A short diary, but I just saw an Obama ad I hadn't seen before, and I thought it was great, an excellent "closer."
It showed, as many ads do, pictures of Americans having a hard time - opening bills, waiting in unemployment offices, homes with "for sale" signs, a car with a life's possessions on top. It played well with Obama's half hour 'informercial' on Wednesday.
It was the music that really did it, though. Much more to my taste than the infomercial music. The song was Paul Simon's "American Tune" and the words were the middle verse:
I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
or driven to its knees
But it's all right, it's all right
We've lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road
we're traveling on
I wonder what went wrong
I can't help it, I wonder what went wrong
Then afterward, the text, "It's time for change" and Obama or Obama/Biden, I don't remember which.
That song has always affected me, and I teared up a bit. After I dried out, I thought about how smart that ad is. Obama has the under 30 vote. This ad hits straight at baby boomers and is effective as hell, without ever being perceived as 'negative.'
I hope it plays throughout the next 36 hours.