Obama Campaign Wins Two Top Prizes At Cannes Advertising Awards

Guardian:

The campaign that drove Barack Obama to victory in the US presidential election has claimed two top awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Awards.

The campaign, submitted by Obama for America, has been hailed as a masterful combination of new media, door-to-door and community grass roots campaigning with a clever tactical use of traditional TV advertising.

Read the whole story: Guardian

Comments

[Sweetbay]

I'm reading the comments on this thread and all of a sudden I get this "where the he// am I?" as if I have drifted over to drudge or redstate.

Huffpo readers are usually much more informed and intelligent than the "arguments" I'm seeing here.

This is just name calling like grade school children.


P.S.- Congratulations to David Plouffe and staff for a job well done.

[smchp]

Baracknaphobia! Strangely, you don't see those people on the "Sanford is an adulterer" threads.

[smchp]

Personally I think "bomb bomb bomb....bomb bomb Iran" should win for best freudian slip by a FAILED presidential candidate.

[flossophy]

Does anyone find it a bit unsettling that a presidential campaign won an advertising award?

[smchp]

nope

[Sweetbay]

Not at all. I understand the concept of a campaign.

[FanofPaine]

No. Politics is all about selling yourself and your brand. It always has been.

[lib2dbone]

Why does ACORN make these folks so insecure and afraid? Do they even know what ACORN does? Or this may be like the folks who decry 'socialism' without a clear understanding of what it is.
(But it must be baaaaad. Fox Comedy said so)

[smchp]

It's because they got nothing else. They need a constant stream of poll tested talking points to distract people from their own utter incompetence and scandals. So they grasp at anything they can. Whether it's acorn, mustard, teleprompters, socialism. That's all they go so they just spew those things over and over again and hope it sticks sometimes.

[flossophy]

Conservatives know what s0cialism is better than the budding pr0gressives out there. They've been fighting it for the better part of 80 years.

Think about it this way: If some conservative ideology led to the destructi0n of 20 million people, and ravaged the continents of Asia, Africa & South America, then you would have every right to d|sparage it.

Since s0cialism did all of the above... you're going to have to live with the fact that the survivors of s0cialism will d|sparage it to their gra`ve.

You have an ug|y ide0logical history which isn't going away.

[reggieb]

drama queen

[puppymama]

They sold him like the product he is.

[smchp]

yawn, Baracknophobia lives on.

[puppymama]

You don't read much, do you?

[flossophy]

Shiny Happy Obama Product is faulty. Probably made in China.

[rsprags]

Great news! I thought it was great as well! Love the Obama TEAM!

[Brillig]

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jcko]

Can't "The One" do anything wrong? He's killing the R E P U G $.

[yvonne61]

Obama doing all he can give him a broke. i love everything that Obama doing.

[flossophy]

You must not pay income taxes... must be nice, huh.

[agroman]

and you were in church yesterday morning and cheating on your wife in the evening

[YOUCANKEEPTHECHANGE]

What a JOKE!!!!

[albanianmomforobama]

YOUCANKEEPTHECHANGE

F..U....

[Ajegunle]

Pathetic RethugliKKKan

[smchp]

Move to Somalia! Nobody need or want's your opinion.

[puppymama]

Nobody need your bad grammar, either.

[Samalabear]

To me it's very sad.

[albanianmomforobama]

Samalabear/

Don't care if you are sad. I am happy!
Love everything about our President!

[Ajegunle]

Of corse it's sad for you.

Your President is Black, and very successful....


You sad RethugliKKKan

[flossophy]

He's been objectively unsuccessful... and what does skin color have to do with it?

Did you even know that the KayKayKay were all Democrats... going back to the beginning?

If you want to be accurate, it's DemoKKKrats.

[Glowcy]

.
flossophy, how can you measure the success of a presidential administration after only six months? You had Bush for eight years and probably didn't have any problems with his results.

.

[polkarde]

I reckon this will be a trailblazer to a lot of other future campaigns...right down to the slogan!

[BethS]

Change we can believe in!