Barack’s Dinner With Whomever (Grammatically Correct Edition)

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff received this email today from the Obama-Biden industrial complex:

Obama - Biden
Friend —

We’re adding a twist to the upcoming Dinner with Barack:

You not only have the chance to sit down for a meal with the President and a guest of your choice. You also get to help pick the President’s guest.

Pitch in $3 or whatever you can to be automatically entered to win a seat at the table, and then make sure to weigh in on who you think should join President Obama.

Three supporters like you will get to bring a guest, so why shouldn’t the President? It’s only fair.

And he’s had some pretty amazing dinner guests lately: George Clooney, Sarah Jessica Parker, and of course, President Bill Clinton.

So tell us, who’s next?

Make sure your name is in the running to be at the Dinner with Barack happening soon, and while you’re at it, let us know who you think President Obama should bring:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Your-Dinner-with-Barack

Bonus points if you vote for me. (Just kidding.)

– Julianna

Julianna Smoot
Deputy Campaign Manager
Obama for America

The hardworking staff’s top three dinner companions: Mitt Romney, Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh.

That’s about three dollars’ worth of fun for us.

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Obama Campaign Does “Number One” On Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts Debt Spiral

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Barack Obama’s campaign has launched its latest Mitt-seeking missile in the form of a TV spot about titled “Number One,” which refers to the per capita debt in Massachusetts while Mitt Romney was governor.

 

Transcript:

When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts was number one. Number one in state debt: $18 billion dollars in debt, more debt per person than any other state in the country.
At the same time Massachusetts fell to 47th in job creation; one of the worst economic records in the country. First in debt, 47th in job creation. That’s Romney Economics. It didn’t work then. It won’t work now.

The Romney camp, of course, responded by changing the topic (via ABC’s The Note):

“President Obama has overseen trillion-dollar deficits, soaring national debt and the first credit downgrade in history,” Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement. “Mitt Romney, on the other hand, closed a $3 billion budget shortfall, balanced four budgets, left a $2 billion rainy day fund and received a credit rating upgrade. President Obama will do anything to distract from his abysmal economic record and — despite that record — the fact that he thinks the private sector is ‘doing fine.’ Mitt Romney knows our country can do better and, under his leadership, it will do better.”

The Romneyics also provided this helpful chart (via BuzzFeed):

Fact-checks, no doubt, to follow. But it’s safe to assume every claim has been rounded up to the nearest half-truth.

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Tom Menino Hip Edition)

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff has to admit that when we saw this headline in today’s Boston Herald

Mayor Thomas M. Menino: You wanna know what’s hip? me!

we immediately thought of hip replacements.

Actually, the piece is about the noodnik campaign by the Future Boston Alliance (which can’t even organize a website never mind a Hubbub) to lengthen barroom hours, MBTA service, and late-night eats in Boston.

By contrast, today’s Boston Globe appears to have nothing on this nothing kerfuffle, which might mean the local broadsheet got beat by the local tabloid, but also might mean the Globe knows a bogus story when it sees one.

Either way, the hardworking staff will be turning in now.

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Saddest Story o’ the Day (Elizabeth Edwards Edition)

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From Politico’s Morning Score:

ELIZABETH EDWARDS still does not have a grave stone. Only a tiny card printed with her name and a bouquet of purple flowers marks where she’s been laid to rest at a Raleigh cemetery.

The story originally appeared in the Charlotte Observer:

Cemetery visitors seek grave of Elizabeth Edwards

RALEIGH Rarely does a week pass that a visitor doesn’t walk into the small office of Raleigh’s Historic Oakwood Cemetery seeking directions to Elizabeth Edwards’ grave.

The deceased wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is still beloved by those who find inspiration and solace in her books, which recount her long struggle against cancer, anguish from the loss of a child and disappointment with her husband’s infidelity.

But more than 18 months after her death, visitors have also noticed Edwards’ grave is not yet marked with a stone. Her plot, snuggled next to the one where her son Wade Edwards was laid to rest in 1996, features only a tiny card printed with her name and a bouquet of purple flowers.

Cindy Rose took a guided Segway tour through Oakwood with her husband Thursday to celebrate the couple’s ninth wedding anniversary. “Knowing what she went through, it seems kind of sad there’s nothing there in remembrance of who she was,” said Rose, 30, of Holly Springs. “You kind of have to wonder why she hasn’t been taken care of.”

Why? Because John Edwards is a world-class shmuck.

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Let Lord Stanley’s Wild Rumpus . . . Conclude! (Crowning The Kings Edition)

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

You knew it wasn’t the New Jersey Devils’ night in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals when, at the start of the second period, with the Devils already down 3-0, a linesman inadvertently set a pick on a Devils defender, thereby allowing the Los Angeles Kings to go up 4-0.

