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First Read can report that the Obama re-election campaign is requesting rates for a potential -- and significant -- TV ad buy.
Caveat: This doesn't mean that we'll soon see the ads; they could end up deciding to wait. But what Team Obama is doing is the first step in putting something on TV.
It's worth noting that - with all of the TV ads from the GOP presidential candidates and their Super PACs (in states like IA, NH, FL) - millions of dollars have already been spent hitting Obama over the airwaves.
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We already being inundated by the Keystone Pipeline BS here in IL...
Let the games begin! lol
Feisty,
And we are getting that ad plus the Koch Brothers - Americans for Prosperity $6 million ad buy against President Barack Obama on Solyndra. The ads will run in Ohio and other swing states from Monday, Jan. 16th (yesterday) through the Jan. 24th State of the Union.
What a waste of money. But it IS Republican money so waste away!
Obama ads litereally ought to write themselves.
Definately must, must, must tought his primary achievements: 1. Obamacare, and 2. the stimulus 'saved the economy/created 5 billion jobs and of course kept unemployment under 8%.
Plus hit the Iraq pullout and the godtimes in Libya. Say, how is it going in those two fine countries right now?
He is going to run on his record, right.
Shoot being one of the best presidents evah means never even having to acknowledge his opponent.
Sell what he's done, and promise 4 more years.
Easy, peasy, fresh and easy.
Dennis,
Those two are just getting warmed up - wait until this summer!
Gee, but the ads pointing out the similarities between Obama and Romney's policies are doing such a good job of battering Romney - Obama can save his money!
PS Have I said how much I love listening to Romney's opponents attack his work with Bain Capital?
So much of President Obama's "war chest" has come from small, individual donations, which is more than any Teapublican wannabe can claim. But Citizen's United clearly comes from the right-wing and the right-leaning SCOTUS, and what's good for conservatives is good for progressives too (and that goes for the filibuster and any other crock of crap they sling). Got to love Colbert and Stewart with their Super PAC.
All the lies about the stimulus or Affordable Care Act will be blown out of the water with a few simple ads -- Showing all the GOP/TP candidates raising their hands against a 10 to 1 ratio of spending cuts to tax revenue, and lest we forget, all the candidates on record in support of Paul Ryan's privatization of Medicare, and heck the list is too long, but there's plenty of excellent verbatim fodder that Dems don't need to make up anything.
I especially like Romney's "corporations are people" quote, but also debate gaffes like how hiring illegals would be bad for his image, and did folks catch the most recent one about how he would answer the questions when he was damn well ready to answer it? Mr. Snippy likes to be surrounded by "yes men" we can all see that.
There won't be any reaching across the aisle, appointing Robert Gates in Defence, or Ray Lahood in Transportation, or Jon Huntsman as Ambassador to China, even a try for Judd Gregg in Commerce. No, there will be "My Way or the Highway" like we've never seen in the dangerous mire of groupthink that will bring us more unnecessary war and other catastrophes. Not to mention appointments to the SCOTUS, by someone who believes corporations are people (they all do, Romney just forgot to turn of his inner monologue).
Bring it on. Throw the Teapublicans out -- Obama/Biden - 2012!
Whoever the koch brothers are, I hope they keep driving the looney left crazy.
All the LeftyLibDem fat cats who yowl at the moon about the evils of wealth spin the wheel for BO and Bidumb for the grand delusion hour ad nauseum. Soros and Soros wannabees, corporate CEOs, union dues - all spent to perpetuate a failed administration's attempt to improve their dismal Nixonian approval ratings. The more LeftyLibDems win, the more the rest of the country loses. Got food stamps?
Why waste money on ads? The Republicans are doing that themselves. Like AL Sharpton said: "Why turn a suicide into a murder"?
Mitt Romney is stuttering every time that he is asked to show his income tax returns. I am sure that he is "cooking "the books to look good for this year. Wait until he goes in front of the people of Occupy Wall Street. So far the only people listening to him have been "citizens" from red neck nations.
