Producer Of Infamous Willie Horton Ad Now Targeting Obama

On a website he calls ExposeObama.com, Floyd G. Brown, the producer of the Willie Horton ad that helped defeat Michael S. Dukakis in 1988, is preparing an encore.

Brown is raising money for a series of ads that he says will show Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to be out of touch on an issue of fundamental concern to voters: violent crime. One spot already making the rounds on the Internet attacks the presumptive Democratic nominee for opposing a bill while he was a state legislator that would have extended the death penalty to gang-related murders.

"When the time came to get tough, Obama chose to be weak. . . . Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?" the ad asks.

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Comments

[JohnPone]

Floyd Brown fathered a three headed alien space baby with his first cousin, sent here from a distant planet to eventually take over the earth. Two heads were cut off and feed to vampires. The remaning head/baby is kept in a drawer in the White House and advises W on matters of state. The alien space baby is also a known drug dealer and male prostitute. It's all sordid but true.

[RThM]

Who cares? Brown was a one-hit wonder from centuries ago and this is 2008. The Republicans can pull out mummy after mummy but it won't make any difference. They've lost the election in November and they know it.

[condieshoes]

Well, we can all laugh about this, but these adds work othewise the GOP would not spend money on them.

Obama's campaign had better field these attacks quickly or he's going to suffer what Kerry did with the Swiftboaters......

[BlueInARedState]

I hate to say it but the best way to fight this crap is to do what the Republicans do. Go after Brown himself. Want to bet there are numerous skeletons in his closet? He is a Republican after all.

If you shut down the noisemakers, you shut down the Noise Machine. Dirty, but effective.

[seenitall]

Wow...just when you think the republican party can't get any whiter.

[whiteboyblues]

Not this time

[hillaryj]

May God forgive people like this guy!

[Midnightrain]

May God not forgive people like this guy!

[FrictionSoul]

It's so fun to watch the right wing/Republicans implode. It's absolutely hilarious to see them try the same old thing time and again and expect results. It's great entertainment to watch them misunderestimate the environment that they create turn on them.

What goes around, comes around. Or as some of the churches remind them: you reap what you sow. So please, go right ahead with your Obama attack ads. Every one of them will automatically qualify as a SNL skit.

[OB08]

Agree - go right ahead with your negative adds. The American people are soooo over the GOP's negativities. Stay with the past while the American people move on. This time your negatities would not work.

This is Obama time!

[BlueInARedState]

The problem is, it still works. Doesn't have to work everywhere with every voter. Just enough in close battleground states to tip the balance.

[Boboday555]

Floyd G. Brown,
Manipulating dolts on the far right since 1989!

But I have to warn you Mr. Brown, duping your base of out of touch NASCAR and W.W.E. watching children might not be so easy this time 'round.
In '89 your base of kids was on a high after the Reagan years.
This time, they're coming off 8 years of the Decider!
They've seen their wages drop, the dollar plumett, their healthcare go up an astonishing 95%, oil hit $140 barrell, an intractable war their kids are probably fighting in (while the sone and daughters of privlege have bachelorette parties in Boca).
Sorry Mr. Brown you might find your target viewers a bit less than recpetive this time 'round!

[djelimon]

They're reaching deeeep into the bag if this is all they can come up with.

[Andman0121]

hahaha oh yeah they are. Is it just me or is it exciting to see the Republicans showing their desperation?


Kegger at my house the second Bush leaves office! everyone is invited!

[w&cheneysuck]

I'm there! I'll bring the Arugala...LOL!

[olivia]

They have already used all their lines on America. They don't have anything left.

[mikelartist]

I read about a Floyd G Brown that was arrested for peeking at pre-teen boys in a school locker room. Could it be the same person at this chinless idiot? Hmmmm. Let's not give him the benefit of the doubt. Let's run with the story, spread the word and protect our children from the ravages of Floyd G Brown the predator.

See how that game is played? It's unAmerican. It goes against the bill of rights. It's the new GOP way.

[wiseapple]

You might be right. He has that 'Republicanesque' look about him. The picture of him looks like he is entering a rest room with a big smile on his face. Could it be that he is looking for some wide stancers?

[kameleon75515]

Suggestion

On mass people could send emails to John McCain's website which states something like;

'If you want our vote

Stop the fear mongering
Stop the attack ads
Stop the 527s

and EARN our votes.

If enough people do it then it will be hard to ignore.

[Decipherer]

Maybe we should do it "en masse," no?

Speaking for myself, however, there is no way he can "earn" my vote. He is so wrong on virtually every issue and is little more than a political clone of George W. Bush.

Anyone running for president who states proudly that he or she would appoint people like Scalia, Alito or Roberts to the Supreme Court is automatically disqualified.

And don't get me started about the war ON Iraq.

[lbrillante]

This may sound redundant but is it possible to create a 527 to go after any and all people who use 527's to attack anyone??? Just a silly idea but if I had the money, I like it.

[musselmanm]

This should be left to Move On. They have a way of getting the attention of America, either supported or hated.
People that spread racial or religious hatred should be given a free forced vacation in Darfur.

[pleeezzze]

You'd have to include at least 90% of the Obama supporters on huff and puff !

[DCCommuter]

This is sad. In this age of war, of school shootings, and of Mike Huckabee "pull a gun on Obama" so- called jokes, they are going to cite "inner city violence" (blacks) as the source of evil that Obama is weak on? Under it all is just down to the question of: are people ready to truly dump the concept of white supremacy. I hope that people are able to see thru this racist BS.

[BEHM777]

We will see. The general election will partially be a referendum on how much America has wised up in regards to Nixonian/Rovian dirty tricks. I just hope people genuinely have their eyes open and vote on the REAL ISSUES facing our nation.

[jpcline004]

I agree, and I believe Mr O will have the right responses to these groups unlike Sen K 4 years ago

[RamonBackwards]

I wonder why you immediately assume that gang-related violence involves only blacks?

I assume you believe Hillary lost because of sexism in the electorate and the media then, right?

Or are her supporters all overreacting, but your claims of racism are dead-on accurate?

if you're blaming an 'ism' in today's world, you're whining. If Obama fails to win this thing it will be his own fault. Hopefully he'll ignore folks like yourself who want him to focus on finding an 'ism' to scapegoat as that will simply take his eye off the ball.

[Bertha40869]

I know that gang-related violence isn't all black, as do most people who post on here; however, we are not the target audience of these kinds of attacks. For those who aren't exposed to the inner city or those who live in rural areas and get their information about black inner-city youths from television, this commercial with resonate with them. That is who their target audience is. They won't mention the moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois Obama sponsored because of the deaths of 13 innocent people in that state. It will be up to Obama and his surrogates to point that out.

[OB08]

This would only turn out more people to vote for Obama.

The American people are through with your fear campaigns. This was Bush & Cheney's format when they got re-elected. Look what happened to the country. The American people are too smart for your trash.

[Mogamboguru]

Innuendos don't work any more. This arrogant dude will learn the hard way, that his time in the limelight is up. Exit left, please - ah, I see: You have found it already....