Obama Infomercial
Tonight Barack Obama will have a 30 minute infomercial on most of the major network tv stations, and some cable stations. CBS, NBC, Fox, MSNBC, BET, TVOne, and Univision are all carrying Barack’s broadcast speech tonight. This 14 million dollar prime time commercial will be Obama’s “closing arguments” about how he will help out economically disadvantaged citizens. The democratic Senator from Illinois will use this 30 minute video ad to talk to every day Americans and how he will assist them in their struggles.
Due in part to the large amount of donated money spent on this prime time advertisement, a great deal of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum has been flowing. Those defending the Obama infomercial
maintain that it is merely capitalism, just as a corporation would air commercials advertising their products during the Superbowl.
You can vote however you like .
October 29th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
That’s what I don’t understand. People keep saying that this is capitalism. It’s been a while since I’ve taken an economics class, but I’m pretty sure you need an actual product.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
@Mark
You hit the nail on the head. He’s just taking advantage of our donations. He’s collected 600 million dollars for things like this? With that kind of money he should be blowing McCain away, not have a small lead.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
President Obama is a wonderful speaker! Now he needs to “prove” what the costs will be…show where and how much the savings will come from. Real dollar amounts, details, not just promises. I think there should be more of his working with Republicans not just now is the time,etc….Give us facts and details, not just promises.