NEW: Obama's response ad to John McCain's vicious attack ads: The Low Road
By John Amato Tuesday Jul 29, 2008 7:43pm
Here's Barack Obama's new ad that calls out McCain's latest round of juvenile attack ads. It was Cindy McCain that said this:
"What you're going to see is a great debate. Which is what the American public deserves. None of this negative stuff, though. You won't see it come out of our side at all."-- Cindy McCain, Today Show, May 8, 2008:
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What happened, Cindy? Britney Spears ad---OMG.
He's practicing the politics of the past.
John McCain. His attacks on Barack Obama: "not true" "false""baloney""the low road""baseless."
John McCain. Same old politics. Same failed policies. Barack Obama supports a $1,000 middle class tax cut.
An energy plan that takes on oil companies, develops alternative fuels, and breaks the grip of foreign oil.
That's change we can believe in.
Here's the link to the latest McCain attack ad.
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excellent.
Pure smack-down with class.
OMG, NOOOOOoooooooooooOOOOOOOOOO!
Don't show a f#@king HYDROGEN FUEL CELL when you talk about alternative energy sources! *bangs head on desk* Can't you cut that out, and insert an electric EV1 instead? At least give us something to run with....
Grumpier Old McCain. Top o' the mornin' to ya, My friends
got 'em while still being classy ---good for Obama
This is the best the GOP can come up with? Britney Spears?
....
They're fucked. Obama's pretty much won already if that's all they're really capable of. If they can't do better than that, looking at some of the outright ugliness of previous elections, they oughta just pack up and go home.
Don't vote for that old guy in black and white. Vote for the new guy, In Living Color! Did we mention that old archival kinescopes of John McCain being old are really really old? GODS he's old.
SMACK DOWN!
Oh, snap!!!!!!
Change you can pretend in.
Why not when Mr McGoo is so far below zero in the change category.
The only thing I worry about with all this high road stuff is that Republicans and some moderates like someone who is a fighter. They often interpret "fairness" with being "soft." I know it can be a no win situation sometimes but I think everyone like to see a good old fashion 2x4 to the head here and there rather than nice dignified rebuttal. I know what Obama is doing makes good sense to a lot of normal people but normal people aren't a big enough base to win elections with these days.
This is soooo unexpected and beyond what has ever been done in any campaign ever.
I'm shocked.
Not.
General_Rennenkampf @ 6:
The funny part is BS is a republican.
Oh ,the irony.
"Hey You Kids, Get Off of My Lawn!"
-- McCain '08
McGrumpy is not going to like this one little bit.
Alice X - trolling for perfection (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 9:
Eh, between the two....
Not sure if there's a good or bad choice, as they both suck.
Hit hard and often!!!
Alice X - trolling for perfection (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 9:
Yet they're just a +/- 4-8 points apart.
Hmmmm. Funny thing, elections.
It's not a bad ad, but... Is it good enough? I'm not sure. Then again, I tend to go postal and think every slight has to be countered. What do you all think?
Did McCain hire Mark Penn as his new campaign manager?
Going negative vs. Obama didn't work out so well for Hillary, and she was 1000x the candidate McFlip-Flop is.
that is good! that's good! that is good!
those are the words i spontaneously muttered after watching the ad.
it's a risky approach, taking the high road. but i hope obama stays with it. it makes him look not only so much better (more mature, more gracious, more on the side of the angles, if you will, and f*ck you if you won't), but also, as the ad itself points out, it makes mcmuffin look like he's stuck in the mud-slinging politics of the past decade.
an essay on the moderate voice last week said that mcmuffin is risking his standing w/the independents, who are tired of this sort of mud-slinging and fear-mongering, and are the very contingent that mcmuffin needs to win.
(see skippy for details...you know i was going to get a blogwhore in there, didn't you?)
McCan't is inept. His campaign is inept. His party is inept.
mudshark @ 12:
BS? Oh, you mean Britney Spears. Damn, don't do that again.
Yes, the stupidity of Mankind knows only the bounds of the Universe.
Lilybelle @ 18:
should have stayed on that shot of bush next to mccain longer. should have used the pic of mccain giving bush the "papa" hug.
Perfect. Combine Britney Spears' drug-gulping lifestyle with Paris Hilton's family dough, and what you have is a picture of a much younger Cindy McCain
DaveK @ 13:
He will be yelling that during the WH easter egg hunt even after he loses.
