RNC uses controversial 'Daisy' ad to target Obama

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

The Republican National Committee Friday unearthed one of the most controversial political ads in American history to take aim at President Obama's decision to close the detention center in Guantanamo Bay.

Called "Daisy," The RNC's new 30-second Web ad uses footage of the now-infamous 1964 Lyndon Johnson commercial by the same name that showed a young girl picking off the pedals of a flower as a nuclear explosion is heard in the background.

That ad, which only ran once but was widely criticized as being extreme, ends with the image of a mushroom crowd and Johnson declaring, "We must either love each other, or we must die."

The New RNC ad splices the image of the girl with Obama's earlier declaration suggesting that closing Guantanamo Bay is "easy." This time the girl asks "To close it? To close it not?" as she picks off flower pedals.


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Scumsuckers - and some Dems in congress are playing right in to their hands. Reid should have the backbone to stand up to them.

[alsame]

1. It's flower 'petals', not 'pedals'. These CNN journalists aren't

too bright, are they?

[YOY]

2. Sorry, how the FUCK is imprisoning them in the US going to kill us all?

How the FUCK is not torturing them going to kill us all?

Fuck these assholes and their tired old black and white McCarthyesque values bullshit that stays in some "Happy Days" version of the 1950s and early 60s.

[YOY]

3. DUPE

n/t

[frogcycle]

4. just shoot them and be done with it

not the RNC, the detainees.

wait...


yes, them too.

[hedgehog]

5. Oh good grief! They say an elephant never forgets, but waiting

45 years to get revenge over a commercial? And a lame attempt at that! How does moving into a maximum security military prison constitute "release into the United States"?

[Mabus]

8. And right after they talked about looking forward, not back.

:eyes:

:rofl:

[Vehl]

13. yeah.lol

supposedly the cold was was less threatening to the Republicans than reforming Gtmo.

:)))


Its about time the repubs start acting like grown ups...but from what i saw today...about the reps criticizing the money spent on "your stimulus $ at work" roadsigns...one knows that they have a long way to go.lol

[frylock]

6. jeez. get some new material.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Such lazy unoriginal lard-asses

and stupid too.... they really think the same tactic that scared people 45 years ago is gonna keep working.. meh.

[high density]

9. LOL, do they really want to target him the Gitmo issue?

What do the Repukes have to gain by keeping it open? I do not think people are afraid of housing these guys in US prisons. And if people are afraid of that, they're likely to be irrational Repukes already. I guess this follows the rest of their path about narrowing their base to the extreme.

[Connie_Corleone]

10. That is sooo 1964.

Move up to the 21st century already!

[Xipe Totec]

11. Republicans are nothing if not original

and they are not original.

[UpInArms]

12. a mushroom "crowd"????

hahahahahahahaha

these freakin' lousy whoralists cannot even spell or proofread their slop.

:ispitonthemall:

[bananas]

14. Amazing how many google hits there are for "mushroom crowd"

[slampoet]

15. Whoever Wrote this Story Needs to CLEAN OUT THEIR DESK. There is no place for these obvious errors.

[breadandwine]

16. The ad is a typically incompetent GOP ad.

The ad is so gutless that it can't even show the mushroom cloud from the original Johnson ad, even though it's a web ad, which means they have no space limit and can make the ad as long as they want. In other words, they're cowards.

To compare:

New GOP ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7qkEholuT8

Original Johnson ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKs-bTL-pRg

Speaking purely politically, if the GOP had any political brains they would be attacking Obama for negotiating with a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. Instead they are now trying to say that closing Gitmo will cause America to be nuked, which is ridiculous and politically inarticulate. This has about as much dexterity as trying to eat an ice cream cone by slamming it into your forehead. This is why the GOP can't win on foreign policy. Another example of GOP incompetence is their constant trying to claim that Democrats are "French."

[and-justice-for-all]

17. 'Fear' and intimidation are tools the repukes have used for decades..nt