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Subscribe to RSSRepublican Rep. Pete Hoekstra, running for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, is defending an ad his campaign ran during the Super Bowl using a Chinese girl speaking broken English to attack Stabenow.
“The only group of people that this ad is ‘anti’ - it’s anti-Debbie Stabenow; it’s anti-Barack Obama, the spending policies of the liberal left,” Hoekstra said on FOX. “You’ll notice that the ad points to the opportunities that America’s dumb economic policies - deficit spending, trillion dollars of deficits, trillions and trillions of debt - it creates the opportunities for countries like China and others to take advantage of our weakness. … It weakens the U.S. economy, and it strengthens our competitors.”
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Isn't it amazing just how stupid these tea people GOP republican candidates are. You'd think after the demon sheep and the I'm not a witch ads they'd learn to stay away from this guys ads. He must be a great salesman or these candidates are really stupid.
....or the ad guy is really cheap, on top of the candidates being really stupid!
Ya' get what ya' pay for.......
Pete Hoekstra is another in a long line of Republicans who rail against Any Kinda Government, but just can't seem to live LIFE without being on somekind of Tax Payer Benefits, be it State or Federal. Michigan voters did'nt want'em as Governor in 2010, so now he thinks they've hadda change of heart & want'em as thier Senator.
My Mom at 81 years young tells it like it is: "Get these OLDER folks outta Decision making & let others Try to cleanup this MESS"!
Here @ Occupy SoggyBottom, were hearing Frogs & seeing a Robin from time to time, so Spring can't be to Far away!
Occupy SoggyBottom!
The ads are designed to get attention, which is what this one is doing. It doesn't matter that it is blatantly racist. It doesn't matter that the central message is absolute economic nonsense. What matters to them is that all of a sudden a lot people know the name Pete Hoekstra who didn't before, and they know that he doesn't like China.
He's working on taking down his third candidate.
I have read alot of Republicans are upset about this. I guess they are supposed to hide this racism. When one of them acts like this it sort of outs the entire party. If one of them feels this way and is willing to express it this clearly, then how many feel this way and hide it. I think it is one of those iceburg things where you only see 10% because the rest in hidden.
So for everyone of these guys that go on and justify really racist stuff assume there are nine more elected officials or candidates who feel the same way.
(R) behind their name does not always mean Republican.
This is a good example of how far the extremist will go to get their skewed views and beliefs into everyone else's life. You hear of "Christian Attorney's, trickle down economics and compassionate conservatism from TEA party or Social conservatives, when in fact they want to control everything they can. Wake up America! those who would want to control will take away those very freedoms we cherish! To all the potential voters in Minnesota, Colorado, Maine, Arizona and Michigan. Remember this: If you vote for TEA party members you will be voting for a concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people and the concentration of power in stricter, less compassionate hands. If you vote for Romney, you will be voting for someone who would kiss another ring to gain votes when you should be the one who that candidate would represent. If you vote for Paul you will be voting for one who would do away with all the social programs currently helping those on the edge of society and taking America into isolationism. Voting for Gingrich would be voting for baggage and a short fuse and someone who has already failed grossly in Congress. These current contenders have pledged to puppeteers like Grover Norquist and others who would take America into yet another war.
Is racial profiling illegal?
I guess not according to mr. Hoekstra...
"If you can't win, BUY IT; If you can't buy it, CHEAT!" (He MUST be a Republican/Tea candidate.)
stupid hypocrit...
just like a pub! create a mess and then blame it on the other party?
this ad was an embarrassment to michigan and the couyntry and is nothing but proproganda the same used by the germans and japanese in world war ll.
very anti-american!
Have any of you left wing nuts ever traveled to an Asian country? If you had you would know that the majority of people living in foreign countries speak in broken English, and I don't care if it's an Asian country or a European country or any other foreign country.
The ad was filmed in California and the Chinese lady was a actress however it was intended to reflect someone in China. Would it have made a difference if it was actually filmed in China? I don't think so, the only problem the left has with this is it states the truth, that is, China is the biggest buyer of our debt and we are the biggest buyers of Chinese made products.
We need to get over this political correctness BS.
Um, I don't know, the distillation of over 25 Asian ethnic subgroups into rice paddies, a bicycle, straw hat, broken English, and nondescript "oriental" music in the background? And somehow this is recognizable, by a disturbingly large segment of the American population as "China"? In addition, it is relying on the stereotypes of how Asians are always smiling and pleasant, but really sneaky, reminiscent Vietnam war era, and has instigated more comments about hot Asian women attached to this article than I care to remember.
Certainly there is a better way to comment on government overspending?
Hoekstra calls Stabenow "Spenditnow" and calls himself "Pete Spenditnot Hoekstra". But this self-described deficit hawk supported subsidies for Big Oil. So in his own spirit of middle school name-calling, why don't we call him "Pete Give-it-away Hoaxtra"?
Debbie Stabenow is now claiming she is tough on China's unfair trade policies and
theft of technology. She had a press conference to talk about a Michigan company that was blackmailed to give China details on their technology in order to
sell in China.
This is very true and a big risk for America's
economy and national security, however, we have tried to give Senator Stabenow
information about how the University
of Michigan is giving China huge
amounts of technology and she has not wanted to know. Read more at www.china-threat.com
Does he realize that the Federal Reserve holds the majority of US debt. Of the 16 trillion almost 6 trillion belongs to the Federal Reserve. This would be like you or me printing up bonds selling them to ourselves and then printing the money to buy them from ourselves! I for one would like to get in on a deal like that. Think about it. This guy claims that he knows how to fix Washington, and does not even know who hold US debt. For the record China had over 2 trillion until sometime last year when they sold off over 1 trillion. They now have less than a trillion of that 16 trillion.
This is my take on that offensive Superbowl ad by Pete Hoekstra. The idea of such a racist ad being even conceived is appalling. Either Hoekstra has a below-average intelligence, or more likely, he recognizes the racial tension in the state of Michigan and aims to capitalize on it by stirring up the pot. Remember, this was the very same state where an Asian man's head was crushed by unemployed auto workers who blamed all Asians for their misfortunes. This is the very sentiment Hoekstra is trying to revive and propagate throughout the state of Michigan. He is scapegoating a race of people for the economic woes of MI. Haven't we seen this before in Germany back in the 1930s?