This Liberty Mutual commercial brings tears to my eyes

It is the epitomy of the Democrat mindset
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMwoexR1evo

Pay it forward.

It's good to have something on television that models positive behavior--unlike that ad, for example, where the kid builds the wood hummer.




Cher

:hug:


But I'm not so sure that Liberty Mutual didn't just hire a good PR firm...


New England insurers face queries on donations
By Ross Kerber, Globe Staff | September 29, 2005

The Texas district attorney whose investigation led Tom DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader also has questions for some New England insurance companies
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/09/29/new_england_insurers_face_queries_on_donations/


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anybody know how this turned out?

really like them. When I saw the commercials they're running I went, yah, they are good. Such a nice sentiment!!

....even if it's a commercial...you gotta start somewhere

...almost like they KNOW how most of us feel...yes,a good PR company..but it works

I honestly try to be helpful in real life, partially for selfish reasons--it makes me feel good.

:hi:

I stop what I'm doing and watch every time. I bet I've seen it 50 times and it still makes me tear up.

That's cool. You know an ad is good when 17,047 people willingly sit down and watch it.

The whole "pay it forward" meme, along with the idea of responsibility aspect, is great. I try to live my life that way. I don't always succeed, but it does feel good to do things for others. Even the smallest thing feels wonderful.

...I want to have printed on cards or stickers and carry around with me and distribute everywhere. I don't carry too much water for ol' Garry Keillor (though I remember him when he used to regularly drop in to The Morning Show on MPR, which was later taken over by Dale and Jim Ed who were much easier to wake up to) but he's been hitting every note lately, and this is one of the best:

"The fear of catastrophe could chill the soul but the social compact assures you that if the wasps come after you, if gruesome disease strikes down your child, if you find yourself hopelessly lost, incapable, drowning in despair, running through the rye toward the cliff, then the rest of us will catch you and tend to you and not only your friends but We the People in the form of public servants.

This is a basic necessity in a developed society. Men and women make love and have babies in the knowledge that if the baby should be born with cerebral palsy or Down syndrome or a hole in its heart and require heroic care, the people of Minnesota and St. Paul will stand with you in your dark hour. If you are saddled with trouble too great for a person to bear, you will not be left to perish by the roadside in darkness. Without that assurance, we may as well go live in the woods and take our chances.

This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one and then you turn into a Democrat. A liberal is a conservative who's been through treatment."

And that's it, basically. When people ask "So what are the Democrats about? What's their 'program'? What's the Democratic plan? How will the Democrats do better than the GOPpies?" that's the rant I want to trot out.

Because we are all in this together, and NO ONE gets out alive.

philosophically,
Bright