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    How I May Have Contributed to Obama's Infomercial

    By Ripper on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 5:07pm |
    I can't be sure, but the Obama campaign's recent half-hour ad may have drawn something from the videotape I sent them this spring. It was an original 1992 Clinton campaign video "The Man from Hope," one of the few copies remaining in existence after 16 years.

    They were so excited when I contacted them that they paid for the shipping to Axelrod and Associates on their own Fed-Ex account.

    The Obama "infomercial" had the same flavor as the half-hour bio produced by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason (creators of CBS series "Designing Women" and "Evening Shade") for the Clinton campaign.

    Can't be sure, like I said. I just like to think it helped.