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This is so 2008.
Author: Raine    Date: 05/17/2012 12:57:05

From the New York Times:
The plan, which is awaiting approval, calls for running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., whose race-related sermons made him a highly charged figure in the 2008 campaign.

“The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” says the proposal, which was overseen by Fred Davis and commissioned by Joe Ricketts, the founder of the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade. Mr. Ricketts is increasingly putting his fortune to work in conservative politics. {snip}

The group suggested hiring as a spokesman an “extremely literate conservative African-American” who can argue that Mr. Obama misled the nation by presenting himself as what the proposal calls a “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.”

A copy of a detailed advertising plan was obtained by The New York Times through a person not connected to the proposal who was alarmed by its tone. It is titled “The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good.”
Are we really going to be led down this road again? AGAIN?

After three and a half years, one would think that we have vetted this American President. It appears that while some say he has not done enough -- he has done something right if this means that some conservatives would like to just hit a reset button and go back to 2008. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers -- throw in a little Saul Alinsky with a dash of Kenyan pepper and I think one can see that this is just a new way of presenting an old dish of personal attacks based on things we already know. Things that have either been debunked or deemed not worthy of concern.

Yet here we are:
Lamenting that voters “still aren’t ready to hate this president,” the document concludes that the campaign should “explain how forces out of Obama’s control, that shaped the man, have made him completely the wrong choice as president in these days and times.”
This is simply about trying to get people to hate the President. It's politics at it very most vapid and shallow.

They could at least try something original like suggesting that he's really the son of a communist and had a nose job to hide his REAL roots....

Is it groundhog day again? They threw everything they could at candidate Obama, Americans chose to elect him in 2008. People are tired of hate for hates sake. I will tell you this -- should the right even try to go after the President for his religion, Mr. Romney needs to know that in this day and age of the Super PAC -- all bets are off about his religion. I'm pretty sure Romney doesn't want to open that can of worms considering his family history.

Maybe he should stick to discussing his foreign policy... Oh wait, ‘Doesn’t Want To Really Engage’ On Foreign Policy Issues Until He’s President. Ok well let's let the reporters deal with this... Oh wait, he won't talk to them either. So let him defend his time at Bain, right? That is the centerpiece of his campaign isn't it? Oh, Wait... those ads are 'off-target' too... Bullying? He can't remember that. Abortion? he was for choice before he was against choice.

and
Raine
 

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Comment by wickedpam on 05/17/2012 13:07:32
Morning

Comment by Will in Chicago on 05/17/2012 13:14:15
Raine, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt might say, I fear that all the GOP has left to sell is fear and hate themselves.

Many of the remarks that the right is fond of quoting comes from a speech by a former CIA official that Reverend Jeremiah Wright quoted. So, if this is the best that the GOP has to offer -- a smear campaign that has already be debunked -- they are unfit to lead the crew of a garbage scow, let alone our nation.

Comment by Raine on 05/17/2012 13:20:12
Quote by Will in Chicago:
Raine, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt might say, I fear that all the GOP has left to sell is fear and hate themselves.

Many of the remarks that the right is fond of quoting comes from a speech by a former CIA official that Reverend Jeremiah Wright quoted. So, if this is the best that the GOP has to offer -- a smear campaign that has already be debunked -- they are unfit to lead the crew of a garbage scow, let alone our nation.



Comment by Raine on 05/17/2012 13:28:35
I highly recommend that everyone read the book, Under The Banner of Heaven It gives a really honest account of the LDS history as well as the FDLS.

Comment by wickedpam on 05/17/2012 13:29:47
You know, that's just sad really. Even through all of each presidents faults or my dislike of their policies and things they implemented, I have never hated one of them. I can be angry with them but never hate them. That's the difference, those who side with the GOP are bathing in hate.

Comment by Raine on 05/17/2012 13:50:06
Glad the show is talking about the same thing I was trying to get at in todays blog:
Is it groundhog day again? They threw everything they could at candidate Obama, Americans chose to elect him in 2008. People are tired of hate for hates sake. I will tell you this -- should the right even try to go after the President for his religion, Mr. Romney needs to know that in this day and age of the Super PAC -- all bets are off about his religion. I'm pretty sure Romney doesn't want to open that can of worms considering his family history.




Comment by Mondobubba on 05/17/2012 13:55:01
Quote by Raine:
I highly recommend that everyone read the book, Under The Banner of Heaven It gives a really honest account of the LDS history as well as the FDLS.



