Massachusetts residents who tuned in to the
Olympics opening ceremony saw a new 30-second
campaign commercial from the Democratic candidate for
U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Warren, that said America should be more
like Communist China.

“We’ve got bridges and roads in need of repair and thousands of
people in need of work. Why aren’t we rebuilding America?” asks
Warren, a professor at Harvard Law School who served in the Obama
administration. “Our competitors are putting people to work,
building a future. China invests 9% of its GDP in
infrastructure. America? We’re at just 2.4%. We can do
better.”

The ad juxtaposes robust Chinese cranes and dump trucks with
decaying American bridges and idle but sympathetic-looking American
workers wearing hard-hats.

Warren’s approach is so flawed, writes Ira Stoll, that it’s
amazing that her campaign would spend the money on putting it into
a prime-time Olympics commercial that was presumably designed not
to alienate people but rather to get them to vote for her. You
really have to see it to believe it.