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Now he's out with an over-the-top apocalyptic web video in the vein of every zombie movie ever made, depicting a stark world with vacant streets, boarded up buildings, and empty children's swings -- all caused by a president's "failed policies" particularly toward Iran.
The video even flashes an image of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and President Obama.
Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley called it "absurd" to think the campaign is comparing President Obama with the Iranian leader.
But that's not the only eyebrow raising aspect of this ad, titled "ObamaVille." It is supposed to take place in a "small American town two years from now if Obama is re-elected." At one point, a man is pressing a gas nozzle against his head. At another point an imagine of a man in an orange jump suit is quickly followed by one of a baby in a crib.
"If Ahmadinejad gets a nuclear weapon, then we're obviously going to deal with the fallout and coverage of that," Gidley said defending the ad. "All we're going to be seeing is images of him and the president. We were trying to illustrate that."
He said it is the first in a series of ObamaVille ads. It's the work of senior strategist John Brabender.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning! lol
Guess I better start stockpiling some of those 9mm ZOMBIE bullets...
Little Ricky is in need of a serious 'time out'...
He's more then a bubble off level, he has rounded the bend to full blown bat sh!t crazy!
Why?
Do mindless Obama zombies need zombie bullets?
Regardless, the ad is pretty lousy ... life is stranger than fiction.
How about an ad where he talks about a communist ideologue who tried to re-make his country into a big government utopia by targeting control of health care, education and banking?
Rick could tell the story of the supreme leader telling the people everybody would be able to afford seeing the doctor, not just the evil rich, because centralized control would end theft and waste of greedy free market providers - would reduce costs by making smart decisions through technocrats and bureaucrats.
Why not tell the story of Lenin and compare it to Obama's plans?
Why not document the great shortage of doctors and hospitals, the scarcity of drugs which resulted in Russia under the same plan ... the delayed treatment ... the rationing of health care ... the death panels ....
Zombies and dumb fux like Feisty scoff and mock at such comparisions of Obamamerica with 1930 Russia, the communist redistribution, the rationing, the death panels, yet in the words of Obama's own Medicaid and Medicare czar, Donald Berwick ....
Yep Rick, the truth ... the history ... the similiarity / sameness of the great communist Lenin and Obama - the similiarity of Lenincare and Obamacare is a hell of a lot scarier than that pathetic little ad.
Of course the zombies and dumb fux will never get it .... but they are already intellectually and morally dead anyway.
Good morning Bob. Hope you find a little sunshine to brighten your day some. ; )
Just a note to let you know about a special on CNN tonight concerning healthcare. It's an in depth look at our current system and how healthcare is run in other nations. It will be on at 8:00 pm and 11 pm. Tune in.
Sheez ... we have seen all these movies before .... and you think a lying community organizer from Chicago is smarter than everyone in history that has tried this gig before?
The guy rigs the numbers to get it passed, pays 10 years for 6 years of service ..... and STILL MISSES IT BY A FACTOR OF 2 ACCORDING TO HIS OWN CBO .... BEFORE IT EVEN STARTS!
The CBO even states it will add a quarter trillion of new debt every year, year after year until we collapse .... and they are using Obama's fantasy assumptions!
Like I said in the last paragraph of #1.1 ....
Anyway Dont, you have a real nice weekend too!
Unfortunately for Santorum, he depicts EXACTLY the world that GOP/Koch and their powerbrokers have in store for us. And have been working for along with wrangler Grover Norquist.
They not only want to go back to failed economic policies, they want to go back to old social policies that put everyone except the very wealthy on the bottom rung.
Like his Koch benefactors, Santorum has no conscience and will send us all back to the dark ages, given the chance in the name of profits for big corporations.
Let's see GOP/Koch vote for the Transportation Bill and save/create millions of good middle class jobs, if they truly are interested in creating a good future for America.
Let's see them vote for a positive future.
DCIA,
Thanks for the heads up. I will watch.
Bob -- I'm grateful to live in this country above all others. Despite its flaws it's still the greatest nation on earth, IMO. The very things that keep us arguing amongst ourselves is what creates a nation as great as ours.
That said, watch the special tonight and I will argue with you on Monday. Mmmkay?
Your welcome Northstar!
Ayatollah Sanitarium is losing to R Money (Willard Romney), who in turn is losing to President Obama.
next..........
Oh Bob, Bob, please get back on your meds!
I didn't like Rick Santorum as a Senator and I dislike him more as a candidate.
Teapublicans have no original thought. Like Scott Brown stealing Conan's material. This is the famous Daisy Ad that has been ripped off many times already.
