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Obama campaign slogan mercilessly mocked
Published May 03, 2012
FoxNews.com
President Obama's campaign slogan is enduring a round of mockery, as Republican groups try to undercut the president's reelection bid rollout ahead of his first scheduled campaign rallies this weekend.
The Obama campaign released a lengthy web video on Monday under the title, "Forward." Perhaps not as catchy as the "hope and change" mantra of 2008, the slogan was mocked on Wednesday by presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
"Forward is his new slogan, and it's like, forward, what -- over the cliff?" Romney reportedly told donors.
"The only thing moving forward under Barack Obama -- our national debt, up $5 trillion," the narrator in the ad said.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., even took a crack at it in her endorsement Thursday of Romney, calling the November election the "last chance we have to keep America from going 'forward' over the cliff, as Gov. Romney said."
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has opted to simply poke fun at Obama's 2008 slogan. The national party is now selling bumper stickers for $10 apiece that say: "Obama: Hype and Blame."
Obama plans to hold his first campaign rallies this Saturday, in Ohio and Virginia.
The "Forward" video released this week set the stage for his general election message. The video began with clips of economic crisis coverage in late 2008, effectively making the case that Obama inherited a mess in January 2009.
The video went on to tout the president's accomplishments, ranging from financial regulatory reform to the health care overhaul to the auto bailout to the stimulus -- all the while, portraying Republicans as the party of "no."
"America's greatness comes from a strong, secure middle class -- that's the America President Obama believes in, and that's the America that he's fighting for every day," the narrator said.
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Romney on new Obama 2012 slogan: 'Forward, what, over the cliff?'
- 05/03/12 08:22 AM ET
Mitt Romney mocked President Barack Obama's new campaign slogan on Wednesday.
The presumptive Republican nominee was speaking at the Pentagon City Ritz Carlton at an event that brought in some $625,000 for the Romney campaign. Guests included Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, former U.S. Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and Romney adviser Ed Gillespie, along with prominent Northern Virginia fundraisers. Tickets cost $2,500 for the general reception and $10,000 for a VIP reception where guests were guaranteed a photo opportunity with the candidate.
Romney's remarks centered primarily on his concerns over a struggling economy.
“Almost every other day I’ll sit down with a group of individuals, and sometimes it’s kind of heartbreaking,” he said. “Obama didn’t create the recession, but he has overseen the most tepid recovery we have seen since Hoover.”
Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, rumored to be on the short list for Romney's vice presidential, blasted President Obama during his comments at the event.
“This is the most critical election we’ve seen in modern American history and there is no rationale for the Obama presidency,’’ said McDonnell. “I believe for such a time as this, by divine providence we get the right kind of leader.’’
Romney will continue to campaign in Virginia on Thursday, where former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is set to endorse his campaign at an event in Portsmouth. President Obama will kick off his campaign with an event at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond on Saturday.
source: The Hill
Lou Dobbs ties Obama's campaign slogan to Marxists, socialists and communists
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Thu May 3, 2012 2:12 PM EDT
This week, the Obama campaign unveiled its new slogan "Forward." Lou Dobbs took issue with the use of the word.
“The Obama campaign apparently didn’t look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan — or maybe they did,” Dobbs said on Tuesday. “That’s because ‘Forward’ has a very long history with Marxists and socialists and communists.”
Dobb's conspiracy, fueled by reporting from the Washington Times, goes like this: Dobbs wrote down on his chalkboard "vorwärts," a German word which translates to “forward” in English. According to the Washington Times, "vorwärts" has been the name of “at least two radical-left publications” written for by Karl Marx and Friedirch Engels.
But wait! There’s more: Vladimir Lenin founded the publication "Vpered" (the Russian word for "forward") in 1905 and “Avanti” which means “forward” was a publication associated with Mussolini.
Dobbs pre-butted his conspiratorial claims saying “I'm not calling anybody is a communist. I’m not saying anybody is a Bolshevik. I’m just saying the word has an interesting, interesting background.”
Interesting.
source: MSNBC
The Real Obama: 'Forward' slogan, backwards policies
Special Guests: Sandra Smith, Monica Crowley
This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," May 2, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: As the vetting continuous, we will once again show you the president in his own words. As he begs voters for another four years in office, the Romney campaign is reminding us all about his many failures, particularly when it comes to the economy.
GRAPHIC: What Barack Obama promised... August 28, 2008.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: You see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country. We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage, whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month, so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma.
GRAPHIC: 2009-2012. What President Obama delivered.
Median household income has declined by $4,300. Bloomberg, 4/30/2012.
