The man behind the Willie Horton ad is at it again.
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Floyd G. Brown, who has built a political career on lobbing grenades at Democratic candidates, has produced an anti-Obama ad echoing the spot that did so much damage to the Michael Dukakis presidential run in 1988.
The ad opens with the description of several murders in Chicago in 2001, and criticizes Obama (then a state senator) for failing to support the death penalty against gang-related violence. It closes with the question: “Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?”
As Michael Scherer of Time reports this week, Brown is funding the anti-Obama ad through a PAC called the National Campaign Fund. Brown has also established a 527 organization, called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America, and another PAC, The Legacy Committee.
Brown served for five years as executive director of Young America’s Foundation, an organization that helps bring young people into the conservative fold.
He is also the founder of another conservative group, Citizens United. Brown collaborated with the group’s president, David Bossie, to write Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore. Another of his titles is Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton.
Now his target is Barack Obama. Brown told Time that the ad would air in North Carolina and would be emailed to millions of conservatives around the country.
View the anti-Obama ad.
Willie Horton ad:
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