Jack & Jill Politics

I agree with everything said by anonymous. I did not find it funny at all. It is definitely anti-Obama
and pro Clinton. It is a perfect example of fear mongering!

Hello, Nita,


If I told you that someone who was new to the scene, less educated, less experienced, less prepared, less hardworking, and less deserving than you got the promotion that you had been working towards within your company for years or got the scholarship that you needed more than that newcomer, what would you think in the most honest recesses of your mind and how would you feel in the deepest, most primal, natural part of your gut? Hold that answer.



Now, if I flashed a picture of that person on your computer screen and the thief was white would it add salt into that wound? Would you think that you wouldn't want that to happen to your son/daughter or anyone else like you ever again? Would you think you will do everything in your power to stop that kind of WHITE WELFARE, REVERSE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, UNJUST FAVORITISM, etc.... including voting against someone who represents that in an election. You want to get white folks blood boiling: you bring up slavery, you call racism when you see it, you allude to welfare and/or you mention affirmative action. The previous questions are all rhetorical attempting to try to help you understand my first post because short of a face to face conversation, I am at a loss for how my original point was ever lost on you.



The specifics are in my first post. If you don't get that everything that is voiced in that video is actually more a negative against Obama than it is a "funny" against Clinton, then no amount of parsing word for word will elucidate it for you. Truth be told, I didn't hear one thing in it that was not a positive towards Clinton.



I don't doubt that you are unaware that a specific commercial sank Harvey Gant's senatorial run because many folk are new to politics and first-time, young voters as a result of Obama. However, I am surprised that you are unaware of the detrimental effects that a specific commercial with a young white lady had in sinking Ford's campaign in 2006. Most people who know anything about politics attribute his within the margin of error loss to that one commercial. Black-white dynamics are important and still shaky ground in politics. Sorry to rain on the laugh it up parade; I just recognize the power of this mashup and know better than to hope it goes viral because I pray it does not. As a matter of fact, it really made me question who was behind it. I know many media outlets and blogs are getting their subtle anti-Obama, pro-Clinton punches in overtime right now in an effort to propel her to victory but this is by far the best one yet.



There is no room for error in presidential politics and Senator Obama's campaign has been smart to this point; if he can keep us supporters CONSTANTLY thinking critically he could still pull this thing off. I hope we all want the same thing (well not everyone because the mashup perpetuators want Hillary) and that is to get Senator Obama the nomination and the presidency.



Your mileage may still vary.



OOO

@ anonymous, i don't know what the harvey gant pink slip is... and i thought ford lost that election all by himself. what really happened?


and in what ways exactly is this mashup ultimately demeaning of Obama instead of Hillary ? real question, i'd like to mull over the specifics.

Strange the different interpretations and embracing of this piece. I find the mashup very demeaning of Obama and potentially dangerous for his campaign. I find that this plays directly on the qualms many whites have against blacks that make them want to keep us out of the workplace, keep us as only consumers in the market place, and keep us out of positions of power (most notably the white house). The video makes the strong case for affirmative action backlash, the black welfare stereotype believers, the lazy black benefiting at the expense of the hardworking and deserving white fears. Obama goes nowhere without whites except back to Capitol Hill.


While others see humor, I see probably the best chance to breathe life into Hillary's campaign yet if they can get it distributed fast enough and widely enough and of course on automatic replay. For those of us who lived through the Harvey Gant debacle you can see the direct similarity between this video and that pink slip commercial. Sometimes surface supposedly funny is not funny at all.



This video is the smartest and least subtle anti-Obama propaganda I have see during this campaign and the worst part is that this would could actually be the most effective; it plays on a psychological level that won't get discussed in mixed company. I don't find this piece funny at all and this is the type of thing that will sink a campaign like Harvey Gant's and Harold Ford's in an election minute. Your mileage clearly varies.



OOO

This needs to go viral. Hee hee.


Sagitarius

wow. daaaang. That was cold. I'd heard the comparisons before, but I didn't know a mashup existed. I'd never seen Election before... I had to go to IMdB to find out the ending. Was it cosmic justice? If Reese Witherspoon's character was running for office for all the wrong reasons, I believe it would be.


Hillary needs to run for the right reasons. 'I'll be the first female US president' is not the right reason.