Awesome Palin Ad

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Awesome Palin Ad
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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:44pm
Do NOT miss this ad (but read the following first, pretty please, for my take):

Over the past thirty years, the scorched-earth tactics which the GOP has practiced, which began when Lee Atwater conducted the infamous "jumper cables" push-polling against congressional candidate Tom Turnipseed, through to the Jesse Helms "hands" spot, to Willie Horton ads, and right up to today, have rendered an already-contentious and base process - electing a President (and congresspeople and senators, too) such a debased and vicious arena, where mean-spirited trivia and dog-whistle innuendo about race and gender and religion and sexuality and other gut-level issues are more rampant - and more successful - than sober (or even impassioned) debates about actual issues which will affect most people, that it's barely better than cockfighting, in terms of nobility.

And, for quite some time now, I have been of the opinion that Democrats - and currently, this means Obama - had better start recognizing the tenor of the times and the lay of the land, if they wish to win. As another blogger said, in a post I linked to in another thread:

Obama wants to change politics, but ask anyone who has ever tried to subvert a system: you gotta do it from the inside. And if you cringe at the idea of Obama stepping into the muck and mire of post-Atwater poltics, then ask yourself: will he get more done by keeping his shoes clean and losing?

The truly aggravating thing is watching opportunity after opportunity pass by the Obama campaign. Here's some advice to them: you are not living in subtle times. You are living in an era in our nation where people only react if you use a mallet, not a stiletto, to get your point across. The choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate was a brilliant read of the national zeitgeist. She's like the winner of America's Next Top Model, not a qualified politician, and as such, idiot America thinks they relate.....

In other words, Obama campaign, as so many others have advised, go on offense, and that means you have to offend.


And so, in the spirit of that mindset, I offer simply awesome ad. It is low, despicable and every word of it is true. But the visual images add so much more. It says nothing whatsoever about Palin's positions on foreign policy or the economy, racism or the environment. It simply goes straight for the all-important (to many voters) "gut," bypassing all that pansy-a$$ crap. It says, in coded language, that Palin is a sadistic monster who should never, ever be let anywhere near the coffers and levers of power of our nation. It will give many people pause, in the way that no amount of record-correcting about all her lies and half-truths will ever do. It simply rocks, in as sleazy and straight-across-the-chops a manner as anything I've seen this season. I wish I had a billion dollars, so I could give two or three million of it to get this ad running EVERYWHERE.

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging

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Registered: 03-25-2007
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:50pm
Disgusting!

Sopal

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Registered: 09-06-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:51pm

But accurate!

She's Sarah Palin....and she approves this slaughter.

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
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Registered: 09-06-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 11:09am
Hey! Maybe I'm slow this morning (and yesterday evening, LOL), but it just occurred to me that this ad obviously was intended to work on the level of countering the "wolves" ad that ran against Kerry in '04 and which McCain has been recycling recently against Obama. Nice.

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
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Registered: 01-06-2001
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 11:32am
Oy...we hunt deer, moose, elk, bear and even doves in some places.

 

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Registered: 08-27-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 12:10pm
Has this ad aired on TV or is it just an online ad?
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Registered: 09-06-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 1:55pm

"Population control?"

Surely you jest. This is the hoariest of discredited excuses in the quiver. One wonders whatever DID the ecosystem DO when it couldn't rely on drunk rednecks with 12-gauges and .30-06s to be responsible for keeping the population down?

Must have been MADNESS.

So, anyway, you support the slaughter of wolves and other animals from low-flying helicopters and small planes, with bounties issued for each "foreleg" which is dismembered and brought in as proof?

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
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Registered: 09-06-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 1:57pm
Perfect. Then the right is bringing up abortion, and that can be used to highlight that Sarah Palin opposes abortion in virtually all cases....including a great many cases that a whole lot of real women, Republican, Democrat and Independent alike, have found themselves in.

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
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Registered: 07-03-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 1:58pm
My husband said that's the way the wealthy hunt.
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Registered: 09-06-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 2:00pm

LOL!

That, and "grenade fishing?"

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
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Registered: 07-03-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 2:02pm
Someone sent me an e-mail on tips of what to do if you are about to be raped. I'm sending it back to her with "Don't vote for McCain /Palin" or you will have to carry the child that you may have become pregnant with. Geez, being the child of a rapist, what fun.

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