TPM: Well, that was quick. Several hours after Mitt Romney told an Iowa heckler that “corporations are people, my friend” the DNC is up with a video lampooning the quote. Featuring the smooth sounds of Barbara Streisand’s “People,” no less.
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that is bloody B.R.I.L.L.I.A.N.T 😆
Brilliant indeed! And no one will be able to knock the smile off my face that it has inspired.
Best ad yet. Thanks Mitt for writing the script.
HotDog! Way to go DNC. Mitt took it personal because he is and has been corporate forever. Speaking from a personal standpoint, “I’m people, my friend.”
Oh, this is just plain BRILLIANT> DNC is the BEST. And why not have my classy lady, Ms. Barbara singing one of my favorites. We know she backs the President.. Debbie W. Schultz and team is brilliant. We are Fired Up and Ready to Go. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 This senior is just fired up today. Need to get some more candles and play that music loud and clear. My sweet neighbor is going to have Barbara singing to him all this weekend. Oh, sweetheart in our TOD Family, put your boots on and let’s get moving.!!
Can’t see the video, but this I do know: Willard is a toad.
Enough.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/no-more-phony-outrage-over-obama-camps-attack-on-romney/2011/03/03/gIQAroe1AJ_blog.html
No Greg, it’s not just bizarre…..it’s racism. Grow a spine and start speaking the truth, with intention and clarity.
Despite my point of contention, I did appreciate his calling out the MSM for their hypocrisy and protectionism of all things Republican.
Clutching their pearls indeed.
Where were the MSM when the McCain campaign were calling then Sen Obama a celebrity and everyone was comparing him to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears?
These people’s bigotry and bias is becoming more and more obvious.
Oh, man. That is the most perfect ad I have seen in months. I hope they can run that one at least a few times in every state starting now. Whoever thought this one up deserves a big gold star.
Reposting this:
Wow. Have you all seen this?
http://weeseeyou.com/2011/08/12/progressive-angst-and-president-obama-its-not-him-its-you/
This needs to be blasted ALL ova the place.
I posted this on an earlier thread. Awesome, isn’t it ?
It didn’t make sense to me that Prez Obama would change who he is as he was adament about not making personal attacks on opponents during the Primary and GE in 2008. He let people go so quickly when they said something questionable. I knew something was up with that or that someone working for him said it without PBO’s knowledge or permission. Trying to get people to change their impression of PBO is ongoing.
It never will work Obama Grandmama. If you can read or re-read the excellent book written by David Plouffe, “The Audacity To Win.” , Please pick up a copy. Read pages 42-43 just to see how President Obama does not tolerate this type of thinking or campaign trashing. He is above that foolish. We will focus on the goodness of our President and his team. He is serious about this. If President Barack Obama does not work another day in his current position, because of the core of his being, he will be fine. Plus, he will continue to go on and help change the world for the better. That is who this man is. He is stronger than these clown and foolish men and women. He is the brightest light I have seen in my lifetime, and I believe in my heart , he is the right man for thse times. We just need to be fully engaged, know the real President Obama for ourselves, and move forward. We can and Will Win this. HZ
Oh, HZ!! You bring tears to my eyes. Our appreciation for him is powerful stuff. I express it to everyone I know. Loved your beautiful words.
He really is all about transformation and making things better. He has heart, vision and ideals coupled with pragmatism and incredible skills in negotiating. A powerful, powerful combination.
Fricking Awesome!!! I Love this ad. 🙂
This was posted on the last thread and I think need repeating! Travis scamming the poor!
http://washingtonindependent.com/59633/suit-alleges-trusted-black-figures-drew-minorities-to-high-rate-loans
unsurprising but still disgusting. Tavis and his asscheek West are both scammers.
