Please, Don't Quit Your Day Job

I watched the Obama ad. You can too, here.

Good lord. I can't imagine what his satellite television channel must be like.

I won't lie, this was hard to sit through. Most of it was pitched at the level of the worst moments of a state of the union address. You know the ones, where the president pauses to acknowledge some "real" person uncomfortably seated in the gallery with the secretary of state and his wife? (what do you chat about in that crowd?)

I would much rather have seen Obama actually pull out some graphs, Ross Perot style, and wade into his economic plan, or suggest some of the programs likely to be modified during his line-by-line review of the federal budget than attempt to embrace real people worried about the price of milk. He will have to worry about the price of milk, but being that personal about it isn't a good use of his limited time. The idea that it would be actually seems a little condescending. Heck, the cuts away to earlier live events at least let you revisit some of the seminal moments from earlier in his campaign, and made him look far more presidential than he did wandering around the hotel from Twin Peaks with an American flag lurking over his shoulder.

I return to a point made earlier- the real intention behind this ad was to dominate (purchase?) a news cycle, and to underscore that Obama has more money than God. It must be tearing the McCain people up something horrible to know they haven't the funding to respond.