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Showing Original Post only (View all)Both Sanders and Clinton produced terrific ads, but only one of them makes me feel included. [View all]
Jonathan Capehart✔ ?@CapehartJ
Both Sanders and Clinton produced terrific ads, but only one of them makes me feel included. http://wapo.st/1OLFWbw
9:16 AM - 22 Jan 2016
Washington Post
Theyve all come to look for America. They just have to watch Clintons ad to find it.
By Jonathan Capehart @CapehartJ
Both candidates' ads successfully tug at the heart. But Clinton got it right.
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By Jonathan Capehart January 22
In two separate ads released within days of each other, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton have now presented their visions of America. But only one makes me feel included.
Being a man of a certain age, I love Simon and Garfunkels America. Those voices and those lyrics take me back to a simpler time. When my only care was where my next toy would come from. Yet those warm, childhood feelings gave way to grown-up political observation.
Sanders is running a revolutionary, future-oriented campaign fueled in large part by the enthusiasm of young people. People who are more globally aware than any American generation in history. Yet, his beautifully crafted ad features a song by a duo who provided part of the soundtrack for the political and social tumult of the 1960s and 1970s. Perhaps that minute-in-retro will resonate with folks who have yet to #feelthebern. But for an ad that beckons us to look for America, the pictures accompanying the lyrics looked nothing like the America or the Democratic Party of today or the future.
Sure, all the hay bales, farm animals and white people are visual cues to the good folks of Iowa (Feb. 1) and New Hampshire (Feb. 9), who will finally make their voices heard in the caucuses and primary next month. But what of the black and brown people of Nevada (Feb. 20), South Carolina (Feb. 27) and the Super Tuesday states (March 1)? They are a part of this America were looking for, no? The Sanders ad clashes with the revolutionary, all-inclusive aura the senator has cultivated.
Clintons ad is the exact opposite of the Sanders offering. His ad is almost as white as the Oscars. Her commercial could be described as a gorgeous mosaic, as former New York mayor David Dinkins liked to call the Big Apple. Not only is it chock full of people of color, the ad has all kinds of people. A same-sex male couple kisses. A disabled woman wheels up to the camera. A Muslim woman in a hijab. Sanders says nothing. Clinton makes her case for being president.
The other vid and More @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/01/22/theyve-all-come-to-look-for-america-they-just-have-to-watch-clintons-ad-to-find-it/
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/01/25/140-characters-of-food-for-thought/
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Both Sanders and Clinton produced terrific ads, but only one of them makes me feel included. [View all]
Cha
Jan 2016
OP
I agree with Jonathan. Hillary's ad makes me feel included in her vision for America, too.
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2016
#11
I love Simon & Garfunkel, from the first time I heard them. But that ad left me oddly cold....
Hekate
Jan 2016
#14
You're Welcome, she~ Hillary is so Cool and simutaneously FIRED UP and Ready to GO!
Cha
Jan 2016
#63
OMgs! Someone said there was satire playing AA music to sanders ad.. it was the Daily Show!
Cha
Jan 2016
#71