Olympic Ads

I'm sitting here watching the Olympics. I've started noticing some of the ads that are running.

Both McCain and Obama are running ads. You seem to see more ads for McCain than Obama. The McCain ads have improved a little from the most famous person on the planet attack on Obama. The McCain campaign ran a second most famous person in the world earlier in the week. But now they are running ads that actually talk about what McCain is for. They emphasize how McCain is the original maverick and that he is ready to lead.

I think it is very debatable that McCain is the original maverick since he seems to be selling out right and left well mostly right I guess.

Both candidates ads center on energy and how to make the country energy independent. It gives me a little confidence that this time around there might really be a serious discussion on our addiction to foreign oil.

Another one of the ads is from GM. It talks about how you can get good fuel economy from an SUV. It touts one of their cars as getting 24 mile per gallon on the highway. This is supposed to be good gas mileage? Who are they kidding. Makes you hope that some of the ideas on energy from McCain and Obama's ads are introduced as soon as possible.

Of course there are all the ads for the terrible programs that are going to be on NBC this fall. I try to ignore most of them.

It's hard to believe that in a week the Democratic convention starts.