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2012 The New Obama Ads Are Brutal for Mitt Romney
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:48 PM
Today, the Obama campaign put out the second video that directly attacks Mitt Romney's lies about President Obama using President Obama's own words. It's a strong political commercial:
There's nothing better in a political advertisement than when you catch your opponent in a lie, and these videos do that over and over again. (You can find the first video here.) The trick will be in getting these videos seen by the right people. Democrats will love them, of course, because they play to their interests. Far-left progressives will see them as more evidence that President Obama is leaning rightward on all the wrong issues. Republicans will do a step-by-step fisking of the points to prove that Romney was right all along. But these commercials need to be seen by independents and moderates, and hopefully the DNC is working on building a reliable framework for getting their materials out there. It sounds like they're building a network to do just exactly that.
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@17: "It's easy to mock a community organizer"
Of course they see the GOTV value of community organizers, they mock because it doesn't offer anyone enough profit and it's not macho, like the Captains of Industry Republicans are blah blah blah.
Effectiveness and productivity is utterly frightening to them.
Of course they see the GOTV value of community organizers, they mock because it doesn't offer anyone enough profit and it's not macho, like the Captains of Industry Republicans are blah blah blah.
Effectiveness and productivity is utterly frightening to them.
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That last link in the post - on how advanced Obama's national organization is compared to Romney's - should be a white-knuckler for any Republican.
Here you have Romney, who is spending most of his money and energy trying to quell an unelectable yokel who has no national organization and practically no money.
And then there's Obama, who will have 50+ times the money than Santorum had, who has over 2300 events planned already, 500 phone banks planned for Florida, over 200 offices actively campaigning NOW.
It's easy to mock a community organizer, until you realize that community outreach an invaluable element of a campaign. It's surprising that Romney doesn't seem to realize this, but then, he's used to just buying things.
Here you have Romney, who is spending most of his money and energy trying to quell an unelectable yokel who has no national organization and practically no money.
And then there's Obama, who will have 50+ times the money than Santorum had, who has over 2300 events planned already, 500 phone banks planned for Florida, over 200 offices actively campaigning NOW.
It's easy to mock a community organizer, until you realize that community outreach an invaluable element of a campaign. It's surprising that Romney doesn't seem to realize this, but then, he's used to just buying things.
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The old republican strategy of lying with confidence and style isn't going to work like it used to...
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@8, here's what I wrote @4: "so except for Romney's lie about Obama not mentioning the words debt/deficit, the rest just leaves the viewer having to decide whom to believe."
Do you have anything to contribute about the rest of the ad?
Do you have anything to contribute about the rest of the ad?
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zzzzzz. Nobody cares what Obama said vs what Mittens said. Now, if this was clip after clip of Mittens contradicting himself... Well there we go.
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So, according to Paul Constant, only far left wingers would think that pursuing the politics of empire, or peddling conservative sound bites about the debt and spending cuts shows that Obama leans to the right. Was that a slur directed at those who don't drink DNC Kool-Aid, Paul?
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@4. Bad listening skills I guess. Mitt says he didn't mention the deficit in the State of th Union then ad shows footage of him doing so. Since Mitts talking about his words, showing him saying those words proves it. doesn't get much simpler.
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@4: "if you don't already like Obama"
There's apparently a not-insignificant percentage of Americans who make up their minds at the last moment about everything.
There's apparently a not-insignificant percentage of Americans who make up their minds at the last moment about everything.
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This is a good ad? Come on...you take some words, pair them with some more words from someone else from a different date and time and it's truth? Obama lies to the people today just as he did in 08' and that's what's brutal about it.
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It's a stupid ad - if you don't already like Obama, then you don't see his words as evidence that Romney's lying; you see his words as evidence that Obama lies (and hence Romney is telling the truth). There's no representation of "independent fact checking" in the video, so except for Romney's lie about Obama not mentioning the words debt/deficit, the rest just leaves the viewer having to decide whom to believe.
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So I can be easily swayed and manipulated sometimes, sure... I LOVED that ad.
But Paul's got this spot on: "more evidence that President Obama is leaning rightward on all the wrong issues"
But Paul's got this spot on: "more evidence that President Obama is leaning rightward on all the wrong issues"
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