Are you joking or are you suggesting that Hawke wasn't in control of his faculties? Or, that he was bullied or somehow deceived into participating in the advertisements?
The old man was still sharp and fully able to make his own decisions. More importantly he was simply endorsing the continuation of his own policies.
The ads are powerful because they're a reminder of what life could be like without Medicare. They're a reminder of the values associated with Medicare and how hard won those gains were and remain. Privatised medicine is the US system and what many conservatives prefer, and the devil take the hindmost
You don't cope with the truth about Hawkey terribly well, do you?