Beef Jerky @ 24:
And isn't their daughter palling around with the starlets of The Hills?
But seriously, does Obama need to explain that the offshore drilling thing is hooey? Does he need to show the "Obama doesn't like the troops" nonsense for the crap it is?
Oh wait a minute. Tucker is on Dan Abrams. I have to go turn off the TV. Be right back.
Such is Washingtoin politics.
And it will get worse.
Disfunctional , and just about juvenile.
It happens elsewhere.
Race to the white house (NBC)- Rachel Maddow needs her own show!
She also said that Dana Milbank's quote has been debunked.
Basically, Pat kept referring to Millbank's column using it as factual evidence - and couldn't catch on that it'd been disproved as a negative point but rather was a positive. And Rachel just schooled him this segment.
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 21:
In the the GOP's defense, it's really hard to sell a bag of shit to the public when people have been smelling it for the past 8 years.
Too bad they didn't realize where the stench was coming from until after the '04 elections.
Next will come the criticism that Obama is beating up on an old guy.
I want Obama's team, or maybe even a surrogate to make a parody of the "won't visit the troops" ad but using McCain and the time he was told he couldn't visit them. I even have the copy in my head already:
"John McCain visited Iraq but he couldn't be bothered to visit the wounded troops. It seems the Pentagon told him he couldn't bring Cameras. Instead he went shopping in a Baghdad Market. He couldn't even be bothered to show up to vote for the new GI bill. Barack Obama supported that bill from the beginning. . and the troops like him so much he they played basketball with him. John McCain. . . dissing the troops. . . bad for America"
Liberal AND Proud @ 31:
....at the same time as they're saying Obama shouldn't make McCain's age an issue!
Commentator @ 30:
When man built cities and created politicians, the shit started smelling. It hasn't stopped since.
General_Rennenkampf @ 6:
Mon. General, let's not get PRESUMPTUOUS!
;<[)
That was nice :D
Give McCain a break. At least he hasn't called Obama a c*nt.
john @ 29:
I agree about Rachel needing her own show and apparently she actually IS in the shortlist for that at MSNBC. This "Presumptuous" thing is even easier to debunk. How many politicians have said to a crowd or to their staff or to the press "And I think we're going to win this election!" About 20 million? They can take their phony concern and suck on it.
I'm still waiting for the Keating 5 add.
I generally find responses like this to be somewhat wimpy; however it works for Obama. If McCain wants to act like an angry child, perhaps Obama is best coming across as the adult. McCain seems petty and desperate, Obama might do better to further point that out than get into a mudfight.
This may not be a very bright strategy. Why? Because now Obama may be tarred if he tries attack ads against McCain. And the way you win is (regretfully but true) attacks ads.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 35:
The GOP must be done, or they know they can't win. Running these sorts of ads is more than a cry of desperation, it's effectively saying "I surrender! I surrender!"
DaveK @ 13:
And don't EVEN get him started on the metric system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7YTf08xjpE
You can't trust Cindy on a Vicodine Wednesday.
Plisko @ 10:
If there aren't enough normal people in your country, you have a problem that a hundred elections wouldn't solve.
Otay @ 41:
Yes, but someone else **wink, wink** can make attack ads against McCain, and Obama can't do anything to stop it.
gempei @ 45:
Fair enough. . . we have a problem. The fate of our country is in the hands of people who don't make informed decisions. They make decisions based on their "gut feeling" which is influenced by stupid shit like attack ads. I'm not making this up. Studies back that up. . .
I Like Pie @ 39:
Oh yeah! That and maybe a "songbird" ad.
StirFry @ 44:
...or on a Percocet Friday...or any day that ends in "y".
Matt in Texas @ 46:
So long as the attack ads against McCain happen. I don't want to see another John Kerry campaign.
gempei @ 45:
it only took two elections for it to get this fucked up.
Like shooting fat fish in a small barrel.
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 21:
I guess "McCain Campaign Strategist" is something you wouldn't put on a resume.
I Like Pie @ 39:
I'm still waiting on the "John McCain graduated at the bottom of his Naval Academy class. Isn't 8 years of an underachieving Republican enough?" ad.
btw...you spelled ad with two "d"s. I hope General_Rennenkampf doesn't see that he'll go ballistic!
