Barack Obama’s campaign running scared in Philadelphia

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), a Democratic presidential hopeful longing for the Democratic National Committee’s blessing as its candidate for the 2008 ticket, is outspending Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) at a rate of $3 for ever $1 Clinton is spending on advertising.

A lot can be said about such spending. When I commercials on the local channels are airing Obama commercials are on at least three times each hour, it’s enough to make a person sick, and “consumer advocates” complain about cereal and junk food ads aimed at children. When the mailman brings my mail, at three out of six days a week for the past almost three weeks now, there are at least two Barack Obama glossy, four-color junk mail. Yes, there’s something to be said of the feelings of “desperation” his campaign must be feeling to spend money in a way the senator from Illinois says he would curtail as president. Right.

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