Ooooooooooooh. Scary, dude, huh?
If you’ve only been paying as much attention to the election as say, you would to a ringing telephone in the next apartment while you’re on the toilet, you would still know that Barack Obama’s campaign message is that he’s not John McCain. John McCain is George Bush. Got it? Good. Now, you’d think Camp O had been perfectly clear enough on that score, but noooooo, some whiny old wimpy downticket Dems, worried about their own asses, want Obie to stop with the wussy “hopey, changey” stuff that’s got him this far, and get tough. Happy to oblige, this is what the O Team came up with.
Enjoy.
Of course, old Johnny Mack has an attack ad of his own, doncha know? I don’t know, maybe Obie should watch wrestling or something for tips. Or hire McCain’s pr guys. This is what a tough ad looks like.
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HT, I wasn’t net savvy in 82, but by 88 I was learning how. DOS, CompUServe, Delphi, Prodigy and Tandy are all blasts from my internet past. I had the exact same thoughts you did about where these guys are coming from and how they just don’t get that they are reinforcing everything wrong with them through their own advertising. I’ve had the feeling for a long time, they must be trying to lose.
Delurking yet again. I had to walk away and get a drink of water after viewing that Obama ad. How bleeding elitist and ignorant can one man’s campaign be?
In 82 I was not a blonde bimbo holding a phone gleefully to my ear. I was a serious working woman, albeit white, who worked with equally serious women and men of all colors. Strange Obama’s ad has only white people, but I suppose that’s their ignoramus idea of subliminal advertisting. Anyway, in 82, I’d been on a computer for 10 years, not as a geek, but as someone who was trying to keep up with the trends, and after all, computers, and Arpanet had been around for a lot longer. (I had a commodore 64 and an Atari) I was not then, nor am I now an expert, although I’ve written technical manuals for data communications networks. There are days when I curse at e-mail, mainly because the current programs do not provide the flexibility that should be available, but that’s what we’re stuck with. Someday, if it proves profitable, all the flexibility I think is required will be built in, then older people will join in.
Strangely, after all my years on the computer, and watching the internet explode, I would estimate that only about 15% of the users really understand the technology (no one I knew at the multinational corp knew what HTML was, much less the latest expressions) and I doubt that most of Obama’s supporters know much more. Again, I’m a neophyte with some education, but that allows me to recognize other neophytes, in spite of their claims.
As a last comment, my 19 yr old son can create music on a computer program, can cut CDs, but he does not understand simple tasks like keeping his virus protection up to date and when he has a problem with his e-mail or viruses or computer, guess who has to figure it out.
This is so sad on so many levels. McCain is old, McCain is not internet saavy, – Obama really needs to hire the marketing/PR firm that McCain is working with. John McCain does not need to know how to send an e-mail, nor does any presidential candidate. That is a clerical level job, similar to stenographers in an earlier age. One dictates, the steno types, and the information is sent. I would hope that a President was too involved in other areas that involved national and domestic security and well being to worry about having secretarial skills. Does Obama expect a President to be a secretary? Does Obama know what a secretary does, cause those folks (both men and women) are busy. Does Obama know what a President does? Just asking.