A new Obama ad eerily reminds people why propaganda is frowned upon. The video features a group of blank faced children singing a song that is so shocking, so far fetched that it's hard to believe President Obama would agree to air it. Jeff Goodby (Harvard, Obama fan, hired to do Chevy ads after the takeover) and Rich Silverstein (Obama fan, big liberal, progressive) started a famous ad agency that did commercials for Netflix, Cheetos and conjured up the "Got Milk?" ads. No longer with the agency, they came up with "The Future Children Project" that has kids blaming their parents for destroying the world as we know it, all because they voted for Mitt Romney. The website makes it clear where their allegiance lies, "Re-electing President Obama is a momentous decision that will require every single voter."
"A world where sick people are required to "just die," the atmosphere is "frying," gays can be "fixed" and "oil fills the sea," writes The Daily Caller. "Fixing gays"? Didn't realize that was part of Romney's plan. The video asks, "What Would The Children Of The Future Say If We Let Them Down This November?" The song the children sing also mentions polar bears being 'almost' gone, breathing "poison air", Big Bird got "sacked" (enough with the dang yellow bird already), endless wars...just sheer stupidity. This from award-winning top ad guys? Propaganda, pure and simple. The ad is similar to the Hitler Youth videos from World War II! "Vorwärts! Vorwärts!" (Forward! Forward! Isn't that an Obama campaign slogan?) No surprise, the website and the YouTube page won't allow any comments. With almost 4,000 'thumbs down' votes, clearly viewers agree with the comments on the Obama ad at various websites.
How do they expect kids to react to the video? By running to mommy and daddy in fear demanding they vote for Barack Obama? The entire song is absurd, but the closing lyrics are enough to tick off any parent:
We're the children of the future
American through and through
But something happened to our country
And yeah, we're blaming you
You did your best
You failed the test
(Naturally, they have the youngest little girl, in the sweetest voice read the closing line)
Mom and Dad
We're blaming you!
So far, there's no "I'm Barack Obama and I've approved this message" attached to the end of it. Unless that pops up, the president can't really be held responsible, can he?
'The Children of the Future' website: HERE
Photo credit: YouTube screenshot
© Margie Wilson-Mars 2012
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Comments: 92
Parents had better get a handle on this thing, Parenting. Or the tenants'll have their lunch long before their next Soccer practice.
We've already lost Parenthood..Lose our Children..and we've lost the Nation.
A good place to start is parentalrights.org
Check our the 'Understand the Issues' link ...
Thank you, Lee. We seem to understand that, the way that "parent's" have carried on, the future of this Country is in doubt...
Margie Wilson-Mars Oct 29, 2012, 7:55pm EDT
I don't comment on my own articles much anymore, but I want to thank Lee for giving the link to parentalrights.org. I can't think of a better group online.
Mark-John K. Oct 29, 2012, 2:46pm EDT
Smile. I could've produced that page on my own ;) I'm an absolute Terror and Tyrant on this subject.
Thank you, Lee. We seem to understand that, the way that "parent's" have carried on, the future of this Country is in doubt...
We're blaming you!
Not even close to being the Moms & Dads of America's fault. All Obama. First President ever to cause America to lose its Triple A credit rating. All due to his haphazard spending tactics along with Reid & Pelosi.
He'd have spent us thrice deep if pubes hadn't done the will of the People...which was to stop this fool from further destruction...
..when he wasn't breaking the Law, or taking "executive order."
The time to address the deficit is in passing the budget, not when the debt ceiling needs to be raised. The Republicans tried to play cute by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, trying to make themselves appear to be the heroic defenders of the public purse. But to lower or eliminate the deficit what must happen is the deliberate cutting of expenditure (not by refusing to pay, i.e refusing to raise the debt ceiling, but by making targetted spending cuts) and/or the deliberate raising of revenues (taxes).
Since Republicans will not let themselves be seen to cut military spending (too big a chunk of the overall budget for it to be ignored if you want to eliminate the deficit) or raise taxes (which must happen) they preferred to play cutesy with the debt ceiling. And this caused the bond market to get nervous and the US lost its triple AAA rating.
Lesson over.
I interpret it as great reasons to support third parties again this election.
Even though the democratic party seems to be very bad for our country and world, it is highly disingenuous to blame just obama for our lower credit rating:
1. It is commonly understood among economists the tanked economy he inherited after eight years of the republican george w. bush administration would have been much worse had he not boosted it with significant borrowing & spending.
