In class, we watched a commercial encouraging people to vote for Hillary Clinton. The point of the commercial was to scare people into voting for her, which I found a little ridiculous. It implied that if citizens did not vote for Hillary, their children would face the consequences. I found it funny how one of the children in the ad is now a high school student actively supporting Obama. People should not base their vote on advertisements such as this because it doesn’t represent the candidate accurately. If Hillary’s phone rings, is she personally going to pick it up? I doubt it. The ad did not base their ad on the leadership qualities or other qualities that make up a good President, and it did not even talk about her standing on political issues, but rather sent out the message, “if you do not vote for Hillary, you are harming your children,” and I do not think that trying to scare people is a very ethical way to get them to vote for her; the credibility of the ad is minimized especially because on top of trying to use fear in order to persuade, one of the children in the actual ad is a strong supporter of Obama presently.
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