After the first couple "strokes on the strings" and the youngsters that were "bill/hill" yuck...I had to EXIT

Their modems are a bit slow for HD.

won't work on Us (my friends/family) this time

I have come to the conclusion that a Majority of Congress in Both party's have simply evolved into being Nothing more than administrators of Corporate Rule.

Given the low turn-out, election after election-apparently the Non-Voters are perfectly "ok" with allowing a minority of crazies to choose for all.
We, the electorate basically and en masse' are "ok" with "their" selections and subsequent consequences, apparently because "we" are Still not coming out to vote.
Not voting is Still an endorsement of the status quo.

Hillary will try to appeal to white NASCAR voters in the next election.

She will run away from the black dude in the White House, Barack Obama. She will buy into the narrative that he's a weak, effeminate latte-sipping liberal who doesn't really love his country and is weak on foreign policy.

Just watch.

she needs a huge AA turnout.

She doesn't like us much and let's it show. I can see it plain as day.

a dig whistle campaign in the S.C. primary.

After welfare reform my mom told me Bill was a shit and Hillary was worse. She's so bad at hiding it; I have no idea why she's thinks it's not noticed.
I think she thinks she can win because we have no choice but to vote for her. If she plays her same little games, she'll lose to an unknown again. There no turns in politics anymore. Fuck turns and inevitability, the world is changing.

I don't think Hillary is electable anyways, but she's bound to do what she always did before - betray her own party and pander to the lowest common denominator in American politics: emotion and rhetoric. These are the dog whistling, chest beating, war loving, conspiracy-buying, pseudo-populist hacks who yell "under god!" during the pledge of allegiance, who think that the ACLU is a terrorist organization because they heard it on The O'Reilly Factor, and who think that everything should be "Jesus-ified" by law and/or force.

A Hillary vs. Jeb 2016 run would be an absolute nightmare. Hillary encompasses everything that is wrong with Washington: an incestuous inner-circle of billionaires who have a "I've got mine, so screw you all" mentality. Hillary vs. Jeb was suck because, no matter who won, we would get a conservative hawk who loves them some war and isn't afraid to tell any lie to make a war happen.

all their what I believe to be disgusting attempts at voter suppression and congressional lines were based on Obama being in office. He had a more specific support base that allowed them to do this. Now with Arkansas folks running, those house strongarm district tactics are no longer relevant.

it would destroy the gop.

embrace the nascar crowd. give them something to think about.

and this sure as hell won't work. and you'll never get enough of them- not to mention that she runs the risk of turning off the AA community.

just not lose them 2 to 1 or worse.

likes to be grouped, stereotyped and pandered to as though that stereotype is the sum total of their political views, right?

First of all, it was gruesomely, almost painfully, awful. The music was mediocre and the words sappy and saccharine. It's not "country music", believe me. I'm from Bakersfield and I know.

Secondly, the nascar crowd as you call them, has been hearing for 25 years from rush limbaugh and other idiots on the radio how hillary clinton is the most liberal person on the face of the planet and she's coming for their guns. One amateurish video won't change their minds.

What this piece of crap will do instead is convince black voters that hillary clinton just plain does not give a shit about them. Of course they won't vote republican, but if she keeps up such obvious pandering to the hick demographic, and keeps trashing the country's first african american president, she can expect a pretty dismal turnout among black voters.

She's not gonna win over any rednecks but she needs the black vote. Without it she's toast.

Like "I might like those boys if they didn't have so much cred"

The philosophy is still triangulation--aka--moving toward the other side's position, only this is about emotions rather than ideas, set to music.

And honestly, if that's true it shows the Clintonian approach hasn't changed much, and has completely dismissed the need to feed hunger of the base for a candidate that celebrates traditional Dem values.

They hate her down there just as much as they hate Obama.

... the NASCAR crowd with this crap, you are going to piss them off. How stupid do you think they are?

it's like parody.

OK, that was hysterical. Worse? Nah. That was spontaneous, non-perfomers. The CW song is just so.... cheesy.

but that is funny.

Hillary 4 u and me is a legendarily bad video.

HOLY FUCK YOU CAN PRACTICALLY SMELL THE INEVITABILITY, CANTCHA?

Is this what they spent the money on?

He contributed to READY FOR HILLARY, which is a completely separate group.

https://hillarypac.org/

https://www.readyforhillary.com/

See: http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/04/politics/warren-buffet-hillary-clinton-super-pac/index.html

Bash some Democrat candidate GOP attack adds.