Lisa, this mess is coming out bold and lovely about these two ‘tools.’ Remember, “No weapon formed again will prosper.” These people are evil. That is a strong word, but I call them for what they are. Evil ment spewing evil works. They will have a day to ask for forgiveness to what they are doing to put blocks in this President’s way. It will come, believe me. I called that Ms. Joann Watson in Detroit and gave her some words to ponder on also. These people are mean spirited people, and that is why we will move with President Obama and help in the beautiful and hard working manner that we all can for our nation. Love you back also, Lisa. HZ
So true, HZ. How are you doing by the way? I hope everything is alright and that you are taking good care of yourself. Much love, Lisa.
Hi Lisa, thanks for asking. I am fired up colon and all. I am fine. Thanks for asking, Lisa. My dear family here keeps me going. When I am in Lisa, I am in. I stand tall, put my face on, and this little lady is ready for the fight, and I do not play along the way. I am having a very healthy brunch, and I am grateful to be able to eat without complications so far. I know how to pamper myself, Lisa. You know I must take good care because we need to be on watch for Jay, Lawrence and friends. Love you, Liss. We are going to be kicking some butts. You take good care of yourself as well. Love my family here so much.HZ
Blue thanks for posting this info. I was getting a little creamed for a post at alternet, Re: a declaration of war on the poor: Cornel West and Tavis Smiley. I called them for whoring the poor. I referred the posters to your link. Thanks.
Making sure that Romney does NOT get the nomination is probably the bigget step that activists can take toward getting President Obama re-elected imo. This ad does him serious damage. Those activists in the crowd did an excellent job!
Fighting the good fight on the comment board at Steve Benen’s post on PBO’s excellent speech yesterday (I posted a link to the speech). Man, it can be discouraging reading pessimistic, snarky comments by people who obviously haven’t seen the speech. Know it all keyboard warriors. They can get me down.
Retail sales up, markets up! … by the way
Huh. According to CNN consumer confidence is way down and that’s all they’re reporting. Imagine that.
When every station and the GOP are constantly droning on about how bad things are – of course it will have an effect. In days gone by the President showed confidence would be enough – not it’s dissected and called politics and deconstructed by pundits to what it all really means. Before the Presidency was treated like the Wizard of Oz, now everybody wants to show that they know the inside game, that somebody’s behind the curtain.
Never mind the good news on the rise on retail sales.
These are the same types who whine and complain that President Obama is not using the “bully pulpit”. Yest when he does, they sit, nit pick and still fucking complain.
I’d like to use your comment to clarify a thing or two. Those types are, dare I say, “retarded”. Now, I know it is supposedly not the PC thing to say, but check this. The mentally challenged are not retarded, as they grow according to their natural ability. The people who whine about PBO, on the other hand, are retarded—-means slowed—-by their own inclinations to detriment. At least, this is my take, and I’m sticking to it.
Brilliant. Brilliant. Freaking B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait for the real campaign season to get underway. Half of the time one doesn’t need to search far and wide for material for these Ads. They just write themselves. Once again #ThankyouMoronicGOPTeabaggers.
Love this ad
I have been keeping track of all the ads put out by various groups and categorizing them by subject. this video was just added to the Romney page. If he gets the nomination we can show one of these videos everyday.
http://www.whatisworking.com/search/label/vid-ads-romney
This DNC ad is fabulous. I will give a small donation, but a donation nonetheless to the DNC and thank them.
People are getting this message! A mistrust of the wealthy cuts across politics, religion, race or anything else that can be manipulated to divide people against each other.
The Democrats are doing a great job of getting this message out and it will be rich material for them all along the way.
Suzanne, thanks for your comments. That is where it will count for us on the ground. Give as much or whatever we all can afford so that the DNC can get more ads out like this. Message is one of the best keys in this upcoming campaign. Democrats coming together is another. Being positive and not allowing the bashing and trashing of our President is the other. Focus on his message to us and our message to the masses. Let’s get it done. Pray, meditate, use quiet times to ask for wisdom for our President, keep calm when we can and must, lean on each other here when we get too wrary, but TRUST in our faith, and our President. We will win this for the seniors on taking half a pill per day; the young children who will not be able to get into preschool, the overcrowed classroom this fall; the no after school programs to keep out young people out of unwanted trouble; the great after-school programs cut short; the city firemen and women who have no unions to take their cases to now, and I could go on and on.. we have to keep this President’s back for sure. Who can you all name who has our hack now? Just name one politician. Trust in your God of your own choosing of faith, and trust in the President who has gone to the battlefield for us since he sat down in that Oval Office, and really before he took that oath to that office. “Wake Up Everybody” remember that one. It is time. Love you all very much.HZ
Fareed Zakaria take on PBO pragmatism
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/12/fareeds-take-defending-obamas-pragmatism/
I love Fareed, but it’s going to take me a while to get the bad taste out of my mouth for his having Arianna Huffington on his GPS show.
