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“Choices”

Ace has up a suggested script to run against Obama.

If I had a pile of cash right now, here’s the script I’d run against Obama:

In America, we can’t choose our family, but we can choose our friends.

Barack Obama chose to be friends with an unrepentant terrorist.

He chose to be friends with a cop killer.

Barack Obama chose to work for a man who tried to kill American soldiers.

He chose to work for an organization that actively commits voter fraud.

Barack Obama’s choice in friends and employers speak loudly about what choices he’d make as President.

Can we really afford Barack Obama’s choices for us?

COMMENTS

  • JLenardDetroit

    that’s me applauded from the back of the room… wish I could’ve gotten better seats… lol

  • Strelnikov

    Use your Power Point capability and create an ad!

    Then off to YouTube with it!

  • mikewas

    “Chose to run for state senate under the banner of the socialist New Party.”

    Looks like everyone else is catching up to where RedState was in June:
    http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/08/was-obama-a-member-of-the-new-party/

  • jkauman07

    What’s sad is its true.

  • McPALINation

    Nobama believes you CAN choose your family–oh, no. My bad: that’s above his paygrade.

  • ThatTallGuy

    Right up front, you’re going to say “I don’t mind that you’re black”??

    You might want to edit out that part.

  • Martin_A_Knight

    Oh well, Obama and Biden made s#*t up throughout their debates … so why should I be surprised that Obama’s disciples believe they should too?

  • Moe_Lane

    …sufficiently wary of us that they’ll try preemptive character assassination.

    ‘Course, absent a screenshot that’s going to be tricky.

  • emccloud

    …talk radio hosts, Fox News, other blogs. It will will get some play time.

  • Strelnikov

    EMCCloud is right!

    Viralize Erick’s Point Presentation!

    Cut and Paste! You don’t even need Power Point!

    Praise the Lord and pass the e-mail on to your friends and relatives!

  • Republicanuck

    ‘T’ain’t about being Black – it’s about being Pink!!!! Troll!!

    D’Oh

  • baghdad_bob

    Great idea, Ace.

    My ad idea, for what it’s worth…

    Whom does America’s enemies want for president?

    Barack Obama.

  • Republicanuck

    ‘T’ain’t about being Black – it’s about being Pink!!!! Troll!!

    D’Oh

  • renegade

    Great idea for an ad, Unfortunately McCain doesn’t have the b*lls to run something like it.

  • insound

    attempts at character assassination is no way to win an election. Trust me, nobody cares who you think Barack Obama had lunch with.

    It’s not like the current president didn’t associate himself with things and people you would otherwise think disagreeable, and he still got elected. This is irrelevant.

    My suggestion, make a script about real issues, or lose.

  • PaRep
  • splanxna

    Based on the world-wide polling I have seen, that ad could be closely followed by: “Whom do America’s friends want as president? Barack Obama.”

  • PaRep

    Troll??

  • nivlem

    This is about who a Presidential nominee associates himself with – who his mentors are.
    This is about his repeated habit of
    associating with dangerous left
    radicals that are unrepentent that they
    killed people, and wishing they had killed more. And, lying about his association with them.
    This is about carachter, and it matters
    more than any other issue. This is who will make the choices regarding the future of the country we love.
    And finally, this is about who holds
    positions in the White House. And anyone
    with an ounce of brains, and loves this
    country would never, never, let William
    Ayers, Reverend Wright, Acorn, and other
    radical associates of Obama near the White House.
    And believe me, we will not be dropping this any time in the near future.

  • nivlem

    This is about who a Presidential nominee associates himself with – who his mentors are.
    This is about his repeated habit of
    associating with dangerous left
    radicals that are unrepentent that they
    killed people, and wishing they had killed more. And, lying about his association with them.
    This is about carachter, and it matters
    more than any other issue. This is who will make the choices regarding the future of the country we love.
    And finally, this is about who holds
    positions in the White House. And anyone
    with an ounce of brains, and loves this
    country would never, never, let William
    Ayers, Reverend Wright, Acorn, and other
    radical associates of Obama near the White House.
    And believe me, we will not be dropping this any time in the near future.

  • nivlem

    This is about who a Presidential nominee associates himself with – who his mentors are.
    This is about his repeated habit of
    associating with dangerous left
    radicals that are unrepentent that they
    killed people, and wishing they had killed more. And, lying about his association with them.
    This is about carachter, and it matters
    more than any other issue. This is who will make the choices regarding the future of the country we love.
    And finally, this is about who holds
    positions in the White House. And anyone
    with an ounce of brains, and loves this
    country would never, never, let William
    Ayers, Reverend Wright, Acorn, and other
    radical associates of Obama near the White House.
    And believe me, we will not be dropping this any time in the near future.

