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To: FJB who wrote (490600)6/11/2012 4:36:37 PM
From: FJB  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793996
 
Obama's Latest Ad Targets Black Voters

4:00 PM, JUN 11, 2012 • BY DANIEL HALPER

President Obama's campaign has released its latest radio ad, the first ad of the campaign specifically to target black voters.

“Four years ago we made history,” the voiceover in the ad states. “Now it’s time to move forward and finish what we started together. We have to show the President we have his back.”

Snippets of the president's remarks are played throughout the ad, as well as a catchy R&B tune with the chorus "we've got your back."

Listen to the 60-second spot here.

The Grio reports:

The Barack Obama re-election campaign Tuesday will air its first radio ad targeting African-Americans, campaign officials confirmed.The 60-second ad, entitled “We’ve Got Your Back,” appeals to black voters’ nostalgia about the election of the nation’s first African-American president, calling for those voters to stand with the president again in November. ...The ads are being placed nationally by Fuse Advertising, an African-American owned agency based in St. Louis, Missouri, which also was contracted by the Obama campaign in 2008.



To: FJB who wrote (490600)6/12/2012 6:03:09 AM
From: Nadine Carroll7 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793996
 
“I truly am worried about today's twenty-somethings,” he frets. “They are our global generation and I have seen them move from hope and grand expectations for themselves and their world to anxiety and disillusionment. We can't afford to lose them,” he adds.

A necessary development in their maturation, I would say. I sure hope this experience inoculates them against political messiahs.