Brilliant new ad explains why Obama needs to go
posted at 11:35 am on November 7, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
It’s hard to tell whether this is a message from Team Obama or from the Republican National Committee. If we don’t give Obama a second term, we have an opportunity to roll back all of his policies? Sign me up!
Jim Geraghty wonders the same:
One is tempted to ask, what “progress” are they talking about?
The 9 percent unemployment? The $3.43 per gallon gas in November? Freddie Mac needing another bailout?
The fact that 5 million U.S. households are either in foreclosure or delinquent on their mortgage, and 11 million homeowners owe more than their homes are worth? The fact that nearly 49 million Americans, almost 15 percent of the U.S., is currently on food stamps?
The angry young people camping in public parks and fighting with police?
Solyndra? Fast and Furious?
Actually, it looks to me like the ad promises that defeating Obama will put an end to camping in public parks. That’s exactly what happens in the ad — the lights go off and the park is emptied out so that everyone else can use it. Again, I’m totally on board with this outcome.
The ad reveals the core election strategy for Team Obama — fear. “Oooh, without me, America will be scary!“ This strategy comes as no surprise, because after Obama’s record of incompetence and failure, fear is all they have left.
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LOL – that is the best excuse to vote GOP I’ve ever seen.
Thanks team Obama!
gophergirl on November 7, 2011 at 11:39 AM
From your lips to Gods ears.
ctmom on November 7, 2011 at 11:40 AM
I’m voting for whomever has the biggest eraser.
forest on November 7, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Without Barry, the economy will recover.
GarandFan on November 7, 2011 at 11:41 AM
Countdown to the return of the adults and to sanity.
onlineanalyst on November 7, 2011 at 11:41 AM
Probably best that Team BroBama doesnt start with the “IF U DONT 4 ME UR A RACIST RETHUGLIkkkAN” ads…
yay scaremongering yay
Jeddite on November 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Spot. On.
KMC1 on November 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM
of course no negative comments allowed on the video. heh.
ctmom on November 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Ha. There’s needs to be a shot of a bum crapping on a cop car at the end. Somebody please spoof this video, I beg you.
karlant on November 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM
This.
Tim_CA on November 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Stupidest ad ever, from the stupidest president ever.
VegasRick on November 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM
I think he’s trying to play on a natural human fear of the unknown. You know…devil you don’t know and all that. Pretty weak sauce, but it’s all he’s got.
Extrafishy on November 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM
Damn right! I believe I’m ready for change.
mchristian on November 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM
Not just fear, envy. And thus the Obama Seal of Approval (TM) for the #Occupy crowd.
JeffWeimer on November 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM
Less than a year, guys.
a capella on November 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM
Up-Twinkles for NoBama!
catmman on November 7, 2011 at 11:45 AM
This is your brain. This is your brain trying to figure out Obama’s policies. Any questions?
Oil Can on November 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM
SCOAMF is NOT a new company that manufactures bowling equipment, air hockey tables, volleyball, and teleprompters. But with your help, in can be!
ParisParamus on November 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Yes We Can!
(Because all the stores went out of business)
zmdavid on November 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM
I’m sad that the YouTube channel moderates the comments. How petty can his campaign be if they have to monitor every comment and filter them?
ButterflyDragon on November 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM
I hope the new r president spends his/her first day negating all of bho’s eo, all 98 so far! I’m sure by the end of 2012, bho will have the number well over 100 eo’s!
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letget on November 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Oh Hell yes, I’m in!
Roll back Obama’s “Progress”?
Bet your ass I’m in!
Haiku Guy on November 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Do they actually believe they have done something good for OUR country? Roll it all back and it’s just a small whole to dig out of… not the Grand Canyon! Anyone else in 2012!
BobScuba on November 7, 2011 at 11:48 AM
The Whine’s team is making better GOP ads than the GOP.
rbj on November 7, 2011 at 11:50 AM
The message is: “Do you really want to concede that you were wrong in 2008? That your adoration was dumb and blind? Or do you want the opportunity to save face on the chance that things go better in a second term?” That’s all he has going for him–the ego and pride of himself and his supporters.
karlant on November 7, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Yes. You. Did. And, we are going to change it back! So, turn out the lights, the party’s over.
