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Open Thread: 20 Year Loop Edition

by: Dean Barker

Tue Sep 16, 2008 at 21:52:33 PM EDT

Be sure to check out the Living Room Candidate from the Museum of the Moving Image.  It's got TeeVee ads for POTUS stretching back to 1952. Really amazing stuff, even if watching it makes you feel like you're stuck in a time loop. Will we ever learn that we can't trust Republicans with the economy?

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Dean Barker :: Open Thread: 20 Year Loop Edition
And can we get a Blackberry version of this one?

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Open Thread: 20 Year Loop Edition | 13 comments
80B to AIG (0.00 / 0)
Announcement of $85 billion government bailout of American International Group Inc. (AIG) expected this evening
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09...

Hope > Fear
Like Ross Perot said (0.00 / 0)
Its your money...

10/23/87  
22% one day nose dive was a little worse, though we are in terra incognita tonight

Wall St. Week with Louis Rukeyser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...



This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

   Dorothy Parker

[ Parent ]
Interesting diary exlains a lot. (0.00 / 0)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

Looks like somebody set up a reporter with a partial truth.  Though, it might not be a bad thing for our representatives to be consistent in their votes and not take them on the basis of whether or not they're going to be determinative.  There are some traditions in the House and Senate which promote obfuscation, intentional or by chance.  Also, it makes it harder to the public to get clarity.

[ Parent ]
I think this one is my favorite (4.00 / 2)
(though I have to say, the Repub ones from 1972 to today are all eerily similar in how they try to infantilize Dems and spread fear among the viewers.  Bullies.



Wonder if Sununu's fired now.

xxx (4.00 / 1)
Buddy Rich chewing out the band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

2:27 Get outta my f'in bus !

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

   Dorothy Parker

[ Parent ]
Ike can't act n/t (4.00 / 1)

[ Parent ]
Yes, we can! For Change! (4.00 / 1)
We Can't Afford Four More Years of the Same!

Vote for Obama/Biden Clinton/Gore!



Wonder if Sununu's fired now.

Good visual (0.00 / 0)
I like how that one uses Gore standing alongside Clinton.

Plus I never knew they actually used the Internet line in an ad. The things we miss in non-battleground states.

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Change is pretty hackneyed. (0.00 / 0)
But, when you've got conservatives wanting things to stay the same, there's no choice.  The thing about trying to keep things the same is that forward movement is the natural condition.  So, to achieve stasis, the effort has to be made to push things backwards.  Expending one's energies against the flow is eventually useless and really enervating.  No wonder Republicans are plum wore out.
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Just 1952? (0.00 / 0)
I'd like to see a TV ad for the likes of Harry Truman, Teddy Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson...

I can hear the taglines now, and I'll bet they get more to the point the further you go back in history:

"Harry TRUMAN: Where the buck stops."

"Theodore ROOSEVELT: America's big stick."

"Andrew JACKSON: Because f*** you, that's why!"

To answer your question, maybe it's not Republicans. (0.00 / 0)
Maybe it's the hunter mentality that feels its way of life threatened by those who gather up resources and store them for future use.  Maybe it's that they fear they will have no role if nobody has to depend on what the hunters bring back; there will be no reason for them to hunt and they'll be deprived of what they really like.  If they vandalize the larder, they'll continue to be important.  Maybe it's like those fire-fighters that set fires so they'll have fires to put out.
puts the fun in da mentals (0.00 / 0)
It sounds like something is drowning. Have you ever seen one of those movies where a robot gets too many inputs at once and overloads..short circuits and then fries itself ending in a poof of smoke an a small electrical fire.

Doesn't this remind you of that?



This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

   Dorothy Parker

That guy (0.00 / 0)
... at the top looks distractingly like Jerry Falwell, at least in the still shot. I assume that was intentional.

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