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"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Obama may run ads during the Olympics
AdAge reports that the Obama campaign is considering an Olympic games ad blitz (via HuffPo):
WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — Those tuning in to NBC Sports’ Olympics coverage this year will see spots from General Motors, McDonald’s, Budweiser, Nike and — just maybe — Sen. Barack Obama.
Though the Obama campaign is keeping mum about whether it will definitely run spots, it has asked NBC Universal about Olympics advertising including $500,000, $2 million and $4 million packages of ads. (NBC presented those along with a $10 million package.) It’s not only a sign that the Obama camp has faith it can continue its stellar fundraising achievements but a signal that a widening field of battleground states has the candidate contemplating national broadcast buys. An Olympics buy could also allow Mr. Obama to reach out to a large swath of women.
Exploring options
“Obviously our buyers, when contemplating the election, look at a variety of options,” said Jim Margolis, the GMMB partner who co-chairs the Obama advertising team. “You will probably see us looking at lots of things. There is a big difference between looking and buying.”
Personally, I agree with James Joyner that there’s nothing wrong with Obama considering this. In fact, I think it’s a perfect fit: an Olympic-sized ad campaign for the candidate with an Olympic-sized ego who could easily win the gold medal in multiple competitions like the dainty synchronized swimming event where his partner(s) would be the MSM (he’d get perfect scores), men’s gymnastics – in particular the vault, where he’d have all of his opponents disqualified so he could easily “vault” to the front of the pack, and the parallel bars, where he’d have to put his delicate balancing between left and right act to the ultimate test. Last but not least the soon to be added sports of spinning would be a natural fit for Barry O. (he’d easily be the fastest) and race-card playing, where he’ll make up the rules as he goes along – and get away with it.
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Let him run the ads, I wonder who makes up the US TV demographics for the Olympics in these sensitive times. I quit watching the Olympics years ago when I was fed up hearing stories about how somebody managed to pull it together and become a top diver after his dog had cancer. I would imagine that the Obamite will be plowing the same field of sensitive viewers over and over spending a lot of dollars.
In my old-man opinion the Olympics should be about sports, who can run, throw or jump the furtherest. As for the coverage which gets worse each four years; I don’t really care about the crap each contestant with a story had to overcome.
Of course there is a bit of balance about a Commie linking himself to this huge emotion-soaked event in Red China.