Both Sanders and Clinton produced terrific ads, but only one of them makes me feel included.

[Cha]

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
‘They’ve all come to look for America.’ They just have to watch Clinton’s 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 Garfunkel’s “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 we’re looking for, no? The Sanders ad clashes with the revolutionary, all-inclusive aura the senator has cultivated.

Clinton’s 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/

[font color=blue]Mahalo~Hillary's Group~[/font]

[Cha]

1. Thank you, Jonathan Capehart!

[Gothmog]

2. I also love that ad

[Cha]

3. It's the Real America!

Thank you, Gothmog~

[hrmjustin]

4. K&R!

[Cha]

6. Mahalo Justin~ #I'mwithHer!

[okasha]

5. The Sanders ad is nostalgia

for a 1950's that never was.

It's oddly retrospective. Bernie seems stuck somewhere between
his self identification as a radical "who marched with MLK" and a future that doesn't get beyond being acclaimed as a hero by all who "come to look for America."

Got news for you Bernie. Some of us had found Turtle Island 12,000 years before the folks in that ad came looking for it. Some of us came packed into slave ships and were emphatically not looking for America. Some of us were annexed involuntarily when white and English-speaking America came looking for us.

Jayzus, Bernie. "Morning in America," you and Reagan.. You sold out the Revolution decades ago.

And you don't even know it.

[Cha]

7. Exactly, okasha it never was.. not for all of America.

Amazingly tone deaf.

[SunSeeker]

8. Hillary's supporters, like Obama supporters, look like America. nt

[Cha]

10. Why yes they do, SunSeeker~

http://theobamadiary.com/2016/01/15/chat-away-753/

[BlueCaliDem]

12. Yes, they do! It's a shame not more around here see that.

[mahina]

9. That is a great ad.

I know she means it too.

[Cha]

13. Mahalo mahina!

[mahina]

19. Aloha no Cha!

Cheers

[BlueCaliDem]

11. I agree with Jonathan. Hillary's ad makes me feel included in her vision for America, too.

Bernie's? Not so much.

and rec'd, Cha!

[Cha]

16. I can imageine, BlueCaliDem!

Mahalo~

[Hekate]

14. I love Simon & Garfunkel, from the first time I heard them. But that ad left me oddly cold....

The next verse is:

Kathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why....

That just doesn't say Hope and Change to me. It's sad and yearning and a little bit hopeless. And I never envisioned it with tow-headed tots and baby lambs and hay bales.

[Cha]

18. Oh wow.. President Obama gave us a message of Hope and Change after 8

years of bush.. and he delivered.

Hillary's message is one of Positive building on all those accomplishments and that includes Fighting for all of America~No matter who you love!

And, Girls can grow up knowing they can be President of the United States of America!

Mahalo, Hecate~

[murielm99]

23. If you read some of the filth being posted about Obama

by the Sanders supporters on this site, you would think they are referring to Dubya. I am fairly sick of it.

[BlueMTexpat]

33. +1! eom

[Skidmore]

21. I understand because I have also

felt that a portion of Sanders campaign has been less about looking to the future but trying to recreate a past that never was. Soft focus lenses pointed backward in time, water color representations of a society that worked for some. The era of FDR and Kennedy were times fraught with great strife of al sorts, and rife with inequality. There is so much more to injustice in society than economic issues. I do not want to return to the mindset that only paints in pastels. All of our people deserve a richer pallette to choose from.

[livetohike]

52. That's right and every Baby Boomer I know ( including me)

tends to complete the song, whether in advertisements or this. We can't help it 😊. So since we know the songs, we're left to wondering what the thought was behind using it in this manner.

[Firebrand Gary]

15. It's a great ad that is true to who she is.

[Cha]

17. There's no "If" about it, Firebrand Gary.. that's who she is.

Mahalo~

[jmowreader]

20. What the HELL is Bernie's message in that ad?

I guess we're supposed to get the idea that Bernie is going to return us to the America of our youthful dreams. Problem is, that America never actually existed...especially if you weren't a white conservative male.

[Skidmore]

22. Not just a white conservative male, but likely one

who never actually lived during those years and would be able to receive the check that recollections of those who have would provide. Memories become distorted over time and the retelling of history does too. We owe it to our children and young children to provide honest recounting of the world of our youth.

[Cha]

55. Thank you.. 'bout time somebody scruntinized it for what it is.. nothing.

[Sancho]

24. Hillary doesn't mind running a diverse ad in an all white, homogeneous state!

Just like some recent satire where they play Bernie's commercial with different AA music, etc., it show that it's pandering to play an all white commercial in Iowa.

Hillary is for everyone - always has been!

[Cha]

25. Good Point, Sancho! Oh that's a brilliant

satire.. playing his commercial with AA music.. how can they be so tone deaf.

It's comes natural for Hillary to include everyone in her ad for Iowa.



BooScout~

Mahalo!

[liberal N proud]

26. The Daily Show last night talked about Sanders ad

It played followed by the I approve this message. Only problem, there was no message, only video and music.

[Coolest Ranger]

27. That so speaks to me

[Cha]

29. I'm so glad, Coolest.. it speaks to me, too.. because I want everybody included.

[treestar]

28. Bernie's ad does not say anything

Bernie does not say a word in it.

[Cha]

31. Weird ad. what were they thinking?!

Mahalo, treestar~

[Starry Messenger]

34. Right?

I just thought the whole thing was nostalgic white boomer catnip.

[DURHAM D]

39. Yes, but only for the guys.

Things the female white boomer remembers:

* on a first date we would be told that sleeping with him is good for our health plus we are responsible for birth control because condoms diminish his manhood

* on a second date he brings his laundry with him and tells us how he likes his shirts ironed

* on a third date he expects us to cook dinner

* on the fourth date ... well its not a date because we need to take a vacuum cleaner to his apartment and clean while he plays slow-pitch softball followed by a night out with the guys

* on the fifth date we need to get married because he needs a deferment quickly followed by children because he needs more deferments.

