1

If you experience an Obama administration lasting more than 4 year you might want to consult a death panel.

Not available in HI or AK

2 Appropriate for President Fail.

3 Where's Obama?  One would expect a re-election video to actually feature the candidate.  This one goes out of its way to avoid showing him.

4

I guess he can't use the "politics of the past" line either

5 Should be re-cut with that woman expressing relief that she won't have to worry about paying her mortgage or gas anymore, "Julio" the fry cook who asked him for a job at a townhall, and that other lady at the same townhall who got to the mic and asked him for a house and a new car.

These are the Obama voters.

6 Gag. Seriously. Reasonable folks will hate this ad. Sappy, condescending and saying a whole lot of nothing.

7 Gag. Seriously. Reasonable folks will hate this ad. Sappy, condescending and saying a whole lot of nothing.

Posted by: Lizbth at April 04, 2011 10:56 AM (JZBti)

Fits the candidate perfectly.

8 I believe our Ad response should be Obama stealthily sneaking into His mothers purse grabbing the car keyes and going on a joy ride.

9 Nothing of substance to say about an empty suit?  THE DEUCE YOU SAY?!

My favorite line I heard from the 2008 campaign: Obama is less useful than an empty suit.  You can at least wear an empty suit.

10 Obama Jan 4, 2011:

“My hope is that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell will realize that there will be plenty of time to campaign for 2012 in 2012. And that our job this year is to make sure that we build on recovery.”

11 The ocean did fall. Then water rushed in and rebounded, forming a tsunami.

12 and the oceans have not fallen.

Not so, Ace! In my part of the world, yesterday the ocean went down about five feet, not once but twice! And lemme tell you this, ponk - that has been true EVERY SINGLE DAY since he was inaugurated.

None so blind....

13

Obama has done nothing but make a bad situation worse. The only way he's going to win is if the Strategically-Challenged Party decides to just let him get away with that.

14 Take away his credit card.

15 If you can be affected by this ad, if you are somehow still available to vote for Obama, then you are a complete fool at best and should stay home on Election Day and spend it baking muffins.

16 Obama 2012 Bumper stickers
"If you liked the first campaign, just watch this drive!"
"Now with more foreign money!"
"Because some people still pay for mortgages and gas!"

17 OK I puked on my key board. Who do I see about getting a new one? Who is gonna pay?

18 It'll be interesting to see if all the idiots, who voted for him because they wanted to be part of the historic "first black president" thing, continue down this road of filling jobs, including important ones, based on identity politics.

19 An ad as vapid as the man himself.

20 The question is "are you better off than you were four years ago".

Maybe Obama can rerun this ad from 08 which shows his many unkept promises.

21

So the next GOP ad should start out with one of those "independents" who voted for Obama, but now sees him as the empty suit he really is.  Maybe even with a snarky remark that ole' man McCain is still kickin', so all those worries of him being "succeeded" by you-know-who were just fear-mongering ploys by the hopey-changey crowd.

22 Spot on analysis. A for the people in that ad, if they are not actors: Look... fire! Owwww! Hot! Look... fire! Owwww! Hot! Look... fire! Owwww! Hot! Look... fire! Owwww! Hot! Look... fire! Owwww! Hot! Look... fire! Owwww! Hot! forever and ever...

23 17 OK I puked on my key board. Who do I see about getting a new one? Who is gonna pay?

Posted by: nevergiveup at April 04, 2011 11:02 AM (0GFWk)

Obama!  He'll help pay your bills and get you that new keyboard!

24 Ad says to me - we're losers, Hope? it doesn't really work, but we are still snortin  our  hopium.

25 It begins with usurious taxation!

26 It took 4 years to fix the mess Bush made in 8 years. Expect to hear that alot.

27 God that was half-assed. Even moreso than one would expect. Interesting.

28 Did he mention when I'm going to start seeing that $2500 reduction on my family's health insurance premium??  I figure that must be just around the corner!

Seriously... this asshole promised so much during his first campaign, we gotta nail him on it over and over and over.  And, let's not wait for a candidate to have to do it.. the GOP needs to start hitting him now!

29 Did Obama get punched in the face and called a fucking liar by a ten year old kid whose future is destroyed by debt? If not I ain't watching the fucking thing.

30 No substance, as expected.  Still, it's quite telling that even the people creating Obama's ads know better than to bring up Obamacare. 

And yes, the appropriate rebuttal to this fluff is the simple question "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?". 

31 "and once again resorts to Obama's preferred campaign mode of talking about foggy abstractions and vapid tribal enthusiasm." Also, his other campaign mode of talking about himself. A LOT. Himself with celebrities, Himself with the troops. Himself looking in a mirror. Himself kissing babies. Oh wait, that won't work. Babies, as we now know, are a punishment.

32 "I needed to be elected in order to campaign to be reelected. That's when the laser goes on"

33 Hell they re-elected Patrick Deval.

34 ...then you are a complete fool at best and should stay home on Election Day and spend it baking muffins.
I think using an oven would be too dangerous for those folks. Sitting and watching Jersey Shore is safer advice.

35 Obama is a piece of shit.

36 "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?". Yeah I am.

37 Ace - after watching this, I think it is an ad to get his OFA brownshirts  Hitler Youth volunteers motivated.  I don't think this is targeted at the general public.

38 How's it coming with that 'free gas', Peggy?

I filled up for $3.79 this morning.

Change.

39

empty houses, boarded up windows, unemployment rate, food banks, mideast in flames. empty shopping store fronts, people saying how long till the recovery.

people in mideast shooting their citizens .

tea partiers told to shut up. citizens told to shut-up. GOP shut out of legislation , Debt incurred in huge letters. you're a racist for noticing. end of ad.

