This ad makes me want to ask Herman Cain what the Hell is HE smoking?
I’ve been meaning to make fun of Herman Cain over here for a few weeks now, but work has been keeping me too busy to post as frequently as I’ve wanted to. However, Herman Cain has now forced me to give him a moment in the spotlight by releasing the single creepiest campaign ad I’ve ever seen.
There are so many questions, I don’t even know where to begin. Even the first sentence bothers me! “Mark Block here.” No proper introduction, like “Hello America, my name is…” Just an matter-of-fact “Mark Block here.” Herman Cain’s Chief of Staff has already struck me as an arrogant jackass.
Now that we’ve established that Mark Block is instantly unlikable, why keep showing extreme close-ups of his face? I want to know whose idea it was to focus the camera on a man with an unkempt pervert mustache and then just sit there watching him take a prolonged drag from his cigarette? It really makes me wonder what in the Hell Herman Cain was smoking when he greenlit this thing. To top everything off, the commercial ends with Herman Cain looking at you as if he’s contemplating coming to your house tonight and murdering you in your sleep.
I’m glad this happened to Herman, because he irritated me the other week when he went from calling Rick Perry racially insensitive, to saying that no one is significantly affected by racism anymore. Make up your mind, Herman! Granted, I’d call out Rick Perry for hunting at a place called Niggerhead and for still worrying about Barack Obama’s birth certificate…but still, it’s quite the flip-flop in a very short amount of time. I could go down the line of Herman Cain statements and continue calling him out, but it’s not really necessary. Thanks to the things he says and decisions like this ad, Herman Cain won’t be able to blame not winning the Republican primary on race; he’ll have to blame it on good old fashioned “crazy.”
I must confess, a part of me actually wants Herman Cain to be the Republican nominee for President. Now, I don’t think that he’s thoroughly incompetent to lead, like say, Sarah Palin, nor am I trying to discredit his accomplishments thus far. I want Cain as the Republican nominee because I think it would be really interesting to watch how the nation responds to knowing that the next president would be Black, regardless of who wins. Obama’s election has led to some interesting discussions and observations on race in this country, so I think this scenario would further open the dialogue.
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First dude kept shaking his head ‘no’ for some reason…and what’s up with the close ups where I can see into their glasses frames? Then to top it off with that creeoy ass 80s music….
This commercial makes them both look like suspected killers from an episode of Law & Order.
Um. What’s up with the nub of a cigarette he puffs at the end?
Yeah, that was easily the strangest part of the video, to me.
I’m still confused as to who are they taking this country back from? Who?
Loosely translated, “Taking our country back” = Stepping on the throats of minorities and the poor.
Seriously I need to take a shower after watching that Ad…they both look like creeps.
Absolutely true
This is dumb. Why should we listen to the guy being paid to like Herman Cain?
And I kept trying to focus on his face so I didnt see the rotten teeth in his mouth. But yes, the cig drag at the end should have been cut.
Yeah, that is NOT the type of face that should ever be used in a close up! Furthermore, you’re right; what would anyone expect him to say about the man paying him to run his campaign? “I mean, yes, this is my job, but I promise my opinion is unbiased…”
This may be his Howard Dean moment, LOL.
LOL @ this comment for reminding me of the Howard Dean bitch scream!
Even the music was a pretty strange decision.
I agree. It’s rather cheesy.
This is my third read from listentoleon and I’m crying laughing at the commercial, leon’s summary, and these comments. I’m done!