Do You Like This Ad?

The Our Country Deserves Better PAC has put together a new anti-Obama ad. I imagine they're looking to raise money to air it. The thing that struck me was that, because you know where something labeled an anti-Obama ad is eventually going, it sort of makes you cringe early on. You'll likely pick-up the cringe-inducing reference if you listen to it. It's in a reference to a Congressman's warning.

But then a second problem sets in for me. Nothing in the ad is untruthful.

What do you think, over the top? I suspect it will play well to a portion of the base.

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Comments

[mark l.]

a jargon filled legal brief...

would have been better running a "victory in iraq" commerical, praising the success of the soldiers who fought and died for a thing called "Operation Iraqi Freedom".

end commerical with:

even if the president cannot acknowledge your accomplishments, the american people will always remember. Your success in these endeavors has honored this nation.

[southdakotaboy]

The more we get under Obama's skin the better. He can't take critism and being the scum bag that he is he will lashout. Then there will be even more to use against him.

We must do all we can to make sure Obama and the left fail.

[PA]

Pretty lame. To vague.

[David R. Graham]

How about these lines (quotes, not mine, guess whose):

On Free Speech: "To me, freedom of speech is something that represents the very dignity of what a human being is. That's what marks us off from the stones and the stars. You can speak freely. It is really the thing that marks us as just below the angels." (1994)

On Freedom and Resistance:"There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop, And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all." (1964)

On the Struggle for Justice: "We have to be prepared on the basis of our moral insight to struggle even if we do not know that we are going to win. [It's a weakness] to underestimate the importance of spiritual values. By spiritual values, I mean we as a community can feel something deeper than we are: not that we as a community feel God is on our side but some sense of looking down into the heart of things and being able to perceive which way is just, which way is not just. And that's what we have to convey to people. Not everyone for himself, but all of us for the community." (1994)

On Strength through Unity: "The civil rights movement just burst on the United States right on the tube [TV]. We saw images of young people being attacked by dogs, by powerful water-cannons. And they faced their fears, they overcame their fear by holding one another. That was a lesson that what we need, the strength that we need, we can find in one another. It was, of course, an image of great courage, and I have not had to face the kinds of things that those people had to face. But if they were willing to face that, then I felt by that very thing both shamed and inspired to do what I could do. And to take the lesson of holding one another as a way it could be done." (1995)

Sounds like a theologian, specifically a Franciscan theologian. Think 1964, Berkeley.

[a. salieri]

too many words.

[syn]

I don't know what the base thinks however I am thoroughly surprised that so many sophisticated women cannot see right through the veneer of a smooth-talking bad-boy; one must be terribly gullible to not to see the obvious.

This is my truth, after 47 years of feminism I am so very disappointed to witness so many women fall so easily; I guarantee when he beats the living daylight out of her she'll beg for more.

[Skatzbert]

Putting aside all of the above-mentioned objections, how’s this:

Given recent experience with the MSM, what makes anyone think that they will agree to sell ad space to air this?

I’d venture the odds are greatly less than 50/50.

[Ran]

Dan: The Chicago Thug Fascist is showing himself for who he is and what he's doing. There's simply no need to run a negative ad. The Won *is* a negative ad. He's skinny, androgynous and humorless; He makes direct threats and petty insults. His lies are simplistic and ad-nauseam. Even his voter base is raising eyebrows at the commissars and heavy thug fists.

I'd go the other way: I'd run a positive ad about what can be done and what works. I'd make it inspiring, optimistic. I'd remind America that her greatness is the aggregate of her individual's achievements, not the result of some nanny policy. I'd run an ad showing the benefits of push-back and radical tax cuts. That's what Reagan did.

Besides... The economy is about to tank. The fundamentals are being sucked dry. We need to know - now - how to prepare ourselves and how to turn this country back on course to Freedom.

[seekeronos]

"--- Besides... The economy is about to tank. ---"

Tank? It will be far worse than we could have ever possibly imagined, if it plays out according to what Dr. Soejima and Peter Schiff and some others indicate.

Try mass starvation and seeing the *tanks* (not necessarily ones belonging to the US either) rolling out down main street to put down local insurrections.

[spongeworthy]

Gotta agree that this is too limited and wordy at the same time. There are better shots to take at the guy among an awful lot of material to work with. But if I were asked, I'd take a pass on this one.

Not a bad effort, but not worth my money.