Obama's latest ad: You may not be Bush, but you sure vote to support his policies
By SilentPatriot Friday Oct 17, 2008 8:00amJohn McCain delivered a good line Wednesday night about Obama's effort to tie him to George Bush -- If you want to run against George Bush, you should have ran four years ago -- but that's a tough case to make when you vote with him 90% of the time. As always, Team Obama is right on top of it.
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Having the video of McCain himself sayingthat he votedwith Bush 90% of the time makes this commercial an instant classic.
Apparently my space bar isn't working so well.
Also, FRIST!
McCain and Bush are in the same party! Of course they vote together consistently; in case you haven't noticed, that's how things get done in our government. Most members of the Republican party voted with Bush closer to 98% of the time; McCain's reputation as a maverick comes from his relatively low voting rate with the Republican party.
He is a jowly old W.
Same school--old school--thuglican.
Team Obama swung for the fence...and made it! This has to be one of, if not the best ad of the entire campaign season. I am sure that it will be tremendously effective as well. If camaign ads were eligible for Emmys, this one would be the runaway winnah!
For the sake of comparison, does anyone know what % of the time Obama has voted with Bush?
I'm assuming it's less than 90, but I'm guessing it's not as far from 90 as we're supposed to think. I wouldn't be surprised if it's over 50, at least. I hope I'm wrong...
I believe the number is about 37%.
Wow, that's encouragingly low.
How I wish we had a true opposition party in this country that had been able to give the chimperor the middle finger as a block.
I understand how you feel. I think that quote I've been seeing about the US having one party (i.e. the "business" party) with two factions (i.e. Republicans and Democrats) is ultimately true.
I'd love to see how someone like Ralph Nader would do in office.
Yeah, it's so depressing how about we just NOT VOTE this november, it doesn't matter WHO gets elected in November, right?
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Earth to Moonbats, Earth to Moonbats: don't earn the name the Republicans have given you. VOTE! Even if you hate Obama, you KNOW he'll be WAY better than anything the GOP puts out.
Like the way they caught his blinking shifty eyes at the debate.
Why am I seeing only a blank white field instead of the embedded video?
It's the same for me - there's not even a space for a video.
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To a certain percentage in this country, voting with Bush is a good thing
Not a high enough percentage. You can't win with 20% of the vote in a fair election.
Who says the election will be fair?
Not me. That is why i qualified my statement.
But no ad is good enough if the election is stolen. The GOP (again!) have convinced (suckered) the American public that Acorn (or any progressive org) is the real criminal here. Thus the GOP can scare people away from the polls with impunity and there ain't nothing anyone can do to stop them.
Las Vegas was just the start; what's happening in YOUR community??
Senator McCain keeps saying look at my record. We are McSame
It's not just Bush's polcicies that America is sick and tired of.
We're sick of his lies, his arrogance, his ineptness, his lack of curiosity, his coldness, his full-blown partisanship, his strut, his lack of accountability, his aloofness, his dismay for the rule of law, his vice president and of course, his smirk. I'm sure there are many more, but the point is that THIS is what we are seeking change from and there's no stopping this runaway freight train now.
Unfortunately for McCai, he was just caught playing on the tracks when the the Bush-train ran him over......... (yet again).
This freight train is headed for the bridge to nowhere, but the bridge is out and it's taking the GOP with it.
Just wanted to say that your post was an excellent summary of exactly how I feel about Bush and his disgusting party. I'm a former Republican who voted for Reagan and Bush Senior once upon a time but will probably never vote for a Republican for president again in my lifetime -for exactly the reasons you stated in your post.
Because I donated to the Obama campaign four times in the primaries, they send me emails.
After the FISA vote I bailed. I was tempted to ask for my money back but never did. So they keep sending me emails.
I received notice of that video somehow and immediately left a comment, the first one.
They didn't approve it. This is what I said regarding the video:
'I like it!
Nader/Gonzalez '08'.
Ralph Nader would put Bush in jail. Where he belongs, along with all of the Wall Street crooks that are bleeding us dry.
The FISA vote is the one vote for Bush that I won't forgive anyone for.
Read the recent stories on the NSA spying on our own military. That is what the FISA vote was about times one million.
I stopped caring about the outcome of the election after the FISA vote too. I'm still rooting for Obama but only cause I hate McCain now after the way he's run his campaign and the thought of Palin with any more authority than she has now is truly frightening (I don't want to be hunted by her from a helicopter).