I've read it! It really give you a sense of how weird LDS can be.

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/17/2012 13:56:14
Quote by Raine:
Glad the show is talking about the same thing I was trying to get at in todays blog:
Is it groundhog day again? They threw everything they could at candidate Obama, Americans chose to elect him in 2008. People are tired of hate for hates sake. I will tell you this -- should the right even try to go after the President for his religion, Mr. Romney needs to know that in this day and age of the Super PAC -- all bets are off about his religion. I'm pretty sure Romney doesn't want to open that can of worms considering his family history.





Steph and the Mooks are the only ones. Steve Kornacki did a piece on today

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/17/2012 14:04:05


This has to be the single funniest savage review of a movie I've ever read.

You know that bar over on the roughneck side of town, the one where all the jingoistic, pro-military, America-hell-yeah movies go to quaff some brewskis and swap tales about kickin’ Communist hiney? Yeah, that one. Well, when “Battleship” shows up there and starts breaking beer glasses on its head, “Top Gun” and “Red Dawn” and “The Green Berets” get to feel all grown-up and complicated and full of girly-man sensitivity.




Comment by wickedpam on 05/17/2012 14:09:23
Quote by Mondobubba:


This has to be the single funniest savage review of a movie I've ever read.

You know that bar over on the roughneck side of town, the one where all the jingoistic, pro-military, America-hell-yeah movies go to quaff some brewskis and swap tales about kickin’ Communist hiney? Yeah, that one. Well, when “Battleship” shows up there and starts breaking beer glasses on its head, “Top Gun” and “Red Dawn” and “The Green Berets” get to feel all grown-up and complicated and full of girly-man sensitivity.




brilliant

Only reason to see that movie is to just stare at Liam Neeson

Comment by Raine on 05/17/2012 14:11:03
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
I highly recommend that everyone read the book, Under The Banner of Heaven It gives a really honest account of the LDS history as well as the FDLS.



I've read it! It really give you a sense of how weird LDS can be.
Ron Howard optioned it for a movie.

To be honest -- I wish it were going to be directed by Clint Eastwood.


Comment by Raine on 05/17/2012 14:13:08
I'll be back this afternoon. Meeting a friend for lunch today!

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/17/2012 14:14:05
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
I highly recommend that everyone read the book, Under The Banner of Heaven It gives a really honest account of the LDS history as well as the FDLS.



I've read it! It really give you a sense of how weird LDS can be.
Ron Howard optioned it for a movie.

To be honest -- I wish it were going to be directed by Clint Eastwood.



Ron Howard? Really? I don't see how he's going to be able to handle Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/17/2012 14:34:38
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:


This has to be the single funniest savage review of a movie I've ever read.

You know that bar over on the roughneck side of town, the one where all the jingoistic, pro-military, America-hell-yeah movies go to quaff some brewskis and swap tales about kickin’ Communist hiney? Yeah, that one. Well, when “Battleship” shows up there and starts breaking beer glasses on its head, “Top Gun” and “Red Dawn” and “The Green Berets” get to feel all grown-up and complicated and full of girly-man sensitivity.




brilliant

Only reason to see that movie is to just stare at Liam Neeson



What no love for Alex "Erik Northman" Skarsgaard?

Comment by wickedpam on 05/17/2012 14:37:15
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:


This has to be the single funniest savage review of a movie I've ever read.

You know that bar over on the roughneck side of town, the one where all the jingoistic, pro-military, America-hell-yeah movies go to quaff some brewskis and swap tales about kickin’ Communist hiney? Yeah, that one. Well, when “Battleship” shows up there and starts breaking beer glasses on its head, “Top Gun” and “Red Dawn” and “The Green Berets” get to feel all grown-up and complicated and full of girly-man sensitivity.




brilliant

Only reason to see that movie is to just stare at Liam Neeson



What no love for Alex "Erik Northman" Skarsgaard?


ohhh he's in it too????!!!! So its a man-candy movie

gawd, that reminds me I have to catch up on True Blood - Think I left off at the end of season 2!


Comment by wickedpam on 05/17/2012 14:57:57
comparing Bush to Rumple is giving Rumple a bad name

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/17/2012 14:57:58
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:


This has to be the single funniest savage review of a movie I've ever read.