Otay @ 50:
this ad is perfect. it paints mcKeatingFive as another bush. bad for McC*nt all around.
Pretty weak response. How much money did they waste on that? Notice how it was on the defensive, rather than on the attack? When are they gonna start to ridicule McCain for his lies, fkip-flops and gaffes? I doubt anyone who sees this ad will know what it's even referring to - it's not specific or direct enough.
Ruthless People @ 54:
Know weigh, hi spelled it perfectly correctly. Just like mi.
Why does this stuff happen? I don't geaux nuts when somebody misspells a word?
Oh! ye'll take the high road and
I'll take the low road,
and I'll steal elections,
before ye!
Barack Obama:Change you can desperately cling to,
because the alternative sucks so fucking hard.
Plisko @ 47:
I know. Though uninformed on this issue, I'm also sure that speed and crack make you feel really good in the first few minutes it takes effect. I'm also sure they bring you down really low. Attack ads are the narcotic of politics.
McCains first wife said that he left her because he wanted to be in his 20's again.
Well now that he is in his 70's, he wants to be 5 again.
pinkobait @ 58:
LMFAO
NY Times Editorial - Low-Road Express
Plisko @ 47:
But I do agree with you.
pinkobait @ 58:
Why bother stealing an election with apathetic voting? If more GOP people get out and actually vote in November, all this hoo-rah about the crowds will mean jack-shit, and turnout has sucked badly for a long time in this nation.
the rachel maddow put down of pat buchanan was so good i had to clap. and smerconish was fair. i wish rachel would go on morning joe and whip some sense into those goof balls. i would like to see scarborough argue with rachel again on english. imagine a dufus like him arguing with a phd.
pinkobait @ 58:
You are so f*cking right!
PorridgeGun @ 56:
the SCLM has been givin mcC*nt's ads free air time under the guise of criticism. since they have worked so hard to distribute it for mcKeatingFive free of charge, I think everyone will know what it refers to.
everyone, maybe, except you.
gempei @ 59:
I agree. George Bush is the perfect example of the high and low you speak of. We are a nation of political crack heads. Mos Americans don't realize how bad their political decisions are till they wake up on the floor of a bathroom one day with no clothes on and a used condom hanging out of their mouthes. Then they blame it on Clinton.
General_Rennenkampf @ 57:
Yes, yew halve too yews a spill chequer. It works. It fund awl mai words.
In my part of the world all I am getting is there is something about Obama I just dont like or trust.
1 He is BLACK
2 He is UPPITY
3 He is a Muslim
4 He has a strange NAME
5 He has no Platform
6 Did I mention he is BLACK
7 Oh no I am not a racist that went out with the stone age
8 I just think McCain is a war hero and ready to be a WAR TIME PRESIDENT
Karl Rove @ 70:
Don't forget #9. The terrorist fist jab.
PS I had a 72 year old senile grand pa and he changed Friday he was alive and Saturday he changed to DEAD
Excellent ad...really welldone..class..and positive ...
Plisko @ 68:
It's painfully obvious to you, I and most people on this thread, ON THIS SITE, that McCain's ads should be a prime of example of the adage "give a man enough rope, he'll hang himself" but are we THAT distracted by the negatives of people? (sorry, I'm feeling down, while starting in on a a 5% beer and listening to the 3rd movement of Shostakovich 5 (is this elitism or what?))
any candidate who approves of a brittany spears endorsement is a loser. Brittany should have spent her time better in school rather than prancing about with no brain and no panties. That's her real claim to fame, climbing out of a limo with no underwear. I will never forget her wringing endorsement of GW as she smacked her chewing gum, "Well, we should support him, after all, he is our president." That's the mentality we are up against. How do you fight that with any kind of intellect.
I Like Pie @ 39:
What does The Dead Poet Society have to do with this?
(Seriously, that's pretty much how it will be spun. McCain's military record from the mid 60s will be front and center, while his -corrupt lobby group/savings and loan scandals being dumped on to taxpayers yet again-record will be 'SO last year.')
Otay @ 50:
Agreed.