OK, except those 1 MILLION DOLLAR donations required to get into the sky box at BofA stadium...I digress, they also offer a 500k option for those down on their luck.
Dream all you want, both sides can talk all they want about super PAC's, and not wanting to take corporation money. At the end of the day BOTH sides of the aisle will end up accepting that money, it will just be in a different way.
another green company laid off people fiesty! gas is over $3 a gallon!
you damn right let the pipeline thru! jobs cheap energy but of course
you left wing socialist liberals don't really care about jobs and energy
it's about control and taking away freedom which in your case is freedumb
cause you'd rather live under a dictator telling you what to drive and eat
and what kind of energy to use etc.... your a liberal zombie!!!
Way to go Mr. President. I'm looking forward to you winning re-election.
Obama 2012
Mark Murray can't hide his excitement for the release of his man's ad's.
After all, he is part of Team Obama.
You could almost see the drool in his, err, reporting.
I'm sure they will be met with the typical Pavlovian responses here.
Anything intelligent to say or are you Pavlov's dog?
I'm surprised you could see it, what with all the excitement the GOP candidates have been exuding all these months.
I'm certain Obama's ads will talk about his stellar record, how he has risen above partisan politics and brought the country together, how Guantanamo Bay is now one of his shiny successes, how fairness has occurred by him letting the Bush tax cuts expire, how he once called Bush II raising of the debt ceiling as "lack of leadership" and him doing the same as "political courage", how the everyday man/woman has been a part of his administration (if the everyday man/woman was from Wall Street that is), and how his signature legislation ObamaCare will soon be purged forever from the country by the Supreme Court.
All this while nice patriotic music will be playing in the background.
And when this ad is done, the rest of ones coming will blame everything on Bush and Congress (of which his party held all of for two years and half for another), causing the Pavlovian Liberals to get whiplash from nodding their heads.
Nothin' AB.
Accordin' to Newsweek, I'm just dumb.
Don't forget the ATM's JAS1! It's all the machines fault, too...
Golly JAS1 - you almost make him sound like a flip-flopper.
I want the President to explain how he is going ot keep his promise to the American people regarding the 2012 federal deficit. the President Promised that the 2012 federal deficit will not exceed 229.27 billion dollars.
Hmm, let's see now. Though deficits are not the number concern of most Americans (jobs and economic recovery are most important), the president has offered hugh spending cuts including changes to entitlements--remember the Big Deal turned down by Teapublicans (more than once) because they wouldn't even end loophole tax evasion?
The President has offered a Jobs Plan, has worked to decrease costly military engagements by bringing troops home from Iraq, and now the president wants to merge government agencies, and wants to provide incentives for creating/keeping jobs in the US, and well...what solutions have the good-for-nothing-Teapublicans proposed?
The real explaining we need is from the GOP/TPand their "weak field" of presidential candidates (yes, that's right because Romney lost to McCain, and McCain lost to President Obama, so now Teapublicans plan to go with their second string?). We already know the Republicans have NO plan for anything other than to obstruct. Oh sure, they give lip service to it, pushing for the same old failed Race to the Bottom on Steroids policies.
The Bush tax cuts are set to expire, and by default that would be the first step in the right direction, second to ending the war in Iraq. No, the president has nothing to explain, nothing to you or the other simpletons in the country -- Look to your own pitiful Greedy One Percent (GOP) Party for that.
Define Dhimmitude.. Why is this word on page 107 in "Obamacare"?
Put this on a TV add..
true pat
OWS baby, you the man.
Stop that capitalism baby, no more jobs.
Obey be takin care of us.
True Patriot, your answer does not answer my question. The President vowed, unconditionally, to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term. To keep his promise the 2012 federal deficit cannot exceed 229.27 billion dollars. I do not get a strong feeling that the President is going to keep his promise because his own White House is projecting that he will not. I want to specifically know how the President is going to keep his promise. I do not want him to forget about this promise like he has so many others. For example, I am still waiting to watch the President and my congressman, on CSPAN, go over the health care bill "line by line" as the President promised and as my congressman requested.
