Political ads

In one of the blogs I was reading today in www.crooksandliars.com, the writer bemoaned how pedestrian the Obama ads are. I have some ideas about what should be used in their stead, permission being granted by the original writers or speakers of course:

From Gov. Palin's speech - "You don't say one thing . . . and another in San Francisco . . . ." followed by former House Speaker Gail Phillips of Alaska after quoting Gov. Palin about the bridge to nowhere and a quote from her supporting that bridge from 2006, "You don't tell a group of Alaskans you support something and then go to someplace else and say you oppose it."

From The Daily Show - John Stewart's juxtaposing the acceptance speeches of George Bush from 2000 and Sen. McCain's from 2008 - almost identical wording!

From The Colbert Report - Stephen's quote about the Hindenburg from his appearence at the Correspondents' Dinner from 2006.

These are just a few possibilities. Nearly every night during Keith Olberman's, Rachel Maddow's, and Comedy Central's news and satire, there are some great lines that should get wider hearing.

He might even use some of his own lines from a speech of his today:

“Suddenly [McCain’s] the change agent!” Obama laughed. “He says, “I’m going to tell those lobbyists that their days of running Washington are over.” Who’s he going to tell? Is he going to tell his campaign chairman who’s one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell his campaign manager who was one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell all the folks who are running his campaign who are the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington?”

“Who is it that he’s going to tell that change is coming?” he added, “I mean come on, they must think you’re stupid!”

It appears that Sen. Obama is rethinking his opposition to the use of 527 ads. If his campasign won't use them, maybe the 527s will put some of these great quotes up on their "flagpoles."