For those of you who haven't seen this video, I've embedded it into this post, courtesy of YouTube. The takeoff on Apple's infamous 1984 SuperBowl commercial is priceless.
However, what I found most remarkable was a discussion on Tucker Carlson's program about this video. Both Republican and Democrat guest strategists and consultants alike expressed extreme discomfort with an uncontrolled, unauthorized, zealous supporter making an attack video such as this, on the cheap, and throwing it up on YouTube, to be seen by millions instantaneously.
As the beneficiary, Obama Bim Baden would seem to be innocently chortling over the razor-sharp barb that is this political commercial. And it's free to his campaign. But, to a person, Carlson's panel agreed that Obama's campaign staff must now be cringing, awaiting the inevitably muddier riposte from an enraged Hillary supporter.
Clearly, Presidential and, as George Allen and other candidates learned last cycle, Senatorial elections are changed in the era of YouTube. Clever, motivated freelancers, mavericks, are going to be doing "favors" for their chosen candidate. And some of those efforts will doubtless shove a campaign off its message, or perhaps even knock it off balance, with a hastily-required, and unexpected apology.
The whole thing is priceless. Perhaps the McCain-Feingold nonsense really is moot now. With this sort of advertising available on YouTube for free, perhaps we have less to worry about campaign finance law muzzling of free speech.
Regardless, this video apparently marks the beginning of a radical new era in Presidential campaigning.
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