I was sitting in a service station getting my vehicle inspection the other day and picked up the local entertainment paper. In it was an article about blacks supporting black candidates. The issue was dated July 17 and the article was titled something like, Where Art Thou Brother? It criticized any black person critical of Obama . The author ordained him as the new black leader.If this speaks for popular sentiment, members of the African American community will have difficulty speaking out. giving us all something to consider.
A community news paper article on GroveParc after the Boston Globe story hit.shows that the residents are ignoring Obama and friends part in promoting and profiting from this issue. The residents themselves are doing what they can to save the property and are apparently succeeding
This week's news has been full of remarks by pundits talking about McCain's remarks claiming that Obama plays the race card. One pundit last night even suggested that McCain's campaign "suckered" Obama into tripping himself up by ignoring Obama's first remarks that ..people will try to scare you about me by saying that I look different, that I'm black. Insisting that their not commenting on the remark would lead to Obama making the remark again, therefore creating an issue. It is ridiculous, the proposition that the McCain campaign can manipulate the Obama campaign.
There is also an outcry that McCain uses personal attacks and not policy statements. Actually, what does the campaign have to work with? Obama does not talk about how he will get things done, he talks about pie in the sky, gives motivational speeches and performance rallies in the US and now in Europe to cameras held by the fawning news media. There is nothing to approach him on but his personality. Barack's campaign does not want to hold too many debates or do town hall meetings because they can not control the message in that environment and start to become accountable for substance. Here is a video about a Chicago developer stating his views about the candidate:
The Obama brand was born in his two books, and an Axelrod campaign that exercises strangle hold control over what you to see. "Read about me in my book" is a wonderful way to make sure that people only know what you want them to know about you. It is not the best way to really know the person.
I've seen lots of Brand Launch Campaigns before and have found that the stronger the promotion the more dissatisfied I was with the product. Don't you recall seeing a big build up for a movie and being disappointed with the performance? This is what we are seeing, a heavily influenced promotion.
I'm not buying the product, are you?
