Dueling videos…courting the youth vote: My Perspective

Everyone has heard the expression “your trying to hard,” well that’s the feeling I got watching Hillary Clinton’s viral video. After about a few seconds into the video, I sort of through up in to my mouth. From the faux “band members” praising Clinton’s rock ability to Clinton’s face being, for lack of a better word, photoshopped onto a person holding a guitar, it made me sick. This is not how you “connect” with young voters. I’m guessing Clinton’s campaign lackeys thought they need to make her look hip to appeal to young voters by making her a rocker. This Clinton video is nil for one in my book.

Yes, we can. I watched this speech by Obama live on TV and I had never been so moved by a speech in my life. Even political analysts, and old farts that were political analysts when MLK gave his “I have a dream speech,” said that Obama’s speech was almost on that level of magnitude. To see the day when a politician finally god damn gets it that it’s not about Democrats, Republicans, skin color, or religion, but about justice and equality. That is what led me to vote. Not the shenanigans in Clinton’s videos, but people like Obama. The video isn’t made by Obama’s campaign, so I was able to accept the video for what it was, with the ploy of using all the celebrities that appeal to young people.