Someone is stuck in 2004.

This shit is not going to work this year.

Fail.

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Fail. This ad comes across as pure desperation at best; demagoguery at worst. I think the biggest problem with it, though, is that it feels so yesterday; so immediately post-911.

I'm glad you make such a good effort at keeping us posted on this stuff, Greg. Thanks. Rec'd.

I think that's bin Laden, but they're certainly leaving it open to interpretation.

Keep firing, assholes!

The 3 guys in Jasper, Texas got hateful in prison.

Prison did that to them - Ok? It had nothing to do with Jasper, Texas, and everything in the universe to do with our prisons.

It was our prisons that caused that - not our society, not Texas racism - Texas prisons.

Macaca

Can't you just smell the flop-sweat when you see that mailer? Can you really see that moving the needle in these economic times?

The Repubs have to rally the Klan and other haters for election day so it can be 70-30 at the polls. Unless they can get a couple million voters challenged, in which case it'll be 68-32.

Gobama!

We are all waiting for McCain to denounce these negative attacks like he said he always does at the debate

Terrorist appeasers? Are you serious? Get a clue. It's a picture of Obama's eyes. Read the caption. Look at the photo. Then put 2 and 2 together. Obama = Evil. They're not saying he's an appeaser. They're saying he's the enemy.

They're running non-stop radio "Ayers" ads in Northern Virginia, which I find a little surprising, because I thought that they would marshal their resources by foregoing our expensive media market and focusing on more fertile territory in Southeastern Virginia, as well as the Shenandoah Valley counties.

It starts with something like "Blind Ambition--how Obama cultivated Ayers for 7 years and worked with him on a radical education foundation until he became a liability . . ."

It goes without saying that it is, of course, counter factual . . .

Yes, it's Bin Laden with enough of a tint to suggest to the mind, along with the context, that it's a picture of Obama.

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ATTN: Those are clearly Osama bin Laden's eyes. You may want to remove this post.

"It's about the fact that the world is evil,"

Wow. The World According to Gerry Scimeca. Fever-brained Manichaean fantasy at its worst.

Wait....

We must look evil in the eye and never flinch. But not literally, because that would involve meeting with them, which we're definitely against. We must look evil in the eye without actually making eye contact while we talk passive aggressively to anyone who will listen.

"Hey Britain! Tell Iran that I'm not speaking with them... and make sure to look them in the eye when you do!"

I don't think it's actually Bin Laden, but the trimmed, arched eyebrows do suggest him. The sides of the eyes and the skin tone suggest Obama. I think it's close enough to both to suggest the resemblance, which is almost certainly what they were going for.

stop politicizing my name, that's all i've gotta say at the moment. leave me and all the joe's alone.

True enough, green eared kitty rabbit,,,, to the bipedal omnivores to whom that ad appeals Obama is the enemy, the end of the asumptions of the supremacy of themselves and their way of life.

And that, makes the ad, and them, dangerous. It's more evidence of the death of their romantic version of the Old South than Brown and voting rights all rolled into one.

This mailer has nothing to do with winning votes. Knowing that the county fair (or backwoods Pentecostal revival) is about to end, they are pitching the Geeks (passing the collection plate) one more time before they fold up the tents, take off their costumes, and dive-up the take. Stump=dumb republicans.....

So they take away signs of the beard. Erase the mustache, then darken the face - of Osama. Boy, these guys are slick!

Not only do they feel compelled to smear Arabs and Muslims and Blacks, they roll it altogether into terrorists.

Just makes me sick!

America must face the threat of terror head-on. Apply directly to forehead. America must face the threat of terror head-on. Apply directly to forehead.

"It's about the fact that the world is evil,"

Talk about projection.

"It's about the fact that the world is evil,"

Man, that's one paranoid philosophy. If McCain signs off on that, then his diagnosis will be complete.

Someone ought to have the Republicans up their daily dose of lithium.

To the question "would they conflate the image" of Osama and Obama for rhetorical effect, I believe one way of examining the possibility would be to ask "would Lee Atwater try this?'. If the answer is "yes", then yes.

This post is a great example of dog whistle racism in today's politics. And there are so many more!

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Look carefully at the eyes and the skin markings above the left eye. The marks are identical. It's clear they did some Clone Stamping or Healing Brush stuff in the hair and around the edges, but were too stupid to take the 10 or 15 seconds it would have taken to clone out the marks. Next look at the highlights in the eyes. They played a tad with the left eye highlight I think but highlights are not all that easy to move because the lighting used to take the original was straight on and so the highlights can pretty much only be where they are. Moving them would mean changing the lighting, It can be done, but maybe not by their PS person. Finally note that they cleaned up the white part of the eyes to the right of the cornea (as you look at the fake) but not to the left. I agree that the brown was likely picked up off a real Obama photo. No big trick. One click in fact. Really sloppy work. I grabbed the original and pretty much duplicated the fake in less than 15 minutes.

Before I get chastized for the comments I'm about to leave, no I don't think the things that are being mailed out are right, fair, correct, etc. and no I'm not voting for McCain or Obama.

I'd like to know why all you posting think it's right for the government to take the money from your paycheck that you worked so hard for and then give it to someone else in the form of a check that didn't earn it? I'm all for helping the innocent or disabled (children, elderly, disabled), but how is it fair that people who can work, but don't or won't get the money I worked my ass off to get?