Karl Rove @ 70:
Does any of this make a lick of sense. Well no, but it doesn't have to. Remember my constituency is the Brittany Spears of the world...and they can barely read. But they can and do turn on their radios.
gempei @ 74:
I'm feeling very cynical today. I'm remembering how we though the swift boat veterans were so ridiculous and how Kerry responded with mushy high road ads.
Excellent ad. Short, sweet and to the point. The Obama ("Osama" if you are on one of the Fux and Friends freaks) team might want to use the Neocon thinktank of choice, Rand Corp., which comes out basically saying local law enforcement is the most effective approach to handling terrorism. Not that this is working in Pakistan at all, but it does seem to contradict the Neocon fairies ideas about using the military as the tip of the spear.
http://rand.org/news/press/2008/07/29/
And Papa Hilton donates to the McCain campaign....oh the irony is killing me inside.
Otay @ 50:
Go green, young man, go green! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rOF-j1L0vE
Here is a nice spoof on Republican attack adds I plan on producing that also happens to use the exact same tricks against John McCain:
I'm calling it Republican Style Attack Ad
So. . is it over the top or is it just what they deserve? I'm seriously thinking about calling my voiceover guy and making it for YouTube right now.
no longer a proud american @ 75:
Paris Hilton is a better exemplor for Republican plutocratic supporters than Brittney, although they're both accurate. On the one hand, you've got a brainless psychotic who blindly follows any leader who gives the IMPRESSION of being trustworthy. (aka a SHEEP.) On the other hand, you've got a relatively smart, yet spoiled and irresponsible billion-heiress who supports Republicans purely out of self interest rather than any ideology. She has no choice but to support a party that believes billionair families should be able to pass their fortunes on to their children, without contributing a single PENNY to the infrastructure of the society that created the environment that allowed them to become rich. No--paying taxes to support a country, a nation and a dream called America is only something LITTLE people should have to do. The rich who, according to right wing philosophy and trickle-down economics, are doing us all a greate favor just by STAYING here, instead of pissing off to a tax haven in the Bahamas, should be exempt. They've already done their bit for America.
Look , here is how I see it. McBush's negative attack ads are so controversial they get air time over and over and over in every single news program on prime time. this provides the McBush camp with the advantage of being more widely influential. Sen. Obama's ads are very factual and even though they are calling out McBush on his lies, they do not offer that extra zinger that will make the network pundits go "Oh shoot, did you see what they said?". What Sen. obama's camp need to do is stay on the positive debunk message node anytime they are attacked but to add a little spice with some hard hitting criticism to make the networks salivate to broadcast it more during regular news programs without the extra pay ...
Vote for me, and I give you $1,000. Wow.
OT - on the Shark Week "Mythbusters" episode, they're testing whether really, really hot and spicy chili can act as a repellent. They've also built a robo-dog, complete with urine, anal secretions, and blood, to see if a dog in the water with a person would attract sharks more than usual.
Man, what a great job!
Plisko @ 83:
This spot on!! Let us know when it goes up.
Great clip of Bush, Cheney and McCain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_CAs3q7G48&feature=related
Matt in Texas @ 87:
I love those guys. I gotta check it out. thx!
Plisko @ 83:
make it! I'll send the link to 200 people and start a marathon. My people have been asking me to step up the distributions.
john @ 29:
You know what the problem is? Y'all are way too nice. You aren't sinking low enough. you have to go much, much further down.
You know that white guy that just shot up the liberals at that church in Tennessee? Try to think like him for a minute. You hate everyone who isn't a white guy and you think thet're all out to take what's yours away from you: your job, your guns, your money, your women.
Now, you've been hearing for days how "arrogant" Obama is. How "presumptIous" Obama is.
What's another word, a slang term, for a black man who is arrogant and presumptious? The kind of word the church shooter guy and his supremacist friends would use?
The kind of word that would fit nicely with "n****r".
You know: uppity. As in "uppity n****r".
Next, juxtapose the arrogant black man, smiling, alongside some scantily dressed, provacative young white women, and what do you have?
An uppity n****r who's a threat to the white women.
Anyone who doesn't think the GOP would stoop this low is seriously oblivious. This is straight out of their playbook. This is what they do.
McCain might have trouble with the Religious Right, but he'll get the Klan and the Supremacists wrapped up with this kind of stuff.
Make no mistake about their motives. Just because we don't talk like this, doesn't mean they won't do it.
