Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Hillary/Orwell '08

Many of you have probably come across this ad (a spoof on the Macintosh commercial that aired during the 1984 Super Bowl) on TV or the internet in the past few days:



While I think the general concept is great, I have two big criticisms:

1. The clips they use from Hillary speaking are very mild-mannered, non-threatening, and mainstream. They don't really go at all with the message that's supposed to be conveyed. They could have done a much better job by using her "it takes a village," "I am going to take your profits," "we need to stop thinking about the individual and start thinking instead about society" quotes, or at least something where she actually sounds like the dictator she wants to be.

2. The ad purports to be in favor of Obama, whose voting record is just as socialist as Hillary's. While Obama's rhetoric isn't as bad as hers, what he does in practice is. So we could easily take down Hillary from the screen and replace it with Obama. Both want to take us down the road to serfdom by expanding the size and scope of government even further.

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