{"id":6962,"date":"2021-03-30T17:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6962"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:22:30","slug":"the-living-room-candidate-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/30\/the-living-room-candidate-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"The Living Room Candidate Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obama   Revenge, Romney   Love of Country\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1FJiivgpb0o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was assigned to watch the republican ads for the 2012 election, which included Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. In every sing one of these ads, Romney attacked Obama for something. No matter what Romney&#8217;s campaign comercial was discussing, it always attacked Obama for something. I think this aspect is clearly demonstrate in this commercial, which is why I chose it to be my favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Romney opens up with, &#8220;did you see what president Obama said today?&#8221; which almost sounds like a form of &#8216;gossiping.&#8217; He then describes what Obama said and emphasizes it in his voice by repeating himself. What was interesting to me was that when the comercial showed the clip of of Obama speaking, what he said was &#8220;voting is the best revenge.&#8221; We were given absolutely no context, yet Romney took Obamas words and slightly twisted them in front of the public. To me, I kind of laughed at this commercial, because it just seems like either side is saying, &#8220;they&#8217;re bad because they did this&#8230; but me, I would never!&#8221; In a sense I feel like Romney&#8217;s whole campaign was just beating Obama down instead of discussing why he would be a good president, or how he would benefit our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was assigned to watch the republican ads for the 2012 election, which included Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. In every sing one of these ads, Romney attacked Obama for something. No matter what Romney&#8217;s campaign comercial was discussing, it always attacked Obama for something. I think this aspect is clearly demonstrate in this commercial, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4900,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6964,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962\/revisions\/6964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}