New Obama Campaign Ad: Yes We Can… Remember 2008!
**Written by Doug Powers
When I watched this for the first time and the “one year from now all the progress could be erased” part came up, I thought it was a Republican Party ad.
There is now less than one year to go until the elections next November, and the Obama campaign has a new ad looking forward to that day by looking back and reminding their current (and former) supporters what an awesome time they were having back in 2008:
New campaign catch-phrase: “Are you better off remembering what a great mood you were in when you were convinced that in four years you’d be better off than you were four years ago?”
I understand the flashback strategy. What else can they do? When the Indianapolis Colts make an ad to promote ticket sales for next year, will they be more likely to include footage from this season, or Super Bowl XLI?
(h/t Business Insider)
**Written by Doug Powers
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With the help of God and a lot of people who are NOT ignorant, one year from now, all of your progress will be erased.
Ban erasers!
A) What they did is not “progress”.
B) RE: “one year from now all [they've done] could be erased”. I sure hope so!
oh Good Lord!
“Remember that tingle in your leg? Let’s feel it again!!”
I agree, Yoda–let’s erase it all!
I can say this because I live just outside Indianapolis:
Do you know how the Colts are going to the Super Bowl????
They’re going to buy tickets just like everyone else!!
hey Phil–are YOU better off now than you were then??
Erased… and then some. Correction to last cycle’s yes we can slogan. Yes we CAIN!
JHS, don’t be silly. Every active player gets two tickets, gratis. We sorry saps have to buy tickets.
Can we donate boxes to help you move?
Notice how little of Obama is actually in the ad spot?
Focus on those heady times. Forget your spouse has become part of the permanently laid off and you’re paying $4 a gal. The billions wasted on pipedreams and the faux re-invention of Hoover blankets?
Clutching at straws.
But it will never be forgotten. We will remember what this fraud did to our country.
Imagine there’s no Obama
I wonder if you can….
Wow, I’m suddenly filled with Hope!
I didn’t notice that, but you’re right on. I guess they just want a dream elected and not the Marxist idiot in the WH.
Did you notice too just how peaceful Grant Park, Chicago looked when they erased Barky and his crowd.
That’s what I’m looking for.
Yes we can!
New Obama strategy.
“Here. Take these pills and think about it what it felt like in 2008. Or think about Oprah. Then go vote.”
Erase their progress?
Motivation indeed.
ANOTHER knock on the Colts?
Isn’t there another winless NFL team to kick around? What about Miami?? Crap…they won yesterday, didn’t they? Stupid Chiefs!!!
I pull for the Colts unless they are playing ‘da Bears….at least they are not playing horribly this season…not a complete loss.
???????
Erase “progress”.
YES WE CAIN!!!
Phil, I think redgypsy may have mistaken your humor for libtardism.
redgypsy, Phil is many things, but a leftist is not one of them.
Thank you. redgypsy must be new around here.
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This really is a great campaign ad. It needs a little “creative rework” to change it from a 1 minute spot to a 2 minute spot.
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Right after each Comrade Obama “accomplishment”–cut to the unemployment lines, the bailouts, the Wisconsin Acorn / Union riots, the OWS marxist clown encampments and arson, Obamacare, debt explosion, “greenie” money waste and stonewalling, etc. It’s a real target rich environment.
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And at the end–have Sarah Palin appear and say, “President Obama promised to fundamentally transform the U.S.–and to redistribute wealth for the benefit of all. How’s it working out for you, America? Are you better off now than you were in Nov. 2008? Will his reelection make the next 4 years better for you and your family?”
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Done on YouTube from her garage studio overlooking the beautiful lake, forest, and mountains in Alaska. On the cheap.
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Where is the engagement of our RINO RNC and the so called conservatives? They are AWOL and missing in action again, still, and yet. When the enemy presents their rear ends–kick them hard! Enough of this civility crap–there are no prizes for second place in a war!
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John Bibb
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Phil–you want to ban the erasers. I just wondered if you were better off now than you were in 2008.
Ah, I just saw the other posts!!! Sorry Phil….
Yumpin Yoda said:
And didn’t you just love it? Why by the time Team Obama’s photoshoppers were done working their ‘magic’, struck me as the perfect setting for a lovely Conservative couple to have that romantic stroll in the park!
