Yesterday I diaried about a new anti-McCain commercial that speaks to many of our fears about the potential for Sarah Palin to become president.
The website, OurGreatestFear.Org, had only one person associated with it: Danny Elfman, former leader of Oingo Boingo and Hollywood composer, primarily associated with Tim Burton movies.
Today he has an article in HuffPo describing why he was moved to make the commercial.
While Elfman supported the Obama campaign financially and was inspired by the campaign's themes, he found that he couldn't shake the sense that the Democrats were not aggressive enough to overcome Republican chicanery. After a discussion with friends about what country to move to after McCain/Palin won the election, he decided that he needed to do more. The resulting commercial drew on Elfman's personal reaction to the choice of Palin as McCain's running mate:
Sarah Palin was my worst nightmare.
It was like experiencing a real-life reenactment of the movie The Omen. Not that I literally thought Sarah Palin was Damien with a 666 birthmark on her scalp, but it still felt like some kind of terrible pre-ordained horror. Worse -- a person who thought that "seeing" Russian land in the distance gave her an edge on international relations? A person who believed that men walked with dinosaurs when the world began 6000 years ago? Worse. The idea that person who believed that the "End of Days" would likely happen in her lifetime would possess the launch codes for enough firepower to actually bring that Armageddon to fruition without God's help. The personification of the repressive, small-minded extreme religious right in the driver's seat of the racecar called Earth!
Uh uh. No way.
Here's the commercial if you haven't seen it:
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