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Why must Obama keep doing, or saying things that make me write about him. I don't want to write about politics. I've gotten a migraine from debating with people, listening to commercials, listening to debates, occasionally laughing at a pundit. It's enough to make me want to curl up in bed and wait for November 4th to just pass, so it can all be over with. Obama's latest ad is what has spurred yet another post on WiiBlog about the candidate.

Before I give my 2 cents on the ad, I'll let you take a view of this ad if you haven't seen it.

I won't even get into the ludicrousness of the ad (apparently we need to take off an entire day to go vote). My big question is, why do you need to put a Wii Remote in your video to prove your point? Does Obama really not give the American people enough credit, that he thinks they'll be playin videogames all day and not exercise their right to vote? Are we led to believe that people have really gotten that addicted to electronic media?

What's worse, why even use a brand name device and not something generic? The point could have been made with some non-branded looking videogame controller. Why single out a company like that, considering some if its employees have donated significant funds to the Obama campaign. What's funny is that using videogames in ads like this go even further to contradict his spending of advertising space in videogames. So, I guess the message we should take from Obama is that we should be playin less video games, and “making history”. But when we do play video games we should be seeing his face, and message on virtual billboards.

I'm JohnnyV, and I approve this message, for all you gamers out there (a bit cheesy?).

*EDIT* - The link to the funds donated by Nintendo employees is broken. The amount is $2,650. If you want to research it yourself, go to FEC.gov.