# EA Sports sells signage space to Barack Obama... IN GAME
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ea-sports-sells-signage-space-to-barack-obama-in-game/56434
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**Created:** [October 14, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ea-sports-sells-signage-space-to-barack-obama-in-game/56434 "2008-10-14T13:22:14Z")
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ea-sports-sells-signage-space-to-barack-obama-in-game/56434/1 "2008-10-14T13:22:14Z")
> **[Breitbart News Network](https://www.breitbart.com/)**
>
> Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.
> WASHINGTON (AP) - Too busy playing video games to watch presidential ads on television? [Barack Obama](http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=Barack%20Obama&sid=breitbart.com) has found you, too, by becoming the first presidential candidate to buy [ad space](http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=ad%20space&sid=breitbart.com) inside a game.
> Nine video games from Electronic Arts Inc., ranging from the extremely popular “Madden 09” football game to the street racing “Burnout: Paradise,” feature in-game ads from the Obama campaign. The ads—they appear on billboards and other signage—remind players that early voting has begun and plug a campaign Web site.
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### Author:  [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ea-sports-sells-signage-space-to-barack-obama-in-game/56434/2 "2008-10-14T13:37:05Z")
Lame…
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ea-sports-sells-signage-space-to-barack-obama-in-game/56434/3 "2008-10-14T13:39:30Z")
> Leela: “Didn’t you have ads in the 20th century?”
> Fry: “Well sure, but not in our dreams! Only on tv and radio…and in magazines…and movies. And at ball games, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree.”
[http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/1ACV06/03.mp3](http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/1ACV06/03.mp3)
I really hope at some point there is a backlash to some of this or it won’t be long and they’ll be beaming ads into our dreams at night just like in Futurama.
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### Author:  [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ea-sports-sells-signage-space-to-barack-obama-in-game/56434/4 "2008-10-14T13:47:26Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> [http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/1ACV06/03.mp3](http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/1ACV06/03.mp3)
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> I really hope at some point there is a backlash to some of this or it won’t be long and they’ll be beaming ads into our dreams at night just like in Futurama.
That would make my life as an american so much easier though…:banghead:
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ea-sports-sells-signage-space-to-barack-obama-in-game/56434/5 "2008-10-14T13:48:30Z")
lol. thats sweet.
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### Author:  [@greenbull](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/greenbull)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ea-sports-sells-signage-space-to-barack-obama-in-game/56434/6 "2008-10-14T14:32:45Z")
> [@camarojoe](#):
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> Lame…
really?
its brilliant.