Scathing New Ad Capitalizes on Rep. Ryan‘s ’Fading Obama Posters’ Remark
- Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:45am by
Becket Adams
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday took the stage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., to make an impassioned and powerful case against the Obama administration.
And although there were many notable lines and fiery indictments, perhaps the most memorable moment occurred when Rep. Ryan addressed the nation’s unemployed college graduates.
“President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it,” said Rep. Ryan.
“College graduates should not have to live out their 20’s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life,” he added.
Barely 24 hours after making these remarks, the Super PAC “Crossroads Generation” released an ad that plays off the Wisconsin congressman’s “faded poster” imagery:
“Youth unemployment remains high, with 18-24 year olds facing unemployment over 15%,” the ad’s YouTube page reads.
“In a poll conducted by Crossroads Generation of 800 registered voters aged 18-29, only 22% said that they thought Obama had put into place policies that have made it easier for young people to find jobs. We can do better,” the page adds.
Here’s the original quote from Rep. Ryan:
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Comments (124)
nobull14
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:48pmI like There’s a town in Kenya missing there village Idiot better
Report Post »JRook
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:20pmRight and of course the PACs and political campaigns don’t coordinate with each other. All of you who think it is fine to let the wealthy spend $$ millions of dollars on buying elections and fund efforts to suppress the vote because it might help your guy win are sadder than the political operatives who run these campaigns. And certainly of no higher character.
Report Post »Unbelievable
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:25pmYou see with posters like that.. it gives the progressives more un-necessary ammunition.
Report Post »AintLIBSjuzGreat
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:34pmlike self loathing progs need ammo.your talking about people that carve thier own flesh and accuse someone else of it.that join the ranks of the tea party and yell ni99er.“dont give them ammo”he he he ha ha ha
Report Post »TreeTrimmerJim
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:32pmHey Rook…. you are free to spend all you money supporting who ever you like…. what is stopping you?
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:38pmHow is it not 80%-20% Romney-Obama?
Report Post »Fraud, that’s how. Lack of Voter ID is O’s only hope…
Jacob Malachi
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:40pmJROOK – 4 years ago John McCain decided to use public campaign funds as permitted in the campaign finance reforms laws. BHO said he would abide by the same limits until he found out that his corporate fat cats, unions and other donors could raise almost $700 million dollars for him. He decided to back out of his promise and outspent McCain 6 to 1. Quit whining.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:47pmJACOB: Thanks for reminding me of an early example of Obama telling another Big Lie ! Seems that is about ” 99% ” ( wink, wink ) of what comes out of the mouth of a Democrat !
Report Post »Larry E
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 3:08pmJROOK why don’t you go back to the Puffington Host where you belong. The GM plant closed in 2009 AFTER Glorious Leader was elected and had promised it wouldn’t close. The rich super PACs aren’t a Republican invention and you progresso-commies have them too, and they do make up REAL LIES like Romney had a hand in the guy’s wife dying of cancer.
Go away.
Report Post »Honestybefore truth
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 4:57pmHey Rook
Report Post »I would bet that most people would agree to a law that said that if a company wanted to support a candidate or cause they would have to get a majority vote from their shareholders…as long a s Unions had to follow the same law.
jadams1214
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 7:57pm@JACOB MALACHI This is the kind of republican thinking that drives me crazy and convinces me to vote third party. You are bragging about a republican multi-millionaire using taxpayer money to pay for his campaign while complaining that a democrat used private money that people chose to donate.this makes no sense at all.
Report Post »bigdaddyt46
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 5:02am@jrook
All of you who think it is fine to let the wealthy spend $$ millions of dollars on buying elections and fund efforts to suppress the vote because it might help your guy win are sadder than the political operatives who run these campaigns. And certainly of no higher character.
two words George Soreos
Report Post »Val_Dragon
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 7:34amObamas biological father is Frank Marshal Davis.
http://Www.obamasrealfather.com
Report Post »DRAGONSEED
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:27pmTo Jacob Malachi:
It was that early LIE (double-cross), plus his association with the AYRES creep, that persuaded us NOT to vote for the guy. Too bad so many others disregarded these RED FLAGS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
Report Post »jumbles
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:46pmLOCKED….Don’t worry about SWAMPY he (or she) is a bit of a dingbat.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:04pm@Jumbles
I think that @Swampy was just confused. The article I was referring to was the one written by The Blaze: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fact-checking-the-fact-checkers-heres-a-break-down-of-the-claims-bashing-paul-ryans-speech/
I doubt Swampy was legitimately saying that The Blaze is funded by George Soros. More likely he misunderstood or did not actually read the article. As I said below: if the objective was to reassure me that Ryan is a fiscal conservative and can help the economy… it failed spectacularly. Every defense made him sound like Obama-lite. Almost every one could be summarized as “Well, yes, but… Obama’s a bit worse!”