If anything, there should be an ad about Santorum that depicts the Spanish Inquisition, or maybe The Scarlett Letter, or...dare I say it Ahmadinejad-style Christian theocracy!
No kidding True Patriot - they don't have an original thought amongst them... Only ripping off what has already been said!
Kinda funny when you think how desperate they are! lmao
PS: Since I have litttle booby on ignore - I can ONLY guess what he is spweing out of his rectum!
What a legend in his own narrow little mind!
*charmin*?
Just watched the special on health care. The republicans and all their followers are complete idiots. All this political theater trying to repeal it is simply and only that. NOTHING more unhonorable walks american soil than these phony republicans.
rocky,
I too watched the CNN program on healthcare world wide. It was a fascinating programn. AHC is certainly not radical in any sense.
For those who missed it it will be broadcst at 11pm EDT tonight on CNN.
Even within the Republican primary circus the mandate within Affordable Care has been acknowledged to be a Conservative creation, coming out of the Heritage Foundation and widely supported by the GOP. Then Democrats adopted it AT THE BEHEST OF REPUBLICANS and it's magically transformed into "a socialist takeover of 1/6 of the economy."
I'm reading this on Sunday morning, having just watched Little Ricky say "the reelection of Barack Obama would end freedom as we know it in America."
Oh gads, now he's bragging about his bowling again.
Yeah, the GOPTP is that crazy.
John,
In the CNN program,I too saw the reference to the Heritage Foundation as the creator of the mandate in heath care coverage which was included in AHC. Still not one GOP voted for the bill.
My conclusion is that the GOP from day one was united to obstruct the Obama administration at every turn. They could not take the blinders off their eyes to see that they were voting against their own policies.
Now Romney is running away from his own health care law in MA, which is working , to join his nearsighted party in their obstructionism to provide insurance for the million of uninsured.
So now the courts will decide this mandate issue.
the mandate issue was not even a Obama issue. He did not want mandated health care like Clinton espoused, he wanted a government program to compete against the private industries which would drive down the premiums. There never was a thought of a single payer system consumer choice was always in the Obama plan
Northstar -- The special was fascinating. Hopefully some people who watched gained a greater perspective to the issues we face in this nation concerning healthcare. This week's arguments before the Supreme Court should be interesting. Their rulings on some of these issues will be monumental. Let's hope politics are left at the door, but don't hold your breath.
rocky -- The rhetoric on healthcare doesn't match the facts, agreed.
John B -- You can't make this $hit up. Bizarre comes to mind. Bet you didn't know that if you are a good bowler it will equate to having the skills and intelligence to lead our country. I guess what we really need is a bowler- in- chief then,lol. Yep, it's becoming that bizarre indeed!
John B, Des Moines, IA, Dont_carry_it_all, and others, great posts as always.
When the lies were being told about Iraq (connections to Al Qaeda, etc. that did not exist), and the invasion was being rushed through before the lies could be exposed, the media and Middle East experts were MIA. Since then MSNBC news, The Daily Show and Colbert Report, and other greatly needed balances to FOX Noise and Hate Radio are making a difference.
However, the Republican playbook, and their favorite "strategery" of "I'm rubber, you're glue" was illustrated so well in an earlier article with this quote:
Wow, that's profound. Think about it, that the Teapublican jagoffs could be as successful as they have been at turning the table and calling the Affordable Care Act, which will make insurance more competitive in our capitalist market "socialism."
So we know the Republican playbook better, and the media is not as timid following something like 9-11, and demographics are changing in favor of progressives...Yet look at the 2010 election.
The NRA "starve the beast" Teabagger/Moral Majority Far-Right have a great propaganda machine, mass produce their agenda with ALEC, and are good at getting out the vote with fear-mongering and "I'm rubber, you're glue" lies.
Stay vigilant -- Obama/Biden - 2012!
True Patroit -- Wow, you not kidding that's profound! Thanks for posting!
Great analysis, True Patriot. The Obama campaign and Democrats in general will be very successful given effective "war room" operations and a good GOTV operation.
Notice how the ad tries to tie Obama to The Rich celebrating their wealth and Wall Street excesses? Truly Orwellian.
Anyone who has been paying any attention at all knows which party is the party of Wealth and Privilege, the party whose leading candidate has twice as much personal wealth as all 8 previous presidents combined, the party that cut taxes for the wealthy to the lowest levels since 1950, the party whose tax policies lead to a full decade of record deficits.
Anyone who still doesn't know what party I'm talking about is too clueless and uninformed to understand First Read, and should go back to the mindless rants at Fox News.
Feisty, the commercial "Zombie" rounds are over-priced novelty items. Good hollow-points should suffice.
