http://youtu.be/0YoHJIpM_oA Here is a 1968 presidential campaign ad from Robert F. Kennedy targeting Nebraska voters. Mr. Kennedy would be assassinated in a Los Angeles ballroom in June of that year. The ad reminds me of the powerful influence of a father on his sons. One of them, RFK, Jr., the founder of the environmental group Riverkeeper, talks about […]
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http://youtu.be/UUNIeOB0whI This ad is now up and running. Pretty clear where he stands on the debt ceiling.
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http://youtu.be/3pyLmz6eVMg There is a great New Yorker cartoon of a man belly-up to a bar confiding to the barkeep, “I miss the Commies.” He must have been an adman. Those little red heathens were great fodder for campaign ads like this one-minute spot for Barry Goldwater in 1964. It interchanges video clips of Soviet Premier […]
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