Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) presidential campaign released a wordless TV ad in Iowa and New Hampshire on Thursday set to Simon and Garfunkel’s “America.”
The 60-second spot titled “America” does not include any narration or clips of Sanders speaking. The ad shows the senator meeting with voters at rallies and images of people on farms and in cities across the country. The ad ends with the verse, “They’ve all come to look for America.”
The Sanders campaign declined to reveal how much the it plans to spend airing the ad.
Watch the ad:
Brought tears to my eyes. The message reminds me … of McGovern, of the Free Speech Movement, of the Anti Viet Nam War Movement, of Women’s Lib, of the dreams I had since college when I demonstrated against the Viet Nam “War”, of the great music and people, of the hope we had. It’s been difficult to maintain the hope, thru the fakery of Obama’s Hopey Changey b.s. This ad reminds me of those days when HOPE seemed powerful and the dreams were alive and could be implemented. I have tears for a dream unrealized, a hope that has begun to seem hopeless. I would guess many like me out there will tear up when they watch this ad: tears of a fading hope, tears for the destruction of a better country by the greed and dishonesty of a corrupt political system that has become enemy of We The People, and moreso daily. I’m reminded of Don Henley’s “End of the Innocence” song, and others like it (Jackson Browne’s “Before the Deluge” also comes to mind). I’ve become madder than hell, but I’m still taking it. Why? I’m victimized by the cowards and liars in our political system. Bernie is very rare - is he our last gasp for justice for We the People. Feels like it to me.
Great tune, and I’m sure the man in the Gabardine suit is a spy.
Teared up as well. Powerful ad. Had all the same experiences you had but you told it best and I’ll leave it at that.
brilliant. and appealing on such an emotional level. now i’m gonna spend the morning on youtube searching out simon & garfunkel videos…
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