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Leave something out?
Yea, me too.
I left out how Rick could compare the world's appeasement of Hitler in the late 1930s to Obama's appeasement Ahmajinejad, how neither dictator believed the world would do anything until it was too late because it was tired of war ... the disaster those policies lead to.
Want something more up to date .... how about showing videos of the riots, the burning, etc. in Greece they found out they couldn't spend their way out ... when other people's money ran out?
Tons of stuff out there Rick ....
Tell me Bob which country got the bomb and was testing them while Bush was president?
If the brave republicans could not stop him and his country, how are they going to stop any other country?
bush's was beating his chest and promising to get OBL dead or alive and he even had a poster made. If the republicans are so much braver and smarter how come they didn't take out OBL after all their brave talk. I mean if it was so nothing like Rove was saying.
You got it the republicans are all fear talk and nothing else.
Why should all of us lose our social security and medicare because republicans are too dumb to see the BS coming out of the mouths of their candidates.
VOTE FOR TRUE FREEDOM....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
I see that Bob is is still in the running to win The Stupid Factor ... as are his other brothers named Bob.
Bob deals in fantasy and fiction not facts. Don t waste your time--He actually thinks Nazi Germany was a socialist government.
charles w. pendexter,
How true. What many do not understand is Hitler's cynical use of the word socialism to further his political agenda.
AF
Bush came out with his axis of evil and identified N.Korea, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya .... and all the liberals universally loaded their Depends.
What was your point? Had N. Korea recently invaded its neighbors, had they violated 17 UN resolutions the past 12 years .......
Stopped Iraq and Libya.
And it is pretty funny, that at as it turns out, Iraq / Hussein, the baddest boy of all five .... was the only one who didn't have a program, huh?
And please don't insult your own intelligence ....
The brave and the smart guys that find / found OBL are the intelligence community and the military ..... (and I told you not to insult your intelligence.)
Do you really think a community organizer is brave or smart enough to find and take out OBL?
Talk about brave talk and boasting after the brave and smart guys got him ... sheez.
The repubs aren't the ones that took 1/2 trillion from Medicare. The repubs weren't the ones for defunding Social Security with payroll tax cuts ....
Freedom and Obama used on the same line?
The guy that mandates that you have to buy a product from a company, mandates you have to provide free contraceptives for others ... the guy that crushes the fossil energy industry because he wants you to pay more for gas ... the guy that ...
How clueless and obtuse can you be?
You can argue fairness, the poor the other blah blah ... but you can certainly can not argue freedom with Obama.
ideot,
Can't come up with a cogent comment ...
What's new?
charles;
Nazism is the common short form name for National Socialism
... as in the Nazi Party or "National Socialist German Workers Party."
Are there not any libs that are any good at this stuff?
ideot,
And you double down on stupidity with #2.5 ....
bob-1805084 ... "And you double down on stupidity with #2.5" ... just trying to keep up with you BoB, but you make that hard to do.
Question for ya ... why did your mother name all of you BoB?
So liberals stood a chance of speling it correctly .... just 3 letters ... 2 of the letters are the same .... and libs can even spell it backwards and still get it right!
Have good weekend ideoblogspoiltheview.
Sorry Bob, rarely read your drivel because of your repeat-a-lie mentality. But, I must have touched a nerve because there was so much of it.
VOTE FOR AMERICA.....
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM.....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
BoB
You truly have grade school idea of what Nazi Germany was. I was a German history major in college. Your comparison of Obama policies to Nazi Germany really isn't worth a reply as most people on here realize, but let me straighten you out on this subject if possible. Nazi fascism is actually much closer to Republican politics than Democratic. Like Republicans the fascists detested negotiation and internationalism. They promoted an organic extreme nationalism. Therefore fascism was different for each country. In America it means symbols associated with Americas foundation and "true culture" as defined by the fascists naturally. This would include the flag and the cross and an attempt to define a core true America vs outsiders, much like conservatives are doing now. The birther argument centers on this feeling. The use of the word "socialism" by conservatives also doesn't have as much to do with economics as defining some policies they don't like as UnAmerican. The actual economics of Nazi Germany was private companies. They had to have policy in line with Nazi ideals (couldn't hire Jews for instance) but were otherwise private. As the war progressed the economy was more and more dominated by contracts with the military and government of course. They were also rabidly anti-communist, just like a lot of conservatives. So Bob exactly what were you talking about?
AF,
How long has it been since I have read and responded to one of your posts?
How long has it been since you have read and responded to one of posts?
Who doesn't read who's drivel?
The only reason I spent the time to take your comments apart sentence by sentence was to remind you how out of your league you are in an effort to discourage your future insipid and inane post having to waste my time responding in the future.
