McCain ad hits Obama's 'celebrity'
John McCain's campaign is continuing to go negative on Barack Obama, launching a new TV spot today that mocks his popularity and questions his Democratic rival's readiness to be president.
The ad opens by calling him "the biggest celebrity in the world" and juxtaposing footage of Obama's speech in Berlin last week before 200,000 people with quick images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
"But is he ready to lead?" the narrator asks. "With gas prices soaring, Barack Obama says no to offshore drilling. And he says he'll raise taxes on electricity. Higher taxes, more foreign oil, that's the real Obama."
Obama's campaign has argued that offshore drilling would provide no immediate relief, and is instead pushing a middle-class tax cut and a longer-range plan for alternative energy. It also says that the reference to a tax on electricity is apparently about a carbon emissions tax, and points out that McCain, as well as Obama, backs a cap-and-trade system on carbon.
The Obama campaign responded to the ad, and managed to sneak in a title of a Britney Spears song.
“On a day when major news organizations across the country are taking Senator McCain to task for a steady stream of false, negative attacks, his campaign has launched yet another. Or, as some might say, 'Oops! He did it again,' " spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement. "Our dependence on foreign oil is one of the greatest challenges we face. In this election the American people have a real choice -- between Obama’s plan to provide tax rebates to American families while creating a renewable energy economy in America that frees us from our dependence on foreign oil, and Senator McCain’s plan to continue the same failed energy policies by handing out nearly $4 billion in tax breaks to oil companies while investing almost nothing in the new energy sources that represent our future.”
The McCain campaign followed up on the ad with an even harsher memo.
"Only a celebrity of Barack Obama's magnitude could attract 200,000 fans in Berlin who gathered for the mere opportunity to be in his presence. These are not supporters or even voters, but fans fawning over The One. Only celebrities like Barack Obama go to the gym three times a day, demand "MET-RX chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and bottles of a hard-to-find organic brew -- Black Forest Berry Honest Tea" and worry about the price of arugula," campaign manager Rick Davis writes. "Yet, despite all of the fans, paparazzi and media adoration, the American people still have questions: Is Barack Obama prepared to lead? Is being famous the same as being a credible commander in chief?
"On issues big and small, there is a gap between Barack Obama's soaring rhetoric and celebrity and the facts behind them. What he says and what he does are often two very different things, leaving the American people to wonder what he actually believes, or if he believes in anything beyond himself," the memo continues. "....As the world's biggest celebrity, Barack Obama has the entourage and all the trappings of fame. Today, his campaign is more about advancing Barack Obama and less about solving the challenges facing our country."
The McCain campaign said the ad will air on national cable and in the battleground states in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Obama, meanwhile, hit back at McCain somewhat more aggressively during a town hall meeting in Springfield, Mo., this morning.
McCain, Obama claimed, believes the economy is basically on the right track. Families can't afford more of the same when gas prices and foreclosures are skyrocketing and when wages are flat.
Obama also said he welcomed a debate with McCain on taxes, highlighting his proposal for a middle-class tax cut of $1,000 that he said would benefit 95 percent of Americans.
While McCain wants to extend tax cuts enacted under President Bush that are tilted to the wealthy, Obama said his proposals would not raise taxes for any family earning less than $250,000 a year.
UPDATE: Obama responded to McCain's attacks by telling voters in Springfield, Mo.: "Nobody thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know. 'He's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name, you know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on the dollar bills.' "
Tucker Bounds, a McCain spokesman, replied, "This is a typically superfluous response from Barack Obama. Like most celebrities, he reacts to fair criticism with a mix of fussiness and hysteria. The fact is that in the face of an energy crisis, Barack Obama’s plans to raise taxes on energy and opposition to offshore drilling show that he fundamentally lacks judgment and experience, and is not ready to lead.”
worthless, i hate the campaign ads. what added value could that possibly bring. talk about taxes how about the millions they waste on ads.
It seems like someone watched Monday's Hannity and colmes where Huck advised McCain to make a commercial with OIbam's Berlin speech and McCain talking about the economy.
What a pathetic man this MCCain is, if this is the only message he can think of.