Sadly however I don't think Nader could do anything to Bush without congressional support and that ain't going to happen.
Even more sadly, I've learned that a president can issue preemptive pardons, even for himself. I'm sure before he leaves office he'll issue a blanket pardon for his administration and associated hangers on for all wrong doings.
So, forget consequences.
No President has ever pardoned himself. This is an established fact.
Nixon may have wanted to try but he didn't. Ford did it for him one month after his resignation.
But Bush has so much to lose that he may try it. We will see. If McCain is in he will likely do it for him.
Obama I suspect will not but neither will he prosecute. They have already said as much.
As far as the consequences, we are headed for a revolution sooner or later.
The Corporations must be disenfranchised of their supposed 'personal' rights.
A side note: this is why Ted Stevens wanted his trial hurried up. He wanted to be sure that, if he was convicted, Bush would still be in office to pardon him.
I can't imagine not caring about the outcome of this election. I am pissed about the FISA vote too, but i can't take four (or worse eight, twelve - sixteen?) more years of this shit.
If our elected representatives are going to suspend the rule of law for wealthy law breakers so flagrantly then does anything else really matter? I mean that is the most basic shit.
Like I said, I'm against McCain but if Bush & co can get away with what they've done and even someone like Obama favored the FISA bill then we're done and we're just playing out the line.
My favorite was Kucinich, but you know what? He won't stand a chance for the next 20 years (and then he'll be too old). This is an evolutionary thing. We're going to have to move by inches until it speeds up into feet and yards and miles. Let's elect the guy who can get consensus. I'm not saying it's not important to be right, it is; but it's vitally important to be PRODUCTIVELY RIGHT. And sorry, that's not Nader.
Step One:
STOP THE BLEEDING!
Good line my ass. Lame at best and it took him 4 months to come up with it. The worst part is seeing him repeat it in his stump speech. He has that big stupid grin on his face like he's just said something remarkably clever. He reminds me of a three year old that got a big laugh for saying fart and now repeats it over and over thinking it must be some sort of magic word.
That is a grin?
I would hate to see his grimace.
If you're NOT Bush why didn't YOU run against him 4 years ago?
Obama needs to make an add about his plan for small businesses - McCain is trying to paint him as the enemy of small business, and it's something people don't know as much about. Talk about the job-creation tax credit, the real statistics on how much small businesses make (50% make more than 250, 000a years? No), on the help he'll give so they can give their employers health insurance. He needs to push his support of small businesses harder.
To not be all criticism, though, I stil think that's a good commercial (I just don't think attack ads are as effective for Obama as policy ads), and the other one that's running a lot out here, the healthcare one, is also good. But health care is only part of what people care about this election (another thing they could up the focus on is Obama's energy plan - again, job creation).
You are right, he'll pardon all those responsible for the illegal invasion of Iraq including himself. It's not good enough, they all need to be dragged off to The Hague for war crimes. Did you see on Letterman that Dave was pressing McMaverich on the credibility of some of his statements and the nomination of Palin, and McCain kept interrupting, bringing up the Ayers thing again and that Palin will be able to manage another 9/11!!! But one thing Dave managed to do was make McCain LIE. LIE, and LIE some more through his polidentured teeth. Was the audience stacked with GOP's, McShite kept getting rousing applauses.
Anyone seen Stone's W. Richard Dreyfuss as Cheney looks so coldly accurate, he's a great underrated actor. It just shows the whole sorry family and their pathology. You just don't let these kinds of people in power. They sure put the reptilian in Republican.
Best. Ad. Yet. AVery well done. Simple and to the point juxtaposed against McCain's blinking and eye rolling. Excellent.
This ad ought to be the final nail in the Palin/McCain campaign's coffin. This ad should run in every battleground state between now and election day.
Damn fine ad. It should have the hugging picture of McCain and Bush in it, though. The one where it looks as though McCain's going to grab Bush's crotch, too.
Respectfully, i disagree. If there is one thing Obama and his campaign is consistent with it is never going over the top.
In fact being consistent is what he and his campaign have been throughout this election.
When McCain said that he wasn't Bush during the last debate, and said Obama should have run against him 4 years ago, I wondered why Obama didn't say, "Well, why didn't you run against him four years ago?" McCain talks about the corruption and greed and mistakes and how he will change (steal a word, why don't you?) Washington. He's been there 26 years, and if he's so upset now about it, why didn't he run in 2004. Because he knew it was political suicide, and instead he kissed up to Bush and tried to get back to the point where he could run again.
