Sorry if this has been posted.... http://www.bushin30seconds.org Political ads go pop MoveOn.org invites average Americans to express their (unfavorable) sentiments about the Bush administration in a TV ad of their own creation. By COLETTE BANCROFT, Times Staff Writer Published December 26, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whatever their politics, most Americans agree on one thing: Political ads are too slick and too expensive. Untold millions of the dollars raised for next year's presidential campaign will gush into the coffers of advertising agencies and consultants. Candidates of every party say ads, especially television ads, are a necessary evil, the only way to get their messages to a nation of blink-length attention spans. How much does it cost to create a half-minute TV ad? If it's part of Bush in 30 Seconds, not a penny. Bush in 30 Seconds is an online competition, open to anyone, to create "the ad that best explains what this President and his policies are really about." Because Bush in 30 Seconds is a project of MoveOn.org, these aren't "Re-elect President Bush" ads. MoveOn says it is nonpartisan, but nobody would mistake it for the GOP's public relations firm. One ad posted at the site (www.bushin30seconds.org) shows a man listening to TV news about $87-billion to provide education and health care in postwar Iraq. He raises an eyebrow at the camera and says, "Maybe we can get him to invade here." In "Child's Pay," grim, gray scenes show small children hauling garbage and mopping hallways, with the tag line "Guess who's going to pay off President Bush's $1-trillion deficit?" "Dissidence Is Patriotic" takes a wacky satirical tack. Figures with goofy pasted-on heads of Bush, Vice President Cheney and other administration officials cavort to a snarky country song: "Our polls and the Nasdaq looking grim/Took a lesson from my daddy and bombed a Muslim." That's just a sample. A teensy sample. Eli Pariser, MoveOn's campaigns director, says the group expected to get maybe 300 submissions when it posted the contest in October. "We got more than 1,500," he says. "It was amazing." Through Wednesday, more than 1,000 of those ads are available at the Web site. Anyone can log in, watch ads and rate them. Two days after they were posted, Pariser says, more than 50,000 people had made 700,000 rankings. "We'll be over 1-million in a day or so." The 15 highest-ranked ads will be evaluated by a panel of celebrity judges that includes musicians Moby, Michael Stipe and Eddie Vedder; actors Jack Black, Jessica Lange and Tony Shalhoub; comedians Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo; filmmakers Michael Moore, Michael Mann and Gus Van Sant; music mogul Russell Simmons; author Al Franken; and political honchos James Carville and Donna Brazile. The winning ad will be announced Jan. 12 and broadcast during the week of Bush's State of the Union address. The original plan was to air it in swing states, but Pariser says it might be used in other contexts. "We're waiting to see what the winning ad looks like." Inviting people not only to make their own ads but to help pick the winner was a brilliant stroke, Morris Reid says. Reid, who held several posts in the Clinton administration, is managing director of Westin Rinehart Group, a communications consulting and lobbying firm. "That's the whole buzz" drawing people to MoveOn's site, he says. "It's like the Super Bowl ads. Everybody wants to pick up the paper the next day to see who won. Americans love that." MoveOn's history, he says, has been "grass roots organizing at its finest." "And they're really smart about staying with their strength. A lot of grass roots organizations get successful and forget about their roots. "MoveOn is smart enough to know they can't be a one-trick pony. They know their members have to feel they're continually being brought into the process." MoveOn began in 1998 as Censure and Move On, founded by software entrepreneurs Joan Blades and Wes Boyd. The couple, whose Berkeley Systems company was best known for creating flying toasters screen savers, started the bipartisan group out of frustration with how Congress was dealing with the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The group called for censure of President Bill Clinton so the country could move past it. Pariser, 23, was the founder of 9-11Peace.org, an online petition calling for a peaceful response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The petition drew half a million signers worldwide, and Pariser soon joined forces with MoveOn, with 9-11Peace.org becoming MoveOn Peace. MoveOn was created and thrives on the Internet. Its six staff members have no office but work independently from across the country. The organization's mastery of the medium last year won it a Webby award, the Internet equivalent of the Oscar, in the political category. According to the group's Web site, it has about 2-million members, and its mission is to give ordinary citizens a political voice by building "electronic advocacy groups" to counteract the dominance of big money and special interest groups. Although MoveOn is involved in a number of causes, its current focus is the 2004 presidential election, and its goal is to replace Bush. Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, declined to comment on the Bush in 30 Seconds competition. Lindsay Taylor, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, says, "We understand grass roots and have for some time. We believe the best way to get people energized is to have a positive message and a positive leader. "Unfortunately, MoveOn's message is based on negativity and pessimism. While that may excite some people, we believe we have a more positive approach." The MoveOn.org Voter Fund was created to sponsor ads challenging Bush's policies, especially in swing states. Its professionally made "Misleader" TV and newspaper ads started appearing in July. On Nov. 21, the Republican National Committee aired its first Bush campaign ad. In a clip from Bush's last State of the Union address, he warns of terrorist attacks. Then words flash onscreen: "Some are now attacking the president for attacking the terrorists." The ad brought a quick and angry response from Democratic presidential hopefuls. MoveOn responded just as quickly. Within hours, it e-mailed its members, asking for donations to the voter fund to help counter the ad. Five hours later, it had raised half a million dollars. Philanthropists George Soros and Peter Lewis have pledged to match every $2 donation to the voter fund with a dollar of their own, up to $5-million. MoveOn will use the fund, which could be as much as $15-million, to buy airtime during the presidential campaign. Bush in 30 Seconds is part of the voter fund effort. Pariser says he had been thinking about an ad contest over the summer. "It turns out Moby and Jonathan Soros (George Soros' son) had been thinking about something similar, and it all came together." Pariser, Moby and Soros, along with a small team, created the contest. "It's a way to identify the really incredibly creative people among our members." The number of entries was not the only surprise. "One of the things that's most amazing is the really high quality of the ads," Pariser says. Some of the ads came from professional agencies, he says, but many came from nonprofessionals: students, families, groups of friends. MoveOn's constituency is technology-savvy, and it shows in their use of computers, video and audio. Many of the ads are as polished as professional products. Others are heartfelt but rough around the edges, like the ones with little kids trying to play their roles seriously but unable to resist mugging for the camera. A few are outdated by the capture of Saddam Hussein. Some are just strident venting instead of persuasion, and a few - like the guy unzipping his pants at the edge of the woods behind the words "A good use for a bush" - are just plain rude. Pariser says most of the ads submitted were posted for voting. "We looked for copyright problems, any possible violations of election laws, things like that," he says, but the team did not judge the ads for quality. "We let the process work." It took two days longer than expected to get the ads up because of the big response, and the site has been tweaked frequently to make it work better. "It's an amazing amount of data. We're talking about terrabites, which are thousands of gigabytes each," Pariser says. On Dec. 17, the first day the ads were posted, it was difficult even to get onto the site. By Monday, ads were loading rapidly. The site had added such features as a button to let viewers e-mail an ad and a note reminding them of the last ad viewed and providing its average rating. Pariser says there has been some negative response to the site. "It's been very minimal. You always have a few people, but we're talking a couple of dozen of those e-mails compared to more than 50,000 rating the ads. We're really proud of that." Reid says the response to Bush in 30 Seconds is part of a larger trend toward grass roots political activism. "The most interesting things in politics today are not happening in Washington. The most interesting things are what happened in Florida and what happened in California," he says, citing the 2000 presidential election debacle and the recall that put Arnold Schwarzenegger in office. But MoveOn does not have a corner on the Internet organizing market, Reid says. "This is not only a phenomenon unique to the Democrats, as some people think it is. The Republicans are just as sophisticated. "They've been a little slower picking up on this, but you're going to see more of it during the Bush campaign. They learned during the last election cycle. Republicans are not asleep at the switch on this." Pariser sees the response to Bush in 30 Seconds as that same kind of grass roots impulse. After all, no one is getting a prize for the best ad. "Just that the ad gets run. "I think people did it out of a genuine concern about the Bush policies and an impulse to get involved." - Contact Colette Bancroft at bancroft@sptimes.com or 727 893-8435.