Why don't you guys just narrow it down to sports. It's the only subject I trust you on anymore.
When the majority of people disagree with the agenda you are pushing... go negative. Politics 101. - www.whitewidowreport.com
This attack on Obama is typical of the McCain campaign. They make arbitrary attacks that show negativity, and do not adress any issues. Of coarse Obama opposes off shore drilling, opening it does not spell out relief on any timeline. Oil has a direct relationship with supply and demand, as demand goes up price goes up. The only way to ween ourselves from high gas prices and foreign oil is to use less oil, and invest in alternative sources of energy. Instead of putting all the money it would take to look for oil and build rigs, we could be building solar and wind power plant, we could be investing allgea based bio-fuels, and geo-thermal plants. There are so many other choices. McCain just sees Oil, and nothing else. Also the tax issue, Obama's taxes are for people making over 250,000 dollars a year, furthermore, McCain has bluntly stated that nothing is off the table in his tax plan, including a hike in taxes, where he had earlier claimed to not raise any taxes. Talk about a flip-flopper!
Is this what campaign ads have been reduced to? Pathetic, tabloid-esque mudslinging? John McCain comes across as nothing more than a green-eyed, whiny jackass. Way to waste campaign funds, by launching a trite ad that drips of highschool mentality.
These commericals are just laughable...
What is this guy thinking? That we are all stupid...wow
Obama has greasy eyelids. He's using an old choirboy trick of putting vaseline on his eyelids to make it look like he has more light on him than he does... "angelic light" coming down from above.
That's where the sparkle comes from. Greasy eyelids.
Great, just what we need in the oval office. Ol' Greasyeyes.
Weird seeing a dude walking around a country fair eating country jam and blinking his greasy eyes.
Wow. Anybody else think McCain's camp is absolutely hysterical? Comparing Obama to Hilton? Desperation. I guess there is a reason why Mccain is focusing on negative ads--he has nothing new to offer but the same ole' policies of GW Bush.
Two words:
"Economic Justice"
Think real hard what that really means. It's a pleasant word for taking money from the people who work hard in this country and redistributing it via Government Fiat to those who choose to live on the government dole.
It's called Socialism
How can a $1,000 tax cut benefit 95% of Americans when 50% of Americans pay little to no taxes now? So Obama is "cooking the books" when he says 95% of Americans. He can not cut your tax bill by $1,000 if you are not paying that much in taxes as 50% are not paying that much in taxes if any.
But it also means that the other 5% of taxpayers (not citizens) which represents fewer than 6,650,000 people will be paying the government bill for the other 95%.
(where is middle class and where is upper class?).
When he lets the Bush tax cuts expire that will be our first tax increase,
then he will add another one.
Gotta love the democrat's socialism
what a jealous man Mccain is. So what he's well liked? That doesn't mean he is the right choice for president. Mccain wishes he had such support.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. Old Fart attacks Young Turk. Neither one of them will really be able to make any changes. I'm so sick of McBush I could puke.
McCain ads seem that he is trying to tear down his opponent instead of building himself up. McCain is in trouble, due to his ties to the past and he knows it.
that message is weak. mccain needs to step it up
Pathetic, when will he begin making ads that tout his initiatives, instead of whining endlessly about Obama?
I an surprised McCain even knows what time is.
Hm. With the largest deficit in US history this year, it seems SOMEONE should talk honestly about raising taxes since it seems neither Republicans or Democrats have any interest in slashing spending. Should we go with the guy (Obama) who honestly says he's going to raise taxes for high income individuals? Or go with the guy (McCain) who said no new taxes - but will eventually either raise taxes or let this country plummet even further into debt?
I'll take honesty for $1,000, Alex.
At least Paris and Britney are young. To run a similar ad against McCan't, one would have to dig up some graves.
typical Republican strategy based on the premise that voters are idiots. (which sadly has worked in the past). Drilling for oil off our coast will have no short term impact and little long term impact on the price of oil on the world markets - which determines the prices at the pumps. I'm sure the Republicans know this (economics 101), but it sure sounds great to say we endorse more drilling to lower gas prices and the Dems won't let us. Pure political garbage.
