Comments on: Video: Winner of MoveOn’s “design your own Obama ad” contest chosen

By: calbear

calbear — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:41:11 +0000

I sincerely believe that he has arranged this whole election.

And here I thought there was no right-wing equivalent to anti-Rove paranoia. Thanks for setting me straight.

By: Golfer_75093

Golfer_75093 — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:44:32 +0000

Something has to be done about George Soros. He is using his money to destroy this country from within. Unfortunatley, there is no one on the right to counter-balance him.

I sincerely believe that he has arranged this whole election. He managed to manipulate the system to get McCain as the Republican nominee, that way if one of his liberal Democrats (Hillary or Obama) lost and McCain were elected he would still have a liberal in the White House.

This whole election has got to be investigated.

By: moxie_neanderthal

moxie_neanderthal — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:28:06 +0000

Yawn.

Who is this puke? He must have been in the Navy or Air Force (hehe). But seriously, if this is the best they can do…give me a break. Why not get a guy who is a member of the local VFW, with a chest full of medals, looks strack, served in combat arms… Ranger/Special ops whatever and delivers a serious message. Answer, because the people making the commercial can’t tell the difference.

No offense to the guy, but he doesn’t really encapsulate what most people think of when they think of a Vet.

Note to John: Crank out a similar type ad piece but with a meat eater and focus on who the guy is, his background and then hit the message. Unlike the moveon crowd, Vets know the difference.

By: pilamaye

pilamaye — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:45:44 +0000

Uncle Fester Lives!

By: Travis1

Travis1 — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:28:49 +0000

New man in the moon?

By: Maxx

Maxx — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:25:29 +0000

So our “lifelong Republican” there… he hangs out at MoveOn.org …. right? Otherwise how did he know about the contest?

By: Hog Wild

Hog Wild — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:02:35 +0000

Just like Obama. Style over substance. Claiming Obama is the great “uniter” and not a shred of evidence to prove that’s his record.

By: pbundy

pbundy — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:13:43 +0000

“They said he was unprepared” was far superior to the actual winner.

Someone fixed the contest!!

By: ronsfi

ronsfi — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:09:41 +0000

Yeah the whole “uber republican from birth” smells. Why is he selling it so hard? No republican wants his president to represent the left. I can’t wait to find out how many donks he’s worked to elect.

By: snaggletoothie

snaggletoothie — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:43:18 +0000

Seeing the other ads, it doesn’t look like this guy’s was the best. I wonder if he was really the choice of the judges. Did someone high up in MoveOn think that the shiny medals would cause veterns to vote for Obama?

By: The Ugly American

The Ugly American — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:29:48 +0000

Thank gawd a certain finalist I know personally didn’t win or I would’ve never heard the end of end it.

And no, I’m not sayin’ which one.

By: philwynk

philwynk — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:17:58 +0000

I certainly hope that fellow is a DNC plant. If he’s really a Republican, then he’s absolutely the Poster Boy for the word “tool.”

The only way a person could possibly imagine Barack Obama represents all Americans, right or left, Democrat or Republican, is if his only source of information is Obama campaign ads. Please excuse my elitism, but in a fair world, there would be a test for voters that weeds out the ones who base their decision solely on campaign ads. I can’t imagine anything more discouraging to informed voters than to know that our vote counts the same as the vote from somebody like that.

‘Scuse me while I spit…

(Unrelated to this topic, please visit my political blog, “Plumb Bob Blog: Squaring the Culture,” at http://www.plumbbobblog.com. Thanks.)

By: TheSitRep

TheSitRep — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:12:34 +0000

Again, WTF? The Air Force Outstanding Unit Award is higher in precedence than the Good Conduct Medal. So, the correct order for his ribbons from highest to lowest is: Achievement medal, AF Outstanding Unit Award, Good Conduct Medal, Overseas Short Tour, Longevity, NCO PME Graduate, Marksmanship, and the Training Ribbon. I call Bullsh*t on this joker.

rbb on May 12, 2008 at 5:48 PM

Yep, and those are all bullshit ribbons.

