Faust?

Whom would you use as a comparison, Charles?

Obama/Spears 08!

Charles,

He is a celebrity whore. LOL

OT:
Hamas' Christian convert: I've left a society that sanctifies terror

[Link: www.haaretz.com...]

"You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas. Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death."

I don't know. Obama, Spears, Hilton == vapid celeberties? Works for me. At least McCain is getting into the ring.

Is it wrong of me to prefer to have Britney Spears over Barry Obama as my President?

I love it and McCain needs to do more. He ought to go to ANWAR and hold a press conference stating he has changed his position, too.

I guess "Obama is an ass" just wouldn't have worked.

re: #10 Peacekeeper

I guess "Obama is an ass" just wouldn't have worked.

"Jackass" to you...

Obama could be compared to a charismatic cult leader, too... Legions of people blindly follow and adore him, but don't really know why.

Seriously, I don't see Barry as any less vapid than the Britster and Paris.

Comparing regular sluts to a political slut is quite effective, actually...

I think the point could have gotten across just as well without the Spears Hilton link.

Ha. I'm a little surprised Obama hasn't used 'Change, it's hot' as one of his slogans.

There are Hitlon Hotels in almost every country.

Who has more foreign policy experience?

Well I agree with you Charles, but if the point really was to show Obama as a "celebrity" I'm not sure who else he could compare Obama too quite as well.
The MSM does seem sometimes to be almost as concerned about what the heck those two are doing as they are about what Obama's doing.

re: #16 Sizzlack

Ha. I'm a little surprised Obama hasn't used 'Change, it's hot' as one of his slogans.

AWESOME!

The point made is a good one, but the message is muddled. Weird? Absolutely.

...Not to mention, I could SOOO see Barry saying "Oops I did it again!" whenever he raises taxes or screws Israel over again....

I think the association with Spear and Hilton aren't altogether weird - they are vacuous uber-celebs whose behavior is predictable only to the extent that it is unpredictable, if that makes any sense.

McCain,

Please stop with this frou-frou stuff, and hit Obama on a real issue. . .ENERGY.

re: #15 Ford_Prefect
Well I see your point, but who (whom? damnit I can never get those straight!) would you have suggested?
Maybe a rock star?

re: #1 Peacekeeper

Faust?

Faustian bargains suck.

I like it! The Hilton/Spears images just reinforce the idea of him being an silly international celebrity as the Euro crowds chant Obama in the background. Gets the point across IMO.

I heard this morning that Hilton's parents have both donated the $2300 max personal donation to McCain.
Oops.

re: #6 avirus

Have you submitted this as a spinoff link?

They should play the theme from Flipper and show slides of Obama changing his mind. that would be great.

Who should have been used instead?

Madonna is a has been.

I can see the headline over at DU and Kos now:

McCain Spears Paris!

McCain should let karmic_inquisitor write his ads:

"Running the largest organization in all of history with the power to blow up every major city on the planet is not an entry level job."

re: #23 looking closely

McCain,

Please stop with this frou-frou stuff, and hit Obama on a real issue. . .ENERGY.

Watch the whole add - it was about energy.

re: #27 CyanSnowHawk

I heard this morning that Hilton's parents have both donated the $2300 max personal donation to McCain.
Oops.

Seen the videos of Paris using the N-word?

Some reason they didn't get as much play as Kramer, etc.

I think they're making the point Obama is a celebutard empty head prone to much whining.

re: #24 realwest

Well I see your point, but who (whom? damnit I can never get those straight!) would you have suggested?
Maybe a rock star?

I don't think there needs to be any association with other celebs. Just stick to the facts and the issues.

Oops!...i did it again
I played with your heart, got lost in the game
Oh baby, baby
Oops!...you think Im in love
That Im sent from above

~Barack Obama

re: #23 looking closely

McCain,

Please stop with this frou-frou stuff, and hit Obama on a real issue. . .ENERGY.

Obama's Achilles heel. Or the dems in general.

the comparison with Spears and Hilton is a little weird.

I think it's spot on. All three have let celebrity go to their heads, and all three are celebrities for doing basically nothing but whoring themselves out in TV, music and politics. Also- none of them have produced anything noteworthy for having acquired said celebrity status in the first place.

re: #22 karmic_inquisitor

I think the association with Spear and Hilton aren't altogether weird - they are vacuous uber-celebs whose behavior is predictable only to the extent that it is unpredictable, if that makes any sense.

Senator McCain should stop insulting totally worthless people by comparing Obama to them.

re: #25 The Other Les

Faustian bargains suck.

Apparently I was clever without being obnoxious enough to trigger a smiting...so far.

Wait a minute guys, you're missing the point. Think how emabarassing this must me for Britney and Paris!

re: #32 wrenchwench

McCain should let karmic_inquisitor write his ads:

I am the LAST person who should write ads.

I am a wordy guy.

That was a rare moment of clarity.

re: #22 karmic_inquisitor

I think the association with Spear and Hilton aren't altogether weird - they are vacuous uber-celebs whose behavior is predictable only to the extent that it is unpredictable, if that makes any sense.

While Spears has been erratic (ostensibly because of legitimate mental health issues, likely including substance abuse), Hilton isn't unpredictable at all.

Her "job" has been to manipulate the media for personal coverage, and she's been very good at it.

While the comparison of Obama-worship to vacuous celebrity worship is probably legitimate, I simply don't think McCain should "go there".

Let's HOPE that his overexposure will have the same effect on the masses as the Anna Nicole Smith ridiculousness.

re: #32 wrenchwench

McCain should let karmic_inquisitor write his ads:

Hmmm....should I turn this into a "Fear The Football" radio commercial?

Whatever the case, this ad hit home because Obama is crying like a little beotch.

re: #31 red satellite

I can see the headline over at DU and Kos now:

McCain Spears Paris!

Ick!