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:27pmTwo blind mice
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:57pm13th: Always fun to watch our Trolls converse. Now they’re running the Divide the Dumb Conservatives routine….next it will probably be the Mormon issue…
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 3:32pm@Barber
Yes, being a fiscal conservative now is being a troll…
You agree with Swampy that the Blaze’s fact-checkers are funded by Soros as well?
Report Post »sligresda
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 11:55ami like locked, he is a knowledgeable dude, he is not a troll.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:45pmYep!
I hope this gives Obama’s “ SYMPATHY VOTERS”, a reaon to pause & think.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:42pmThat ad is powerful.
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:05pmAnd spot on!
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:19pmLoved it and the smart, educated youth out there without jobs might think again about a repeat 4 years of what we’ve just experienced. As Clint Eastwood said, “We need a Businessman now and it’s time to step aside, let ‘em go when they’re not doing the job.” Mr. Prez, it’s time to GO, NOW.
I keep a card in kitchen that Says: “BO is imcompetent, NO MO BO”
Report Post »mtnhimike
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 6:01pmWill hit home to a lot of young folks and it will go viral on Utube and the internet.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:35pmYikes. *That’s* gonna leave a mark…
Nice job guys.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:45pmSometimes the best ads are the ones that don’t yell .. but make their point .. and yes … LEAVE A MARK ;-) I love it … sharing.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:17pmKnowing what a professional, unbiased and non-partisan blogger Beckett is I‘m sure he’ll make sure to mention Ryan’s lie about the PRESIDENT being responsible for an auto plant that closed on Dec. 23, 2008 under Bush. But why should a candidates truthfulness actually mean anything. Its not like being a person of high character or honest is more important than ideology. Oh please speak to Ryan’s lie and spare me the ideological name calling, school yard “the other side lies too” and other childish responses. Ryan lied and he knew he was lying at the time he said it.
Report Post »pissantno.10
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:22pmno j you lie
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:50pm@ JRook
First of all, Ryan said that Obama remarked that the plant could be around for another 100 years WITH GOVERNMENT HELP. “That” IS what Obama said. You are lying when you say that Ryan said that Obama was the “cause” of the Plant closing.
Report Post »Jacob Malachi
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:48pmJROOK – Ryan didn’t say that President Obama was responsible for closing the plant. Ryan said that the president visited the workers and promised to save their jobs.
Report Post »Knight Templar
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 8:41pmThe plant didn’t close until April 2009. There was a layoff in December but the continued making trucks another 4 months. Fact Check!!
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:32pmGreat ad! Soon it will be “President Romney”, and Obama will be living in a hut with his half brother in Kenya.
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:53pmI doubt George will want anything to do with his brother Obama. George is better off without the likes of him.
Report Post »MaxMagician
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:27pmAwesome ad excellent for the narration at the end. The visuals do more than enough.
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 6:09amI find George much more likeable than his brother.
Report Post »love labs
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:27pmGENIOUS BEST AD BAR NONE so far way to go !!! whoever came up with this give yourself a raise …NO WAIT THEY WILL TAX YOU MORE !!! just kidding ,….ooops there i go again being racist !!!
Report Post »RickN
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:23pmBrilliant!
Report Post »StBlaze1
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:16pmWe have a real choice this time. Its between continued depression, that has nothing to do with our economy. Or a new real foward vision of who we know ourselves to be! I Like who we are, I dont care who doesnt. Obama sees his reflection more, in the occupiers, people who believe they “cant” thats why his clarion call was “yes we can”, and women whose idea of health, only applies to that which is going on between their knees! My choice is clear..I like Ann Romneys idea of love, more than Sandra Flukes need for sex.
Report Post »kansas hawks 3
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:26pmThis world needs more people like you with answers like you have. The American people need to ask God to come back to America so we can be healed as a nation.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:31pmAbsolutely!!
Report Post »BryanB
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:14pmThere are more people then 18 to 24 year old college graduates, that are unemployed.
The Romeny, Ryan campaign needs to get their head out of the sand, really fast on this one. They need those 100 million people on entitlements to vote for them. Romney, Ryan need to get those people back to work.
