Posted on 01/21/2016 11:49:54 AM PST by Enlightened1
There are images of Iowa farms, the New Hampshire seacoast, coffee shops, kitchen tables and thousands and thousands of inspired Bernie Sanders supporters, in intimate settings and at the large-scale rallies that have come to define his campaign.
The new 60-second television spot reaches it's crescendo as Simon & Garfunkel sing "they've all come to look for America" while an expanding grid of people who've all come to see Sanders flashes on the screen.
The Vermont senator has produced a powerful closing ad that evokes President Obama's promise of hope-and-change from 2008 -- and it's one that's certain to create buzz less than two weeks before the first votes are cast in the 2016 Democratic race against Hillary Clinton.
The ad -- which captures the festival-like feel of Sanders's campaign events -- is also remarkable in that not a single word is spoken, aside from the lyrics to the classic Simon & Garfunkel song "America" and the authority line at the end. In that, Sanders says in his heavy Brooklyn accent, "I'm Bernie Sanders, and I approve this message."
There's no mention of Sanders's agenda or his critique of a country in which he says the "billionaire class" has far too much control over the economy and political process.
Instead, the ad just shows people who've been moved over the past nine months by a once-obscure 74-year-old senator from Vermont who's already exceeded everyone's expectations in this race and is now positioned to possibly pull off wins in both Iowa and New Hampshire. Aides said the spot will start airing Friday in both of the first two nominating states.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Bernie Sanders reminds me of Larry David. But he's actually trying to be serious. The idiots that blindly follow him are like sheep to the slaughter house.
Still singing the Marxist Swan Song after the massive repeated failures of Marxism on every continent on Earth.
That’s it!
From the description of that ad, it sounds like some propaganda you’d see in the former USSR...
The NEA has done its job well.
Bernie attracts the same demographic as Ralph Nader used to.
The ad: America | Bernie Sanders
We should not ignore BS. He could prove to be very dangerous. As someone upthread has said, the NEA has done their job well and a lot of them vote
We should not ignore BS. He could prove to be very dangerous. As someone upthread has said, the NEA has done their job well and a lot of them vote and they own social media, which of course is what they think that socialism is, to be social, you know like going to a party........talking to their friends :(
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