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The ad . . . is backed by a $6.2 million TV total buy in 11 key states including: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. You can watch the video here.
In a departure from previous ads which focused on failed economic promises of the President, this ad features the powerful personal testimony of an individual, Shona Holmes, a Canadian citizen, who has experienced the life-threatening restrictions of an Obamacare style government run healthcare system. Shona sought out the American Health Care system because of its patient-centered approach in sharp contrast to the Canadian system.
“The American system was there for me when I needed it,” said Shona. “It’s time for American’s to get engaged in this debate.”
“To protect America’s patient-centered care, we must replace President Obama,” said Tim Phillips, President of AFP. “Through all four of our expressed advocacy ads we are demonstrating to the American people the empty and sometimes dangerous proposition of another term of President Obama. We ask them to make Obama a One-Term President.”

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Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Health Care

Leave Barack Obama a Loan!

Posted on | September 3, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Via Insty, this is funny, but only if you get the reference, which I’ll put below:

Reference (NSFW, potty mouth):

In defense of Britney, her net negative effect on Western Civilization is a couple of orders of magnitude less than that of #OccupyResoluteDesk.

Category: Barack Obama, Celebrities

Nancy Pelosi Is Right: Barack Obama Was A Job Creator. . .

Posted on | September 3, 2012 | 1 Comment

by Smitty (via Breitbart)

. . . if you consider regulatory compliance positions that don’t actually add to any company’s actual, you know, product as ‘jobs’:

As I was saying on Twitter the other night:

#HowToPissOffADemocrat Say “Dude: until further notice, everything said by the Left is assumed false until proven true.”

— Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) September 3, 2012

I don’t know how you’d research it, but I’d like to see the job creation numbers with all government positions and non-production positions (i.e. regulatory compliance) factored out. Such a number would be shockingly low, I’d expect. The good news is that the government has diluted its integrity to the point that no one really believes anything the government says.
Hopefully the coming anti-Democrat tsunami can relieve us of Nancy and put someone with character in her place:

John Dennis for Congress

Down with Barack’s empty chair and Nancy’s empty stare.

Category: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi

#EmptyChairDay : Angry?

Posted on | September 3, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

The European Desk is surfing the jet lag at 0300 and catching up on the RSS feed. I’ll see if I can find some piece of European furniture and some free WiFi to support Empty Chair Day. In case of furniture failure, how about some Alice in Chains? “Saw my reflection and cried / So little hope that I died” seems apropos the Obama campaign. Does BHO feel like the man in the box?

Gleefully mooched from Nice Deb:

And Insty notes that even Politico notices.

Update: ouch:

Update II: More ouch from Power Line, including a Winston Churchill ref.

Update III: Linked at American Power, though I think all your furniture are belong to Ed Driscoll:

Category: Twitchy

Commies for Obama

Posted on | September 3, 2012 | 7 Comments

While Obama is officially the candidate of the Democrat Party, he’s also got the endorsement of the Communist Party:

Re-electing Obama is not sufficient to bring economic recovery or even relief to our people. Only a different class configuration in political power can do necessary minimum reforms to give us a chance. But re-electing Obama is absolutely essential. Now is not the time for hand washing the complexities and tactics away — or failing to triage the most critical questions from those that are less critical. We cannot win everything at once!

Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media observes:

In reality, the CPUSA’s endorsement of Obama for a second term is not surprising. Various CPUSA officials, including Jarvis Tyner and Joelle Fishman, have openly expressed support for the U.S. President and his agenda.

Hat-tip: Anchorage Tea Party.

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012

Just Doing My Job, Jerry

Posted on | September 3, 2012 | 34 Comments

My friend Jerry Wilson at Goldfish and Clowns seems to have taken personally my failure to respond to his writings, and that’s OK.

Neglectfulness is a problem with me and when I’m on the road, the problem is compounded. In case you didn’t notice, I spent the past week in Tampa at the Republican National Convention and, given that tip-jar hitters had paid my way there, I felt obliged to provide extensive coverage of the journey:

