Remember when we were kids, our coaches always stressed that the most important thing wasn’t whether we won or lost, it was how we played the game? Well forget all that when it comes to Obama. He knows he can’t win clean next year, so he’ll do whatever he can to win dirty or take the body politic down with him if he can’t win at all. The latest evidence — one of Obama’s allies has found a racial undertow in a perfectly benign Mitt Romney ad. Here’s the ad, which is Romney’s first televised ad of the season.
The ad is all about Obama’s failed policies, and unfulfilled promises. But that’s not what the Democrats want you to come away with.
[A]s happened in 2008, the Obama campaign relied on a surrogate to make charges of racism. Just as Team Obama left it to James Clyburn to play the race card on Bill Clinton, this time Team Obama left it to Tad Devine, a senior Democratic operative. As reported in The Hill:
Democratic strategist Tad Devine, an adviser to the Al Gore and John Kerry presidential campaigns, accused Mitt Romney’s campaign of invoking the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a recent ad.
Devine said Wednesday that he was “shocked” to see what he believed was imagery of an African-American church in an ad released Tuesday by Romney’s campaign team and airing in New Hampshire. The ad, Romney’s first of the campaign, is “clearly an attempt to bring back Rev. Wright and race,” Devine tweeted.
The charge is based on two images which float through the video so quickly you’ll miss them if you blink. Again as reported by The Hill:
In the ad, a series of images including those of a foreclosed home and empty businesses flash by as text criticizes President Obama’s economic record. But at two points, the imagery cuts to well-dressed African-American women walking down a large hallway, and pans over a predominantly black audience.
“It appears to be a congregation of African-American people,” Devine told The Hill. “In the first scene there are no white people at all, in the second … it is all African Americans except possibly one person, [whose race] you can’t really tell.”
Devine said he believes these images were selected intentionally to invoke race and the controversy involving Wright, the president’s former pastor.
I never heard of Tad Devine before, but he is pathetic and disgusting in his role of race card player.
Note that Jeremiah Wright, who ought to be an issue as long as Obama is in politics, is not anywhere in the ad. It doesn’t mention him at all. Tad Devine is trying to use racial guilt to wall off Obama’s actual policy failures as an issue. He’s also signalling that any and all criticism of The One will be met with race-baiting and lies.
This is how they are going to play the game from here on out. It will be toxic and divisive, and dishonest from the word “go.” I hope we’re all ready for it.
Well, if it wasn’t before, it is now. This seems incredibly bumbling. If one had not remembered that association, the complaint will remind people better than the original ad.
Yes this election season, which has already been extended too bloody long, will be nasty, terrible and corrupt. Obama will not be able to win honestly, so expect them to play dishonestly.
BREAKING NEWS FLASH!!
They will say anything
– once he has the nomination. They and the courtier press/media will knock him down before the convention and never let him get up.
The truth may hurt but it isn’t racism.
He who smelt it dealt it.
Yes, if we oppose His Magnificence Obama, we’re all raaaaacist! Only, here’s a news flash. That doesn’t work as well as it used to.
google tad devine and you’ll see how utterly nasty he can can be. gore/leiberman 2000 and the florida recount all to tell you all you need to know.
I’m gonna post nuttin but black church pictures all over facebook until them dems just puke. Y’all join me, ya hear?
Seriously, if this bothers them, more moremore faster please.
We’re gonna spread happiness
We’re gonna spread freedom
Obama’s gonna change it, Obama’s gonna lead…
OK, so the Democrats are miffed because Mitt unloaded the “F-bomb” — Failure — on Obama.
Now they want to change the subject. BFD.
BO’s economic policies have failed, and now it is time to do something else.
“This is how they are going to play the game from here on out. It will be toxic and divisive, and dishonest…”
In other words: BHOtox ™.
I would vote for a syphilitic camel over Obama. We know they will lie. We know the Dems lied to get their guy in.
We know they plan to cheat in larger numbers than they ever have before. Think Cook County, nation wide. We have to vote in very large majorities to over-match their cheating. And let them know that if they cheat, when we win anyways, we WILL prosecute the cheaters as felons, and they will never get to vote again, they will never get to hold office again.
Tad Devine missed the most racist part of the ad: through deliberate manipulation of the color palette, the ad makes it look as if Obama is black! Romney and his fellow racist Rethuglicans will stoop to anything to make Obama look bad!
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Anyone watching the Obama admin over the past three years knew they were going to do this. Unfortunately for them, it doesn’t seem to work anymore. “Racism” is the new wolf cry. Maybe their left wing base believes it, but everyone else just rolls their eyes.
No, pretty much everyone believes it. Especially when there was a study showing that Tea Partiers were more likely to be racist.
As opposed to OWS, with their Anti-Semitic signs blaming problems on the Joooos?
If all you have is a deck of 51 three of diamonds (typically the weakest card in any card game) and 1 race card, what are you going to play?
So is any political ad that has a black person in it racist? And any ad that doesn’t have a black person is also racist?