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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/obama-ad-features-a-singing-romney/
July 14, 2012, 8:48 am
Obama Ad Features a Singing Romney
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
President Obamas campaign continued on Saturday to prosecute its case against Mitt Romney for holding offshore accounts, releasing a new television ad that mockingly shows Mr. Romney, the Republican candidate, singing America the Beautiful.
The presidents campaign has spent more than a week hammering Mr. Romneys personal wealth and calling on him to disclose more information about his personal finances by releasing his tax returns.
The new ad which the campaign said was running in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia reminds viewers of those issues even as it shows a clip of Mr. Romney singing at a campaign event in Florida earlier this year.
It says Mr. Romney shipped jobs to Mexico, China and India accusations that Mr. Romneys campaign vehemently denies. And it notes that Mr. Romney had millions in a Swiss bank account and tax havens in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
malaise
(269,254 posts)Fuggin' brilliant
liberal N proud
(60,351 posts)The Obama campaign staff is brilliant.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)He loves to play Mittens singing that backwards
chieftain
(3,222 posts)XanaDUer
(12,939 posts)The financial version of The Daisy Girl.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)I've seen, very powerful.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,919 posts)Spazito
(50,563 posts)Excellent!
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)One of the best things a commercial can do is make a big impression in a short period of time. This one does it very, very well. Hopefully with enough repetition people will hear Rmoney's singing in their nightmares and remember not only how awful his singing is but how he was instrumental in destroying the American economy over the past three decades.
McLuan would be proud...
cali
(114,904 posts)tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)it was that good!
monmouth
(21,078 posts)Kahuna
(27,312 posts)Love it!
Brewinblue
(392 posts)presidential campaign since LBJ in '64.
LuckyTheDog
(6,837 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Do it right and there is no recovering no matter how much money you spend!
nevergiveup
(4,769 posts)This is exactly what is happening. It is totally brilliant!
GrantDem
(1,791 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Great ad!
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)You might be in the kitchen, doing dishes, and the kids are maybe watching a baseball game, and that comes on. You hear it. You've seen the text and you know what it says, but that voice - that horrible voice - both reminds you of the substance and plays its own affective havoc on you, just below the level of consciousness, a stinging, a heating up of the skin, something terrible. It is being defined as the background Muzak of the entire GOP effort.
And it's deeply funny. Independents see it and laugh - hell, damn near anyone but an obsessive Romney partisan (are there any?) sees it and laughs, because it's winkingly hilarious, like a perfectly timed yo-mama joke, indisputable one-upsmanship, the crowd shaking the fence after a blistering cross-over in streetball, the proverbial lunchroom all going "Oh, damn!"
I'm donating more money to whoever made that shit, son.
How ya like Chicago politics now, yo?
jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)And right to the point...congratulations to the person who came up with the idea. Very good ad!
Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)That one stays with you a while. Brilliant.
NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)And the punchline at the end just brings it home.
"He's the problem."
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Kahuna
(27,312 posts)unc70
(6,124 posts)Not sure where else. It is one if a series.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)The truth is a beautiful thing; sing it Mittens!!!
Mutt22
(76 posts)I have to share this with some of my friends who are Republicans..... LOL.
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)i like it, but i hope we are careful and dont come off as only being in an attack mode when it comes to winning people over..
i do hope some with policy substance make it into the airwaves tho
defiinitely a ballsy ad tho, so thumbs up from me
Proles
(466 posts)I don't care if people think it's too much of an attack, I say kick 'em while their down. No more being weak on this.
boxman15
(1,033 posts)This ad hits hard. The fact that they're releasing it now and not in October makes me extremely hopeful for what the Obama campaign has in store for later on.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)I'm loving our new bad ass President
But to be fair, I think Mitty needs to respond in kind and I'm going to help him out
Here ya go Mitty. The Prez singing...now go for it
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)This is so funny.
Well done.