THE AD CAMPAIGN Casting His Lot With the Common Folks TITLE: "Plan" PRODUCER: Axelrod and Associates ON THE SCREEN: Senator John Edwards looking directly at the camera.
THE SCREEN Senator Barack Obama is shown at a lectern, gesticulating, with crowd noises in the background and cameras flashing as a female voice speaks.
And despite the fireworks and the neo-Classical columns lining the stage and giant television screens, Senator Barack Obama did not look like the lead in "Oedipus at Colonus".
"Over the years, I have seen our organization change from within," Mr. Buscetta, speaking behind a screen, told senators at a hearing on organized crime in 1988.
ON THE SCREEN -- Senator John McCain, in a blue suit and red tie, stares into the lens of the camera, which slowly zooms in on his face.
Outside in the breezy air a huge flat screen broadcast Senator Marco Rubio's presidential announcement to the public who couldn't get inside the Freedom Tower.
Just as the Clarke juggernaut was about to mercifully wipe him off the screen, the Massachusetts senator was skiing in the ostentatiously tony precincts of Ketchum, Idaho, and making on-camera pronouncements about Iraq like "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it".
But the first step in this process is actually completed by home state senators who screen candidates and give names to the President to consider for nomination.
Hollywood's high-powered William Morris Agency announced this week that it has signed the actor/politician, signaling a return to the screen for the former senator from Tennessee.
On a TV screen behind the bar, Senator Chuck Schumer was accusing the President of trying to "sabotage" the health-care system.