Unemployment has been above 8 percent for a record-breaking 38 straight months. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4/28/2012.
Nearly 23 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed, or have stopped looking for work. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4/28/2012.
HANNITY: Now with all of that in mind, the Obama campaign may want to reconsider that new slogan of theirs, you know the one -- "Forward," because in the past three and-a-half years, his policies have taken us backwards.
Joining me now with reaction, from the Fox Business Network, Sandra Smith and Fox News contributor, Monica Crowley. Let me think about this, you know, it's pretty amazing, 17 million more people, you know, getting food stamps.
MONICA CROWLEY, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Stubbornly high unemployment, home foreclosures at record highs, median income at almost record lows now. When you look at every economic indicator, Sean, it's in the negative column and has been over the last three-and-a-half years.
Remember the reason that ad is so devastating to Obama is it is Obama in his own words and remember he said something else a couple of years ago. He said, if I don't turn this economy around in four years, this will be a one-term proposition.
HANNITY: Yes, we played it a lot here.
CROWLEY: We know it by heart.
HANNITY: He doesn't have a story. Maybe that's why they tried to make it a big issue this week on the anniversary of the killing of bin Laden and even that backfired, seemingly, because he said he wasn't going to spike the football. Now he has to eat those words.
SANDRA SMITH, FOX BUSINESS NETWORK: The business community is terrified right now. I mean, businesses are sitting on piles of cash and unwilling to spend it. Small business confidence is still very, very low. And most recent small business surveys show their number one concern is the government's involvement in business.
Their policies are failing. In fact, they're hurting the economy. Two Federal Reserve officials today, Sean, this was big news. Two Federal Reserve officials warned that this economy, our country is at risk of entering into another recession.
I mean, the numbers are staggering. You showed 23 million people are still out of work, unemployed, under-employed or have taken themselves out of the workplace. What record does he have to run on right now?
HANNITY: But does it work? Can this work?
CROWLEY: He has done everything but talk about is record.
HANNITY: I understand what Romney is trying to do and the RNC. I think they have come up with great ads. You keep playing, you know, the president in his own words and don't stop and hammer it. You have, what, 188 days to go. Don't stop.
CROWLEY: That's it. This is why I think Mitt Romney has been so effective so far. Remember, he has only been in this general election campaign for a couple of weeks. He is staying absolutely and totally on message. He is pointing out Obama's record, how abysmal it is in every way and he is talking about how he would turn that around.
HANNITY: Let's be fair here. Fair and balanced. Let's show you an ad that the Obama campaign has put out.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Instead of working together to lift America up, Republicans were waging a campaign to tear the president down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Virtually every Republican has decided to just say no to anything the president proposes.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER, R-OHIO, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Put me in the no column.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL, R-KY, SENATE MINORITY LEADER.: Vote no.
REP. ERIC CANTOR, R-VA, HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER: Vote no.
GRAPHIC: $1 trillion in spending cuts.
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Above Pic...notice their hands are not
over their hearts. Instead they are
the opposite...
What Barack Obama's 'Forward' Slogan Really Means
May 2, 2012
My friend and former colleague Victor Morton of the Washington Times has a provocative take on the Obama campaign's use of the slogan "Forward." Unfortunately for Obama, Victor writes that the term brings with it a lot of leftist baggage:
The slogan "Forward!" reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism. ...There have been at least two radical-left publications named "Vorwaerts" (the German word for "Forward"). One was the daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany whose writers included Friedrich Engels and Leon Trotsky. It still publishes as the organ of Germany's SDP, though that party has changed considerably since World War II. Another was the 1844 biweekly reader of the Communist League. Karl Marx, Engels and Mikhail Bakunin are among the names associated with that publication.
Over at National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg responds that Victor "misses the more basic point."
Which is this:
"Forward" is simply a synopsis of the progressive understanding of the State. The State has always been seen by the left as the engine of history. When Obama says he's about going Forward, he's also saying that he thinks the government is the thing that moves us all forward, that the State is the source of Progress. I have no doubt he believes this. And obviously the government is a major driver of change—however change is a very different thing than progress. Sometimes government driven change is good, sometimes not. The more important point, however, is that government is only one of many sources of change. Technology is at least as important. The car was certainly had a far more profound impact on society than, say, Warren Harding. The birth control pill, antibiotics, the telephone, frozen pizza, etc: These all are far more significant than 99% of what passes for politics. Culture, religion and demography are also often far more important and relevant than the State. The problem is that progressives tend to see all of these things as products of the State in some way. If we are to go forward it must in the saddle of the State.
