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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 07:15 PM
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DNC Ad: "Is Fear All They Have Left?"
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbESRQqg9mg
 
Posted on YouTube: March 05, 2010
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Posted on DU: March 06, 2010
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 07:20 PM
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1. Indeed!!
That is all they have! Brilliant! Champion!

Fear is a powerful tool... look around DU... it's taken hold here as well.

All the DNC need do is keep that mirror held up and reflect the GOP's sickness!
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LatteLibertine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 07:48 PM
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2. Yep
President Obama is moving us towards socialism! Put us back in power so we can be the ones expanding government and spending!

Fear and disaster capitalism is what they pimp most often; see the Iraq invasion, the financial market bail out, and now President Obama and the Democratic Party are pushing us towards socialism.

If folks don't buy into their fear they're impotent.
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swilton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 08:10 PM
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3. This takes politics to a new low -

Like who is the audience for this? Do the Democrats really think they are going to change any minds with this kind of mud slinging?

It's not like the Democrats don't have their own pots to blame for fear mongering and not getting anything done
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 09:52 PM
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8. A new low?? Where the fuck have you been??
Everything in the ad is true. We don't have to make shit up like they do.

Jeezus - you think this is bad, ......
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 01:42 PM
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26. swilton; What is this swill you are trying to pass of as a post. nt
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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 02:49 PM
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29. This takes politics to a new low -
You mean the Repugs....right? Because this ad didn't make anything up, y'know. It just showed the GOP's OWN power point presentation. Pointing out the opposition's stupidity and desperation is a "new low"?

The lowest thing here is your comprehension. Go feel sorry for the GOP shooting itself in the foot somewhere else, will ya? :eyes: Cheesus!
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Mithreal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 08:29 PM
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4. Hope that was a first draft.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 08:58 PM
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6. I know - it was a great idea, but it was pretty lame.
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karmkay Donating Member (88 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 07:37 AM
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15. Not sharp enough
We're talking Tea Baggers here. The ad needs to hit them over the head and be very clear about how empty and pathetic the party has become. This ad is almost cute and the soft female voice is all wrong.
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PerpetuallyDazed Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 08:30 AM
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19. Right on. Not heavy-hitting enough.
Edited on Sat Mar-06-10 08:30 AM by PerpetuallyDazed
The Republicans think you're "reactionary" and rely on your "visceral giving", Teabags. In short, they think you're stupid and easily manipulated. They hold contempt for you.
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nyc 4 Biden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 12:45 PM
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25. exactly, we need to spell out those points.
how the GOP characterized their own donors!
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 08:50 PM
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5.  That's all they've ever had..and
good to see them backed into their own corner brimming with incompetence.
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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 07:38 AM
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16. It IS all they've ever had, and it's working pretty damn well for them, too.
Especially since all the Dems act scared of their own shadows.
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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 09:18 PM
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7. George Orwell wrote the fear book...1984..these asshole
Republicans just adapted it completely to modern politics..
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Grassy Knoll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 09:53 PM
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9. Fear is what got DUBYA a 2nd term........
Led by Faux news.
Thank the stars for the " No Fear " generation.
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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 02:51 PM
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30. Fear is what got DUBYA a 2nd term........
That.... and cheating.
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gimberly Donating Member (51 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 10:17 PM
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10. tchotchkes!
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-10 11:46 PM
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11. Tell it like it is. I LOVE IT!
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pundaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 12:22 AM
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12. They also have that leadership and commitment thing. They're wrong, stupid, and more effective at
legislating.
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 01:33 AM
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13. And...Republican ideas are usually snake oil if they do exist
As long as we keep bringing up this powerpoint the next 2 years, we will shame the G-No-P.
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Mithreal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 02:02 AM
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14. .
If this was done by high school students I could be all praise, but that commercial is supposed to be from our DNC? We're gonna get creamed in November if this is in any way representative of what the current DNC is offering.
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geckosfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 07:55 AM
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17. Thanks for posting. I don't see this stuff because I do not watch television. It's
good to know that the DNC is at least broaching the topic. My sense is that the ad could have been a LOT more aggressive.

Like the Dylan quote.
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DallasNE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 08:16 AM
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18. Stirring The Fear Pot
Has its consequences as we have seen recently in Austin and then Washington DC. Also look at the explosion in the number of hate groups sprouting up around the country. This increase in domestic terrorism is the unintended result.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 09:48 AM
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20. Fear is all they know
Since the bu$h regime made FEAR their main event and were successful with it at first. The GOP knows nothing else.
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perdita9 Donating Member (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 09:59 AM
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21. Fear, Hate and Beck. That's what they have.
And have you noticed those are all four letter words? I'm suprised Beck has diagramed this on his chalkboard already.
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 11:33 AM
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22. Fear & Hatred = The GOP
Amen.
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activa8tr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 11:51 AM
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23. They had nothing to begin with since Ronny R!
Only Gerry Ford and Ike were Republican Presidents in my lifetime with any sense of virtue.
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 02:42 PM
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28. Gerry was notsa bright,
Edited on Sat Mar-06-10 03:06 PM by ooglymoogly
Ronny was such a fright
both west of the Dixon
very stupid to pardon Nixon
Both fell of a turnip truck
Ford hadn't the slightest clue or any luck
Ronny, alas, was an idiot fuck.
when all is said and done
Neither had the brains of a bun.
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Toasterlad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 12:23 PM
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24. It's All Either Party Has Left. The Democrats Are Just As Guilty.
The only message of substance the Democrats have used for the last decade or so has been, "If you don't elect us, a Republican will get in!"

Both parties are equally morally bankrupt.
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 02:56 PM
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31. The guilt lies with both?
Edited on Sat Mar-06-10 03:02 PM by ooglymoogly
That is just what the shadows (the men behind the curtain) want us to think. It is a pug talking point repeated in corpnews ad nauseam. The guilt in the Dem party lies with the pugs posing as Dems, (the moles, the Trojan horses) known as DINO's and blue dogs. For true Dems to the core, there is no shame nor any guilt to be laid. Confusion on this issue is the name of the game for pugs who's snake oil truly does not work; Confusion is the only cover for that fact.
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 01:47 PM
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27. This is a lame waste of money.
Edited on Sat Mar-06-10 01:49 PM by ooglymoogly
"Is fear all they have left" is a good one liner though.
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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 03:19 PM
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32. "Is fear all they have left" is a good one liner though.
Sooooo..... it's not waste of money then... or lame.
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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 03:27 PM
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33. Looking at the ad a 2nd time...
I think 1st off it didn't cost much money. It's all pretty basic animation of already existing images. All that's left is a voice over and canned music. And The emphasis is on the complete not-worth-serious-consideration caricatures and cartoon characters. The point is the "lightness" of what the GOP has to offer. The ad is also a foil for the Liz Cheney paranoia scare fest, which is getting much criticism of late.
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 03:59 PM
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34. If I had to make one criticism it would be
Edited on Sat Mar-06-10 04:24 PM by ooglymoogly
a seemingly minor one. The quality of the voice over. I think we are better than this add. again, I am gung ho on the one liner though. Other than the one liner,the clip appears jr high to me. It is not the cheapness of making the add that makes it a success, it is cleverness that is picked up by all networks and shown free 24/7 for a few days; Otherwise buying add time can make an inexpensive add to produce, very expensive in the long run. Think "where's the beef" as the paragon, that is played to this day and has permeated our lexicon.
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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 04:11 PM
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35. Yes. Yes it is. Fear and stupidity
the horrible combo that makes for a republican voter.. :puke:
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