McCain can only go negative really... I mean, what positive ideas or messages does he have to offer? (maybe gas prices going down a dollar or so in 20 years if we rape and pillage our fair nation a lil' more?)
Anne is right. One shouldn't underestimate the influence Hannity and Fox have had on shaping negative and also blatantly misleading rhetoric about Obama. They launched their attack during the Democratic primaries, and they continue today. Hannity is the one who fed the very questions that George Stephanopoulos used in the ABC debate between HRC and Obama (wherein many complained at the lack of substance and the focus on Obama's 'ties' to Wright and the like).
Apparently, McCain isn't interested in telling me why HE should be president. Instead, he wants me to know why Obama shouldn't be. If McCain is successful in that endeavor, then he should also tell me why Bob Barr or Ralph Nader shouldn't be president. I'm listening (and analyzing).
This "news" article was clearly written by an Obama staffer. So much for unbiased journalism.
I just don't think McCain gets it. Leaders have followers. World leaders have world followers. Is it not about time America gave them one? We do not need another world bully in "McBush".
I question the logic that "no offshore drilling" necessarily means increased dependence on foreign oil. It parhaps takes a more innovative thinker than John McCain/George Bush/Dick Cheney to imagine alternative energy and personal lifestyle changes making the difference in our energy needs and our relationship with the oil interests of the middle East.
As is often the case with negative campagn ads, this appears to be just another series of "cheap shots". The McCain campaign seems to assume the American public won't notice the gist of the message, and just fall for the film footage of starlets and the hot button language of "higher taxes".
I am 79 years old, a vet, and have always had great respect for John McCain. I have lost all respect for him in the last few weeks with his personal attacks on Obama. He is now practicing the campaign style of Bush, Rove, Hannity, Limbaugh etc. Goodbye John, You will never get my vote with your dirty, below the belt style of politics that are the same way Bush treated you in 2000. You are much too old for the job John. At 46 you too were a lot better.
I was going to vote for Obama until I saw this ad. Why is Obama against domistic drilling?
Pathetic, but as McCain has no positives all he can do is attack. Unfortunatly large group of American populace are dumb as a post and this stuff works with them.
I get sick of McCain's ads and his face. Can't he go to retirement home?
We can sit on our hands and do nothing, perhaps we can sprinkle pixie dust and
a solution to the energy problem will magically appear. Obama? I think so.
McCain on the other hand is willing to do something NOW in this time and place.
While something is being done, other resources can be discovered and implemented. In the meantime do we pay the $4.00 - 5.00 gas, not to mention
the rising cost of utilities, groceries, etc., affected by the energy crisis?
Going negative backfires and make McCain look grumpy and out-of-date. "Obama is jus like all those younguns - Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton - they're all the same!" This image is reinforced at the end of the add when McCain sits there with his turkey neck looking up to the sky. Overall, I think this add does just as much damage to McCain.
The president of the United States "IS" the Biggest Celebrity (famous person) in the World by virtue of the Office. Trying to associate Barack with Spear/Hilton youthful indescretion (drugs-alchohol) is typical weak attack/smear politicing by McCain, "The Wandering Candidate" who can't seem to escape the continuation of Bush policies and Rove, Gramm, and Cheney divisiveness. What Bush knows and McCain hasn't figured out yet is the Man (Mind) makes the Office, the Office doesn't make the man. Any way Spears & Hilton can go out and make a $Million Bucks in their field anytime the want, and people like them with or without their moments, half of which are publicity stunts. The Wandering Candidate who has managed to ruin his own charcter by disparaging and filthy jokes and comments of others; expects a different result from the same negativity. McCain has no room to go negative on anybody with his insulting history that is not lost on the American People.
McCain needs to give it up and let a real republican take over, how long is the RNC going to put up with McCain?
What is funny it's the way the media will carry the message out the public with a barely hidden fervor for McCain and they will pretend to have a neutrality. But if by any chance Obama would do the same thing then you would have had so called pundits, one more ignorant than the other, saying "well the maverick McCain sticks with the issues but Obama is being petty or amateur.
If Obama had a bad week and got booed in Germany they would have said " well we can't let a guy like that to whom the world has no respect to be the president".
