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That ’1984′ Obama ad was anti-CLINTON, right?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 12th, 2010 at 08:53 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

…because let me add my voice to that of Instapundit’s, Riehl World View’s, and Reason’s: this ad from 2008 is fraught with irony in 2010.

Fraught. “Hey! Let’s take the image of someone talking about having a dialogue with the country and calling for the support of the populace AND SMASH HER IN THE FACE WITH A HAMMER! Because that would be different.”

Moe Lane

PS: On the bright side, the phrase ‘leader principle’ appears nowhere in this portrayal of American society as a grim, corporatist wasteland requiring violent intervention in order to create a new and superior singular collective identity.

Overtly.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • redneck_hippie

    Obama supporter.

    At the time, I thought it was so good, I sent it to all my leftist relatives. Nothing Obama did for that campaign was anywhere nearly this clever.

    That said, the irony is magnificent.

  • tominkorea

    It needs to be pointed out that it was a woman getting smashed in the face with a hammer. Maybe the liberal trolls reading will call that impolite, but it’s to be true and should be mentioned.

  • clintonformccain

    That ad was not made by an “individual”. It was made by Blue State Digital, who was Obama’s website company. The “fired” the “employee” who “created” the ad, notwithstanding that he was roommates with one of Obama’s communications hacks.

    This was the official kickoff to the Obama campaign. A lot of us saw what kind of character he was early on.

    BTW, it’s good to see that some Republicans (Orrin Hatch) have figured out that they can drive a wedge in the Democratic base by involking Clinton’s name. I cannot stress enough how large and angry a large slice of fomer Democrats is with their old party, the attacks on women, the rigging of the nominating process, and so on and so forth.

    There’s an opportunity for Republicans here. This dynamic was not insignificant in the recent Massachusetts Senate race — a state that voted strongly for Clinton and where voters were given the bird by the elected officials.

  • Kitty_Myers

    NOT a man, who smashes HRC ‘in the face’ with a hammer.

    …

  • vucats

    Blue State Digital is an internet company that Obama hired to host his website and do IT work for him during his campaign, it’s not owned by Obama in any way, although he obviously had control over his website.

    Either way, this wasn’t an official campaign ad as it would have required some sort of approval statement under McCain-Feingold BCRA.

  • indyjohn

    Orwell’s gloomy vision of a dehumanized, totalitarian future is frightening. But it is not as frightening as our present reality, which contains some of the elements that the producers and writers of ‘Star Trek – The Next Generation’ created for the Borg society. Replace the Borg Queen with Barack Obama. Think of the MSM as the hive mind, telling the unassimilated that ‘Resistance is futile. You will become one with the collectivist left.’ Think of government programs as the biomechanical appurtenances that render the assimilated incapable of independent action.
    Why does the left hate the Tea Partiers? Because the people shout ‘We will not submit!’

  • Flagstaff

    Isn’t it suggesting that somebody do bodily harm to his then opponent?

    I think so.