  • nivlem

    sorry about the error. I’m hitting a wrong button when I preview.

  • izoneguy
  • christinek

    I read what you wrote. I read what Lee wrote and followed the leads. Obama is an empty suit. He’s a puppet. All the tangled webs lead to one. I’m not going to say it but it is scarey. I only hope that the sheep will listen.

  • krisi

    PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE MESSAGE EVEN IF YOU ARE PRO OBAMA….PLEASE BE WISE AND EDUCATE YOURSELF ON OBAMA……………PLEASE, THIS IS AMERICA AND WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY!! OBAMA SUPPORTERS, PLEASE DON’T GET OFFENDED AND NOT READ THIS…PLEASE, PLEASE I KNOW YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY AND FAMILY SO PLEASE READ THIS….EVERY WORD OF THIS CAN BE VERIFIED! EVEN IF YOU HAVE “MADE UP YOUR MIND” TO VOTE FOR OBAMA, SIMPLY TAKING TIME TO READ THIS WILL HELP YOU TO MAKE A MORE EDUCATED DECISION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW ESPECIALLY PEOPLE IN “SWING STATES”.

    REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR OBAMA:

    1. Obama’s lack of experience….only been in senate since 2005. McCain has been in senate for almost 26 years.

    2. Obama’s lack of military service/understanding. Obama has never served/fought for our country. McCain has not only fought for our country, but he was held as a prisoner of war and refused to reveal America’s tactics/strategies/secrets!! He even refused to leave his fellow prisoner of war soldiers behind when the enemy offered him to be released!!!

    3. Obama has been associated with terrorists as his friends…For example, William Ayers (a leader in the radical terrorist group the Weatherman Underground) bombed several buildings including the Pentagon and it killed civilians and police officers. Ayers said in 2001 that he has no regrets and wishes he could have done more! Obama and Ayers both served on two non profit boards and they worked very closely together. AYERS EVEN HOSTED A POLITICAL EVENT AT HIS HOME FOR OBAMA. Obama acknowledged he is a friend of Ayer but defends himself saying he was only 8 when the Pentagon was bombed…BUT he can’t explain why he is still friends with Ayers. AMERICA….PLEASE REMEMBER 9/11 AND TELL ME WHY WOULD WE BE SUCH FOOLS TO TAKE A CHANCE??? PLEASE THINK OF OUR FUTURE, YOUR CHILDRENS FUTURE, AND YOUR GRANDCHILDRENS FUTURE.

    4. Obama and his campaign are currently being investigated for illegal funding being provided by foreign countries that HATE America. The FEC (Federal Election Commission) is currently investigating these funds. More than half of the $454 million raised by Obama has come in small increments of $200 or less….campaigns are not required to report small donations. Two fictional donors using the names “Doodad Pro” and “Good Will” gave Obama more than $11,000 in increments of $10 and $25 (according to newsweek). Roughly 11,500 donors who gave a total of $34 million to the Obama campaign are from foreign countries who are not allowed to contribute to the U.S. elections. These countries include countries that we are in war in and have a likely involvement in war in the near future. Obama has even been ENDORSED by radicals such as Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan. Even radical terrorists have praised him. “We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election, ” Ahmed Yousef, senior Hamas leader was quoted by ABC radio as saying. He has backed driver’s licenses for illegal aliens even though this will HELP FUTURE terrorists move freely in the U.S. THINK ABOUT IT….WHY WOULD FOREIGN COUNTRIES THAT HATE US WANT US TO ELECT OBAMA???? HE HAS ALREADY BEEN LINKED WITH A TERRORIST….THIS IS JUST ANOTHER REASON TO NOT TAKE A CHANCE WITH OBAMA.

    5. Obama recieved a 100% Liberal rating from the National Journal which makes him the most left-wing Senator in Washington!! More liberal than even Democratic senators like Ted Kennedy.

    6. Everyone has heard about Obama and his relation with his American-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright. This reverend has said, “Not God Bless America….God Damn America”. He is a racist and an outspoken one at that. Once this got out in public, Obama chose to distance himself from him BUT ONLY after he had been going to that church where that Rev. spoke for “all his life” (according to Obama himself)…. He can not say that he did not know how Rev. Wright preached and what he represented. If Obama did not agree with him then he would have left that church a LONG time ago.

    7. Obama wants to almost double the capital gains tax. He wants to strip the FICA tax cap off every worker making more than $97,500. He wants to increase the dividend tax and let the Bush tax cuts expire….which will give almost EVERY American an automatic tax increase. He has also called for more than $800 billion in new spending programs….which Americans will have to pay for….how do you expect taxes to decrease and how to you expect the ECONOMY to be lifted up again if Americans have less money and more taxes???

