WILLIE HORTON RETURNS AS BARACK OBAMA ...

[pnorman]

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.

Scherer reports that Brown "has started four organizations to serve as front groups, plans to blast out a fundraising email to between 3 and 7 million conservatives, and debuted his first ad, which tries to argue that Obama is weak on crime, and therefore weak on terrorism."

The ad, set to run in North Carolina, all-but accuses Obama of murder.

Writes Scherer:

The new ad recounts the deaths of three Chicago residents in 2001 at the hands of criminal gangs. "That same year, a Chicago state senator named Barack Obama voted against expanding the death penalty for gang-related murders," an ominous female narrator intones. "So the question is, can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?"
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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=314260

pnorman

[Azathoth]

1. Expect Hillary surrogates to start picking up this line of attack within the next few days n/t

[rucky]

2. Let me just start by saying...

these would've been made against any Dem candidate. Don't pretend they wouldn't have been made in some form or another.

[BeatleBoot]

6. Big Exception To That Rule

The Clinton's

They've been through the firestorm all before.

Beat the Nazi scum twice.

Talk about street cred. They got it.

First 2 term Democratic President since FDR.

[SoonerPride]

8. That's why she's losing to a freshman Senator from Illinois, cause they're unstoppable?

She can't beat Obama, then she can't beat McLame.

[BeatleBoot]

9. Last time I checked

No one had 2,025

But I'm certain this isn't your first presidential primary.

[islandmkl]

3. quick....somebody get in touch with Obama's people and let them know about this....

damn....who could have ever thought something like this would happen?





i have a feeling Obama and party are somewhat ready for ALL of this shit...

after all, haven't the clintonistas been preaching that they are 'toughening' Barack up by all their negativity and attacks...

[Window]

10. Exactly.

[myrna minx]

4. The repubs will unleash a fury of negative ads against ANY Dem that runs.

I personally would like to run a candidate that is not trying to out saber rattle McCain.

[islandmkl]

5. bad computer function - operator error dupe

[depakid]

7. Nothing surprising there...

but this isn't 1988, and support for the death penalty has been waning.

[bhikkhu]

11. The same 28% that still apporve of * will fall for it

Hopefully not too many more. In any case this is just the same crap all over again, and of all people I have seen Obama has the best shot at getting past it.

[cooolandrew]

12. DVDs to the ready fired up ready to debunk with u-tube. Posts door to door alll round town.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Didn't work for Clinton, it won't work for McCain.