Democrats: 1 million signatures collected for Wisconsin governor recall!! This is a great day!!
Obama 2012
Like Feisty stated, " Let the games begin"
Well, Well John Brown.
The Obama network is %^&* in their pants at this announcement.
Murray doesn't even attempt to hide his bias.
Republicans will be the ones talking in Democrat ads. They have said and done enough offensive things to offend everybody in the country, and scare them too. Thanks for the memories. The president will take the high road and stress ideas, not falsehood and smear that has been the habit of Republicans. Substance appeals to the American people, not substance abuse. Undereducated bigots will still hope for blood, but end up holding a scab.
Right, since his "ideas" worked so well for the last three years. What is his campaign slogan gonna be this year since Hope and Change did so well for us!!!! If you go by his policies it should be Borrow and Destruction..... Spend enough money and the sheeple will follow. Easier to believe what they are told than actually think for themselves.
And for all the sheeple that wanna comment that I only believe what I hear on FOX news, try something else, that's getting old.
These are going to be very interesting to see. Nothing like strapping your "pet" to the top of a car and driving for 12 hours even after the "pet" gets sick. That will make for a wonderful ad. Obama/Biden = 2012
I can hear the main theme of Obama's ads now-- "It is all [insert one of Obama's multiple excuses here] fault".
I want the President to explain how we are going to pay back all of this money that we have been borrowing.
Bush ran up 10 trillion in 8 years, ask Bush how he's gonna pay it all back.... he left it at Obama's doorstep.
Toyota,
Obama ran up 5 trillion in 3 years. I guess we'll be saying.......he left that debt at Romney's doorstep.
Toyota,
During the 8 years of the Bush administration the National Debt increased by about 4 trillion dollars, not 10 trillion dollars. President Obama said how bad it was that the Bush administration ran such huge deficits and I agree with him yet the Obama administration has been running record setting deficits. The President vowed to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first administration. For the President to keep his promise the 2012 federal deficit cannot exceed 229.27 billion dollars. Anyway Bush is not the current President, Obama is. I want the current President to explain how we are goint to pay back all of this money that we have borrowed.
Will - The difference is the state of the Union when Bush took over and what Obama inherited. Bush inherited a sound economy on course to eliminate the entire debt in 4 years, and Obama inherited a financial situation comparable to 1929.
Now, he could have done what Herbert Hoover did from 1930 to 1933, which resulted in 25.6% unemployment, or did what those who studied the great depression and advised him how to avoid a depression.
Now if Obama had inherited a situation like Bush and he ran up the deficit like this, I'd be all for firing him. But, if what he did was limit unemployment three years later to 8.5% instead of 25.6% well, that's a much different story. See he saved your job..
And paying back the money starts in 2013 with the first 1 trillion they cut, followed by the 1.2 trillion they are required to cut, and letting the Bush tax cuts expire, or use the Bush Tax cuts to leverage a grand bargain.....and if we can oust enough republicans we just might be able to do that. Regardless we are on track to make significant cuts starting in 2013...
President Obama did not inherit anything. He ran for and won the presidencyafter Bush. If he was not prepared to deal with the situation then he should never have taken the oath of office. The President promised that if the stimulus bill were passed, unemployment would not rise above 8% and fall considerably below that in later years. The bill was passed but what the President promised did not happen. The President said that he was against deficit spending yet ran some of the largest federal deficits ever recorded. The President vowed to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. For the President to keep his promise the 2012 federal deficit cannot exceed 229.27 billion dollars but according to the White House that is not happening. I want the President to show the American people that he really understands the debt situation by explaining exactly what it is going to take for the federal government to pay back all of the money that it currently owes and is continuing to borrow.
The GOP/RNC have given the President all the material he will need. The Tea Beggers have armed the President to easily create Political Ads. The President's Ads will use the ignorance of the GOP/RNC on the issues against them. It is time Mr. President to poltically destroy this GOP Clown Show. That is fact! Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Party of NO has got to GO!
would rather be a teabagger then a teabaggie like yourself!
