The president’s opening effort to win back the job he has mostly abdicated in favor of golf is a paint by numbers effort. It’s flat, it’s obvious and it’s both uninspired and uninformative. I mean, who didn’t know that grassroots politics is “individuals…talking to other individuals”? From the opening shot of a small neighborhood church — this could be your small town! — to the shots of the family playing in the driveway — this could be your family! — this ad is tired. It feels old about halfway into the first viewing, or at least it did for me.
I get what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to bring his 2008 voters back around to remember why they voted for Obama in the first place. But there’s a big problem with doing that: Many of them voted for him because he’s Not Bush, but as he has faced the realities of being president, he has adopted many of Bush’s wartime policies. Many of Obama’s voters voted for him because he was new and fresh. Four years later, he’s neither. Many voted for him because they really bought the bipartisan stuff he sold, but in office he’s proven himself to be beholden to the very far left on domestic issues.
The Obama camp knows that with gas prices up dramatically since he took office, with wealth disappearing and jobs not returning, they need to catch the 2008 lightning in a bottle again to win next year. This opening ad doesn’t get them anywhere close to that.
That’s his Coffee Party effort. The campaign won’t kick in until the AFL-CIO and AFSCME and SEIU and NEA begin to demand we put up Obama posters in our store windows, and that ‘we’re neutral’ means NO, and that will be bad for us.
Picture the O-logo at the end of the ad. Now pick a slug line:
- Barack Obama: So lame. So lost. So over.
- We put the “O” in OMG! and 2012! and Zero! and …
- Still running in circles (and feeling a bit dizzy).
- Looking for the future in all the wrong places.
- 2012 Campaign Strategy: Circle the wagons.
For more options, add the circle-D brand from the Dems:
- OD: Too much of a not-so-good thing.
- Even those who earn a D are qualified. (cf: DOJ 2011. The report card shown is purely representational. The president’s report cards are top secret and retained in a vault deep underground, next to the Lost Ark. To see these report cards, file a FOIA request, which we will ignore.)
Ann Althouse slipped and hit upon a good slogan for Obama: Hope and Chains.
It is in Gods hands. I know the secularists reading that will gnash their teeth and move on. But it truly is; and if His purpose is to defeat evil I suspect he will utterly destroy Obama and the Democratic Party.
More clever lies and deception will not prevail against millions of weary and disgusted voters.
But O Lord of hosts, You who test the righteous and see the mind and heart, Let me see your vengeance on them : for I have pleaded my cause before You. Jeremiah 20:12
He’s toast this time around.Every time he opens his mouth another lie
is told.His own supporters from the past are over him like last weeks bread.First of all in questions in any debate, is, where is the birth certificate? and,who’s Social Security card are you using?because, it’s not your own.No more stealth candidacy’s, the media be damned.
Zzzzzzzzz… Who needs a sleeping with this?