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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-de-vellis-aka-parkridge/i-made-the-vote-differen_b_43989.html

See? It was a pro-Obama Democrat who made that ad.

Next thing you'll tell me that Ariana Huffington is some kind of right-wing uber bitch like Ann Coulter (well, she might be a doppelganger, but she's on the other side of the mirror).

Next thing you'll tell me that Ariana Huffington is some kind of right-wing uber bitch like Ann Coulter (well, she might be a doppelganger, but she's on the other side of the mirror).
Doubtful.

Doubtful.

I take it you don't find that funny, either...

congratulations.

it seemed obvious to me but i guess you have to take your victories where you find them.

how is your video of protestors spitting on wounded vets going?

Big deal, I read about this yesterday. You're getting slow, DK

I take it you don't find that funny, either...

Funny? I don't know what you're talking about. I know that comparing Arianna Huffington to Ann Coulter in any way is ludicrous, but I wouldn't exactly call it funny. As to the ad, I pretty much always assumed it was from an individual as opposed to oppo ads from the young Republicans, simply because it's too early in the process, and because this sort of thing, while rarer in 2004, still happened then. It's hardly new, and it'll become more commonplace in the future.

why would anyone have thought it was the young fash? it was too well done for them.

Cool guy. It's a pity he had to resign from his job. =/

There's an anti-Hillary ad? My gosh, how could I have missed something so important?

There's an anti-Hillary ad? My gosh, how could I have missed something so important?

It was funny if you'd seen the original, or the Futurama spoof, or any of the hundred other spoofs.

Hard to believe anyone thought Republicans (young, old, whatever) were behind it, given the big "Obama.com" at the end. But it was well made, either way.. :p

There's an anti-Hillary ad? My gosh, how could I have missed something so important?

it wasnt so much anti hillary as pro barrack.

I agree with one of the messages left on that blog, even if I haven't made up my mind about who should get the nomination.

Thanks for sitting by and allowing Barack Obama to get blamed and ridiculed for this. I am very angry at you and I told EVERYONE. You caused more harm than good and you sat there and reveled while Obama was dragged through the mud. That's fine. Be proud of what you did. I don't forgive you. That was so not cool. Do the video. Fine. but you don't use the Campaign Logo and post our Campaign Website as if we did it. you were wrong. The video was fine. You messed up when you made it look like it was us. That was wrong and I'm still pissed off.

Well, yeah. Young Republican's ideas tend to consist of acting like homosexuals and professing their favor for the candidate they don't support.

This I think sums it up.

http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?productid=902

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-de-vellis-aka-parkridge/i-made-the-vote-differen_b_43989.html

See? It was a pro-Obama Democrat who made that ad.

Next thing you'll tell me that Ariana Huffington is some kind of right-wing uber bitch like Ann Coulter (well, she might be a doppelganger, but she's on the other side of the mirror).
Quit with the excessive hyperbole, Eve. It's part of why they think you're Deep Kimchi.

Ariana Huffington is a neat lady.

Still, I'm not surprised this was a pro-Obama Democrat created ad. That's just how politics are...dirty, filthy, and not so nice.

he campaigns had no idea who made it--not the Obama campaign, not the Clinton campaign, nor any other campaign. I made the ad on a Sunday afternoon in my apartment using my personal equipment (a Mac and some software), uploaded it to YouTube, and sent links around to blogs.
The company had no idea that I'd created the ad, and neither did any of our clients.

It also wasn't made by the Obama campaign, or are we now pretending that wasn't your accusation, nay, insistence?

It also wasn't made by the Obama campaign, or are we now pretending that wasn't your accusation, nay, insistence?

He said Pro-Obama Democrat. That does not necessarily mean a member of Obama's campaign.

He said Pro-Obama Democrat. That does not necessarily mean a member of Obama's campaign.

He actually said Obama supporter, which still technically makes me not 100% right, so I'll grant that. I had conflated him and PootWaddle...my mistake.

Though what he did say-
We want to know who made the video. Obama's camp ostensibly made the video, but didn't "approve" of it. But somehow, it got out.

You're going to assert that Fox, or Republicans somehow did it, right?
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12445326&postcount=27
Apparently, Obama has seen it, well before it got on the Internet, and did not "approve" it.

Doesn't mean it didn't come from an Obama supporter, it just means he didn't approve it.
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12445354&postcount=34

The last bolded line shows that you are correct, if the wording is slightly off (which in this case is irrelevant)

The first bolded part, however, does certainly do more than imply that Obama's campaign did it. But, in fairness, insisting that a Young Republican did not do it was his main theme in that thread. PootWaddle was the one who insisted it was actually done by the campaign.

This I think sums it up.

http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?productid=902

LMFAO

I wanted to show that an individual citizen can affect the process. There are thousands of other people who could have made this ad, and I guarantee that more ads like it--by people of all political persuasions--will follow.


What a fucking tit. American politicians will do what they are damn well told, and like it.