar villain -- "huge amounts" of political money -- when Barack Obama announced that he had received contributions of $150 million in September. "The dam is broken," said McCain, whose constitutional carelessness involves wanting to multiply impediments to people who want to participate in politics by contributing to candidates -- people such as the 632,000 first-time givers to Obama in September.
Why is it virtuous to erect a dam of laws to impede the flow of contributions by which citizens exercise their First Amendment right to political expression? "We're now going to see," McCain warned, "huge amounts of money coming into political campaigns, and we know history tells us that always leads to scandal." The supposedly inevitable scandal, which supposedly justifies preemptive government restrictions on Americans' freedom to fund the dissemination of political ideas they favor, presumably is that Obama will be pressured to give favors to his September givers. The contributions by the new givers that month averaged $86.
One excellent result of this election cycle is that public financing of presidential campaigns now seems sillier than ever. The public has always disliked it: Voluntary and cost-free participation, using the check-off on the income tax form, peaked at 28.7 percent in 1980 and has sagged to 9.2 percent. The Post, which is melancholy about the system's parlous condition, says there were three reasons for creating public financing: to free candidates from the demands of fund raising, to level the playing field and "to limit the amount of money pouring into presidential campaigns." The first reason is decreasingly persuasive because fund raising is increasingly easy because of new technologies such as the Internet. The second reason is, the Supreme Court says, constitutionally impermissible. Government may not mandate equality of resources among political competitors who earn different levels of voluntary support. As for the third reason -- "huge amounts" (McCain) of money "pouring into" (The Post) presidential politics -- well:
The Center for Responsive Politics calculates that, by Election Day, $2.4 billion will have been spent on presidential campaigns in the two-year election cycle that began in January 2007, and an additional $2.9 billion will have been spent on 435 House and 35 Senate contests. This $5.3 billion is a billion less than Americans will spend this year on potato chips.
Fireside Production is there as more than 100,000 people gather in Denver for Barack Obama's Early Vote for Change Rally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfHuejYns_M
Please check it out, rate it, comment on it and SHARE!
I received this email from a friend about the videos that they had just made and posted on youtube, in Spanish, singing about Obama and saying Yes, you can.....
You might like and pass them around. All Obama efforts help, ?no?
And they are having so much fun in their videos!!
Dear Family and Friends,
VIVA OBAMA!
For those who know Spanish and/or who can appreciate the diversity of this campaign!
Featuring: Mariachi Aguilas de MexicoEnglish Translation:To the candidate who is Barack ObamaI sing this corrido with all my soulHe was born humble without pretensionHe began in the streets of ChicagoWorking to achieve a visionTo protect the working peopleAnd bring us all together in this great nationViva Obama! Viva Obama!Families united and safe and even with a health care planViva Obama! Viva Obama!A candidate fighting for our nationIt doesn't matter if you're from San AntonioIt doesn't matter if you're from Corpus ChristiFrom Dallas, from the Valley, from Houston or from El PasoWhat matters is that we vote for ObamaBecause his struggle is also our struggle, and today we urgently need a changeLet's unite with our great friendViva Obama! Viva Obama!Families united and safe and even with a health care planViva Obama! Viva Obama!A candidate fighting for our nation
www.dipdive.com
Review this site and see for yourself what Barack Obama's powerful and inspiring words prompted these individuals to do...powerful sharing. Powerful medium. I like the clips at the end, especially the one about FEAR and how this person thinks it makes you think small. I happen to agree. The next important thing, in my opinion, is considering perspectives other than your own.
An important part of the campaign is music and video. No doubt everyone has seen the "yes we can" video but for young energy and ethnic pride I love-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gshWAK3sBhE
(FULL DISCLOSURE-I helped a friend of mine get this finished and I'm impressed with his talent!)
What do you think? We need to flood the internet and airwaves with top quality efforts from a broad range of voices. There is room for everyone!
I'd wondered what I could do to get the word out during this final push toward Super Tuesday (and beyond as well), and it occurred to me that the ether might be missing a "less slick" version of a video.
The "Yes we can" video sweeping the nation is incredibly cool--almost TOO cool for its own good at times (I worry the stars overshadow the message)...since I only had a day or two, I opted for a simpler approach.
This is the result--VOTE, certainly!
But vote for hope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b3SWDss1Y
(copy link and paste into new browser window)
PS: Feel Free to share the link--DJE
Okay brothers and sisters, now I'm really fired up! Please pass this love along. Thanks to everyone for coming together in the "fierce urgency of now."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BHEO_fG3mm4
Please send this around the world wide web ASAP:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RId8CU2qjAI
Excellent capture of Obama's moment of now --by alfredotwo, as posted on YouTube. If you're blogging in support of Obama for President, this is an excellent link to provide as appropriate.