Everybody shuts the hell up about the new study that found that 79% of the coverage by the main broadcasters were negative toward Obama. This is what we called the propaganda machine and they're out to get Him.
McCain
I know for sure soembody like Michael Moore is gathering all those facts to expose those merceraire
Cain
McCain just announced nothing was off the table - even an increase in TAXES - the wealthy would still get their tax cut but the rest of us could look forward to
new taxes to pay for all the mistakes of this administration. Whoopee!
John "Flip-Flop" McCain had only just said that NO new taxes and now says he can't really say this, that everything will be on the table. He does not remember from one day to the next what he promised to do if elected.
What appears to happening here is that McCain thinks, as Hilary did, that the presidency is an object of succession, and that he is now due. As an African American it has often been said in our community that we would prefer the company of out right rednecks than the hypocrisy of the some liberals a characteristic I now attribute to most of the media,. It appears that bias media, now in favor of McCain, are concocting their own mix of professional jealousy with racism and with that mix are attempting to manipulate a gender and racially portion of the white electorate do defeat an individual whom, even if he doesn't become president, will soar to professional heights they will only dream of
McCain is getting desperate, hitting below the belt with a negative advertising campaign against his opponent, instead of offering an insight into what he can do for the average American citizen.
When you have to stoop to negative campaign advertising you gotta know that McCain and his neo-con backers are running scared. McCain is running out of gas on an old campaign model that represents little more than old money, the connected power brokers and the privileged Washington elite.
All of these negativity and false advertisements from McCain, camp, and surrogates will eventually backfire on McCain. Remember all of Hilliary's trash-and-burn tactics did not work for her and they won't for McCain either. McCain assured the nation he would NOT go negative on Senator Obama during his trip to overseas countries and look at what he has done and continues to do. McCain is attacking the better candidate on a personal basis and should be condemned for doing so. He also assured the nation a would run a "Clean" campaign. Does all this crapola from McCain depict a clean campaign?? He is running a dirty trash-and-burn campaign! McCain KNOWS senator Obama is 100 times the better candidate McCain is and is making every effort to slander, demonize, and trash-and-burn the good senator of Illinois. We, the people, are intelligent, smart, and KNOW McCain just does not measure up to Obama; McCain is an envious resentful, bitter old man who resents this gentleman who is black and who at age 46 has accomplished what McCain did not accomplish until age 64 in 2000, and that is to run as the presumptive nominee for their respective parties. Thanks, I'll go with the younger candidate who has actually been there and done that just like the majority of Americans......making it from the bottom up. Obama KNOWS what it is like to be poor and middle-class, he KNOWS how we worry about not having enough money to pay for our bills, he KNOWS how it actually is to work in the trenches, and he KNOWS how we have to pennypinch and of the sacrifices and choices we have to make; he and his family have been through all of these things. McCain has NOT! McCain has been FED and Cared for by OUR tax dolllars the entirety of his life time....what with his grandfather and father being career Navy men, both Admirals (big bucks) , McCain's own Navy medical supplements, and his retirement, and the best medical care provided by our U.S. government!! Simply put, McCain has NEVER been in touch with us, the average people! He has litterally sucked the nipple of our government his whole life.
I will vote for Obama. We need some body young not an old grandpa that hartly can stands by himself. besides all they are looking for it's the black gold that's what they really care about.
Seems he is more interested in talking about why Obama is bad, rather than why he is good.
Why can't the candidates focus only on what they "will" try to do, instead to finding all the bad points in the other person. We learn nothing by all this back stabbing. It seems as if McCain might be jealous of Obama's popularity. Why not do away with all negative campaign ads?
I've read about 5 comments, all of you appear to be McCain supporters, and all of you have your facts wrong.
# 22, Tim: I hope you were kidding. Otherwise, I hope you don't vote. A vote in the hand of a moron is a waste.
This is what a candidate (McCain) does when he is afraid of losing and supports all the wrong issues:
coming out against affirmative action
wanting to keep the tax cuts for the rich and the corporations permanent when the government is drowning in debt
not supporting an improved GI bill for the troops risking their lives every day in Afghanistan and Iraq
just to name a few......
