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Ryan’s ‘Fading Obama Posters’ Line Spawns an Excellent Ad

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 30th, 2012 at 02:46 PM  | 

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Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s speech to the RNC Wednesday night was addressed in no small part to the segment of the population that supported President Obama in 2008, but who were turned off enough by the last four years to consider an alternative in the upcoming election.

One of the most vivid lines in Ryan’s speech – and one which conveyed that message very effectively – was the following:

We are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy that Barack Obama inherited, not the economy as he envisions, but this economy that we are living. College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

That was an excellent extended hand to those young voters who entered the political world on a wave of belief in the Hope and Change that one man could provide, and it has spawned an excellent – and equally vivid – ad from Crossroads Generation.

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  • renny

    Good. There is no enthusiasm any more among the young for the big zero because they have seen their older brothers and sisters graduate and be unable to get an interview,, their father lose his job, and their neighbor’s house in foreclosure. They may not vote for Mitt, but they just may not vote. And they surely will not travel in bus caravans across the country to vote everywhere they can get away with it. Like Cleveland, OH, and Madison, WI.

  • gr29az

    he’s not a bad guy, he just sucks as president.
    makers vs takers nov 2012

  • macbookben

    And BOOM! goes the dynamite.

  • slickzip

    I just love it ,, a homerun !!!!!!!!!!!!

  • rcsjr2

    Young voters take note. A winning smile and cool demeanor do not a president make. Our exalted leader was never properly vetted. There’s no excuse for making the same mistake twice.

  • acat

    I stuck your comment in the wayback machine and .. it applies pretty well to Carter … especially if you accept a substitution of “markedly different from the predecessor” for “cool”.

    You *do* realize that, within the next 2-3 years, fewer Americans will personally remember the horrors of Carter years than don’t, right? Let’s hope the Obama legacy lasts just as long.

    Mew

    (Carter’s faux-folksy down-home aww-shucks routine wasn’t cool, but it was
    very not-Nixon not-Ford .. just as Obama’s cool reserve was very
    not-Bush 2.0 not-Clinton)

  • http://hehasfailed.wordpress.com/ HopeHeFails

    You’re wrong about the first part. He is an evil man. Millions have suffered at the hands of his legislative minions and his attempts to communize this nation.

  • http://hehasfailed.wordpress.com/ HopeHeFails

    Brilliant ad.

  • tlhoward

    Was reading the comments section of Jonah Goldberg’s thoughts on Clint’s act and someone mentioned he thought Eastwood’s performance would spawn a jillion empty chairs on people’s lawns. GRRRRRRRREAT Idea!!!!!!!!

  • Ausonius

    When you consider that he sat in a so-called church for years – purely out of political calculation – and listened to hatred and racism without speaking against it, when you consider that his voting record is chock full of cowardice – including a refusal to stop de facto infanticide, and when you consider that his main method of campaigning is the seeding of economic envy and implicit hatred of others whose lives are marked by success, the word “Evil” for him might not be such a baggy fit for his frame.

  • Ausonius

    Forget about the poster: the “Mount-Rushmore style” sculpture has also bitten the sand in Charlotte. A rather grotesque, Alfred E. Newman-esque grin on BIG BRObama’s sandy image: the Dems should let the rain wash it away.

    See: http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/image/obamasandjpg/

  • http://itsaboutliberty.com bigalsouth

    Isn’t it ironic that the youth have been convinced to support Obama, when the financial effects of the President’s policies are going to be born on their shoulders for their entire working lives. That is if they can find a job.

  • trutexan

    Wow. Powerful. Love it and sharing.