VL and Lambert will now definitely vote for Obama! I mean, if that ad doesn't convince them, I don't know what will.

Exactly what I expected.

Good to see ol dude from Boy Meets World is still alive and seemingly not headed for rehab.

Only positive thing I can take from this.

I guess they are just embracing the whole Kool-Aid talking point against them.

yum, mmmmmmm, try some of this kool aide!

seriously, I couldn't watch it.

... without hope, you get a handy source of food. With hope, you only get a handy source of food if you feed it and clean up its shit for a long time.

Now I get it!

stick with their issue advocacy.

I cannot see how McCain wins this election. But I also don't think I've ever seen someone fly so high fueled by so little as Obama has and not come crashing to earth one way or another. It looks like it isn't going to happen before the election, but life is a humbling experience for everyone and I worry we're all going to pay when Obama gets brought back down to earth.

... of this advertisement."

There was content?

Well, except for the "Sorry, Mom [italics mine]". That was a nice touch. They just can't help themselves, can they?

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Because, you know, the election of the first woman president didn't give my 68-year-old mother any hope at all.

These people are assholes. And the sexism (and ageism) is not going away any time soon is it? They take these cheap shots because they enjoy them.

Hey, another reason why UHC needs to include mental health. Perhaps it could help all these boys out with their mother issues.

Plain nasty, that "Sorry, Mom."

Is the music in the background "Don't Worry, Be Happy"?

Seriously, this is the most shamelessly vacuous propaganda I ever recall seeing.

Incredibly, several "comics" told the NY Times recently they're having trouble thinking up jokes about Obama.

What next? Subliminal ads flashing: Don't fight it, just give in, you'll feel so much better, so much better, so much better...

the GOP brings up the drug issue now. After all, that was what that ad was famous for--and the confession stuff too...yeah "sorry mom" mother issues anyone, I agree with you all...
but I especially agree with G (Dr. G!) because Obama "should be" doing waaay better than he is. Which would be no guarantee either, but he still isn't hitting it.

But ... it's _not_ a parody. Dear God.

Honestly - imagine that money shot as part of an SNL digital short parodying The O'Movement. (The first half, unfortunately, doesn't even meet SNL's lowered standards.). That finale, and the amateur feel of the first part, was what had me 100% convinced this was a needling parody by a pro-PUMA site.

And as for "Sorry, MOM", well, just insert a string of foul-mouthed invective right ----> here.

Incredibly, several “comics” told the NY Times
recently they’re having trouble thinking up jokes
about Obama

My ability to watch Jon Stewart 4x a week fell off dramatically at the end of the primary season. What I've seen in recent episodes trying to get back on that horse is that stuff JS does, clearly aimed to get you to laugh AT BO is generating instead wild applause and cheering FOR him in the studio audience. They're full-on in the O'Movement: anything he does is wise and a smooth move to be encouraged.

On one recent episode, JS even went off-script and said point-blank to a confused live audience: "It's okay to laugh at him."

I may start watching again, as I think this is the sort of thing that presents a unique challenge, and if JS is still worth watching, this audience behavior will get his back up and he'll try harder.

Which goes to show you, self-knowledge ain't an OFB strong suit.

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Around these parts we call cucumber slices circle bites

I'm still in rehab -- can't watch TDS 4 times a week just yet -- so they may have. But when BO went before AIPAC at the tail end of the primary (you know, where HRC had to go lend him some nonexistent cred), TDS DID go after the fact that Mr. NoFlagPin decided on a shiny new US/Israel double-flag pin, basically taking him down a peg or two for the pandering. Money shot was that they photoshopped him into a multi-colored flag suit.

Genuine irony:

Remember Allen Toussaint's musical admonition, "Show respect to women of the world. Remember, you all had mothers."?

That song? "Yes We Can Can". Still fills me with genuine hope.

I really, really want "Yes We Can." back.

I think many of you are big time over-reacting to the "Sorry Mom" comment. If anything, it's a joke about gay people coming out of the closet to their parents, not anything about Hillary Clinton. And before you attack me, let me say that I probably dislike Obama more than you, so don't go acting like I'm an Obama shill.