The problem I have with this sort of thing is that it stoops to a level that I think is, or should be, below our commander in chief.

re: #26 snowcrash

I like it! The Hilton/Spears images just reinforce the idea of him being an silly international celebrity as the Euro crowds chant Obama in the background. Gets the point across IMO.

My favorite morning radio show played the audio this morning. I haven't seen the commercial yet. No YouTube at work. But the audio alone is damned effective at getting the point across.

Great ad. It shows to people that Obama is attracted to people more like a celebrity than a real politician.

Obama says you're all racists.

the comparison with Spears and Hilton is a little weird.

I think it's a good comparison. The election so far isn't about issues or policy. It about the Obama brand. Mocking him as vapid, privileged and image conscious is pretty effective.

re: #52 Peacekeeper

That's because Obama's a racist.

re: #33 karmic_inquisitor

Watch the whole add - it was about energy.

You're right.
I stand corrected.
And its a double-hit on energy AND higher taxes.
Ouch.

As long as Obama doesn't wear a skirt and show us his Neither regions

I get his point, but the ad is eh.

Video: Leave Obama alone!

re: #52 Peacekeeper

LOL

Obama's not a candidate; he's a celebrity. And he and Paris Hilton are on the same intellectual level, imo. I think the ad nails it.

I really can't imagine an easier candidate to run against than Obama. I mean...the guy's answer to the energy crunch is to preach to us all to put more air in our tires! You've got to be kidding me! If the McCain campaign loses to this guy they've got no one to blame but themselves.

re: #36 Ford_Prefect
Yes, BUT - Obama himself (or his campaign with his approval) set up that European trip - especially the German part of it - as if he was a Rock Star - already POTUS once he gets past this silly thing called an election.
I don't think comparing him to any "celebrity" is wrong, it's how he has sorta presented himself.

re: #50 CyanSnowHawk

My favorite morning radio show played the audio this morning. I haven't seen the commercial yet. No YouTube at work. But the audio alone is damned effective at getting the point across.

My point exactly. You don't need the video of meaningless celebs.

re: #6 avirus

OT:
Hamas' Christian convert: I've left a society that sanctifies terror

[Link: www.haaretz.com...]

"You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas. Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death."

Down dinged you by mistake. D'oh! Somebody please upding to cancel out mine.

I think the McCain camp should run an ad with the Obama European poster for 15 secs and the scroll "This is Obama's poster" brief 5 sec clips from Riefenstahl or of Mussolini and cut.

Obama is a US Senator who thinks there are 57 States. I'd like to hear Paris or Britney top that one.

re: #56 saberry0530

As long as Obama doesn't wear a skirt and show us his Neither regions

Neither regions?

Gallup Daily: Obama 45%, McCain 44%

There was a young woman who called Rush a few days ago who made the connection between Brittany and Obama. The excessive media hype and Brittany's buying into it was part of her down fall. Obama's excessive coverage and his losing touch with that's he's not president yet, looks like he's vulnerable to the same kind of Brittany down fall. It's turning off that generation. The same observation has been made by that age group in my household.

the comparison with Spears and Hilton is a little weird.

That depends on what you definition of VAPID is.

I would be willing to bet Paris Hilton will end up contributing more positive to the world than Barack Obama ever does.

It was perfect. How many big crowd German ads do you think Obama is going to show now?

re: #44 looking closely

While Spears has been erratic (ostensibly because of legitimate mental health issues, likely including substance abuse), Hilton isn't unpredictable at all.

Her "job" has been to manipulate the media for personal coverage, and she's been very good at it.

While the comparison of Obama-worship to vacuous celebrity worship is probably legitimate, I simply don't think McCain should "go there".

Agree with you at the "meta" level - Hilton's celebrity is celebrity.

I am just trying to think of what image could have been inserted instead of them that would:
1) make people notice
2) make as much news
3) make a valid comparison of "rock star" ( a term the press loves to use regarding Obama).

I get the weird part - that was my first impression. But for that very reason I think it is effective - it forces you to make the association and think about it for a moment. If the association were inaccessible (eg not something that would immediatley come to mind) then the add wouldn't work.

McCain has gotten a lot of press for it. That is a good thing. The idea is out there.

Hilton is clearly a narcissist of the first order, so the comparison to Obama is apt indeed.

re: #66 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Neither regions?

nether regions

PIMF

re: #56 saberry0530

As long as Obama doesn't wear a skirt and show us his Neither regions

Not with Jesse Jackson prowling around he won't.

re: #61 realwest

Yes, BUT - Obama himself (or his campaign with his approval) set up that European trip - especially the German part of it - as if he was a Rock Star - already POTUS once he gets past this silly thing called an election.
I don't think comparing him to any "celebrity" is wrong, it's how he has sorta presented himself.

Understood. But it is not something McCain should be doing. It is too much like gutter politics.

re: #15 Ford_Prefect

I think the point could have gotten across just as well without the Spears Hilton link.

I think its quite a good touch - a subliminal link to WABs, white ones this time ...

Curious Obama pic of the day.......
Yahoo pic

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, walks to greet two supporters holding a banner that says 'Rednecks for Obama' at a campaign stop in Union, Mo., Wednesday, July 30, 2008.

I wonder if this is one of the fake signs printed up by the Obama campaign. Odd.

re: #66 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Neither regions?

Netherlands?

At least Obama hasn't been to rehab. Yet.

Baruch O'Bummer seems to have about the same grasp of history as Paris Hilton.

He could probably beat Britney in a History-off.

re: #67 Kenneth

Still early days yet. The second most important poll is the one after the conventions (the MOST important is in November!).

re: #74 Peacekeeper

Not with Jesse Jackson prowling around he won't.

LOL!

re: #74 Peacekeeper

Not with Jesse Jackson prowling around he won't.

You trying to imply that Jesse is a meat gazer?

This ad is totally weak.

re: #70 freedomplow

It was perfect. How many big crowd German ads do you think Obama is going to show now?