40

stay home on Election Day and spend it baking muffins.

 
Bullshit!  Pie!

41 If republicans don't use this oppertunity to pound into the head of the 20 and 30 somethings that they are the ones that are going to have to pay all this debt then I give up.

42 Now available in HD (Hopey Definition).

43 Don't underestimate the amount of empty, vapid, contra-intellectual, where's-my-check lever pullers that will vote for the Hope-n-Change Sequel-"It's Time to Finish the Destruction", simply because they believe there is something in it for them.

Remember that woman who said she won't have to pay for a car, gas. etc. now that "The One" was President? Well she is figuring Part II will get her the payoff...
 

44 First Four Years:

America = Deer
Obama = Deer takes round in hind quarter

Next Four Years

America = Limping Deer
Obama = Deer takes heart shot, then gutted.

45 “It begins with us … and we failed .. EPIC”

46 I am usually either the first or second one at my polling place every important election.

47 It begins with usurp

48 I hope he runs on "It begins with us" The phrase is easily turned on the Lightworker: It begins with us taking away his credit card It begins with us balancing the budget It begins with us taking back the White House

49 C'mon Guys He needs More of a chance and everyone to Help Him. He works so hard can't do it without You helping him.

50 BTW did anything ever come of Holder dismissing charges against people already convicted of election crimes and saying he was offended people cared because it was an offense to "his people"? If the answer is no the 2012 election is already lost.

51 The issue is just his Worshipfullness, it's also the other embedded Donks & Phants who look at a job in DC as running up Mom & Dad's charge card.

52

My friends are already posting the Obama video on their Facebooks. Glad to know brainless college students are ready to bravely shift into "apologist mode".

53 Its not even a election year and his royal snootiness is already doing ads for his relection and amiericas all time worst president we ever had

54 I think Chi-Town Jerry is right that this one is meant to fire up the JuiceBox Infantry in the Army of Bambi. We'll probably see the ad saying "Look! The unemployment rate is down, despite our best efforts!" in the fall.

55 Doesn't bother 52% of America one damned bit.

Some of those 52% will think twice about pulling the level for O when their gas and energy costs are 2-4x greater than when The Great Satan was in office and when they see their savings eaten into by massive inflation.

There will always been a certain percentage of the population that is perpetually stuck on stupid, but *most* people will think about changing course when their very livelihoods are threatened.  At least, I would hope they would...

56 41 If republicans don't use this oppertunity to pound into the head of the 20 and 30 somethings that they are the ones that are going to have to pay all this debt then I give up. -- Been doing that in the college classrooms I've been in front of for 8 years. Some get it, others think I'm Genghis Khan reincarnated. I went as far to suggest today that people should live in a house/apt without air conditioning and cable tv if they cannot afford it. You should've seen some of the dirty looks I got.

57 14 Take away his credit card.

Posted by: USA at April 04, 2011 11:00 AM (YZISw)

That's okay; he can just use ours again.

58 America has another IQ test in Nov. 2012. They failed the one in 2008, but the teacher (MFM) gave them all the wrong answers. Let's see if they did their own homework this time. But judging by the polls, 47% are still failing, and that's too danm close for me.

59 Change that splatters.

60 I haven't seen the video, but the audio was inflicted on me on may way in to work.  I begin to think the only competent people in this admin were Dead-fish and Axle-turf.

61 And to think, if we don't get our shit together, we're losing to these folks.

62 BTW did anything ever come of Holder dismissing charges against people already convicted of election crimes and saying he was offended people cared because it was an offense to "his people"?

If the answer is no the 2012 election is already lost.

Posted by: Mr Pink, with 63% more profanity. at April 04, 2011 11:15 AM (6uybK)

I posted something about it last week.  The investigation determined that nothing was done inappropriately and there was no political reason for dismissing the charges. 

I know...you're shocked, right?

63 Seriously, if the GOP can't beat Obama in 2012, they don't deserve to win.

64 Is it too late to call him the next Sun Muyng Moon or Thulsa Doom?

65 Re-Elect Obama '12: Because As Long As America Is Still Standing, The Job Is Only Half Done

66

My friends are already posting the Obama video on their Facebooks. Glad to know brainless college students are ready to bravely shift into "apologist mode".

Posted by: ChuckOH at April 04, 2011 11:15 AM (vRwqX)

Makes it easy to 'clean up' your friends list, huh?

67 Sure, sure. And here's a little update:

Obama Doctrine:  I'm going to launch a tomahawk today.

68 8 I believe our Ad response should be Obama stealthily sneaking into His mothers purse grabbing the car keys, CRACK PIPE and going on a joy ride.

Posted by: willow at April 04, 2011 10:58 AM (h+qn  

FIFme

69 Calculation;
Price of gas + energy policy (or lack thereof) + Gulf response + ban on drilling + Obama's Contempt for Gulf Ruling = Killer campaign ad.

Nothing pisses people off more than the high price of gas. Especially in a bad economy. We should flog that and ride it like Secretariat into the next election...

That and the fact we have the lowest rate of participation in the labor market in 25 years.

70 It begins with using crack!

71 65 Exactamundo. My thoughts precisely.

72 Posted by: Soap MacTavish at April 04, 2011 11:14 AM (vbh31)

Naa.  If you aim at Jrs & Srs in college- and people newly in the workforce- you get people who are hearing the alarm or have finally managed to wake up about how the real world works (well, more so than the rest of the college crowd).  And I think even more of them are starting to realize that fun & games are awesome, but that eventually the piper will have to be paid.

Not the majority, but more than there were.  And if we can get those to swap sides, we take away a good chunk of the Democrat base.  Just like the African-American community.  If we can get just 2% or so of them to switch, the electoral math is very different.  Good luck with that, of course, but the point remains.

