Apple in Politics
Senator Barack Obama, Democratic sleeper candidate for President in 2008, is trying to tap the power of Apple’s marketing machine. He’s created a “mashup” ad using a montage of images and themes from Apple’s popular and famous “1984″ ad campaign and posted it on YouTube, where it has taken off as a viral video success, exceeding 600,000 page views so far.
Representatives from his political camp have denied that they have anything officially to do with the ad. In spite of repeated denials by the Obama camp, viewers remain unconvinced that the “Hillary 1984″ video mashup was not released by his political aides and campaign headquarters. I don’t have a problem with Obama and his camp being creative. My main problem comes from the fact that he is attacking Hillary Clinton in the ad. I get steamed when members of the same party (either party) mud sling against each other when they’d do better to address the issues and put their best face forward during a campaign. I can understand Obama’s frustration and why he feels a need to start the heavy hitting early (after all, for example, half of America thinks he is a Muslim solely because of his name, when he is in fact a staunch Christian), but still – someone needs to act like a grown up this election cycle. Preferably all of the someone’s from all of the parties.
Regardless of how you feel about Obama, Hillary or the use of Apple products in political ads or spoof clips (see our report earlier this week on the iRack parody), you can view the YouTube video here, and read more about the whole thing here and here.
You can also read me at HubPages today. I wrote an article there on Freeware for your Mac. Enjoy!
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