Obama Targets Women In New Ad
Barack Obama has a new ad out in Pennsylvania apparently designed to appeal to a segment of the population with whom rival Hillary Clinton is usually stronger: women.
The ad features three female Obama supporters, all of whom are related to the Illinois senator: Michelle, his wife, Maya Soetoro Ng, his half sister, and Madelyn Dunham, his grandmother. You'll recall that Obama famously referenced Dunham in his speech on race, noting that "on more than one occasion [she] has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”
As soothing music plays in the background, the spot opens with Soetoro Ng saying that "people recognize themselves in Barack."
"They feel understood by him," she adds. "In part, that’s because he listens so well."
Dunham is then shown, first in a photo with a young Obama, and then addressing the camera. "I think it’s given him a lot of depth and a broadness of view," she says.
It's unclear from the ad to what Dunham is referring; the New York Times quotes an Obama spokesman saying she is referencing "her grandson’s willingness to listen to folks, which allows him to better empathize and understand what they are going through.”
The spot then cuts to Obama's wife, Michelle. "Barack and I talk all the time about making sure that our girls can imagine any kind of world for themselves, with no barriers," she says, as the Obama family is shown onscreen. The spot then cuts back to Soetoro Ng, who states that Obama "wants to make sure that everybody’s children have the opportunities that his daughters have."
Watch it:
The ad features three female Obama supporters, all of whom are related to the Illinois senator: Michelle, his wife, Maya Soetoro Ng, his half sister, and Madelyn Dunham, his grandmother. You'll recall that Obama famously referenced Dunham in his speech on race, noting that "on more than one occasion [she] has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”
As soothing music plays in the background, the spot opens with Soetoro Ng saying that "people recognize themselves in Barack."
"They feel understood by him," she adds. "In part, that’s because he listens so well."
Dunham is then shown, first in a photo with a young Obama, and then addressing the camera. "I think it’s given him a lot of depth and a broadness of view," she says.
It's unclear from the ad to what Dunham is referring; the New York Times quotes an Obama spokesman saying she is referencing "her grandson’s willingness to listen to folks, which allows him to better empathize and understand what they are going through.”
The spot then cuts to Obama's wife, Michelle. "Barack and I talk all the time about making sure that our girls can imagine any kind of world for themselves, with no barriers," she says, as the Obama family is shown onscreen. The spot then cuts back to Soetoro Ng, who states that Obama "wants to make sure that everybody’s children have the opportunities that his daughters have."
Watch it:
"Obama wants it both ways, has always wanted it both ways. Black and white, Indonesian and American, Muslim and Christian. He loves playing one off the other, using one to hide the other even as the traces of the truth may be assembled to reveal the whole cloth of deception and self-promotion he has been weaving so skillfully since his childhood. No wonder he is a man of change. He IS a changeling, a veritable chameleon, adapting and amending his life story to fit the circumstances."
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What arrogance.
Sorry, but this is bull. Obama has refused to denounce Jeremiah Wright as an individual, because he knows that the Wright seen in the YouTube clips isn''t the whole picture of the man. However, he has repeatedly and explicitly denounced the comments like "God *** America" and the suggestion that 9/11 represented "America''s chickens coming home to roost."
Obama is drawing a distinction between the man and his most extreme views, which I think is legitimate. Don''t you have anybody you love who''s said offensive things before? Have you cut off all contact with them? I doubt it.
Have you actually read the books in question? I have, and what I see in them is a man who loves his mother and grandmother, and sees both their strengths and their faults. Just as he loves America, and sees its strengths and faults.
If you see loving criticism as "disgust", you need to develop your critical thinking skills.