Re-peat a lie?
Name one.
Mike,
I don't have time right now to respond, however the following was a response to US Navy when he was comparing repubs/ conservatives to Nazi.
If you respond to that, I'll respond to your above comments tommorrow ....
One more thing ... I didn't compare Obama to Nazis .... I mentioned his appeasement and what that lead to in the late 1930s.
US Navy "Soup Nazis" Disabled, Veteran - Retired,
Day after day you come to FR with your cut-in-paste characterizations of the right as Fascist and Nazi. You use deliberate misrepresentations of the right and convulted exceptions in an effort to suggest a rule. And by doing so, you throw out the Nazi label, an ignorant marginalization so repugnant that it suggests no need to give the time of day. Just dismiss. Like Seinfield's "Soup Nazis", if you don't approve, or like - they are automatically dismissed. Problem with that analogy though, is that while Seinfield's character is comical, your characterization is malicious - as demeaning as the other N Word.
With regard to Fascist and GOP/TP: The root word of Fascism is fasces, translated as a bundle of sticks signifying the strength of the union - a bundle of sticks are much stronger than the individual sticks symbolizing the power / strength of government over the power / strength of the individual. It is related to the Italian word fascio of which the most pertinent meaning is "labor union".
Does the GOP/TP advocate big government and labor unions, or some other party?
Nazi was the original National Socialist Germans Workers Party. The operative words are Socialist and Workers Party (Unions). Same Question.
The Nazi rose to power exploiting anticapitalist rhetoric they indisputably believed. They believed in the notion of ending class distinction. Sound like what you guys say about the GOP/TP, or sound like some other party?
The NAZIs believed in national health care, abortion, gun control. Same question.
The Nazi were anti- church, even doing away with nativity scenes. Sound familiar, is that the GOP/TP, or some other party.
The Nazi believed health care was not a private matter, were antismoking, promoted organic foods, believed in homepathy and herbal remedies and public health drives that foreshadowed today's crusades against junk foods. Are the GOP/TP doing that, or some other party.
Almost every social issue was the same as the progressives of today. Big government, anti-capitalism, belief in the state not the individual.
The Hitler / Der Fuher (The Leader) was the Nazi Party. Does the Tea Party even have a leader?
His greatest gift was his oratory skill. He campaigned on change, movement. Sound like Palin, Bachman, or more like someone else?
Hitler was a revolutionary, a tranformative leader? Who said they were going to be a transformative President? Change, not going back to the past, move forward, etc. Is this the GOP/TP, or what you guys espouse everyday?
All of the above are marks of modern liberalism, the daughter of American Progressivism - the sister of Fascism and Nazism.
Status quo is the mark of conservatives. In the case of America today, the status quo is to conserve - Conserve the the victories and legacy of a previous revolution.
You look around and see Nazis everywhere. They don't exist except in exceptionally small numbers of fringe sicko-s, the skin heads that no one acknowledges. But there are surviving relatives, many of the same genetic make-up. To see those with that family resembalance - they are easy - look in the mirror, Navy - THEN CUT THE NAZI CRAP.
Mike,
I just re-read your comments and they more biased and misplaced than I originally thought.
Just say go for it tommorrow, and we'll see if you can hold up.
So once upon a time you responded to USN with a pile of drivel.
Some things never change.
Yep, like facts!
So, where did your friend go, John?
The guy that majored in German history couldn't refute what I had posted to Old Navy?
At least it should make you feel better since you couldn't either.
Ah booby, you make it so easy!
Virtually the first thing Hitler did once gaining power was to ABOLISH labor unions. Which party is working to destroy the influence of labor?
This is the best you have for "facts"? I guess by your logic Republicans must be Communists...after all, the dominant Communist nations of the last 100 years have been the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China.
No less a fascist than Mussolini said it was the ultimate partnership of business and government. Industrialists who were willing to never dispute the governing ideology and share in their xenophobic, nationalistic beliefs became immensely powerful and wealthy. Siemans, for example, is an enormous corporation that built the ovens at Auschwitz.
Which party believes the purpose of government is to facilitate business?
So does the rest of the civilized world.
Really? Who said the following;
"We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out."
Adolf Hitler, that's who.
Ronald Reagan?
Nonsense. Reactionary activism and trying to undo all the nation's progress of the last 100+ years is the mark of today's Conservatives. They are not Conservatives in the traditional sense, but activists trying to create an American aristocracy where the wealthy elites rule all and the rest of us are lucky to eat the crumbs from their table. Activists who reject the strong American middle class and broadly based prosperity that marked our strongest years in favor of the quackery of Social Darwinism and puritanism of the aspiring theocrats.
