New Obama Ad Features a Singing Romney

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/obama-ad-features-a-singing-romney/

July 14, 2012, 8:48 am

Obama Ad Features a Singing Romney

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

President Obama’s campaign continued on Saturday to prosecute its case against Mitt Romney for holding offshore accounts, releasing a new television ad that mockingly shows Mr. Romney, the Republican candidate, singing “America the Beautiful.”

The president’s campaign has spent more than a week hammering Mr. Romney’s personal wealth and calling on him to disclose more information about his personal finances by releasing his tax returns.

The new ad — which the campaign said was running in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia — reminds viewers of those issues even as it shows a clip of Mr. Romney singing at a campaign event in Florida earlier this year.

It says Mr. Romney shipped jobs to Mexico, China and India — accusations that Mr. Romney’s campaign vehemently denies. And it notes that Mr. Romney had “millions” in a Swiss bank account and “tax havens” in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

[malaise]

1. Just saw that

Fuggin' brilliant

[liberal N proud]

2. It's running in Ohio - I completely lost it.

The Obama campaign staff is brilliant.

[amuse bouche]

34. I bet Letterman will love this

He loves to play Mittens singing that backwards

[chieftain]

3. Gotta say, I love it.n/t

[XanaDUer]

4. Oh snap!

The financial version of The Daisy Girl.

[sufrommich]

5. Saw it on Chris Hayes this morning. One of the best ads

I've seen, very powerful.

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. "He's the problem." Perfect.message n/t

[Spazito]

7. Wow, that ad pulls NO punches...

Excellent!

[KharmaTrain]

8. This One Haunts...Bravo!

One of the best things a commercial can do is make a big impression in a short period of time. This one does it very, very well. Hopefully with enough repetition people will hear Rmoney's singing in their nightmares and remember not only how awful his singing is but how he was instrumental in destroying the American economy over the past three decades.

McLuan would be proud...

[cali]

9. killer good.

[tallahasseedem]

10. My jaw dropped...

it was that good!

[monmouth]

11. American Idol will not be an option for him...n/t

[Kahuna]

12. I've waiting and hoping for them to use his bad singing.

Love it!

[Brewinblue]

13. Obama is running the best Democratic

presidential campaign since LBJ in '64.

[LuckyTheDog]

14. Ohhhhh... that's mean.

[ProSense]

15. Damn! n/t

[Coyotl]

16. Define your opponent before your opponent defines him/her self

Do it right and there is no recovering no matter how much money you spend!

[nevergiveup]

19. You nailed it.

This is exactly what is happening. It is totally brilliant!

[GrantDem]

17. Brilliant ad!

[treestar]

18. Mittens need to keep his day job

Great ad!

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Romney's horrible singing voice, just below the level of consciousness

You might be in the kitchen, doing dishes, and the kids are maybe watching a baseball game, and that comes on. You hear it. You've seen the text and you know what it says, but that voice - that horrible voice - both reminds you of the substance and plays its own affective havoc on you, just below the level of consciousness, a stinging, a heating up of the skin, something terrible. It is being defined as the background Muzak of the entire GOP effort.

And it's deeply funny. Independents see it and laugh - hell, damn near anyone but an obsessive Romney partisan (are there any?) sees it and laughs, because it's winkingly hilarious, like a perfectly timed yo-mama joke, indisputable one-upsmanship, the crowd shaking the fence after a blistering cross-over in streetball, the proverbial lunchroom all going "Oh, damn!"

I'm donating more money to whoever made that shit, son.

How ya like Chicago politics now, yo?

[jumptheshadow]

21. Great punch line!

And right to the point...congratulations to the person who came up with the idea. Very good ad!

[Safetykitten]

22. Now we are talking ads! This one is great. Please keep this type of ad going.

[flygal]

23. Wow!

That one stays with you a while. Brilliant.

[NYC Liberal]

24. Brutal. They are NOT letting up!

And the punchline at the end just brings it home.

"He's the problem."

[maddezmom]

26. not to mention he can't sing

[Honeycombe8]

25. Amazing ad. One of the best I've seen in years. Is it on TV or just the internets? nt

[Kahuna]

28. It's a TV ad running in the swing states. nt

[unc70]

41. It is running here in NC

Not sure where else. It is one if a series.

[Avalux]

27. Oh!!! That's excellent!

The truth is a beautiful thing; sing it Mittens!!!

[Mutt22]

29. Absolutely brilliant

I have to share this with some of my friends who are Republicans..... LOL.

[iamthebandfanman]

30. yikes!

i like it, but i hope we are careful and dont come off as only being in an attack mode when it comes to winning people over..

i do hope some with policy substance make it into the airwaves tho

defiinitely a ballsy ad tho, so thumbs up from me

[Proles]

31. LOL that's awesome.

I don't care if people think it's too much of an attack, I say kick 'em while their down. No more being weak on this.

[boxman15]

32. This is one of the best political ads I've ever seen.

This ad hits hard. The fact that they're releasing it now and not in October makes me extremely hopeful for what the Obama campaign has in store for later on.

[amuse bouche]

33. Team Obama is brilliant

I'm loving our new bad ass President

But to be fair, I think Mitty needs to respond in kind and I'm going to help him out

Here ya go Mitty. The Prez singing...now go for it

[Douglas Carpenter]

35. I guess that is President Obama's response to a Romney's demand for an apology

[maddezmom]

36. and this one

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[RedCappedBandit]

37. THIS is what I like to see. Romney and his ilk ARE THE PROBLEM. nt

[Cali_Democrat]

38. LOL

This is so funny.

Well done.

[struggle4progress]

39. rofl

[ailsagirl]

40. You know that sound of fingernails scratching a blackboard?? nt