One that goes on and on and on for four hours.

(Leni Riefenstahl joke)

Michelle O'Bama as Kevin Federline?

Looks too much like an old man screaming at the top of his lungs about those new-fangled hula-hoops and sodie-pop.

"I'M HIP! I'M HIP! NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!"

Post this note on your fridge JM:

YOUR OPPONENT IS A COMMIE. TRY BRINGING THAT UP.

re: #85 Pastorius

SHe has the build for it...........

re: #76 yma o hyd

I think its quite a good touch - a subliminal link to WABs, white ones this time ...

WAB's?

They have a webpage: Rednecks for Obama

Let's see, the Moshiach Baruch would solve our problems in the War on Terror by bombing Pakistan, an ally.

What would Britney do?

The point that Obama is treated as a celebrity is a good one, but the comparison with Spears and Hilton is a little weird.

Not to me. He has all the character, talent, and worldliness of those two idiots. And equally poor taste in associates and friends. The media loves Obama like it loves Paris and Spears, and nobody can actually put forth a valid reason. And like Paris and Brittany, he has not a clue about much of anything. And I am certain both of the two vacuum skulls plan to vote for Obama, except they don't understand that "voter registration thing".....

re: #39 Sharmuta

I think it's spot on. All three have let celebrity go to their heads, and all three are celebrities for doing basically nothing but whoring themselves out in TV, music and politics. Also- none of them have produced anything noteworthy for having acquired said celebrity status in the first place.

Well said!

Another idea.
Have celebrities Joli, Voigt, Arnold etc. (there are some out there) dressed very sober and serious 3 or 4 together one seated and staring into the camera, "We are celebrities it is a gift we have and we can use to draw attention to important issues but do not be fooled. Emotion and sex are not good reasons to choose a leader in a dangerous world."

It's not about the issues, yet. That will come. Right now it is all about defining the opponent. If this sticks, and I think it will, Obama is well on his way to becoming the butt of many a joke. This is all good.

Merci beaucoup! - Paris Obama

re: #82 saberry0530

You must have missed his gaffe where he was heard to say that he wanted to cut off Obama's nuts. Try googling Obama's nuts...

re: #86 Sifty

Give the man a cigar! Unless, of course, your name is really Bill....

re: #67 Kenneth

The only poll that matters is how many of the hardcore dope smokers that comprise a big percentage of Obama's base will actually vote.

re: #6 avirus

Thanks for the upding, JWF.

#87 Saberberry

She has the build for it.

Good point.

re: #58 Kenneth

Video: Leave Obama alone!

That is classic. Although, at the end I was expecting to hear "racist bastards!"

re: #58 Kenneth

Video: Leave Obama alone!

Hilarious.

I'd like to address the second video.
Sure, this is a "negative" ad, since it attacks Obama.
But then *ANY* criticism of an opponent is a "negative" ad.

Hitting Obama on his refusal to permit offshore drilling and raising taxes are legitimate substantive criticisms. That's not "below the belt" dirt, these are major policy issues.

The "hook" of mocking Obama for his rock-star like tours might be a bit unseemly, but its a pretty gentle jab, and its accurate.

well in the comparison to paris hilton, if obama is, heaven forbid, elected... his days in the white house will be like paris and that other girl in the "Simple Life" tv show...."wow! I can really talk to the Russian PM on this phone? Toooo Cooool!"

re: #95 Peacekeeper

Try googling Obama's nuts...

That is just wrong.
/

In keeping with the Obama/Hilton comparison, today is National Orgasm Day!
[Link: biz.yahoo.com...]
Okay, so it has nothing to do with the comparison...

re: #94 The Shadow Do

That's Mercy Bow Coo! You have to have the accent right!

:-)

re: #34 Ben Hur

Seen the videos of Paris using the N-word?

Some reason they didn't get as much play as Kramer, etc.

Easy to understand. Michael Richards rant was was the word over and over again shouted in anger at hecklers that he couldn't control and grew frustrated with, while Paris used it less as an angry epithet. Also, as a White male, Richards took on the role of lightening rod for Sharpton's ire with that little tirade. Paris' reputation as an idiot also protects her somewhat. It's easy to dismiss her as a ditz that doesn't know better, even when it's obvious that she is 'crazy like a fox' stupid.

Barrack Obama is the Kwisatz Haderach.

re: #75 Ford_Prefect
OK, we'll just have to agree to disagree on this; I think Obama - with the MSM's all too willing assistance - has deliberately tried to make himself a "rock star" sort of persona.
McCain has pointed that out, but hasn't acted as one himself. And I do think that's a valid point - but McCains next ad ought to be that he's still waiting for Obama to hold that series of "townhall" meetings with him. And THAT ad should follow on the heels of this one very quickly indeed.

Britney Spears fills me with dread.

I get a tingling sensastion

#91 Maddog,
I agree with you about everything

except for one tiny little thing

I believe Paris is a Republican.

She's going to be in that new movie put out by the guy who made Airplane.

re: #95 Peacekeeper

You must have missed his gaffe where he was heard to say that he wanted to cut off Obama's nuts. Try googling Obama's nuts...

I , for one, would never google or oogle Obama's nuts. Maybe one of Zombie's San Fran "friends" would give it a go.

I had sex with my brother but I don't feel guilty

Times Online.

Covering the important issues.

There are supportive comments.

re: #98 Cygnus

the moment i heard about this i thought the Christian lizards here would love it

Easier on the eyes but I'd have to buy hearing aids just so I
can turn them off!

Remember that this is an ad being aired in the midwest - the Jacksonian belt.

These are folks who are not in love with Europe and they do not seek European approval.

Recent case in point is the complete failure of the Daimler-Benz acquisition (and then sale) of Chrysler.

Utter. Cultural. Clash.

