Mark Oxner, GOP Congressional Candidate, Releases Bizarre Ad

We've seen a lot of weird ads this season, but nothing quite like this.

Mark Oxner, a Republican congressional candidate from Florida, released a 39-second spot this week depicting the Obama administration as a slave ship.

The video features several men and woman on a boat--"The U.S.S. Obamaship"--discussing how "this ship" has given them various benefits, such as a bank bailout and "free health care for life."

The video also includes shots of children rowing the boat while a man holding a whip watches closely.

"Let's not enslave our children with debt," Oxner says, as the boat heads towards the edge of waterfall. "It's time to turn this ship around."

Oxner said in a statement that this is the first of multiple ads he will be releasing as he vies for Florida's 27th District.

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Comments

[larmarch5]

11:00 AM on 03/31/2012

Good Lard. Where does one start? I guess with the lack of judgement in ever hiring whomever created that ad. Now, Grayson is getting a boost to his campaign because of it.

[nellpost]

05:04 PM on 03/29/2012

ANOTHER reason to send $$$$$$$$$ to Mr. Grayson!!!!!

[ALfarmgirl]

04:43 PM on 03/29/2012

What an awful ad. Vote for his opponent. Grayson for Rep.

[gthpplschmp]

12:56 PM on 02/06/2012

I meant to say that non-partisan economists said that the financial system would've crashed without the Bailout being signed into effect. It was done by President Bush, not President Obama. Also, the Republicans didn't seem to care about debt when we went from record surpluses to deficits under Bush.

[gthpplschmp]

12:51 PM on 02/06/2012

Yeah, yeah but most of the 1% percenters and the heads of financial institutions are Republicans that drove the economy into the ground. It was President Bush that signed the Bailout into effect after even non-partisan economists said that it would totally crash the financial system. It's funny how Republicans candidates claim to be worry about so much, but when we went for record surpluses to deficits under Bush. They didn't care then.

[Martha Mahon]

02:01 PM on 02/03/2012

Like usual, this shows how ignorant of the facts some people can be; the bank bailouts were signed into effect by George Bush. Why deal in truths, when being clueless is more revealing of your nature. Like Bobbie Pickens, I do not approve of this sick ad.

[SHAKKA 1]

02:52 PM on 02/03/2012

EXACTLY!!! the pubtards started the entire bailout...i stopped paying them attention years ago, they are hilariously stupid...

the country is suffering, and they have done NOTHING but contribute confusion and chaos....

[The Crackle]

12:38 PM on 02/02/2012

This Ad is just like the Obama Administration: trendy,superflous and incoherent. What's the matter with it?

[ALfarmgirl]

04:44 PM on 03/29/2012

As are you.

[larmarch5]

11:00 AM on 03/31/2012

No, this ad is just like a GOP ad.

[WARHUKKER]

04:46 PM on 01/31/2012

In 1901, at the same time that Democrats
were seeking to roll back the civil rights
amendments to the Constitution, Republican
President Teddy Roosevelt raised the
ire of many Democrats by inviting Booker T.
Washington to the White House. Washington
became the first Black American to

dine with a President at the White House.

While Booker T.Washington's wise counsel
was snubbed by Democratic President
Woodrow Wilson, it was gladly sought by
three Republican Presidents for whom he served as advisor, including
William Taft, William McKinley, and Teddy Roosevelt.
Name the first movie screened at the White House by ardent racist Wilson
In 1915, the pro-Klan movie
Birth of a Nation was released. It
became a recruiting tool to help
the Klan reach its peak membership
of almost two million.
The question that begs to be asked is ,how far along would Black America be today if not for the Democrat Party,and its policies.

[Whogivesafox]

11:30 AM on 02/01/2012

Tell us about why Strom Thurmond switched from the Democratic Party to the Republicans in the 50's; and more recently, the Republcans adoption of the "Southern Strategy" in an attempt to capitalize on Southern ire over the Democrats (led by Johnson and Humphrey) pushing through the Civil Rights act of 1964.

Try to keep up..

[WARHUKKER]

09:38 PM on 02/01/2012

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (18 Stat. 335) was a United States federal law proposed by Senator Charles Sumner and Representative Benjamin F. Butler (both Republicans) in 1870. The act was passed by Congress in February, 1875 and signed by President Grant on March 1, 1875.

The question that needs to be asked is how far along Black America would be if Democrats had not rolled back all the Civil Rights Legislation of 1866,1875,all that was in the 1964 Act they could have had for 89 years if it were not for Democrats.

The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in "public accommodations"

[SHAKKA 1]

02:55 PM on 02/03/2012

"The question that begs to be asked is ,how far along would Black America be today if not for the Democrat Party,and its policies."

care to elaborate....

[WARHUKKER]

11:12 PM on 02/03/2012

“The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (18 Stat. 335) was a United States federal law proposed by Senator Charles Sumner and Representa­tive Benjamin F. Butler (both Republican­s) in 1870. The act was passed by Congress in February, 1875 and signed by President Grant on March 1, 1875.

The question that needs to be asked is how far along Black America would be if Democrats had not rolled back all the Civil Rights Legislatio­n of 1866,1875,­all that was in the 1964 Act they could have had for 89 years if it were not for Democrats.

