No excuses open thread

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Oswald

I don’t know about you but ads like these should be pretty effective. I really like the way they use Obama’s own words against him.

Too bad that all the options are so crappy.

Here’s the original version of the ad:

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Filed under: 2012 Elections, Barack Obama

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90 Responses

  1. Oswald, on April 17, 2012 at 3:44 pm said:

    I got a 5-finger discount on this over at Uppity’s:

  2. HELENK, on April 17, 2012 at 4:04 pm said:

    stolen from Kin at katz porch

  3. HELENK, on April 17, 2012 at 4:17 pm said:

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/picturethis/2017978277_jblmsoldiersurprisessonatmarinershomeopener.html

    i have seen several stories like this. Thank you to the sports teams that are making the homecoming of our military extra special

  5. myiq2xu, on April 17, 2012 at 4:27 pm said:

    Michelle Obama: ‘This President Has Brought Us Out of the Dark and Into the Light’

    I think she meant “Out of the frying pan and into the fire.”

    • elliesmom, on April 17, 2012 at 4:45 pm said:

      I truly think that Obama chose Michelle Robinson for her political connections and her solid position as an authentic black woman. I often wonder if she likes the “deal” herself. Does she feel used or is being First Lady worth being married to such a prick?

    • HELENK, on April 17, 2012 at 5:13 pm said:

      gag me with a spoon

      he was supposed to be in the senate when the Ledbetter Act was being debated and passed. But as usual was AWOL or campaigning while the work was being done, but came in for the credit

  6. WMCB, on April 17, 2012 at 5:10 pm said:

    Fucking brilliant rant by AoS on the media. Go read.

    http://minx.cc/?post=328498

    • DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 5:20 pm said:

      Just when you think the media can’t sink any lower…

    • HELENK, on April 17, 2012 at 5:27 pm said:

      do you think it is possible to ever have real journalists and media that prints the truth without prejudice??

      sad to say I do not think that will happen

  8. Lola-at-Large, on April 17, 2012 at 6:07 pm said:

    PPP polled the 2016 field. Hillary is at the top of the Dem field. Check out her stats:

    Clinton’s appeal to the various different constituencies of the Democratic Party is pretty universal. She’s at 58% with ‘very liberal’ voters, 56% with moderates, 60% with women, 52% with men, 59% with whites, 54% with African Americans, 51% with Hispanics, 64% with seniors, and 44% with young voters.

    Bolding mind. Guess what those younger voters were when Bill was in office and Hillary was being relentlessly attacked from both sides? Kids. I was so right about that. That’s why I have talked to my daughter about all of this all her life, so she can critically think about it. Most parents in the 90s just let their kids listen to the news in the background, and they formed their own uninformed opinions, which are now entrenched. They don’t even know they’ve been used.

  10. WMCB, on April 17, 2012 at 6:45 pm said:

    LMAO! So twitter is having great fun mocking the lame attempt to push the Romney dog story, by mocking Obama eating dogs. (He admitted as such – when he lived in Indonesia). They are not seriously outraged, they *know* it was entirely normal for that culture. But they are having fun mocking it anyway, just to illustrate the silliness of dog stories in general.

    Several hashtags are going, but the funniest are #ObamaAteADog and #Obamadogrecipes

    I contributed Moo Goo Shih Tzu. :D

  11. HELENK, on April 17, 2012 at 6:50 pm said:

    buy popcorn

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/17/Obama-recess-appointments-lawsuit

    republicans are suing backtrack over the recess appointments

  12. WMCB, on April 17, 2012 at 7:44 pm said:

    Some may think it’s just silliness, (and it is), but this whole thing is a good example of wresting the *cultural* narrative from the Obots, and mocking their attempt to control the that narrative.

    Also, mockery is the one thing Obama hates. He’s gonna flip. I’ll bet he is chain smoking right now. He already sent Axeldouche out to do damage control.

  13. threewickets, on April 17, 2012 at 7:53 pm said:

    These ads will matter most to undecided independents in battleground states. They’re going to be saturated with them, and I think credibility will matter more than slickness. I personally don’t think the ads will be as influential as the cheerleading news coverage. But the ads I’ve seen so far, the OFA team is working the credibility angle harder than Romney imo. And I say that knowing OFA must lose. ;-)

  14. DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 8:10 pm said:

    LOL. Obots are now saying, not making this up, wait for it, that to talk about Obama eating dog is…… you guessed it, racist.

  15. DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 8:28 pm said:

    For a second I thought she was talking about Obama:

    AmbassadorRice: Syrian regime lied to the world, lied to its people & the biggest fabricator is Asad himself. Words are meaningless.Actions are what matter.

  16. DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 8:55 pm said:

    From now on, throughout the campaign, no matter that the Dems accuse Romney or the GOP of, they can always retort, hey, at least we don’t eat dog. LOL

    • WMCB, on April 17, 2012 at 9:09 pm said:

      It was very interesting, just from a strategy and narrative point of view. Axelrod earlier in the day had taken a swipe at Romney on Twitter – posting a pic of Obama and Bo and saying, “this is how you transport a dog”

      After all the fun got started tonight, Romney’s campaign guy Fehrnstrom joined in by retweeting Axelrod’s pic of Bo and Obama, jesting “In hindsight, a rather chilling photo…”

      So how did the Obama camp respond? By getting all pissy, and saying Fehrnstrom was attacking a child, because Obama was a kid when he ate dog.

