NRA's New Ad Calls Obama "Elitist Hypocrite" For Having Secret Service Protection For His Children

[ZombieHorde]

141. I'm going to break down the ad a little, more for my sake than anyone else's.

The ad's overt claim is President Obama is an elitist [font color=red] hypocrite.[/font]

First supporting evidence: President Obama's kids get armed security at school, but he is [font color=red] skeptical[/font] about having the same for "our" children.

Second supporting evidence: President Obama demands (surprised that word in not in red) the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes.

In my opinion, the first supporting evidence is weak for two or three reasons: 1) the President is looking into have armed guards of some sort at schools, 2) the children of high-profile people are significantly greater targets than other children, and possibly 3) the school may have had armed guards long before the President's kids attended.

In my opinion, the second supporting evidence is even weaker. It isn't fleshed out, and we are left to assume the point. I think their point is the President demands fairness on the issue of taxes, but not on security for our children. I think this is a really poor argument because taxes and armed guards at schools are two very different subjects. "The wealthy" have paid much higher taxes in the past when we didn't generally have armed guards at public schools. As far as I know, the two have never been connected in this way before, I don't see a compelling reason to so now.

The overall presentation is poor, in my opinion, but it may be good for the targeted audience.
-The spooky voice is silly.
-Pause the video at 0:15 and what you will see is even sillier, in my opinion.
-Pause the video at 0:23 and you will see the words "PROTECTION FOR [FONT COLOR=RED]THEIR[/FONT] KIDS," and on both sides of those words will an assortment of some hardcore-looking weapons, except for the pistol. I wonder what those guns are, and how many of them are actually carried by the guards at the school.