TXUS on November 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM
I can’t wait to see what countries we invade in Obama’s second term!
Canada?
France?
The Moon?
Four more Wars! Four more Wars!
tetriskid on November 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM
.
RalphyBoy on November 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM
He forgot:
racism rampant at Justice,
homosexuals openly serving in the military,
more abortions paid for by tax dollars (including in other nations),
our standing in the world diminished,
hostile nations growing stronger,
our allies annoyed at us, &
our health care being nationalized.
itsnotaboutme on November 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM
It’s a feature not a bug…
Desert Gardens on November 7, 2011 at 11:52 AM
So easy for the GOP to tweak this Ad. Erase Obama then start erasing unemployment, debt, violent unrest, home foreclosures, government corruption, etc.
IowaWoman on November 7, 2011 at 11:52 AM
No. Not in.
DanMan on November 7, 2011 at 11:52 AM
This is, objectively, one of the weakest political ads I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen plenty in my 40-odd years.
The left: complete moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
Rebar on November 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM
That ad actually brought tears to my eyes with the promise of bringing America back from Obumbler’s death spiral. Change we can really believe in.
Southernblogger on November 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM
Yep.
This is very easy to mash-up.
just take to ad as-is and splice in a still frame of the OWS loons acting insane.
LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED.
tetriskid on November 7, 2011 at 11:55 AM
If I believed I were a popular President that has accomplished things that everyone likes, I would make this Ad.
I think Obama is in a bubble.
Mord on November 7, 2011 at 11:55 AM
Anyone else notice that other than a couple people near the camera, the crowds in the video were overwhelmingly white?
eforhan on November 7, 2011 at 11:56 AM
Who has benefited the most from the Obama administration? Wall Street record profits….yeah how’s that change workin out for ya Obots. Can’t get enough of that funky math saved or created LOL!
Dr Evil on November 7, 2011 at 11:58 AM
Didn’t Obama JUST say that we were better off 4 years ago?
Kick him out, roll back his “progress” and HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!
Abby Adams on November 7, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Remember Comrades, a bright new Socialist future is just around the corner!
We just need to keep up the Progress towards it!
/National Socialist Left
Chip on November 7, 2011 at 12:00 PM
The great historic achievement they speak of in this ad will never be wiped out. Of course, that achievement is the election of a person with specific genetic information. That will never be undone, unless history decides to start calling Obama “white” which is about as true as calling him “black”.
Nothing else that happened in the 2008 election was particularly earth-shattering. Obama has governed as a big-government Democrat, another in a long line of big-government Democrats. Obamacare is a logical next step of the liberal goal of creating a centralized government that rules every aspects of individual life.
hawksruleva on November 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM
See ya
cmsinaz on November 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM
“Change is something you can’t stop fighting for.”
Okay. Agreed. Lets make a change in 2012.
swamp_yankee on November 7, 2011 at 12:03 PM
In most previous cases, a firing squad has been just around that corner as well. I’m sure that would never happen with OUR power-mad socialists, though.
hawksruleva on November 7, 2011 at 12:03 PM
The tag line should be “4 years in, and we haven’t even started.”
hawksruleva on November 7, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Some Democrats and most self-proclaimed independents realize they were scammed. They are not coming back.
CW on November 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM
Best use of Photoshop erasing I’ve ever seen. Next best thing to ripping the tongue out of the serpent’s face.
Western_Civ on November 7, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Maybe Obama will spend his $1 billion on ads like this.
faraway on November 7, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Well, now, we can’t go changing horses in mid stream, can we?
Unless of course, the current horse is sinking and useless.
iurockhead on November 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Ahh yes, but that would only be for disloyal counter-revolution and other reactionary elements…..
But that can’t happen here:
Chip on November 7, 2011 at 12:14 PM
I am so afraid that Obamugabe will be re-elected.
