Willie Horton Ad Creator Releasing Attack Ad On Obama

Time:

An old right-wing attack dog has returned with a new target: Barack Obama.

Starting Tuesday, a group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988, will begin a campaign to tar Obama as weak on crime and terrorism, a strategy that aims to upend Obama's relatively strong reputation among Republican voters.

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Comments

[SaddieMcCall]

Things that make you go hmmm, the Republicans attacking Obama hard in the NC primaries to help out The Clintons. Since when would the Republicans want to help the Democrats get the BEST nominee for their cause?

[RoseFromPhila]

This is just the beginning.......... Obama's Mask is slowly coming off....... talks out of both sides of his mouth ...... more will be coming out soon....... stay tune my friends..........

GO HILLARY!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[musselmanm]

Tis is another attempt to make a small story into a campaign winning smear.
This is laughable also, just as all of Hillary's ventures into smear have hurt her, the Repukes will end their own game.

[nellie]

The voters who will be impressed by that kind of campaign wouldn't vote for Obama anyway. The Republicans and Independents who support him are looking for change.

[RedWolverine]

Without Dukaki's veto, it never would have happened.

[RedWolverine]

Willie Horton was a monster who murdered a man by stabbing him several times and throwing him in a trash bin. Dukakis allowed him to leave prison on a weekend which resulted in him raping a woman in her home.

The only ad that showed Horton's face was created by THE WOMAN WHO WAS RAPED!!

Willie Horton was a very legitimate reason why Dukakis should not be within 100 feet of the whitehouse.

[ajax2]

The Bush aide who led the Willie Horton campaign, Lee Atwater disagrees with RedWolverine. I think Redwolverine is full of s...

"Dukakis is the person to whom Atwater most famously apologized, in a startlingly candid, first-person piece in Life magazine published two months before his death.
Atwater recounted how, speaking of Dukakis during the '88 campaign, he promised to “strip the bark off the little bastard” and “make Willie Horton his running mate.”
Then he said: “I am sorry for both statements . . . the first for its naked cruelty, the second because it makes me sound racist, which I am not.”

[mooph]

More reactionary thoughts from reactionary republicans. "Fix the problem after it's become a problem."

[OlderBudWeiser]

So glad to see that Iran sees Obama as a peacemaker and diplomat. That country need to have a part in the peace process and, obviously, are an influence in the region. Glad to know younger citizens growing up smart and informed. I can't help but think Obama is a win-win for the entire world. He's made me religous. I pray for him every day! Today I'm praying for the TKO in Pa. Perhaps Obama can hire Bill to be a foreign security advisor, (karma) if he can learn to keep his mouth shut! His open mike moment " I shouldn't take any sh*t from anyone on that" and that he seemed to be campaigning for Obama yesterday is a good sign. C'mon Pa. McBomb's rendition of the Beach Boys song didn't play well in Iran, no sh*t!
OBAMA 08! In it for us, yes we can.

[nekeb]

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[mooph]

I've heard about this since this morning (on the west coast). Where the hell is the media, the news agencies on this story?

[TrollsTakeYourMedstoo]

It was on black talk radio all day yesterday. These ballots people were complaining were not real ballots. They were samples handed out to people, many of them first time voters, to show them what to expect when they entered the voting booths. There were teams all over Pa. yesterday looking for voter fraud, and did not find any...so far. There were also some of these ballots handed that did not have Clinton's name on them either. Another conspiracy theory runs amok.

[AnotherMike]

With the kind of campaign Axelrod and Plouffe have conducted for the last year and a half, on top of an already charged up youth vote - one that can't be polled because they don't have landlines - we have the opportunity to change the tenor of poilitics for the future. If we let the old white men that have destroyed this country win in November, it will be the last you see of the younger generation's turnout for many elections to come.

We won't allow the "professionals" of American politics to hold on to what they've been long overdue to surrender to the next generation. They've had their chances and look what happened...

It's time we put these greedy pigs in the retirement home with a warm blanket and soft food. It's not their country anymore and we can do a better job running it.

And before anyone freaks out about the "ageism" tone of this post, know that I'm not referring to age. What I'm referring to is about values and respect. Respect of our fellow citizens of the entire planet, not just Americans and certainly not just white men. We understand that times have changed, and it's up to us to respond.

"We are the ones we've been waiting for." - Barack Obama

So go for it, Mr. Brown. Try your very best to make us believe what we know isn't relevant or possibly even true. You'll see how much we accept your dated and out of

[loper2008]

silly. People are not worried about street crime right now. This ad won't do anything. Hello, people this isn't the 20th century anymore, but I'm glad the GOP doesn't know that yet.

[OrangeMocha]

Shhh -- let the GOP think it's still 1988, while the Dems go ahead and win the election.

[tbone99]

Thats why they used the words urban terrorism, to update it.

[Erdgeist]

Legislation, good or bad, doesn't murder people, people murder people.

[don]

Amen to that. The death penalty doesn't deter murder any less than a life sentence. Murderers aren't concerned with any punishment other than the one they're meteing.

[maxwellinformed]

worth posting again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz7UNxnOI3M&feature=related

[Genna]

These Republican activists Always make it about division. NEVER inclusion, acceptance or tolerance.

I think it is important that Democrats don't bend to these racial arsonists. Willie Horton my eye ball. Dukakais was hit because Americans thought he was an automaton. He didn't do much to shake the foundations.

These racial arsonists are going to beat down the Democratic candidate. They've decided it will be Obama. This is a DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. It is like Republicans activists and donors deciding to fund efforts by Ralph Nader in past elections. If they are going to pull out all the stops, then the Democratic party needs to come up with new barricades or truth ads.

I don't think that Republicans activists have a leg to stand on whether it is McCain or any other Republican this cycle. MSM might absorb every single negative thing that Republicans shoot at the Democatic nominee but the Carvilles of the party need to come out in force.

The question is whether the election gets so partisan that the down scale or upscale Republican will believe it and agree with them.

[maxwellinformed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=javjtD9SjqA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz7UNxnOI3M&feature=related

[qdog112]

Only in America. So the new litmus test for leadership is the willingness to take another's life. That puts us right there with hardly any other western(1st world) nations. Non issue. He should not run from the left. Barack's plan is to build a coalition. Brown's ad will miss the target He's preaching to the choir. The cross over Republicans are smart enough and won't be swayed in large part.