73

Obama = Bad Faith.

The question is - Will Andrew Sullivan continue swoon over Obama's tired speeches?  Words!

 

74 I went as far to suggest today that people should live in a house/apt without air conditioning and cable tv if they cannot afford it. You should've seen some of the dirty looks I got.

Posted by: Doc at April 04, 2011 11:15 AM (PmdXR)

Hell I grew up in a house without air conditioning and cable TV!

Guess I was an abused child...

75
With the economy and people losing there jobs you need  some thing  to replenish jobs let me introduce you to  R.E.E.P the only energy source that  can give you stable non out sourced jobs. it will create jobs in your city town or county. R.E.E.P will create 500 jobs per city, town, or county . With your unemployment at 9% or better it is time to lower  it . Not only will this product create jobs but it will also lower your electric bill.     

76 Well tami if this administration can get away with fucking shit like that its hard for me not to believe his fucking retarded but boys in the MFM and colleg campi won't still pull the lever for that fucking homo.

77 There will always been a certain percentage of the population that is perpetually stuck on stupid, but *most* people will think about changing course when their very livelihoods are threatened.  At least, I would hope they would...
Posted by: Kratos
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I think he will probably lose a very large percentage of the youth vote that came out in 2008.  They voted for Hope and Change and got a shit sandwich instead.

A lot of them were students.. now, they are filling up their gas tank with $4 buck per gallon gas as they look for a non-existent job.

I do not, however, put it past Obambi to come up with some kind of program (using TARP money so he can bypass Congress) to buy this vote back.  He's been pouring billions into student aid as it is.. I'm just waiting for the next big stimulus vote buying program.

78 54

My friends are already posting the Obama video on their Facebooks. Glad to know brainless college students are ready to bravely shift into "apologist mode".

----------------------------------------

Ask them to explain what his accomplishments are? I will bet you hear crickets or mindless blathering sans facts.

79 I can feel the excitement.

80

Obama continues his unprecidented ability to Jinx sports teams though. He picked the UCONN Lady Huskies to win the tournament.

They lost last night in a final 4 game.

81 Remember that woman who said she won't have to pay for a car, gas. etc. now that "The One" was President? Well she is figuring Part II will get her the payoff...

That will be the key to this election. That and the candidate that makes it through the BS Republican primary rules.

If the Peggy Josephs are down because Obama did not put gas in their car and pay their rent at the same time the Republicans get a candidate to energize the base the election will be a walk-away for the Republicans.

If they get a lack-luster McCain type and the unions get out the vote for the commie the Republicans will lose. If the unions can't get out the vote and the Pubs have a McCain it will be a tossup, probably going to the Dems.

82

Trillions in debt. PelosiCare. Tax payer funded everthing. Failed stimulus.

Change!

83

Special wonderful democrats who run Fannie and Freddie were/are still paid millions of tax payer dollars!

Change!  Please, like them man anyway. 

84 This ad cries out for a Glenn Beck radio show parody. Please, Glenn!

Favorite bumper sticker: Don't tell Obama what comes after trillion.

85

Obama Releases First Campaign Ad

More like his "Second Chakra". you know he's dribblin in his pants to get back out there on the campaign trail dontyaknow.

86 Obama 2012. Change you can pee in.

87 And I think even more of them are starting to realize that fun & games are awesome, but that eventually the piper will have to be paid.

They need to ad a college course using these 2 books.

Chicken little and The Little Red Hen.

The first to show you ignore not follow people that are always saying the sky is falling. And the second to show you only eat if you work. That would solve 90% of our problems if they could learn those to simple lessons.

Odd that both books are about chickens I guess the left has been fucking them forever.

88 We all know the Obama campaign will in the end be a steady stream of accusations of Republicans planning on killing Grandma, the poor, and the Working Man (tm). Oh yeah, and we're fear-mongers.

89
O/T

Mark Steyn pounds Miss Lindsey Graham believing he's "unfit for office."

90 "But nowhere in this ad does Obama crow, as Reagan could in 1984, that things are better -- because they're not, of course. So the ad studiously avoids noting tangible, real "changes" -- few, if any, of them are good -- and once again resorts to Obama's preferred campaign mode of talking about foggy abstractions and vapid tribal enthusiasm." ... Ace, you make an excellent point here. What I can't comprehend is why the GOP hasn't been loudly and clearly beating this drum for the past 2 1/4 years. The latest ad alluded to this ideal, but in a snarky, too subtle way. How about clear points that define the falicy that is "Hope and Change" from 2 years down the road? I am not talking about the usual right wing platitudes either. Hit him on his positions, promises, & all the BS nonsense and how the useful idiots defined "Hope" and "Change" to themselves. Examples: "Obama's gonna pay my mortgage!" clip, overlaid with continued housing issues, pictures of Detroit, forthcoming Housing Crisis II, etc. Obama's 2008 campaign speeches on gas, then the "enegy prices will necessarily skyrocket" clip, overlaid with the court order for him to approve exploration applications, today's gas prices, etc. The plethora of Obama's anti-war, anti Bush, and lefty "illegal war, Bush is a war criminal" nonsense, followed by the whole Libya fiasco and the fact that GITMO is still open, and we're still in Iraq and Afghanistan. The list is endless. Instead, we get weak talking point, aimed at right wing voters. Screw it. Take the gloves off and start publicly exposing the asshole for the fraud that he is, to his own base. Let's face it, given our candidate pool, the right is never going to rush out in enthusiastic droves to support any of these idiots. I suspect that the impending primary season will make this problem even worse. Another fact is that the GOP has zero credibility left with it's base. No matter how many snarky zingers they throw out or promises that they make, all anyone with any common sense has to do is look at the spineless ineptitude of our new Republican-led House to say, "Screw it. I am staying home". The opportunity, as I see it, is the comparatively easy task of discrediting Obama with his own base. If even a small percentage of his formerly fawning minions stay home or start bitching about how their gas ain't free and they are still getting kicked out of their houses, the useful idiot "independents" who made up the other half of the 52% will follow, like the sheep that they are.