Obama will be re-elected with no problem. I'm sure his Ads will be great...republicons are losers.
Republicons don't even have a messege, all they care about is getting that "black" man out of the white house...and stealing more money. By the way, where is that $40B lost in Irag?...I wonder if Bin Laden got half that money before he was killed. (Maybe we should ask Bush and Cheney about that missing cash)
Kick azz Wisconsin...
Toyota,
Why not grow up and get over your race issues.
When you liberals demonized George Bush. . . no one complained that it was because all you cared about was getting the "White" man out of the White House.
Some of us are grown up enough to know it's all about the policies.
I heard the koch brothers did it, you commie fool
toyotas are over priced
The race card is all thats left when one policy after another fails, and people actually say something about it. There is no intelligent argument to congratulate this administration on its accomplishments. The national debt is more out of control that it was.
Out with Obama in 2012.
We don't need another Change!
Republicans have been in campaign mode since Obama was elected. It'll be interesting to see what happens to the polls when Obama starts fighting back.
If obama rises in the polls as a result of his political ads, the stupidity of his supporters will be plain to see. ANYONE BUT obama IN 2012!
With a nick mcpaddywack, Paddy's in a rut
Can't stop saying anybody but
I seem to hear rumors that Obama is wavering on his Keystone pipeline stance. His own committee has recommended allowing this project to continue. This will create thousands of good paying jobs.
Now, if Obama caves in to the pipeline project that the Republican controlled House has been advocating for over a year, will this make Obama a flip-flopper??
It seems to be a no-brainer, even for someone as dense as Obama. Americans need those jobs.
Guess when your living the high life, (at our expense), it doesn't hurt to let the rest of the country starve.
Obama shelved in 2012.
What will be the most beneficial to obama's campaign the billion dollars, his record of achievements (LMAO!!!) or his ows/seiu idiot's in the streets?????
The commies Gary, the commies will benefit most!
leroy Here's hoping that soros, van jones and obama and the rest of the commies will be gone in November!!!
Obama is just going through the motions. He knows this is a lost cause.
Eventually it will be considered an insult to even be called a Democrat. Like being called an idiot.
Just more BS from obama. It amazes me that there are any adults in America that listen to anything obama has to say. However, their numbers are growing smaller and smaller. ANYONE BUT obama IN 2012!
Sounds like its going to be a good year to turn the TV off and read a book.
THE REPUBLICANS ARE SELF RIGHTEOUS , SELFISH , GREEDY , BOUGHT AND PAID FOR , HATERS OF AMERICAN EQUALITY. they followed BUSH , and his WMD ADMINISTRATION , all the way to the BANKRUPTING OF OUR COUNTRY. now they line up in those stadiums , talking about how OBAMA couldn't straighten out their mess in just 36 months. they are the ones that should be shame, '' not obama .'' all of their big , bad , and bold statements will be answered by the ''sane'' of america. the republican conservative christians have gotten soooo GREEDY , until their GREED has forced them to worship at the alter of a falsely made gospel , and a falsely made ANGEL FROM HEAVEN. '' WHAT'S WRONG REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS , JESUS WASN'T FALLING FOR YA'LL '' CRY FOR THE RICH '' ???? JOE SMITH , AND THE ANGEL '' MORONI '' HAS OFFERED YOU THE WORLD , ON A REPUBLICAN PLATTER ???? keep making fun of all those white people you've forced on food stamps . cold , hard reality , is about to start knocking at your butlers doors.
We traded WMD lies for "TOO BIG TO FAIL" lies. We also traded WMD for "save the people of Libya" while British Petroleum was being thrown out for all its domestic and offshore oil pumping. Funny how those contracts were restored after the invasion.
Then we got a healthcare bill "we have to pass to find out what's in it". Nobody has still explained how it will support 80 million on MediCare, 30 million who can't afford any healthcare, 10 million pre-existing conditions... oh and don't forget 20 million illegal aliens. Yep..... "Healthcare For All".
