Obama's New Ad Hits McCain On CEO Pay

by Todd Beeton, Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 09:45:49 AM EDT

This is very smart. Knowing full well how much anger there is out there about the exhorbitant pay of Wall St. CEOs, especially the severance packages they get even when they leave having failed, Obama here is both tying McCain to that trend by citing his economic advisor, Carly Fiorina's $42 million golden parachute from Hewlett Packard and casting himself as the champion of the little guy.

Notice that the ad shows Obama actually talking to people in an intimate setting. It was visually jarring for me at first because it's a strategy that Obama has shied away from in his ads, but echoes exactly the sort of thing Clinton did in her early ads. Message: he's one of us.

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Re: Obama's New Ad Hits McCain On CEO Pay

Glad to see my money is being spent well (wed is payday, time to keep funding Axelrod and the team...)

Very good ad, compared to the crappy stuff the McCain team is launching.

by WashStateBlue 2008-09-29 09:50AM | 0 recs
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bailout bill failing.  success, maverick style.

by Doug Tuttle 2008-09-29 09:56AM | 0 recs
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More like this please
This echoes the sentiment of voters.  Nothing like repeating what people are saying to put you on their side.
More of this, please.
by bakho 2008-09-29 10:15AM | 0 recs
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Except, Obamas two key advisors were both CEO"s of Fannie Mae, one for sure at a time when it was cited for criminal like accounting. So he needs to be careful here...fact is he has people on his team that were directly related to one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.

by adb67 2008-09-29 02:56PM | 0 recs
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Problem, Obama has Raines and Johnson on as advisors. Isn't he preaching against this. That is why people I know say he is 10 feet wide and 2 inches deep. The do as I say but not as I do just really irks me. He was big on selling the Chrysler 300 for a hybrid but when he came here for a rally, gas guzzling suburbans, large buses, large planes. Am I supposed to do without for the elites like him to have more?

by cuffy meigs 2008-09-29 03:30PM | 0 recs

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