It also features his famously racist grandmother! She should do well for him among racist grandmothers in Allentown.

How on earth did they pry that poor grandmother from beneath the wheels of that bus he threw her under? Doesn't she read Christopher Hitchens' articles? Doesn't she know she should be infuriated that he suggested she once used a racial epithet?

Again, Obama proves that he is a LIAR!

(why he's a liar, I have no idea, just wanted to beat gotalife to the punch)

Well, his grandmother doesn't look any worse for wear....guess she wasn't "thrown under the bus" after all. I suppose that talking point arose because it's too hard for some people to comprehend the concept that a person can be honest and self-aware enough to unashamedly acknowledge being influenced by her generation and the society in which she lived.

Mrs. Dunham is a retired bank VP who helped raise an intelligent, activist daughter and a brilliant, thoughtful grandson--she's not some fragile little old lady. I'm glad to see her in a campaign commercial.

I hear all this kee-rap from the pundits that somehow there's stuff lurking in his "biography" that will keep superdelegates from going with him later this month, in May, etc. All I see is that he's led a better life than nearly all of us. And he wears it lightly.

Well done. Rings true.

Actually the part I found the most touching wasn't his family but the older woman having such a good time talking to him on the trail about 8 seconds in.

Best B-Rock ad yet, in my opinion.

Here is a great video from Barack's sister on Barack, their family growing up and now, his views, etc.

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/02/16/where-biography-does-matters.aspx

Very nicely done. I had never seen or heard his sister Maya before. His girls are much cuter than Chelsea and even socks the late first kitty.

I've watched probably every Obama ad and followed his campaign as closely as anyone, yet this is the first time I've seen even a contemporary picture of his grandmother, to say nothing of hearing her actually speak. She looks healthier than I understood she was. I'm sure they flashed that pic of her from when Obama was at Columbia so we'd understand that it was, indeed, the grandmother we've only seen in old pics.

Pretty interesting to see in a single 30-second ad his half-Indonesian sister, white grandmother and AA wife & kids.

They did a good job with that ad. Michelle looked proud to be an American. Was that Barack's racist white grandmother on his left in that photo? They say she's a typical white person.

What a great ad. It emhasizes one of his main points-that our similarities are greater than our differences-through images instead of words. And what a beautiful family.

Wouldn't it be nice to have someone from a relatively functional family in office? I mean... every family will have their problems. And it's not like other candidates toss their drunken misfit brothers into their ads. But still.

I'm like HusseinTenaX--excited by possibilities, and excited by the changes we've already seen in TX. I like to think of PA having an equally hopeful, excited constituency. This ad should help.

The key to Obama bettering his standing among Pennsylvanians is to introduce himself to them, and regardless of race, culture or creed, virtually everyone can relate to wanting to raise their kids to believe in unlimited possibility.

This is what Obama's "hope" message means to millions of Americans, and though cynicism afflicts too many, I think ads like this can help break through that shell and reach the souls of folks that have long been unwilling to put themselves out on a limb, and dare to believe more is possible - for themselves, for their kids, for America.

Solid ad. A- (they cut away from his grandmother a little too quickly; lighting on his sister was not that great).

Not that it ever happens in my family.

Good thing you added that, because that would have been my very first question to you -

The only family that doesn't fight is already estranged.

After listening to that ad again I notice what an alert, articulate woman Barack's grandmother is. And I've read that she stays tuned to CNN all the time to see her famous grandson. She must have been devastated to her how he spoke about her during his speech. And the typical white woman remark a few days later couldn't have made her feel any better. I feel really sorry for her.

Now that I think about it, surely Obama had that speech ready before the campaign began. A great deal was made of the two days he spent preparing his thirty-seven minute defense against his pastor Jeremiah Wright's remarks, but the media had known about the Wright mess years earlier. It had come up before in a limited way. Surely Obama had planned his response well in advance of his campaign, knowing that it would eventually become an issue. So how could he throw his devoted grandmother under the bus like that to save his campaign? To me it just points to how very conflicted this man is when it comes to his race.

Hey, that was supposed to be in reply to HusseinTenaX's nice comments at the top. Not for the Ottoman Chumpire.

Loved the ad.