Reply #2: How about this. [View All]

I think a clever series of advertisements would be a play on the motto "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" For example, picture an advertisement like this:

Images of brokers tearing their hair out at the NYSE. People waiting for unemployment. Destitute families. Homelessness. Poverty. And this slogan:

"Are you any more irrationally exuberant than you were 4 years ago?"

Or this one. John Ashcroft. Pat Robertson. Jerry Falwell. The PATRIOT ACT. The cages in Guantanamo Bay. The government reading your e-mail. Americans being "diappeared." Then this appears:

"Are you any more free than you were 4 years ago?"

And the grand finale: A series of images is shown. Dead American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. The suicide bombings of the Red Cross and UN Buildings in Iraq. Mourning families. The suspicious deaths of Mel Carnahan and Paul Wellstone. Finally, the planes crashing into the WTC, follwed by the phrase:

"Are you more alive than you were 4 years ago?"