    8. He is the MOST PRO-ABORTION candidate in history of the country. In 2001, as a state legislator in Illinois, he opposed a bill to protect LIVE BORN CHILDREN. He was the ONLY Illinois senator to speak out against the bill. I HAVE TO ASK…IS THIS ANOTHER ONE OF HIS PLANS TO ELIMINATE AMERICANS??

    9. He opposes gun rights!!! He has a long history of trying to eliminate citizens access to guns. Originally, he backed Washington’s total ban on private handguns(but it was overturned). He has been rated a “F” by the NRA on gun positions and they say he is one of the most dangerous anti-gun politicians in the nation.

    10. Obama is pushing to have felons register to vote to increase his chances of winning. Obama has co-sponsored a Senate measure that would allow all ex-felons to vote. Ok, you say…they are Americans, shouldn’t they have that right? Maybe, that is an opinion that could be debated. BUT, there are 2 points I would like to make on this issue. First of all, the fact that Obama thinks having more felons register and vote will increase his chance to win says ALOT about to what extent his campaign will go to in order to get him elected AND that they automatically assume felons will support him. AND THE BIGGEST POINT made on this issue is the fact that people in our MILITARY are having a hard time getting to vote. Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan might be distracted and forget to register or fill out absentee ballots. Those at sea have to plan ahead to make sure their absentee ballots get in on time. The Federal Voting Assistance Program is currently attempting to make it easier for overseas voting, but that doesn’t seem to be a priority for Obama’s campaign….. Why? Maybe because a majority of our military support McCain…our military has seen the troubles of the world first hand, and they of all know what we are fighting for and if they support McCain we should too. NO ONE can debate the fact that the people who fight for our country deserve the right to vote and have it count!!

    11. PLEASE ABOVE ALL REMEMBER WE ARE AMERICANS AND OUR COUNTRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN BASED ON FREEDOM AND RELIGION…RELIGION OF CHOICE DUE TO OUR GREAT COUNTRY…BUT MOSTLY CONSITING OF CHRISTIANS. OBAMA HAS SUPPORTED AMERICA WHEN THEY ARE TUNNING INTO HIM AND WHAT HE IS SAYING, BUT HE HAS BEEN QUOTED WHEN HE DIDN’T KNOW OTHERS COULD HEAR….TO HIM, WE AMERICANS ARE SIMPLY “BITTER” AND HE HAS MOCKED US SAYING “THEY CLING TO THEIR GUNS AND THEIR RELIGION”. YES, WE ARE AMERICANS!!! WE NEED TO STAND UP AND SAY THAT!! YES, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS (THANKS TO THE 2ND AMENDMENT!!!) AND YES, YES, YES, YES….WE CLING TO “OUR” RELIGION. I’M GLAD HE RECOGNIZES THAT!!
      **LET ME STRESS AGAIN…OBAMA STATED “WE AMERICANS” WHICH IS EXCLUDING HIMSELF AS AN AMERICAN; HE ALSO STATED “THEY cling to THEIR guns and THEIR religion”…..which is also another statement EXCLUDING HIMSELF AS AN AMERICAN. IF HE IS NOT WITH US, THEN HE IS AGAINST US!!!

    PEOPLE OF AMERICA, FROM ONE AMERICAN TO ANOTHER, I TRULY HOPE YOU HAVE READ THIS ENTIRE MESSAGE. I KNOW OUR ECONOMY IS GOING THROUGH TOUGH TIMES, BUT THIS IS NOT THE CHANGE WE NEED. OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN THROUGH ROUGH TIMES AND HAS ALWAYS BOUNCED BACK, BUT IF WE MAKE THE WRONG DECISION IT COULD BE A VERY DANGEROUS ONE…AND WE DON’T WANT TO TAKE THAT CHANCE. WE DON’T NEED TO PUT OUR GREAT COUNTRY, FAMILY, AND FRIENDS IN POTIENTIAL DANGER AND WE DON’T NEED TO LET SOMEONE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT JOKE ABOUT OUR RELIGION….THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. I KNOW ALOT OF PEOPLE BLAME BUSH FOR THE CURRENT SITUATION AND WANT A DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE TO HELP PROMOTE A CHANGE, BUT PEOPLE PLEASE REMEMBER THAT MCCAIN HAS A HISTORY OF STANDING UP TO HIS OWN REPUBLICAN PARTY WHEN NECESSARY. PLEASE DON’T EXCLUDE MCCAIN JUST BECAUSE OF THE PARTY HE IS REPRESENTING.
    *PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW…ESPECIALLY PEOPLE IN “SWING STATES”****************

  • Hammer2008

    Now I wish it would cover speeches from all of those acceptable mad men:

    *Chavez
    Ahmadinejad
    Casto (brothers)
    .
    .
    .