There was a Lcpl in my platoon and he had a real salad bowl going. One day during inspection the CO, an old battle hardened Colonel with a big rack of medals joking said to this old E-3 that they had the same number of ribbons. The Enlisted man shot back “oh, Sir, I don’t wear my bullshit ribbons”.

Or so the story goes.

By: Seixon

Seixon — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:08:27 +0000

What’s with the weird electronic snare drum?

As Uncle Jeremiah might say, that be white people drums, as opposed to "black" drums.

By: malan89

malan89 — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:59:56 +0000

amerpundit on May 12, 2008 at 5:21 PM

malan89 on May 12, 2008 at 6:52 PM

Beat me to it.

By: malan89

malan89 — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:52:21 +0000

Forget what I said earlier. The John Weiler from the ad is a SoCal police detective. The only John Weiler in SoCal (actually, in all of CA) has only one political donation (according to Newsmeat's FEC filing search engine) and it's not exactly one a "lifelong Republican" would make. It's to Alan Cranston, a true blue liberal Democrat, who actually called for the US to join a "world government". Oh, yeah....lifelong Republican my ass.

By: malan89

malan89 — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:45:50 +0000

Buford Gooch on May 12, 2008 at 6:37 PM

I still think it’s Weiler the PaulNut.

By: petefrt

petefrt — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:42:59 +0000

Bwahahahaha! So feeble a ploy it requires a willing suspension of disbelief.

By: hepcat

hepcat — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:42:25 +0000

Hey, that was Butterbean.

By: Buford Gooch

Buford Gooch — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:37:39 +0000

100_0217
#49 John Weiler, Mr. Northwoods 2003/2004
Argonauts of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI

Found by doing a google image search. Website is http://www.usgaymen.com/Side/iml04thur.html

Same guy? Probably not.

By: mikeyboss

mikeyboss — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:34:18 +0000

Why not “I used to be for liberty and freedom but now I want total government control and regulation”.

trs on May 12, 2008 at 5:08 PM

Hear, hear!

By: malan89

malan89 — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:28:07 +0000

I could have been a Master Sergent by now if the Clintons hadn’t screwed it up so much that I had to bail!

No, no, no. You have it wrong. Clinton was starving the military to save up a “peace dividend”…see it was peaceful… Probably why we ignored OBL when he was running around the Middle East yapping some baloney about “death to America”.

By: Captain Scarlet

Captain Scarlet — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:24:07 +0000

You know the best part of clicking on the MoveOn page to see the ads and the judges? A comprehensive glance at a bnunch of Hollywood @sshats whom I shall no longer have to patronize. (A little bummed about Steve Buscemi, frankly; and Julia Stiles: well, I can still look at her with the sound down if I had to.)

Loved the playground politics ad (he typed, facetiously). How long did it take before they found the right African-American boy with the right skin tone to play the peacemaker (and in a blue shirt – didja notice?)? (”OK, kid – so you’re not going to be Obama, you’re just going to represent His essence. Aaaand: ACTION!”)

Poll some kids on a playground. Ask them if they’d have more fun playing Red Rover or standing in a circle holding hands. I’ll wait…

By: malan89

malan89 — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:23:58 +0000

There's a John Weiler in Burleson, Texas whose occupation is listed as "Retired", which would make sense for a vet. He's donated to three times to Political causes. Once to the "Campaign for Working Families". And twice to a Texas Republican Congressman....guess who. Keep in mind that there are about 5 other John Weilers in the US, but he was one of the few who has donated to Reps and the only one with an occupation that made sense for a vet. You can go to Newsmeat and look at the other John Weilers yourselves.

By: Sekhmet

Sekhmet — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:23:31 +0000

Gilda on May 12, 2008 at 5:17 PM

Found a John Weiler in IL who works apparently as a

cinematographer • production assistant • director of photography • camera man • director