Again, I hate to sound like I'm throwing in with capital-P Progressives, but I actually think Jonah is pushing at an open door here. Progressives, at least as I understand them, would not disagree one whit with the idea that technology, demography, and other forces are the primary drivers of widespread changes to the way society functions. Indeed, they would concede to this obvious fact as the basis for progressive reactions to such changes: The world has changed; government needs to change with it.
Michael Lind makes something like this case in his latest book,Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States. See this quick five-minute intro to the book here, as Lind speaks of "waves of technology-driven economic change" followed by "waves of political change." The steam engine, the internal combustion engine, electricity, the transistor, the personal computer—all these innovations radically changed the economy; but, Lind says, "regulatory systems, laws, and political institutions" lagged behind by about a generation. In this view, government is not in the "saddle." It's forced to play catch-up.
I'm happy to have an argument about whether the first generation of Progressives, the New Dealers, and modern progressive liberals had an appropriate reverence for the Constitution as they fought for the aggrandizement of the state. It's an important argument of which progressives are often far too dismissive. But I think in fairness, it behooves conservatives to understand where they're coming from.
source: USNEWS
First Published: 2012-04-30
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Bin Laden: from world’s most wanted terrorist to campaign slogan
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Al-Qaeda leader's killing is now spur for Obama’s furious row with Republican campaign of his White House rival Romney.
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By Stephen Collinson - WASHINGTON
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A year after his death, Osama bin Laden has gone from being the world's most wanted terrorist to serving as a punch line in a campaign speech.
President Barack Obama's decision to launch a daring special forces raid to kill bin Laden, fraught with military and political risk, is now the spur for a furious row with the Republican campaign of his White House rival Mitt Romney.
US Vice President Joe Biden has been touting the raid on the stump, using it to bolster Obama's credentials as commander-in-chief, and former president Bill Clinton cut a campaign ad warmly praising Obama over the operation.
The president, in keeping with his role as commander-in-chief, has been more circumspect, but has long been noting the Al-Qaeda leader's killing on May 2, 2011 in fundraising speeches.
"Osama bin Laden will never walk this Earth again," the president said, for example, at a political event in Hawaii in November.
Obama has also used the anniversary of bin Laden's death to tape an interview with NBC News from the White House Situation Room, scene of an iconic photo as senior officials watched the raid unfold.
Republicans, who for years branded Democrats as soft on terror and weak on national security, are crying foul.
Obama "took something that was a unifying event for all Americans... and he's managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan, political attack," said Romney senior advisor Ed Gillespie on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
 "I think most Americans will see it as a sign of a desperate campaign."
The Obama campaign however insists the decision to order US Navy SEALs on a secret raid deep into Pakistani territory last year, with the outcome uncertain, shows Obama as a commander-in-chief with rare judgment.
It also argues that the presumptive Republican nominee may not have made the same call, had he been in the same position.
"This isn't the politics of fear, this is the politics of brave decision making. That's what (being) commander-in-chief is all about," said senior Obama advisor Robert Gibbs, also on NBC.
"Quite frankly Mitt Romney said it was a foolish thing to do a few years ago. Look, there's a difference in the roles they would play as commander-in-chief. I certainly think that's fair game," Gibbs said.
Asked whether Romney may not have ordered the raid on the Al-Qaeda leader's hideout in Abbottabad, Gibbs replied: "I don't think it's clear that he would."
The bin Laden row fits into the Obama campaign's strategy of portraying Romney as unfit to be president, as it tries to make his character and judgment a key point in an election dominated by a stuttering economy.
The political insulation offered to Obama by the successful operation to kill the Al-Qaeda leader and mastermind of the September 11 attacks complicates Romney's assaults on Obama's foreign policy.
For years, Republicans profited by slamming Democrats as soft on national security -- the tactic was used to devastating effect in the 2004 election when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Democrat John Kerry to win a second term.
A video by bin Laden aired a few days before the vote, and may have aided Bush's effort to portray Kerry as unsuitable for leading the US war on terror, after the first presidential vote since the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Deprived of the terror card, Romney instead is forced to critique Obama's performance on issues like "reset" ties between Washington and Moscow, and his response to Syria's uprising and nuclear challenges from Iran and North Korea.
But it is not clear whether such attacks have the same kind of resonance as the traditional Republican tactic on national security.
But the president's handling of national security and the US campaign against Al-Qaeda do appear to be helping his overall political image.
Obama led Romney by 43 to 33 percent in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released this month, when respondents were asked who would be a good commander-in-chief.
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