Republicans will do ANYTHING to get elected: lie, distort, blame and say that everything is the Democrats fault.
Also, he is very, very jealous of Obama's popularity.
What is funny it's the way the media will carry the message out the public with a barely hidden fervor for McCain and they will pretend to have a neutrality. But if by any chance Obama would do the same thing then you would have had so called pundits, one more ignorant than the other, saying "well the maverick McCain sticks with the issues but Obama is being petty or amateur.
If Obama had a bad week and got booed in Germany they would have said " well we can't let a guy like that to whom the world has no respect to be the president".
Everybody shut the hell up about the new study that found that 79% of the coverage by the main broadcasters were negative toward Obama. This is what we called the propaganda machine and they're out to get him.
I know for sure somebody like Michael Moore is gathering all those facts to expose those mercenaries to the world. Get ready for the next movie " Got press?"
What a shame for our democracy
lets face it McCain is too bitter and too old to truely embrace change. It is pathetic to watch McCain
Mark -
Economic justice is not a socialist notion. Saying we a level playing field for folks without the representation that money brings in America is not un-American, its at the very heart of capitalist democracy. Justice is fairness enforced by the rule of law. Since the neo-cons have no respect for fairness or the law, its not hard to see why the notion of economic justice is anathema to them.
Look no further than Enron, oil speculation and the mortgage crisis for examples of why fairness in our financial system has been tortured by the Bush administration like innocent prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
fair is not the same as from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs.
Government Fiat to those who choose to live on the government dole.
It's called Socialism
Posted by Mark July 30, 08 12:16 PM
That Americans are even considering a man like Mcacain for president underscores the tragic state of the union. Never before have arrogance and greed been so openly evident and yet people have their heads buried so deep in the sands of ignorance and prejudice that the empire is sure to crumble. Things are going to get so much worse before they get better if people don't wake up, Good luck!!!!
I think this issue is a key one. Many are enamored by Obama ways that that have nothing to do with policy or competence. I give credit to McCain for saying that the emperor has no clothes.
There is nothing more entertaining than reading user comments. And generally McCain's supporters' comments are better--to laugh at.
that's what Obama is just a celebrity with good intentions and no experience how want to kill 75% of the work force in this country by taxing bussines that genarate 1 or 2 millions a yrs .
He is just a populist socialist who wants people to depend more and more on the Goverment.
the Ad does not atack him personally but his policies.
tha's what have liverals angry
I thought McCain was supposed to be some kind of smart, decisive leader. Instead he comes off as a petty, jealous amateur. And these ads are just plain nasty and deceptive.
Meanwhile, say what you want about Obama, but the man has some real cajones. McCain dared him to go to Iraq.... He managed to pull off a presidential trip, impress the hell out of the world, and come back without uttering anything negative about his opponent.
So McCain hoped he'd screw up, but he didn't. Now we are supposed to be resentful of Obama's success. Obama makes us look good...
Meanwhile McCain just grumbles and complains. Lot of good that would do us if, heaven forbid, he actually managed to get elected.
Can you imagine what Obama will be able to do when he is actually elected!?! I want someone we can be proud of. I don't want another humdrum loser who stumbles over his words and can't come up with new ideas.
McCain did not have an energy stance on his website "Issues" section until June 25th! A real "Johnny come lately" on energy eh Mr. McCain? Having lived through the oil shocks of the 70s, Are we to trush you Mr McCain to lead us out of our energy crisis??? Drill, Drill and more drilling..... On energy you are quite the visionary leader !
Perhaps you can help me Mr. McCain: please inform us about the reserves we may find. From what I can find ANWR has probably offshore - perhaps 1 - 2 years in areas presently banned to drilling.
Will ANYONE give us a complete picture of how much we stand to gain by drillig in the areas presently banned???
I think this issue is a key one. Many are enamored by Obama ways that that have nothing to do with policy or competence. I give credit to McCain for saying that the emperor has no clothes.
NinaK........well said!
What's so different about these points than the ones Hillary made against the Annointed One during the primary??? Oh yeah, it's because it's now coming from the Republicans that they are now racist remarks.