91 Makes it easy to 'clean up' your friends list, huh? Posted by: Tami at April 04, 2011 11:19 AM (VuLos) Thumbs up on that one!

92

Jim Hoft notes how the MFM has already gone all in. That took, what? Two hours?

93 Are You In?

R.U.IN

that is all.

94 Did President Obama steal his 2012 re-election campaign slogan from a rival?

95 "There are so many things on the table that need to be addressed. And we want them to be addressed by President Obama."

WTF??? You know he's the president right now, yes?

Here's a tip. Political ads aren't supposed to highlight your weaknesses.

On the other hand ... if all you have are weaknesses... well, I guess you're fucked. At least until you have a candidate you and your press buddies can go negative on.

96

I imagine his campaign will look something like this:

1.  If not for Obama, Everything would've been worse.

2.  Those things that are worse?  Bush.

97 90 We all know the Obama campaign will in the end be a steady stream of accusations of Republicans planning on killing Grandma, the poor, and the Working Man (tm). Oh yeah, and we're fear-mongers.

Posted by: Randy at April 04, 2011 11:28 AM (D0PNd)

And RACISTS!  Don't forget RACISTS!!

98 Ad : Peggy Joseph wherever she is , no house or  gas paid for and Obama clips of  their multitude of vacations , parties and golfing, "saying Yes I Can"

99 Somebody needs to make a satire of China depicted as a loan shark who wants his money and Barry as a gambling addict who is risking that money on a lame horse at the track.

100 Obama 2012: This time it's DOUBLE PLUS historic!

101 An ad in which the candidate is not prominently featured?  Color me shocked. 

I'm disappointed that the first ad wasn't featuring Obama's strongest supporter: the Hypnotoad. 

102 Ad speaking to  Left leaners, Obamas words of illegal wars perpetuated on countries against our interests, Clips of Lybia. add rendition and approval to assissinate American citizens and shut down speech.

103

A couple of completely superficial observations.  The older white male had a very vacant look in his eyes.  There was something unsettling about him.  The white female from Colorado looked very strange to me as well- her eyes shifted nervously.  Going from appearances alone, they were not appealing and frankly kind of off-putting. 

What the white female said was so inane, I'm amazed they put it in the ad.  Something along the lines- "It needs to reflect the changes we've had in the past two and half years.  Before, he was an underdog and nobody thought he could win and now he's the president."

So the big change that needs to be reflected in this election is that before, Obama wasn't the president and now he's the president.  That is Billy Madison "puppy speech" stupid.

104 Obama '12 Campaign: "Republicans are a bunch of fear monger, war loving, grandma killing, working people hating, racists that want to take away all the free stuff that you are entitled to!" GOP/ Repiblican du jour Campaign: " Nuh uh!" Obama '12 Campaign: "Oh, we forgot to mention- George Booosh!" This is how Obama will win re-election.

105

Did anyone else notice that almost all the voices were female? There was a noticeable absence of balls in that commercial.

Courting the female vote?

106 We are the parasites we've been waiting for!

107 ad of Obama saying most He will have the most transparent administration ever; count the lies and obsfucation ... er that might have to be an hour or 2 ad.

108 OT:  Fox News

Justice Department source tells Fox News that Khalid Sheikh Muhammed, accused architect of the Sept. 11 attacks, and other suspects will be tried in military tribunal

109 107 Yes, and as Matt said, the one dude from NC wasn't right in the eyes.

Broads and crazy people in that ad. Can't say I'm too surprised.

With all that said, minus Huckabee, any 2012 candidate will get from me as much time and money as I can afford to give.

We just cannot sustain another four years of this gasbag.

110

How come he doesn't remind us that all who oppose him are racist?

He must be waiting to build the suspense...

111

Khalid Sheikh Muhammed

I'm glad, but imagine Holder and Obama's previous position. He'll get away with that to from the left. it's all on a learning curve with this administration. 

112 Okay, folks, "Know thy enemy" exercise.  If you were trying to do a good campaign add for The Burnt Out One (really, can you say he's anything else?) what would you do?  Are there any events you can even spin as accomplishments, beyond the "better international coalition" for the illegal action in Libya?

113 WZ: LA Times Announces ObamaÂ’s New Campaign WebsiteÂ… LATimes.com

114 What a lame-assed ad. Let me translate: He really, really sux but lets give him another 4 years of deep vacuum, please.

115 Obama '12 Campaign: "Republicans are a bunch of fear monger, war loving, grandma killing, working people hating, racists that want to take away all the free stuff that you are entitled to!"

GOP/ Repiblican du jour Campaign: " Nuh uh!"

Obama '12 Campaign: "Oh, we forgot to mention- George Booosh!"

This is how Obama will win re-election.

Posted by: Damiano at April 04, 2011 11:42 AM (3nrx7)

Exactly.  This and your earlier point about the utter deficiency of good messaging by our side, and the dreadful dull field of possible candidates. 

There's no excuse for this.  The truth is on our side.  We don't have to lie!  It's the best thing about being on the Right.  We don't have to make up BS to convince people we're right. 

Our leaders are our worst enemies.  Their limp wristed approach to, well, everything, is sickening.  They have no balls.  They are afraid to attack, to tell the truth, and to really fight.

116 The real issue is who will win control of the Senate.  It would be fitting if Obama was a lame duck for all of his second term.  

