08 Oct 2004 If There Is a Bear

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Via Stop the Bleating!, which credits The Volokh Conspiracy: A website featuring old political TV ads.

It has my #1 all-time favorite political commercial, the Reagan-Bush 1984 “Bear in the Woods.” (Go to the website’s 1984 GOP section and click on the picture of the bear.) The same section also has the classic “Morning in America” commercial (click on the newspaper carrier on a bicycle photo) and another Reagan-Bush ’84 classic, “Train.” That one still sends chills down my spine.

The 1988 section has one showing former President George H.W. Bush with his grandchildren. Children then; but we are seeing many of them all grown up on the campaign trail now.

So you don’t have to ask, they do have the infamous 1964 LBJ “Daisy” commercial.

A note to those who don’t like 9-11 footage in their political commericals: Eisenhower’s 1952 “The Man from Abilene” makes plenty of use of WWI footage. But if you go to the Ike ’52 section, don’t watch the commercial labeled “Ike for President” unless you are willing to have his jingle in your head all night…



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