SC gov to Obama: Stop DNC attack ad

[jefferson_dem]

Hey Guvna' Asshat...

SC gov to Obama: Stop DNC attack ad
Posted: 12:29 PM ET

From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

(CNN) – South Carolina’s Republican governor called on President Obama Monday to call a halt to a Democratic ad that slams him over his position on stimulus spending.

Mark Sanford ended up in the crosshairs of the Democratic National Committee late last week after he announced his decision to seek permission from the White House to use $700 million in the stimulus funds due his state to pay down debt.

“South Carolina is facing tough times – but Governor Sanford is playing politics instead of doing what’s right,” says the announcer in a DNC television spot that begins airing Monday in Columbia, South Carolina. “Turning down millions in recovery act funds, putting politics ahead of health care, jobs and schools.”

Sanford, who criticized the ad Friday, said Monday that President Obama should use his influence to pull the ad from the airwaves. “I don't think this approach of targeting ads against anyone who sees an issue a little differently represents the kind of so-called 'change' many people were voting for in November,” said Sanford.

The decision to seek use the $700 million – or roughly a quarter of the total money due South Carolina from Obama’s stimulus package – “still means a $2.1 billion spending windfall would come to our state,” Sanford also said Monday. “nd one has to ask isn’t there a point when enough is enough in spending money we don’t have?”

After quoting from Obama’s inaugural address, Sanford “respectfully asks to end this ad . . . . and to ask his Democratic National Committee to put an end to this mudslinging and get back to an honest debate about the future of our country.”

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/16/sc-gov-to-obama-stop-dnc-attack-ad/

[hobbit709]

1. Poor baby

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[Renew Deal]

2. lol

:D

[bluestateguy]

3. President Obama: "No"

I can't wait until this asshole starts begging the federal government for hurricane or tornado aid once Mother Nature chimes in on South Carolina.

Then Obama can say no, NO, HELL NO!

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Translation: Effective ad

Get used to it, Sanford. You will be hounded and flayed.

You fuck around, you lay around...

[pleah]

5. Waaaah!

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

Ads must be working.

[rvablue]

6. Why Governor? Does the truth hurt? n/t

[4lbs]

7. Hey Governor, you have the power to stop the ads: Accept all the money and use it as intended.

That's it.

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

8. I just posted this newspaper article...

from today's Charleston paper about a little rural town, in the "forgotten part" of the state, that was hit hard by a tornado a year ago. I'm sure you can already imagine what kind of response they've gotten from Governor Sanford. The folks in Branchville are saying it's "as if they don't exist"...

http://www.charleston.net/news/2009/mar/16/like_we_didnt_exist75163/

http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=51918579246

[friedgreentomatoes]

9. Boo Hoo

and this crybaby is trying to be the big republican dream candidate of 2012. huh!

[snowbear]

28. And only yesterday I read he was the "new fresh race of the rThug Party"..

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Crazy enough.. I read it HERE!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8263115

Although to be fair, it wasn't that long ago we were seeing threads on here every other day about Bobby Jindal being the scary threat.

.......

[Dappleganger]

10. Somebody can't stand the heat. nt

[ClarkUSA]

11. Hmm... he sounds worried, thinking of Liddy Dole's fate after a similar ad did her in...

[GiveMeFreedom]

12. WTF?

“I don't think this approach of targeting ads against anyone who sees an issue a little differently represents the kind of so-called 'change' many people were voting for in November,” said Sanford.

This idiot thinks that the change the people voted for is a conservative agenda? Fuck me with a crocodile's penis!

He must have been hiding in a closet when the presidential election results were broadcast on the networks.

I hope the poor in South Carolina shit on this turds front yard.

[bertman]

15. Fuck me with a crocodile's penis!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

My virgin eyes were blistered by that one.

You have quite an imagination.

[Supersedeas]

13. chickenhawks can really show their pretty boy sensitive side

[cooolandrew]

14. Sounds like the ad hit him where it hurt, good. If the President stops it then move on can start >

another. Although knowing President Obama has so far followed through withe every promise the ad will probably continue till that young lady at the state of the union sees more education funding, as it should be.

A Republican making a respectful request how novel, okay. This time they will behave with the power of the truth.

[Fleshdancer]

16. They get so shocked when Democrats hit back

To be fair, I can understand their confusion. The whole Democratic Party with a spine thing is kind of new to me too. :rofl:

[Cha]

17. Can't take it? Then get the

fuck outta the Gov's chair.

[Jennicut]

18. No, now stop your whining.

I swear my two preschoolers at ages 3 and 4 are more mature then Repubs are!

[depakid]

19. How to deal with a Republican:

Every time he whinges- increase the buy. If he or she uses the word socialism- increase it again.

Neither Sanford not anyone of his ilk is interested in an "honest debate about the country's future," anyone who thinks that they are is naive. These sorts of hard hitting ads are the only language that they understand- and respond to.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

20. Obama to Sanford: I'll get right on that, as soon as you stop being a douche. (nt)

[LynneSin]

21. Obama needs to tell this asshole you take what is given or you get none

See how long Mark Sanford's career lasts when other states start pulling themselves out of this mess and South Carolinians are lagging behind.

[burning rain]

22. It's good to make an issue of Sanford's stimulus position...

even though in the end I suspect a majority of South Carolinians will support him. But, the DNC's ad buys will provide ready-made material for the future if he tries to run for national office. His opposition to pretty much all government spending plays poorly outside the Deep South. Most Americans favor things like education -- what an idea.

[firedupdem]

23. Why? Aren't you proud of what you are doing Sanford? n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

24. The loony SC governor should be recalled as he doesn't understand the economy

[elizm]

25. Sanford is exactly what SC needs...

...to help turn us BLUE in 2010 and 2012! Keep up the good work Guv. :bounce:

[Arkana]

26. Blow it out your ass, Sanford.

We're going to make damn sure that the fine folks of South Carolina know that you decided to play politics rather than swallow your fucking pride and accept government help to get the state going again.

[tishaLA]

27. Send back all that federal money you get every year then asshole

SC is one of the biggest welfare states in the country, sucking on the teet of the federal government to get significantly more money than it pays in year after year. So don't lecture us about fiscal responsibility now

[PopSixSquish]

29. Check Out this Quote From Governor Sanford and Try Not to Get Knocked Over by the Irony

"What you're doing is buying into the notion that if we just print some more money that we don't have and send it to different states, we'll create jobs," he said. "If that's the case, why isn't Zimbabwe a rich place?"

Hmmm....wonder how he came up with an African country as a comparision?

[ejpoeta]

30. obama's answer: only if you stop being a dick!!

[backscatter712]

31. SQUEAL LIKE A STUCK PIGGY!!!

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