Rather than taking the opportunity to really genuinely connect with people, I felt the too slick production values and the emotionally charged musical strains made it seem like he was really trying to sell you a crappy product.

I have already voted early, but I still wanted to watch his "infomercial". Sadly things came up and I could not. Thank you for writing this piece and providing an update on it. It sounds like it was well done and worth watching.

I thought it was going to boring as anything, but I loved it. It made my family realize once again why we have to end our national nightmare of Republican rule.

I feel sorry for FilthyHarry. But too many people have been beaten down for so long that they can't recognize the opportunity when it arrives.

-p

So, it's okay when "news outlets" pick the Suffering Family of the Day to present anecdotal evidence of the current Angst Fad, but when these tactics are employed by a political campaign, it's now manipulative & cheesy?

And by all means, Ms. Havrilesky, when you see your elderly neighbors mortgage their homes to the hilt to pay for medicine, maybe it would be more caring of you to WARN them of the personal financial armageddon that is about to ensue.

Because otherwise, hindsight is 20-20 for all of us, ma'am.

They are going to be absolutely savaged by the opposition, just as Graham Frost's family was in 2004. People who think we were too hard on Joe the Plumber have no idea what's coming.

We voted two weeks ago, so the ads are pretty meaningless to us now. But we watched this anyway, since we knew everyone would be talking about it the next day, good or bad.

But we really enjoyed the show. It was moving, and, yes, it did inspire some hope in us.

During the course of the campaign, I've gone from being a luke-warm Obama supporter to looking forward to seeing what he can do for us as a nation.

I thought candidates in elections were supposed to be allowed "equal time" for stating their case. I can't believe Obama paid over $4 million dollars for an infomercial. What a joke! Obama lied about taking public financing, just as he lies about taking your hard earned paycheck and redistribute it to people who don't work even 1/4 as hard as you do. Do NOT be fooled by Obama's flowery rhetoric! He is trying to hoodwink and bamboozle you! to see more reasons not to vote Obama visit http://www.youtube.com/brightamericaneyes

There's that smile that breaks out of a serious, contemplative face, deep in thought, that lights up a stadium.

There's that perfectly knotted tie tucked across a starched white shirt into a suit jacket that looks like it was built on him.

There's the message of inclusion -- "I will listen to you when we disagree" -- and humility -- "I will not be a perfect president".

There are those cherubic kids and that wonderful wife.

There's his choice of Podesta, who Time Magaxine called one of the least self-aggrandizing Democrats in Washington, to run the transition.

He speaks, I swoon. What more can I say?

Equal time?

Public financing?

What are you, some kind of SOCIALIST?

You do know the definition of 'irony,' don't you?

I was a student at Harvard when Fidel came to give his inspirational speeches in 1959. We all sat around the dining room, and most people were very enthusiastic about the "change" which Fidel was promising. I piped up and said "he is a god-damned communist" and he will destroy Cuba's economy and will be hated and despised. I felt the same about Chavez.

And, if Obama is elected, it will be the end of our freedoms, the end of America's role in the world, and, quite possibly the end of free elections. Those who say he will make America into a Socialist country are dreaming. France is a socialist country, but there is no risk an elected President would turn the country to communism. The latest pronouncements from Obama suggest precisely that outcome, considering his association with Bill Ayers, of the Weathermen terrorists, his attitude about the "errors" in the Constitution, and his stated intention to appoint judges who will not be guided by law, or precedent, but those who would provide redistribution of incomes, and would take the side of the "little guy." So, this means there will no longer be protection of the laws.

This is incomprehensible, it is anarchy, and it is a mockery of the western tradition of the law. And, all his pronouncements of defense policy, foreign relations, taxation are totally impractical. As President Sarkozy of France said "Obama's attitude about Iran are 'utterly immature', and naive in the extreme." He will cause a war in the Middle East, because as Jesse Jackson has warned, "he will change our policy toward Israel."

It is a disgrace that this total incompetent is quite likely to be our next President. Our children and grandchildren will live lives of poverty, political indoctrination, and the America we know will die.

Ha! Having equal time and having public financing? You sound like a socialist. By the way, I thought the six figures spent on Sarah Palin was a joke too.

Let's limit all Presidential campaigns to 90 days. That takes money out of the equation. There's a hard limit to what you can raise and then spend in 90 days and it doesn't put the government on hold for 2 years while they candidates sling mud at each other.

This is rapidly becoming a joke. I expect to see a candidate openly and candidly run for the 2016 election oh, around 2010 or so.

Oh, AmericaEyes, is that a concern now? After 20 odd years of Republican financial advantages (sometimes as high as 2 to 1) now it is conservatives who are whining that, for the first time ever, the Dems have figured out a way to have more money?

How disingenuous. How petty. How bitter. The average donation to the Obama campaign is $50 and comes from millions of average, hard-working, middle-class Americans. McCain's donations mostly come from billionaires and corporations.

Explain to me again how Obama is bad for America, especially since half of us are bankrolling his candidacy?

I proudly check that box on my tax returns every year to give to public financing, never knowing who will be receiving the money, because I'm proud of my democracy. "Eyes" would rather that all our pols are bought and paid for by corporations.