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Matt From Columbus
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This cracks me up.  I'd vote for a real witch any day over this Tea Party nutcase. 


WASHINGTON, DC – Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell released a campaign ad Tuesday in an effort to recast herself as a mainstream politician. "I'm not a witch" begins the Republican's 30-second spot. "I'm you." Following a string of electoral setbacks, O'Donnell's fighting an uphill battle. Will this help boost her image?

The Ad Is Brilliant, writes Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic: "Conventional wisdom about denials in ads is true in most cases. It wouldn't be good for David Vitter to deny that he visited prostitutes, or for Charles Rangel to deny on camera that he abused power. But Christine O'Donnell is not an ordinary candidate. Democrats and media elites (and plenty of Republicans) have thrown everything at O'Donnell, some of it fair, and some of it silly. O'Donnell is obviously not a witch; indeed, the claim against her is one that she brought up, albeit years ago, on Bill Maher's show: she dabbled in witchcraft. To my secular ears, that sounds hilarious. To O'Donnell, it was a religious indiscretion, part of her journey into Christendom. Whatever it is, it's out there. It makes O'Donnell look silly. So O'Donnell's concession in the ad defuses some of the tension about her witchcraft experimentation, and it might help inoculate her against some of the more valid charges, like her propensity to fudge her resume, or maybe even her opposition to masturbation."Are You Kidding? It's Disastrous, writes David Wilson at The Huffington Post: The first sentence of the first commercial for the Republican candidate for Delaware's U.S. Senate says, "I'm not a witch." And then the rest of the commercial, including O'Donnell's appearance, the background music, and the setting all fail to get the "witch" thing out of our minds.

They put here in all-black, flatten her hair, provide a chest high close-up shot of her with a dark blue background and a spooky hypnotic image in the background, add dinner room piano music to the images, and then have her say, "I'm you." Then she smiles. I think she meant to say, "I'm just like you." ......I think.

She Looks Like a Witch, says Eugene Robinson on MSNBC's Morning Joe: “The lighting, the pale skin and the dark background. She looks like the question is in doubt... She looks like she might be a witch. And anytime you have to start a new ad and say, ‘I’m not a witch,’ that is not a good day.”

Weird But Effective, writes Mark Hemingway at The Washington Examiner: “This must begin with the strangest line ever to be uttered in the history of political ads. Still, O’Donnell needs to be humanized somewhat and this ad certainly confronts her troubled past head on. It could prove to be a smart gambit.”'She's You,' smirks Alex Altman at Time: "Although I suspect you believe in evolution."She's Magic, writes Robert Stacy McCain: "With a smile like that, she’s awfully hard to hate. The Castle campaign tried to demonize her and it backfired. Maybe Baldy the Tax-Hiking Wanker will have better luck. I doubt it. She may not be a witch, but you can’t deny she’s got magic




http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20101005/cm_atlantic/theweirdimpactofchristineodonnellsimnotawitchad5284_1

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October 6, 2010 at 10:06 AM Flag Quote & Reply

Barbara
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She doesn't really look like a witch, but the ad makes her sound like a witch.  Now I don't really trust her.  How can she say she is everyone else, and how come she keeps talking about witches?  I would have ignored it as just some mud slinging, but now it is like she is asking people to accept her as one of them, even though she  has ties to what I assume is a form of satanism.

 

The fact that she looks so pure and innocent is somewhat scary at this point.  It seems like she is acting more than being for real.  She might being saying she is not a witch, while wink, wink she really is.

 

I don't think you can just drop out of satanism that easily, and if you do, I don't think you are supposed to go around bragging, to get them riled up again.  This might be part of a plot to launch some openly satanic political agenda.

 

FDU is in a very satanic, very Republican and psuedo-Christian conservative area.  I don't doubt that she could have picked up how to be one way and look like another from going to school there.  Her eyes are a little too shiny and bright. like she is maybe possessed or something.

 

She just has too cute and perfect of an image to be for real.  I don't trust her now.

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October 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM Flag Quote & Reply

bwest
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What if a witch was watching that? She says "I am you".  If she isn't a witch then what is she? She doesn't even deny being a witch. And besides the television is full of witchcraft and the peoples still watch that crap. Does the average american even know what a witch is anymore.. Did they ever? 


To bad they are controlled by a suspicious church that is itself full of witches. Then the church sends out it's witch hunts to look good. I bet all the televangelist are talking about how she must be a witch. Then they have some donation to put her outta office.

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October 6, 2010 at 9:48 PM Flag Quote & Reply

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