At one time I had respect for McCain, but no more. A man that old and hot-tempered, who is willing to sacrifice every thing for the presidency, should be sent to pasture. Temperament and stamina and character - McCain lacks all three now.
John McCain 2.0 - "I voted with Bush over 90% of the time more than many of my Republican collegues"
John McCain 3.0 - Angry smearing McCain: ACORN, Ayers and Rev. Wright
John McCain 4.0 - "I'm not George Bush"
John McCain 5.0 - Zoloft McCain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYUN-oyitPQ
Ouch!
SNAP!
Why are none of your commentators talking about the fact that in these tough economic times Obama is spending millions on these 30 minute network OBAMA Infommercials and other Ads when people are suffering. It seems way out of touch with the real world. If it were McCain I feel it would be on everything 24/7.
First you have to get elected. The money Obama has spent is one year of junkets for the Wall St. regulars and Washington politicians.
Why isn't there a video?
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Should have run. I believe you want the past participle here. It's s small thing, like nails on a chalkboard, but image is important, especially for passers-by wandering into C&L for the first time.
How many times, I wonder, did OBAMA vote with President Bush on issues? Although I am indeed an ardent liberal and Obama supporter, this talking point rings rather bogus to me. So what if McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time on issues? I figure Obama and all the other Democrats probably voted with Bush 75 to 90% of the time as well. Heck, Gee Dubbya gets legislation across his desk every day that I agree with and would also vote his way. It is like this, remember the old "School House Rock cartoon "I'm Only A Bill?" In that cartoon the story was about a proposed law to make it mandatory for all school buses to stop at all railroad crossings. Now, this was a good idea, and both houses of Congress passed this bill and sent it on to the President who also signed it and it became law. Things like this are legislated every day, indeed, most of congressional legislation is run-of-the-mill stuff like this, and Bush signs off on most of it., as do the Republicans AND Democrats. Only really huge stuff like spending bills and budgets and stupid non-issue social issues like prayer in schools cause the big stinks and arguments where the partys differ so greatly. I wish Obama would just stick to what he wants to do for the people and skip the "McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time" baloney.
Teehee. Obama, your savvy outclasses even McCain's 26 years accumulating political "sophistication," and YOU'VE only been at it a couple of years.
Shows how BRAINS can trump "experience" easily. Especially experience in a person who only learns from it by cherrypicking what appeals to his agendas. Experience is almost always valuable. That doesn't mean a person will walk away from experiences WITH that value. That depends on the person's mindset.
Look at W. He's had 8 years now of "experience" with war, and he still knows no other direction to f*** except up. He learns from experience ONLY what he wants to learn. And that's usually almost nothing. Repeated applications of the same methods always result in the same failures, yet it never dawns on him that something MIGHT be lacking in his methods. No, uh-uh, never that.
McCain? Experienced in "winning wars"? What war was ever won that HE participated in? He only knows how to crash his planes or get shot down in one. But did it give him valuable "experience"? Probably. But ah, did he USE it or apply it? No. Is ANY of it a qualification for commander in chief? Absolutely not. Experience is only good depending on whether he wanted to learn from things or not. Seems he took only the knowledge he wanted to take, and left the rest of it to rot.
If he wanted to "win" in Iraq, the very least he could do is know that there IS no border between it and Afghanistan. He'd have made it his business to KNOW the difference between Sunni and Shi'ite, since that is at the very CORE of the violent civil war we are presently helping Iraq fight - to the tune of $10 BILLION a month. He says we need to "succeed" in Iraq, which means...what? To succeed in helping Iraqis slaughter one another? Has he forgotten that the "war in Iraq" was won the day W. stood on a battleship with a banner behind him that said, "Mission Accomplished!" We'd won. So why are we still there? To "succeed" - at what? We've also overstayed out welcome, and even the Iraqi govt wants us to bid farewell. But Bush and McCain still want "success" - dohh. But we REALLY DO know what success means, don't we? It's the oil, stupid.
Has anyone been keeping track of which American oil companies have been buying Iraqi oil? And at what prices, you know, ALL the details? I think people would like to know that.
