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Offline Lt. Fred

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Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« on: July 21, 2012, 09:43:36 pm »
Okay, so Obama's ad with Romney awful rendition of America the Beautiful with stats about his outsourcing job written across the bottom at least made sense. But how does Romney's counter-attack (with Obama singing 'Let's stay together' by Al Green) make sense? Obama sang quite well, most people find his self-conscious bursts of song to be endearing rather than frightening or lame. Well, here's one explanation:

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“It’s the difference between the songs that they’re singing,” Mrs Welch said. “Mitt Romney didn’t exactly do a beautiful job on that song, but think about what he’s singing, OK? I mean it’s that patriotic song and he goes all the way through it. Then you’ve got the very cool Barack Obama singing Al Green. That is the two different Americas. Isn’t it?” Suzy Welch, Romney supporter.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/the-singing-candidates.html

Al Green is an African-American. A lovely dog-whistle, at least from Mrs Welch.

(Ed: best cite where that quote came from, huh?)
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2012, 09:58:13 pm »
Welch also ignored the point of the ad.
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2012, 10:03:04 pm »
Which was...?
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2012, 10:05:58 pm »
This is all I could think of:

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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2012, 10:08:16 pm »
Quote from: Fpqxz on July 21, 2012, 10:05:58 pm
This is all I could think of:


Yeah basically this.
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2012, 07:17:19 am »
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I'm speechless. This whole affair is complete absurd.
Two politicians attacking each other over how and about what they sang a song?
Dada, Kafka, and Anno together couldn't have thought of it.
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2012, 09:56:37 am »
Quote from: Fpqxz on July 21, 2012, 10:05:58 pm
This is all I could think of:



This shows why Obama will win...better memes!
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2012, 01:27:49 pm »
I don't know how Americans cope with election year.
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2012, 02:00:46 pm »
Lots of booze
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2012, 02:19:37 pm »
Quote from: ironbite on July 22, 2012, 02:00:46 pm
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2012, 03:34:19 pm »
Quote from: m52nickerson on July 22, 2012, 09:56:37 am
Quote from: Fpqxz on July 21, 2012, 10:05:58 pm
This is all I could think of:



This shows why Obama will win...better memes!
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2012, 03:57:56 pm »
Quote from: Yla on July 22, 2012, 07:17:19 am
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I'm speechless. This whole affair is complete absurd.
Two politicians attacking each other over how and about what they sang a song?
Dada, Kafka, and Anno together couldn't have thought of it.

The Obama ad drew a contrast between Romney's choice of patriotic song and his record of outsourcing jobs. The actual issue of the ad is the record on outsourcing. The actual issue of the corresponding Romney ad is...Obama didn't sing a patriotic song. It's ONE politician attacking the other over a song.
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2012, 04:25:59 pm »
Quote from: DrFishcake on July 22, 2012, 01:27:49 pm
I don't know how Americans cope with election year.

Keeping the TV off.
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2012, 06:21:08 pm »
Quote from: DrFishcake on July 22, 2012, 01:27:49 pm
I don't know how Americans cope with election year.

If you think these are bad, you should have seen the attack ads the Conservative party was running here in Canada when there wasn't even an election.
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Re: Mitt Romney ad attacks Obama for singing song
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2012, 10:42:57 am »
Quote from: Kit Walker on July 22, 2012, 03:57:56 pm
Quote from: Yla on July 22, 2012, 07:17:19 am
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I'm speechless. This whole affair is complete absurd.
Two politicians attacking each other over how and about what they sang a song?
Dada, Kafka, and Anno together couldn't have thought of it.

The Obama ad drew a contrast between Romney's choice of patriotic song and his record of outsourcing jobs. The actual issue of the ad is the record on outsourcing. The actual issue of the corresponding Romney ad is...Obama didn't sing a patriotic song. It's ONE politician attacking the other over a song.

This, it does some damage especially since Romney doesn't address the issues, just attacks. His moronic conservative backing will undoubtably cheer him on while those that were fence sitting will slink away
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