** The U.S.-backed prime minister of Iraq is using majority American voter dissatisfaction with the U.S. Iraq policy to manipulate the Bush Administration. Shocking. Positively shocking …
I’m going to analyze the ad and compare it with the very different but also positive and uplifting ad which closed out his campaign in the 2003 recall election. I don’t believe that ad is available online, but I have it on a videocassette reel. If I have the time and energy, I will do some somewhat involved techno mumbo jumbo and present it through NWN.
Is the new Phil Angelides TV ad — in which he walks toward the camera through a sea of Arnold cutouts, all of which are shorter than he, unlike the photos and footage of the two you saw from the debate, and talks about how Schwarzenegger can’t be trusted — his final ad? Given how his message has bounced around, probably not, although his money situation will be a factor.
** Monitor global and national energy prices via Bloomberg. Word that the OPEC production cut will be less than advertised and indications of strong demand for heating oil as the weather turns colder are keeping crude oil prices around $60 a barrel.
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1. Ann:I want to see the recall ad. You;’re not that tired.
Oct 28, 2006 - 8:43 am 2. Bill Bradley:I will have the Arnold 2003 recall closer TV spot on NWN, one way or another.
Oct 28, 2006 - 9:20 am 3. Ann:Is that the Schwawrzeneger recall ad above?
Oct 28, 2006 - 9:41 am 4. Bill Bradley:That was it.
I published it briefly as a test to see how it looked and played in the NWN environment.
It will be back, so to speak, along with the full report on closing TV ads, another day.
Oct 28, 2006 - 10:00 am 5. AthlonGuy:Has Phil said anything about Wal*Mart recently? They have greatly expanded and accelerated their $4/month cheap-drugs program. Phil should blast them for being untrustworthy, flip-flopping, and lying about their original rollout plans. It’s just a trick!
Oct 28, 2006 - 10:00 am 6. Bill Bradley:Did you know that there is a Walmart located at what was supposed to be a light rail stop in one of Phil Angelides’ smart growth plans?
I’ve been pretty easy.
Oct 28, 2006 - 10:11 am 7. Jonas Blane:The Angelides ad is terrible! It is night and day with Schwarzenegger. Is that the best Democrats in California can do?
Oct 28, 2006 - 10:34 am 8. Hap Hazard:Jones - the ad is from the Angelides campaign, not from the CA democrats… I would agree, however, that it is a painful ad to watch. Poor Phil is still trying to tell people that we are not seeing the real Arnold. It seems in the ad like he is dumbfounded that Arnold took away all of the issues he thought he would be able to use.
Oct 28, 2006 - 11:19 am 9. Paul Burton:From today’s SF Chronicle:
For California’s Green Party, the new radio ad for their candidate for governor, Peter Camejo, says it all.
“The polls show that the race for governor is over,” Camejo says in the 30-second commercial. “A vote for the Democrat will send no message, but a vote for the Green Party, which opposes war, the Patriot Act … would be a powerful message to vote for peace.”
Up and down the Green Party ticket, candidates are scrambling to use Californians’ growing disaffection with the war in Iraq to draw progressive Democrats and independent liberals to their party in November.
more:
Oct 28, 2006 - 12:44 pm 10. Bill Bradley:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/28/BAG9IM1UTI1.DTL
Incidentally, to the extent that I’m working today, which is not a lot, I’m mostly gathering information and doing video.
Oct 28, 2006 - 12:46 pm 11. Ann:More videos along with the Schwarzeneger recall ad?
Oct 28, 2006 - 2:40 pm 12. Bill Bradley:Another video is produced, looking past the election to shapes of things to come.
Oct 28, 2006 - 3:05 pm 13. Jonathan Hemlock:Why is this not surprising in Iraq? The policy is an utter disaster.
Oct 28, 2006 - 5:27 pm 14. Ann:The new video is about Schwarzeneger’s second term?
Oct 28, 2006 - 6:23 pm 15. Bill Bradley:In part, in a manner of speaking.
Oct 28, 2006 - 6:39 pm 16. Hattie Caraway:Camejo has a point. A large Green vote could send a message that progressive politics is not dead, it’s just that its Democratic standard bearer is a political neutrino.
Oct 29, 2006 - 10:19 pm