Sorry dude, you lost this argument the moment you read Jonah Goldberg.
Hitler abolished the employment contracts and various trade unions under the Weimar Republic and renewed contracts / replaced it with the German Labour Front / the National Socialist Trade Union.
Hitler in effect DOUBLED DOWN on unions creating giant union comprised of 2 entities, that set wages, work security, social security programs, leisure programs, canteens, working hours .... all for the unions absolute loyalty!
And what were Hitler's actual words about unions ...
Are you stupid, or just intentionally misrepresenting historical fact?
What a lying, worthless pos ... you should have left it to the smart guy that might have had some credibility.
As usual bob turns to rampaging insults as soon as someone presents some real facts.
Real fact: May 2nd, 1933, Hitler abolished trade unions and arrested their leaders. Their replacement, the German Labour Front was in fact a Nazi Party tool which allowed absolute power over the labor force to be enforced by the party, one step in his steady march toward eventual declaration of Hitler as Fuhrer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/hitlerconsolidaterev_print.shtml
Nice try...thanks for playing.
You stated that Hitler ABOLISHED unions .... implying that he put an end to unions.
As I stated, you were either stupid or you intentionally misrepresented a known fact, that is .... by definition .... you lied.
That is an accurate statement, not a "rampaging insult."
I'll give you the benefit of doubt and assume you are
stupida little slow, (after-all - your reference was tantamount to a grade school lesson complete with cartoon depictions) and try to explain it this way ...If Lincoln had eliminated legal slavery and immediately replaced it with a legal institution of indentured servitude ... if he had renewed the same legal rights of ownership to the same parties .... would libs say "Lincoln abolished slavery" .... would libs say yea that is accurate, or would they say it was lie ... that it was the same thing with a new name?
Still over your head, John?
So now, after getting slapped, you admitted there were unions, but now want to deflect by saying they weren't really unions since they were under the control of Hitler?
Still unions John ... just a different boss. Almost every German that had a good job belonged to the union (or one of the 2 sub unions), Hitler's panel of 12 set the wages (relatively high btw) provided all the benies /same function and provided the same services as the previous union bosses.
Hitler did little more than cut the middleman out but .... Duh .... it was Hitler ... He threw the union leaders under the bus after he used them to gain absolute political power.
You don't think Obama, a guy that threw his mother, his grandmother, his pastor under the bus won't do the same thing when he no longer needs the unions?
The bottom line is that both Hitler and Obama used the unions to gain political power. Re-read the above Hitler quote where he talks about the greatest importance of unions is not to the economy or social spere, but the national political spere!
Btw John, Mike made an honest attempt to refute something I didn't even imply. I was respectful despite the taunt of "my grade school understanding" ...
You ... just a cheap little drive by shot ... where I was polite and just challenged you to refute something. You followed that up childishly chiding booby, which is no big deal, but when you intentionally lie, it was time for the little bitch to be slapped.
You should know that John ... happens every time.
I guess you still haven't learned your not very good at this, huh?
No there weren't still unions, there was a government regulatory agency that the Reich REFERRED TO as a union. In fact they were just another apparatus of the Nazi police state;
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year9links/nazigermany/work.pdf
That's not a union, it's a means of providing forced labor for firms that are favored by the government.
If it walks like a dog and talks like a dog it's no longer a duck. Then again you wouldn't understand that, since you advocate for a political movement that wants to replace our existing system of medical care for seniors with "go buy insurance, you old codger" and call it Medicare.
Claim to have slapped me all you want, you've been served. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to get the facts out there, you make an outstanding if unwitting foil.
German Labour Front
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF) was the National Socialist trade union organisation which replaced the various trade unions of the Weimar Republic after Adolf Hitler's rise to power."
The world calls it a trade union.
Have fun in your delusional little world John.
And in your delusions you think the Ryan budget "fixes Medicare", too, don't you?
You've just made my point...thanks for that.
At some point will any of the Republican candidates even attempt to present a positive message?
NO!
Occupy SoggyBottom!
Pretty disgusting, the trash they are trying to peddle these days.
Nothing like a little bit of sunshine to start our weekend. Good grief. LoL.
Santorum, you are so right, but you said two years, we, the 99% American People say next year! All caused by your corrupt corporate government puppets!
ALL of the Republican Corporate Fallout from 8 years of TOTAL failure has been put on President Obama's shoulders, and he has had only 3+ years to try to rid the 99% American People of corporate GREED!
Your phony video is typical of your corrupt party!
With Sanctiminoum picking up the message from Newter's last gasp, it's pretty clear that a GOP focus group is getting positive response from the christian vs. muslim matchup.
