How would YOU produce a TV spot for Obama or McCain?

[BroncoBuff]

I posted this earlier, but I think it'd be fun to have everybody produce a commerical ... for any of the 4 candidates, with any wild, preposterous theme. Go for it!

Here's my Obama spot:


Somber, basso announcer intoning over appropriate visuals:

"The American economy is teetering on the brink (traders shown frantically flailing on the NYSE floor)... Some of the oldest, most trusted financial institutions in American have failed, taking billions of your dollars with them (logos scroll across screen - Merrill Lynch, Shearson Lehman, Bear Stearns, AIG) ... Some say America is creeping toward another great depression. (foreclosue signs, gas signs, people looking sad) ..."

"How did this happen?"

"Eight years ago, the Republican Congress stripped away laws that were on the books for 75 years - laws that stopped greedy Wall Street fat cats from unsafe mergers and self-dealing (rich Wall Street types smiling)... These laws were enacted to protect Americans, and make sure we never had another great depression (montage of food lines and homeless during 1930s) ... But now - without these laws - it IS happening again. Wall Street greed is running rampant. Who is responsible for stripping away these protections? Who put the American economy is such grave jeopardy?"

"John McCain and Phil Gramm, that's who" (shots of Gramm and McCain smiling together)

"Phil Gramm wrote the law that stripped away these protections (chyron quotes "Gramm-Leach-Bliley law reverses decades of consumer protection" - The Washington Post) ... And now Americans everywhere are paying for his law (visuals of home foreclosure signs, gas prices, and scrolling of newspaper quotes "Gramm-Bliley Responsible for Deregulating Investment Banks," "Gramm Named Top Adviser to McCain").....


"You might remember another economic mess like this one twenty years ago ... when Congress allowed the Savings and Loan industry to run roughshod on Americans (greedy bankers shown laughing) ... The S&L scandal cost taxpayers $120 billion dollars. And who was in the middle of that scandal?

John McCain (smiling McSame cutting birthday cake with Bush)...

John McCain was brought up as one of the infamous 'Keating 5' (McCain shown raising hand for oath).... and while Keating himself went to prison (Keating shown in handcuffs), John McCain's good old boys sent John right back to the Senate floor ... where he and his buddy Phil Gramm enacted the "Enron Loophole," a law that allowed greedy Wall Street traders to sell oil futures (Gramm shown smiling in chicken-neck style) ... Experts agree that this Enron Loophole led directly to the crippling explosion in gas prices (chyrons of newspapers "Gramm's Enron Loophole Responsible," "Oil Specualtors Run Roughshod," visuals of Phil Gramm laughing, and gas price signs going up and up and up).

So how does John McCain react to all this? He actually named Phil Gramm his chief economic advisor! (newspaper quotes "Gramm trusted by McCain") ... And together, McCain and Gramm are now actually proposing $10 billion dollars in tax cuts for Big Oil corporations! (Gramm and McCain smiling with Exxon logo behind them) ... And while ordinary Americans are suffering, foreclosures are rising, and pensions, jobs and benefits are disappearing, who does Phil Gramm blame? (video of Gramm sound bite "America has becuhhm a nayshun of whiiiners.")

Dramatic large word chyrons - one word revealed at a time, with a BAM! - BAM! - BAM! explosive drum beat with each word:

ARE ...

YOU ...

A ...

WHINER?


The time has come to change ... to end the George Bush - John McCain - Phil Gramm policies (McCain shown with his head on Bush's shoulder) ....


(comforting music swells, heroic pics of Barack Obama)....

It's time for REAL change in Washington, change that puts people ahead of corporations. It's time for the CHANGE Americans deserve (Obama in front of flapping flag) ....

"I'm Barack Obama, and I approved this message."


It's obviously a 60-second spot, but ferhevinsake, they have enough freaking cash. Now cut the damn thing and have it up by Sunday!

[BroncoBuff]

Axelrod should get his head outta his ass and get to work....

[TheDave]

30 seconds of this picture... with the following heading.

http://www.nobodyasked.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/bush-mccain-hug-72.jpg
"If this doesn't make you mad... You're not paying attention"


Followed by the required "I'm Barak Obama and I approve this message"



We don't need complicated adds all we need to do is hang GWB around his neck like the proverbial albatross. The repubs are running as hard away from this guy as they possibly can... Don't let them do it.

[baja]

McCain was broken in North Vietnam. He has lost his rudder.

[BroncoBuff]

McCain was broken in North Vietnam. He has lost his rudder.
Yes ... I can't understand why poeple don't see that 5 1/2 years of imprisonment and torture are a red flag for a president.

And Dave .... GAWD I love that picture! ;D

[Rohirrim]

I would just have a collection of pics of the various officers of AIG, Merril Lynch, etc. getting into their limos or with big smiles on their faces and then show how much money they are walking away with from the mess they created, how much tax money the American people will have to pitch in to bail them out, and then finally, McCain's tax plan that will further reduce their taxes. Just the facts, ma'am.

[SonOfLe-loLang]

I'd play that press conference mccain had where he said he "didnt know much about the economy" on a minute long loop.

Or maybe that clip where he tells Americans they couldnt pick lettuce for 50 bucks an hour...that was a good one.

[Garcia Bronco]

I would have a shot of Obama walking out of a strip club on bourbon street, and then I would have McCain walk out of the strip club next door. The would meet, shake hands, and the each would walk into the other strip club.

[Rigs11]

Mccane and obama in the boxing ring, with palin in a bikini as the round card girl....only she would be carrying the card upside down.