You know that bar over on the roughneck side of town, the one where all the jingoistic, pro-military, America-hell-yeah movies go to quaff some brewskis and swap tales about kickin’ Communist hiney? Yeah, that one. Well, when “Battleship” shows up there and starts breaking beer glasses on its head, “Top Gun” and “Red Dawn” and “The Green Berets” get to feel all grown-up and complicated and full of girly-man sensitivity.




brilliant

Only reason to see that movie is to just stare at Liam Neeson



What no love for Alex "Erik Northman" Skarsgaard?


ohhh he's in it too????!!!! So its a man-candy movie

gawd, that reminds me I have to catch up on True Blood - Think I left off at the end of season 2!



naw, just one of those movies that uses so much gas in the explosions, it causes the price at the pump to jump by 20 cents a gallon.

Comment by wickedpam on 05/17/2012 15:16:41
Think I'll wait for the DVD

Still have to see Avengers and Promethus is coming out soon

Comment by wickedpam on 05/17/2012 15:38:41
First we lose Chuck Brown - father of Go-Go now we lose Donna Summer Queen of Disco

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/17/2012 15:56:33
Quote by wickedpam:
First we lose Chuck Brown - father of Go-Go now we lose Donna Summer Queen of Disco



Well damn.

Comment by livingonli on 05/17/2012 16:23:49
Hi, folks. Had to get up early for some neuropothy tests after I filled up the gas tank. I feel like going back to sleep.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 05/17/2012 16:28:51
Quote by wickedpam:
First we lose Chuck Brown - father of Go-Go now we lose Donna Summer Queen of Disco


Rest in Peace, Donna Summer. She was a part of my youth, and I wish that her family and friends are comforted in this sad time. Zichronam liv'rachah, may her memory be for a blessing.

Comment by Raine on 05/17/2012 18:46:58
I can't believe Donna Summer is dead.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 05/17/2012 19:31:45
Quote by Raine:
I can't believe Donna Summer is dead.


It is hard for me to believe as well, as I grew up when Donna Summer was at the height of her fame. I suppose that it is part of life to lose those who are older than us, but it is still not easy or pleasant.

Comment by livingonli on 05/17/2012 19:41:09
Quote by Will in Chicago:
Quote by Raine:
I can't believe Donna Summer is dead.


It is hard for me to believe as well, as I grew up when Donna Summer was at the height of her fame. I suppose that it is part of life to lose those who are older than us, but it is still not easy or pleasant.

I guess you also remember the infamous disco-record burning in Chicago. I think there was one in New York at that time.

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/17/2012 20:07:50
I am having a Rude Pundit moment. I want to cock-puch people until their nutsacks are bruised.

Comment by Scoopster on 05/17/2012 20:07:56
Comment by Raine on 05/17/2012 20:38:34
Quote by livingonli:
Quote by Will in Chicago:
Quote by Raine:
I can't believe Donna Summer is dead.


It is hard for me to believe as well, as I grew up when Donna Summer was at the height of her fame. I suppose that it is part of life to lose those who are older than us, but it is still not easy or pleasant.

I guess you also remember the infamous disco-record burning in Chicago. I think there was one in New York at that time.
I believe it was at the MEts stadium.

I say without apology -- I loved disco. She was amazing, she had a set of pipes that was amazing.


Comment by Raine on 05/17/2012 20:48:17
apropos of today's blog...



Republicans anxiously discourage racially-charged super PAC strategy

And then there's this...
Also to Townhall, Romney expressed frustration that no attention is being paid to what he considers a negative campaign by Team Obama.

"It's interesting that we're talking about some Republican PAC that wants to go after the president (on Wright)," he said. "I hope people also are looking at what he's doing, and saying 'why is he running an attack campaign? Why isn't he talking about his record?'


REALLY? Is Romney that stupid?

Comment by Raine on 05/17/2012 20:51:29
Randi is back with the Howard? I was wondering about that the other day. This must be love-- saying it's a mid wife crisis says it all.

Comment by Raine on 05/17/2012 20:54:31
Quote by Scoopster:

...and here's the actual video:

This is disappointing.


Comment by Will in Chicago on 05/18/2012 03:16:53
Quote by livingonli:
Quote by Will in Chicago:
Quote by Raine:
I can't believe Donna Summer is dead.


It is hard for me to believe as well, as I grew up when Donna Summer was at the height of her fame. I suppose that it is part of life to lose those who are older than us, but it is still not easy or pleasant.

I guess you also remember the infamous disco-record burning in Chicago. I think there was one in New York at that time.



Well, I was busy reading a book when it happened, so I skipped going to a White Sox game with my cousin. This was a wise choice, as my brother and sister and my cousin were at the White Sox game that had the disco-demolition and did not know it was scheduled.

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