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Santorum Unveils ‘Obamaville’ Video, Scary Music Included (NY Times is not happy about it...)
NY Times ^ | 3/25/12 | KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Posted on 03/25/2012 5:13:34 AM PDT by jimbo123

In a new video from Rick Santorum, it is hardly morning in America. It is more like apocalypse in America.

From the opening sequence of a large raven to subsequent images of boarded-up buildings, a 1950s-style fallout shelter and alternating views of President Obama with the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, this is one bleak future.

The video is meant to show the consequences of re-electing Mr. Obama.

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John Brabender, the Santorum strategist who made the video, said it was a trailer for an eight-part series that will start in two weeks. Each of those videos will show how various Obama policies, such as those regarding health care and energy, have affected everyday life.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obamaville; romneyville; santorum
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To: GreatRoad

You’re welcome!


41 posted on 03/25/2012 7:21:42 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Houghton M.

I am a Newt supporter and I love this video. I would love Santorum more if the ideas expressed in this video came out of his mouth, daily, instead of him folding every time he needs to make a strong conservative stand. That’s my problem with him.


42 posted on 03/25/2012 7:23:23 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: cripplecreek

I posted it to my Facebook. It scared me.


43 posted on 03/25/2012 7:27:19 AM PDT by angcat (PLEASE GOD SAVE OUR COUNTRY!)
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To: Vision

I like the lambent “evil eyes” formed by the limbs of a tree and set alight by the low sun. Nice touch. They come at 0;45-0;46 with the words “welcome to a place...”


44 posted on 03/25/2012 7:27:19 AM PDT by TalBlack ( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Houghton M.
I realized last night, Newt didn't have a chance (not my first choice) and woke up thinking that Rick wouldn't be as bad as I was anticipating. I was even thinking, I could live with a Rick presidency. At least he calls global warming a fraud. I don't like his means-testing of social security. I worked all my life and now he wants to means test social security, while the government continues their spending spree. It sounds like seniors who are having a hard time can already get other forms of government handouts, including food stamps to supplement their income. I'll be for means testing social security when they means- test federal pensions. Rick believes in “social justice” and big government programs.

I was willing to take another look at Rick this morning, but then I saw this video. It's funny, but it's going to backfire big time. And I bet Rick backs away from the ad.

I'll vote for whoever the Republican nominee is, but I was just hoping I wouldn't have to hold my nose again. It sounds like the establishment is going to have their way either with Romney or Jeb Bush. More of the same and it is possible that Obama will be reelected. I feel like the old woman sitting on the couch in Rick's ad.

45 posted on 03/25/2012 7:31:15 AM PDT by FR_addict
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To: jimbo123
An OK start, but short on the "why" bad things happen.
46 posted on 03/25/2012 7:34:50 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive
"An OK start, but short on the "why" bad things happen."

In case you missed it...

"John Brabender, the Santorum strategist who made the video, said it was a trailer for an eight-part series that will start in two weeks."

It's doing just what a trailer is supposed to do: generate buzz, interest, even controversy. I suspect your "whys" will be forthcoming in the following installments.

47 posted on 03/25/2012 7:44:07 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: rabidralph

The sodomites are squealing like stuck pigs...conservatives don’t care for this because it paints an ugly future that they would rather deny is coming...


48 posted on 03/25/2012 7:44:29 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Houghton M.
[If Newt had made this video he would be praised for it by the same people trashing it now.]

Newt would never make a video this divisive or stupid. It alienates the majority of the population who elected Obama, or who are not political by nature. You don't win them over by insulting them further.

You especially don't win elections by angering the press into a raged frenzy. Richard Nixon learned that lesson the hard way, and even Herman Cain made the same mistake in a milder form. You know how well that turned out, don't you?

49 posted on 03/25/2012 7:45:43 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

If Newt HAD made this you’d praise him.
Newt could say anything whatever to the press, anger them however which way

and
you
would
praise
him
for
standing
up
to
the
press.

You have a double standard. You proved it by the way you sidestepped my point.

Double-standard.
Double-double-standard.


50 posted on 03/25/2012 8:13:41 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: rabidralph

That’s my problem with these “debates.” None of the candidates have had a chance to speak for more than a minute or two.

Wife and I got to see and hear Rick in Osage Beach, MO two weeks ago. He spoke for about an hour and the event allowed for a full formulation of thoughts and positions on issues.


51 posted on 03/25/2012 8:13:41 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Beware the Sweater Vest)
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To: FR_addict

“And I bet Rick backs away from the ad.”

How much?

See post 47.


52 posted on 03/25/2012 8:16:29 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: rabidralph

They have been coming out of his mouth. If you only get him through the MSNM-FRingrich filter you don’t get him.

Period.


53 posted on 03/25/2012 8:18:23 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: illinifan
I've seen something familiar in the past.


....but I agree., it's a keeper.
54 posted on 03/25/2012 8:18:55 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: Houghton M.

I’m not convinced.


55 posted on 03/25/2012 8:21:28 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: taildragger

Well, you have a point that the GOP should be running hard-hitting commercials against obama...couldn’t agree more.


56 posted on 03/25/2012 8:26:31 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: jimbo123

Hey, KATHARINE Q. SEELYE - here’s a tape of some New York Times connected ‘journalists’ talking about how to help Obama, how to HELP Occupy, how NPR and PBS cheat on their taxes - and how cool it is - and how they feel contempt for conservatives.

They’re liberal elites of ‘your type’ - arrogant, biased, hateful. Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080


57 posted on 03/25/2012 8:38:32 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: Girlene

Great ads - what do you find negative?


58 posted on 03/25/2012 8:45:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: jimbo123
Anybody notice the resemblance of the narrator's voice to Rod Serling of Twilight Zone? Especially the closing line "Welcome to Obamaville. More than a town...a cautionary tale." During the fastflash stills, this pops up for a single frame. What in the world?


59 posted on 03/25/2012 8:54:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rabidralph

very polarizing


60 posted on 03/25/2012 10:13:45 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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