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Related: About this forum"Republican super PAC slams Obama for going negative (as it goes negative itself)"
Republican super PAC slams Obama for going negative (as it goes negative itself)by Chris Moody
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/author/chris-moody/
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Welcome to that weird part of the election cycle where groups run negative campaign ads about negative campaign ads.
[Related: Super PAC ad war 'going to be ugly,' Gingrich says]
American Crossroads, one of the most well-funded Republican super PACs this election cycle, released a Web video Monday attacking President Barack Obama for going negative against challenger Mitt Romney so early in the election cycle.
Entitled "Fear," the video opens with Obama's comments in years past that encouraged positive discourse and then quickly transitions to a lineup of reporters and commentators questioning the president's strategy against Romney. The ad is meant to suggest that Obama is intentionally dividing the countryat one point, an image of a street brawl flashes behind the words "Divide and Conquer"and it ends with a shot of the words from the iconic "Hope" poster that transform into "Fear" amid a fiery inferno.
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"Republican super PAC slams Obama for going negative (as it goes negative itself)" (Original Post)
applegrove
Jun 2012
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Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)1. Boy
Talk about hitting the hypocrisy jackpot!
applegrove
(118,816 posts)2. The GOP wants angry people only on their side. Angry people cede no ground, they agitate others
around them and they go out and vote (get more territory with more aggression). This is war. The GOP has been making their base mad for 30 years to great effect. Now that Obama does it too, they squeal.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)3. Obama should be careful
or people mIght think that this is an election year......
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)4. So only Republican PACs are allowed to go on the offensive, then?
This is among the biggest BS things I have ever seen in my 4 years studying politics. And what's also messed up about it is that the media (and even on Tweety's Sunday show) are going with the flow and twisting it to make it seem like attack ads against Mitt Robme lower PBO's favorability.