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gempei @ 82:
After this election I am going to quit the Dem party and become an independent. I'll still support progressives. The advantage is that the Dem party has no respect for their base, but do have a tiny bit for independents (even though the screw up when they try to pander to them).
Plisko @ 83:
Very. Well. Done.
As far as being over the top? How is that different than what the Rethuglicans did when they swiftboated John Kerry? I am tired of the Nancy Pelosi milquetoast approach in dealing with these common bastards. It's past time to fight fire with fire. You got my vote. Produce away!
General_Rennenkampf @ 6:
Caroline Kennedy should choose herself as the best Vice Presidential candidate for Barack Obama (just like Cheney did with W.). Then we're talkin' a slam dunk. (So long as Diebold and Co. can be held in check).
Johnny2BadObamaCavedOnFISA @ 17:
Uh...yeah, it's called The Bradley effect. And it is about to make its last, ugly stand in America. 20% of the voting public just WILL NOT vote for a young black male. (Or in this case 'youthful looking' male.) 5% of them are comfortable with their racism while 15% need some kind of a subconscious excuse to protect their sense of self respect. That's where all the song and dance about Obama being 'exotic,' and 'liked in Europe' (which is apparently an un-american thing) comes in. The bottom-feeders in the Republican camp are working overtime to find code words for 'scary black man,' just like the bottom-feeders in the Dem camp are finding code words for 'senile old guy.'
So, I'm not surprised that Obama isn't up by more. Race still IS a factor in America, despite our lofty ideals. But you're about to see it's last ghasp. This election will be close, but once Obama spends eight years in office without either appointing Louis Farakkhan as Secretary of State, increasing the African American quotas at Yale to 100%, or sneaking out and raping white women while he's on day parole, the wires to those old xenophobic buttons will have been yanked out for good. So, these lizard-brain psychology experts better enjoy practicing their craft while they still can, because they'll be out of a job in a year or so.
I think it's a classy ad. I love the pictures of Bush and McCain together. I think it takes the high road but still pack a punch.
I still think the best ad is to have 2000 McCain debate 2008 McCain with his own words.
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 21:
Hey! Even Ron Paul agrees with this!
Ruthless People @ 95:
Actually, I take part of what I said back. This is different than when the Rethuglicans swiftboated John Kerry, this is the truth! C&L, please post this video if done.
Otay @ 94:
I really should have said "go green screen,..."
Ron @ 25:
I said it before ,
Mc asshat is of the age ( ah state of mind-less-ness ) where he can hide his own easter eggs .
And Ashton @ 40 , right on , as me mum used to say " everytime you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground " , that is why I think BO should not attack Mcasshat , instead kill him with kindness , he just will not know how to deal with it .
Plisko @ 10:
Exactly true. This ad looks too much like Kerry in '04. Ooohhh McSame isn't fighting fair. Help me please somebody, anybody?
IMHO we need to point the 'Country first' doesn't square with loobyist ties. 'Companies first - take two' is more like it.
and Law and Order / Immigration - where is this discussion in the campaigns? Why has it been buried by both parties? Dems should own this debate!!!
Weak.
But, I don't think McCain paid much attention to the Democratic primary. The more people focused on Obama's "rock star" attributes, the better he did.
I don't know if telling people that a lot of people love Barack Obama is such a good strategy for McCain in terms of picking up anyone that he didn't already have.
He's talking only to his on folks at this point. Yes, he's trying to drive up Obama's negatives with the few people who are undecided, but I don't that that is going to do it in this election. The few people who haven't made up their minds yet are looking for real proposals. Those folks that aren't going to vote for a black guy are already in the Abe Simpson camp.
DaveK @ 13:
"I've got a white onion tied to my belt!"
--McCain '08
(Gotta work the word 'white' in there someplace!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW5Eqycf4d4
McCain's ad isn't really about comparing Obama to Britney Spears. The subliminal message compares him to Hitler. Listen to the background chanting. Recall that two days ago FOX was openly comparing Obama to The Fuhrer. This is, as usual, a set up. You are disgusted with the the stupid Paris Hilton message and in the meantime the Nazi message is getting past your filters. Expect more of this...it's the perfect way to use Obama's popularity against him and to make McCain look more serious and presidential because he's NOT popular. See? Brilliant, huh? It's also very interesting to make the ad full screen and pause it every second or so. You see some pretty weird stuff. And just what IS that thing in Obama's mouth at .14, anyway? (You can see it on the small screen but it's easier on full.) There are stop signs in front of oil derricks and (no offshore drilling, gasp) and I swear to God, a couple of assassination shots. These repugs are evil.