From Drudge (sorry for the CAPS. Too lazy to change them all) You know, as much as I loathed the Clinton Administration, I would never compare him to Hitler. GRAPHIC: Nazi Flags In A Parade GRAPHIC: Hitler HITLER: (Speaking In German) CHYRON: A NATION WARPED BY LIES GRAPHIC: German Troops Marching GRAPHIC: Hitler In Car In Parade GRAPHIC: German Troops Marching CHYRON: LIES FUEL FEAR GRAPHIC: German Tanks CHYRON: FEAR FUELS AGGRESSION GRAPHIC: German Artillery Firing GRAPHIC: German Planes Dropping Bombs GRAPHIC: German Tanks Firing CHYRON: INVASION GRAPHIC: German Tanks Rolling Down Street CHYRON: OCCUPATION GRAPHIC: Hitler With Hand Raised BACKGROUND: Sig Heil! Sig Heil! CHYRON: WHAT WERE WAR CRIMES IN 1945 GRAPHIC: President Bush With Hand Raised At Inauguration BACKGROUND: Sig Heil! Sig Heil! CHYRON: IS FOREIGN POLICY IN 2003 CHYRON: SPONSORED BY MOVEON.ORG ** THE 30-SECOND VIDEO IS THE SECOND AD COMPARING BUSH TO HITLER TO BE STREAMED ON MOVEON.ORG. THE CLIP IS PART OF A CONTEST TO FIND THE BEST BUSH-BASHING AD. A PANEL OF JUDGES, INCLUDING ACTOR-DIRECTOR MICHAEL MOORE, AND DEM CAMPAIGN STRATEGISTS DONNA BRAZILE AND JAMES CARVILLE, WILL SELECT THE WINNER. [EDITOR'S NOTE: Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, says that in the competition, said in an editorial in Monday's WALL STREET JOURNAL: "MoveOn.org informed potential ad makers that 'we're not going to post anything that would be inappropriate for television.' Two of the ads posted on the group's Web site compared Adolf Hitler to George W. Bush. One ad morphed an image of Hitler into President Bush and says that, '1945's war crimes' are '2003's foreign policy.'" Rosen says MoveOn.org is "using the memory of that genocide as a political prop. Their comparison diminishes the reality of what happened, and their actions cheapen the memory of a horrific crime. It also does a terrible disservice to this country at a perilous time, when we need to examine the dangers we face with clarity and purpose." Leadership is "about confronting threats to freedom everywhere. President Bush has shown that leadership in Iraq, and our troops have liberated a people who were oppressed by another murderous dictator. MoveOn.org compares this liberation to the Holocaust. It deploys a picture of Hitler to vilify President Bush. Comparing the commander-in-chief of a democratic nation to the murderous tyrant Hitler is not only historically specious, it is morally outrageous. Comparing an American president, any American president, to Hitler is an outrage. The MoveOn.org ad was inexcusable. Political figures such as Al Gore, who have associated themselves with MoveOn.org, have a special responsibility to condemn these ads; donors to the group such as George Soros have the same responsibility. They owe it not just to the memory of the millions who died in the Holocaust. They owe it also as a simple matter of decency."]
The critic of that ad must not be familiar with Clutchfans Debate and Discussion Forum or he wouldn't be outraged.
Comparing the commander-in-chief of a democratic nation to the murderous tyrant Hitler is not only historically specious, it is morally outrageous. Bush is not Hilter, but Bush did behave like Hilter when he "pre-emptively" invaded Iraq due to an "imminent" threat. BTW, when Hilter invade Poland he had not yet rounded up the Jews, while GWB did round up the Arabs and Muslims before invading Iraq. I eagarly await your explanation on why GWB's actions are different from Hitler's.
Oh, come on! What thread did Hitler perceive from Poland? Hungary? France? Hitler wasn't preemptive; he was predatory. You should be ashamed of, or at least embarassed by, this lame comparison.
What "threat" did GWB prerceive of Iraq? Since the threat was not real, can you see how others may see GWB's Iraq invasion as "predatory"?
No Worries, Using your "logic", was JFK behaving like Hitler when he carried out the preemptive Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion?
giddyup, you also have the benefit of knowing what Hilter did next after invading Poland. Given this context, Hilter's pre-emptive strike rationale can be seen in a different light. Something also to consider is that suppose GWB wins re-election? GWB will see all that he has done in first four years as validated. He will then be free to democratize the Middle East as he sees fits, forgoing any pretexts for war seeing how problemtic pretexts can be.
