When things get tough, good leaders get bigger. When things get tough, Chicago politicians shrink. Shrink to the size of the nearest trash can or prison cell. Al Capone is alive and well in Chicago today. He’s helping David Axelrod run the Obama campaign.
Obama is using Big Bird, binders, and Romney’s success to attack. You get absolutely no plan from Obama. It’s 100% attack. As the polls move in Romney’s direction, the ads get nastier. Shrinking fast, Mr. President.
As the Obama ship sinks, it’s time to put on the brass knuckles and get dirty. Forget the “there’s no red America no blue America, just one America” speech. Even the replacement refs in the NFL would run out of flags to throw on the latest Obama political ad he’s running in swing states. Their theme, “Romney is not one of us”.
What does that mean? What if Romney said that about Obama? Obama is rich. He made his money from books and creating the Obama brand. Romney made his by turnaround management. Buying mismanaged companies and fixing them. This country is in need of a turnaround. A book won’t help.
Even the Washington Post is amazed by the Obama ad.
By Karen Tumulty, Updated: Monday, October 22, 8:32 AMThe Washington Post
The slogan “he’s one of us” goes at least as far back as the late 1950s, when segregationist Jimmie Davis employed it in his successful campaign for Louisiana governor.
In the decades that followed, other southern white politicians also would find it effective.
A conservative radio commentator named Jesse Helms (R) was an underdog in his 1972 Senate race against North Carolina Rep. Nick Galifianakis (D). But he won, in part, because of his campaign pitch: “Jesse Helms: He’s one of us.”
The slogan was widely recognized as a dig at his opponent’s foreign-sounding last name.
“I think the idea was, ‘His name sounds different enough. He’s not like us,’” the congressman’s nephew, actor Zach Galifianakis, told Greekreporter.com in August. Galifianakis and fellow actor Will Farrell parodied that rough style of southern politics in their summer movie “The Candidate.”
In 1982, white Republican Webb Franklin won in a court-drawn Mississippi congressional district that had a 48 percent voting-age African-American population.
One of Franklin’s television ads featured video of confederate monuments and warned: “We cannot forget a heritage that has been sacred through our generations.” Franklin also ran with the appeal: “He’s one of us.”
A three-judge federal court panel in 1984 pointed to that slogan when it wrote: “This inducement to racially polarized voting operated to further diminish the already unrealistic chance for blacks to be elected in majority white voting population districts.”
The district lines were redrawn again in 1986, by the U.S. Department of Justice. In that year’s election, Franklin was defeated by assistant state attorney general Mike Espy, who became the first African-American congressman elected to represent Mississippi since reconstruction.
Yet “one of us” has retained its currency, even into the 21st century.
“Regrettably, this is not a thing of the past,” Robert McDuff, a Jackson, Miss., civil rights attorney wrote in the Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice, which is published by the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law.
In his article, McDuff noted that the slogan reappeared as recently as 2004, when white candidate Samac Richardson used it in his advertising against incumbent James Graves, the only African-American on the Mississippi Supreme Court.
Graves won, after Richardson forced him into a runoff.
