Obamarama: poorly-targeted Google ads
Every time I write about Barack Obama, ads like this appear on my blog:
Seriously. "Canditate."
I clicked on this link and ended up here ("Barack Obama EXPOSED! He's an OBAMANATION!" Um, cool. I could use an "Obamanation." Sorry your pun backfired).
I am amused at the illogic of spending advertising dollars promoting Obama smears on a pro-Obama (Pro-bama!) website that is also obsessed with grammar and spelling.
One more thing -- have you ever seen a bad photo of Barack Obama? You know how every conservative rag in the country constantly publishes bug-eyed crazy-lady photos of Hillary Clinton? (I am certainly not saying that this is related to my support of one candidate over another; in fact, while Clinton is not my preferred candidate, I do wish she were not so prone to appearing insane in photographs, so that conservatives would have to address her more on the issues). Well, even when a rag that publishes Ann Coulter's crappy column tries to create an Obama smear website, this is the worst picture they can come up with:
Seriously, does that man ever look anything other than competent, collected, and reassuring?
I certainly don't vote based on photogenicism, but I can't really complain that my candidate has the JFK effect.
Seriously. "Canditate."I clicked on this link and ended up here ("Barack Obama EXPOSED! He's an OBAMANATION!" Um, cool. I could use an "Obamanation." Sorry your pun backfired).
I am amused at the illogic of spending advertising dollars promoting Obama smears on a pro-Obama (Pro-bama!) website that is also obsessed with grammar and spelling.
One more thing -- have you ever seen a bad photo of Barack Obama? You know how every conservative rag in the country constantly publishes bug-eyed crazy-lady photos of Hillary Clinton? (I am certainly not saying that this is related to my support of one candidate over another; in fact, while Clinton is not my preferred candidate, I do wish she were not so prone to appearing insane in photographs, so that conservatives would have to address her more on the issues). Well, even when a rag that publishes Ann Coulter's crappy column tries to create an Obama smear website, this is the worst picture they can come up with:
Seriously, does that man ever look anything other than competent, collected, and reassuring?
I certainly don't vote based on photogenicism, but I can't really complain that my candidate has the JFK effect.
posted by JenIsFamous at 3/21/2008 02:05:00 AM
5 Comments:
JFK Stumbled right into the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam, two ugly mistakes most of us don't like to think about. Then he stumbled in and out of bed with dozens of women, cruelly shaming his innocent spouse and children.
I'm not sure I like to refer to people's marital troubles as "cruel shaming." Maybe Silda Spitzer had been withholding sex for the last decade, or maybe she's an insane harpy he'd only been staying with for the sake of the kids -- and maybe, of course, she's a wonderful woman whose only crime was not being a 22 year old hottie. Or maybe she herself has cheated, and that's why she's staying now -- and Spitzer is actually being kind by not mentioning this. We just don't know. I find people's marital troubles and sex lives basically irrelevant to governing.
That being said, this doesn't damage what I was saying: the "JFK effect" was JFK's power to get elected over Nixon and remain a beloved American figure despite, for instance, the Bay of Pigs.
It's a marketing halo that is unrelated to whether a candidate is good at governing; that is, effective marketing can be used for good or for evil.
Jen
Have you seen http://godhatesobama.com? Diana pointed me to it - amazing!
Wait, godhatesobama is (now) a pro-Obama site. Was it different before?
You're missing the point with that photo. Sure, Obama looks calm and collected. But that photo is in black and white. Makes you wonder, why don't Obama let himself be photographed in color. WHAT'S HE TRYING TO HIDE???
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