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Friday, July 25, 2008 --- 35 days ago http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/07/25/castro-hearts-obama-new-mccain-
 Filed under: Ads , John McCain , 2008 President Since Barack Obama seems to love being popular, it's sort of funny that the McCain campaign is reminding folks that Cuba's Fidel Castro hearts Obama too. As Obama's Evita-styled "Rainbow tour" comes to a close, where a bunch of Europeans proclaimed Obama their guy, let's ask: Who the heck cares what foreign countries think of who we elect President? If it's you, who thinks its important what foreign-nistas think about American politics, then this ad is for you. It's a web page roll-over/banner ad running on south Florida online publications: Picture association has been a regular feature in American politics. Well before the television age and certainly a century before the Internet age. And it never makes a rational argument. But it is used, over an over, from depictions of Thomas Jefferson and the Parisian bankers who were his alleged backers to this latest Internet ad. Or if you want to demonstrate the same old style politics from the campaign of Barack Obama, then think of their McBush picture ads. Regardless the target or author, this genre is used because it plants a seed. An image. A perception. A concept that may not be articulated in the viewers mind, but later the impact of suspicion or susceptibility to the information it portrays is proven time and again. In this instance, if you think that what foreign leaders or people care regarding American elections matters, then you ... |
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