McCain airs Woodstock ad in S.C.
John McCain began airing a TV ad today in South Carolina that neatly wraps in two of his strengths -- as POW war hero and budget watchdog.
It shows him at a Republican debate firing off one of the best one-liners of the campaign, a criticism of a budget provision pushed by Democrat Hillary Clinton.
"A few days ago, Senator Clinton tried to spend one million dollars on the Woodstock concert museum," McCain says.
"Now my friends, I wasn't there. I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event," he continues over footage of hippies at the 1969 cultural watershed.
"I was, I was tied up at the time," he says as footage is shown of a bedridden McCain recovering from injuries at the "Hanoi Hilton."
"No one can be President of the United States that supports projects such as these," he says, as the ad shows his rivals applauding him, and the audience rising to its feet.
The spot is airing in the populous Greenville/Spartanburg market.
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This video is sickening. He's saying no presidents should support cultural projects, cultural history preservation.... arts....questioning the way things work... everything that woodstock stood for. But what I find most disturbing is that its a museum commemorating and recording a historic event. He's against museums!
Is McCain so short on ideas that he needs to reference an event that took place 40 years ago? I've got questions about government money going towards a Woodstock museum myself, but c'mon....As for the digs about pharmaceuticals, McCain needs to be careful - people remember that his wife embezzled money from her own nonprofit for her Vicodin/Percocet addiction. Glass houses and all that...
It's also foolish for him to be positioning himself as the GOP nominee fighting against the Dem nominee. Nomination for either one is hardly a sure thing at this point. Such an ad strikes me as way too premature - shouldn't he be focusing on Huckleberry & Romney?
You think we should support events that glorified major drug use and free sex, no protection. It wasnt an anti war protest. The idiots that were there were to out of it to shine the light on a goverment fighting someone elses war. It was a bunch of scared kids turing there backs on the friends that were drafted and went. Cultural event your an ass.
Is this THE Eric Mcabee from "down around Spartanburg". The Slumpy havin, slower than Dix at shotgunin, "Did you Know?" I met my wife at Winners right before I busted a sport cars window out with the best friend Ive ever had's head and a guard rail, POA for life, big lip bastard. Man I hope so. I gooogled you. Got ur pic right here. Listening to Hank jr, Bluesman Drinkin alone ready to bust through screen doors hopin u'll be htere. What up Focker. Email me at dbettag@yahoo.com and quit makin so passionately extrmest arguments. You lose youre valid point with an exuberence that overgeneralizes and overides peoples logic. LOVE 4EVA NIGGEY ..dEWAYNE BETTAG 469.951.5776
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