Sure hope the DNC looses this type of thing right quick.

it could stunt the growth of children. Won't somebody think of the children?

politics. I bet we do see her at a NASCAR race this spring.

Mike Dukakis in the tank and John Kerry in the clean room "bunny suit."

.... one wonders who pays these idiots to come up with this nonsense.

You know it's coming.

--imm

You know, trickle down, a rising tide, NAFTA, let's help India and Mexico and we'll feel better, war war war, Walmart Hillary Clinton?

She is the model of "we got to join them to fight them" assholery.

That said, she's just doing what all politicians so -- find a demographic that looks ripe for tapping, and tap away. Just be thankful that there aren't a large number of votes to be had from the coprophilic segment of registered voters, or you'd REALLY see some strange commercials (from all sides).

But her pandering is obvious and she is neglecting portions of the base that vote for Democrats without the stupid videos. Portions of the base that are not well liked by the conservatives she is trying to pull. Seems like she's willing to let us go in exchange for getting them. Fine with me. It will make the primary much more interesting with her pandering to the right.

There's lots of pandering still to do between now and 2016.

but i needed a good laugh so what the hell! lol

Country, hell. That's an appeal to the gay cowboy fantasy if ever I've seen one. And I approve this message!

Make me long for the days of substantive issues like Gary Hart on the "Monkey Business" or Ed Muskie tearing up over insuts directed at his wife.

posted dozens of in-depth substantive posts about the TPP, drone warfare and on and on. And dozens of substantive posts appear daily here. I posted an OP last week about how difficult it's going to be for Hillary to thread the needle- appealing both to the AA community and working class white voters.

Post anything and everything you like whenever you like, that's what DU is for. But don't expect every half-baked middle-school criticism to be taken seriously. Drone warfare is a serious issue-bad country videos are just irrelevant bullshit. In 10 years which will people give a damn about? How many innocent kids did bad country videos ever kill?

Most of us are just having a giggle. Obviously, we are not the audience.

That's why I've never had anyone on ignore in 12 years at DU-its way too much fun watching people take themselves over-seriously.

And the two inane instances I referenced (Hart and Muskie) actually were career-ending for those guys. I don't think this video is going to end anyone's career (except maybe Miguel Orozco who wrote and produced it).

of any sort these days and have only posted 64 times total in the last 3 months-primarily because of health problems that are entirely irrelevant to this thread and discussion. What difference does that make?

Anyone can post anything they like on DU-I have no problem with that. Anyone can also respond as they see fit-that's exactly what I did.

That video was a giant cocktail of pandering, simpering and condescension. I applaud your commitment to getting Hillary elected, even if I don't share that vision.

That said, that video was absolutely embarrassing. I'm nearly embarrassed FOR HRC supporters.

No, I do not share the distain (and outright hatred) of Hillary Clinton that so many here do. But to the best of my memory I have never committed to any candidate this cycle. It would be pretty stupid since there aren't any yet. But if the Democratic field in 2016 is as expected I'll likely vote for O'Malley in the Mississippi primary. In 2008 I voted Edwards in our primary. But in both elections it was my stated intention to eventually support whichever candidate the party nominates (and that certainly includes Secretary Clinton) and I did-just like I've voted for every Democratic nominee since 1976. That's who I am-I knew I was a Democrat before I knew I was gay.

You can't necessarily equate defending a political figure with supporting that person for president. That's a bit too much of a leap.

And yes I understand that the party has degenerated into a pathetic caricature of itself but its too firmly embedded in my DNA at this point to change.

Perhaps I did equate defending her to supporting her. No offense intended.

consider if I'm around to vote in 2016.

with name recognition. And a great voice.

and pride in their craft to sing such rubbish.

I think he is a good guy, and I'm glad he is on our side, but as an artist he will release whatever is selling at the time.

Jason Isbell is the real face of good country, and he wrote at least one song protesting the Iraq war.

https://m.

Will Okie from Muskogee replace Hail to the Chief?

jeeeze, I forgot how lame this one was:

and He's sure to parade his hispanic wife & kids.
There are actually Dem donors in the circle of Country Music voters, & why shouldn't a Dem candidate go country?
Gop has a huge Country following BUT they don't have exclusive rights.

