Presidential politics now a game of chicken

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Here’s a clay-animated, election-themed commercial for Bojangles Chicken from Eric Mower and Associates. An alien abduction is thrown in for no good reason. I was expecting dancing drumsticks, flapping wings or a conga line of animated poultry. My expectations, in what could be construed as a metaphor for American politics in general, were not met. Hey, Bojangles: Where’s the bird? An animated Hillary doesn’t count. At least we finally know where the current administration gets its policy ideas: Mars.

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