[W*GS]

Both of them jumping off a cliff, no music, no sound, just subtitled

<center><b>DOING WHAT'S BEST FOR AMERICA</b></center>

[TDmvp]

instead of spending a million trillion zillion dollars each flooding the air waves with bull$hit ads that no one gives and rats @$$ about or even sees now that we have tivo ,

one or both candidates someday should just build homes for low income families , vets , single working moms instead outa their advertisement budget ,and say other than trashing my opposition in a tv ad war i have chosen to use this money in a moral way i see fit to help those who have tried to help me...


you would get more press / tv time outa that then what you was going to buy anyway and it would be good press not 2 sided AND you may actually help change someones life instead of just talking about change all the time ...

talk about ground breaking , and like tv spots do anything to sway anyone .

It is a damn shame when these two jerk offs spend enuff on commercials to house , feed and give top notch health care to a $hitload of people for multiple generations ...

but no we are going to spend it on lame , over produced , cheesy a$$ ads that most people don't watch , understand or even care about ...


now back to being that big time right winger that I am ...

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Ha ha ha! :laugh:

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (CNN) – Sarah Palin likes to tell voters around the country about how she “put the government checkbook online” in Alaska. On Thursday, Palin suggested she would take that same proposal to Washington.

“We’re going to do a few new things also,” she said at a rally in Cedar Rapids. “For instance, as Alaska’s governor, I put the government’s checkbook online so that people can see where their money’s going. We’ll bring that kind of transparency, that responsibility, and accountability back. We’re going to bring that back to D.C.”

There’s just one problem with proposing to put the federal checkbook online – somebody’s already done it. His name is Barack Obama.

In 2006 and 2007, Obama teamed up with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn to pass the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, also known as “Google for Government.” The act created a free, searchable web site – USASpending.gov — that discloses to the public all federal grants, contracts, loans and insurance payments.

In June of this year, Obama and Coburn introduced new Senate legislation to expand the information available online to include details on earmarks, competitive bidding, criminal activities, audit disputes and other government information.

Palin might also have noted that her running mate, John McCain, was an original co-sponsor of the 2006 transparency bill that became law.

UPDATE: A campaign spokesperson insisted that Palin was referring not to that specific proposal, but rather to "that kind of transparency in general."

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

<center> http://www.bartcop.com/geezer-gidget-truth.jpg
</center>

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

http://www.bartcop.com/palin-bristol-bun.jpg

[TDmvp]

or we could just post stupid pictures to pad our thread count instead ...

http://coedmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/19/john-edwards-love-child.jpg

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/a917.gif

http://alabamian.net/pictures/JohnMcCainFanClub.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/d/L/mccain_shining.jpg

[Odysseus]

I would just have a collection of pics of the various officers of AIG, Merril Lynch, etc. getting into their limos or with big smiles on their faces and then show how much money they are walking away with from the mess they created, how much tax money the American people will have to pitch in to bail them out, and then finally, McCain's tax plan that will further reduce their taxes. Just the facts, ma'am.

That would play really hard on the East coast especially if you included Phil Graham's quotes and some of the things McCain himself said prior to January 2008 when he was actually stating his real policies.

[Dudeskey]

Looks as though the Phil Graham stuff has been used...™
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QPUuHCHRY4g&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QPUuHCHRY4g&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[TDmvp]

instead of spending a million trillion zillion dollars each flooding the air waves with bull$hit ads that no one gives and rats @$$ about or even sees now that we have tivo ,

one or both candidates someday should just build homes for low income families , vets , single working moms instead outa their advertisement budget ,and say other than trashing my opposition in a tv ad war i have chosen to use this money in a moral way i see fit to help those who have tried to help me...


you would get more press / tv time outa that then what you was going to buy anyway and it would be good press not 2 sided AND you may actually help change someones life instead of just talking about change all the time ...

talk about ground breaking , and like tv spots do anything to sway anyone .

It is a damn shame when these two jerk offs spend enuff on commercials to house , feed and give top notch health care to a $hitload of people for multiple generations ...

but no we are going to spend it on lame , over produced , cheesy a$$ ads that most people don't watch , understand or even care about ...


now back to being that big time right winger that I am ...


no one will touch on is there a point to ads ... and couldn't we spend XXX millions on something a little more lasting/meaningful ...
so i quoted myself LOL ....

[Dudeskey]

no one will touch on is there a point to ads ... and couldn't we spend XXX millions on something a little more lasting/meaningful ...
so i quoted myself LOL ....

Same could be said about the billions spent over in Iraq...™

[BroncoBuff]

Looks as though the Phil Graham stuff has been used...™
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QPUuHCHRY4g&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QPUuHCHRY4g&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Wow ... that's a really good ad (though I would've liked to see McCain hugging Bush). I guess I'm not seeing this ad because we're such a blue state here. If I lived in Cleveland or Detroit or Miami, I'd prolly be seeing it a lot.

In fact, the entire premise here that Axelrod is screwing up is probably faulty ... the're just not worried about Washington state. Makes sense.

[TDmvp]

Same could be said about the billions spent over in Iraq...™

everything has to be a big ***ing joke , or a shot at the other party ... never actually talk about fixing anything or ideas . Instead I'll just say something inflammatory and feel like i know something ...

To compare military spending "agree or disagree with the conflict" to a stupid advertisement budget is pretty simple minded considering we do this every four years not counting local and waste countless millions FOR ***ING TV ADS ... and badly made ones at that , that do nothing and do even less now that there is tivo ... I personally don't think most who see the ads understand most of them or ever care ...

course what would i expect from someone with what looks to be a Nickle Back av .

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

everything has to be a big ***ing joke , or a shot at the other party ... never actually talk about fixing anything or ideas . Instead I'll just say something inflammatory and feel like i know something ...


Yep - this is a pretty accurate description of your SOP.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

<center> http://www.bartcop.com/china-barons.jpg
</center>