Three Years Check-in

[MisterGamut]

Run time: 02:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYyH9LNrm5k   Posted on YouTube: September 28, 2011 By YouTube Member: gamutman Views on YouTube: 1   Posted on DU: September 28, 2011 By DU Member: MisterGamut Views on DU: 1039

 
I made this fake RNC attack ad three years ago before Obama had even been inaugurated. It's amazing how on-the-nose I was.

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1. Wow - nothing like creating your own fantasy world.

Health care for all Americans - false.

Your own stats show that - 22 million uninsured Americans, and thats before employers start ditching their plans, and the massive heave ho to insurance companies - please, no one thinks this is what he pledged, no one.

Economic plan absolutely did not bring the United States out of recession. All that happened was one of the greatest criminal heists of all time - with absolutely no accountability except for the people of America who are now left with a mind boggling debt.

The only sector in the US to do well was wall street, and it was wall street which pointed towards a recovery while main street imploded. what an incredibly dishonest position to hold.

His tax plan has seen a duplication of the Bush Tax plan, and although there are some benefits to MOST MIDDLE CLASS Americans, over all most Americans are suffering due to a trillion dollar short fall in revenue.

Finally the massive stimulus, health insurance reform, bailouts, tarp relief and tax reform has all added almost 6 trillion and counting to the deficit, all of which went to corporations and none of it on actual jobs means that the US jobless rate still sits at exactly where it was when he came in - 9.5 %.

Your blinkers are so tight they are cutting off the blood to your brain.

[MisterGamut]

2. I don't think you watched the video very closely

The original video was put up three years ago and was tongue-in-cheek at the time.

This video takes each point and looks at it honestly. I said in the video that 22 million will remain uninsured. As for the second point, according to the official stats we came out of recession about the same time stimulus hit the ground. Since then, some say we've gone back into recession - and some say we never came out, but that's not the official line. Stimulus also saved the US auto industry - which I didn't even mention in the video, because it wasn't mentioned in the original. Job attrition was also a focus of the original video and that also has stagnated. Unemployment has risen, but that's not what I mentioned in the original video.

The issue of world opinion I called subjective - which it is, and I showed a poll. Polls vary, but how else do you support or discredit a subjective opinion-based issue?

Now, about taxes, your argument has nothing to do with that issue. You want to say people are feeling the hurt, and I agree - because fuel prices have risen, unemployment is up, and entitlements have been cut, but that's not what the video was talking about. Also - to be fair - Obama's jobs bill includes even more cuts for the middle class.

Finally, I invite you to re-watch the video and pay special attention to the final card. That's the important card to see. That's the one that sums up the actual message of the video. The narration of the video has a fictional Republican asking "Barack Obama, what have you done for me lately?" The card which follows says "Ironically, if you're a Democrat - not so much."

[swilton]

3. Is there supposed to be a message in that?

:crazy: I'm confused!

[MisterGamut]

4. Does there have to be a message?

If there is one though, it's this. Obama campaigned on certain promises and was elected with certain expectations. Early in his presidency he actually met the specific expectations; stimulus, ending the recession, working to end the war and restore our reputation, creating jobs, passing health care reform. However, after the 2010 election, he seems to have lost his moral compass, and the right has a legitimate criticism in noting for Democrats that we have a lot of room for disappointment in him "lately."

The right will not make an ad recognizing Obama's successes like the parody ad I created, but the conclusion - which I originally intended as irony - does seem to have validity as a way of keeping the left from mobilizing behind him. Many on the left find themselves asking, "What have you done for me lately." This represents a challenge for GOTV, and the right could capitalize on that.