Had Chrysler been based in New York or LA, the Chrysler workers would have slavishly accepted the overbearing European management as being somehow enlightened. Folks in the midwest judge you for what you present to them.

McCain is targeting the rust belt letting them know that this is a guy who puts appearance over substance and he is forcing them to think about it, even for a fleeting moment. It will work in that market, IMO.

Spears, Hilton, Obama, 3 people who are famous for being famous.

re: #95 Peacekeeper

Try googling Obama's nuts...

Freudian slip?

# 72 Kenneth:

I checked that you had received my apology for the other thread during my (late and meagre) lunch hour - the new cartoon was a real bonus (as was the website itself).

I loved the charge of the unicorn garlanded in pink!

Paris' reputation as an idiot also protects her somewhat. It's easy to dismiss her as a ditz that doesn't know better, even when it's obvious that she is 'crazy like a fox' stupid.
Paris Hilton as Prince Hal.

I actually subscribe to that theory.

That means her friend the Richie girl is Falstaff.

;-)

re: #88 Ford_Prefect

WAB's?

Whiney-ass bitches - first coined in the singular for Michelle, by our own Mandy Manners.

re: #110 Pastorius

#91 Maddog,
I agree with you about everything

except for one tiny little thing

I believe Paris is a Republican.

She's going to be in that new movie put out by the guy who made Airplane.

Paris can't spell Republican, how the hell can she be one?

re: #62 Ford_Prefect

My point exactly. You don't need the video of meaningless celebs.

I think it worked. Everybody is talking about this ad today.

re: #89 Killgore Trout

What a Philistine. There's a screw loose there.

buzzsawmonkey

I got in late on the other thread...what new, but I wanted to answer your question.

re: #129 buzzsawmonkey

How many Mugabes can you get for an Obama?

None...you have to have two nuts to trade for a Mugabe.

An amazingly biased AP story on the economy:

Of the latest GDP news, President Bush said: "It's not as good as we'd like it to be, but I want to remind you a few months ago there were predictions that the economy would shrink this quarter," he said.

Instead, GDP contracted by 0.2 percent, on an annualized basis, in the last three months of 2007, according to annual revisions released by the government.

Dude, that was 2 quarters ago!

Ok, so let's look at the results quarter by quarter:
Q4 2007: -0.2%
Q1 2008: +0.9%
Q2 2008: +1.9%

...and the economy jolted into reverse at the end of 2007, raising new recession fears

Seems to me like it didn't jolt much at all in Q4 2007. But has actually been jolting in the other direction.

Read the whole thing. Bad news is filled with action packed words like "jolted" and "feeble" while good news is buried and neutral.

Obama comes across as an air-head just like Brattany and paris.

Speaking of heads did you read this story about a man on a bus in Canada who violently stabbed another passenger 50-60 times, then cut off his head and gutted him?

Does not give the aggressors name.....but I'm thinking........

re: #66 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Neither regions?

Oh no, did Jesse get to him?

re: #125 jorline

buzzsawmonkey

I got in late on the other thread...what new, but I wanted to answer your question.

None...you have to have two nuts to trade for a Mugabe.

Obama and Michele.

OT:
Why Indeed. MSNBC wonders why everyone keeps focusing on the economy as though it's in a recession (and isn't - especially when you go by the traditional economics definition and not the wishy washy touchy feely nonsense the media has been feeding). Gee, maybe the media's fixation on a condition that isn't there has something to do with it.

re: #124 red satellite

I suspect it's a lame attempt at viral marketing from the Obama campaign.

re: #130 buzzsawmonkey

LOL.

Can be taken away you want...LOL

re: #108 realwest

Listen, I agree that Obama has posed himself as a rockstar, and I have no objection to the wording in the ad. I just think it should have been done without the reference to the blonde Hollywood dingbats. That was just unnecessary and juvenile IMO.

re: #71 karmic_inquisitor

Its a good ad.

The point is linking Obama to Spears and particularly Hilton is just to show the disconnect between Obama's fame/popularity and his actual accomplishments (which are on a par with Hiltons. . .basically zero. At least Spears was a legitimate pop star once, selling gazillions of albums).

Obama's positions on taxes and energy alone could crush him, if presented properly.

"Senator Obama thinks the price of gasoline isn't high enough already, and wants to increase the tax YOU pay every time you fill up your tank. Is that the kind of "change" we've all been hoping for?"

re: #112 Ben Hur

Shit like that has got to be a sign of the Apocalypse in some religion somewhere.

Time to prep my football pads and water filter.

I'm not going to say Barack is like Hitler, but I'm going to bring Hitler into this.

When Hitler rose to power, the Jews did not flee, because it is almost impossible to believe the depth of evil and that it could be real.

In the same way, it is almost impossible for us to believe the depth of Obama's stupidity.

But, you know, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.

re: #119 Dolce

Hah! Obama's unicorn ride was so magical!

Barack Obama = Emperor's New Clothes

re: #112 Ben Hur

I had sex with my brother but I don't feel guilty

Times Online.

Covering the important issues.

There are supportive comments.

Be warned. This is the next marriage debate.

re: #77 Killgore Trout

Curious Obama pic of the day.......
Yahoo pic

I wonder if this is one of the fake signs printed up by the Obama campaign. Odd.

It looks rather professional for a bunch of gun- and bible-clinging hillbillies.

re: #77 Killgore Trout
Whoa, that's a little weird. But it could just be two guys who thought the sign would be seen as funny and attract Obama's attention - he sure doesn't seem upset by it at all.

It is working!

Obama lead in margin of error in BOTH Rasmussen (+2) AND Gallup (+1).

[Link: www.realclearpolitics.com...]

re: #121 yma o hyd

Whiney-ass bitches - first coined in the singular for Michelle, by our own Mandy Manners.

Thank you.

re: #70 freedomplow

It was perfect. How many big crowd German ads do you think Obama is going to show now?

