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Children are shown as slaves forced to pay for deficit spending in a new advertisement for a Republican congressional candidate in Florida.
“Turn This Ship Around” is the title of the 30-second video for Mark Oxner, a businessman seeking a House seat in Florida’s new 27th District, where former Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson is hoping to get back in Congress after being defeated in his 2010 re-election bid.
The Oxner ad depicts Grayson as the pet parrot of Obama, who captains a ship aboard which the beneficiaries of federal bailouts and subsidies enjoy a luxury cruise. But the video then shows miserable children below deck, chained to oars as if on a slave galley. The ship is finally revealed to be the U.S.S. Constitution, renamed the “ObamaBoat” and sailing off the end of the Earth. The video and full script are here.
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Occam's Tool| 1.24.12 @ 4:52PM
Well, Grayson is a dickfor. Everyone knows that.
JambalayaJim| 1.24.12 @ 5:00PM
Laughed my arse off, matey! I'm gonna send this guy some $$$ so he can hire someone better than the HS graphics class to do his ads, but ... it says it al, doesn't it?
Oldefarte| 1.24.12 @ 9:58PM
Wait Grayson's trying to get back to congress....could anyone in Florida BE THAT STUPID [yeah I guess so since they sent Debbie Wasserman Shultz Pilosi up there too]!!!!!