"The surge is WORKING" has become a McCain mantra. Of COURSE it's working, if the goal is to deeply occupy Iraqis and intimidate them with a LOT more thick-shouldered troops with BIG guns. That'll usually bring down the violence a bit - at least for a while. But is THAT what "peace" is?
McCain ignores what Obama has known from BEFORE the invasion: that opening the Pandora's Box of the Sunni-Shi'ite bloodfeud would make Saddam's atroctites look like child's play. And so it has been. And so it WILL be again, no matter WHAT we do. Stay or leave, it WILL erupt again - with a vengeance. The bloodfeud is 1400 years old, and its roots are the very roots of Islam itself; it is therefore genocidal in nature - for BOTH sides. The "surge" can't begin to change that. If Bush and cronies had done their homework, they'd have known this, and MIGHT have hesitated to invade. I KNEW IT MYSELF, and I'm just an average citizen - one who reads and studies issues, the way Obama does. So he and I BOTH knew what a catastrophe a war with Iraq would become - and we knew exactly WHY.
McCain HAS many experiences, but hasn't learned from them. In addition, though he rhapsodizes about doing right by our vets, the truth is that he HATES our vets (videos prove it, when he callously killed the search for MIAs and POWs, despite weeping family members begging him not to). He has also consistently voted AGAINST any bill set before him that would bring benefits to vets. Now, in the campaign, he can't do enough for them. Who can believe it?
If that is what his "experience" in Nam taught him, how can that help him lead our military responsibly? Where our vets are concerned, McCain is the coldest dead fish in the pond.
Someone like Obama, who is pragmatic and a freethinker, will absorb ALL there is to be learned from HIS experiences. Even if what he learns doesn't fit his politics. That'd get him hitting the books to learn more, so he can evaluate the merit of what he has learned.
Obama is entirely capable of changing a position on some things. If conditions change, or new factors come into play, it is stupid to hold to an original position, if it has now become nonviable. Bush holds to positions with a death grip, as though the real FAULT lay in the new conditions that DARED to threaten them.
McCain is not entirely cut in Bush's mold. He tends to be that way, but is flexible enough to flipflop. Flipflopping is changing a position for political expediency, rather than conditions having changed. Obama doesn't flipflop, but that doesn't carve his positions in stone, as Bush's do. He CAN change his position, but only with new matters and conditions to consider, and even then, he'd have to study them first. That's where BRAINS come into play.
McCain is only a hair's breadth above the functional illiterate who is currently our nation's leader. Obama is a scholar. He knows the extreme importance of studying to collect as much input as he can on issues before deciding where he will stand on them.
Ignorance is not anything to be ashamed of, but knowing your knowledge is inadequate, yet making your policies conform to preference rather than fact, is irresponsible. McCain is a very ignorant man. Nor has he, in 26 years in government, seen fit to educate himself on the many complex issues upon which he will cast a vote for the people of an entire state. Ignorance isn't shameful. Failing to deal with it, when much hangs in the balance, IS. We're at war in two nations, Afghanistan and Iraq. Is it asking too much of a commander in chief to know that IRAN lies between them?
Oh, BTW, just for giggles, how many of you know that Afghanistan is an Islamic State and NOT a real democracy? Show of hands, please. Then go read their new "Constitution." You can give BUSH full credit for this. From the depths of his sixth-grade mentality, he was too ignorant to realize that that Constitution recreated an Islamic State, a Taliban-redux, with new faces and a veneer of "democracy." Cute, huh? If he knows it now, he's still calling it a democracy. Do democracies have religious courts? Do democracies have a death sentence waiting for someone who changes to another faith? Afghanistan does. Shows what ignorance can cost us - especially in a president. Obama would have caught it immediately and found it totally unacceptable. Because BRAINS help. So does research and knowledge.
Some people in the Islamic world think Obama will be REAL EASY to deal with, that he'll be profoundly sympathetic to Muslims. He WILL be fairminded, but if they think he'll give Hamas a nod, they'll be in for a BIG surprise. Even THEY aren't astute enough to realize that the middle name "Hussein" does NOT mean Obama's a Muslim, or that he'd be biased in favor of Muslims. If Iran thinks he'd be a pushover, wait till they have to DEAL with this man! He'll let them paint themselves into a thousand corners, just as he's done with McCain. This is a dude to be reckoned with, and he's on the side of liberty, democracy and human rights.
McCain's ignorance is shameful, even for a Senator. For a president...
Oh, Barack Obama, I'm SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE!
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