Aug. 24:Tampa, Here I Come
Aug. 24: Todd Akin Rapes Missouri GOP
Aug. 25: Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Fear, Loathing and Deficient Hygiene
Aug. 25: Monday GOP Convention Schedule Postponed Due to Anticipated BlogBash Hangovers and Approaching Hurricane …
Aug. 26: First Arrest of RNC Protesters Reported
Aug. 26: Ybor City Scenes
Aug. 27: Journalism as Masochism
Aug. 27: Health Care Expert: ObamaCare Will Kill Estimated 40,000 Seniors Every Year
Aug. 28: RNC DAY 1.5: Baseless Speculation UPDATE: Romney Officially Nominated as Republican Presidential Candidate
Aug. 28: COMPLETE TEXT: ANN ROMNEY SPEECH TO GOP CONVENTION
Aug. 28: COMPLETE TEXT: CHRIS CHRISTIE SPEECH TO GOP CONVENTION
Aug. 29: RNC Rule 5 With Ann Romney and Other Smokin’ Hot Republican Party Babes
Aug. 29: @DavidChalian Got Breitbarted UPDATE: Video Interview With ‘Hating Breitbart’ Director Andrew Marcus
Aug. 29: COMPLETE TEXT: ROB PORTMAN’S SPEECH TO THE GOP CONVENTION
Aug. 29: COMPLETE TEXT: PAUL RYAN’S SPEECH TO THE GOP CONVENTION
Aug. 30: DNC Executive Director Begs for $3 Donations to Fight GOP ‘False Attack’
Aug. 30: ‘No, Really. I Mean That.’
Aug. 30: When It Comes to ‘Brazen Lies,’ Nobody Excels Joan Walsh
Aug. 30: VIDEO: Paul Ryan’s Convention Speech That Inspired Democrat Media Panic
Aug. 30: Gee, Chris Matthews Hates Paul Ryan
Aug. 30: Pictures, or It Didn’t Happen
Aug. 30: While You Wait for Mitt Romney, Say Hello to ‘The Scott Brown of Connecticut’
Aug. 30: COMPLETE TEXT: MARCO RUBIO’S SPEECH TO THE GOP CONVENTION
Aug. 30: COMPLETE TEXT: MITT ROMNEY’S SPEECH TO THE GOP CONVENTION
Aug. 31: RNC Hangover: You Gotta Believe
Aug. 31: How Awesome Was Clint Eastwood?
Aug. 31: Fear and Loathing in a 2004 KIA Optima
Sept. 1: Thank You, Everybody! (And Thank God)

This blog coverage was in addition to the five American Spectator columns I filed from Tampa:

All in all, I considered it a successful trip, and if the ordeals of the journey — including the engine problem that will require hundreds of dollars to repair — have distracted me even more than I am usually distracted, this was no one’s fault in particular.

Among the successes of the trip: I introduced Ali Akbar to the Allman Brothers. He really digs “One Way Out,” which is now downloaded to his iPhone. It’s hard to believe that anyone could reach age 27 and never have heard At the Fillmore East, but this just goes to show the catastrophic failures of the American public education system.

At any rate, my own failures — extensive though they are — do not include an inability to judge character, and my defense of Ali Akbar is based on an acquaintance that dates back to October 2009 during the Doug Hoffman campaign in NY-23. So Jerry Wilson’s “just asking questions” attitude toward Ali is rather annoying: I’ve known the guy for three years and, whatever his faults, this “convicted felon Ali Akbar” meme is a ridiculous distraction.

The dude’s got skills, OK?

We’re in the midst of a political battle of enormous consequence and, as I’ve said repeatedly in conversations with friends, now is not the time to be distracted by irrelevant personal quarrels, especially quarrels instigated by Neal Rauhauser, Ron Brynaert, et al. Whatever legitimate beefs anyone may have with Ali, these can be settled after Nov. 6, and I don’t give a damn. But I have no patience for criticism of Ali based on partial information at a time when I know for a fact — I’ve seen with my own eyes — that Ali is doing effective work for the cause of liberty.

So to Jerry Wilson or anyone else who thinks they’re going to throw Ali Akbar under the bus, I say, your bus ain’t big enough.

As Ace of Spades often says during election season: “Game faces.”

Stop letting yourself be distracted at a time when we can ill afford these distractions. Concentrate on the big picture, and trust that everything else will take care of itself.

Category: Goldfish & Clowns

Sticky Political References

Posted on | September 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

Bill Quick points to the maple syrup story in the great white north, and figures that the 15k barrels suddenly ‘missing’ from a Canadian warehouse were never filled in the first place.

In the age of politics in everything, let me be the first to point out what an excellent metaphor we have here for our monetary system. As long as nobody actually wants a little something for the pancake, you can borrow against that non-existent supply, trade stock in it, do whatever.

We can all enjoy the idealized world of Obama’s speeches, as long as nobody actually wants to live in it.

Category: Bill Quick

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