I've also noticed that I now view the word "hope" with absolute revulsion. Scientists could hook up electrodes to my brain and gauge my response to various words. They would be baffled at a human specimen who views the word "hope" as a strongly negative term.

I have to agree with Voodoo Chile's sentiments about the word 'hope'. And let me add 'change' to the list as well.

And Amber Benson, I thought you had more sense than this.

...for my generation. This reminds of being in my development geography class, taught by a teacher who detailed the use of propaganda and the way the insidious little Village system worked, and being told that because I supported Clinton over Obama I didn't understand 'the concept of hope.'

Lived too long with 'hope' as a former evangelical christian (now turned atheist). This rings a little like 'waiting for God to show you His promises.'

Yes, using Occam's Razor the "sorry Mom" comment seems more likely to be a riff on closeted gays than a jab at mom-aged HRC supporters. Your mileage may very depending on your sensitivity to such things.

The setup is supposed to make you think you're watching a herpes medication ad.

Note that the affliction is ID'ed as hope and NOT herpes before The Worst Actor in the World "cries" his "Sorry, Mom" line.

"Sorry, Mom. I have hope." WTF?!

Puke, puke, puke.

(And I also think that the little chick probably has a different idea of the role of the kool kidz' "hope" in his/her emergence from that shell.)

Did any one see the latest USAT poll? The latest poll has Obama leading McCain by eight looking at "registered" voters. When you look at the "likely" voters portion of the poll, Obama goes from a lead of six in June to trailing by four after his most excellent adventure overseas. Frank Newport tries to discount the "likely" right now. Usually likely voters are a better indicator of voter intent in polls.

(Every single time he goes off about fathers i want to smack him and see it as denigrating his mother and all mothers as incomplete — and wonder why he never spends that much time on mothers in society and their needs—seriously.)

"Get a man!": the battle cry of family-values dead-enders, and... the Democratic nominee.

I'm a single mom, boomer era. I'm touched by your replies here.

(Been feeling more invisible than usual, lately. Can't imagine why. ;>)

Oh yeah. You're bringing it all back to me. How I became reconciled to voting for him. (A friend kept telling me that we had to elect him because of Hillary, and at the time I couldn't see what she was talking about.) The way he talked about the women in his life definitely had a big part in that. He so obviously appreciated the women in his life, and his strong and vocal wife as well.

Obama could learn a lot from him. If Obama could learn to listen.

This commercial touched on a very sensitive issue with the Obama supporters I've encountered both online and in real life. That issue is that those that don't see Senator Obama as anything less than the beginning of the end of the Great Liberal Rapture are completely and utterly cynical and lost. It has disgusting "Left Behind" religious overtones.

I've encountered stuff like "well, people won't vote for Obama because people are afraid of change/hope" and "well, I'm a hope monger" as if we ridicule them for their hope. Like everything else about the Obama campaign, it's complete self-victimization, which is incredibly ironic, because the candidate preaches self-help/determination to the hills.

They pity us. I can't tell you how much like evangelical Christians, they seem. And then to watch them in the very same sentence rail against evangelicals and religion in general is nothing short of stunning.

You can count me as one of those folks who forced himself to give Obama a chance, a person who convinced himself of the lie that "we have two great candidates, this year". I felt like they've done everything they possibly could to shove me out of the tent, and quite frankly I got tired of trying to fight my way back in.

I had just read Anglachel's latest when I read your post and they seemed related.

I join her in her ennui. I can't tell you how stunned I am by that. After eight years of this disaster, we could possibly elect a Democrat and I couldn't care less. It's not even that I hostile, I'm ambivalent. How is that possible?

Oh, wait, that's right, it's stuff like this. If I wanted to vote for somebody who shared W's views on abortion, I'd vote for the GOP ticket.

for your comment and the link to Shakes.

Yes, Kaine is very clear on his anti-abortion position to the extent of saying it pains him that there are abortions...

There's probably some Law of Chaos that predicts this.

Being off work this week is making me chatty.