Strident Anti-Obama Messages Flood Key States

[SpartanDem]

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — To turn on the television, open the mail or drive down the highway here is to watch conservatives test the boundaries of how far they can go to disqualify President Obama.

Along the Interstate that connects the beach towns of Florida’s east coast, giant billboards show the president, whom some on the far right have falsely accused of being Muslim, bowing to a Saudi king. Another blares “Stop Obama!” and shows a nuclear warhead with “Iran” painted on it aimed at Israel, a particularly potent message with this area’s many Jewish voters.

This summer, a group of well-financed conservative activists had an idea for what they hoped would be a last-minute game changer in the presidential race. They would put out a DVD that made a compelling case against Mr. Obama in battleground states, sending it to voters through a carefully targeted direct mail campaign or as an insert in Sunday newspapers in the weeks before Election Day.

They went to the unusual length of arranging a focus group to test anti-Obama films. Conducted by Frank Luntz, the well-known Republican research analyst, a 30-person focus group looked at three choices: Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016: Obama’s America,” which theorizes that the president’s political beliefs were shaped by the radical “anticolonial” views of his Kenyan father; “The Hope and the Change,” a softer critique of the president that features interviews with disaffected former Obama supporters; and “Dreams From My Real Father,” which posits the implausible theory that the president’s real father is Mr. Davis, and that Mr. Davis indoctrinated him with Marxist views early on.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/strident-anti-obama-messages-flood-key-states.html?_r=0

If you're not a little scared for our democracy you're not paying attention.

[mucifer]

1. The president just today acknowledged that

he has know donald trump since they grew up together in Kenya. The truth is out. Not much we can do about it now.

[oswaldactedalone]

2. All you can do

is outwork the bastards. Get our people to the polls and assist them with voter guides.

[Loudly]

5. In the long run, you outwork the bastards with The Amendment:

It shall not be an infringement of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution for Congress to limit by law the raising and expenditure of money in public elections.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

6. +1

[bluestateguy]

3. Pretty unpatriotic to be going against the president when we have troops in the field

Disgusting.

[Democratopia]

4. This should disgust enough people to energize Democrats

whilst demotivating moderate Republicans from voting. Not every voter realizes how nasty Republicans are, so this should be very helpful.