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I’d forgotten all about this ad campaign until Andrew Sullivan asked whether I remembered:
Although, since I didn’t remember until clicking the link, I’m not sure whether the answer to his question is Yes or No.
As to the ads themselves, I wasn’t born when the print spot above ran in 1964. I do remember, fuzzily, the television spots from the early 1970s.
Yeah, I remember those.
Of course, they were always on TV during the soaps and gameshows that my neighbor’s mom always watched. If I recall right, Comet is/was a Proctor and Gamble product, and since they owned a chunk of the soap opera business too… you could hardly avoid those ads, back in the day… much the same as Madge, soaking hands in diswashing soap, and the maytag guy, and so on.
Sam, I don’t know how closely you follow these issues, and I do not know if honesty is an important trait for a President to possess in your view. I have witnessed Obama flat out lying to the American public about what he has done and what he says. Example. What he told Joe the Plumber at Obama’s own rally and then to deny he made that statement at the debate was a lie. Got that, a lie. Obama has the audacity to deny what he said the day before. If he will lie about Joe about wealth redistribution, imagine if he would lie about to who he will remove the wealth from. Obama hates the middle class but he must make the middle class believe he is on their side. Read Alinski’s book, Rules for Radicals.