      What’s the next attack @EricFerhn and the RNC will surface on a 6-10 year old?—
      Ben LaBolt (@BenLaBolt) April 18, 2012

      Gee, does that sound familiar? Remember when Hillary made a point about Obama’s claim that he never had any political ambitions in his life, and was accused of attacking his kindergarten papers?

      LaBolt just about got laughed off of twitter for that, and shortly thereafter Jake Tapper joined in and even did a humorous post on the ABC website about the eating dog thing.

      The thing is, the Obama team thinks this is still 2008. They are running the same playbook, and getting their asses kicked. They are NOT controlling the narrative like they did before. They don’t seem to realize that the ground has shifted.

      • craterlakegirl, on April 17, 2012 at 9:12 pm said:

        I didn’t realize that Obama was still a child.

      • craterlakegirl, on April 17, 2012 at 9:14 pm said:

        Honk! The gloves are off and I hope they stay off.

      • DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 9:19 pm said:

        Judging by the ads and how Romney battled in the primary, I don’t think he’ll hide in the corner like McCain did.

        • 1539days, on April 18, 2012 at 3:01 am said:

          McCain did some hard work to make sure Obama got elected. Whispering campaigns started against Sarah Palin and she hit back with palling around with terrorists. McCain’s campaign response? Shut her down like she did something wrong.

          Mitt Romney is not John McCain. His campaign team is actually competent.

  17. DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 9:00 pm said:

    iowahawkblog: #ObamaDogRecipes Bichon Appetit! http://t.co/qR5EtLtM

  18. myiq2xu, on April 17, 2012 at 9:00 pm said:

    Q: What does Obama do when his dog gets stuck?
    A: Grabs a toothpick.

  19. DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 9:11 pm said:

    Free BO!! Free BO!! Free BO!! :)

  20. DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 9:12 pm said:

    The G-8 summit will be renamed the K-9 summit in honor of Obama.

  21. DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 9:18 pm said:

    Mmm, dog jerky.

  22. WMCB, on April 17, 2012 at 9:30 pm said:

    LMAO! Some wag dug this up:

  23. WMCB, on April 17, 2012 at 9:32 pm said:
  24. WMCB, on April 17, 2012 at 9:35 pm said:

    Barack Obama: Dog Crisperer

  25. myiq2xu, on April 17, 2012 at 9:43 pm said:

    Q: What is Obama’s favorite book?

    A: 101 Ways To Wok Your Dog.

  26. WMCB, on April 17, 2012 at 9:48 pm said:
  27. myiq2xu, on April 17, 2012 at 9:56 pm said:

    Mitt Romney gave his dog diarrhea.

    Barack Obama’s dog gave him diarrhea.

  28. DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 11:24 pm said:

    greggutfeld: To be fair, that dog never worked a day in his life.

  29. DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 11:57 pm said:

    Best stupid ever:

    Bill_Lenner: LOL Anti-Obama handlers have their people busy with #obamadogrecipes to hide that GOP refuses to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act

  30. DandyTiger, on April 17, 2012 at 11:59 pm said:

    DailyPamphlet: “I ate Fido with some fava beans and a nice Chianti” – Hanibal Obama
    #ObamaDogRecipes

  32. zaladonis, on April 18, 2012 at 4:07 am said:

    Even Jake Tapper’s sober piece on the subject has a great last line.

    … The Seamus story was discussed again Monday when Ann Romney told Diane Sawyer that “the dog loved” traveling that way. “He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. It was to me a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks.”

    Certainly kinder than eating him.

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/obama-as-a-boy-ate-dog-meat/

  33. Glenn McGahee, on April 18, 2012 at 4:50 am said:

    This is great fun.

  34. DeniseVB, on April 18, 2012 at 5:12 am said:

    Ooopsie. Maybe it’s campaign fatigue, hard to believe MichelleO doesn’t realize AnnR has MS too.

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/flotus-invokes-dads-ms-attack-romney/485771

  35. DeniseVB, on April 18, 2012 at 5:19 am said:

    Back to the Columbia party boys, coke found in S.S. room.

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/new_low_blow_VCZSU5Mmdn2nzzkLPMIR4H

    I wish we’d have Obama drug tested, might explain a few things ;)

  36. elliesmom, on April 18, 2012 at 5:35 am said:

    And they say that conservatives don’t have a sense of humor. . . .

  37. HELENK, on April 18, 2012 at 10:15 am said:

    another backtrack bunch bud with money problems.
    why he is not in jail for backtaxes and fraud instead of being bowed to by holder and the backtrack bunch is beyond me
    Al Sharpton does nothing but cause hatred and violence

    http://freebeacon.com/more-money-more-problems/

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