2. For many many decades republicans (& democrats) have authored and voted yes on many many red ink budgets many many times. While supporters loudly complain our soveriegn debt is the fault of the other party.
More or less the entire nation is on a highly destructive arc of self-abuse, apathy, intentional ingorunce, self-deception, and unnecessarily worsened future for the children.
Nations competing with ours for status, economy, jobs, technology, and militarily are literally mocking our hyper-massive national stupidity. Both openly and behind our backs.
Total nonsense.
At one time it was COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD that the Earth was flat and look how that turned out.
Just because something is "commonly understood" does NOT make it FACT.
.."commonly understood," my ass.
An insult, followed by a pat on the back for said insult. Given the accumulative IQ points in the room, is it at all surprising? No, not really.
"At one time it was COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD that the Earth was flat and look how that turned out."
And that's what's commonly understood to be a false equivalency.
"Just because something is "commonly understood" does NOT make it FACT."
Indeed, you're correct - being commonly understood does not make it a fact - a conclusion supported by evidence makes it a fact.
A depression that was over before it really began, thanks to letting bad banks and companies fail and the market correct itself.
Bush considered that route, but panicked like everyone else after Lehman. Ex-employee of prime donor Goldman Sachs Obama hasn't altered the playbook. Here we are.
The guys we give the paddle to keep dropping it in sh@t creek. They'll be using us for oars soon. Heads up.
No, thanks to (as Hyper stated) significant borrowing & spending.
...and, when you arrived, not a single IQ point was added to the room.
They tried borrowing, spending, and non intervention. One of these approaches was absent in the Great Depression and our Great Recession. Hint: A statist will cut their eyes out rather than admit it.
We borrow 4 dollars on every 10 we spend for a holding pattern. The State has to shrink.
Losing your mojo, tin man. Suck it up, just a week to go.
So your educated answer to the mess we're leaving to our children is refrain from making them go to school, I'm assuming because you think it's some form of "thought control"? Brilliant!
...hmm, "useful idiot."
The term "useful idiot" more than ever applies to a vast swath of citizens in the United States who have been cynically used by the hardcore left for a cause they are unwilling to understand.
so YEAH, that's MY EDUCATED answer!
That song destroyed me as a kid. It ain't lost an ounce in the years.
of the 45 DECLARED communist goals...
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
...seems the indoctrination and brainwashing has worked on you.
Is it wrong or misleading? Well, either answer to that question would be controversial.
Is it Obama's doing? Nope.
Are your shorts in a twist? It sure seems like they are.
Should they be? Well, this is exactly what the SCOTUS's decision on Citizen's United opened the door to, so suck it up, princess.
No, but that certainly won't stop you from implying that he is....
"...it's hard to believe President Obama would agree to air it."
Ugh, go kill Madarin or something useful.
(yeah, had to ask my boys)
That huge empty space below your comment is pretty cool, though.
.I blame them for the white spot, too.
...SERIOUSLY, couldn't Obama's entire presidency be summed up with a couple of words? Plausible Deniability
...it's ALL Bush's fault!!
Bush released the video? Even better.
Is it an Obama ad? No.
No matter who wins this election, there will be a movement to get government to care about people again. We need regulations for Big Business; we need national health care and we need for the rich to pay their own way and stop collecting corporate welfare and perks to the wealthy.
If this ad upsets you, try reading the Paul Ryan budget. Or are you going to wait until after the election and be unpleasantly surprised when your kids can't get Pell Grants and Grandma's Social Security is cut and the Affordable Health are act is is repealed and your neighbor dies because he can't
get the care he needs. Or maybe you are one of the 1 percent that will be laughing in your yacht.
If Romney wins, which I highly doubt, I won't be surprised by anything. The government is not there to pay for your healthcare, college (they DO need to reign in costs), etc. 'Rich' people (the mythological 1%) pay their own way, along with the way of millions of others through paying the great majority of the taxes collected in this country.
You wrote:
"No matter who wins this election, there will be a movement to get government to care about people again."
But, your comment reads:
"No matter who wins this election, there will be a movement to get government to care for people again."
Again, not their job.
...in marches the Obama "Truth Team" Internet scrubbers.
'Sick required to die': Have you people noticed that some 40 million people have no health insurance. Many die because when they appear at the emergency room after ignoring symptoms for economic reasons, they die.
' Atmosphere is frying' It is a scientific fact, but you cannot present logic to the 'low information voter'. My dad called them 'dumb asses'. I won't.