That's a good observation. Between the 'not visiting the troops' controversy and this ad, the McCain folks just neutered the entire BHO European vacation.

The best visual anti-BHO is to show Jeremiah Wright damning America, over and over and over. That will get pulled out before the end.

Here's a good visual example of what the ad meant.

When all dolled up for PR, pretty nice.

But when seen in reality, not so much.

[Link: www.dailymail.co.uk...]

re: #90 Pastorius

Probably frak her way out of a situation. So would Paris.

re: #131 saberry0530

Obama and Michele.

That's one possibility.

I could have said balls...but it didn't have the same effect...lol

re: #144 karmic_inquisitor

It is working!

Obama lead in margin of error in BOTH Rasmussen (+2) AND Gallup (+1).

[Link: www.realclearpolitics.com...]

Do think it's chance that Baruch is up +7 in the CNN poll?

re: #148 Macker

Probably frak her way out of a situation. So would Paris.

That's Frac.

re: #115 taxfreekiller

Brittney Spears is a commie too, also?

Actually, she got a lot of crap a few years back for saying that people ought to trust the President (referring to Bush) and do what he says.

Neither Paris nor Britney want to fuck you. Obama does.

Read somewhere yesterday that McCain is getting significant bang for his advertising buck by all the free airplay the MSN news shows have been giving his videos. Especially the controversial "Obama skipping the troop visit in Germany" and the media infatuation hit with the "You're Just To Good To Be True " soundtrack. Someone on McCains advertising team knows how to play the game! WTG!

I saw this last night and thought it was kind of funny. They only showed a quick clip of Brit & Paris. The ad wasn't about them, it was about Obama being another empty headed celeb.

What I thought was funny was how O's campaign was "outraged" by the attack ad. I did not see anything that could be considered an attack.

However, I would be much happier with McCain if he would release some hard hitting attack ads.

The comparison is ridiculous. Barry wears underwear.

A bigger version of that Rednecks for Obama photo:

[Link: www.daylife.com...]

re: #77 Killgore Trout

My moonbat sister and BIL have one of those! Neither of them are rednecks, mind you. Both regard rednecks as the bitter, clingy swine that all elitist liberals hate between elections.
They got their banner from their local Dem party.

re: #141 Ford_Prefect

Be warned. This is the next marriage debate.

I don't see a powerful pro-incest lobby emerging.

My view on this is that if you want to marry your sibling, that's your problem. Natural selection still applies.

re: #150 Ben Hur

Do think it's chance that Baruch is up +7 in the CNN poll?

CNN, Newsweek and NYT always publish a thrown poll to bump the average. We are overdue for more spiked polls (it has been almost 72 hours, after all)

re: #153 Peacekeeper

Neither Paris nor Britney want to fuck you. Obama does.

Well he wouldn't if you'd stop googling his nuts.

re: #153 Peacekeeper

Neither Paris nor Britney want to fuck you. Obama does.

That's only because they don't know me. They also don't know that I just referred to them as blonde Hollywood dingbats.

re: #150 Ben Hur

Do think it's chance that Baruch is up +7 in the CNN poll?

being it's the cnn poll, I'm surprised its only +7 and not +37.

The comedy director who gave us such immortal movie lines as “Oh stewardess, I speak jive” and “Don’t call me Shirley” is now leveling his sights at documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.

David Zucker, the director and writer who helped create “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” franchise has called on Hollywood’s tiny but tightly knit Republican A-list crowd to help him make a broad yet unusually right-leaning political satire titled “An American Carol.”

The low-budget indie co-stars Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer with Oscar-winner Jon Voight, cinema icon Dennis Hopper, model-heiress Paris Hilton and frequent Zucker stooge Leslie Nielsen in minor roles. Release is planned sometime by year’s end; the director suggested Friday, Sept. 12, to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001,

[Link: 209.85.141.104...]

re: #157 Charles

I like the Budweiser umbrella. Nice touch.

re: #153 Peacekeeper

Neither Paris nor Britney want to fuck you. Obama does.

Speak for yourself

re: #135 Ford_Prefect

I agree with your point. Why drag the blondes into it? The point could have been made without trashing them. It was stupid and unnecessary.

Obama has clearly outlined his plans for the future of America. McCain better start hammering home the reality of what Obama's dream of a socialistic America will actually entail. I have many friends who lean on the liberal side but they start to sit up and take notice once I list some of Obama's ideas. They have no idea how socialistic he really is and they suddenly start thinking about paying attention to the election a little more than before. The MSM is protecting Obama. McCain had better take the gloves off and get some clear messages out there.

re: #162 Ford_Prefect

That's only because they don't know me. They also don't know that I just referred to them as blonde Hollywood dingbats.

I'm pretty sure neither of them is actually blonde.
(100% sure about Hilton).

re: #156 HelloDare

The comparison is ridiculous. Barry wears underwear.

And just how do you know that?

re: #23 looking closely

He probably was just waiting for the last "hot air" comment by BHO, tire inflation indeed...

“What they’re going to do is make you scared — of me,” Obama told voters in Springfield, Missouri.

/if you earn any type of income, you should be scared of him!

The video fails to mention more coal. It's not a secret that a big part of Al Gore's group "We" is part of the "clean coal consortium". With the energy stasis the left and the greens have kept the country in the past few years coal consumption has increased, not decreased.

I'm sure all many of fake conservatives, fake rednecks, fake hunters, fake soldiers, and fake heterosexuals will be seen with Obama in the next few months.

One upside is that the hippie scum will have to bathe in order to pretend to be Republicans for the photo op.

What they’re going to do is make you scared — of me

You're doing that all by yourself, Barry.

re: #126 buzzsawmonkey - So you're saying the ad should show McCain versus a dummy? Well that could work REALLY well AND prepare folks for what they'll actually see if Obama deigns to do any of those townhall meetings!

