I know this post might be pushing the blogging guideline
limits, but it is right on topic and who doesn't enjoying watching comedy
central? The popular commercial against
the Obama campaign talks about Obama “gutting” welfare reforms by dropping the
work requirement. For those of you who
are not familiar with the commercial, please watch the following link before viewing the interview.
In an interview with Herman Cain, former presidential
candidate for the Republican Party, John Steward discusses with Cain issues
involving the Obama administration’s leniency on citizens receiving food stapes
and welfare. They go into talking about
the commercial and Steward questions Cain about the specific language used in
the commercial.
I want to know first what you think about the commercial and the
secondly your thoughts on Cain’s response. In your comments think about where the work requirement
is today and what affect it has on the upcoming presidential election.
The entire interview with Herman Cain can be found on the
August 29th timeline page through this link http://www.thedailyshow.com/videos
Enjoy!
It seems to me that there is virtually no justification for this ad, and the language of the ad is clearly too strong and intended to mislead voters. When Herman Cain appeared on the Daily Show he definitely minced his words, and after about fifteen minutes of debating semantics, ends up more or less agreeing with Stewart. I think this amendment made very little difference for most people, and on the margins where it did change things, I think it just gives administrators a little more flexibility in doling out benefits for people with complications of one kind or another. In general though, this is a far cry from allowing able bodied people from getting paid to watch tv. This program could have the potential to increase expenditures on welfare, both by expanding benefits and due to increased monitoring costs. This drawback of the reform is not targeted in the ad though, instead, the ad accuses Obama of buying votes with welfare checks; if this is the case, it is really more a case of republicans losing votes because they are resistant to innovation in assistance for the needy.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting to see as Obama didn't make a big deal about it. He could have and bought the votes of people already on welfare and of lazy Americans who decided not to work and go on welfare. Keeping this reform quiet though really goes to show he doesn't want that to happen I think and wants us to work to keep the economy better, which could be a double plus for him in the election. A falter he could encounter is if the short time before the election, something drastic happens in the already crappy economy. It could continue to go downhill and leak more as we will now have to pour more into this bucket and if we don't figure out how to plug those holes, this could be another problem that will need to be figured out sooner rather than later.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really shocked by this add at all. I fell like it has become pretty standard policy to use certain phrasing in adds as a way to mislead voters. Mr. Cain is also practicing the same routines as he is being interviewed, he just keeps bouncing around the same phrases throughout the interview.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really shocked by this add at all. I fell like it has become pretty standard policy to use certain phrasing in adds as a way to mislead voters. Mr. Cain is also practicing the same routines as he is being interviewed, he just keeps bouncing around the same phrases throughout the interview.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really shocked by this add at all. I fell like it has become pretty standard policy to use certain phrasing in adds as a way to mislead voters. Mr. Cain is also practicing the same routines as he is being interviewed, he just keeps bouncing around the same phrases throughout the interview.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really shocked by this add at all. I fell like it has become pretty standard policy to use certain phrasing in adds as a way to mislead voters. Mr. Cain is also practicing the same routines as he is being interviewed, he just keeps bouncing around the same phrases throughout the interview.
ReplyDeleteThe ad, as many ads, is misleading and usually does molds the information in a way to exclude the important parts. I also loved the video, that Stewart stuck with his facts, and proved Cain wrong on some of his claims. As far as the welfare situation, I don't even know what to think after this argument, if Cain cannot even get his facts straight that frightens me about the information these people have.
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