You Demie Whiners are so full of crapola!!! Especially those of you who swear you were going to vote for McCain but now won't. May you be struck by lightening for your lies.
And yes, "Economic Justice" does equal National Socialism. And guess what National Socialism was called in Obama's new favorite country, Germany?
Is somebody going to get fired over this ad? It sounds like it written by a 15-year old!
To Tim...one reason why Obama is against offshore drilling is that it's a 20 year solution to a right now problem. Another reason is that two of the five states where offshore drilling would occur; California and Florida, adamately oppose any offshore drilling off their coast and both states have laws against drilling off their coasts. Offshore drilling can't happen without the approval of the states where the drilling will occur and in California, opposition to offshore drilling is one of the few thing that's supported by both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans. Florida is a key battleground state and I doubt that owners of prime beach resort property want ugly oil platforms off the coast. Oil from the 1960s Santa Barbara oil spill is still washing up on the beach not far from where Oprah, Babs and many other key Democratic contributors own homes along the California coast. Texas is the only state of the four other states where where offshore drilling could occur ( Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama) that is of any politicial or fundraising significance, and Texas isn't that important politically since it will probably go GOP
All of these negativity and false advertisements from McCain, camp, and surrogates will eventually backfire on McCain. Remember all of Hilliary's trash-and-burn tactics did not work for her and they won't for McCain either. McCain assured the nation he would NOT go negative on Senator Obama during his trip to overseas countries and look at what he has done and continues to do. McCain is attacking the better candidate on a personal basis and should be condemned for doing so. He also assured the nation a would run a "Clean" campaign. Does all this crapola from McCain depict a clean campaign?? He is running a dirty trash-and-burn campaign! McCain KNOWS senator Obama is 100 times the better candidate McCain is and is making every effort to slander, demonize, and trash-and-burn the good senator of Illinois. We, the people, are intelligent, smart, and KNOW McCain just does not measure up to Obama; McCain is an envious resentful, bitter old man who resents this gentleman who is black and who at age 46 has accomplished what McCain did not accomplish until age 64 in 2000, and that is to run as the presumptive nominee for their respective parties. Thanks, I'll go with the younger candidate who has actually been there and done that just like the majority of Americans......making it from the bottom up. Obama KNOWS what it is like to be poor and middle-class, he KNOWS how we worry about not having enough money to pay for our bills, he KNOWS how it actually is to work in the trenches, and he KNOWS how we have to pennypinch and of the sacrifices and choices we have to make; he and his family have been through all of these things. McCain has NOT! McCain has been FED and Cared for by OUR tax dolllars the entirety of his life time....what with his grandfather and father being career Navy men, both Admirals (big bucks) , McCain's own Navy medical supplements, and his retirement, and the best medical care provided by our U.S. government!! Simply put, McCain has NEVER been in touch with us, the average people! He has litterally sucked the nipple of our government his whole life.
Hm. With the largest deficit in US history this year, it seems SOMEONE should talk honestly about raising taxes since it seems neither Republicans or Democrats have any interest in slashing spending. Should we go with the guy (Obama) who honestly says he's going to raise taxes for high income individuals? Or go with the guy (McCain) who said no new taxes - but will eventually either raise taxes or let this country plummet even further into debt?
I'll take honesty for $1,000, Alex.
Posted by J.P.
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McCain reminds me George H. W. Bush when he sincerely and adamantely stated, "Read my lips, no new taxes". President George Bush Sr had to raise our taxes, he did not have a choice; however, McCain said he will not raise taxes, today he is saying raising taxes is NOT off the table; in other words, he is saying raising taxes is ON the table. Please remember, McCain definitely likes to sit at the table and loves to discuss issues ON the table. Yes, McCain said he "needs to sit down at the table (to make decisions), and if that does not work, he is going to go back and sit at that table, that's what I am going to do, I am going to sit at the table". Anybody else get the impression McCain doesn't know wht the heck he is doing and saying?? He is one confused dude! His speech writer tells, gives, and writes what McCain is SUPPOSED to say/read and he keeps going off track from the speech. His campaigns excuse: McCain likes to do things his way and it is hard for hem to keep up with the teleprompter. LOL! The guy probably has POOR eyesight and is TOO vain to wear his glasses!! OR else, he simple cannot keep up with the teleprompter and keeps getting lost and having to add his own words. Either way, it is pathetic.