I always figured Ricky would go there eventually. He has a god complex and this Armageddon scenario is just the next step forward...or should I say backward.
Scaring people is the oldest trick in the GOP playbook. It's a pathetic attempt by a desperate wannabee.
Santorum is toast and he knows it in some part of his tiny brain.
I'd love to see the "Santorumville" rebuttal ad, showing an American theocracy!
Ahmadinejad has but 17 months remaining in his Presidency and cannot run again. Don't these guys read?
I'll answer that.Yes they do, but they never let a fact get in the way of fear.
17 months if he's allowed to finish his term. Looks like he may be on the outs with the clerics.
Chucky ... right you are, that dragon may be exodited sooner than we think. :-)
Ideology,
that is the beauty on the "war on terror" it will never end and there is a new bogeyman to scare the pants off people waiting in the wings.
It is just a "cold war " remix: fear mongering .
Northstar,
It is disturbing to many non-Americans that the strongest nation in this world has become the most fear driven nation.
But ideology, most of us here fear the fearmongers more than any foreign threat. At least, most of us with working brains. Well, I admit that's probably not most of us afterall. {SIGH}
Maybe an alternative is to hang up the badge of the policeman of the world?
We could take our lead from Canada...
Chucky ... off topic but have you read - How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman
extraordinary stuff
ideo - Most of us are not fearful. Tis only loudmouth chickens you hear clucking. ; )
Kaybee -- The rebuttal video is unnecessary. People can view the contrast to what this video is peddling to the video put out by Obama's supporters. Santorum's shows an extreme dystopian negativism vs. the upbeat positive realities that Tom Hank's narrates in the Obama clip.
Northstar,
Our current ruling party is following the Bush/Cheney path ... fortunately their approval ratings are sinking.
Ah Canada. I respect anyplace where Socialism isn't considered a "dirty" word.
Well Chucky, once you get rid of DOMA like thinking, the marriage of Capitalism and Socialism is a happy one.
Ah yes, when the global economy is struggling nations everywhere are turning to the old tried and true " more defense, elect a party or leader that will cater to the simplistic solutions and make deals with the most extreme parties in your country"
The beauty of democracy is the voters will always get the last say at election time.
You're right about that, Dont_carry_it_all.
President Obama can run on the record of all he has accomplished. Obama has an upbeat message, but Santorum hasn't done anything positive that he can use in a campaign ad.
Santorum's poorly run campaign has cost him lots of potential delegates because he failed to do the necessary paperwork. Even if he had views that mirrored the majority of the population, which he clearly does not, he can't win if he can't get his name on the ballot.
Does he have any support left outside the deep red states? It will be interesting to see what happens in his home state of Pennsylvania.
Indeed. Aside from being a fanatic, Santorum's orginizational skills are deplorable. Telling Iran that the pig ate your peace treaty on the way to the international summit just won't cut it as president. (hypothetical)
I really hate these extreme nut jobs like sanscrotums. They make the future and the present seem like puke...
Imagine watching his sour puss on the evening news every night???????????? Just make him go away please...
This video is hilarious in the eyes of most people, but conservatives I personally know REALLY are a fearful, paranoid, zombie-believing bunch of people. What looks like over the top hyberbole to normal voters, is reality to these folks. This is NO JOKE.
There is a world of "bug out" strategiests, stockpiling survivalists, home schooling nut-jobs, conspiracy theorists and militia types out there - believe me!
Amy-It is sadly true. What has happened to America?
You showed your ignorance, Amy, when you foolishly lumped Home Shooling in your tirade. Statistics for many years have shown that home schooled children score higher in tests, perform well in interaction with fellow citizens and do better than Public School educated graduates once in the work force.
Bill have you been to a militia meeting lately? Live in a rural state? What do you know about it?
This is off the topic of the article but I did want to point out that some parents decide to home educate a child for reasons other than religious. My daughter is now in home school status because many lawmakers in Florida want to privatize the educational system for narrow reasons. The test craze, constant change of curriculum, and hoops faced by our educators seem to create a pathway to failure, not amend it - and that is apparently the goal of those lawmakers (I voted for someone else, by the way). I felt my daughter deserved better. She's had some fantastic teachers, but their hands are tied teaching to the test. I'm an outside-the-box thinker. I want my daughter to have a solid foundation for college and to embrace a diverse world. Unfortunately, those who want to tear down public education may be successful, one student at a time. The pressure cooker causes some kids to give up entirely. It is true that some parents home educate their children to limit their exposure to others 'not like them' (and may not have the background to even teach their children). I am not one of those, and I'm finding others like me, who can't wait for the political tide to change for our children. I do ask if there are any Florida readers on here, to please take a look at what your representatives are doing to Florida's education. Then send them an e-mail. Thanks. We need a more educated society, not less.
