Obama's Return to Message of 'Change'

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Obama's Return to Message of 'Change' By Chris Cillizza | September 20, 2007; 9:46 AM ET | Washington Post Blog

Over the next few months, there will be hundreds of television ads run by the candidates for president and scores of interest groups hoping to influence the primary and caucus electorate.

But no ad may be more important -- both literally and figuratively -- to an individual candidate than the commercial that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) began running yesterday in Iowa. Take a look:

Entitled "Believe," the 60-second ad features Obama speaking directly to the camera. "Every time I speak about my hope for America, the cynics in Washington roll their eyes," Obama says at the ad's start. "They don't believe we can actually change politics ... that's why we face the same problems and hear the same promises every four years."

Obama then moves to a discussion of his proposals to limit lobbyists' influence, his initial opposition to the war in Iraq and his bipartisan attitude toward governing.

The end of the ad is the most important. "I approved this message to ask you to believe not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington," Obama says as he moves closer to the camera. "I'm asking you to believe in yours."

The ad is a direct message about Obama's potential as a "movement" candidate. Even before he was elected to the Senate, Obama was viewed by many within the Democratic Party (and outside of it too) as a potential game-changer when it comes to how modern politics is conducted.

Obama's now famous "audacity of hope" speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention -- months before he trounced Alan Keyes to formally claim a seat in the Senate -- established him as a new force in American politics.

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With ads like this, he is shooting for the #2 spot on the Dem ticket.

If he wants the top spot, he needs to draw blood. Hopefully, he is holding on to that material till right before the primaries start.

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Oh well, so much for my sound working

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

With ads like this, he is shooting for the #2 spot on the Dem ticket.

If he wants the top spot, he needs to draw blood. Hopefully, he is holding on to that material till right before the primaries start.

With ads like that he's shooting himself in the foot.WE we we we we frickin we. He is running for president! But "WE" have to beleive in "our" ability to change it. This warm and fuzzy B.S.

I still havent heard his plan! Oh thats right "we" have to do it! This ad should be called I'm a tool.

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Oh well, so much for my sound working

Its a republican hack Jim!

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With ads like this, he is shooting for the #2 spot on the Dem ticket.

If he wants the top spot, he needs to draw blood. Hopefully, he is holding on to that material till right before the primaries start.

With ads like that he's shooting himself in the foot.WE we we we we frickin we. He is running for president! But "WE" have to beleive in "our" ability to change it. This warm and fuzzy B.S.

I still havent heard his plan! Oh thats right "we" have to do it! This ad should be called I'm a tool.

Kind of like the 'We the people" stuff isn't it.

I like him. I'm not sure whether Hillary or Obama will get my vote yet, we shall see, but I like the way he speaks. It is about 'we', the Government of any country should not be a separate entity to the people.

Edited September 21, 2007 by trailmix