Would Frank Marshall Davis qualify as a Redneck?

re: #168 looking closely

I'm pretty sure neither of them is actually blonde.
(100% sure about Hilton).

IMO choosing to be blonde is even worse.

re: #164 Pastorius

Poor Kelsey is in bad health. A super guy that gave money to crew members out of his pocket during the strike. Prayers to him and his family.

re: #169 lifeofthemind

And just how do you know that?

Because he has been googling Barry's balls.

re: #157 Charles

A bigger version of that Rednecks for Obama photo:

[Link: www.daylife.com...]

That sign looks quite wel made - professional job?

But what I wanna know is - what has The Symbol got in his left trouser pocket? Its too big to be a box of ciggies, isn't it, or is it?

re: #167 WinterCat

No reason Mac can't do both - hammer BHO on substance and hammer BHO on style.

Hammering him on style generates lots more buzz around the proverbial water-cooler.

Heads are exploding at The Daily Obama (sorry, I meant MSNBC)

Well, I am scared of an Obama presidency. Anyone with at least half a functioning brain should be scared of him. He's a friggin' commie fer Pete's sake!

Dennis Hopper leans Republican?

re: #164 Pastorius

re: #180 yma o hyd

That sign looks quite wel made - professional job?

It even appears to be made of plastic. Very convenient for a rainy day.

re: #180 yma o hyd

That sign looks quite wel made - professional job?

But what I wanna know is - what has The Symbol got in his left trouser pocket? Its too big to be a box of ciggies, isn't it, or is it?

blackberry

/and NO, I'm not being racist!

For all the media love the guy can't seem to reach 50% in even the most stilted polls...

re: #171 Killian Bundy

/if you earn any type of income, you should be scared of him!

You should indeed.
And if you don't earn any tpe of income, you should be as well, because you'll be put through the grinder as you must show that you're worthy of State support ...

First, Obama doesn’t like our flag.

Now he doesn’t like George Washington?

re: #180 yma o hyd

That sign looks quite wel made - professional job?

But what I wanna know is - what has The Symbol got in his left trouser pocket? Its too big to be a box of ciggies, isn't it, or is it?

His copy of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book?

Albright, Affleck, other DNC stars talk policy

For the first time ever, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and acclaimed actor Ben Affleck will appear in public together to discuss international relations at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

/can we please put these people in charge of the country?

There are real rednecks that support Obama only because of the war in Iraq.

Montana is a good example - you wouldn't expect the race to be close there, but in that part of the country you have many folks who just oppose foreign wars unless we've been attacked. Remember Bob Dole's "Democratic Wars" comment when he was running for VP? These are the same folks who opposed Kosovo.

They supported Iraq on the basis of WMD/ Terror. They read old media and many are convinced by the "Bush lied" meme. That, and many of these guys are tied to the AG economy, which is filled with Governtment subsidies so a (D) after a name doesn't automatically scare them.

With Iraq going better, many of them will move back to undecided. If you know any of them, send them a "500 tons of yellowcake" google search and they will learn that there was a WMD program in Iraq and that the MSM/ Dems have been the one's lying.

I recently re-converted a friend from Billings with that link, and he has been emailing it around.

“What they’re going to do is make you scared — of me,” Obama told voters in Springfield, Missouri.

I'm in Springfield and YES I am scared of The One.

HuffPo blogger: McCain’s Britney ad actually a secret call for assassination

We spent the second half of the last century keeping communism out of our country, so bear with me if I seem a bit scared of your socialist tendencies.

re: #181 DeafDog

Every ad that McCain does about Barry's style is an ad that does not deal with the really scary economic plan and the very scary foreign relations plan that Barry has. McCain seems to be whining that Barry is cool and he is not. McCain is not cool. He has to deal with that. But Barry's socialisitc policies are dangerous to the health and welfare of America. That is the only real message that people (who are actually going to vote) will respond to IMHO.

CNN: "And now for some discussion is our political analyst dashiki wearing Rev Wright/ Obama hack, Roland Martin"

re: #164 Pastorius

SWEET.

#178 Sifty,
Yes, thanks for bringing that up. Prayers ... incense.

re: #191 faraway

First, Obama doesn’t like our flag.

Now he doesn’t like George Washington?

Probably doesn't like Lincoln, either, as Lincoln was a racist Republican who hated black people.

For the first time ever, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and acclaimed actor Ben Affleck will appear in public together

OMFG!

I.....I....can't beleive it!

TOGETHER?!?!?!?

re: #191 faraway

I've been following the tap dancing of the Obama campaign on that little comment on hotair---the comments are priceless!

re: #137 Sifty

Shit like that has got to be a sign of the Apocalypse in some religion somewhere.

Time to prep my football pads and water filter.

A sign of apocalypse to some, just another day in the Royal Palace to others.
//and no, I'm not bagging on the Brits

re: #193 Killian Bundy

Albright, Affleck, other DNC stars talk policy

/can we please put these people in charge of the country?

These people haven't seen "Team America" have they?

I agree that the Spears/Hilton angle was a silly insert into an otherwise valid message. I'd have gone with real images of the some of the Hollywood types Barry has been hobnobbing with.

re: #187 Spider Mensch

blackberry

/and NO, I'm not being racist!

The ad is code for rape. They show helpless white girls, Obama smiling and a giant black dick thing (The Berlin victory needle).

Yeah right.

re: #199 WinterCat

Every ad that McCain does about Barry's style is an ad that does not deal with the really scary economic plan and the very scary foreign relations plan that Barry has. McCain seems to be whining that Barry is cool and he is not. McCain is not cool. He has to deal with that. But Barry's socialisitc policies are dangerous to the health and welfare of America. That is the only real message that people (who are actually going to vote) will respond to IMHO.

This ad DOES deal with substance (well, within the constraints of a 30 second ad). It points out that Barry's answer to high energy costs is 1) no new exploration and 2) tax energy.

Paris Hilton:

"I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyok'd humor of your idleness.?

