A few weeks ago, this one came out from McDonalds that sparked some debate on its message:
Now, this one from Orangina (no embed) involving a humanoid male-looking mountain lion shaving- yes, shaving- while his male lover walks up to him and strokes his face. It's apparently not going to air.
If this is a trend, I'm all for it, but it is kind of odd where it came from.
For months now the Democrats have been trying to paint John McCain as a toady of the Republican party, voting for Bush 97% of the time over the past two years, attempting to erase his maverick image. But as we've seen over the past several elections, what works best is hitting your opponents on their perceived strengths.
What if we embraced the maverick motif and just made it look dangerous?
(Direct netroots-to-public-eyeballs messaging. No consultant middlemen. This could be the future of activism--or at least reasonable chunk of it. - promoted by Paul Rosenberg)
Get FISA Right (GFR), the internet based activist group begun on mybarackobama.com to alter Sen. Obama's stance on government surveillance and telecom immunity, has moved on in a big way. After losing the legislative battle on FISA the group faced a challenging decision: disband and look for ways to effect government action on illegal surveillance individually or find new causes to organize members around. The active members knew they had captured lightning in a bottle with their melding of dedication to a cause and mastery of internet based activism. What they decided was to take the fight for rule of law and protecting your constitutional rights forward by empowering you to fund their new television ad.
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