The first Obama ad on the "47%" was good. This second one is simply outstanding.

[WilliamPitt]

Boom.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. I wish these ads had Mitt's own words and voice. I think that's the most powerful part of the video.

I wish there were spots that had 20 seconds of just some of the worst parts of that video, with a very brief comment at the end.

[WilliamPitt]

4. The first one had that

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. exactly ! Not everyone saw the actual tape !

[cpwm17]

43. Here's the first Obama ad

It includes a brief excerpt with Mitt Romney talking:

[Laura PourMeADrink]

47. Yep...definitely my favorite...Although I would have played the whole damaging clip excerpt.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

57. Yeah, these ads seem to assume people have seen the tape.

I think seeing and hearing Mitt say "I'll never convince them to take responsibility or care for their lives" causes one's fists to involuntarily clench in a way nothing else can.

I think if portions of the tape like that, and "It's my job not to care for those people", were on ads and seen by "soft" Republicans or the rare undecided voter, it could easily flip some votes. I seriously doubt that the tape has been shown nearly as much on Fox News as on other networks, so it's very possibly for GOP voters to have been largely shielded from it except what the Fox pundits and Rush told them to think about it.

I hope that there can be some ads that prominently feature the tape itself rather than just referring to it.

I do agree that the messaging on these ads is very clear, succinct and well done, though.

[ejbr]

33. From your post to his advisers ears...

[gademocrat7]

2. K&R

Great ad.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

3. I love the line

Instead of attacking people who work for a living...

[Liberalynn]

11. agreed. What Mitt Romney does isn't really work, IMHO

[RockaFowler]

14. And Mitt already admitted he's unemployed

My husband was unemployed - how do we get an amount like that on unemployment??

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Nice dig at what America once called, "the idle rich" with contempt.

Now watch FOX "News" go off the rails drawing a comparison to the old Soviet Union and their glorification of the worker.

The whole "Hammer and Sickle" symbolized the urban factory worker and the rural farm worker.

Anticipate hearing them say, "worker's paradise" to pit their non-working 70+ retired listeners against EVERYBODY who is "expecting too much" and lots of fear of a workers revolt led by SEIU which to them is more of a danger than al Qaeda....

Cue theme music...

[whathehell]

5. Agreed. This is excellent. n/t

[Hutzpa]

6. This is the stinger

ziiiinnnnnng! Can you hear that sound effect.

Outstanding.

[mnhtnbb]

7. That is fabulous.

[TeamPooka]

8. the 1st ad worked in the offshore accounts too. I likle hammering away at that over and over.

it has a real effect.

[daveMN]

9. Good ad

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But they should have included Romney's own voice saying,

"I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives"

That's probably the the most damaging thing in the video.

[calimary]

34. Welcome to DU, daveMN! It is a good ad!

And that wrongney quote is exquisite! "THOSE people."

Glad you're here - we need you. Don't get complacent!!!

Let's WIN this thing and send wrongney into political exile.




Now get to work.

[daveMN]

60. Thanks,

but as a 47 percent-er, I do not believe I am capable of getting to work.

All joking aside, I appreciate the warm welcome. And although things may be looking up, I won't really feel good about it until I hear the result on election night (hopefully that night, anyway...)

By the way, as it turns out, David Corn - the guy who broke the story - came to the same conclusion:

The Most Damning Line in the Secret Romney Video - Mother Jones

[thesquanderer]

49. Agreed

The line you quoted is THE quote of the video, though it's not the one most commonly picked up on.

[creeksneakers2]

56. I agree

and point out he's talking about everybody who receives an entitlement and that includes everybody on SS and medicare.

[Heather MC]

10. I have some questions

if you got a tax return last year are you part of the 47%?

if you write off your mortgage interest as a tax deduction are you part of the 47%?

[renie408]

15. If due to your mortgage interest deduction your tax burden was reduced to 0

then yes, you are part of the 47%.


The people falling into the 47% would most likely file a tax return. Especially if they are due some EIC credit refund.

[magical thyme]

40. if you paid zero *federal income taxes* according to Romney

you are 47%.

Until this decade I always paid federal income taxes. In what should have been my peak earning years, my industry and career collapsed.

