Allstar Team

In our world of video games, massive sports influence, and celebrity fame bordering on ludicrous, Presidential candidate Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been slacking when it comes to going big. This may come as a shock to those inundated with the Barack Obama Music Video, his face on every magazine, his admittance to smoking weed, and his sit-down chats with rappers. He has been faltering at the most important time in this election, when he has a direct chance to destroy his opponent. Biden has also lost a similar chance. The debates of the past few days have left me unimpressed, and I want to deal with both of them separately.
Barack, against the petulant and slow Mccain, could have used all of the drama and fame he has built up to grandstand his opponent. Instead, they politely sparred over issues and neither seemed to be the clear winner. Everyone knows Obama is charismatic. That’s the point. That debate could have been a tipping point, and yet it felt like a steadying of the two opponents.
Biden, on the other hand, was exactly what I wish Obama had been: he choked up when speaking about his children, he laughed outright at the claims made by Palin, he was entertaining. I was watching CNN, and every time a question was posed to Biden, the group of undecided Ohio voters they had grouped together beginning voting positively toward what he was saying, or even before he had started.
The Obama/Biden team must embrace their popularity and demonstrate their confidence. Smarmy and secretive identify what most people think of the past administration. Obama was right to tell us that he smoked, and inhaled, because that’s the point. He just now needs to apply that idea to the rest of his campaign.
Every media medium we observe is coming together, on the internet. In that way, publicity has become more public, and everything is on display. One opinion can spawn a myriad of links, videos, other articles, podcasts, and youtube videos. In our culture, it is necessary to omnipresent and entertaining, and Obama's next appearance needs to reflect this.