Karl Rove @ 72:
you must be so proud!
Please to the guy in #83. Make your comments available for us to forward.
General_Rennenkampf @ 64:
each of us need to take a friend or ten with us on election day
"Politics of the past" is a super sweet talking point. They could bury Grandpa if they could get that one to stick. Bury metaphorically of course.
Different Anonymous @ 110:
If he becomes president we may very well end up actually having to bury him during his term. He is that old.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Granpa McCain still has a few good years left but I think they'd be better spent at an assisted living facility playing bingo and doing assorted senior things.
That said, I do think the best ads are the ones where you see him side by side with Bush. That has to be McCain's achilles' heel, so keep pounding on it.
Pericles @ 3:
No shit. But hey, if you want to know how bad all this really is, the answer is here:
Things I learned today about democracy
McCain=lies
McCain=flips and flops
McCain=torture
McCain=Keatering 5
McCain=graduated in the 5 percent lowest in his class.
McCain=no economocal plan
McCain= cheated on his first wife
Cindy McCain=stole drugs from where she worked and blamed it on otherone else, they would get fired.
Etc, Etc, Etc,
Yes, the McCains stand for honesty, integrity, intelligence. Aren't they good little Right Wing Republs. Yeppers!!!
Poor Old Man. I don't know if you noticed that POM sets up a music stand with an open binder to read his "town meeting" rants from. Too funny when he loses his place. I see that he has been having a bit of trouble walking these days - time for the walker already?
Just for the heck of it I signed up to get emails from his website to see what they were up to and today three weeks later got an email asking for money to run more ads. I think everyone should sign up for their emails and just give some very detailed reasons why they will not vote for johnny boy. Nothing obscene - just good solid reasons. I love it when their heads spin.
Billy @ 112:
Well, I guess I should really be grateful that they at least didn't show a noble cornfield, blowing in the wind against the backdrop of a corn-ethanol plant.
As for Greenwald, I don't like him. He uses the word 'vapid' too much in his books, and he torpedoed Captain Queeg because it was the only way to defend Steve Maryk, thus proving he has no scruples.
gempei @ 82:
Man, I nearly missed a gem here. Shows what I get for taking your comment at face value without following the link. That was a classic.
Plisko @ 83:
Please do this and throw in a little bit from Viet Namn Vets against McCain , and the USS Forrestal , please .
Pericles @ 3:
Yeah that was very disappointing to see in an Obama-ad. Hydrogen cell is not an alternative. Its an expensive distraction from the real viable alternative energy sources.
Bush lauds it as the tech of the future and launched a billion dollar hydrogen-project to show everyone how much he cares about the environment..
galmud @ 118:
Bill Richardson went through all the trouble of endorsing Obama in order to haul his ass out of the Reverend Wright feeding frenzy. The LEAST Obama could have done was read Richardson's book 'Leading By Example' on a sensible energy policy. Even the first 20 pages would have been enough, since that's the maximum distance anybody can write a book about energy policy without having to debunk the myth about hydrogen fuel cells.
I wish a think tank would do a study on how many times the corporate whore media and C-SPAN run rethug attack ads and then compare that number to how many times they run Obama ads. I'll bet it's at least 5 to 1 in favor of McSame and his lies. I spent a little over an hour in my dentist chair yesterday from about 4- 5:20 they had CNN on the TV and they ran McSame's celebrity ad at least 3 times in that span.
Those of us who feel the McCain ads are just negative smears should express our opinions on news and other sites, and do so immediately after the McCain ad is launched. We should also refer people to factcheck.org in regard to the untrue claims in almost every one of these ads so far. Factcheck.org is an equal opportunity fact checker. They nail Obama too. When they say the claims in the McCain ads are lies (my term), people can trust that.
He's practicing the politics of his mentor, George W. Bush
Like the attacks Governor Bush mad on him in 2000, John McCain's attacks are not true
He supports the Bush energy plan which as we all know, is a complete failure.
