GOP goes on Miami radio to bash Obama

The Republican National Committee said it is running a Spanish-language radio ad in Miami that criticizes President Barack Obama's handling of the economy and health care. You can listen here. Translated version is:

Voice: Miami welcomes President Obama and Vice President Biden to our city. Since you’re spending a lot of your time raising campaign dollars instead of meeting with us, we have some questions for you.

You told us that a massive new spending program would help the economy and be good for jobs. Our community has lost jobs, and now unemployment among Hispanics is nearly 13 percent. Where are the jobs? When will things get better?

Now, you say we need to overhaul our health care system. Where is the money going to come from? Will you really cut funding for Medicare to pay for it? How can that be good? That’s really going to hurt our seniors.

Big federal spending programs, no improvement in jobs and Medicare cuts. That’s just not good enough. We can’t afford for things to keep on this way. Mr. President -- is this the best you can do?

The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. Paid for by the Republican National Committee. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. www.GOP.org.

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Comments

[Susan S]

Here's a suggestion for the RNC:

You might do better with Hispanics in Florida if our part-time governor hadn't bashed the first Latina Supreme Court nominee. It might also help your cause if Republican leadership and teabaggers didn't constantly demagogue the immigration issue.

Just trying to be helpful.

[Ricky]

American's number one and number two concerns are the economy and the still-rising unemployment figures. And yet our naive and inexperienced president still hammers on nationalized healthcare like it's an emergency, not knowing or caring that it's not an emergency and that instituting this program is only going to enormously expand the bureaucracy and add trillions to the federal deficit.

Tip for the DNC: Get your president and his Democratic enablers to focus on the most important issues, and you might - might - be able to keep a few of your candidates from being flushed out of office in 2010 (with Barry sent back to community organizin' in 2012).

[bella]

You should have posted the radio ad. It is horrible. I love my GOP but they should learn marketing 101....you have only but less than 9 seconds to make your point & grab people's attention. This ad is so fast with to much information (it is like 1 minute long). How is that going to make an impression? Here it is para los que comprenden español....
http://newmedia.gop.com/audio/102309needs_some_answers.mp3

[bella]

Sorry, I just noticed the link to the ad was already included.

[duh]

Susan S,

Are you suggesting he should have supported Sotomayor just because of her race?

I also like that you used "teabaggers." People usually sling mud when things are going bad.

I think the FDP and DNC could use more advice at this point in the game than you trying to help the R's.

[The Eyes Over Pinellas]

Charlie Crist is a rip off.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/03/06/State/Lawsuit_faults_Crist_.shtml

[Clean up politics and lies]

Obama's Birth certificate who is he?

http://www.obamacrimes.com/

[Just a friendly reminder]

How many times does the ad mention the real cause of the recession and unemployment - 30 years of failed conmservative polices? Unemployment in Florida is high because were living in an unsustainable bubble of unlimited and unregulated growth, orchestrated by Republicans and their greedy developer cronies. As for the Great Reagan-Arbusto Depression of 2008, that was the result of deregulation and corporate welfare, and the deficit is the result of Bush tax giveaways and a war for oil company profits in Iraq. You can't fault Obama - the bailout and stimulus are merely the best we can manage in a terrible situation. It took 30 years for conservatives to make this mess - I suggest the GOP quit playing their partisan games and let's all work together to enable a recovery.

[Alex]

Does Rubio have a real job other than bashing Crist? Let the numbers speak for themselves....

[Gator(R)]

12:01

Not sure I agree with your '30 years of failed conservatism.' Reagan inherited a nasty recession from 50 years of democrat policies. And Democrats have been in control of the Congress for much of the last 30 years. More importantly the last three, when things have really gone in the crapper.

I am not defending Republican handling of things, just saying Democrats are just as responsible.

Democrats essentially have filibuster proof majorities, if they have brillian ideas implement them. Pay the price if they don't work. The best way to pay back the Republican 'naysayers' is to prove them wrong. So far not so good.

[Harvey D. Carbanger]

Maybe Obama should use the the stance much loved by the Miami Cuban looneys that he will personally go to Havana and strangle the Castro brothers with his bare hands. He can also promise to give back all the plantations to the "rightful" owners. This has worked well for the Diaz-Balarts and many other Dade County blowhards who spout this crap and then shill for the corporations and real estate crooks once they are elected.

[Cris Ericson]

Hi! I live in Vermont.
In September I met a senior citizen couple who said they live in a closed gate community south of Tampa in Florida.
They used to live in Vermont.
They moved to Florida to retire.
They came up to Vermont for vacation.
They are not happy in Florida.
They say that there is so much crime from so much unemployment and unemployed people breaking into homes, that they don't leave their gated senior citizen community.
They feel locked inside so they can't enjoy Florida.

[Jim]

Obama is spending all our money and leaving the debt for our grandchildren.

BOY DID WE MAKE A HUGE MISTAKE BY ELECTING THIS IDIOT.

[Susan S]

Jim,
Obama is just trying to fix the mess George Bush left behind (two wars and an unregulated Wall Street fiasco).

Tonight I attended a town hall meeting with Adam Putnam in Bartow. The ignorance of the majority of attendees was astounding. Of course, with Putnam giving one misleading statement after another, including a few out-and-out lies, it's no wonder his constituents don't know up from down. They complain one minute about government-run healthcare and then praise their children's SCHIP the next.

Cognitive dissonance doesn't begin to describe it!

[Truth]

http://truthaboutrubio.wordpress.com/

[paul]

Florida Unemployment Trends Visualized as a Heat Map:
Florida Unemployment in September 2009 (BLS data)
http://www.localetrends.com/st/fl_florida_unemployment.php?MAP_TYPE=curr_ue

versus Florida Unemployment Levels 1 year ago
http://www.localetrends.com/st/fl_florida_unemployment.php?MAP_TYPE=m12_ue