18 to 24 year olds are a not a large voting block, and have a bad habit of not showing up at the poles and voting………
Report Post »TRILO
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 4:24pmGood luck on getting the entitlement junkies off their crack addiction to “free” money. R/R will have just as much problem getting those on board who want to keep their Social Security and Medicare entitlements off limits. Heck, AARP and their membership would not even entertain the idea of reduced benefits and increased retirement age for people just being born today.
Don’t forget the thousands of federal, state and local government employees who are also on the public paycheck.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 4:30pmWhat really bothers me about who votes, are the ones in the worst financial condition, with no jobs are the very ones who will continue to vote for the same thing. DAM! Don’t you learn when you step in the leftovers from a dog on your lawn, that it’s crap? How bad does it have to smell before you people learn who really wants YOU to succeed? obama wants you folks to fail so you can become slaves in his court, while the Conservatives want success for ALL of us………to be Independent and have Freedom.
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:14pmLike Chevy Chase said
YES…. I LIKE IT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8yr_StC3uw
Report Post »Mike Benton
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:14pmGreat line made into a great ad. Go RR team
Report Post »00gabooga
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:13pmI asked my then 22 year old cousin, fresh out of college, why she voted for him and she said it was because she thought it would be “NEAT” to have a black president. I wonder if she thinks it’s “NEAT” that she still hasn’t found a job.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:36pmAsk her and get it on video. It just might be the next ad…
Report Post »jadams1214
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 8:58pmI saw a help wanted sign at the local motel today. Sounds to me like she is just lazy
Report Post »dlivelli
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:12pmHey, like Rubio said….nobody is saying or thinking that obama is a bad guy…..he is just a bad president. He bit off way more than he could chew. The problem is that we are paying the price for his incompetence. Dirty harry said it best…”when ya can’t do the job you have to be let go”. Ryan is a smart guy who has good ideas. Ryan has the new blood eagerness that compliments the steady strong experience of Romney. What did obama have? He had no experience in anything except getting a whole bunch of people pissed off at what the government wasn’t doing for or giving them. And Biden…….well I’ll let good ole Joe just speak for himself. The sad part is that after 4 years obama his still shown no sign of learning from what he has done wrong. Are any of you willing to “hope” that he has learned something and will “change” for the betterment of us?
Report Post »HYPNOTOAD
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:41pmYou won’t say it but I will. Obama is a bad guy. He is an elitist, kenyan, American hating, whtie hating, Christian hating, Israel hating, business hating, all things muslim loving POSPOTUS. Yeah I said it.
Report Post »goengo
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 1:34pmObama will not change. I firmly believe that Obama has accomplished most of his goals. Unfortunately, his goal was to impoverish the people, and downsize and downgrade America.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:06pmlike with others in the past they come they go youll see more GAGA posters than president posters.. NEXT
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:02pmNice ad. Too bad next week the DNC will run their convention. Then we get to hear the fairy tale garbage Obama, Biden The Idiot, and the rest of the Evil Cabal come up with, to the delight of the minorities, women and dead people who will eventually vote for him again, even in this economy.
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:28pm“…and dead people…”
I was taking a drink and darn near sprayed my monitor! :-)
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:04pmDon’t put all women into that camp. Just the ugly ones.
Report Post »Freebird
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:01pmOnly to be replaced by a new slicker poster of a smiling Romney with a new fancier slogan at the bottom?
To be replaced by….,etc,etc?
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:06pmProbably right. If he wins, which I’m not sure he will, he is going to get a recession dropped in his lap. It isn‘t owebama’s fault either. (I mean he makes it worse, obviously) It is the function of huge massive government and a Fed that is out of control and political pressures on the dollar and regulatory burdens upon business.
He won’t have the political will to do what is necessary. He‘s a RINO for Pete’s sake, he thinks government is the solution. It will suck and government will get bigger and he‘ll be gone in one term and you’re right…there will be another poster.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:14pmFreeturd,yeah that’s right,,,,,,along with a job.
Report Post »Freebird
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:37pm@DETROIT PAPERBOY
Ad hominem, really? Is that necessary?Or even called for?
Report Post »ComeNovember2012
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:20pmYeah…a fancy slogan like “Believe In America” or “We Can Do This.” I’m for that for the next 8 years and then for another 8 in 2020…RYAN RUBIO-2020!!!
RR-2012 – Because we CANNOT let libs at the helm of the GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH!!
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:24pmWar War and more War
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:44pmOur Lefty Trolls are feeling very grumpy .
