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Fred's site
Robert — (archived)

Looks to me like Fred has some pretty high-powered Web designers working for him. The site has all the modern bells-n-whistles and geegaws-n-gimcracks and beads-n-trinkets. But the message, now, I agree, it comes across as pretty lame. Fred's positioned himself as jes' plain folk, so the result is a slick Web presentation of a sappy down-home message, adding up to goofy. "Fill Fred's tank"...eeeewwww...I automatically add the postscript "...before Fred tanks!".

Fred's handlers face some unique challenges, like transforming the cliche of an old guy chasing a young woman into a commercial for family values:

http://www.fred08.com/images/Thompsons_large.jpg
There's an age difference there of, what, about 40 years? Nice subliminal signaling that this old alpha male still has the right stuff in the trouser department. We all know how much America needs a virile foreign policy, and clearly Fred's still capable of doing to the world what he did to his little wifey Jeri.

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