 

It was all over but the shooting from there, ending in a 6-1 Kings victory and the franchise’s first drink from Lord Stanley’s Cup.

Via the Los Angeles Times:

L.A.’s new royalty, Kings turn tumult into Stanley Cup triumph

The Kings overcame adversity all season before zooming through the first three playoff rounds, then finishing off the Devils in Game 6 to win their first title.

No one saw this coming. Not this way, certainly, if there was any fuzzy vision of it happening at all.

The Los Angeles Kings, who ranked next-to-last in the NHL in scoring, who went through the turmoil of a mid-December coaching change and weren’t assured of a playoff spot until the last weekend of the season, zoomed through the first three rounds of the playoffs before running into resistance from the New Jersey Devils in the Stanley Cup Final.

Slowed but not stopped, the Kings prevailed Monday on their third try, skating off with a 6-1 victory at Staples Center and the first Stanley Cup championship since the franchise was born in 1967.

This was a great Cinderfella story that saw the eighth-seeded Kings dispatch “the No. 1-seeded Vancouver Canucks, No. 2-seeded St. Louis Blues and No. 3 Phoenix Coyotes before wrestling with the Devils, the best the East had to offer.”

In the end, it was the Kings who were the best.

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No Djoke: Rafa CAN Beat This Guy

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardworking staff has painstakingly chronicled, Rafael Nadal has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Novak Djokovic for the past year, never so much as in the last three Grand Slam finals.

That was then.

Here’s the climactic conclusion to the rain-delayed two-day final at the 2012 French Open:

 

The Missus said it reminded her of the elevator scene from The Untouchables, with “Touchable” written on the wall.

Yes, indeed.

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Quote o’ the Day (Mitt Romney Chutzpah Edition)

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

In a Sunday Boston Globe piece by Michael Kranish detailing Super PAC domination of the current election cycle (pro-Mitt Romney Restore Our Future alone has raised $57 million to kneecap primary opponents and Pres. Obama), there was this helpful graphic.

There was also this:

Romney . . . has cast himself as a reformer. He has proposed that campaigns be allowed to receive unlimited donations. That would lead to the withering away of super PACs, which he said have been a “disaster.’’

“Campaign finance law has made a mockery of our political campaign season,’’ Romney said. “We really ought to let campaigns raise the money they need and just get rid of these super PACs.’’

He says potato . . .

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Bring The Bain! (Priorities USA Action Edition)

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Cory Booker, Deval Patrick, and Harold Ford Jr. be damned – Democratic Super PAC Priorities USA Action has launched another advertising assault on Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital track record.

Via BuzzFeed:

Obama Super PAC Steps Up Bain Capital Attack

Undeterred by Democratic pushback, Priorities USA Action launches new TV ad slamming Romney on his private equity background. “This was a booming place, and Mitt Romney and Bain Capital turned it into a junkyard — just make money and leave it.”

The spot:

 

Also from BuzzFeed: “According to Priorities spokesperson, this is part of the $7 million campaign announced a few weeks ago. The ad will air in CO, FL, OH, PA, and VA.”

That’s lunch money compared to what GOP Super PACs are spending, according to this Associated Press item (via the Boston Globe):

GOP groups top opponents by far in TV ad spending

Independent Republican groups are heavily outspending their cross-party counterparts on television advertising in the campaigns for the White House and control of the Senate, eating into President Obama’s financial advantage over Mitt Romney and prompting expressions of alarm from top congressional Democrats.

The disparity is most evident in the race for the White House, where Crossroads GPS, Restore Our Future, and other organizations aligned with the Republicans spent nearly $37 million on television ads through the first few days of June, most of them attacking Obama. That compares with about $11 million by groups supporting the president, with much of it from Priorities USA Action.

Isn’t that just like a Democrat? Brings a knife to a gun fight.

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How I Met Your [Product Placement]

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Call it product REplacement.

From this week’s TV Q&A (via the Boston Herald):

Q. On reruns of “How I Met Your Mother,” there are ads in the background for the 2012 Toyota Prius V. How is that possible when some of the episodes originally aired in 2008?

A. Through digital magic, of course! Ever alert for new ways to cram commercial messages into TV shows, especially now that viewers can skim past commercials, advertisers are turning to product placement, in some cases even adding new messages to old shows. Does this mean that someday you’ll be watching “I Love Lucy” and see a billboard for a 2012 Prius in a 1954 show? Don’t put it past anyone — the bottom line rules in TV.

Just like everywhere else, eh? What a surprise.

Originally posted on the in restauro Sneak ADtack!

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Dr. Ads Presents “The Baggies”

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Yo.

Check it out at the in restauro (as the Italians say) Sneak ADtack.

Yo.

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