  • CheaGuy

    I don’t think it’s necessary to go down this route. Also, did the Ayers bombs really kill cops, because from what I’ve read, the bombings he was involved with never did. In fact, I believe the one time one of his bombs did end up killing people, it was his own Weathermen (an accident, but still)…

  • krisi

    THE ONLY REASON OBAMA HAS MORE MONEY THAN MCCAIN FOR HIS CAMPAIGN IS DUE TO THE ILLEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS (FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES THAT HATE AMERICA) THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN RETURNED WHEN RECEIVED. HOWEVER, OBAMA NEVER RETURNED THAT MONEY!! OBAMA OPTED OUT OF THE PUBLIC FINANCING SYSTEM SO HIS MONEY TOTALS INCLUDE THE PRIMARIES AND THE GENERAL ELECTION. MORE THAN HALF OF THE $454 MILLION RAISED BY OBAMA CAME FROM SMALL INCREMENTS OF $200 OR LESS…WHICH DOESN’T HAVE TO BE REPORTED. HOWEVER, ONLY 1/3 OF MCCAIN’S $230 MILLION RAISED DURING PRIMARIES CAME FROM SMALL DONATIONS. MCCAIN IS TAKING PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL ELECTION SO HE IS LIMITED TO $84 MILLION. I HAVE GREAT BELIEF THAT PEOPLE WILL START COMING TOGETHER AND SEE WHO WE NEED TO VOTE FOR. THIS IS NOT A TIME FOR AMERICANS TO ARGUE, BUT A TIME WHEN THEY SHOULD STICK TOGETHER AND MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR OUR COUNTRY AND OUR CHILDRENS FUTURE. I BELIEVE MCCAIN WILL WIN, BUT I WOULD RATHER HAVE A HONEST CAMPAIGN WITH THE APPROPRIATE FUNDS FROM AMERICANS (RATHER THAN FROM TERRORIST AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES THAT DON’T SUPPORT AMERICA…BESIDES THE FACT THAT ITS ILLEGAL) AND LOOSE THAN HAVE A CORRUPT CAMPAIGN AND WIN. BY THE WAY, OBAMA’S CAMPAIGN IS CURRENTLY BEING INVESTIGATED FOR THIS ISSUE. AND IF HE WINS, THEN WE CAN SAY WE TRIED TO TELL YOU SO……

  • PaRep

    .

  • krisi

    I am honestly trying to show all of you who Obama really is…yes, Ayer killed cops. All you have to do is google “Ayer kill cops” or “Ayer bombing”. I have 3 children and it hurts me to worry about their future and the chances that Americans are willing to take when it comes to Obama. You can verify all the above information and if you are truly trying to better this country and vote for the right person I don’t understand how you can vote for Obama. I’m being as sincere as I possible can.

  • speciallist

    n/p

  • speciallist

    n/p

  • insound

    You’re correct. The bombings didn’t kill anyone, and it was a time of complete and utter anti-American protests.

    Not saying anyone should condone it, but dear god, it happened 40 years ago, when Obama was 8, and is almost completely irrelevant at this point. Why, because American’s don’t care!

  • Moe_Lane

    Be sure to brag to your loved ones about who you defended tonight.

    Blam.

  • denveratheist

    This ad would clearly play with the right, but that’s not going to get the Sen McCain elected. The people with mountains of GOP cash are doing their best with what they have, but they are trying to swim upstream. A lot of the negative stuff happening to Sen McCain’s campaign is entirely out of the hands of the people that can do anything about it. Whether it’s true or not, whether it’s fair or not, people are associating the economic crisis with Sen McCain. Perception is a b*h (I don’t know the rules about using foul language at RS, better to be safe I guess). Unless the mountain of cash is a few trillion dollars, there isn’t much they can do.

    Incidentally, I am not one of those liberals that will complain about dirty politics. I like it. In fact, it’s only been these past two election cycles that we even began playing by the same rules as the GOP. I wanted us to get muddy a long time ago, but our candidates were bad, and we had no infrastructure. Things are different now, and it feels good to give as well as we have received over the years.

    Sen McCain and Gov Palin will (and should) exhaust every avenue they have, my feeling is that the tide against the GOP is too strong this time. I don’t pretend to know what you all may be thinking, but I know the frustration of wondering what in the world is wrong with everybody. Frustrating for some, but I must admit to a high degree of schadenfreude.