WORD. I don’t even watch any of this stuff and that still bothers me. I wrote him a tweet that said her appearance on his show was beneath him and his audience.
That’s an excellent article, thanks, africa. I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the far left have bad ideas that will ruin this country. Period. They have no defense what-so-ever that any of their ideas work or benefit Americans. They’re just made-up junk that have nothing to do with how governments or nations or militaries or economies run.
The Downgrade Trifecta: S&P Slams Third GOP Debt Stance For Jeopardizing U.S. Credit
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/08/12/294609/the-downgrade-trifecta-sp/
what an out of touch asswipe 🙄 😆
Texas Rep. Mac Thornberry Says ‘Prayer For Rain’ Better Solution To Texas Drought Than ‘Flawed’ Climate Science
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/08/12/294285/thornberry-prayer-rain-flawed-climate-science/
I beg you PLEASE spread this
After Triggering Downgrade, Debt Default Skeptics Try To Run From Their Records — But They Can’t
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/after-triggering-downgrade-debt-default-skeptics-try-to-run-from-their-records—-but-they-cant.php?ref=fpa
Hi Fred. They are nuts. These people clowns for sure.
I’m posting this because I received a few tweets last night about Donna Brazile, after I sent her this, when she asked who was the winner and loser of the night (debate) :
ChristiMtl ChristiMtl
@donnabrazile Well the loser is still you for recommending Drew Westen piece of trash and the winner is and will always be President Obama
Some asked me if she had been hacked, why would she recommend that, and so on.
They all recommended it, all the PL!! So no, her account wasn’t hacked.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel recommended it as well,
Even Jonathan Alter liked it, expect he disagreed that the President could have pass a much larger stimulus easily.
Noticed how they all piled on the President last week? All of them, Ron Reagan as well. They all called him weak, not a leader. It was disgusting.
I just copied a part of that piece of trash from Drew Westen
Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: that he had accomplished very little before he ran for president, having never run a business or a state; that he had a singularly unremarkable career as a law professor, publishing nothing in 12 years at the University of Chicago other than an autobiography; and that, before joining the United States Senate, he had voted “present” (instead of “yea” or “nay”) 130 times, sometimes dodging difficult issues.
If this doesn’t sound right wing crap, I don’t know what is….
Good for you! I went at Donna Brazile a few times, too. When I saw her tweet, I almost fell off my chair. She is a high Dem official and she’s spewing that crap? She hasn’t responded to anyone, has she?
I think Donna Brazile is showing her disappointment in not being named DNC Chairperson.
GGail, you might have a very good point here. Did you see when Donna was presiding over the nomination of Debbie, and then President Obama made a surprise call into the ceremony just before Debbie spoke, and you should have seen the look on Donnal’s face. I know that ook, it is a sad and awful one. The President made the right move . Donna need to go and chill out someplace or get the hcek out of the way for a hile. We need people to be wowrking together not divided. HZ
Not that I can see. I even checked her tweeter feed and that post seem to have vanished. Oh but I saw it, I sent her 3 angry tweets in a row.
OMG, do you think she deleted it? She is scaring me. Maybe she’s been sitting too close to George will for too long.
One of the parts he had in his piece that was really offensive was toward the end which I thought were complete Republican talking points when he talked about the president having no experience and something about a character defect. That was belittling him and quite disturbing to me.
Can’t be more right wing than that right? voting present, no experience. It’s like something coming out of Palin’s mouth.
