Video: Slate’s ad for Mitt
posted at 1:25 pm on September 25, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Via Marc Ambinder, a cheap shot off a poor choice of words but funny and thus redeemed. The occasion is the announcement of the nine finalists in Team Romney’s “create your own ad” campaign. They’re all fine, but viewed in sequence they point up just how limited stylistically political spots are (the ad about Mitt’s Olympics leadership is the notable exception). A few shots of the candidate looking commanding and sympathetic, a few stirring soundbites, and most importantly a canny choice of music and you’ve got yourself a spot that could run anywhere with no one thinking twice. Compare them to Hillary’s health-care ad in Iowa. How much did she pay for what Mitt got for free?
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History begins this morning for liberals.
History begins with every new post for right2bright!
not2bright has repeatedly asserted that Mitt was dodging the draft on previous threads but doesn’t think it’s fair to bring up the past and claimed that it’s against some imaginary rule.
Now, lo and behold, he begins the day by saying:
Unfreaking believable.
Buy Danish on September 26, 2007 at 8:57 AM
That may be the “perception” but that too is incorrect. Guiliani received a student deferment initially and then received a second deferment when he became a law clerk because that occupation was considered an essential service by the Selective Service.
Quite frankly, I’m really sick of this nasty game of impugning the character of people who received deferments or served in the Navy, Coast Guard, or National Guard. These people are not “Draft Dodgers” and every single one of the people under discussion, whether it be Romney, Cheney, or Guiliani are patriots who have served this country honorably as civilians.
Buy Danish on September 26, 2007 at 9:30 AM
Thanks for admitting you misstated what I said.
This was a thread about the five brothers banding together to help America…by campaigning for their dad. It is about a video ad. You hijacked this thread by making up words that I never said or printed.
You are way over obsessed with what I write.
“Per their dad”, means that dad said it, get over it.
Up to 7:51 I never mentioned Mitt and draft dodging, you did. Get over it.
Get over it, move on…you are sick with restating what I say and adding words.
In other words you are a pest that is obsessed with what I write.
You love Mitt, I think Mitt is not all that he is or could be. Sorry that your feelings are hurt.
But please, find someone else to harrass, and quit hijacking these threads. You are taking this stuff way to personal…it is not healthy.
right2bright on September 26, 2007 at 9:34 AM
Now back to the real issues:
Are the “chidren” working for him? And are they on the payroll? Something that Fred was charged with, good for the goose is good for the gander.
And why would he try to “persuade” his children not to campaign for him? Why not just say it was an honor, it not like they are going to make any finacial sacrifice, he has got that covered.
Mitt has to move away from this “our family is fighting the good fight”, and realize that other families are making a much greater sacrifice then his family. He has to learn that people do not trust “stepford” lives. So far he never shows any flaws, though his history is rift with them.
That is why Rudy is beating the pants off of him, we see Rudy’s flaws. Humans make mistakes, we see Fred’s flaws, and accept them. That is why Mitt is struggling, he won’t let people into his life, realize he has made some bad choices, bad decisions, hurt people, abused companies while making a buck, was priviledged to have a powerful father support him. That is why Kennedy is so popular, he never dodged the question of his “royalty”, he was proud and built on it.
If he (Mitt) was so perfect, why is he barely double digits? Because people are a lot smarter than he gives them credit for. He doesn’t connect.
He will have an epithany, but it will be too late…and we will have lost the potential of a good leader because he is afraid to “lay it on the line”. And leaders, real leaders, lay it out…the good and the bad.
This ad hits where it hurts most, golfing, fireflies, riding in an RV, living a good life…some service to the country.
right2bright on September 26, 2007 at 9:52 AM
I quoted you directly – every single time. Either you are a pathological liar or you suffer from Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia.
Would you like me to give you the contact information for moveon.org?
Buy Danish on September 26, 2007 at 9:57 AM
You are apparently old enough to remember this game. You apply to a college, major in history, political science, philosophy were three good ones. Made sure that all of your classes were after noon.
Go to the class, sign the paper on the door, meet the prof. at the afternoon protest. Write a paper describing the protest and pass (in a pass/fail program) or get an A or B in the class. Extra credit if you have a brick in your hand at the protest.
The professor writes a letter to the selective board stating what a great student you were and ask for a deferment.
Or work for a judge and you were almost automically given a deferment. Clerking for a judge was the best, being a TA for a professor almost as good. Being involved in the SDS would have been golden.
They had pamphlets and articles on the best schools to attend, where you did not have to attend classes. San Fransisco State (College then) usually led the pack.
http://www.econ.ubc.ca/lemieux/papers/unintended.pdf
This is a article from Berkely describing what some say did not exist.
right2bright on September 26, 2007 at 10:17 AM
During the Vietnam War, when the draft was at its height, Selective Service regulations permitted grad students to obtain a student deferment if they were enrolled in a doctoral program, but not a baccalaureate program. Some law schools awarded a J.D. degree (so their students were eligible for a draft deferment) while other law schools (including Harvard) awarded an LL.B. degree (so their students were not eligible for a deferment).
To the law schools, this was just a matter of nomenclature, but to the Selective Service it was a matter of substance. J.D. candidates got deferments; LL.B. candidates did not.
Gee, I guess everything is revisionist history. This I never new, always wondered why attorneys were considered Doctors of Jurisprudence.
right2bright on September 26, 2007 at 10:24 AM
right2bright,
I stated that Rudy’s JOB which was classified by the Selective Service as an essential service, so all your research about the difference between one college degree and another is irrelevant.
For the record, I grew up during the Vietnam era and my brother served in Vietnam so if you think that you have acquired some first hand experience by living through that period of history which gives you an upper hand over me in that regard, you are mistaken.
By the way, it is customary to provide links to your sources. Your command of the English language has a way of miraculously improving from illiteracy to fluency from one post to the next, such as when you say this:
To the law schools, this was just a matter of nomenclature, but to the Selective Service it was a matter of substance. J.D. candidates got deferments; LL.B. candidates did not.
I suspect that you did not write that as it far exceeds your abilities.
Buy Danish on September 26, 2007 at 10:50 AM
How ironic that not2bright plagiarizes material from a blog entitled “Legal ethics forum“.
Unless of course he is “Supremacy Claus” and his plagiarizing his own material – something I doubt very much, as the writing abilities far, far exceed r2b’s efforts.
Buy Danish on September 26, 2007 at 10:57 AM
Sorry, make that “is plagiarizing his own material…”
Buy Danish on September 26, 2007 at 11:21 AM
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