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Re: Happy Days Are Here Again

TOMASSODAQUINO — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:05:42 -0000

that's kind of like what i was saying....at least the last part.....
everybody, tho, has a self-interest issue...
and that's why obama is winning....
he can appeal to more self-interests because he is the master of the
"having said that" move...which enables him to pro and anti everything//

Re: Happy Days Are Here Again

TOMASSODAQUINO — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:38:40 -0000

It is not bad to be scared of things, but better to be scared of the power of the government than to use it to enforce what you would like enforced.
The Reverend Wright actually knows Obama better than most folks think. When he said Obama was just a politician, he nailed it. The Obama dumped for the gravest sin of all, dissing Obama.

Re: Happy Days Are Here Again

TOMASSODAQUINO — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:50:39 -0000

Anyone who thinks that Obama has an upbeat, positive message hasn't really listened.
He just is artful in covering his whining and lecturing behind a smile.
Reagan said the government needed yo be reined in; Obama says you need to be reined in.
But it's good to know that Obama isn't one of those narrow minded anti-terrorists who want abortions prevented and resist the rationing of health care that will soon follow the price controls on health care under the great motor vehicle bureau in the sky who will decide who gets operated on now and who gets to stand in line.

Re: Fallon Minneapolis to Charge Young Creatives for Their Ideas - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

TOMASSODAQUINO — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:39:30 -0000

seems like free trade, free will, free folks doing what they want
each side making something out of the deal
want bureaucratized fairness?
take a civil service test and join the post office

Re: mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

TOMASSODAQUINO — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:02:58 -0000

BILL EVANS HAS BEEN HIRED TO REPLACE MR. GULISANO.

Re: mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

TOMASSODAQUINO — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:15:37 -0000

"If McCain hadn't done that, it would have been much harder for Obama to justify backing out of that promise."
UmberJamber writes.
Read that over a few times. Obama may become President, but understand: this is guy who is not what he seems.

Re: mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

TOMASSODAQUINO — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:56:56 -0000

Reagan's positive stuff ran in May of 1984. So the time between the media buy and the election didn't seem a bother.
There is a difference, though.
Reagan's commercials were through public financing like every Presidential campaign since Watergate.
Obama breaking his pledge to also use public financing is interesting on several levels, one of them being that he is the first candidate to break a promise BEFORE he got elected.

Re: Unfriendly Skies

TOMASSODAQUINO — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:13:42 -0000

It may also be true that bringing up negatives no longer has the surprise value that it might have had in, let's say, the 1970s or 1980 when Northeast, Pan Am, People's Express, and Midway all did advertising that addressed the "reality" of air travel. These days, unless there is a palliative that dispels the negatives, it's just another hype from a different quarter. Airline marketing seems to be, today, either cheap seats or some kind of business travelers' edge or frequent flyers' rewards.
It is also probably true that air travel is such a mature market that the reasons airline advertising used to be intrinsically interesting to work on(destinations, dreams fulfilled, new adventure) are now commonplace and the consumer and the airline marketer together is jaded.
Today people bring food on the planes like people used to bring on ships in the days of steerage class from Europe to America. Today's steerage is Jet Blue.

Re: Unfriendly Skies

TOMASSODAQUINO — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:03:34 -0000

The American airline industry has run out of ideas?
Not as bad as the Australian airline industry.
Qantas is now running a campaign with the tagline The World's Most Experienced Airline.
Could make an argument for it being the world's most experienced tagline since Pan Am used for God knows how long when it had an argument that it was that.

Re: mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

TOMASSODAQUINO — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:57:26 -0000

Finally a subject here that interests me.
Although steak tartare is thought to be for culinary sophisticates, truth is that a desire for uncooked, flavored chopped fresh beef begins in a household where the mother made meatballs and got a couple of pounds of chuck mixed with some round, added a few bread crumbs, some parmesan cheese, a little oregano, some tiny diced onion pieces, some salt and pepper, a couple of raw eggs and mushed it all up. Then when said Grandmother or Mother left the room for a minute you went in and glommed a few handfuls of the meatball mixture before it hit the pot that browned the outside to prepare them to be dropped into the sauce which cooked under a low flame for a couple of hours. Also good was grabbing a couple of meatballs when they were just seared very brown, but raw inside.