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Willie Horton Returns As Barack Obama (gag alert)
The Nation ^ | Tue Apr 22, | staff

Posted on 04/22/2008 6:42:41 PM PDT by Baladas

The Nation -- Republicans are sharpening their knives against Barack Obama. No smear is too insignificant to broadcast. According to Time Magazine's Michael Scherer, Floyd Brown, the creator of the infamous Willie Horton ad--credited with sinking Michael Dukakis's candidacy in 1988--is launching a new ad campaign against Obama.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: ads; campaignads; campaignfinance; electionpresident; floydbrown; ncprimary; obama; obomber; politicalad
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Here's the actual ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cabl0KSFUqo

Just in time for NC.

1 posted on 04/22/2008 6:42:42 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: Baladas
credited with sinking Michael Dukakis's candidacy in 1988

And here I thought it was horrible policy stances that doomed Dukakis from the start. Silly me, believing history!
2 posted on 04/22/2008 6:45:10 PM PDT by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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To: Baladas

Oh no the Communists are not happy.


3 posted on 04/22/2008 6:45:38 PM PDT by Patrick1
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To: Baladas

I’d vote for Willie Horton before I’d vote for Obama.


4 posted on 04/22/2008 6:48:22 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Patrick1
Can't we stay on issues??

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5 posted on 04/22/2008 6:50:38 PM PDT by geo40xyz (McCain, Obama or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?)
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To: Baladas
The Nation is comparing Barack Obama to a convicted robber, murderer, prison escapee and rapist. And we’re the racists?
6 posted on 04/22/2008 6:50:57 PM PDT by RichInOC (Obama '08: Strange We Can Believe In.)
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To: Baladas

Only if Al Gore puts them out.


7 posted on 04/22/2008 6:55:30 PM PDT by svcw (I reject your reality and substitute my own.)
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To: Baladas

Leftists have ALWAYS regarded any unflattering truth as a smear.


8 posted on 04/22/2008 6:58:24 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Baladas


9 posted on 04/22/2008 7:07:46 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: river rat

Now now, you don’t want to “swiftboat” anyone, do you?


10 posted on 04/22/2008 7:12:10 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: Baladas

If the Pubbies were smart they’d preface each ad with “Hillary Clinton says...”


11 posted on 04/22/2008 7:16:12 PM PDT by OeOeO (Sic Transit Gloria Mundi... Gloria get me a beer,and hurry..)
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To: Baladas

Americans DESERVE the TRUTH about EVERY candidate for public office...

I have always been in search of the truth....
Those who shrink from the truth, don’t deserve a public office.


12 posted on 04/22/2008 7:19:48 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Baladas
Algore strikes again!?

The first person to mention the Massachusetts furlough program in the 1988 presidential campaign was Al Gore. During a debate at the Felt Forum sponsored by the New York Daily News, Gore took issue with the furlough program and brought up the Horton incident.

13 posted on 04/22/2008 7:22:05 PM PDT by OCC
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To: Baladas

A Maxist with terrorist buddies who’s been endorsed by Hamas is worried about being unfairly targeted by an ad campaign?


14 posted on 04/22/2008 7:30:19 PM PDT by weegee (Vote Obama 2008 for a bitter America.)
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To: river rat
Leftists have ALWAYS regarded any unflattering truth as a smear.

"Unflattering truth" is a redundancy 99% time when referring to liberals. How many flattering truths can we find about liberals?

15 posted on 04/22/2008 7:39:28 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Baladas

The Communist Nation should go by their original name...Pravda


16 posted on 04/22/2008 7:41:04 PM PDT by Rosemont
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Boo Hoo.

Wait and see how many opinion pieces Yahoo (or anyone else) runs criticizing hit pieces on McCain. No need to wait, there won’t be any. When a Soros type group claims that McCain kills and eats little minority babies there will not be one iota of outrage.

And McLame will respond by leading with the chin, as all RINOs do. I’m already disgusted thinking about it. And I can’t stand McCain.


17 posted on 04/22/2008 7:46:31 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Baladas

These guys have no shame. They must be the same idiots that were writing in my college paper back in the ‘60s. Any rubbish that they come up with is fit to print.


18 posted on 04/22/2008 7:53:45 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Unapologetically European)
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To: Baladas

Hey, Nation, take your crummy little mag and put it where the moon don’t shine.


19 posted on 04/22/2008 7:54:59 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Unapologetically European)
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To: popdonnelly

Ping Pong.


20 posted on 04/22/2008 7:58:58 PM PDT by Nick Thimmesch
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