Again, how disgusting for someone like Donna Brazile to have recommended it as a good read.
“Even Jonathan Alter liked it, expect he disagreed that the President could have pass a much larger stimulus easily”
I’m reading his book “The Promise” now, and I find some insight invaluable, yet I don’t care for his overall tone. These people who write books always get my gander up because it’s just a way to make money, and PBO is a hot commodity. The danger to them is, he winds up flaming their asses in the end.
F all of them. This will make you feel better: http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/08/then-fairy-tale-of-drew-westen.html
These ads are our campaign contributions at work! Beautiful, simply beautiful! And thank you Barbara for allowing the DNC to use your song!
I cheered and clapped when I saw this ad…:-) It’s brilliant and YES, we thank you Barbara!
Americans still don’t blame PBO for this dismal economy. See why the media and GOP are in a tizzy lately? They can’t pin the failings of the past on PBO. He is the one working extraordinarily hard for the American people.
59% still don’t blame President Barack Obama for the nation’s current economic conditions.
http://maristpoll.marist.edu/812-americans-dismal-about-economy%e2%80%99s-future%e2%80%a6obama-not-faulted-for-financial-picture/
BEST DNC AD EVAH!! I hope this a preview of thing to come!!
meta – You are so right! This campaign is going to be unbelievable.
I’m fired up!! I love how PBO through a warning shot yesterday ahead of the GOP clown fest. I think we are going to see an amazing battle royale when we take ALL. Wouldn’t it be the BEST time for all of us if we had both the House and the Senate working TOGETHER with POTUS. He truly deserves that more than anything right now.
Oh, yes, meta – claiming all of Washington to do what’s best for our country = priceless!
I allowed myself 10 mins. of Friar Tuck Chuck Todd earlier on MSNBC. He was saying (as though only he had the inside dope) that the “White House” was making it clear that the one R they didn’t really want to run against in 2012 was Mitt Romney. Even though Chuck isn’t, I think we’re all smart enough to know that the Obama campaign is playing tricks with the media … again. It would be hysterical, if it weren’t so sad that the media doesn’t have a clue.
Nevertheless, this is going to be GOOD.
That should be “threw a warning shot…” GEEZE.
This was the moment of Romney’s self-implosion. A day that will haunt him for all eternity, and I couldn’t be happier.
Yup. But do you think Perry is going to be a more formidable challenger? We could have beat Romney with our eyes shut. But Perry is already pretending he’s a moderate when he speaks to moderates. People are going to find him ‘charming’ and they’re going to like that obnoxious swagger. God.
We’re wasting a lot of time on Mitt Romney. I think it’s going to be Perry, although gos had a good stream of posts this morning on exactly who Rick Perry is. However, he’s already trying to claim a ‘moderate’ stance.
Look at it as a shooting range, and all the ducks are lined up. One by one, we slay them. It’s all good 😀
Well, I don’t care if we waste some pixels on Mitt. What I like about this whole thing is that a lot of people are wasting a lot of MONEY on Mitt. Lots of it. The more they contribute to his campaign, the more the pundits try to sell him as the one who can beat Obama, the happier I am. He’s a gold mine of gaffes and not-man-of-the-people silliness.
OK. I really want to say something clever. But I.AM.SPEECHLESS. I knew about his comment, of course, but to see it like this…OMFG.
And not just his words, but the “my friends” and he looked like he was sweating bullets. There were not just hecklers in the audience, but GROANING. To me, heckiling is aggressive and ego satisfying. Groaning suggests disappointment. Good.
when he says “corporations are people my friends,”— there is this smugness about it. Like: ‘look, you insignificant little people, we matter a heckuva lot more than you.’
EXACTLY.
Someone very close to me says, “my friend” to strangers all the time. I keep saying, “Don’t say that, you sound like a slimy used car salesman.”
Hopefully after seeing this video, those words will never be uttered in that order ever again.
Perfect – keep saying “weird” things Mitt. The ad people are loving the work!
Awesome! Sometime I wonder how some “people” come up with such excellent ideas for commercials. Lol.