Prince Hal, speaking of his disreputable friends. Act I, scene 2, lines 199-200.

I don't think she's as dumb as she looks, or plays.

If you're in theater, you gotta admit, the chick hits her marks everytime.

Well all y'all it's been grand as usual, but I gotta go mush some lunch now.
I hope you all have a GREAT DAY and that I get the chance to see you all down the road.

re: #197 Ben Hur

Projection. The Paint Huffers want Obama to be assassinated. It would re-enforce their fantasies of a global Right-wing Conspiracy against them and their Messiah.

Me, I want Obama humiliated at the polls. That will be so special.

re: #204 Ben Hur

This is the biggest hook up since peanut butter and jelly!

re: #194 taxfreekiller

It's a real problem. Spread through fecal matter, it is resistant to chlorine at levels that are safe for human exposure and used to disinfect public pools. It can be killed with UV devices and many public pools are installing them. If a pool is infected, super-chlorination is an effect disinfectant, but it shuts the pool down until chlorine levels are safe for human exposure again.

Obama doesn't want to drill anywhere unlike Paris and
Brittany who have been drilled more than ......

Dennis Miller

I'm just glad McCain didn't use Michael Jackson instead of Paris in the ad.

re: #207 looking closely

These people haven't seen "Team America" have they?

MATT DAMON!

re: #184 Pyrocles

Dennis Hopper described himself as a Reagan Republican. He gave a nice performance in the role of a Special Forces colonel in the short-lived NBC series "E-Ring"

re: #210 Peacekeeper

The ad is code for rape. They show helpless white girls, Obama smiling and a giant black dick thing (The Berlin victory needle).

Here's what the Good People of Rock Ridge had to say about that.

Ben Afleck pretends (poorly) to be other people for his job.

This makes him a political expert to the left.

Comparing Obama with Spears and Hilton? Yeah, I can see the reasoning - none of them has accomplished anything worth their 'celebrity'.

Hishusseinness is very like all those 'celebrities' who confuse fame with significance.

The problem for this country is that his middle name might as well be Pavlov, because he's mastered the art of convincing his test subjects that his self-adoration is the example they are to follow: worship him, just as he worships himself.

re: #208 Occasional Reader

I agree that the Spears/Hilton angle was a silly insert into an otherwise valid message. I'd have gone with real images of the some of the Hollywood types Barry has been hobnobbing with.

Now that I would not have a problem with. Showing him shaking hands with celebs, posing for pics and such would be fine. Tying him to two random celebs who haven't, to my knowledge, come out in favor of him, just seems foolish.

re: #204 Ben Hur

OMFG!

I.....I....can't beleive it!

TOGETHER?!?!?!?

They do a porn flick?

That's a controversial ad?

What I want to see is Britney Spears picking petals off a daisy, one by one, until a mushroom cloud appears on the screen with Obama's face superimposed.

#216 CyanSnowHawk

It's a real problem. Spread through fecal matter ...

Wait, are we still talking about Obama?

Obama is just like Reagan.

Reagan was an actor, then became a politician.

Obama was a politician, then became an actor.

re: #227 zombie

Talk about your paint huffers...

re: #199 WinterCat

Every ad that McCain does about Barry's style is an ad that does not deal with the really scary economic plan and the very scary foreign relations plan that Barry has. McCain seems to be whining that Barry is cool and he is not. McCain is not cool. He has to deal with that. But Barry's socialisitc policies are dangerous to the health and welfare of America. That is the only real message that people (who are actually going to vote) will respond to IMHO.

This does deal with the issues, McCain is saying that Barry's energy and tax policies are dangerously naive. The sort of thing that we could expect from someone who is very popular, but not terribly smart.

re: #226 maddogg

They do a porn flick?

You mock, but IT'S THE FIRST TIME EVER THAT ALBRIGHT AND AFFLAC WILL BE ON THE SAME STAGE!

THERE ARE NO WORDS!

re: #207 looking closely

The Film Actors Guild will get you for that.

re: #227 zombie

That's a controversial ad?

What I want to see is Britney Spears picking petals off a daisy, one by one, until a mushroom cloud appears on the screen with Obama's face superimposed.

Yes!

Another Barry Buried by the daisy ad. (not that the first victim deserved it)

re: #227 zombie

With Obama doing the "Allahu Ackbar" scream! Or would that be too realistic?

re: #232 Ben Hur

You mock, but IT'S THE FIRST TIME EVER THAT ALBRIGHT AND AFFLAC WILL BE ON THE SAME STAGE!

THERE ARE NO WORDS!

The Duck?

I loved how the McCain campaign called Barry a "fussy man."

SO true.

To Leftists, everything is a code for rape. I took a few feminist courses in college....

re: #210 Peacekeeper

The ad is code for rape. They show helpless white girls, Obama smiling and a giant black dick thing (The Berlin victory needle).

Yeah right.

Here's what I'm talkin' 'bout:

LBJ 1964 "daisy girl" nuke-bomb ad.

Now there's controversial.

Have we become so tame since 1964?

OK, that is a weird commercial, is Disney running McCain's campaign?
He needs to hit a bit harder than that.

Crowds for Obama, or for rock bands?

I've gotten some emails complaining that the mainstream media didn't mention something about Barack Obama's speech in Berlin: He was preceded on stage by a couple of popular rock bands, which could account for the size of the crowd.

That's a fact worth knowing, and one the major U.S. newspapers didn't report. If a presidential candidate is hanging onto the coattails of a music act, voters watching from the other side of the planet ought to be aware of it.

/The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging

How about an "It's morning in America" advert with Paris and Britteny taking their 9 am walks of shame?

Well, 'shame' may not be the correct term.

re: #227 zombie

That's a controversial ad?

What I want to see is Britney Spears picking petals off a daisy, one by one, until a mushroom cloud appears on the screen with Obama's face superimposed.