Did you grow up with Obama in Hawaii? Or Indonesia? Do you know him personally? Then how can you make a statement that he only claims his Black side? What you want him to do on the campaign trail, "Folks, I just want you to know that I identify more with my white side"...silly season here we come. The media at first only wanted to make Obama Black..you know that old saying that the South echoed "if you got one drop you Black". Obama has to walk a fine line, if he''s too black, then he offends whites if he''s too white then he offends blacks, whatever he does will never be enough for you, so you are in that 10% that he could never ever pursuade even if there was no Wright or no Rezko in the mix. Obama moved to South Chicago to begin his career helping the poor, would you rather he travel abroad and help poor folks? Or would he have not been American enough for you? Doesn''t matter he would never ever live up to your high and mighty standards.
EXIT POLLS FROM PREVIOUS PRIMARIES:
"Whites saying they considered the candidates RACE, were liklier to be from the SOUTH, LESS EDUCATED, LOWER EARNINGS, and OLDER". "Whites who said RACE was their TOP CONSIDERATION, preferred Clinton over Obama, by 63 to 32 percent". BUT, ALL YOU HELL-ERY SUPPORTERS SAY REV WRIGHT IS THE ONLY PERSON FULL OF HATE IN AMERICA!! BARACK HAD TO GO ON NATIONAL T.V TO TRY AND EXPLAIN REV WRIGHT''S HATE! WELL, HOW IN THE HE## DO YOU "EXPLAIN" THIS!!!
YOU HIPOCRITES!!
You probably believe Obama is not really half white right? He''s lying about his whiteness right? He''s actually a terrorist sent from the undercover brother movie to destroy the 100 Pro Americans that you speak of, right? You both need to get a life.
Yes, I read both of them. Without your rose colored glasses on.
AND I saw every one of his condescending smart arse punk responses to his opponent!
And there is no way that I will place a vote in any capacity for this this anti-American corrupt politician!
Posted by lzvmmzok at 06:53 PM : Apr 08, 2008
The problem with your statement is that no one has experience for this job until they get elected. Personally, I don''t want anybody with any experience because that''s why this country is in the shape its in now. Experience in this position tends to mean more of the same and politics as usual. I want someone who cares about the citizens of THIS country, someone who cares about our infrastructure, someone who cares about our foreign policies with other countries, someone who is not a war monger, someone who is willing to talk with our enemies to seek peaceful solutions when crisis arise, someone who cares about our economy and the housing debacle and unemployment. Someone who see''s all of us as Americans, not white, not black, not brown, not yellow, but as people who want to respect and be proud of our government again. For me, the person that personifies these qualities is Obama...period!
And as for the accusations of being "anti-American" or "corrupt", both are absurd when you examine the actual facts. Aside from the guilt-by-association of Rezko and Wright, there is no evidence at all that Obama is anything but patriotic and honest.
And condescension is in the eye of the beholder.
Seeing how he was a total failure in Illinois for 7 years and didn''t pass a piece of legislation and when he did it was handed to him, that is years that absolutely cannot be counted as successful experience.
The man''s politics from day one were dirty, and his payoff of $300 million dollars to Mr. Jones who handed him legislation to pass is even more corrupt.
There''s no way core democrats and cross-over republicans will vote for this shill.
This race is totally over, the Hillary Huggers just wont let go. If she won every remaining primary 55% to 45% she would still be behind Obama - and would need to capture 2/3''s of the superdelegates from there. Since she WILL NOT win them all and Obama has the ability to raise campaign funds far in excess of Hillary - this is a done deal, we are just waiting for Hillary to figure it out.
COUNT ALL THE VOTES....
reject DEAN and Brazile and their Race fixing disqualifers and demand the DNC fire them both
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by anappleadae
April 9, 2008 11:20 PM PDT
- Obama is a man. For him to pretend he is not sexist is ridiculous. But this issue isn''t worth pursuing as much as Obama''s negative National Security issues. How about a TV ad where Obama explains association with his friend William Ayers(Weather Underground founder) when they were fellow board members at Woods Funds approving funding for the Arab American Action Network. Or maybe why Obama needs to station a campaign staff member at the Federal Court trial of his friend Rezko. These would make great ads and clear up any misconceptions about his National Security negatives.
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