Let the attack ads commence! Amazing or Amazingly stupid, I just can't tell

[Agelastus]

I think I am a tad jealous of the American political process in this single instance. These "attack ads" are so much more fun to watch than our boring and sanctimonious old "Party Political Broadcasts".

[MadImmortalMan]

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=283839144901

Demon Sheep is going viral.

[jimmy olsen]

Brutal ad.

As attack ads, though, it pales beside this barn-burner aimed at Pat Quinn in the Illinois Democrat governor's primary, using a savage clip of the late and much-beloved former mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zns-K8XrOAk&feature=player_embedded

[DGuller]

That's in a different category.  There is no "WTF" element in it, just a brutal tongue-lashing by a dead guy.

[Neil]

Brutal ad.

As attack ads, though, it pales beside this barn-burner aimed at Pat Quinn in the Illinois Democrat governor's primary, using a savage clip of the late and much-beloved former mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zns-K8XrOAk&feature=player_embedded

Ouch.  Somebody didn't bribe hard enough.  He should have known better, given how Chicago politics is based entirely on graft.  I can't think of a single politician to come out of Chicago who wasn't irredeemably corrupt.

[sbr]

No idea how old this is, but I just came across it for the first time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1L4eeu5KI

[DisturbedPervert]

No idea how old this is, but I just came across it for the first time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1L4eeu5KI

Convinced me.  I would never vote for Jesus.

[Korea]

I forgot. Elected coroners? WTF? Do you also elect postmen? Street sweepers?

Postmen have to pass a postal worker exam and are federal employees.  Street sweepers are typically contract bidders for the municipality.

Interesting anecdote: even though the United States Postal Services maintains its own HR and pays from its own revenue rather than the treasury, postal workers are barred as federal employees from holding elected positions in the federal government; a friend of mine sued the government so he could run as a senatorial candidate for the Green Party and lost.

Get your sarcasm/irony detector checked, it's not working. 

Oh, it is.  If I'd felt particularly cruel, I'd have linked a huge org chart showing positions that must be elected at the municipal, county/parish, state, and federal level.

Instead, I'll just post a link to this gem; thank Fireblade for this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMRWNNBYAc8

That's fake, right?

[Jaron]

Of course it is.

[Korea]

Of course it is.

I know.