Texan political advertising at its best

by | Jun 19, 2008


Here’s a really very moving campaign ad for Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, or “Big John”.  It’s almost enough to make me forgive Clooney’s “Waging Peace” video, but not quite. 

As I got this from Gawker (“Insane Political Ad Must Be a Joke”) and Gawker pointed out that it was already available from Wonkette and lots of other places, U.S. readers may well have seen it already.  But I suspect that, in spite the world-size-reducing powers of the web, readers further afield may have missed it.  Enjoy!

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vcB7uCqdFk]

 

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