Same crummy corporate lobby and vote buying lies with just a different face. Obama is the President who forced everyone onto food stamps. He is content letting the Federal Reserve print as much money as they please, loan it to themselves at 0% interest then buy up all our homes, business's and stocks at 25 cents on the dollar. He let the Federal Reserve also shove $16 TRILLION out the backdoor to Goldman Sachs and European banks between 2009 and 2010. That was $700,000 PER AMERICAN FAMILY.
Obama knows you would rather bailout wealthy European investors than have $700,000. You have to help your banker brothers as the Democrats say. Printing and handing over $16 Trillion was the least we could do to keep them all in power after all the wonderful things the bankers do for us.
please be advised ; president obama has only been paying bills left by the bush administration. do the research, then try coming to me with all that badda-badda.
Uhhhh.... President Obama does not have to sign every shoved in front of him by a Republican Congress!!! What is he a robot or heavily medicated? He is supposed to be a part of our system of checks and balances not some mindless corporate stooge that passes every lobby owned idea lobbed in front of him. Every single bill the the bankers, military contractors or oil companies placed in front of him.
He also engaged in the coverup of all the meltdown criminals on the highest level. Obama never even "brought up" an investigation into any of the players. The entire global terrorist team just walked away unmentioned with trillions in bailout money. Obama's "financial reform" bill was hand written by the Federal Reserve who Obama put on our team of regulators as a "consumer watchdog". That is like putting the drug cartel on the DEA.
You do realize he has the power to "CUT" as well as spend? He does not even know the meaning of the word cut. Every bit of spending no matter how lame gets approved by Obama.
Libya was NOT Bush's "bills". That baby is an Obama only expense as are all the taxation increases from the ObamaCare bill.Also notice how many of those tax increases are not set to go into effect until after the presidential election in 2012?
1. A 156 percent increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco
2. Obamacare Individual Mandate Excise Tax (takes effect in Jan 2014)
3. Obamacare Employer Mandate Tax (takes effect Jan. 2014)
4. Obamacare Surtax on Investment Income (Tax hike of $123 billion/takes effect Jan. 2013)
5. Obamacare Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans (Tax hike of $32 bil/takes effect Jan. 2018)
6. Obamacare Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax (Tax hike of $86.8 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013)
7. Obamacare Medicine Cabinet Tax (Tax hike of $5 bil/took effect Jan. 2011)
8. Obamacare HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike (Tax hike of $1.4 bil/took effect Jan. 2011)
9. Obamacare Flexible Spending Account Cap - aka "Special Needs Kids Tax" (Tax hike of $13 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013)
10. Obamacare Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers (Tax hike of $20 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013)
11. Obamacare "Haircut" for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI (Tax hike of $15.2 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013)
12. Obamacare Tax on Indoor Tanning Services (Tax hike of $2.7 billion/took effect July 2010)
13. Obamacare elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D (Tax hike of $4.5 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013)
14. Obamacare Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike (Tax hike of $0.4 bil/took effect Jan. 1 2010)
15. Obamacare Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals (Min$/took effect immediately)
16. Obamacare Tax on Innovator Drug Companies (Tax hike of $22.2 bil/took effect Jan. 2010)
17. Obamacare Tax on Health Insurers (Tax hike of $60.1 bil/takes effect Jan. 2014)
18. Obamacare $500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives (Tax hike of $0.6 bil/takes effect Jan 2013)
19. Obamacare Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2 ($min/takes effect Jan. 2012)
20. Obamacare "Black liquor" tax hike (Tax hike of $23.6 billion/took effect immediately)
21. Obamacare Codification of the "economic substance doctrine" (Tax hike of $4.5 billion/took effect immediately)
This guy is on a roll.....
OH...... the $16 TRILLION dollar bailout to foreign banks was ALL OBAMA. That was not even a dream while Bush was in office. That was $700,000 taken from the bank accounts of every American family given to foreign banking crooks. It was the largest financial travesty in the history of this country and was ALL OBAMA.
