Posted on 04/04/2008 12:27:40 PM PDT by AngryCapitalist
The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker Absolut promises to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border, but it could ruffle a few feathers in El Norte.
The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA and now running in Mexico, is a colorful map depicting what the Americas might look like in an "Absolut" -- i.e., perfect -- world.
The U.S.-Mexico border lies where it was before the Mexican-American war of 1848 when California, as we now know it, was Mexican territory and known as Alta California.
Following the war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo saw the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México ceded to the United States to become modern-day California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Arizona. (Texas actually split from Mexico several years earlier to form a breakaway republic, and was voluntarily annexed by the United States in 1846.)
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Or a Russian version with Alaska missing.
Ketil.Eriksen@absolut.se - Ketil Eriksen, President V&S ABSOLUT Spirits
Anna.malmhake@absolut.se - Anna Malmhake, Global Brand Director, V&S ABSOLUT Spirits
tim.murphy@absolut.com - Tim Murphy, VP Marketing, Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.
jeffrey.moran@absolut.com - Jeffrey Moran, Director of Public Relations and Events, Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.
karl-johan.bogefors@absolut.se - Karl-Johan Bogefors, Global PR Manager, V&S ABSOLUT Spirits
Get Tito’s Vodka, made in Texas, and extremely good!
http://www.liquorsnob.com/archives/2005/10/titos_handmade_vodka_review.php
We may also want to contact major community distributors for their booze, i.e. grocery stores such as Safeway, etc.
by the time we get to President Bush version IV or V that will be a map of the United States
Sorry, but I draw the line at Liquor Store boycotts.
I drink bourbon. Vodka is a commie’s drink.
(And Labatt Blue: “Run Through the Moose Twice”)
How ‘bout a USA version with Mexico gone? We should have taken it when we could. The people would be A LOT better off, as is evidenced by thousands of them hoofing across that border every day.
The sad thing is... if we GAVE Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California back to Mexico... it would not be long before Mexicans would be sneeking accross into Oklahoma, Utah and Nevada... maybe we should start building a wall along those borders.
Cause the problems now in Mexico are not geographical... the corrupt Mexican government would still be corrupt!
I thought Vodka is what the drinking man carries in a flask to work.
1. Manifest Destiny WAS quite possibly the sanest American policy that was every stopped.
2. While reading reading about American Revolutionary Colonies vs "Canada" warfare, it seems the Nova Scotians were actually prepared to throw their lot in with the Colonists, as opposed to the Quebecers. It wasn't until the Brits started moving American Tories to Nova Scotia during the War that it became impractical. A consequence of that British policy was the 2nd expulsion of the Acadians from Canada.
The sad thing is... if we GAVE Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California back to Mexico... it would not be long before Mexicans would be sneeking accross into Oklahoma, Utah and Nevada... maybe we should start building a wall along those borders.
Nahhh, let’s just take over Mexico. We’re getting the ilk anyway, the terrorist have a porous border to walk through,,,we might was well be in control of it.
The world condemns everything we do anyway. While we are at it, we can get our jobs back.
“The U.S.-Mexico border lies where it was before the Mexican-American war of 1848 when California, as we now know it, was Mexican territory...”
Also what it looks like today.
From that depiction, it looks like Chavez has a monopoly on Vodka in addition to his oil.
From that depiction, it looks like Chavez has a monopoly on Vodka in addition to his oil.
“The sad thing is... if we GAVE Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California back to Mexico... it would not be long before Mexicans would be sneeking accross into Oklahoma, Utah and Nevada... maybe we should start building a wall along those borders.”
I agree with your point, but in case you don’t know, illegal immigration has invaded more than those few border states. It’s a BIG problem just about everywhere. Look at Michigan...parts of it look like the middle east, though much of that is ‘legal’ immigration and questionable at best since USCIS doesn’t bother to vet many of them.
More:
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=invasion+800+miles
The Mexican border has moved 800 miles north
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