An interesting observation (mine) about Sanders "America" ad

[question everything]

(with Simon and Garfunkel song)

It is a feel good ad, with happiness. Missing are Sanders' Old Testament style angry comments.

(Although I've heard it is being criticized as Lily White, like.... Iowa and New Hampshire..)

Oh well

[beam me up scottie]

1. I like wombats.

Why didn't he have wombats in the ad?

[MissDeeds]

7. And pandas

Where are the pandas? Damnit, there should have been pandas.

[beam me up scottie]

8. And why did Bernie only use angry Old Testament comments?

I'm a Pastafarian and I demand equal representation from Bernie Sanders!

[MissDeeds]

13. OMG!

"With him, all things are pasta bowl." LMAO!!!

[Autumn]

29. Blessed be the Holy name of Cheeses. Ramen.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. I would have preferred a montage of America's infrastructrure set to a 35 minute "dark star"

but I never get what I really want.

[beam me up scottie]

14. Now that would be cool!

We should protest his next rally.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. NOT GOOD ENOUGH, BERNIE!

[beam me up scottie]

21. MOAR HIPPIE MUSIC !

[Warren DeMontague]

25. God, I love that tune.

[beam me up scottie]

28. Magic.

That's the only way to describe what happened when those three got together and did their thing.

Still get chills listening to it.

[John Poet]

22. MY GOD! Are those--- "weathervanes"???!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

24. I think they're chanting "Let Hill Sing"

but after they heard her rendition of Eyes of the World, they reconsidered.

[Deny and Shred]

33. I want a one minute condensed

Help, Slip, Don't You Want Me, China, Rider, Drum, Space, Cosmic Charlie.

I can't vote for Bernie without it.

Thanks Obama.

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Hmmmmm. Get the late Joe Strummer to play it, or maybe the Guided By Voices guy.

That would be a lot, to pack into a minute!

[restorefreedom]

12. why does bernie hate wombats?

and america?

[beam me up scottie]

15. And pandas. And turtles, where were the turtles?

Who will represent the Testudines?

[restorefreedom]

16. not to mention the lepidopterans

clearly bernie is biased against invertebrates. unfit to be president.

pandas

[beam me up scottie]

23. Well we knew that, it was obvious from the start.

Did you see the YACHTS in the background when he announced he was running for president?

WHERE WERE THE KAYAKS?

[restorefreedom]

38. snort. and the bottles of don perrinione? nt

[catnhatnh]

27. The Lepidopterans took me to their Mothership and probed me...

...then they flew around guzzling nectar and snickering.

[restorefreedom]

39. lol nt

[saltpoint]

37. Wombats. LOL! I love it. eom

[Iliyah]

40. Gosh, what a cutie

[femmedem]

2. Feel good is important right before the caucus.

It motivates people and increases turnout. Negative ads, at this point, depress turnout. It's the right ad at the right moment. (Although I do think he made a mistake having too few POC in the ad, regardless of where it is playing. I notice newer versions of the ad have made that correction.)

[Uncle Joe]

3. "For everything there is a season" Ecclesiastes 3:1

Thanks for the thread, question everything.

[saltpoint]

6. Quite a fine passage, quite a great

recording, quite a generous gift-of-spirit from talented people.

And well chosen by the poster.

[Hoyt]

35. Can never resist the Byrds.

[saltpoint]

4. Folks might look a bit more

carefully at the ad's success in representing many different kinds of Americans.

Quite a few are represented. Notably under-represented are millionaires and billionaires.

The ad has a zillion hits in just a couple days. I'd call it an ass-kicking success.

[snagglepuss]

30. "Notably under-represented are millionaires and billionaires. "

B-I-N-G-0

[Proserpina]

5. When you think about it

The original lyrics to "America" are not full of hope and joy. They are pretty grim.

"America"

Let us be lovers,
We'll marry our fortunes together.
I've got some real estate
Here in my bag.

So we bought a pack of cigarettes,
And Mrs. Wagner's pies,
And walked off
To look for America.
"Kathy", I said,
As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh,
Michigan seems like a dream to me now.

It took me four days
To hitch-hike from Saginaw.
"I've come to look for America."

Laughing on the bus,
Playing games with the faces,
She said the man in the gabardine suit
Was a spy.

I said, "Be careful,
His bow tie is really a camera."
"Toss me a cigarette,
I think there's one in my raincoat."
We smoked the last one
An hour ago.

So I looked at the scenery,
She read her magazine;
And the moon rose over an open field.
"Kathy, I'm lost", I said,
Though I know she was sleeping.
"I'm empty and aching and
I don't know why."

Counting the cars
On the New Jersey Turnpike
The've all come
To look for America,
All come to look for America,
All come to look for America.

But it's been 50+ years, and the Boomers, their kids, and their grandkids are making the Big Wave that will wash away that time of quiet desperation, and bring America to the Promised Land it was always meant to be....for everyone!

[LWolf]

18. When I think about it,

I know that the song speaks to the hope of American possibility, looking at what is and looking for that hope for better things. Despite the difference between reality and vision, all have still come. And we're still looking. We haven't given up.

I find the song fits America today as well as it did 50 years ago, when I was 5 years old. The fact that our hope is still there, is rising during this primary season, is rolling across America, certainly is joyful for me.

[Proserpina]

31. Agreed. The hope is stronger today than ever.

[Gregorian]

9. I like the idea of showing what a kinder economy could look like.

I've been wanting to see ads that show people living their lives in a progressive society. Having 12 weeks of maternal leave. Higher wages. Better working conditions which include a democratic workplace. It's not sticking one's neck out because it's already being done somewhere else.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. "Old Testament style angry comments"; like "marriage is a sacred bond between a man and a woman"?

That kind of Old Testament Style anger?

[pa28]

26. So endeth the thread.

[Motown_Johnny]

17. You need to remember that there are lots of ads running nonstop

and all the others have angry tones. Even Hillary's "closing argument" ad has fighters taking off from an aircraft carrier and Republicans firing assault rifles.


This is the one that will stand out. It is uplifting and hopeful, as well as being inclusive. Everyone who has gone to see Bernie, or who even thought about going to see Bernie, will picture himself/herself in that ad.

It was a brilliant move by a terrific candidate with a well run campaign.

[Kalidurga]

20. Contrary to popular opinion Bernie is not angry all the time.

When he is angry I think he is angry about the right things. Unless it's about getting too much hummus with the pita chips. Then wtf???

[Smarmie Doofus]

32. Only one quick shot of a lesbian couple when they get to the lyric...

..." lovers" ( as in, "Let us be lovers&quot .

As a gay person I'm OUTRAGED ! *OUTRAGED*, do you hear? And I'm going to demonstrate said outrage by pouting vigorously, seething mightily, growing increasingly bitter and then casting my primary vote for Ms. "Marriage is a sacred bond between a man and a women."

Take that, Bernie!