Obama-lypse: GOP attacks the man who "killed what made us a great nation, ended the American Dream©"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Republican Governors Anti-Obama Ad Borrows Political Terrorism Theme

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/26/republican-governors-anti_n_551577.html

First Posted: 04-26-10 08:46 AM | Updated: 04-26-10 09:16 AM

The Republican Governors Association has released a new web ad attacking President Barack Obama whose theme borrows heavily from a story glorifying domestic political terrorism.

This past weekend, the GOP group unveiled the website RememberNovember.com that gleans graciously from the symbolism of Guy Fawkes, the early 17th Century British radical who attempted to blow up the House of Parliament and kill King James I. In the RGA video, of course, Obama is cast in the role of King James and the Republican Party adopts the Fawkes cause.

The ad isn't explicitly or implicitly promoting the adaptation of political terrorism, just borrowing from a story that lionizes it (Fawkes was introduced to modern audiences in the film 'V for Vendetta' and popularized, politically, by the backers of then presidential candidate Ron Paul).

Nevertheless, the video reflects a willingness of Republicans to push the line when it comes to tapping into the anti-government populism sweeping the country. The RGA, as Time Magazine's Michael Sherer points out, is "stepping out of the stodgy, safe territory it normally inhabits" by putting it's name behind this spot. But that may simply be because the group is catching up with mainstream Republicanism.

In addition to the Glenn Beck-style greatest hits montage of controversial Democratic statements (a Fidel Castro compliment of health care reform thrown in, of course), the RGA ad suggests that under Obama, the apocalypse may very well be closer than ever before.

"We killed what made us a great nation," a voice cries out in the video, before a chyron is put on screen accusing Obama of ending the American Dream. This would normally be cast of as abject paranoia, if not for the fact that House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) beat the RGA to the punch with this charge by several weeks.

The ad seems designed strictly to go viral, as it is well-produced but doesn't appear of length for a television commercial. That said, the RGA isn't allowing other sites to embed the video (which Sherer got permission to do) in an effort to ensure that as many activists as possible gravitate to their new web page. The Huffington Post downloaded a version of the ad, watch it below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/26/republican-governors-anti_n_551577.html

[rfranklin]

1. Yes, I always dreamed of being bankrupted by medical expenses...

What the hell are they talking about? White supremacy?

[HughBeaumont]

2. Laughable. Battered Citizen Syndrome.

Corporate America's one-sided business practices, "Horatio Alger" and Friedman Economics killed the American dream, not Barack Obama. They never raised real-dollar wages while the cost of everything soared.

These assholes are merely trying to find a Democratic scapegoat rather than that of the Plutocracy that holds all of us under it's steel boot and Republican representatives who aided and abetted it all the way.

[old mark]

7. Is "Republican thinker" an oxymoron?

Not like Rush-an Oxy-Moron-but litterally...:shrug:

(My brother and I had a private joke about a "right wing intellectual", which we defined as someone with an IQ of 105...)


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[Flipper999]

3. Some Republican "thinker" probably remembered the Guy Fawkes Scientology protests

and thought to himself "Hey! We can use (steal) that!"

[Voice for Peace]

4. these people are insane

they are bound to self-destruct. and furthermore I think this ad does encourage violence.

[malaise]

5. FIrst Dick Armey and company whip up the anti-government rhetoric

then the hacks report 'when it comes to tapping into the anti-government populism sweeping the country'.
Funny that this comes on the heels of the entire country kicking out the warmongering and no tax but spend ReTHUGS
Obama was elected as one of the most popular presidents ever.

[still_one]

6. The Democrats should show ads how hitler came to power, and compare it to the repukes

[HughBeaumont]

8. Except V rebelled against a neo-fascist police state that attacked it's own citizens . . .

. . . a mild version of which the Tea Klux Klan supported through their Bewsh II/Bewsh I/Reagan votes.

Did Dick Armey even watch that movie?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. And when (god forbid) something bad happens to government officials

or to Obama himself, the Republicans and their corporate media whore enablers will, of course, fall all over themselves to proclaim their innocence and their *concern* and they will loudly eschew ANY semblance of responsibility for the atmosphere they've fostered. They may not be explicitly telling people to take Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Democrats, or government officials out (yet) but by them constantly telling people that our ELECTED leaders and other government officials are "tyrants" whom are destroying (or have already destroyed) our nation, they are consciously whipping up the kind of fear and paranoia that could conceivably encourage people to take up arms against government. It doesn't seem to be enough for them to say: "Obama's policies suck and here's why and please oh please elect us to promote different, *better* ideas". It's dangerous and, frankly irresponsible, IMHO for them to amp up the rhetoric to the point that some slightly off-balance people/groups might ultimately decide that they do not have any other choice BUT to take up arms against Obama, et. al but this seems to be the choice that they have made and it is incumbent upon the rest of us to call them out about it NOW before something really does happen. Also, the Republicans don't seem to grasp the reality that THEY themselves are part of the government and that if some loon decides to attack government officials, they could just as easily become targets but then again I think that the Republicans seem to believe that this is a good election strategy for them and that once they're back in power, everything will be just fine and dandy. :eyes:

[political_Dem]

10. Sorry, Babe. I don't want to return back to the "good ol' days".

I would be on the wrong side of Jim Crow, paying a poll tax and entering in the side or back of restaurants.

You can keep your "American Dream" of "taking back America".

[DonCoquixote]

11. Here's an irony

As the British Du'ers know, Guy Fawkes did his terrorism because he was a Catholic, and the English were treating Catholics like SH*T. Half these teabaggers come from the sort of heavily protestant areas that supported oppressing Catholics.

[BreweryYardRat]

12. The irony of this claim should be easily visible.

The American Dream (especially as conservatives like to define it) is supposed to be about bettering yourself and overcoming adversity through hard work, intelligence, and self-sacrifice.

Barack Obama: Son of a white woman and a black man who abandoned her and left her and her middle-class family to raise the boy. Through hard work in high school and his own native intelligence, the boy ends up going to Harvard. Takes on massive student loans for the sake of getting a good higher education. Gets his Bachelor's, goes on to attend Harvard Law School, and gets his J.D. Academic performance is consistently outstanding. Works in Chicago for years as a community organizer, helping the poor. Gets married to the woman he loves, has two kids. Becomes an Illinois State Senator. Finally pays off his student loans somewhere around this point in his life. Becomes one of the US Senators for Illinois. Has the courage to run for President -- and WINS!!! And all this, remember, as a member of a minority that's still discriminated against socially, if not legally.

"Ended the American Dream," my hairy ass. :grr: Obama is living the American Dream.

If this mendacious, hypocritical bullshit is all the Repubs can muster, we're going to kick their asses come November. And frankly, I think this ad is a call to violence -- it's intended to rile up the people too stupid to read a basic biography of our President.

[applegrove]

13. The American dream has been dying since Asia and the old communist countries started to

compete with the USA. This has been going on since the 1950s. GOP trying to kill unions before a workers market appears as the baby boomers retire isn't helping the success of America. But the GOP has obviously plans to stick Obama with responsibility for the changes in the world. and since teabaggers are all about being afraid of living in a complex multi-ethnic world ....labelling Obama as being responsible for it will work.