From the 2003 State of the Union address: "<b>Our nation and the world must learn the lessons of the Korean Peninsula and not allow an even greater threat to rise up in Iraq. A brutal dictator, with a history of reckless aggression, with ties to terrorism, with great potential wealth, will not be permitted to dominate a vital region and threaten the United States</b>. (Applause.) Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. <b>For the next 12 years, he systematically violated that agreement</b>. He pursued chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, even while inspectors were in his country. Nothing to date has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons -- not economic sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise missile strikes on his military facilities. Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam Hussein his final chance to disarm. <b>He has shown instead utter contempt for the United Nations, and for the opinion of the world</b>. The 108 U.N. inspectors were sent to conduct -- were <b>not sent to conduct a scavenger hunt</b> for hidden materials across a country the size of California. The job of the inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. <b>It is up to Iraq to show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons out for the world to see, and destroy them as directed. Nothing like this has happened</b>. <b>The United Nations concluded in 1999</b> that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough doses to kill several million people. <b>He hasn't accounted for that material</b>. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it. <b>The United Nations concluded</b> that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure. <b>He hadn't accounted for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it</b>. Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. <b>He's not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them</b>. U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them. From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them. <b>The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb</b>. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide. <b>The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary; he is deceiving</b>. From intelligence sources we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N. inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors themselves. Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to intimidate witnesses. Iraq is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United Nations. Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are supposed to interview. Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi officials on what to say. Intelligence sources indicate that Saddam Hussein has ordered that scientists who cooperate with U.N. inspectors in disarming Iraq will be killed, along with their families. Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass destruction. But why? <b>The only possible explanation, the only possible use he could have for those weapons, is to dominate, intimidate, or attack</b>. With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, Saddam Hussein could resume his <b>ambitions of conquest in the Middle East and create deadly havoc in that region</b>. And this Congress and the America people must recognize another threat. <b>Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda</b>. Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own. Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein. <b>It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known</b>. We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes. (Applause.) <b>Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent</b>. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? <b>If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option</b>. (Applause.) The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons <b>has already used them</b> on whole villages -- leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions are obtained -- by torturing children while their parents are made to watch. International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape. If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning. (Applause.) And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq: Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your country. (Applause.) <b>And the day he and his regime are removed from power will be the day of your liberation</b>. (Applause.) <b>The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. America will not accept a serious and mounting threat to our country, and our friends and our allies</b>. The United States will ask the U.N. Security Council to convene on February the 5th to consider the facts of Iraq's ongoing defiance of the world. Secretary of State Powell will present information and intelligence about Iraqi's legal -- Iraq's illegal weapons programs, its attempt to hide those weapons from inspectors, and its links to terrorist groups. <b>We will consult. But let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam Hussein does not fully disarm, for the safety of our people and for the peace of the world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him</b>. (Applause.) Tonight I have a message for the men and women who will keep the peace, members of the American Armed Forces: Many of you are assembling in or near the Middle East, and some crucial hours may lay ahead. In those hours, the success of our cause will depend on you. Your training has prepared you. Your honor will guide you. You believe in America, and America believes in you. (Applause.) Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President can make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering of war have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is free from sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost and we dread the days of mourning that always come. We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be defended. <b>A future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all</b>. If war is forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means -- sparing, in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we will fight with the full force and might of the United States military -- and we will prevail. (Applause.) And as we and our coalition partners are doing in Afghanistan, we will bring to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies -- and freedom. (Applause.) Many challenges, abroad and at home, have arrived in a single season. In two years, America has gone from a sense of invulnerability to an awareness of peril; from bitter division in small matters to calm unity in great causes. And we go forward with confidence, because this call of history has come to the right country. Americans are a resolute people who have risen to every test of our time. <b>Adversity has revealed the character of our country, to the world and to ourselves. America is a strong nation, and honorable in the use of our strength. We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the liberty of strangers</b>. Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity. (Applause.) We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know -- we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history. May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America. (Applause.)" END 10:08 P.M. EST
You are using the oldest trick of salesmanship. You answered my question with a question of your own. I ask again: what thread did Hitler perceive from those other European nations? I think I've satisfactorily answered your question about what threat President Bush perceived. And I want to point out that he never calls it imminent. At most, he describes it as eventual.