It is like the fear you would feel if you knew a moon size asteroid was liable to strike the earth.
esnap on November 7, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Erase Barack Hussein Obama from the Presidential podium in 2012?
Heck yes… I’m in!
Ha. The YouTube video comments is being moderated. Comments have to be ‘approved’ before posting to the video.
That figures. Yes indeed it surely does.
FlatFoot on November 7, 2011 at 12:20 PM
It’s called the Tea Party. See you at the polls next November!!!
Steve Z on November 7, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Gas prices were $1.79 when Obama was elected. I’m ready for some gains to be erased.
theCork on November 7, 2011 at 12:27 PM
Obama and his assume that all of America is stupid.
Schadenfreude on November 7, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Best part is the ending.
MES401067 on November 7, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Biggest fraud ever committed in the world…the Obama presidency.
Fools fell for it. May they and their progeny always be punished for it.
Schadenfreude on November 7, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Actually, I’ve been kind of assuming of late that Obama will be re-elcted just because the Republican field is so weak. But this ad gives me hope.
I haven’t seen it yet in any of the commentary, but what strikes me about this ad is just how much and after all this time, Obama thinks that all that matters is him.
Just him. That’s the message here. If “we” don’t win, you don’t get any more of my wonderfulness.
No one buys that anymore. No one. Not even his enablers in the media buy that anymore.
If that’s what he’s going to sell, he’s going to lose, to just about anyone.
Typhoon on November 7, 2011 at 12:38 PM
The ad shows nothing but adoring crowds of Obamabots from 2008 who voted for a cult of personality, so I’m assuming that “progress” is the mere fact that The Won was elected based on nothing more than the insipid promise of Hopenchange. Obama is the progress, or something.
RadClown on November 7, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Who created this ad? The republicans or the democrats? If it is a democratic ad it is the stupidest ad I have ever seen as it completely makes barack look like a do-nothing hack. If it is a republican ad it is brilliant as it completely makes barack look like a do-nothing hack.
Either way it is excellent.
DuctTapeMyBrain on November 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM
MSNBC commentator says:
“Let’s ditch the 2nd Amendment.”
There’s a lot less chance of that happening if Obooba gets the Oboot.
Akzed on November 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Golly, ain’t nobody left in the picture because they’re all out looking for jobs or they be in line for Obama to “…pay mah mortgage!
Don L on November 7, 2011 at 12:46 PM
I love it when the DNC is writing ads for the GOP
ConservativePartyNow on November 7, 2011 at 12:49 PM
It’s not the horse that’s the problem, it is the stuff it leaves behind as it progresses -that the little guy has to clean up!
Don L on November 7, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Thank you, President Obama
/crrrrrrrr666
NoFanofLibs on November 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Sad to say, but I think this will be effective with all those who voted for him out of pure emotion (which, honestly, was almost EVERYONE who voted for him). He was not elected based on his qualifications as a leader. He was elected because everyone wanted (desperately) something to feel good about. They really thought if they just elected Obama the world would change. He was to be so post-racial, so inspiring, people would willingly give their wealth over to be redistributed…gosh, I’m almost choked up. But then reality hit. The independents who were caught up will be less affected by this than in 2008, but some will peel away from common sense because, hey, it was the coolest thing ever to vote for the first black president. Yes, the race card. I played it. But it’s more than that. People were really tired of petty partisanship (but not all partisanship is petty), the mean-spirited sniping between politicians, the wars (yep, it’s true). America was depressed, in a way, and was looking for some therapy. So Obama promised sweetness and light and just enough people bought it. McCain was dim, Obama bright. And if we could get the “racist history of America” off our backs at the same time, well there you go. Perfect storm. Now that Obama has an actual record, it will be harder to build that same sort of emotional response, but it will work on some. I truly hope it works on significantly less than 50% come next November.
BillyWilly on November 7, 2011 at 1:02 PM
NoFanofLibs on November 7, 2011 at 1:02 PM
Ummm…is this a thinly disguised invitation for a primary opponent?