After we divorce he does not pay child support because the courts can't make him and he doesn't see any reason to spend time with the children and they belong to me anyway.

[Starry Messenger]

50. OMG

I would have been up for murder 1.

Honestly, I've thought Paul Simon was a dick for years, and liked him even less when I heard how awful he was to Carrie Fisher.

[FSogol]

43. Makes me think I'm in an elevator or dentist's office.

[yardwork]

30. Cool.

[Cha]

35. Mahalo, yardwork~

[yardwork]

47. Mahalo, Cha!

[BlueMTexpat]

32. Thanks, Cha!

Loverly post!

[Cha]

37. Mahalo BlueMTex!

[yallerdawg]

36. Capehart is buried in the mess MSNBC has become.

The "Trump Network" also promotes Sanders at every opportunity. Maybe the National Broadcasting "Company" (Corporation) likes a beatable Democrat?

MSNBC became unwatchable months ago. The blatant bias is now at Fox News level.

CNN and PBS seem to be retaining a level of journalistic neutrality (which annoys the shit out of Sanders supporters).

Many MSNBC pundits like Capehart go off-network to express their real opinions, and have to dance around the MSNBC 'show hosts' who have lost their integrity for a regular paycheck.

[Thinkingabout]

38. Hillary promotes warmhearted look, still the same old same old

With the other, like a scratched 78.

[Cha]

54. #I'mWithHer, Thinkingabout!

Mahalo

[Thinkingabout]

56. YES YES YES!!!!

[lunamagica]

41. K&R. Thank you Cha for this great post!

[Cha]

57. Gracias to you, lunamagica!

#I'mWithHer~

[pandr32]

44. Clinton "makes her case for being President"

...and she's got it. We all need to stand up for her.

[Cha]

59. Most definitely! Mahalo pandr!

[NastyRiffraff]

45. K&R

Bernie's ad panders to white, rural Iowans. Hillary's ad shows her at her best, including everyone. I love seeing her with children; you can clearly see she cares deeply about them.

[Cha]

66. Thank you so much, NRr! Mind blowing how clueless

they are.. Hillary blows them out of the water!

Hillary with some more kids..

[Ana Hauhet]

46. loved her ad!

thanks

[still_one]

48. Thanks Cha

[Molusko]

49. Speaking of ads, a GOP SUPER-PAC just made a Pro-Sanders ad

A GOP super-PAC made an ad calling Sanders "too liberal" in hopes that this will bolster his chances against Hillary in the Democratic primary. The right wingers want to run against Sanders.

Steve Benin of the Maddow blog says this " is the latest evidence of the GOP trying to help Sanders, not hurt him." http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/anti-sanders-attack-ad-isnt-quite-what-it-seems-be

[Iliyah]

51. K & R

[Cha]

77. Mahalo, Iliyah~

[mcar]

53. I got chills

That is a great ad!

[Cha]

58. I know what you mean, mcar~

We're too cool.. #I'mWithHer Mahalo!

[sheshe2]

60. I love it! I absolutely love it.

Hillary's vid is awesome. So very inclusive.

Great Op Cha~

[Cha]

61. Hey Aloha, she!

I was hoping this was you! lol

Hillary speaks for all of America.. that other guy.. who knows what he's doing.



Welcome back to Hill's Group, too!

[sheshe2]

62. Love that pic too.

Thanks Cha!

[Cha]

63. You're Welcome, she~ Hillary is so Cool and simutaneously FIRED UP and Ready to GO!

and, that other guy is so desperate.

It'll be great when she's Prez and he has to live with his stupid attacks.



Boo~

[Kath1]

64. Excellent!

And that is so right on.

[Cha]

65. Hillary's Vid for Iowa says everything about our Country..

and the other guy's says nothing. Incredible but true.

Thank you so much, Kath!

[BooScout]

67. K&R...

Good Morning Cha!

[Cha]

68. Good Morning, Boo and Thank you!

#50! I knew somebody would along and make it an even fifty! lol

[Rose Siding]

69. Did you see the Daily Show's bit on it?

They nail it-

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/eorj2o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-advertisement-tonight---marco-rubio-s-endorsement-and-bernie-sanders-s--america-

[Cha]

71. OMgs! Someone said there was satire playing AA music to sanders ad.. it was the Daily Show!

Thank you for that, Rose.

Roy said.." it was for Iowa.. they do that farm stuff.." Trevor: "But, it says for America!" Oooops, Jonathan Capehart and we weren't the only ones who noticed.

[Cary]

70. K&R

[Spazito]

72. Excellent observations by Jonathan Capehart!

Thanks for posting this, it is an excellent comparison and I feel the same way Mr. Capehart does about the ads.

[Cha]

73. Mahalo Spazito~ It's so glaringly obvious.. Have you seen this from the Daily Show? RoseSiding

posted it up thread.. same like Jonathan Capeheart only more satire and funnier.

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/eorj2o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-advertisement-tonight---marco-rubio-s-endorsement-and-bernie-sanders-s--america-

[Spazito]

74. I love Trevor Noah and he nails it re the ad...

thanks to Rose for posting it and you for pointing it out to me. The ad certainly lacks any color, it is glaring and, imo, sad.

[Cha]

75. Really sad that they continue to be

so tone deaf.

That's just not America.. now if they had said "Iowa".. they might be on to something.

[Spazito]

76. I agree, as Trevor Noah noted...

the ad might resemble Iowa but it sure doesn't resemble the makeup of America at all.