LOL I think the commercial is FUNNY!! I can't wait for the Daily show to do a Obama retraction:
Open sceen of yoda then fading to a tortis....YES HE HAS BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME..
Then to a still of Mccain stiffly holding the Dali lamas hand. panning to the "I've fallen and I can't getup" Lady. YEARS OF EXPERIANCE... fading to him giving George Bush a hug....
BUT IS HE TOO OLD?
What does McCain aspire to?
A duller, dumber George W. Bush?
Sour grape mentality sure suits McSame well. Obama can’t save us either. McSame will continue the eight years of hell we are going through, and Obama will sacrifice his principles just to get elected—just like the Dem’s congress has been doing. To stop this two party democracy mockery and save our country: WWW.VOTENADER.ORG. It's time for a REAL change.
Hm. With the largest deficit in US history this year, it seems SOMEONE should talk honestly about raising taxes since it seems neither Republicans or Democrats have any interest in slashing spending. Should we go with the guy (Obama) who honestly says he's going to raise taxes for high income individuals? Or go with the guy (McCain) who said no new taxes - but will eventually either raise taxes or let this country plummet even further into debt?
I'll take honesty for $1,000, Alex.
Posted by J.P.
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McCain reminds me George H. W. Bush when he sincerely and adamantely stated, "Read my lips, no new taxes". President George Bush Sr had to raise our taxes, he did not have a choice; however, McCain said he will not raise taxes, today he is saying raising taxes is NOT off the table; in other words, he is saying raising taxes is ON the table. Please remember, McCain definitely likes to sit at the table and loves to discuss issues ON the table. Yes, McCain said he "needs to sit down at the table (to make decisions), and if that does not work, he is going to go back and sit at that table, that's what I am going to do, I am going to sit at the table". Anybody else get the impression McCain doesn't know wht the heck he is doing and saying?? He is one confused dude! His speech writer tells, gives, and writes what McCain is SUPPOSED to say/read and he keeps going off track from the speech. His campaigns excuse: McCain likes to do things his way and it is hard for hem to keep up with the teleprompter. LOL! The guy probably has POOR eyesight and is TOO vain to wear his glasses!! OR else, he simply cannot keep up with the teleprompter and keeps getting lost and having to add his own words. Either way, it is pathetic.
I feel sorry for You Barrack Obama because the gang that promote yoy now will tear you apart if you never know that.They will make sure they lock you up in a very tight and strong wall of misinformation you cannot escape its cosequences in the end.Life is so unfair to some when gangs of politician surrounded you like swarming bees on the beehive but when they inject that poison needle on yourself it stings really hurts.
I don't think this kind of smarmy "humorous" attack ad is going to fly well with anyone but those who have already rejected Obama.
McCain needs to watch it. They say Obama sometimes is arrogant, but so is McCain. He's known for being rude, crude, vain, and a bully. Nobody likes a bully.
Oh, and to those who say Obama's a "Socialist," you're showing your age. Aside from rejecting the assertion entirely, I'd like to point out that 90% of people don't have any idea what "socialism" means.
McCain is losing his grip and head. He is now creating a theater far worse than the worst of what we witnessed from the Clinton campaign. The voters are going to discern the real McCain: the man who left his faithful wife at a time she needed him most to marry a wealthy heiress. His ads and criticisms are wanting and unveiling his inferiority complex. They are unbecoming of a man who depicts himself as a straight-talker. Does he approve an ad that compares Obama to a woman who gives cigarette to her little child? Is the man behind this ad the one people are calling a hero? McCain is still boiling inside over Obama’s successful Berlin appearance. The philosopher Nietzsche calls that pathos: “resentiment”. It is a self-destructive feeling. True heroes do not abandon their wives in critical moments. The American voters want to hear from him how he is going to solve the critical crises facing them. Is it not appalling to suggest that Obama, not McCain nor Bush, somehow is “responsible for higher gas prices”? McCain is slipping into either insanity or senility, or both. McCain must read the biography of Julius Caesar; if he cannot, he must at least remember Caesar’s words:
“… yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”
Cassius was prepared to use every means to get power, including smearing Caesar and cajoling Brutus. At the end, Cassius committed suicide. McCain must come to grips with the fact that he is losing grips.
