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Now THAT’S a campaign commercial
It’s nothing new for a political candidate to compare himself to Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and other notable statesmen. But in what may be a political first, Indian-American Ohio Attorney General candidate Subodh Chandra, running in the May 2 Democrat primary against state Sen. Mark Dann, is comparing himself to Apu from The Simpsons.
That’s right. Check out this link: http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=545 and click on the second entry. It’s a political ad, where Chandra compares himself to that famed Simpson’s character (one works at Kwik-E-Mart, the other worked as a federal prosecutor and Cleveland Law Director, one has octuplets, the other has triplets, one occasionally claims he does not speak English, the other speaks English just fine, thank you.)
The political part comes in Chandra’s unfavorable comparison of Dann to Homer Simpson, comparing Homer’s being reprimanded by Mr. Burns to Dann’s being reprimanded by the Ohio Supreme Court for poorly representing a client, among other things.
“Separated by qualifications,” the ad concludes.
As a bonus, the link sends readers to a puppet show put on by Chandra attacking Ohio Gov. Bob Taft. Fun for the whole family?
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