He fought the audit bill that revealed this $16 trillion swearing there was nothing to reveal. When it was revealed he refused to comment and engaged the press in a massive cover up. Just to show further collusion he allowed the FED to hand out another $600 billion on Dec 25th 2011 as icing on the cake. That is larger than the stimulus package he could not get passed but foreign bankers are.... more important.
The old people in the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt-jrbeWbXo
were so feeble. They couldn't possibly save for their retirement again. Their company retirement savings went into the pockets of romney who made millions. Now taking care of them is part of obama's deficit.
As I do now, everytime he's on, I switch the channel.
Here we go with some more Goldman Sachs bailout money for campaigning. By taking Goldman Sachs lobby money Obama is using taxpayer bailout money for his campaign.
The next largest chunk of lobby money comes from the military contractors... once again profits from taxation for deficit run federal defense spending used to lobby for more contracts and profits.
You don't stock up $1 billion dollars in campaign money from poor humble non taxpaying voters. Just look at where all this money came from. All the monster global corporations and all the federal employee unions.
In other words every deficit junkie in the country. All this money pouring into Obama is profits from federal deficit spending coming back around to lobby more deficit spending. This has NOTHING to do with "party politics". It is "lobby politics". You will be voting lobby's into office and not representatives of the people. The lobby's are simply buying access to our Treasury and credit line.
Ron Paul in 30 years never took a dime of corporate or union lobby money. Why you people insist on electing corporate and union backed candidates I have no clue. Look around... who got the most bailout money? Whose bankrupt pensions were put on the taxpayers tab? Who received tens of billions a year in defense contracts? All in a depression. Who financially benefitted from all the overseas invasions? All these people want a rerun of the last 3 years. Since the citizens did not even whimper they know they can crank up the deficit even more.
Follow the money and not the headlines. Party's don't mean anything anymore. It is simply who is funding the party's and those are the same lobby's.
And in 30 years Ron Paul never passed a single bill...not one. Let him run on his accomplishments in Congress. 30 years, nothing passed..
You'd think in 30 years with all those libertarian fews you'd think he'd have sponsored one bill that might pass..just one.
I know that it is trivial but the President promised that the White House dog would be a mutt from a shelter yet the dog he got was a pure bread that has never set foot in an animal shelter. The President is suppose to be the most powerful man in the free world. I want the president to run an ad explaining how he, as the most powerful man in the free world was unable to keep his promise on something as trivial as the White House dog.
I'd also like to see him explain away all his socialist/marxist and communist friends this time???
What is happening to the Repugs/TP in Wisconsin is about to happen to the national Repug/TP party on a national level. I cant believe they don't see it coming!
Now that the President is coming out blazing with both barrels early in the game. His ammo furnished by these latest GOP debates. The right-wingers elected official that will be running for the office of the President of the United States, won't be protected by his cronies and their 11th commandment. And also they will have to be very carefull with what they say and do. Because President Obama will surely make them "Eat their Peas"... All I can say is that, it's only fair in love, war and politics to expose a hypocryte for what he is and a flip-flopper for being on both side of an issue and having their political party quickly send their spin machine doctors out there to hide their decietful lies. Oh-yeah this is going to be great, now we can see a masterful tactician at work. And the American people will benefit from all of this. Be it good or bad, there won't be any stones for the Gop/T-Pers to crawl under... Because fungus won't be able to flourish when quickly exposed to the light... Game on
Alex,
Your village called.
Obama is toast. Burnt toast that no one wants to eat anymore. As far as Obama coming out with his cork guns "blazing"....what's he going to do when his attack ads start sounding hollow?? Can't run on his dismal record. I know....he can just say he's present.
You repugnobot sheeple are amazing.
The comments supporting the non-1%'ers are written by people who are fighting for you. and you continue to vilify us. How does it feel to be brainwashed by lies?
Unless your children and grand children(even the unborn ones) have trust funds in place, today,... now, your progeny will be starving thanks to your support of the repugnicrite agenda.