117 Whomever runs against the Pretender in Chief needs this as their campaign song.

118 That had all the excitement and inspiration of your average Coffee Party meeting.

119 114 He has spent a trillin dollars to keep unemployment higher than his own economic team said it would be if we spent 0.

120 Just do a "Toonces the Driving Cat" parody with really cheap effects just like the SNL skit and just use multiple stills of Barry's face (like they do on America's Funniest Videos with the Tom Beregeron head).  His passengers will be talking about important issues while Barry is driving around recklessly and ignoring them.   Finish with Barry driving the car off of a cliff.

121 115 WZ: LA Times Announces ObamaÂ’s New Campaign WebsiteÂ… LATimes.com

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 04, 2011 11:51 AM (UO6+e)

jeeze, It's disgusting ! Well i guess we shouldn't be surprised it's all out Propaganda arm for the Dem Party time now.

no shame.

122 Okay, folks, "Know thy enemy" exercise.  If you were trying to do a good campaign add for The Burnt Out One (really, can you say he's anything else?) what would you do? 

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 04, 2011 11:49 AM (8y9MW)

This is a difficult proposition.  Our side is not practiced in telling insidious lies and generating libelous slanders, so it's hard to game this out.  That's how the Dems are able to sway even some of the productive people to their side - a never ending torrent of falsehood.

123 They had to search long and hard to find that bunch of losers in the ad. I wouldn't ask any one of them for directions to the shithouse.

124 @font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } from the Heritage Foundation: 
On March 30, 2011, Senator Charles Schumer (D–NY) with 15 cosponsors, including the Senate Majority and Republican Leaders, as well as six other Democratic Senators, six other Republican Senators, and an Independent Senator, introduced in the Senate the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011 (S. 679)… [snip]… The bill reduces the number of presidential appointments that require the consent of the Senate and establishes within the executive branch a Working Group on Streamlining Paperwork for Executive Nominations.

125 @126 - sorry for the formatting issues!  link is here: http://tinyurl.com/3juusd7

126 111

"Broads and crazy people..."

You said the same thing twice.

127 OMG, just viewed the ad, definitely voting for Obama. There was so much substance in that short ad, it was overwhelming. It touched all the bases from "Obama is busy" to "Obama is awesome". Really well done.

128 OBAMA 2012: The price of oil reached a 30 month high of $108 per barrel - Yes it can!

129 Magic Beans?  All we've gotten from Obama is processed beans--flatulence and a foul odor.

130

An ad full of Geoff's charts are all we need.

Even as adverse as we are to math, the nation understands the importance of the degradation of virtually every real metric used to measure the failure of The Vapid One©. Something simple and to the point, pulling no punches, with perhaps a personal note thrown in ("How many of your friends are currently out of work?") would substitute as the "Are you better off now than four years ago."

Naturally, the GOP won't do this, but a Boy can dream...

131 I posted this at Ricochet:

Say you're an Obama supporter and for the first time in your life, you decide to think. What did you get for your Obama vote?

Unemployment at a "low" of 8.8% even with some fiddling of the numbers about 3 months ago.Inflation rising, especially on food and other essentials.Gitmo, still open.Skyrocketing gas prices, enriching all of Bush and Cheney's oil buddies.Iraq and Afghanistan still ongoing, with Afghanistan a listless mess.Gitmo, still open.A new war in Libya which seems to have been poorly managed from the start.A president who spends every weekend on the golf course and who goes on so many lavish vacations, it's become more of a laugh line than Bush's "vacations" to Crawford.Gitmo, still open.A president, named Hussein whose grandfather was Muslim, but is still hated and mocked by the Arab street.A cozy relationship with big business, most notably with GE's Jeff Immelt.Gitmo, still open.Joblessness for young black males through the roof.A GOP tidal wave in 2010 and more coming in 2012 in Congress.Gitmo, still open.

How's that hope 'n' change workin' out for ya?

132 OBAMA 2012 : (Hope & Change)²

133

AllenG- we got a taste with this ad.  They want to get the youth vote energized and want the next wave of college students to feel like they're part of the party they missed out on 4 years ago.  The african-american female was used for the message- hey, the african-american vote has to be energized on its own, don't expect him to be pandering. 

He won't make an explicit racial appeal, just like last time when he downplayed race.  Instead, he will try to hype the Walker/union issue to get blue collar white male union members on board for economic reasons.

134 @114 Healthcare. But we'll have to wait until after Romney is nominated for them to start beat that drum, so they have insulation. After that it will be *cue ominous deep voice*: "As Governor, Romney enslaved MA with a crippling, unfunded healthcare system that bankrupted the state and failed to provide coverage for millions. President Obama, who isn't a creepy, paligamist, racist Morman, is on the side of working people. Unlike Romney, who hates poor people, especially black poor people, vand undocumented immigrants, Obama passed the unprecedented Heathcare Reform Act in his first term. Not only is it fully funded, but it has reduced our deficit, and is already helping people with preexisting conditions and your poor, defenseless 26 year old children, who would have otherwise surly have died from attacks by tonsul-stealing doctors or a gunshot wound from a Republican toting an assault weapon on a hunting trip- like Mitt Romney. Now, Mitt Romney wants to kill your grandmother, just like he killed Obama's grandmother in 2008. Obama/ Biden 2012, or else Romeny will kill grandma... and your 26 year old children."

135 I take a back seat to no one in my distaste for The Won, but let's remember something here.

We conservatives can no longer claim that an ad campaign for an incumbent which is built around gauzy nonspecifics is somehow cheating.

Not after the gauzy nonspecifics of the Hal Riney "Morning in America" ads which the Reagan campaign ran in eighty-four.

Those things left a bad taste in my mouth then, and they still do. I thought Reagan should have made a tough, factual stance on issues and policies instead.