McLame suffers from Jan Brady Syndrome. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha...what about me!! This ad is so friggin juvenile, it belongs in a highschool political race. Enough of this douchbaggery.
hey, deval patrick stood on boston common and called the junior senator from illinois a "rock star", right? and the senator was on the cover of 'rolling stone', yes?
Barry Soetoro (his real name) is a disgrace to our country's Military, his so called "EGO" trip overseas was all for show, then go and be PM, Ruler over there, we don't need you here.
A Military Mom
You can't tax your way into a prosperous economy, and the Obamessiah plan to redistribute wealth from the creators of that wealth, approaching a 50% tax on high income earners and small business owners (while leaving alone the superrich who are all licking O!'s ankles) will gut our economy.
Say hello to Jhimmi Carter II, who told us to put on a sweater while the prime interest rate was 21%.
Yeah, baaaaybeee!
If his name was Barry O'Brien his candidacy would be a joke. Its a great ad and will play well with those on the fence. Does it dawn on you Obamabots as to why McCain is kicking Obama's heiney with women over 40? They like real men as politicians, not metrosexuals bitching about the price of humus at Whole Foods.
The morph with Paris Hilton is total genius. It plays to the concerns that many independents and democrats have with Obama...all show and too thin.
And yes Josh...McCain does think you're stupid.
McCain's daughter is friends with britney types and John doesn't seem to have a problem with it
"You can't tax your way into a prosperous economy, and the Obamessiah plan to redistribute wealth from the creators of that wealth, approaching a 50% tax on high income earners and small business owners (while leaving alone the superrich who are all licking O!'s ankles) will gut our economy.
Say hello to Jhimmi Carter II, who told us to put on a sweater while the prime interest rate was 21%."
You have absolutely no fundemental understanding of economics. Thanks for the rant though.
Off shore oil drilling will not benefit any of us for several years if at all. By the time we are in full production the price of oil will have quadrupled. Do any of you honestly think that any of that oil would remain in the US if the oil companies can get a higher price for it in China?
Lets talk about negative publicity. How about Obama's buddy Ludacris. That song really embodies negative slurs calling HRC a "ho" and McCain a "cracker". One has to wonder why Obama is constantly being photographed with these radical thinkers who only have negative things to say about anyone who is different than them. He smiles with them for the camera but then assures the American people that he disagrees with them where it counts. I think this ad poses a question that we all should be asking: Who is the real Obama? He has both opinions on every issue. That is a prime example of Americans being stupid. Apparently all you have to do to win the support of millions of voters is answer every true and false question with BOTH.
Lets talk about negative publicity. How about Obama's buddy Ludacris. That song really embodies negative slurs calling HRC a "b****" and saying that McCain belongs in a wheelchair. One has to wonder why Obama is constantly being photographed with these radical thinkers who only have negative things to say about anyone who is different than them. He smiles with them for the camera but then assures the American people that he disagrees with them where it counts. I think this ad poses a question that we all should be asking: Who is the real Obama? He has both opinions on every issue. That is a prime example of Americans being stupid. Apparently all you have to do to win the support of millions of voters is answer every true and false question with BOTH.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is pathetic. First Obama is not presidential material, now he is acting too presidential. WTH? McCain wishes he had the backing that Obama has. He has no legs to stand on and is now showing his true colors. Why do you think he has to hold “town hall meetings”? He can’t pay anyone to listen to his horse hockey. Obama represents a new America. An America that these “good ol’ boys” are not ready for. Let it go McBush. People are tired of the BS! Small minded people practice small minded things. What is McBush really able to do for this country other than continue running it in the ground? How competent do you have to be in order to screw up America? Oh wait…..we’ve had eight years of practice. I think I’ll pass on another four.
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