Been seeing the same shmoozing from the Bush Crime Family..Books, interviews that just happen to be appearing just befgore Jeb announces his Pres run.
Softening the image of the Bush Criminals is all a big PR Marketing deal.
So why shouldn't Hillary?
Like her, or hate her ever livin guts, Jeb is making his grand entrance & grabbing all the voting groups he can with all the tools he has.

Its marketing. Just like everything this country does anymore.

Between Jeb & Hillary, the Marketing costs for their two campaigns combined are going to unmatched ever in the history of campaigning. All added together.

Life issues that are relevant to human beings well being. The video in the OP is solely about the political aspirations of ONE human being.

Thanks for posting Cali!

But I still won't vote for her.

Goodness! A politically themed advertisement from a PAC targeting a demographic... the horrors. The horrors.

and likely to alienate the demographic it is aimed at.

Something for nobody.

truebluegreen - something for nobody!!

Ok. Not really.

"This does not bode well for anyone hoping the coming campaigns will tone down the rhetoric."

I don't want the rhetoric toned down. That is why I like a fighter.

Still though, I completely get your outrage.

Politics is a game for the politicos even though its life and death for us citizens .

Targeting a particular demographic? I have no problem with it.

not her fault, of course. Someone did it on her behalf.

Why should I support Hillary? Because the country was more united in the 90s -- you know, when Congress hated the president enough to impeach him? Or because she's "a wife a mother, and used to be a First Lady" -- which you could also say of Laura Bush, Nancy Reagan, and Zombie Bess Truman?

Yep, Stand Up with Hillary, because she stands for...

stands for...

um...

Guys? We're gonna need a second song...

Recently, it was polar opposites on the same day! She's like a Gecko. She changes colors to blend in.

What the hell is wrong with her team/surrogates/supporters with cash to do this? They seem to be as dense as they were in 2008.


I feel bad for the people that like Hillary, well, just a tiny bit.

I can't wait for the one she emphasizes her association with George W. Bush, and brags about voting for the Iraq War.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be in my office.

when the rumors were flying of his screwing around. She said it was a vast right wing conspiracy and no truth to it.

the tactics they used when they turned to my native south.

Really BIG MISTAKE !

"with one aimed at Latinos and another aimed at millennials".

Awwww, don't we old folks- Hillary's age - get a musical video?
Actually, it is so very fucking depressing to think a musical video could snag votes.

Mark my word, if she is the nominee the turnout for Millennials is going to be worse than it was this year.

But then again country music makes me want to shove a a toilet brush in one ear and pull it out the other... so perhaps I'm not a good judge.

At least he didn't yodel or make a dog or truck reference.

But you have a point.

if it got ran over by a train... that's pure gold.

The best part starts at about 3 minutes.

you get your truck back, you get your wife back and you quit drinking.

That's what this video (and all of the others to come) will get us.

Election of Clinton in the primary decides the general election for whichever Republican runs.

please?

this coming Monday....

Hillary has got to have some of the most awkward and dense people doing promo for her. My Gawd.

That song and video could curdle milk.

This is EXACTLY how you show how out of touch you are with voters. She's as bad as Mitt Romney with not having a clue how to reach out to voters.

Tone deaf. Ridiculously tone deaf, and I'm not just saying this because I want someone other than Hillary in the primaries, I'm saying it because if you are so narcissistic that you hire some country musician to sing the praises of your name to get elected - uh, you are going about politics the wrong damn way.

I honestly thought that she was more savvy than this, but apparently she in Mitt need to get together and go bowling.

or is it pure comedy gold?

Never mind. Too late.

Hillary made her big mistake way back when her husband was President. Instead of fighting for her vision (health care reform), she cowed to what she thought people wanted - "the cookie baking Mom". And over the years she kept on doing it. "War Hawk Hillary" is just another manifestation of the phenomenon - it's a response to criticism that she might not have the War Chops to be President. Now this is a response to the idea she might not have the White Male Southern Populist Appeal to be President.

Hillary lost my vote the hard way because I really wanted her to be the first woman President. This country needs the first woman President.

Hillary needs to Get a Life.

I mean that literally.

Had Hillary taken a position in life, taken a stand, and just been that person, she would have been the first female President.

Instead she has just molded herself to every critic, turned chameleon colors in response to every challenge. One begins to wonder if there is any Hillary Clinton at all.

It is impossible to vote for her with a clear conscience because there is no way to know who you are really voting for.