Agreed. This ad is the kind of message that Americans used to rally behind. Now it truly is divisive, used by pols to score points.
If Obama, or even Bush got up on the firetruck again with a bullhorn, there'd be a bunch of catcalls.
We've just got not a whole lot of obvious things to be proud of anymore.
There is really quite a bit more than the rest of the world, but the whole world is in a Carter-type malaise right now, and America's down there with them.
It was "Morning in America" back then because we wanted to get up and go fight another day. Now lot's of people don't want to get back out there at all after halftime. To be fair, it's the first time I saw an American football game so "nuanced" that the Giants tried to NOT get a touchdown for some strategic thing and the "Patriots" -let- the other team score a touchdown so they'd get more free time to try to score.
I don't think Mean Joe Green or the guys back in the day would have understood "let them score so we have a chance to win." Such is the metaphor for our time?
Afterwards, reading the various commentaries, I get the point being made. This is the logical mess that is created by the Government going so far beyond the bounds of the Constitution - State-owned businesses for goodness sake!
If your company technically has used tax $$ to pay for an ad like that, you're gonna take the heat. Americans didn't use to pay for corporate advertising with their own tax $$.
blah blah blah... you know almost as little about football as politics.
a) The Kenyan lizard uses unwitting right wingers as props to support his policies. In this case the bailout of the UAW.
b) Running out the clock to prevent the opponent from scoring is a winning strategy. Unfortunately Bradshaw realized too late the Pats were going to let him score. He should have sat down and let the clock run out.
Green Bay let the Broncos score a touchdown in the Super Bowl in order to save time. Didn't work out though.