CatholicVote: The Dream 2010 [UPDATED]
From CatholicVote.org:
A tad jingoistic for my tastes, but overall it's a
UPDATE
The man in the black hat offers his take: "Memo to CatholicVote.org: Dream On!"
Labels: America, God and Country, The Catholic Vote, Values Voters, Voting Your Values
5 Comments:
It's well done but...but what on earth is it saying? We have images of kids hiding from a nuclear attack. I just have no idea what message I'm supposed to get from it.
Agreed.
The one that came out in 2008 is MUCH better in getting its message across. It was also a more overt appeal to Catholic identity and voting one's values.
Quite honestly, I don't see what's necessarily "Catholic" about this ad. It does seem rather generically "americanist" in my view.
The entire ad is focused on how the solutions to the problems that confront us (unemployment, foreclosures, war) will not come from bureaucracies thousands of miles away, but from prayer, hard work, and a revival of that American spirit that has guided us since our founding.
That American spirit (dream) is based on our God given rights as human beings: LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
And quite honestly, that is very Catholic.
I'd say Michael and I are not completely obtuse political observers, yet it's fair to say neither one of us came away from watching the ad with the impression that the message you describe was particularly obvious.
I thought it was the worst ad they produced. Too much going on
Also it has the bad habit of injecting the personal with BUSH, Biden, Obama, Pelosi having their faces burred out and that they had no "vision"
If you like one of the above it sort of turns you off. One of the good things about past ads they have done were they were careful not to hit those overtly poltical tones as a to a particualr figure
However in the end it is just too busy
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