Golly gee whiz, darn it to heck, I was so busy thinking about watching my imaginary friend play Tic Tac Toe with her imaginary friend, I forgot all about watching Barack Obama’s “Not Ready For Primetime But I’m Going For It Anyway” three million dollar mega-media extravaganza. Majorly bummed, I immediately went looking for reviews of this epic, once-in-a-lifetime event. The L.A. Times seems to say I didn’t miss much. What do they know, though? They won’t even release the tapes they have of him, so I couldn’t watch that instead. Plus, they’re on their, what, fortieth round of layoffs?
Chances are, tonight’s 30-minute Barack Obama infomercial will have minimal effect on the final outcome of the 2008 presidential election.
Those leaning against the freshman Illinois senator were unlikely to be swayed by it (or even watch it).
Well, at least they got that right. They also said Obama didn’t even mention John McCain or Hillary Clinton.
As befits a front-runner’s status, Obama saw no reason to spend any time during the half-hour directly attacking John McCain. Indeed, the Republican’s name was never uttered.
We were struck by another omission. Several prominent Democrats had cameos in the ad — Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, among them. Conspicuously absent (at least to us) — Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York.
“Me, me, me,” huh? What else is new? Well, I guess he’s entitled, since he’s paying for it. Michelle Malkin anticipated the text of Obama’s “Greatest Show On Earth” before live-blogging it:
Higher purpose…blahblahblah…Change We Need…blahblahblah…Every American must play a role…Take care of one another…blahblahblah…
Just doing a little pre-liveblogging of the Obama-mercial, which begins in just a few minutes.
Say what you will about Ms. Malkin, it takes guts to sit through thirty minutes of Obama self-love to validate your pre-conceived notions about him. Me, I just spent the time contemplating belly lint. AP-Yahoo News, though, says I could have had a rollicking good time dizzying myself from all the spin, but I thought, and still think, that examining my cuticles for fungus was a lot more fun.
poor little Barack – I don’t think anyone watched it, did they?
Didn’t miss much, same old talking points without anyone being able to ask questions which is why he did a speech instead of a sit down with a news reporter! Wonder how many votes 3 million dollars will buy! He didn’t lay out any details of how he was going to come up with all his spending that he wants to do…but thats understanding because he will have to raise taxes on everyone to get that tillion dollars! The gun sales are up in Florida because Obama might be the president and they’re worried about his gun controls!