I haven't been able to earn enough to pay federal income taxes since then. So I am a deadbeat 47%er, according to Romney.

[Heather MC]

41. Well we get a refund every year because

we get to claim out Mortgage interest, and both my Husband and I have separate small businesses
I am a Zumba Instructor and he is a Musician. and I make sure we claim ever legal deduction we can.

His fulltime Job my DH is Military but he will never be sent to a warzone
He is also a Parttime Professor at the same campus as Jill Biden. Kewl Right! he never sees but it's still Kewl LOL

We are no where near 100K earners,nor will we ever be, so are we the 47%ers?
I hope so I have always wanted to belong to a group that was hated

[magical thyme]

46. is your refund greater than or equal to what you paid in federal income taxes?

Your W2 statements show how much you paid in federal income taxes for the year. If your refund is equal to or greater than that amount, then you are one of the 47% moochers.

If your refund is smaller than what you paid out, then you are not one of the 47% moochers.

[Heather MC]

50. When you add in the 16,000 we deduct from our mortgage we paid in more than we get back

Without the Mortgage int deduction we wouldn't get back as much so we are in a fuzzy gray area, but because Mittens would possible take away the mortgage deduction we would be too screwed for it to matter at that point

[CTyankee]

12. It's going to be hard to argue against this ad if you are a working class Republican.

It shows so clearly that Mitt thinks they're all a bunch of moochers, too...

[grantcart]

16. fffft, fffft, ffffft, fffft, ffffft

that fffft sound you hear are Republican pundits pulling out their hair.

"Why didn't we know this about Romney before we gave him the keys to the kingdom."

If only there were some way that they could put all of the candidates in a series of competitve races state by state where these kinds of issues could be asked and answered and then give Republican voters a chance to weigh in before the nomination is actually decided.

It is a great ad now if there was only some way to convey this message to millions of voters in their homes while they are watching oh a football game.

[Arugula Latte]

26. OTOH, it wasn't like they had anything but a bucket of rotten mixed nuts to choose from.

Perry? Bachmann? Cain? Santorum? Each one reeks worse than the last. And then there was Huntsman, who was immediately disqualified due to sanity. I mean, it was almost comical...Wait, it was comical.

[tarheelsunc]

35. Huntsman speaks Chinese

that automatically makes him a Communist, right?

[Arugula Latte]

39. Yes, that is how it works.

[Douglas Carpenter]

17. excellent...

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. Thanks for YOUR link, too! That's a well done, powerful video!

[FailureToCommunicate]

18. This should definitely be seen everywhere

Thanks for bringing it to our attention, William.

[arcane1]

19. K&R

[genxlib]

21. The Fluid 47%

Here is one thing I have not heard said about the 47% comments.

The 47% of Americans that fall into this category are a fluid group of people that changes through time. People move in and out of that group during different stages of there lives.

Seniors on Social Security worked and paid taxes in the past.
Students will work and pay taxes in the future
Unemployed people have worked in the past and will work again.
The military will come back and work if able.
Even the working poor hope to earn enough to pay taxes some day

The reality is that only a small fraction of those 47% are actually permanently in that category and they almost always truly need the help.

When looked at this way, the comments are even more cynical because he is really talking about a much larger portion of the electorate who have found (or will find) themselves in that category some day.

More importantly for us, THIS IS THE WAY IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK. There will always be a portion of the society that is not currently contributing. They represent people that are contributing in other ways (soldiers), will contribute in the future (students) or have done their part and are resting in their golden years (seniors).

Which is why we need people like Romney to pay their share.

[cpwm17]

53. Those are really excellent points.

People need to read what you have to say. Romney is attacking most Americans.. We can't all be rich like him.

We don't all just worship money like Romney.

[oldsarge54]

22. Not going to Reach Republicans

I've spend months arguing on Yahoo with Repubs who buy the 47% belief. I stated everything in the commercial and they still call me a lying koolaid drinking obama worshiper.

Yes, Romney fired a round into his foot. But that does not deter the true believers in his cause.

We cannot sit back on our asses, we have to get out and vote.

