2012: Tough not AFP spot

Here’s a brutal Americans for Prosperity ad featuring people claiming they voted for Obama in 2008 and are now disappointed.

Huffington Post: “Voters are allowed to kick a likable guy out of office. That's the core message…. The $7 million ad buy features several former Obama supporters sharing frustrations with the president's first term, claiming to personally like him, but disapproving of his policies.”

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"Brutal" is right. Ouch!

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Reply#1 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:12 AM EDT

I'm one of those American's who doesn't find Obama 'likeable'!

And I have many reasons for my disgust with the man:

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

First President to violate the War Powers Act.

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants, including those with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.

First President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer.

First President to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).

First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.

First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 102 to date.

First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to go on multiple global "apology tours"‌ and concurrently "insult our friends" tours.

First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer.

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

First President to quote the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences"‌.

Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).

How is this hope and change working out for you?

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012

  • 7 votes
#1.1 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:09 AM EDT

Do you lie with a straight face? You sure post that way.

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#1.2 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:08 PM EDT
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Now this is what an angry and desperate campaign looks like.

Vote no to Bain/Pain 2012.

  • 4 votes
Reply#2 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:13 AM EDT

Romney is on the talk shows today whinning about the Obama re-election campaign being too mean too him - what a putz!

  • 5 votes
Reply#3 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:16 AM EDT

So true, Amy. Romney tells whopper lies, plays dog whistle politics then whines when President Obama hits him back. Mitt the Wimp.

  • 4 votes
#3.1 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:20 AM EDT

I wonder if Willard really understands the policies that Mr. Marvelous endorses. Probably not. Willards son Taggs newest twin babies were the result of IVF with a surrogate mother.....

According to Mr. Marvelous, Tagg is a criminal!

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/paul-ryan-abortion-ivf-romney-kids-criminals

  • 3 votes
#3.2 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:16 AM EDT
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Just saw this Romney ad a short while ago. It's nicely done and one of the less toxic ads the Romney campaign and/or SuperPACs are running but the actors paid to speak are as phony as a $3 bill. It's too polished, too staged, too obvious. The Romney supporters will cheer; they'll say see, told you so, but they aren't the voters Mitt needs.

  • 7 votes
Reply#4 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:16 AM EDT

Whoever actually expects any politician to do everything they want them to is setting themselves up for disappointment. I was an avid Obama supporter in 2008, and I am disappointed that he was unable to do everything he hoped to do, but I am also aware that no one can ever accomplish everything their campaign promises, so I don't make the mistake of expecting them to. I think that considering the deliberate obstruction and downright nastiness our President has been up against, that he has done a pretty good job.

    #4.1 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:59 PM EDT
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    I too saw the ad, it is well done. Have to ask how do we know who they say they are? I would doubt they are real supporters. I never cease to be amazed at what people will do for money. These guys are actors.

    • 6 votes
    Reply#5 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:20 AM EDT

    For every one in this hypocritical ad, there are millions who know that the direct cause of any disappointment is the Republican controlled do-nothing congress and the minority 'leader' of the Senate Mitch "we will do anything to deny Obama a second term" McConnell who have held Americans hostage over the past 3 1/2 years by an uncompromising legislative attitude towards those out of work.

    They have had over 30 votes to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act, which has zero chance of passing, a dozen votes for abortion restrictions and abolishment, all sorts of votes for more financial sector and corporate deregulation, but not one jobs bill much needed in this country. Hey Boehner and McConnell: where are the jobs YOU promised America?

    • 3 votes
    Reply#6 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:34 AM EDT

    daveNJ Very good points. But they get lost somewhere. The President should hammer on this all the time. The republicans should be hit on this hard. Over and over they have done nothing but disrupt. They have been doing this from day one. For a fine southern man like Mitch McConnell to see a black man as President must make him piss his pants. I've said this before the republican/tea bag party leaders heads must have exploded when they found out more brown babies are being born than white. Why do you think there has been so womens issues being up with birth control at the forefront.

    • 3 votes
    #6.1 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:02 AM EDT
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    What is funny about all of this is the GOP have made it a point to push negative attacks forever. Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe declared that the GOP was BETTER at negative attacking then Democrats. When Clinton was running for office he decided that he was going to beat them at their own game, and they didn't like it then, and hate it now. There is not a better attack machine than Clinton and Obama weathered that storm and he will weather this one. Mitt on the other hand.... He said something bad about me.. It's not true. I have paid my taxes, but can't prove it.... I will save Medicare but have no plan to submit.... I will lower your taxes and oh by the way I'll lower mine too, but the only way I do it is make cuts... But I can't tell you what those cuts will be.... So instead of listening to all this negative stuff about me, I really am a good guy so that is why you should vote for me...... Amazing

    • 2 votes
    Reply#7 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:50 AM EDT

    "Likeable" is a pretty reliable indicator a candidate will be an effective President, as well as a winning candidate, history has shown. I think it's because "likeable" is short hand for a gut reaction voters have: that the candidate is smart and, at the same time, trustworthy. Two qualities not always present at the same time in a politician. President Obama has those qualities, Romney, doesn't.

    • 2 votes
    Reply#8 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:51 AM EDT

    What's sad is the media will tout this ad as real Obama supporters even though they don't have a clue whether they are republicans or true supporters. My guess is their republicans posing as Obama supporters. This is a republican lie that's been used many times over.

    • 1 vote
    Reply#9 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:10 AM EDT

    I believe Jody from Iowa is right- they're actors portraying real supporters! Too polished to be anything but actors.

    The Rethuglians railed against the Obama campaign when they had their Romney detractor in an ad who pointed out when Romney closed his steel plant, he lost his medical insurance while Muttster got millions. At least Obama's guy was real!

    • 1 vote
    #9.1 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:26 AM EDT
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    This is a republican lie that's been used many times over.

    They followed the GOP/TP talking points/lies!

    Wonder how much they were paid?

    • 1 vote
    Reply#10 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:19 AM EDT

    Why is it so hard for you libs to think that there are people out there who did vote for Obama that are displeased with the direction the country is going on his watch? Hell, I can give you 20, out of the 70 people where I work, that voted for him in 2008 that aren't going to this time.

    It all has to be smoke and mirrors and "paid" talkers in your world of denial. Must stink to not be able to recognize reality from time to time because it doesn't fit the Democrat mantra. "The world the eay I think it should be because it is the world I want it to be."

    • 4 votes
    Reply#11 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:22 AM EDT

    Because like them, I am a little disappointed in him also but certainly not to the point that I would campaign against for the likes of the Republican ticket.

    I wonder how much they were paid. I can't believe they would do it for free.

    • 1 vote
    #11.1 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:30 AM EDT

    Why is it so hard for you dispassionate Tea Baggers to understand people have had it with 'trickle down economics', the hypocracy of GOPers to worry now about debt after you got us into 2 unfunded wars, the TARP program and a disappearing President Bush when the economy was collapsing around him?

    Smoke and mirrors is what we got with Cheney lying about the 'intelligence' that got us into Iraq in Cheney's war of choice!

    From time to time it's OK for you dispassionate conservatives to admit that even though your party representatives have done nothing to make America better in the last 4 years after the Bush collapse, it is better now, now that our current and future President brought this country back from the brink of disaster from Republican policies that failed miserably. We're not going back to that, especially with Mr Etch-A-Sketch Romney!

    • 1 vote
    #11.2 - Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:44 AM EDT
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    Free market fan--I can read between the lines too. What you are too chicken to say, that sums up your entire message, First half-black president. That's your REAL problem. And you are all seen through.

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