CNN decided not to run the ad so maybe, like Fox News, they're pretending it didn't happen.

Dunno about anyone running it or not, but you can see it here (thanks, eamon!).

Hmm. CNN does have a link to an exciting article about the "kitty caucus," though.

I can sort of see why. I mean, the thing was pretty damn good if you like Obama, was probably frothily infuriating if you hate him, was hopefully informative if you haven't decided (and if you haven't, you're probably kind of stupid at this point, sorry, but someone needs to tell you), but at the end of the day, it was a 30-minute infomercial, neither more nor less. It wasn't big news when Ross Perot did it, and it doesn't really qualify now.

You've some good points, mct. Thanks for bringing them up! :)

Here is the high res version.

Warning: I am watching right now and all teary.

yeah, I lost it when the fellow put on the walmart name tag. just heartbreaking.

I heard it was that good, special-K. My husband watched and gave me a recap. I was multi-tasking in another room.

I am so over this 24 hour coverage. There is no escape. I voted for Obama. I very much want him to be our next president but please just elect him already and let's be done with it. Every word out of my husband's mouth is Obama. As soon as he opens I know he is going to talk politics. (And don't get me wrong I love to talk politics.) I wish we could go back to talking about fantasy football half of the time.

Oh my god am I hungry for change! A change of subject!

What happened with the Walmart name tag person?

What happened with the Walmart name tag person?

It was a sad story about an older couple. Once he retired they lost perscription coverage. She has to take twelve different medications every day, and so he had to take a job at walmart, in his seventies, to help pay for them.

I didn't think I'd love it as much as I did; I'm really sorry I didn't DVR it, I thought it'd just be OK. Any of you guys know where can I download an .avi or quicktime to burn a DVD?

I'm 44 years old. In my lifetime it would have been illegal for Obama and me to ride in the same part of a bus in parts of this country, or drink from the same water fountain, or go to the same bathroom, or eat at the same diner counter. (Obama's only a couple of years older than me, which freaks me out even more than when I realized I was older than doctors.)

My home state, Virginia, has never voted for a Democrat in my lifetime, and it looks like they're going to on Tuesday. My family's from southern Missouri, and when I visited a couple of years ago my cousins remarked about how there weren't very many black people in Springfield, and when I looked it up I found out it was because a couple of black kids were lynched in the town square after being falsely accused of accosting a white girl. Now Barack Hussein Obama's got a lead in Missouri going in to the last weekend before the election.

I'm not especially religious, but I view slavery as the original sin of the United States. We founded this country with a terrible gap between our great ideals and the reality of treating black people as property. The story of America is the story of expanding equality, of us taking step after overdue step towards a more perfect union. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." Electing Obama would be a giant step towards making Dr. King's dream come true.

Hey, it's up now! ;-)

My family's from southern Missouri, and when I visited a couple of years ago my cousins remarked about how there weren't very many black people in Springfield, and when I looked it up I found out it was because a couple of black kids were lynched in the town square after being falsely accused of accosting a white girl.

Yeah, I'm from Springfield (go Glendale Falcons!). You hear a lot of different versions of the story, but that part seems common to all of them. Legend has it that pretty much every black family in town grabbed whatever they could carry and walked out that night.

The minority population is starting to come back, but it's still very much a minority -- 2000 census numbers have the city at something like 97% white. I've got a black friend who lives and works there, and the lack of diversity has not made his life there easy.

It was an advertisement. Does CNN also cover the Bud Bowl?

Also.