Joe The Plumber, meet Dave The Fisherman
Ari Kuschnir of m ss ng p eces, an independent video producer who collaborated with Boing Boing tv on one of our favorite episodes ever, has produced this short spot about a working class guy from Michigan who sees the world differently than "Joe the (faux) Plumber." Watch: Dave The Fisherman (YouTube)
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When he was young you'd not find him doing well in school
His mind would turn unto the waters
Always the focus of adolescent ridicule
He has no time for farmers daughters
Alienated from the clique society
A lonely boy finds peace in fishing
His mother says John this is not the way life's supposed to be
Don't you see the life that you are missing?
And he says...
When I grow up I want to be
One of the harvesters of the sea
I think before my days are done
I want to be a fisherman
Now years gone by we find man that rules the sea
He sets out on a dark may morning
To bring his catch back to this small community
He doesn't see the danger dawning
Four hours up, oh the ocean swelled and swelled
The fog rolled in it started raining
The starboard bow. Oh my God were going down!
The do not hear his frantic mayday
And he says...
When I grow up I want to be
One of the harvesters of the sea
I think before my days are done
I want to be a fisherman
I'll live and die a fisherman
Calling john the fisherman
Joe The Plumber and Dave The Fisherman, meet Chad The Drinker
I am one of those homeless people. Not really, but damn close.
Lost 70k in your 401K? What's a 401K?
I should be filming a commercial. I make less than a plumber and a fisherman.
Now go get me a beer, wimps!
It's interesting to me that "tax decrease for under 250k" is more effective than "tax decrease for everyone". I think there are two factors at play there: 1) the middle class understands that the country needs more tax revenues from somewhere, we don't want to have to add another digit to the national deficit in the next 8 years and 2) people believe in what Obama says more than they do McCain.
Give a man a beer, and he just has one beer. Teach a man to fish and he'll have something to do while drinking that beer.
Joe the Plumber and Dave the Fisherman... maybe you should meet my friend, Emma the Radical, or Eugene the Socialist.
Enjoy your "change." I'm moving somewhere with f-cking health care.
If you have change, then Chad the Homeless Guy wants you to give it to him so he can continue drinking.
Good stuff, but I just hate it when some guy who's never left his state (let alone his country) brags that this is the greatest country in the world. How the hell would you know?
Hey, fungible. I believe he said his family, originally from one of the Virginia's, has never left the state. So, I suspect he means although he's moved, seen the big city, etc, his extended family hasn't. I do agree with your larger point in that you can only rate best when you have seen the worst. Of course he's wrong - the best country is Canada ;)
I'm consistently heartened by the positivity of these Obama ads. Attack adds are just depressing, but hopeful ads are so heartwarming!
(Seconded)
And he says...
When I grow up I want to be
One of the harvesters of the sea!
When I saw "m ss ng p eces", I thought for a moment that the post itself had been disemvoweled...
I did a similar piece on a Canadian farmer.
it's on Current TV right now.
http://current.com/items/89461487_canada_s_obama_donkey
Wow, great piece. Calm cool and intelligent with a dash of compassion thrown in.
That said, brokebutstilldrinking @ 4,,I have a few beers, and 5 gallons of Mead glugging come on by and we'll talk about fishing (and anyone else in G.R. MI)
I predict another minor scandal in which it's revealed that Dave doesn't actually have a fishing license.
@brainspore, or worse yet: HE'S VEGAN
Darnit Phikus, you beat me to it (#3).
phikus, don't you know, Primus sucks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSfZiPZZHVc
Hi, I'm Adam the IT Guy, and no one cares what I think. (Unless their computer's broken.)
MINTY: Indeed. ;D
I could swear the little penguin says "REDISTRIBUTOR" at one point. Did you catch that?
Oh, and MINTY: SUCK ON THIS!
perhaps, phikus. after i've quaffed down a few of THESE: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gHZ9tGJz_gQ
We're getting terribly off thread here, but I must add, after we've downed a few of those, should play with one of these.
Why? -You may ask...
Because...
Pretty good ad, until the last 5 seconds.
"Dave the Fisherman is going to exercise his freedom to make change on Nov. 4th"
Does this make anyone else's stomach crawl?
Is that what our "freedom" has been reduced to in this country? The "freedom" to walk into a booth every four years and cast a vote for either one or the other of the establishment candidates, a vote which may or may not be counted and almost certainly won't matter?
I should remind the viewers that residents of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and Bathist Iraq all had the "freedom" to go vote for the established party. Only in this country, the established party is broken into two factions, with some fairly superficial differences, so we feel like we have a choice.
How about the freedom to escape the abyss of consumerist lifestyle, to reconnect with the Earth? How about the freedom to start innovative new business enterprises which are not strangled by red tape before you can get off the ground? How about the freedom to take control of your own food from GM agribusiness, freedom to take control of your own health from big pharma and tragically myopic doctors? How about the freedom to create new economic, social, and political systems from the ground up? These are the "freedoms to create change" that this country is based on, not the freedom to vote for whichever guy you think is less awful.
This is my main gripe with the Obama campaign. They act like going in and supporting this very mainstream candidate is all you need to do to be an agent of change. Then you can cede responsibility for actually creating change in the world to this man you voted for. Kind of like Christians who go to church on sunday and then murder and rape on Monday. They already did their pious duties.
what if McCain wins by three votes?
Takuan-- Then someone revoked the electoral college in like 5 days. I live in Massachusetts. My vote does not impact the outcome of the election. Never has, never will.
have you considered violent revolution?