I want to point out that he never calls it imminent His Admin never mentioned the bomb by Xmas or gratuitiously mentioned waiting for the mushroom cloud or Iraq attacking offshore via their biological WMD delivering drones or ... You are in danger of becoming a GWB apologist!
what thread did Hitler perceive from those other European nations? I suspect the same threat that Iraq presented the USA. Hilter label his attack of Poland as "defensive" and "pre-emptive", just as GWB label his attack of Iraq as such. The reality is that neither of the attacks were.
Jack Rose, President of the American Jewish Congree, weighs in on this in today's WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB107325881723758900,00.html -- Outrage.org By JACK ROSEN MoveOn.org, an advocacy group, has sought to energize opposition to the president by sponsoring a contest in which Americans were urged to produce an anti-Bush advertisement to air the week of the State of the Union address. Web site visitors were invited to vote for their favorite ad from a pre-selected group that MoveOn.org deems appropriate for TV. MoveOn.org informed potential ad makers that "we're not going to post anything that would be inappropriate for television." Two of the ads posted on the group's Web site compared Adolf Hitler to George W. Bush. One ad morphed an image of Hitler into President Bush and says that, "1945's war crimes" are "2003's foreign policy." The Holocaust was the worst crime in history. The Nazis killed six million Jews, and millions of others were murdered in a systematic genocide. Generations were exterminated. Starvation, slave labor, gassing and medical experimentation were tools for the "final solution." The last survivors of that horror will soon pass from among us. Their eyewitness testimony will be lost, and it is for us to ensure that we never forget. It is for them that we have built museums to preserve the horror of these crimes. It is for them that we guard against the danger that the memory of the Holocaust will be trivialized. That danger is abetted when people devalue this monumental evil for political gain. Today, MoveOn.org is doing just that, using the memory of that genocide as a political prop. Their comparison diminishes the reality of what happened, and their actions cheapen the memory of a horrific crime. It also does a terrible disservice to this country at a perilous time, when we need to examine the dangers we face with clarity and purpose. The lessons of the Holocaust era loom larger than ever, but not as portrayed by MoveOn.org. It was from the backbenches of Britain's Parliament in the 1930s that Churchill warned of the "gathering storm," arguing that the great threat had to be confronted before it was too late. His warning went unheeded. Free nations stood idle as the Nazis harnessed their war machine. Democracies naively hoped for peace. They turned from evil, but the evil did not fade, and when World War II ended 50 million were dead. With terrorists operating under the protection of rogue regimes, Churchill's warning is still apt today. Leadership is about confronting threats to freedom everywhere. President Bush has shown that leadership in Iraq, and our troops have liberated a people who were oppressed by another murderous dictator. MoveOn.org compares this liberation to the Holocaust. It deploys a picture of Hitler to vilify President Bush. Comparing the commander-in-chief of a democratic nation to the murderous tyrant Hitler is not only historically specious, it is morally outrageous. Comparing an American president, any American president, to Hitler is an outrage. The MoveOn.org ad was inexcusable. Political figures such as Al Gore, who have associated themselves with MoveOn.org, have a special responsibility to condemn these ads; donors to the group such as George Soros have the same responsibility. They owe it not just to the memory of the millions who died in the Holocaust. They owe it also as a simple matter of decency. Mr. Rosen is president of the American Jewish Congress.
So you are still dodging my question, huh? Call me an apologist; call me whatever you like. I just don't like to see the truth slurred. Bush said what he said. He didn't say what so many try to insinuate.
But let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam Hussein does not fully disarm, for the safety of our people and for the peace of the world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. BS then. BS now.
No, I did answer your question. I am in complete and total agreement. I suspect that history will be revised by the GWB re-election campaign to distance GWB from his and his Admin's Iraq invasion rationale comments.
Some of those ads are pretty dang good. The production values alone are impressive (though about half the ads suck). I would have liked to see a little more humor mixed in, but they're not bad. My personal favs are "Child's Pay" and "Imagine."