Obama supports tax cuts for the people who need it the most, the middle class.
And an energy policy that is focussed on alternative energy and opposes George Bush and his Oil Company CEO friends.
The same people who are funding John McCain's campaign.
That's real change we can believe in.
This campaign needs to link the two repigs together every chance they can. They need to emphasize the connections in policy, funding and support for the people who need it the least. Never run just against McCain, always run against the 3rd Bush term.
"The Low Road".....when the Obama campaign responds to an attack ad, they should show a picture of George Bush and Karl Rove, side by side, with the voice saying that this country wants a "Change" from the GWB/Karl Rove low-road politics of old. This country hates George Bush and Karl Rove.....use it!! Even where I live, the reddest of the reddest places, the people hate GWB....of course, they won't vote for Obama, because he is too "different," if you know what I mean, but they HATE GWB too. Unfortunately they see McCain as the agent of change. In responding to attack ads, show pics of GWB and KR, side by side, and keep repeating, "McCain is using the politics of GWB and KR." I can't understand why the O. campaign won't do this...remind American what they hate about GWB, and offer the alternative. (Only when responding to attack ads, tho.)
Still, as H.L. Mencken said: “No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
Examples: Richard Nixon (twice)
Ronald Reagan (twice)
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush (twice)
This is what the Repugs are counting on. Well, that and Diebold.
Plisko @ 10:
I feel the same way. It is one thing to quickly respond to attacks (as obama team did here); but it's a whole different animal to go on the attacks.
6) McLame says President Clinton was pumping ethyl, we all thot it was wasting gas, turned out ethyl was the new intern
5) McBush says let's bomb persia because there is nothing that will product more oil in the world like bombing oil suppliers
4) McRested says OBAMA has stoopid alternate energy ideas, let's ruin the ocean and drill-- cindy likes it when i drill
3) McLazy says why drive home when you can just buy another home where you are
2) McTired saves energy every day buy taking a nap
1) McOld has offered to become fossil fuel
NEW: Obama’s response ad to John McCain’s vicious attack ads: The Low Road
Good thing mccain's not taking the Hershey Road...or is he?
Scared of Obama? Why? (How to maybe answer it.)
“His middle name is Hussein.”
A name is a set of vocalizations chosen by your parents to discern you from amongst the 1000s of others around you. He didn’t pick that name; his parents chose it for him without his input. Had he, at the age of majority, decided to change his name to “Hussein” or have it added, then, maybe then, I’d share your concern. Obama is no more guilty for having his name than you are for yours.
“I’m scared because he went to a Moslem elementary school. I think he is a closet Moslem. “
Yes. It’s true. Obama went to a school where a very liberal form of Islam was part of the curriculum. However, he didn’t really have a choice whether or not to attend that school. He was just a little kid. Had he enrolled, on his own, into an Islamic Academy, then, maybe then, I would share your concern.
Besides, do you know what other schools he attended? Or, does that very short period of his primary education trump everything and anything Obama has accomplished since then? Why do you judge Obama based solely upon his childhood? Is that how you would wish to be judged? Do you list your elementary school on your resume and nothing else?
‘I still think he is a Moslem. He just hides it well.”
He has been seen eating pork products and, to our knowledge, does not observe even one of the many Islamic holidays. If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it may be a duck, but regarding Obama, no one hears any quacking right now but you.
Besides, it would be easier for him to hide out as a secular than as a practicing Christian.
“Well even so. I don’t like what his pastor said.”
Be angry at his pastor then. You act as if Obama was writing the damn sermons!
Glad Barack is fighting back but I think with the amount of money he has I think he can come up with better with these ads. Whether or not this will work in this years election, Mccain and the RNC are trying to paint Obama as someone the average american should be scared of (which worked for the RNC in 2002 and 2004). Without stooping to Mccain's level, I think we need to be unified in our message by making America aware that we should all be scared of Mccain and the Republicans - because it's true. Everything the Republicans have touched has ruined and hurt America. Now we need to be on message to remind America how scary another 4 years will be!!
If you happen to not like Mrs. McCain, the comedy website 236 has a really funny feature on her-- http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Cindy_McCain
I love McCain and Obama but I am voting for Obama. But still I got to say, McCain, put up a f**king fight for Pete's sakes! make this a challenge!
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