Maybe with a voice over of someone reading the Muslim Call to Prayer in perfect Arabic.

re: #238 loppyd

Get poor Barry some Mylicon drops with his martini and arugula.

re: #240 zombie

Here's what I'm talkin' 'bout:

LBJ 1964 "daisy girl" nuke-bomb ad.

Now there's controversial.

Have we become so tame since 1964?

It ran twice, and had a major impact on the election.
Painted AuH₂O as a warmonger.

I think political ads will have to find Obami's weak spots -- then needle him with it, till there's an Obama Melt-down Moment -- as with the Dean Scream...I think ridicule would work well. Look up the Obamanation's Doctoral Dissertation -- then critique it. Compare it to what he's said in the campaign...make sure it's pointed and sarcastic and demonstrates what a prevaricating, disingenuous, fluffed-up, pretentious, strutting peacock he really is...

re: #199 WinterCat

Yeah - but right now, before Denver, wouldn't that play right into BOs hands as being a real heavy-weight candidate?
Once he's 'crowned', McCain can lay into the issues. Right now getting BO worried about style and stuff, which is indeed of less importance ,is a good thing - McCain needs to be able to ratchet things up in the autumn, not now. He needs to keeep, as it were, his powder dry and not give the BO campaign stuff to get their teeth into quite yet.
And getting BO to act hysterical about such style issues will prepare the ground for later.

back to work

re: #242 Killian Bundy

Crowds for Obama, or for rock bands?

/The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging

I knew about the bands, but THIS I did not know:

What also wasn't mentioned was the fact that many in the audience were from the extreme left "hate America" groups in Europe and that Obama campaign members met with them beforehand, asking them to leave their anti-American signs home and carry Obama signs instead. Great to know Obama is so popular with the great unwashed of Europe. Just what we need, a president that those people actually like.

Posted by: Erica | Jul 30, 2008 3:35:34 PM

Whois info for Rednecks for Obama says that the site is registered to Roger Schneider, who seems to have a lot of money to donate to Democrats. No evidence that he's employed by the Obama campaign.

re: #232 Ben Hur

You mock, but IT'S THE FIRST TIME EVER THAT ALBRIGHT AND AFFLAC WILL BE ON THE SAME STAGE!

THERE ARE NO WORDS!

Well, I guess that lays to rest the rumor that they are one in the same.

re: #194 taxfreekiller

Crypto is resistant to chlorination of water, so water parks have to spend heavily on UV disinfectant systems.

re: #242 Killian Bundy

Crowds for Obama, or for rock bands?

/The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging

Ah, Genesis. Kudos on going old school.

re: #247 J.S.

Maybe McCain could start every speech about Obama with Dumbo wearing a red star on the screen behind him.

re: #240 zombie

This country has become absolutely impotent since the politically correct bug invaded here.

These McCain ads are just terrible. Does anyone else feel like John McCain is running to lose?

re: #194 taxfreekiller

So, the open borders:

Now in many areas huge increase in Cryptosporidium Infections

aka public swimming pools and wading areas

see

Ft. Worth Star Telegram

check out the
county health dept.'s for both Tarrant and Dallas County Texas

or

Dallas Morning News

could be even the Center for Diesie Control has info up on this now

[Link: www.cdc.gov...]

Thanks for bringing this up TFK. The implications are unnerving, to say the least. The open border is also the reason for the resurgance of mumps, measles, TB, whooping cough, etc. The illegal kiddies are in the schools here, as well as in the pools - and in Mexico they've not been given immunizations. How soon before polio joins the list of reappearing diseases?

Scary!

This campaign is turning into a remake of Blazing Saddles...

re: #227 zombie

Like this?

re: #257 PaxAmericana

I second that. He is tying one arm behind his own back.

re: #256 CapeCoddah

Hey Cape. How are you? How is the weather up your way. My brother and his family are up there now and next week.

re: #252 Killgore Trout

Whois info for Rednecks for Obama says that the site is registered to Roger Schneider, who seems to have a lot of money to donate to Democrats. No evidence that he's employed by the Obama campaign.

Then there's the "Women for John McCain" site, which I'm sure is a creation of the Obama campaign.

re: #257 PaxAmericana

These McCain ads are just terrible. Does anyone else feel like John McCain is running to lose?

Try to remember that he isn't spending the money he has to inspire you - he is trying to create uncertainty and doubt in many of Obama's recent converts in swing states.

He has to shoot with rifle right now, not a shotgun.

I wonder if Ben Affleck will be spreading the word about his buddy, Matt Damon's upcoming miniseries based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States". Matt Damon expressed his affection for Zinn's book during "Good Will Hunting", as stated by NPR.

re: #253 CyanSnowHawk

re: #259 Peacekeeper

This campaign is turning into a remake of Blazing Saddles...

The candidate is

He said the candidate is near.

/ducks

Lili Von Shtupp (Hillary): [singing] Here I stand, the goddess of desire / Set men on fire / I have this power. / Morning, noon, and night, it's dwink and dancing / Some quick womancing / And then a shower. / Stage door Johnnies constantly suwwound me / They always hound me, with one wequest. / Who can satisfy their lustful habits? / I'm not a wabbit. / I need some we...
[Takes a breath]
Lili Von Shtupp: ... est.

re: #254 lawhawk

Ah, Genesis. Kudos on going old school.

Seemed like an appropriate metaphor for the Obama campaign.

/Peter Gabriel is a prescient genius

re: #263 Ford_Prefect
Hey Ford, Weather is perfect, and I am working about 28 hours a day.
This is the first time I have had a chance to read LGF for a while and I am trying to catch up.
Damned busy here this summer!

Church Congregation (Evangelicals): [singing] Now is a time of great decision / Are we to stay or up and quit? / There's no avoiding this conclusion: / Our town is turning into shit. Amen.

I wouldn't trust Affleck to wax my car.