[WilliamPitt]

23. Exactly.

Why do you preach to the choir?

So they get up and sing.

[ErikJ]

25. Here's the % breakdown of people who pay no Fed. income tax.

Notice the 7,000 who make over $1 million a year who pay no Fed income tax.

[SunSeeker]

27. I still haven't seen an ad that hits the most disgusting of his references to the 47%...

the part about how he'll never be able to convince them to take responsibility for their lives. THAT is what pissed me off the most about his statements: the assumption that the working poor, semiors and the disabled are not responsible.

[Zalatix]

48. That comes later. He'll use it, right as Romney's campaign is bleeding out all over the ground.

It's called a curb stomp, aka a finishing move.

[tavalon]

54. I call it the "stick the fork in him, he's done" maneuver.

And while I may have some issues with the way the President ran the White House in these last 4 years, I've got no quibbles with the candidate Obama, who might just be one of the top ten best campaigners in American History. Heck, I might well put him in the top three.

[AlinPA]

28. I'd like to see one where Obama hits him with "our personnel in the armed forces depend on

the government for their food, shelter, and medical care and Romney bashes them while they are serving their country."

[AzDar]

29. K & R

[Mad_Dem_X]

30. Excellent! n/t

[porphyrian]

31. . n/t

[DerelictDeminGA]

32. Excellent.

I'll raise a glass to this one.

[underthematrix]

36. Great ad!

It ask the right questions? I love the visual of the peeps mittnocchio has described as victims and dependent - you know the peeps whp put out our fires, care for us when we're sick, teach our children, and build our houses.

[Peaceful Protester]

37. Romney's (un)lucky number: 47

1) Under Gov. Mitt Romney, Massachusetts ranked 47th in job creation.

2) "There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it."

-- Mitt Romney, (begging for money at a fundraiser)

NOTE: This, from a man who got $70,000 Government tax break last year for his pet horse.

[tarheelsunc]

42. The song of his campaign

"I called 46 times
And you answered on the 47th
I called you 46 times
And you answered on the 47th

You tell me, you tell me, you've never felt so hard
For an obvious candidate
You said you hate your last love
And it's soon enough that you will forget

Don't believe everything you hear
Darling, I've never lied before
Don't you hear me whisper in your ear?
Forget him, you're what I'm waiting for

It's not time to let go, this is not how
It's supposed to end in my mind, my baby
Maybe our intentions were wrong from the start
So answer me, so we don't fall apart"

It's just so perfect, like they saw it coming 3 years in advance.

[Major Hogwash]

38. Outstanding!

This is going right to the heart of the problem with Romney - he has no heart!!
He doesn't care about poor people, or people working in the middle class either, for that matter.

[paparush]

44. BOOM!

Without Fox News, Limbaugh, Coulter, et al, to lie and distort, this election would be done; game, set, match.

[WCGreen]

45. BaZingaaaa!!!!!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

51. Very clear message! Bravo!

[KurtNYC]

52. I like the amount of specificity they pack into this

naming the incomes, naming the taxes, working vs investment.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

55. The very beginning is a nice touch

with Obama strolling along the White House grounds....you know, where he LIVES!

[hue]

58. Perfect!! flood the net works with this!!

[antigop]

59. Actually, I think this one is even better

The Cheaters --- Obama for America TV ad

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Running in Ohio.

[Astazia]

61. WoooooHooooo Great ad!

WooooHoooo~*~*~*

k&r Thanks for the post. We here in CA...are a given....

[MatthewStLouis]

62. That's what I'm talking about! "BOOM" IS RIGHT!

Great ad! Clear as day. Even a moran could understand it, if only morans would stop complaining long enough to hear the truth for once!

[boobooday]

63. This one is the best because of the incredible amount of substance

Offered in 30 seconds. It's not vague, it's not playing rhetorical games, it is just factual. And that makes it powerful.

[Festivito]

64. I find it weak. It has to play twenty times before believed.

Doesn't make it conclusively clear that those yearly earnings are not paying federal taxes. It leaves me feeling unsure of the facts, therefor I feel dismissive of the commercial.

Can't someone give a breakdown of who makes that 47% so it can break down the effectiveness of that number.