The ads worked, and they got Reagan re-elected, but they represented a trend towards consumer advertising methods in politics, a trend which later brought us President Billy Jeff and President Lightworker.

Consumer advertising is used to sell what are for the most part overpriced and shoddy BS products. We should not be surprised that when such advertising invades politics, what we get are overpriced and shoddy BS policies.

136 Y'all will have to always translate Obammy's crap here as I cannot read nor watch. I'd rather slowly poke my own eyeballs out with an ice pick. Cannot, cannot watch nor hear him (and his ssssssssss sounds). Ugh. There is no measure of the disdane I feel. None. November 2012 and his defeat cannot come soon enough.

137 Oh, and thanks for the formatting, Pixy.  Looks all nice and perfect in the box and then -- bam! -- wall of text.

138

from Miss80's link ;

In his campaign, Obama will stress the economy, healthcare reform and efforts to wind down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

 

hahahahha same ol same ol.

139 Posted by: Matt at April 04, 2011 12:02 PM (ecpMe)

Naaa.  I'm going on the theory that some of that 52% are either awake now, or feel they've performed their "historic" duty, and will need actual accomplishments to vote his way again.

Posted by: Damiano at April 04, 2011 12:04 PM (3nrx7)

That may not be too far off.  Which indicates a) NOT MITT ROMNEY and b) that we need to hammer the health care bill over, and over, and over again- starting today.

I think he'll run on that "making work pay" "tax credit" (that isn't one), so we also need to start explaining- today- why that wasn't a tax credit, and why it didn't actually put any more money, ultimately, in families pockets.

Did Porkulus do anything that could be spun as an accomplishment?  We need to road-block that, too.

140 137 I take a back seat to no one in my distaste for The Won, but let's remember something here.

We conservatives can no longer claim that an ad campaign for an incumbent which is built around gauzy nonspecifics is somehow cheating.

Not after the gauzy nonspecifics of the Hal Riney "Morning in America" ads which the Reagan campaign ran in eighty-four.

I'm happy for your concern.  You are quite the concerned conservative, aren't you?  So concerned that you named the person who did the Morning in America ads, you have to be really wonky to have named him.  Maybe his name has popped up like the name Koch lately, I'm not sure.

But it isn't the gauzy nonspecifics that are a problem.  Reagan's message, such as it was, is that things have gotten better.  Obama's message, such as it is, is "Don't look at the man behind the curtain."

And I'm glad for your concerned conservatism, but it is widely acknowledged that the shallowness of presidential campaigns started with Nixon/Kennedy in 1960.

Besides, times have changed.  The Tea Party runs the show now.

141 The only thing I got out of the ad was Gladys has a nice rack.

142

Did Porkulus do anything that could be spun as an accomplishment?  We need to road-block that, too.

"Did you forget the 'Summer of Recovery' already?

Ungrateful Teabaggers...

143 @136
I lol'ed. 

144 I was watching Mad Men and they were in the conference room pitching ideas for this and that one guy who's really serious said, "Here's how we tell the core audience that white people still secretly hate the President, so we can get them riled up, and still appeal to the elderly white demo. I got it! Find someone with the baby blues that twinkle 'adore me' and have him refer to the President disrespectfully, by his first name only. Now I am off to boink my secretary, smoke a Chesterfield, drink some Scotch, and pick up my Emmy."

145 @137
Consumer advertising is used to sell what are for the most part overpriced and shoddy BS products.

Which is why your argument has no bearing on Reagan '84. 

146 but it is widely acknowledged that the shallowness of presidential campaigns started with Nixon/Kennedy in 1960

+1 to that. 

Even my dad, a Kennedy Democrat who saw the light when McGovern ran, said Nixon won on substance (lost on makeup). 

147 Damiano,
What about the crucial "people whose grandmas are already dead" demographic?  Will they vote for Romney?

148

paligamist,

Really?

149 And how does the RNC respond?

Meh:  http://tinyurl.com/44tdoz6

150 And how does Tim Pawlenty respond?  Apparently by hiring Michael Bay to direct his campaign ads:  http://tinyurl.com/42ht6y7

151 The real issue is who will win control of the Senate.

Right, because if one thing Grand Moff Obama is known for, it's consistent, humble deference to the separation of powers and to the constitutional limits of his own.  In fact, we've all seen just how dedicated the fascist animals of the Left are in general to the expression of contrary views through the legislative process.

I can see Madison burning from my house.

152 @149 Not unless their grandma is dead AND they've already had their tonsils removed AND their 26 y/o kids have jobs and their own insurance. In other words: Obama WINS!

153

AllenG

I think it is the union (or anti-worker and government benefit) aspect that the Obama campaign will capitalize on.  What got the college kids riled up in Madison to protest on behalf of cranky and crusty old teachers and cops?  (Can you ever remember hippie protestors claming to be fighting on behalf of the police?) It wasn't that the Wisconsin dems had a solid plan that they were for, it was because the kids believed they were marching for worker's rights/human rights.  They were marching for an ephemeral leftist ideal.  A dem candidate didn't need to show past accomplishments in Wisconsin to convince them to agitate, they just told them that Walker was a fascist that was turning the clock back.

Obama is going to run against Paul Ryan-type cuts in government spending as being the coming Armageddon with the forces of evil.  He keeps the black vote, and goes after the youth vote, umarried women afraid of government cuts, seniors afraid of health care cuts, government workers and blue collar white union members.

154 Obama will stress the economy

For three years he's been stressing it like Tom Jones stressed Elvira.  I don't think the girl can take another five.

155 Posted by: Damiano at April 04, 2011 12:29 PM (3nrx7)

The banner of your Honey Badger pic arrived and I will be sending it off to Afghanistan today.

Thank you again for all your help!

