Reply #13: The ad is overkill. [View All]

It takes a portion of a Hillary speech in which she seems to be making open, welcoming, friendly gestures (the whole "Let's start the conversation about this country" stuff) and puts it in a context in which it's equated with totalitarian oppression listened to numbly by proles whose ability to engage with her in such a conversation appears to be dubious at best. The analogy of a political candidate--a SINGLE political candidate among several!--who seems like the "same old same old" to some people to the leader of a totalitarian regime just doesn't even begin to work. (Whereas, the analogy in the original Apple ad worked, because prior to the Mac, you really DID have only one "flavor" of computer operating system being used by the general public.)

It's like when schoolkids compare their teacher to "Hitler" because "she kept us after class that one time" or "she gives us too much homework." Oh, the oppression! :sarcasm: Yes, let's smash Hillary, that horrible tyrant who wants to TALK WITH US about the direction of our country!!

If I were Obama's campaign, I'd steer way clear of it--not only because it's blatant bashing of another candidate, but because it's BAD, heavyhanded bashing of another candidate. It doesn't even seem to be his style.