Gosh babe, remember a time before we had
childrenGunRunner didn’t have anybillsSoilyndra tab and Americansushered in an Era of Endless Bailoutspaid their own way..? Special times babe. Hey, how about the Big Tea Party Mwah you’ve been promising me?(that’s me, embarrassed–I’m usually better at detecting humor…)
Obummer’s toast… unless he comes up with one of those “Men in Black” blinky things and makes everyone forget the last 4 years.
“It was Venus, reflecting off swamp gas…”
How is it progress to take us back to 1917? That’s not progress at all.
And the RINOpublican party would NEVER make a campaign commercial that could ever be effective because Marxists have taken it over.
Frankly, how can any American taxpayer not directly associated with this corrupt administration say they’re better off now than four years ago? This ain’t rocket science…the only ones who want these czars and Obeyme around for another 4 years are those getting taxpayer handouts with zero accountability.
It’s ok, red. We all have a bad day from time to time. Sometimes, like Obozo, we can have a bad term.
Yikes–where’s my garlic necklace….?
Dexter Alarius said:
What do you think the stand for TOTUS is? He keeps frantically pressing and pressing and nothing happens!
In a normal world, you can’t stop me from rooting on marriage, couples and staying together thru thick & thin. These are anything but normal times and if your S.O is still actually contemplating supporting Team O’Blunder..?
Assuming there’s no children involved, I’d say you’ve got about a year to work things out. Yeah, it’s that serious. After how insanely divisive Progs have determined to make this country, I can’t see how they’d be able to live under the same roof?
It most certainly is progress to those who look back at those romantic heady days in Russia and dream of being in the forefront of a 1917 Revolution Redux. We are approaching the 100th anniversary of that, after all. Good times, good times.
ACHefty said:
Active players get tickets?
Have you seen the Colts play lately????
If only they were active…
YES, YES, ERASE IT, ERASE IT ALL! BORROWING THE WORDS OF THE PHAROH SETHI:
LET THE SO-CALLED “PROGRESS OF OBAMA” be erased from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument. Let the “PROGRESS OF OBAMA” be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.
Posters for our side:
RAISE CAIN
YES WE CAIN
CAIN IS ABLE
CAN OBLAHBLAH
NO MORE YEARS
BARACK WHO?
Repeal Obama
care!If only we COULD erase the trillons of debt incurred since then…
Whipping up hysteria and fear in the base is a losing strategy, but when you never had the right and have lost the center, what’s left but to appeal to the left a la, “Don’t you leave, too!”
The sad thing is, the 45-48% of people who will vote for Obama no matter what really do think that they’ve made “progress.” Not based on any empirical data or objective observation, but simply because they believe what they want to — and then work backwards from there to rationalize it.
As with every election, it’s not the left-or-right base that will decide the issue but the center. That Team Hopenchange has already written them off and is concentrating instead on trying to steady the ranks of its own core supporters can only be taken as very good news indeed.
I’m thinking Team Obama wants John McCain to emerge out of nowhere to be the GOP candidate in 2012.
The new Obama Campaign Strategy:
Ctrl_Alt_Delete
In order to be erased, progress must first exist.
“Progress is an illusion.”
Sheldon Kopp
from the book If You Meet the Buddha On the Road, Kill Him
We’re all still trying to figure out if 123upnorth is joking about his crush on Stretch Pelosi.
Sorry, don’t buy that.
Now, “Progress from progressivism is an illusion,” that I’ll buy.
plymouth #45–yeah, I am, too–didn’t want to say anything after my earlier faux pas… Any reply, 123?
Not just erased but sand blasted, planed, scoured with lye, and re-shellacked.
Do they mean bass ackwards progress?
Or might it be their progressivism that could be erased?
I’ll take odds that their version of progress
ivismwill be erased.“one year from now, all 0bama & dimocrat progress could be erased”
1. $6 trillion in additional national debt
2. 9% unemployment
3. Hobbled military
4. lost respect in the eyes of the western world
5. No manned space program
6. etc, etc, etc…
Earth to GOP…anyone there?
Better off??? Why don’t you ask my oldest friends, whose only child (only 21 yrs. old), got a degree in what the liberal whackjobs told him to go into (St. Paul, Min), committed suicide when he couldn’t find any kind of job after 20 months of searching. I blame Barack Hussein Obama directly for this tragic loss. Better off????