156 And how does Tim Pawlenty respond?  Apparently by hiring Michael Bay to direct his campaign ads:  http://tinyurl.com/42ht6y7

Posted by: Shane at April 04, 2011 12:24 PM (ZbL2n)

That's not Michael Bay. Where the hot chick bending over something?

157

96 Did President Obama steal his 2012 re-election campaign slogan from a rival?

Why not! He ripped off the title of Newt's book 'Winning the Future.'

158

And how does Tim Pawlenty respond?  Apparently by hiring Michael Bay to direct his campaign ads:  http://tinyurl.com/42ht6y7

And not a single explosion?  I feel cheated.

159 I think his naked mom pics would get more attention.

160
He's begging the 2008 voters to hang in.

161 @157 Cool! Hope it turned out well! All the best to the Afghan crew!

162 That was CRAP. And the left will love it.

163 Here's a pic of it.  It's not a great pic.....I took it with my phone.

http://tinyurl.com/3sd9evw

164 I enthusiastically voted for McCain in 2008. I was devastated by Obama's win, and could not bring myself to watch television for most of 2009. In early 2010, however, I began to feel the first hints of hope reawakening in America. Despite my skepticism, I felt we finally had a President who was unafraid to confront the structural issues facing our economy. It was wait and see, but the last jobs report has convinced me of the wisdom of Obama's long range policy. So, too, I was concerned with how the President might weaken America in the eyes of the world. Yet, soon enough, another ruthless dictator will be toppled in Libya. The cost is unclear, certainly, but I feel I can now trust Obama's judgment in situations involving a calculated risk. No, I cannot subscribe to his views on all social issues. But I have the same disagreements with my beloved neighbors, too! As well as those I worship with every Sunday. That does not cause me to abandon them. So I will stick with Obama, through thick and thin. I have learned much about myself in the past three years. When I voted for McCain, I was certain I was voting out of pure principle. After much soul-searching, I have come to an different, unsettling conclusion: I was a racist.

165 Well...it's true- New Horror Movie Trailer Has Best Tagline Ever!

166 I believe that if this is a fair fight, any even remotely plausible republican candidate will beat Obama.  Kind of a huge if there though, isn't it.  And I'm not talking just about the remarkable numbers of dead democrat voters, gotv money aka bought and paid for votes, or black panther shenanigans.  I also include the press coverage right out of the gate.  The one thing that still galls me from '08 was the army of reporters digging through trash in Alaska that the lamestream unleashed.  Compare that with any of the issues which might have hurt the golden child; "Oh we've covered that," or "the voters don't care about the distant past".  That was (to me) the first time that it was really blatant how in the bag they were.  Of course, they always were in the bag, they just used to have at least a smidgen of shame and pretended to fairness.  Gah, BP going up.  Hey at least it's not too early for a drink.

167 "What about my accomplishments? You didn't ask me about those." --- Barack Obama

168 Posted by: Joseph Sullivan at April 04, 2011 12:50 PM (bN5ZU)

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!11!!

169 One problem is that the establishment scum that is allegedly on our side has is that they have failed to comprehend that they are dealing with a cult of personality and nothing resembling rational thinking... and I am referring to the indies, not the left, who even worse. The one good ad in 2008 was the Moses one, because it called Teh Won out on this fact. He didn't know how to respond and it had an impact on a lot of people. Alas, here we are in 2010 and already Obama's milquetoast video is the top headline in every media outlet, getting posted on every college Facebook page in America, and the mindless hoards are ignoring reality again and starting up the machine to reelect their Messiah. Unfortunately, the days were elections were about issues or even resembled reality are over. 2008 made HS class president elections look rational. The fact is that people don't vote (or do much of anything) anymore using logic or common sense. They don't pick movies based on the quality or storyline, they go for the flashy effects, the name the feel some association with, and the one that requires the least amount of thought. If it sucks, it doesn't discourage them from going back for the " reboot" 2 years later. "Hope" and "Change" was effective BECAUSE it said nothing. People read into it whatever they wanted and bought into the idea that Bush was the Antichrist because the media said so 24/7 for 8 years. Even so, I bet Bush could have beaten Obama, had he not already served his 2 terms, simply because not thinking and the "known evil" is easier than thinking/ unknown evil. If you think about it, Kerry's was a better candidate with a better (rationally speaking) campaign than Obama. E campaign message was logically the same. He lost because electing him would have required people to think. Since Bush wasn't running in 2008 and they had a ready-made meme, Hope and Change was even more effective. Our side will lose, because people are stupid and lazy. The only way that we don't lose is if a) the country implodes, or b) the imbeciles running campaigns realize that logic and reason have nothing to do with it and beat Obama mercilessly, to his own base, using his own game.

170
Wow he is getting brutalized in the YouTube comments....

and that is the official B.O. channel...

171 I think it's pretty obvious that the Obama campaign, with the whole-hearted assistance of the MFM, will be entirely negative.

Reelecting Barry not be a vote for more of the same but rather, will be a vote against whichever mouth-breathing, bible-thumping, granny-murdering, child-starving tool-of-the-rich the Republicans foist on the voters with their corrupt back-room deals between their rape-the-working-man transnational masters.

172 Urp.  The ad is clearly pointed at his base - telling them that they have to get him elected again.  He's too "busy?"  Suure... he's hiding under the desk.

Grassroots my ass.  If anything, this ad should remind all the real grassroots people of the shit they had to take from the Democrats, the media, and the precedent about being "astroturfers."

173 Let's face it. Who else are most of these people going to vote for- Mitt Romney? Newt Gingrich? I think not.

The same way we would vote for a ham sandwich over Obama, they will vote for Obama over any Republican that looks like a Republican. Well for that matter they will vote for Obama over any Republican that resembles a Democrat. John McCain provided that witness.

