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October 14, 2008 11:59 AM

Obama Advertising In Video Game

By
Brian Montopoli
Topics
Barack Obama
The blogs are abuzz with word that Barack Obama's flush-with-cash campaign is advertising in the video game Burnout Paradise. Check out a screen grab from the game, which shows a billboard proclaiming, "Early Voting Has Begun," along with a url and photo of the candidate:

(Gigaom)
A spokesperson for Electronic Arts, the game's publisher, confirmed the ad buy to GigaOM.

"Like most television, radio and print outlets, we accept advertising from credible political candidates," Holly Rockwood said. "Like political spots on the television networks, these ads do not reflect the political policies of EA or the opinions of its development teams."

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by abman827 October 15, 2008 2:49 PM EDT
Honestly, who is Obama trying to relate to in these Video Games? The people I know that play video games are lazy people. Does Obama really think they are going to put down their controller to go out an vote. Or does the video game come with a rebate if you vote.
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by sallievoter October 15, 2008 1:36 PM EDT
all these weird and hysterical theories....

Mccain is losing because he made some very bad judgements. In the polls, it appears that the majority of Americans do not like him, or Palin, or their ideas.

Obama is winning because he offered solutions and ideas and sound judgement.

Scream all you want about these truly insane theories of yours, but this is NOT rocket science. and it is NOT sinister.

People KNOW and TRUST their own opinions, not YOURS. Those days of the GOP forcing views on citizens or intimidating them with FEAR and HATE are o-v-e-r.

This has always been about issues, but you all keep missing that. Mccain totally BLEW THIS ELECTION. HE HAD HIS CHANCE TO MAKE HIS CASE AND HE DID NOT. BE MAD AT HIM----HE FAILED ON HIS OWN.
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by hootal2 October 15, 2008 12:55 PM EDT
Idiot Nation. that is why obama is going to win. Look at americans. fat, lazy-video-game-playing idiots that believe anything a smooth talker says. tax the evil plumber!
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by seah5 October 15, 2008 3:06 AM EDT
The power of suggestion, Persuasion, marketing and advertising, and video games.

Mind control

Isn''t our Government suppose to protect us from this.

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by dennis-101 October 14, 2008 9:00 PM EDT
Compare that now to McCain''s erratic campaign and you clearly see which leader would be a betterpresident.
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by beap3 October 14, 2008 8:29 PM EDT
Obama is all about the FUTURE for America. His campaign has embraced technology and has a pulse on where the country is and where it needs to go. Obama is an honest, family man. If you don''t like his policies fine. But don''t try to tie him to others mistakes.
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by Torilin October 14, 2008 8:27 PM EDT
It says that 1 of his former advisors was the head of some terrorist coalition. NOOO MCAIN AND PAILIN!!!!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Posted by mccain081

They are talking about "domestic" terrorist that''s been pardoned...Bill Ayers. But your heads are in the gutter so automatically link to mid-eastern terrorists. He bypassed public funding so he can spend more than the 87million cap set forth by fed. If he could raise 30-40 million/month during primary he can surely afford all these ads.
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by idnnsg October 14, 2008 8:26 PM EDT
Note to repug commentators: Your LAME attempts to convince people that Barack Obama is a [muslim/terrorist/arab/elitist/false-messiah/foreigner/alien/etc] is a WASTE OF TIME. Anyone stu.pid enough to believe that cr@pp0la is going to find it very difficult to even sign their name when it comes time to vote.

And then there''s the ACTUAL terrorist sympathizer, Sarah Palin, who supports the Alaska Independence Party. She PALS AROUND WITH TERRORISTS (her husband, for one!) They want to BREAK UP THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, which they HATE. The head of AIP told them to infiltrate the GOP to get power, and they did! They are the true enemies of AMERICA!

Face facts: Since McCain/Palin is your "best", the GOP is toast!
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by mccain081 October 14, 2008 8:12 PM EDT
this is so retarded. There is no way he can have enough money for this. It also goes to prove that the media and almost everyone else is byest to the dems. My theory on how Obama got all this money is that he took it from his terrorist friends. Have yuo seen the new comercial from the GOP party. I know that it is on in Indiana but i dont know about other places. It says that 1 of his former advisors was the head of some terrorist coalition. GO MCAIN AND PAILIN!!!!!!!
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by hpolitician October 14, 2008 7:16 PM EDT
the obama campaign has done very well.
politicaladattacks.blogspot.com
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