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Wow. This is heart wrenching. Very powerful. Bernie is playing for keeps. You go Bernie. Bring it.
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It’s a great ad.
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Not exactly related but sort of: In New York, the cop who shot an African American man in a dark stairwell in a housing project has been found guilty of manslaughter and official police misconduct. The arc of justice is long. . . .
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Great ad! Why did the cable companies CNN, MSNBC and BET turn down the full ad? Was it too long or due to content? It’s a powerful ad and very well done, imho.
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Emotionally powerful ad and beautifully done.
I have some critiques of it though, but I think I’ll mull it over for awhile.
Late edit: Ok, got it. I would like this ad much better if Bernie would have mentioned, even just briefly, one of the things he would actually do about this problem if he were elected POTUS.
I’m not saying he doesn’t have a plan or idea about it, just saying the ad would be even stronger if it showed him actually saying something about what he plans to do about it if elected.
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“There’s no other person that is speaking about this…
Bullshit.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/01/17/3740372/dem-debate-racism-criminal-justice/
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Her story and her argument are very real. But the conclusion that Bernie is the only one fighting the fight is completely baseless.
Look, she is trying to put together a run for a Congressional seat against long odds. Without a doubt that played an influence upon her making this ad for Bernie. That just makes the whole thing reek of political opportunism all around.
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Exactly. Hence my comment and link.
It’s a powerful ad, she’s speaking from the heart.
Hopefully the Clinton campaign has David Brock bound and gagged somewhere.
And I say that for Hillary’s sake, not Bernie’s.
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It would be nice if he mentioned his plans on that issue anywhere. Like during the debate. But he doesn’t. He instead prefers rhetoric over specifics. Basically it comes down to
“This is a big problem and I don’t like it”
“What are you going to do about it?”
“I am not going to like it”
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Well obviously he is going to tax people more and break up banks, this will stop police brutality and systemic racism… because… wall street is bad!
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You know what is really funny?
Hillary, that evil Wall Street witch…is receiving the vast majority of Labor’s endorsements so far.
And even more ironic, is Sanders response to unions endorsing Hillary. He slams them as being “establishment”, just like he did Planned Parenthood and Human Life Campaign.
I guess Labor is just too Wall Street for Bernie.
“There’s no other person that is speaking about this,” Garner says in the ad. “People are dying. This is real. This is not TV. We need a president that’s going to talk about it.”
Obama isn’t talking about it? No other politicians have been talking about it? No civil rights leaders have been talking about it?
With all due respect this comes off as bull.
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His foreign policy advisors are shit (or actually he doesn’t have any: http://www.vox.com/2016/2/11/10966582/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-foreign-policy )
But whoever’s doing his ads is fabulous.
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It’s an ad for Sanders. What do you think they’re going to do, say Bernie Sanders, along with many other wonderful people, cares about these issues?
That’s not in the nature of political ad making.
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Well aware it is an ad. But Ms. Garner’s statement is simply not reality based, however emotionally heartfelt her words may be. They simply do not reflect reality. Not by a long-shot.
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@ Davey Jones I don’t want to be too schematic, but you do know it’s labor leadership that’s endorsing, don’t you?
@lestatdec “But Ms. Garner’s statement is simply not reality based, however emotionally heartfelt her words may be. They simply do not reflect reality.”
Reflecting reality isn’t what advertising does, or means to do.
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I can’t imagine what it would be like to watch someone I loved die like this. I would likely be consumed by their death as well.
A couple of things jumped out at me. Her daughter Alyssa seems to be smart and spirited and a great kid who is loved, but the shot of her out on the balcony looked like a cage and so bleak…to me the economic poverty of their lives seeped through almost every shot and it breaks my heart and makes me angry.
Nobody should be living like this…nobody’s kid’s “yard” should be a cage. I want Alyssa to have a stellar future where she can reach her potential, and I want Erica’s life to be about more than just her father’s death. I think what she is doing is important and I think I understand why this is her current path. They are both so young though and have their whole lives ahead of them, and they are strong but they are also vulnerable. I could be their mother or aunt or grandmother … and I want to know that they will be ok.
Powerful ad. I like that little of it was directly about Bernie.
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There it is…damn those labor organizations for being so establishment and in bed with Wall Street.
Its Bernie claiming to be the one true Gatekeeper of Progressivism.