174

@38: "How's it coming with that 'free gas', Peggy?

I filled up for $3.79 this morning.

Change."

Bitch, what you doin' postin' on some damn Reichwing racist website?  You need to get your ass to work and pay your motherfuckin' taxes.  My gas ain't gonna fill itself, you cracka-ass cracka.  Pay up, sucka.

175 Obama is running again ?

Will anybody notice ? I mean, when hasn't he been campaigning ?

176 I filled up for $3.79 this morning.

Under the outstanding leadership of Barack Obama, that $3.79 is just the beginning. With the re-election of Pres**ent Obama, four years from now, I bet he will double that.

177

@117: "Our leaders are our worst enemies.  Their limp wristed approach to, well, everything, is sickening.  They have no balls.  They are afraid to attack, to tell the truth, and to really fight."

You seem to be operating under the delusion that they want to fight.  They don't.  They want more gummint power as badly as the Left - they're simply national socialists as opposed to international socialists.  Further, they are party of the ruling class, and the new nobility will not be denied its rightful due and proper.

178

@118: "The real issue is who will win control of the Senate.  It would be fitting if Obama was a lame duck for all of his second term."

Executive Order, bitchez.  Stroke of My pen, law of the land.  Cool, innit?

179 @166
I am so impressed by your sincerity. 

No. Really.

180 Posted by: Joseph Sullivan at April 04, 2011 12:50 PM (bN5ZU)

Damn!  Nailed by a sock!  Clearly I need more coffee. 

181 Obama Releases First Campaign Ad
Birth certificate and records remain missing.

182 "so it's up to his remnant of hardcore hope-and-changers to drag his sorry ass over the finish line." - Indeed!

For liberals, the next election cycle is about getting all those people who voted for the first time in their lives to bother to vote again. Not gonna happen with this kind of announcement.

183 All bun and no burger.

184 I wonder if "arab75" is their i.q. average?

185
Cynically manipulative.  Its like they cast it out of any Ivy League admissions officer's wet dream

Actor 1.  token southern, white, middle age, male, (Ed seems a bit crazed and  medicated.) 

Actor 2.  southwest Latina with no discernible Mexican accent (unless she wants one)

Actor 3. Boulder liberal female. (Katherine of Colorado, of the Birksenstocks and unshaven legs, is literally shifty-eyed at  0:23.

Actor 4.  New York, 19 year old, male, college student. (Probably Vassar.)

Actor 5.  Lone African American.  Michigan. Of Course.

These actors people seem a little Stepfordish. 

186 Okay, folks, "Know thy enemy" exercise.  If you were trying to do a good campaign add for The Burnt Out One (really, can you say he's anything else?) what would you do?  Are there any events you can even spin as accomplishments, beyond the "better international coalition" for the illegal action in Libya?

Screw it. Nuclear Option.

Ad opens to video of Obama giving speech in Cairo: Screen text. "President Obama, Cairo, June 4, 2009, speech to the Muslim world." quote from speech:

"I also know civilization's debt to Islam. ... Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.  And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.  (Applause.)

Cut

Emergency vehicles at Fort Hood.  Hassan.  Flag draped coffins. crying relatives. Witness saying "Hassan shouted Allahu Akhbar! and started shooting" Voice over of Obama saying: ""We don't know all the answers yet and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts,"

Cut

Obama quote about cop after Gates arrest: "I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts – what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that he Cambridge police acted stupidly..."

Announcer:  "To win a war, you have to know you are in one and you have to be able to recognize the enemy.  Barack Obama gives more benefit of the doubt to Muslim terrorists who murder Americans than he gives to American police officers." 

Barack Obama.  How much do you really know about him?

187 Gere's Gerbil: Cynically manipulative.  Its like they cast it out of any Ivy League admissions officer's wet dream

Absolutely. There is no doubt it's the manifestation of the 'dream team' of Obama 2012 workers down the street from me who consist mostly of 20 year old doucebag's who think that donning a pair of thick black glasses and using a mac entitles them to be considered an edgy intellectual on the avante-guard of society.

There is an opening for a strong conservative message that focuses on action, not message. Drop the production values (embrace the lack of them, in fact) and insistently attack the disparity between Obama's lifestyle and those of the average American who is either fighting for a job or one of the 44 Million now on food stamps. Use his campaign against him, even down to the stupid bold-faced typography.

188 What's up with that pink DS? My daughter has one, but I don't think I've ever seen a young man holding one, except the sales clerk while he got it out of the locked case in Best Buy.

189

"....dreadful dull possible field of candidates"?

In alphabetical order: Bachmann, Bolton, Caine, Palin, and West--

West/Bolton - retired colonel and UN dude vs.Obama/ Biden at the foreign policy debate -- Islam-Israel and the Middle East, treatment of women under Islam, four foreign wars, defending the U.S. and border, and energy from overseas.

Bachmann/Caine -  tax lawyer and  CEO debate Obama on the debt, deficit. taxes, inflation, and the cost of living including energy, food, and housing.

Palin vs. Obama on the future of the country, including Homeland Security, the Nanny State, schools, relationships with allies, oil drilling-fishing and other natural resources, American exceptionalism and American values.

And that's not even counting the first woman -- or two, the first Alaskan, the first military leader since Eisenhower, the first CEO, the first combination-minority, or the first culturally-American black -- or two. (Or the first 'stache since Teddy)

With the issues we have (When has it been so important?), the exciting candidates we have, and Obama ads that write themselves, only the stupid Republicans are the only ones who could possibly blow this.

Wait a minute.

Oh, yeah -- Don't forget that you have me to bring up sticky issues.

 

 

 

190 In ramble above? Make that "sharia" just after the words "middle east" in the West/Bolton part.  Snappier.