The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in "public accommodat­ions"”

[WARHUKKER]

11:36 PM on 02/03/2012

twenty three black Americans elected to the U. S. Congress - all as Republicans.
Remarkably, of those early black Congressmen, thirteen
had been slaves (consider the amazing transformation that this
represents: in only five years, black Americans had gone from being
slaves to becoming Members of Congress!), and all of them were home
or self-educated. Additionally, three of that group were ministers,
seven were attorneys, five were schoolteachers, four were university
presidents, and thirteen were state legislators - a distinguished
group with momentous achievements.
Democrats did not elect their first black American to the U. S.
House until 1935, and that black Member was from Illinois - a
northern State in which blacks had always been free. It was not until
1973 that the first black Americans from the South were elected to
Congress as Democrats: Barbara Jordan of Texas and Andrew Young
of Georgia - and they were elected only after the U. S. Supreme Court
struckdown the gerrymandered district lines that southern Democratic
State legislatures had drawn that kept blacks from being elected.
Even now majority of Democrats elected are form predominantly Black voting districts,where as Congressman JC Watts Republican was elected in a predominantly white district,same goes for Allen West.

[WARHUKKER]

04:24 PM on 01/31/2012

Democrats did not elect their first black American to the U. S.
House until 1935, 204 and that black Member was from Illinois -a
northern State in which blacks had always been free. It was not until

1973 that the first black Americans from the South were elected to

Congress as Democrats: BarbaraJordan of Texas and Andrew Young
ofGeorgia -and they were elected only after the U. S. Supreme Court
struckdown the gerrymandered district lines that southern Democratic
State legislatures had drawn that kept blacks from being elected.

[Whogivesafox]

11:31 AM on 02/01/2012

Nothing about Don Cornelius?

[The Crackle]

12:41 PM on 02/02/2012

Peace, Love, Soul and lots of Smack and Crack for the little kids.........

[WARHUKKER]

03:53 PM on 01/31/2012

““““““FYI ““Belief in the ongoing power of racism is, today, an article of faith for "good" whites and "truth-tel­­­­­­­­­li­n­g­" blacks. It is heresy for any white or black to say openly that, today, underdevel­­­­­­­­­op­m­e­n­t and broken families are vastly greater problems for blacks than racism, even though this is obviously true. The problem is this truth blames the victim. It suggests that black progress will come more from black effort than from white goodwill — In other words, this truth is unfair. And when whites or blacks utter it, they are instantly identified with the unfairness rather than with the truth. Propriety causes us to say that racism still explains black difficulty­­­­­­­­­.

This explanatio­­­­­­­­­n also a source of power because it portrays blacks as victims. Wherever there are victims, there is justificat­­­­­­­­­io­n for seeking power in their name. Thus the specter of black difficulty has been an enormous source of power for the left since the 1960s. To say racism is not the first cause of black problems is to put yourself at odds with the post-'60s left's most enduring fount of power.

This means that racism in the United States has parallel lives. In one life, it is the actual instances of racism on the ground, in its parallel life, it is a time-honor­­­­­­­­­ed currency of power that still trades well in the United States. Here, racism lives as faith rather than fact. It is something you believe in out of unacknowle­­­­­­­­­dg­e­d self-inter­­­­­­­­­es­t­. Shelby Steele””””­­­­”””””

[rosegarten]

08:07 AM on 01/31/2012

This is America's illness. Such delusion with no conscious.

[AnaisKarim]

10:45 AM on 02/01/2012

Exactly. These people truly are demented and completely oblivious to other perspectives. How could any thinking person have thought this was a good idea? It's going to get very ugly before November.

[AnaysPolido]

07:27 PM on 01/30/2012

There is a black canidate name Brian K. Hill who is now using the video "Turn This Ship Around"..

[Anointedmama Rose]

06:23 PM on 01/30/2012

Another poor choice and attempt by GOP ... they just don't have a clue of how to reach other class of Americans that are not like themselves....... Poor poor choice

[forcaff]

05:42 PM on 01/30/2012

check your history the republican party started out as agentleman club and from that came the kkk.

[kingjs3807]

09:05 PM on 01/30/2012

"check your history the republican party started out as agentleman club and from that came the kkk."---forcaff

WRONG, the Ku Klux Klan was created by disaffected Democrats for the express SOLE purpose of terrorizing the newly freed slaves (who were voting Republican) in order to intimidate them into NOT voting Republican so that your beloved Democratic Party could regain power in the South.

The Republican Party defends the least among us (unborn babies, as they did the slaves) while the Democratic Party defended slavery, and presently defends abortion, and same-sex marriage -- See a Difference?

[WARHUKKER]

03:54 PM on 01/31/2012

Oustanding! F&F

[AnaisKarim]

10:47 AM on 02/01/2012

I'm quite sure the KKK had and still HAS members from all the parties. I can't believe some of the crazy talk on here.

[WARHUKKER]

03:45 PM on 01/31/2012

Wow,you do not have a clue.in 1854,the Democratically controlled Congress passed another law strengthening slavery:the Kansas-Nebraska Act,that act along with the Missouri Compromise allowed slavery into all western territories of the US.1854 a number of anti slavery Democrats along with anti slavery members of Whigs,Free-Soilers,and Emancipationist-formed the Republican Party which in 1860 nominated Abraham Lincoln for President,thus sparking the Civil War caused by slave holding,racist Democrats.The KKK was a violent wing of the Democrat Party used to intimidate newly freed slaves into not voting Republican,both white,and black were lynched,sometimes side by side as voter intimidation,and this Democrat intimidation continued until 1964.

[Whogivesafox]

11:36 AM on 02/01/2012

Who ended segregation in the military?
Who appointed the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?
Who pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

History is a funny thing, ain't it?.

[Cyd Webster]

03:30 PM on 01/30/2012

Newton Leroy Gingrinch wants children to be janitors and he has the nerve to tell these lies about Obama?

[squadron123]

04:42 PM on 01/30/2012

What is wrong with wanting to instill work ethics in children? President Obama lies all the time, get over it.

[Whogivesafox]

11:44 AM on 02/01/2012

Next time it snows your kids can come over and shovel my driveway.