Reply #96: Politicians have always used slogans and we are in a new era of synergy between corporations and gov

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-ernment, which one of those politicians warned against. Our new young president is now in the thick of it. To get there, he had to espouse and embody the hollowness of un/branding that Klein is talking about.

Politicians have always used slogans and yet speeches of the past rang differently than the infamous 2004 Democratic speech. FDR's Fireside Chats and the 2nd Bill of Rights, Ike warning about the military/industrial/Congressional complex, Kennedy sending us to the moon ....

Obama never had that sort of resonance IMHO. From the moment I watched the crowd go nuts for his speech in 2004, I never "got it" although I respect that others did.

However, Klein has summed up what is DIFFERENT NOW quite well:

“Wow. A politician has finally produced an ad as good as Nike that plays on our, sort of, faded memories of a more idealistic era, but, yet, doesn’t quite say anything.”

"We think we hear the message we want to hear, but if you really parse it, the promises aren’t there, it’s really the emotions."