…because let me add my voice to that of Instapundit’s, Riehl World View’s, and Reason’s: this ad from 2008 is fraught with irony in 2010.
Fraught. “Hey! Let’s take the image of someone talking about having a dialogue with the country and calling for the support of the populace AND SMASH HER IN THE FACE WITH A HAMMER! Because that would be different.”
Moe Lane
PS: On the bright side, the phrase ‘leader principle’ appears nowhere in this portrayal of American society as a grim, corporatist wasteland requiring violent intervention in order to create a new and superior singular collective identity.
Overtly.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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This ad was made by an individual
redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, April 12th at 9:00PM EST (link)Obama supporter.
At the time, I thought it was so good, I sent it to all my leftist relatives. Nothing Obama did for that campaign was anywhere nearly this clever.
That said, the irony is magnificent.
It was an Obama ad
clintonformccain Tuesday, April 13th at 12:28AM EST (link)That ad was not made by an “individual”. It was made by Blue State Digital, who was Obama’s website company. The “fired” the “employee” who “created” the ad, notwithstanding that he was roommates with one of Obama’s communications hacks.
This was the official kickoff to the Obama campaign. A lot of us saw what kind of character he was early on.
BTW, it’s good to see that some Republicans (Orrin Hatch) have figured out that they can drive a wedge in the Democratic base by involking Clinton’s name. I cannot stress enough how large and angry a large slice of fomer Democrats is with their old party, the attacks on women, the rigging of the nominating process, and so on and so forth.
There’s an opportunity for Republicans here. This dynamic was not insignificant in the recent Massachusetts Senate race — a state that voted strongly for Clinton and where voters were given the bird by the elected officials.
Not "His" website company
vucats Tuesday, April 13th at 10:40AM EST (link)Blue State Digital is an internet company that Obama hired to host his website and do IT work for him during his campaign, it’s not owned by Obama in any way, although he obviously had control over his website.
Either way, this wasn’t an official campaign ad as it would have required some sort of approval statement under McCain-Feingold BCRA.
A WOMAN getting smashed in the face
tominkorea Monday, April 12th at 10:53PM EST (link)It needs to be pointed out that it was a woman getting smashed in the face with a hammer. Maybe the liberal trolls reading will call that impolite, but it’s to be true and should be mentioned.
Notice that it's a pretty blonde woman,
Kitty_Myers Tuesday, April 13th at 9:52AM EST (link)NOT a man, who smashes HRC ‘in the face’ with a hammer.
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Orwell and the Borg
indyjohn Tuesday, April 13th at 2:50PM EST (link)Orwell’s gloomy vision of a dehumanized, totalitarian future is frightening. But it is not as frightening as our present reality, which contains some of the elements that the producers and writers of ‘Star Trek – The Next Generation’ created for the Borg society. Replace the Borg Queen with Barack Obama. Think of the MSM as the hive mind, telling the unassimilated that ‘Resistance is futile. You will become one with the collectivist left.’ Think of government programs as the biomechanical appurtenances that render the assimilated incapable of independent action.
Why does the left hate the Tea Partiers? Because the people shout ‘We will not submit!’
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
Hey! Isn't this ad an incitement to violence by Obama?
Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, April 20th at 2:22PM EST (link)Isn’t it suggesting that somebody do bodily harm to his then opponent?
I think so.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964