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 2:28pmbarber2 – I don’t get why the trolls even waste their time on here, no one agrees with them or ever will agree with them. Seems they would have more fun with their commie friends on Huffpo. I just laugh at their stupid gullibility. Too bad we can’t make them sit through the movie 2016. I’m sure they are not brave enough to go to that movie.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:59amInteresting dynamic seeing the energy of Ryan turn the Democrats into a party of angry, “anti ” everything decent, old farts ! Thanks, Romney.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:09pmThat’s what democrats have always been, they were formed as the party for universal slavery, and haven’t changed anything but what they call it from day one.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:57amGood one.
Michael Moore said it best when he said “get used to the sound of ‘President Romney.’”
The first he’s ever said that finds me in total agreement.
Report Post »sissygirl
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:55amI think they should have had the kid be older. Born in 1990, graduated high school in 2008, he should have JUST graduated college in 2012. I think it would be more effective if he were about 25 or 26. Just my small opinion.
Report Post »Leslie Anne
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:21pmThe college grad having the start of a receding hairline would have been even better…the years are just passing by and passing by :)
Or an ad showing a young lady reading bridal and baby magazines with a clock ticking in the background…a shot of an Obama poster…a shot of a pile of past due student loan bills and job applications…and then her mom walks downstairs with a basket of laundry…because it turns out the young lady is living back home in mom’s basement with no marriage, job, or baby prospects in sight.
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:55amI like it. Maybe if the ******** out there stop drinking the kool aid long enough to look up they will wake up!
2016themovie.com
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:24pmAnd give up the promise of Drugs neverending welfare free citizenship and a continued life in the HOOD.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:54amDamn, that was awesome !!!!!! Great ad !!!!!!
Report Post »face.chewer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:53amWe need to lower the minimum wage, that way more college grads could get jobs for $2 an hour. These high minimum wages are breaking the backs of businesses.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:02pmGreat thought…I’d go a step further and say eliminate it all together. The idea in a free society that the government can intervene in a contract between two people and tell one of them what they must pay for a product and another what they must sell it for pretty much goes against the whole concept of freedom.
Report Post »Lt_Scrounge
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 5:23pmEver run a business? I doubt it. Businesses can’t pay employees more than they bring in. In fact in order to stay in business, many businesses HAVE to pay out 10% of revenues in wages or less. When you raise minimum wage, you actually force many businesses to reduce their workforce or face going under. I’m fond of salary plus commission/bonus pay plans. That way if the person fails to produce, they have to find another job or starve. No need to fire them, simply tell them that if they want to make more money, they need to produce more or they can quit. Them quitting saves a LOT of paperwork.
Because of overhead, employee compensation can only be a percentage of a company’s revenues. I hate to think about how many employee hours I had to eliminate as a Foot Locker manager every time the minimum wage went up. If these new college grads are so worthwhile as employees, they can always start their own business. Unfortunately, just because you have a college degree doesn‘t mean it’s worth the paper it’s printed on. Exactly how many English, French, Russian or German Literature degrees does a company need on the payroll? Criminal Justice degrees might get you on as a police officer. Women’s and any of the ethnic studies degrees are equally worthless. Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Engineering degrees will help you find jobs. At least as long as the government can be convinced to stop handing out work visas in those fields like beads at Mardi Gras.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:52amThat was a pretty awesome quote. My approval of Paul Ryan definitely grew from that.
Unfortunately, the rest of his speech quickly brought me down again (see the “fact-checking the fact-checkers article from yesterday). As I said then, “If this was supposed to reassure me that Ryan is a fiscal conservative with good ideas to help our economy, it failed. When even your defenders‘ best arguments are ’Well, he’s not quite as bad as Obama,‘ I’m not too impressed. With defenders like that, who needs Democrats?”
Report Post »wianno94
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:07pmLocked: Do your homework. and stop listening to BIASED fact checkers feed you soundbite facts..
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:11pmThe fact checkers, are paid for by George Soros, not much of a bunch of fact checkers.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:15pm@Wianno
“Do your homework. and stop listening to BIASED fact checkers feed you soundbite facts..”
Just to verify, you’re calling The Blaze biased, right? I don’t know how else to take your comment, unless you didn’t read the article in question (in which case, why would you comment in the first place?)
The article I referred to was this site’s “defense” of Ryan’s remarks. As said: if the objective was to reassure me that Ryan is a fiscal conservative and can help the economy… it failed spectacularly. Every defense made him sound like Obama-lite. Almost every one could be summarized as “Well, yes, but… Obama’s a bit worse!”
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:39pmSWAMPY: The Soros- funded Lefties who occupy most of the media are all propaganda pushers not fact checkers .
Report Post »USA DJ
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 2:40amThe fact checkers were proven wrong. The liberals will go to any length to discredit Romney & Ryan. Do your own fact checking to be on the safe side.
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