Video: ‘It’s raining in America.’
By on Oct 28th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Video: ‘It’s raining in America.’
In 1984, Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign released an ad that began, “It’s morning again in America.” “It featured a montage of images of Americans going to work and a calm, optimistic narration that suggested the improvements to the U.S. economy since his 1980 election were due to Reagan’s policies.” A new web video produced by Hyphenate Films, entitled “It’s raining in America,” connotes the opposite feeling — distraught and laid off workers struggling in the Bush economy. Watch it:
Like the infamous “Daisy ad” run by the Lyndon Johnson campaign in 1964, the new “raining” ad features a young girl as the narrator, but focuses its criticism not on national security but on economic security.
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So, are they saying, “it’s the economy, stupid?”
That’s what happens when the neo-cons reverse share the wealth, by concentrating it in the hands of the haves and have-mores.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:58 pmGood add, with luck and a win for the Dem’s maybe we can stop the rain or as I like to call it the shitstorm of bull shit bush’s madness for nearly 8 miserable long year’s…..Blessings
October 28th, 2008 at 3:58 pmThe sun will shine once again November 5th. Have faith, most people in this country feel what that commercial was implying…. not this time!!!!
Change is coming…are you ready to work for it??? are you ready to fight for it?????
Put them (Rethugs)out…once and for all!!!
October 28th, 2008 at 3:59 pmIt is no coincidence that our economy is tanking. It is my design of the neocon agenda. They have outsourced jobs overseas, spent like drunks to support a war on terror that was a disguised looting of our treasury.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:00 pmW and his crew must be held accountable after victory is achieved 11/4 by BO. It won;t solve our financial ills, but at least their coudl be a restoration of confidence that our government supports those who abide by the system and punishes those who don’t.
Sorry about the typos but my post does make sense.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:00 pmI LOVE IT
October 28th, 2008 at 4:12 pmTrickle down eceonmics was NEVER engineered to do anything except extract every last dollar OUT of the Treasury for the betterment of the upper class. We don’t need Joe the Plumber to tell us that a trickle eventually turns into a drip, and then a flow, and finally we are seeing the real end product of the CRAPPY Reagan/Bush VooDoo trickly down econmics. We have SH|T RAINING DOWN ON OUR HEADS!!!!
We need to invade Swtizerland and the Cayman Islands to find all the anonymous bank accounts that hold our TRILLIONS of dollars. And then REPEAL THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT. We do NOT need a middle-layer of corporatism to siphon trillions from the cash flow out of the Treasury. The government can just as easily lend money DIRECTLY to people and corporations at better rates WITHOUT the Federal Reserve making their Vig on the transaction.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:13 pmAnd the neocons trickle-down economic policies have made most of us feel rained on…and it’s not water that’s been falling!
October 28th, 2008 at 4:15 pmCorrection, please: the Republicans have been “reigning” in and on America for the last eight years and we are sick and tired of it. Goodbye, GOP.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:46 pmIt’s raining, it’s pouring and old man Bush is still snoring!
October 28th, 2008 at 4:52 pmGet this on the air!
October 28th, 2008 at 4:58 pmFrom Why I Won’t Vote for John McCain
by Lt Gen Robert G Gard
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/28/164339/61/803/644986
As a lifelong military man, I too will be casting my vote for Barack Obama on Election Day. I deeply respect John McCain’s service to our country. I admire his bravery as a prisoner of war, described by a fellow prisoner as similar to that demonstrated by hundreds of other U.S. prisoners in North Vietnam.
The fields of foreign and national security policy, however, are John McCain’s DISQUALIFYING WEAKNESSES, in my view. McCain has demonstrated clearly that he is a dedicated ideologue when it comes to foreign policy, unwilling to consider opinions or even credible evidence contrary to his preconceived notions.
His temperament, marked not only by impatience but also by RUDE and sometimes HOSTILE behavior, would discourage advisors from bringing to his attention views that might not be consistent with his preconceptions. A President with this combination of significant SHORTCOMINGS would be a DANGEROUS commander-in-chief, posing an unacceptable RISK to the security of the nation.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:01 pmThere’s also another take on the same Reagan Morning Again ad from the ‘84 campaign on YouTube.
<a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVJ6OPyAW4U
October 28th, 2008 at 6:32 pm