I currently do not live in Florida, however I did spend seven years there. I still keep up with Florida news and I have been seeing a big picture as to what has been happening to public education over the last decade. First with Bush and now with Rick Scott. It seems Scott has been pushing more and more for charter schools to replace the standard public education model. While I understand that a charter school doesn't necessarily mean by definition a bad system of education, I get the impression that in the case of Florida and Scott it means privatized education services. This happens at the college level, and at private schools with families that have the means to pay extra for services. However private schools and college are not available to the public freely, some families can simply not pay for those premium educational services. Public education for the masses is imperative for a number of reasons, one of which is to prevent repeating historical mistakes and to unite the people against oppression. The recent 'teaching to the test' trend so the school wins a rating so they will get funded seems to be a systematic scrabble for resources that will dismantle the public education model and push students more toward the charter schools, which may be for profit - I have not heard whether this is true or not. When I was in Florida my wife's child went to a private school for that reason. I was a student and couldn't afford it, luckily my wife's father could afford it. I suspect that this very trend may be seen in other states, and I suspect it is bigger than an individual idea - it seems for some reason that education is not very important to top republican leaders.
Absurdity and hyperbole runs rampant on both sides. Politicians in general are so out of touch. They don't realize the people are tired of it. Unfortunately, though, negativity has been proven to work.
Can we establish campaign reform that reins in absurdity without infringing on freedom of speech?
For every negative and ridiculous comment made, a candidate should have to say something positive. For every criticism, they should offer their idea for a solution. And every "fact" expressed, should have to be true.
Candace-Do not hold your breath.
Candice, I would definitely agree except for one point. If politicians could not lie, how would they get any of us to vote for them.
The history of mankind is cursed by lies being more powerful than truths. Oh well, it has served to keep the population down. Truthsayers are generally led out back and shot and the Liars march the rest of us off to some mindless war.
Chucky - So sad! So true!
Ideologyspoils - Yikes!
Ideology,
History is a wonderful thing. It revels the human condition. But I am not a cynic. Among the liars and thieves there is truth and beauty.
And in the end maybe only beauty.
Candice ... cuddos to you for using one of my favorite words, yikes. I taught it to all the kids on my street ... told them that it was a really dirty word.
Yes, yikes ... sad but all too often true.
Northstar,
We need to remember that the original cynics (Greeks) questioned the popular beliefs of their day. Sadly, the definition and usage of the word has become corrupted over time.
ideology,
Yes, I do know. :0)
Another example that language is a living thing and nothing is made out of new cloth but always deep threads that sometimes change colors.
Religious zealots such as Santorum live in their own heads. Some one should tell him that Ahmadinejad doesn t run Iran , The extremist Mullahs do. If Santorum wants to help, he should use his influence in his church to protest the the worldwide sexual assaults on tens of thousands of innocent children by clergy who aid and abet these crimes. Pope Benedict is going to Mexico. Is he going to address the crimes committed by the Father Maciel and the Legionnaires of Christ which he and Pope John Paul have known about since 1998? Doubt it.
2008 Ads. The most memorable one was the 3AM telephone call. There was the Joe Biden comment about Giuliani - a noun, a verb and 9/11. Our Founding Fathers even got into the act.
And these from HuffingtonPost-
GOP Ties Rabbi Opponent To Iran: Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) released an ad that calls his Dem opponent Dennis Shulman an extremist and ties him to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The problem: Shulman is a Jewish rabbi.
Apologizing To Arabs: The GOP ran an ad against Tom Perriello, a congressional candidate from Virginia, that says he has "apologized to Arabs." Perriello, an international aid worker, had led efforts at cultural outreach to Arab countries.
Using Palin's Wink: One week out from the general election, Obama's campaign ran an ad featuring the notorious wink of one Governor Sarah Palin.
My Opponent's Supporters Are Dirty Hippies: The conservative group, Freedom's Watch, put out an ad hitting Senatorial candidate Mark Udall for supporting the Department of Peace. The spot features a 'hippy' backing Udall and walking into a VW van with a bunch of smoke coming out of it.
The Hoff: Picking at Obama's big crowds in Europe, the Republican National Committee put out a spot comparing the Senator to David Hasselhoff.
Counting Houses: The Obama campaign jumped on an interview in which McCain can't precisely say how many houses he owns. In an ad, the narrator declares: "When asked how many houses he owns, McCain lost track -- he couldn't remember... Well, it's seven. Seven houses."