Al-Ozarka on November 7, 2011 at 1:07 PM
There are ad execs across America frothing at the mouth, hoping the phone will ring. How many times do you get to use your opponent’s (competition’s) own ad campaign for your ad campaign.
If the RNC does not pick up this fumble and run it into the end zone, they should be stripped and paraded naked down Broadway (thereby losing any hope of ever winning another election – it would not be a pretty sight).
The “Without Obama” campaign.
It’s a gift that can keep on giving, right through November, 2012.
IndieDogg on November 7, 2011 at 1:08 PM
Feed them all of the rope they want, watch them tie it into a noose then place the noose around their necks, … ;o)
DannoJyd on November 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM
they claim they “changed the course of history.”
sheesh.
what a stinky smelly greasy pile of narcissistic egomaniacal crap.
reliapundit on November 7, 2011 at 1:27 PM
I just left a comment on the youtube video asking how much gas was when BHO took the office & instead of the comment being added to the comment section it stated : COMMENT PENDING APPROVAL!
PATHETIC
poppieseeds on November 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM
I don’t buy it for a minute. The true believers you speak of here are camped out in Obamavilles now. So discouraged that they claim they’ll not indulge ever again in electoral politics.
Good for them.
The rest? It was a fad. It was a moment. It can’t be recaptured. And not only that, it wasn’t true. If you compare that day with today, the conclusion has to come that there must be something wrong with that picture…because it’s been three years and none of it came true. That was the party. The past three years have been the hangover.
And yet, to Obama, it’s not about any of that. It’s just about electing him. It’s not about anyone else and their life or their situation, it’s just about how wonderful it was that he was elected.
No one’s going to buy that. No one.
Typhoon on November 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM
Can we erase it all now? One more year is far too long to wait for the grand eviction of useless bodies and minds of this administration.
Wondering how O!Bummer and family will behave in Jan. 2013 when the doors will kick their behinds into Pennsylvania Avenue?
A la Carter,hang out in the halls with Rosalynn hoping they can spend few more nights or A la Clinton,walk away with everything that wasn’t nailed to the foundation of the WH?
I will be humming “Fifty Ways of Leaving Your White House” on January 2013….
ikwill on November 7, 2011 at 1:49 PM
How do you think he got elected?
Del Dolemonte on November 7, 2011 at 2:37 PM
“One year from now all our progress could be erased by one of those alien warships from ‘Armageddon’ “
eeyore on November 7, 2011 at 2:49 PM
Yep, someone on our side should do a version of this ad, taking out the clip of supporters with American flags and replace it with images of violent Occupy mobsters in stinky tents reading Marxist/Anarchist pamphlets.
Buy Danish on November 7, 2011 at 2:53 PM
Err…rather “Independence Day”
eeyore on November 7, 2011 at 2:57 PM
It assumes that everybody who voted for him knew they were getting what they got . . . They couldn’t be more wrong since most people voted to make history, knowing nothing about who they
PastorJon on November 7, 2011 at 3:05 PM
Vote President Obama OUT OF OFFICE in 2012!
We can do it! “One conversation at a time!”
Set a goal to have a conversation with at least one person a week about why you want to vote Obama out of office.
wren on November 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM
were voting for . . . grrr
PastorJon on November 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM
Erase the Progress? Count me in!
LASue on November 7, 2011 at 3:48 PM
I’m your huckleberry.
hillbillyjim on November 7, 2011 at 4:02 PM
When I watched the video, the first thing that came to mind was the title of a song by the Beatles:
LET IT BE
The RNC could pay to give this ad additional air time, BUT, are the Republicans prepared to erase all the so-called “progress” made by Obama? Or will they want to keep the power of Big Government for themselves when they are in office?
Ordinary American on November 7, 2011 at 4:11 PM
This clown is one and DONE!
JustJP on November 7, 2011 at 4:46 PM
MAKE IT SO!!!!
Dude, this is brilliant. Herb Cain needs to go slap his logo on a truckload of pink erasers with “Erase the Progress” on the other side and start handing them out everywhere he goes.
NoLeftTurn on November 7, 2011 at 10:28 PM