"American Stories, American Solutions"

[libertango]

For those who may have missed it, but are interested, here's the 27 min film that Barack Obama broadcast earlier tonight. Having now gone through it, the reason it's 27 mins and not the full half hour is that it drops off before the live speech given at the end, from Florida.

I call it a "film" and not an "ad" because... it really feels at that level of production quality.

I think it lays out a positive, optimistic agenda. Here's an interesting thought experiment: If John McCain had made this, I find it hard to believe it would have been so consistently, "Here's why I need your help," instead of, "Don't vote for the other guy. He's scary."

Another piece of skepticism: If it had been McCain, I don't think it would have been about other people as much, I don't think it would have had so many other speakers, and I don't think he'd have been off-camera so often. Yet again, for someone accused so often of being full of himself, this is a remarkably restrained work (or as restrained as a half-hour promoting oneself can be :)

I've said this before, and I may well have cause to say it again: Obama gives fearful people hope. Right now, just like in 1932, that may be the most important message of all.

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UPDATED TO ADD: ...and here's the segment that was broadcast at the end, live from Orlanda, Florida.

Comments

Davis Guggenheim

[farmgirl1146.livejournal.com]

I watched and loved it too. It is beautiful. It was partially directed by the Oscar winning director of "An Inconvenient Truth" Davis Guggenheim (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0593948/).