Obama As Moses: The McCain campaign put out a web video proclaiming Obama, "The One." It fed the celebrity theme and brought it to a celestial level.
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Fun times ahead.
Pat ...Going back further, don't forget the "Mushroom Cloud" in the 1964 LBJ ad, and the one used by Santorum in 2006.
TOG,
The LBJ ad was a direct reply to Goldwater's statement that extremism in the defense of our country is a virtue.
It just took Goldwater statement and the cold war to its logical conclusion.
I remember that ... also remember that LBJ caught all kinds of grief and the ad was never seen again. The media kept it alive.
TOG,
It was easy for an ad to disappaer in 1964. Only three major networks ,no cable , no internet in your home, no youtube or FR.
We live in a whole different time. This media for better or worse is here to stay.
I agree completely ... it certainly would never disappear in today's world. And even though a lot of people were upset with it, it made his point against Goldwater.
Do you remember Nixon sweating through his makeup during the debate with JFK?
TOG,
I certainly do. My whole family sat around our little tv screen and watch the debate. Nixon had like a dark shadow on his face and looked old. JFK looked young, hamsome and loved listening to his New England accent.
I was in Catholic school back then so everything about JFK was elevated to star status. Would have loved to have seen that debate on one of these hi-def 70" screens that are around now.
Ricks Tantrum making a play for the Ron Paul/Glenn Beck survivalist crowd?
Nathan--Sad but true.
Jus thinking --If you follow Santorum s logic, he would have the U.S become more and more like Iran .
"Santorum's logic" is opium to his base.
I'm waiting for the next great zombie flick, When Teabaggers Attack!
Great idea! I've seen one or a few (Red State(?) or something like that with a lighter john Goodman no less!!) but have been disappointed so far...
All zombies are Republicans. Democrats are vampires. I thought this was common knowledge by now.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19402_6-mind-blowing-ways-zombies-vampires-explain-america_p2.html
Interesting that Obamaville looks an awful lot like how bush and the republicans left our country.
This is what more tax cuts for the rich and nothing but you are on your own for the rest of us looks like.
I guess when lies and fear is all you got, well your lies have to get bigger. Then you have to pretend that republicans are not trying to end medicare and social security and end a woman's right to contraception. Don't forget all the attacks on union rights and voters rights.
Vote for a republican for anything and you can watch Santorums predictions come true.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM.....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Personally, if there is to be an apocalypse, I will stick with the ones the Mayans and Hopis predicted. Less political carping.
My apocalypse is when my lover does not talk to me in the morning.
I share that sentiment.
Pat Robertson opined yesterday that the Denver Broncos treated Tim Tebow shabbily. Could this be the beginnin of the Apocalypse?
charles w. pendexter
That would depend on how many Hail Mary passes he throws.
Charles,
Liking those Mayans more and more every time I listen to Pat. (BTW, don't you think he was looking at it the wrong way - maybe Tebow could bring the faith to that wild and crazy Jet locker room! LOL!)
Ideology,
Tebow is a Protestant. Wrong faith. It is Catholics that like all those "Hail Marys" :)
There you go again Phine ... always bringing religion into play! :-)
Ideology,
Guess I shall have to assessed a 15 yard personal foul penalty! :)
Get a muzzle for Rick now.
NO don't muzzle the moron let him speak and hang himself and the entire republican party.
I agree this Santorum video is atrocious.
MSNBC disses this video, but treads lightly over Obama's recent video, which even the WaPost admitted, was full of lies about the President's mother's health insurance coverage. Not a peep from the Obama campaign team at MSNBC, about that, natch.
Many thanks to Bob for effectively putting those ignorant liberal fools in their place and, hopefully, driving some sense of reality into their clouded minds. Rebuttal well done, sir.
Good ol Ricky, NOT! This P.O.S. even went so far as to shout "Pretend its Obama", at a fed shooting range. He meant the target was President Obama. We certainly dont need an insane lunitic for anything! Go away Lil Ricky, we dont want you!
Wait until it comes out that Santorum has a male campaign intern on the side.
the Frothyville video features a cast of all whitey men dressed up in button down oxford shirts and docker slacks. The women bring out dinner to the table while fresh scrubbed chillin sit quietly and eat their broccoli.
Grandpa and Grandma are there too. Propped up and dead due to running out of Frothy Healthcare Coupons.
The dinner guests are Red Communists from China. (our biggest trading partner and bankers of the Bush admin)
Getting yourself appointed to the board of a health care provider hardly gets you in touch with the american public. Now, if he went to work at Wal Mart changing tires for 12.00 an hour he might have a statement to make.