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Transcript

It was a time of uncertainty, hope and change. The summer of love. Half a world away another kind of love, of country. John McCain. Shot down, bayoneted, tortured. Offered early release, he said no. He had sworn an oath. Home he turned to public service. His philosophy: before party, polls, and self, America. A maverick, John McCain tackled campaign reform, military reform, spending reform. He took on presidents, partisans and popular opinion.

He believes our world is dangerous, our economy in shambles. John McCain doesn’t always tell us what we hope to hear. Beautiful words cannot make our lives better. But a man who has always but his country and her people before self, before politics, can.

Don’t hope for a better life, vote for one. McCain.

“I don’t understand when people are going about worrying about “we need to have English only. They want to pass a law, “We want English only”. Now I agree that immigrants should learn English. I agree with that. Now I agree that immigrants should learn English. I agree with that but. But understand this! Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English, they’ll learn English, you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish! You should be thinking about how your child can become bilingual. We should have every child speaking more than one language. Y’all it’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German, and then we go over to Europe and all we can say is Merci Beaucoup. Right?”

Predictably, the people Obama is referring to, such as US English, are not happy. US English points out that twice in the last three years, the U.S. Senate passed measures to make English the national language and to reduce multilingual entitlements. Legislation is currently pending in both the House and the Senate that would make English the official language. One bill, H.R. 997, the English Language Unity Act, has nearly 150 bi-partisan co-sponsors.

There is a large number of countries with English as the official language while nurturing proficiency in other languages in early education. England, USA and Australia are the only three countries I’m aware of that have English as the “de facto official” language.

Complainants have pointed out the connection between the monkey’s change campaign and that of Barack Obama and have expressed concern that many African Americans were referred to as monkeys during the worst years of racism in the United States.

Sachio Senmoto, chairman of telecommunications company eMobile, said it had not intended to cause offense, but had opted to pull the ad because of the response to it.

“We had no bad intentions, but this is a cross-cultural gap issue and we have to accept it,” he said. “There are African-Americans in Japan, so we decided to take prompt action and shut down the ad.”

Peace

Growth

Freedom

Unity

Credits

The 8 Minute Race was written by Chadwick Matlin, cofounder of MaptheCandidates.com. The spot was produced, narrated and edited by Andy Bouvé.

The not-so-subtle message behind the film is the importance of a united bloc of citizens willing to take the time and effort to vote Democrat in order to improve America’s domestic and foreign policy.

Credits

I’m Voting Republican was written and directed by Charlie Steak, who previously appeared in Synthetic Human’s award-winning film Drain. Also involved were director of photography David Matteson, lighting designer Hayden Blades, sound designer Jardod Anderson, art director/editor Stephen C. Krystek, production assistants Victoria Bragg and Casey Moore.

See the I’m Voting Republican MySpace site.

Blacklist company Pistachios, based in Stockholm, directed “Hope” with words by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland.

“What we have as human beings that makes us different from everything else in the universe is a sense of time’s passing and the gift of free will. The way we use these two things is the measure of who we are as individuals and who we are as a society. Together we become something bigger than ourselves. Together they equal hope.”

Music was composed and produced by Soundreid, New York.

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