Campaign Hagiography

Anne Marie Howard is the actress who, several years ago, was brought in by GMAC to legitimate the Ditech brand it had acquired after years of the "Lost another one to Ditech" campaign. She immediately classed up the lender's bad image.

But as smooth and compelling as Howard is on camera, not even she will be able to turn Dennis Kucinich into a top-tier candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. That's what Howard is valiantly trying to do in "anchoring" what the Kucinich campaign says will be weekly video updates.

But irrespective of politics, does anybody think that the almost hagiographic presentations of candidates produced by all campaigns actually persuade anybody?

For all the talk about "change" and "honesty" surrounding this year's far too early and seemingly endless presidential campaigning, the baloney level seems at least as high, among both Democrats and Republicans, as it's ever been. The Kucinich ad is no different. Anne Marie portrays him as a candidate for secular sainthood. (TY, Buckeye State Blog)