  • krisi

    Why do Americans not care? I don’t care if it happened 40 years ago or one year ago…it still happened…Obama is still his friend and it says alot about his character. America is a great nation and I don’t see why Americans are being so naive….maybe it’s because Americans haven’t been in a communist setting. I know that McCain has outscored Obama in polls on just about everything except the economy. So I only see that people are voting for Obama because they are worried about the economy. But what you don’t see is that the economy won’t matter if your life is controlled by the government or taken over by terrorists. Voting for Obama is taking a serious risk! The economy falls and rises…it’s just how things work, but voting for the wrong president can have a disasterous outcome. I suggest you research the Ayer bombings better and have an open mind when it comes to picking a president. It’s impossible to convince someone otherwise if they have their mind made up, but if you are here to see both sides then please educate yourself about Obama. I am not here to be selfish…I am here for our country and our future and my kids future. And if the only thing you can rebut is if Ayer killed cops then that’s great…I guess you can see where I am coming from on the other points.

  • David_Hinz
    The Sixties were born of a particular time and place: June, 1962, the AFL-CIO camp at Port Huron, Michigan. (There were preliminary stirings in parts of the civil rights movement and in the Free Speech movement at Berkeley.) Though most Americans have never heard of the proceedings at Port Huron, they were crucial, for the authentic spirit of Sixties radicalism issued there. That spirit spread and evolved afterwards, but its later malignant stages, including its violence, were implicit in its birth.
    

    Port Huron was an early convention of SDS, then a small group of alienated, left-wing college students. There were fifty-nine delegates from eleven campus chapters. One of these decribed their mood: “four-square against anti-Communism, eight-square against American culture, twelve-square against sell-out unions, one-hundred-twenty square against interpretation of the Cold War that saw it as a Soviet plot and identified American policy fondly.” In short, they rejected America. Worse, as their statement of principles made clear, they were also four-square against the nature of human beings and features of the world that are unchageable. That is the utopian impulse. It has produced disasters in the past, just as it was to do with the Sixties generation.

    from Slouching Toward Gomorrah by Robert Bork

  • krisi

    won’t happen again.

  • groundgame

    and defeat on this thread is palpable. This site is the Daily Kos of the right, only less user friendly and with less hits. Quite an achievement. Thanks for being such a constructive part of the national dialogue.

  • Harold_Vaughn
  • Moe_Lane

    Although at least you avoided profanity this time.

    Hey, given that we jumped six points in the polls right after the last time I banned you, I wonder whether you’re some sort of harbinger of GOP joy. That’d be funny, right?

    Blam.

  • Martin_A_Knight

    [n/t]

  • Martin_A_Knight

    The only difference between Timothy McVeigh and William Ayers is that Ayers is an incompetent.

    Other than that, there’s not a difference between them.

    Your excuse making is depraved.

  • PaRep

    .

  • JSobieski

    It doesn’t matter what Obama did as a child.

    It does matter what judgment Obama exercised as an adult.

    Ayers got into education to radicalize America.

  • Strike_Twice

    Last week I suggested that we all take a few minutes (it only takes a few minutes and I promise, after you do it you really feel good) to write a letter to our local news paper (local, the one where all the townspeople read the letters to the editor), to keep the letter simple and to aim at one topic. I wrote a sample and asked others for input. This is exaclty what we all need to write. Cut, paste, sign your name and get it to the paper. It is far more effecive than you tube. If you have money, take out an ad, with nothing in it except Erick’s language. Just do it!

  • Strike_Twice

    Last week I suggested that we all take a few minutes (it only takes a few minutes and I promise, after you do it you really feel good) to write a letter to our local news paper (local, the one where all the townspeople read the letters to the editor), to keep the letter simple and to aim at one topic. I wrote a sample and asked others for input. This is exaclty what we all need to write. Cut, paste, sign your name and get it to the paper. It is far more effecive than you tube. If you have money, take out an ad, with nothing in it except Erick’s language. Just do it!

  • IndependentfrMI

    Oh that’s right only Liberal media and politicians have that right. If we disagree with you silence us.

    I bet you support the Fairness Doctrine also.

  • chaz

    Clearly Lee and Walter Annenberg were terrorists, as were all those GOP members on the same board.

    AIP. Contras. World Anti-Communist League. This is bringing a butter knife to a howitzer fight.

  • IndependentfrMI

    You lay down with dogs you wake up with fleas.

    The democrats count on corruption, terrorists, felons and voter fraud to finance and launch campaings.

  • Moe_Lane

    Kid, we already had this one: you really need to learn to start thinking for yourself.

    Blam.