The Next Engine: Beyond Campaign Thinking

Don’t take this the wrong way. Wait, take it however you want.

It’s time the GD Baby Boomers stop pretending to be experts about everything. Sure, you’ve had a great run, but really, stop pushing your crap onto the rest of us. One of my fellow bloggers, misterarthur, sent over a link to some YouTube content Hillary Clinton recently released.

I mean, seriously, isn’t it absurd that our country (and world) is still so disjointed? Someone thought this would be a cool way to excite youth. I bet they even linked to it from their MySpace site, yeah! Also probably worth noting, our friends at Camp Hillary have chosen to only display approved comments; so don’t let all those positives fool you. Looks like they stopped monitoring this gem a week ago as all comments have ceased since then. I’m a friggin liberal and this stuff makes me want to crawl under my desk and hide. Cmon Hillary, you can do better than this — and if you can’t, for god’s sake employ some young folks who are representative of the voters Obama is now more than ever likely to win.

So, in honor of this junk, what are some other youth-focused bad ideas from our friends @ the greatest generation in American History?

Here’s a few of my faves:

1. Dell’s answer to Apple - green laptops and a big green snake. Barf.
2. Trojan’s evolve site - nothing says youth like Pleasure St., right? Puke.
3. Sony’s 2006 PSP “viral rap video” - hey let’s hire some guys in their 30’s to rap about wanting their parents to buy them a PSP. Bet they love’d all the “get a Wii, they are better” comments they got.

If you were at all intrigued by this post, be sure to check out Angus Gastle’s blog “The Bottom Rung”. Smart, honest, hard-hitting writing on the crap marketers dump on youth.

Later.

Tags: culture, generation gap, marketing, millenials, politics, youth