'Oil filled the sea' Does anyone remember the Gulf oil spill? Or have you guys already forgotten it, and who was responsible?
' Fixing gays' This is a topic dear to the Christian fundamentalists who are a major part of the current Republican party. If I am not mistaken, Michelle Bachman's husband runs a clinic where they try this. Not much science there either.
"Commonly understood' This refers to the people who read widely about economics on both sides of political opinion. Government rescue spending generally eases the effect of recessions; a jump start if you will. T here is mot much argument about this.
Rush played the song.. Could be that he likes the voices of little children.
Though they are not as distressing as the misinformation voters, many of whom frequent this site.
...again I say, Plausible Deniability
"So, therefore your title is a lie, OK giving you the benefit of the doubt, fabricated to generate views & comments."
...YEAH, that's something we would NEVER see the left do. AND besides, who would EVER want people to read and then comment on their post?
...YEAH!!! "It's shamefully appalling & disgusting..." ;(
;)
I don't expect you to read my stuff at all, but I am sad that you have such double standards. I can pick out ten articles, all within the past...hmmm, month maybe (?) that do EXACTLY what you falsely accuse me of doing but because it's on YOUR team, you don't take issue with them.
OK, do it~there's a challenge for ya, put your $$$ where your mouth is! "My team," hmmm, well then, maybe you can tell me who's captain?!!?
Could it be considered or viewed as an Obama campaign ad, possibly by some, depending on how a person sees the world, the pending presidential election and receives the childrens song's message.
Is it an Obama campaign ad, I doubt it was ssociated with the Obama campaign nor the President in anyway. Albeit, I don't believe that the President would denounce the ad and it's message, since he is known for his green planet and social welfare policies.
Should the ad have been made at this time, in the heat of the presidential battle and so close to the November general election date, why, not, we all do what we can for our chosen candidate. Even we here on GNP on a daily basis we place comments trying to make our chosen candidate look as good as possible to other readers. Why I don't know, since nothing any of us say will actually have any bearing on the outcome of the election, but we try anyway. Hence, the writing of this article by a Romney supporter, in an attempt to make her candidate look as though he is being unfairly singled out as a bad guy, which in some members eyes, he deservedly is, in others he is not.
With all that said, as a President Obama supporter, I will use the same scenario as the writer of this article and thereby, I challenge anyone to in anyway, discredit the children, their singing of the song or it's ominous message.
Inasmuch, as the author of this article is herself, a subserviant Mormon, having the personal duty of religious faith, to support the Mormon Church and thereby, a religious duty to support the Mormon candidate running for the presidency, I feel compelled to add the following.
Further, I might also denote that the children taking part in the singing, look no more "Blank Faced" than those white shirted, tie clad, stone faced pair of Jehovah Witness children, who are constantly peddling their bicycles around neighborhoods singing indoctrinated praises of their religion, to the bother, irritation, nuisance and annoyance of others.
Don't underestimate yourself. A few Obama leaning Mormons and JWs who managed to stay awake through that tripe might now decide not to vote for the party of religious bigotry.
" The Future Children Project
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Re-electing President Obama is a momentous decision that will require every single voter. "
The Children were nothing more than paid actors/singers in a propaganda piece intended to promote another term for President Obama.
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No challenge needed.
Dan, the posting a counter responsive comment when debating an issue is always lacking in your responses. You only respond with statements, not with counter points on the issue of debate. As usual your posted response makes no sense in this debate nor does it in anyway negates the point I made in my comment.
{i.e.} So what, if the singers are paid actors, there is no evidence of such, but if that is the case, then they were being paid to do what they do. Where is your effective debating challenge to children working in the entertainment industry. You may not like the fact that they are performing in an ad for a candidate which you do not support, but once again, so what, where is there a counter challenge to what they are doing.
Dan, stop writing with emotion and begin posting responses with counter facts to the issue in question.
But anyway, using your hypothesis of "having the personal duty of religious faith, to support the Mormon Church and thereby, a religious duty to support the Mormon candidate running for the presidency", would you kindly explain Harry Reid? Jim Matheson?
I love how you write stuff you KNOW is bull and then chastise others for 'writing with emotion', etc.
You really expect us to believe that?!!?
Their message is effectively challenged by that one word!
It was a manufactured LIE! By propagandists.
You want to believe the propaganda, you want to believe it's valid? You go ahead and run along with all of the other sheeple.