The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

Hmmm… I’ve seen that YouTube clip around and have been ignoring it simply because I don’t buy into this whole presidential propaganda shit that America is now famous for.

But I watched it then. I dunno if im alone here or not, but when I watch something, the first thing I notice is my initial physical reaction to what I’m experiencing. This could be a cheeky smile, nervous tensing, tapping feet excitment, blushing etc… I really notice and usually this guides how I feel about something because I believe this is as close to gut instinct as possible. How did it make me react? How did I feel?

This video, instantly I felt embarrassed. I honestly felt embarrassed for these people. The “passion” the slow, building chanting etc is just… weird. I dunno what that means… but I was actually blushing with humiliation.

thats the thing with yanks age, most of them lack an embarressment gene.

do you like robs film now?

lofty? is that the fuck i brilliantly character analysed a few posts back which somehow made you and britton look good. no wonder i hate the clip.

I read an article on the BBC about which candidates have got which celebs behind them.

Poor John McCain…all they could come up with was Sylvester Stallone.

Are you bored Andy? Is Mary out or something?

PS: Yes, it is the same “Lofty” – so Paul and I are still awaiting our crawling apology 🙂

The real reason you don’t come back to America to run cynic is because 300 million Americans don’t want you here. Obviously I’d love you back because you’re quite nice really and I know how much you admire me and want to give me a big pay rise at the earliest opportunity.

Well Billy, your dreams might just be answered soon – but not interms of payrises, you’re lucky people even talk to you!

I’m seriously regretting sending you this Rob – I watched it again and now I cannot get the bloody tune out of my head. It’s probably just my innate Britishness, but I find the stadium crowd chanting Obama very sinister – like he’s a cult leader… I can just see the twats who made this all high-fiving each other saying ‘we’ve got the youth, black and hispanic demographics like sooooo covered.’ Arse.

I think Hillary Clinton is going to win it.

I am sure it’s because I am English, but I did enjoy this post. Of course you were your usual blunt self, but you (or Andy) raise some interesting points.

I know your good colleagues had a very different point of view, but I still think you were onto something when you said you wanted to turn cynic into a politically motivated agency.

I believe the time may be right for a company to actively fly the flag for improving society while still fulfilling clients commercial obligations.

In fairness you do a lot of that sort of thing already, but maybe the time is right for you to really make a big deal of it.

Just take my consultancy fee off our retainer.

Is Lee subtly telling you he doesn’t like what you’re doing at the moment? I’m sure that will be reflected in the consultancy fee.

He’s wisely never even sough my advice so far but I rest assured that he knows all about your selective quoting past.

pot kettle black

I liked it. You can kill me now.
But until now I am not sure what to think.
I really liked Obama for his eloquence and the seed of hope he planted with every word he said. He gives people something to believe in. The word “hope” in the US is owned by Barack Obama What he does, is fucking brilliant. He gets people to go voting thought there is shite weather. Show me a European who does his voting when there is shit weather.
Since Kennedy and Luther King there wasn’t such a movement. But here is where it’s getting stupidly American. I didn’t like the comparison. Sure, people believe in him probably as much as in Luther King or Kennedy. But both of them had something to say.
Until now Obama only said that “we can”. But not how.

Anyway just imagine a brand could make people believe in them just as he did. Would be awesome. Maybe NIKE is close to that.

And sorry Mrs. Campbell for the use of swearwords. 🙂
And sorry Lauren for holding NIKE’s torch in the wind.

you always lower the tone of debate on this blog george. stop it.

What can I say, I’m just an “intelligent debate” party pooper

oh freeeeeed… lauren has some toto porn for you

i bet hes got a fuck load of mental images that he stores for “emergencies”

caught in the balance? what the fuck is that? its not a toto song is it? oh fuck lauren, whats happened, theres only 3 toto songs normal people are allowed to know and thats certainly not one of them. youre a fucking closet toto fan arent you. my love is wavering now. why the fuck did you have to ruin something so beautiful.

don’t wanna be a nitpicker but Luther King wasn’t a president.
at least Obama doesn’t open the door to images like “the candidate that is named after frozen french fries in all variations” or “the candidate with the husband who converted the oval into the oral office”. it’s not much but at least it’s something.

Sorry Mrs C:

🙂

I don’t do deep. I do hungover.

And in response to Mr M who was responding to Charles, I do believe you’re right, which shows how powerful Obama’s election campaign is, given he’s still managing to – in many cases – overturn Hillary’s unrivaled experience, multi, multi-million dollar campaign fund as well as subliminal [and sometimes not so subliminal] Republican support.

But a lot can happen at the ‘day of reckoning’ so we’ll just have to wait and see I guess …

The fact you ‘googled’ Toto song titles doesn’t make it any better Lauren – and trust me, as much as a technophobe Andy is, he knows Google better than most, and scarily, he actually likes them.

Unlike Marcus 🙂

you have corporate agency head written all over you for that moment of situation exploitation. youll go far mortimer but maybe politics is your real fucking calling?