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Obama needs new ad writers
THIS is the best they can do?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/populist-rubbis.html
(youtube video embedded in the blog post)
So, McCain has 3 foreign cars. He also has 10 domestic cars, that has to be good for Detroit.
This is a stupid ad.
Re: Obama needs new ad writers
My guess is that he's planning on running it in Michigan.
Especially since McCain has made anti-auto industry comments. His statements are much worse than his cars. During the primaries McCain said something along the lines of "those jobs are never coming back" (that would be auto manufacturing jobs). It was a true statement, but you don't tell a UAW worker his/her job is not ever coming back. You just don't. I'm surprised Obama hasn't found that quote and made an issue of it b/c I thought it was pretty damning.
That said as dumb as this is, it will matter to people in Detroit that McCain owns foreign cars. I'm guessing that's the market for this ad. Every single day I see the bumper sticker "Out of a job yet? Keep buying foreign." Every. Single. Day. People in Detroit hate foreign cars, so in that sense it's not a bad ad.
I'd love to know which of those cars belong to his kids/wife though. I'm sure that's how he'll spin it. This reminds me of Kerry talking about not owning any SUVs b/c all his big SUVs belonged to his wife.
Interesting. I just got another blog entry about it that seems to have the same take as caden:
From TIME?s Amy Sullivan: Like Jon Chait, I grew up in a Michigan family that has only every purchased cars from American automakers. When Chrysler was in serious trouble in the 1980s, my mom declared that it was our family duty to help out Lee Iacocca, and by God, over the next ten years we bought a string of identically crappy Plymouth Horizons. In the 1990s, I briefly worked for a Michigan congressman who couldn't forbid his staff from buying foreign cars, but did decree that only American cars could be parked in the allotted congressional parking spots. In one local congressional primary race, the question of whether a candidate had once rented a foreign car became the deciding campaign issue. And every time I go home, I can drive miles without passing a foreign car while at the same time discovering new Ford and GM models that I'm pretty sure aren't even sold in other arts of the country (Ford Probe, anyone?) Which is all just to say that this new Obama ad, currently airing in Michigan, could be very effective. It's heavy-handed, exploits protectionist impulses, and makes no sense outside of Michigan. But it will resonate around the Motor City.
Yup! that sums it right up very nicely.
I'm pretty sure people in Michigan can do math.
13-3= 0?
It's actually a nice ad for McCain.
Edited: Ok, I take back the last part. In other parts of the country it would be a nice ad. He buys mostly domestic cars.