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why are you focused on this, pan?
there are substantive positions on real issues that separate the two presidential candidates and which constitute the actual grounds for making a rational decision as to who to vote for.
this is television idiocy, the sort of stuff geared at people who are naive enough to conflate questions of image with matters of position.
i say this despite my fascination with signifiers and how they are constructed.
in this case, you have a not terribly interesting rejoinder to the republican attacks on the whole idea of community organizing in the context of their convention. i think that advert nothing more than a lob in the direction of christian voters, which constitutes a FAR wider swatch of the population than the far-right evangelicals would have one think, given that they like to arrogate to themselves a monopoly on the term, as if they are "real" and everyone else who happens to believe the same basic things but not in the same way are "Other" (the old canard about catholics not being christian comes to mind--i'm sure you know the drill).
i don't think it particularly interesting, i don't think it particularly serious and i certainly don't think that tracking individual commericals is a good way to arrive at anything like a coherent assessment of the tactical--not to mention strategic--moves on the part of either campaign.
so why are you focused on this stuff, apart from the fact that for whatever reason you've decided you don't like the obama you imagine obama to be.
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