McCain goes after Obama's Chicago ties
John McCain, on the defensive on the Wall Street crisis, is striking back today with a hard-hitting TV ad seeking to tie Democratic rival Barack Obama to the Chicago Democratic machine and its reputation for corrupt politics.
"Barack Obama, born of the corrupt Chicago political machine," the announcer says.
Obama is shown saying, "In terms of my toughness, look first of all, I come from Chicago."
Then the ad shows the silhouettes of what it tries to portray as a rogue's gallery of key supporters.
"His economic adviser, William Daley, lobbyist, mayor's brother," the announcer says. "His money man, Tony Rezko, client, patron, convicted felon. His 'political godfather' Emil Jones, under ethical cloud. His governor, Rod Blagojevich, a legacy of federal and state investigations.
"With friends like that, Obama is not ready to lead," the announcer concludes.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton responded, “It's no coincidence that on the very day newspapers reported that John McCain's campaign manager was paid $2 million to lobby against tighter regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the McCain campaign would launch this false, gratuitous attack. Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate as an independent Democrat. He took on the Chicago Democratic organization in a primary to win a seat in the US Senate. And in both Illinois and Washington, he has challenged the Old Guard for landmark ethics reforms.”



can we see his birth certificate?
Barrak cares for the middle class and poor! ...his brother Berry is living off $12 a month in Kenya
"Community Organized" for ACORN in Chicago.
he is a political ad's dream
Has it become painfully clear that McCain is running on nothing? The only "truth" that he tells is his being held as a POW. Everything else seems to range from a half truth, innuendo or a blatant lie.
What's McCain going to do next, tell everyone that he's the black candidate and Obama is the white candidate?
Yet again, the McSame organization, a Rovesque spinoff of the last two Bush campaigns, seeks to distract voters away from its own corrupt dealings, as well any anything remotely resembling an issue, by using distortions and lies. And the mainstream news media, in order to point out those lies, will feel obligated to "find something on" Obama. They'll compare a series of McSame's outright lies to one or two minor inaccuracies (like saying Carly's golden parachute was 42 million, when it was really 45 million) from the Obama campaign, as if the two were equal and offsetting.
Unfortunately, as the last two presidential elections have proven, a majority of Americans are too stupid not to be taken in, and we all pay the price.
It's about time!
Obama IS a standard issue Chicago Democrat Machine politician and not the phony Wunderkind of Change he & David Axelrod peddled to us.
liar liar, pants on fire!
John McCain is worried about a few elected officials and a business man that Barack Obama knows. What he needs to concern himself with is his Vice presidential running mates ties to the Alaskan Independent Party, which advocates Alaska pulling out of the Union. Of course she denied it but there is a You Tube video with her encouraging them to keep up the good work and her husband was an active member. By selecting her as his running mate was he putting Country First?
John McCain is not on the defense. Davis's firm received the money but Davis himself was not involved. During that time when Davis ran the Homeownership Alliance he did back legislation to increase oversight of mortgage companies. Sorry Obooma.
That's a counter-attack not hard enough, Mr. Burton. I want to hear about the Keating Five in light of the 700 billion bailout taxpayers are facing now. Please...
That's a counter-attack not hard enough, Mr. Burton. I want to hear about the Keating Five in light of the 700 billion bailout taxpayers are facing now. Please...
Wow,
Another pack of lies from McCain. The "Machine didn't really Support him.
Obama did win a heavily contested Democratic primary in 2004 to win the U.S. Senate seat, but Mayor Richard Daley provided no public support for Obama in a crowded field and another mayoral brother, John Daley, a Cook County commissioner and head of the county board’s powerful finance committee, backed Comptroller Dan Hynes in the race. Hynes is the son of former Cook County assessor and ex-Senate President Tom Hynes.
Obam
What have conservatives conserved?
Taxes for our children for decades to come?
Conservatively helped 4100 Americans die in a 2 trillion dollar war in a land that had nothing to do with who killed 3000 Americans on US soil?
Republicans like to Privatize Wealth and Socialize Debt.
The buck doesn’t stop anywhere with Republicans cause they print some more bucks. Republicans are conservative with only three things: Intelligence, thoughtfulness and accountability.
On Nov. 4th, McCain/Palin, "Thanks, But No Thanks"
The Democrats get my vote, I decided this years ago.
hang his pants from a telephone wire!!
Good ol' Boys know when they
smell "change" that you scrape
off your boots.
The republican slime machine knows that if the campaign is run on the issues, McCain doesn't have a chance. So in this dumbed-down society of ours, they know they can win with lies and innuendoes. It worked in 2000, it worked in 2004. It's all they have to go on.
Is McCain trying to lose this election?
Elect Obama on what he's accomplished as a politician.
Uh, exactly what has he accomplished as a politician?
Be sure to vote "present" on Nov. 4.
Sen. John McNOSHAME has sold his soul to the CONTROL of G.W. Bush's buddy
Karl Rove, the ULTIMATE minion of Satan. Rove knows no way of telling the truth, but spread lies, deceit, manipulate, greed, hate, and a war monger like John McCain. Together with Dick Cheney and Bush they manipulated and conjured up a war for oil on behest of the BIG oil companies as they reclaim their spoils of war EXXON-MOBIL, CHEVERON,TOTAL, SHELL, and BP of course let us not forget Cheney's Haliburton!
McCain even now can not tell the difference between the truth or a lie, just imagine what kind of PATHETIC wannabe leader he will be.
everyone knows that Mccain is an old puppet of the lobbyists and his only experience is to smear others with flat-out lies...
read it and weep .....obama is a corrupt partisan hack. he and his campaign attack dogs are behind every smear about palin. the liberals are running scared... so it's time "to argue and get in their face" ...... yeah that obama.. he's a swell guy.
ha! what about the fact that the dems created this whole sub prime mess by eliminating restrictions on credit guidelines so that they did not "discriminate" against buyers with bad credit?? Whoops. That is 100% the reason we are in financial crisis now, and it is 100% traceable to the dems. Truth hurts, no?
Republicans,
The world is laughing at you and the United States of America and the millions of Americans who stand behind you. Some people, just can't think for them selves.
Sad ........
"AND THE BAND PLAYED ON....." Another day another fractured fib.
it will be a sad day if an extreme leftist ( whom will not pledge allegiance to this country ) is elected president. Obama falls right in line with other Democrat candidates ex: Draft dodger Bill Clinton, consorting with the enemy KERRY and
now a muslim.
The leftist want to turn our military control over to the UN [ the most blatent den of theives since ALIBABA ]. I wonder if Barack is an off-spring of one of the FOURTY THEIVES.
Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?
We wont.
Reverand Wright is next.
Sound bites of "America the KKK" and God DAMN America aren't going to play well in the battleground states.
There are cell phone videos of Obama sitting in Wright's church pews while these "sermons" were going on.
Obama's political career is ovah!!
Steveo,
It was the republicans that lead to the subprime mess. They deregulated the rules that forbid companies from sticking a couple good mortage portfolios in with a the majority of at risk mortage portfolios for a bond. That bond gets a Triple A rating, the best rating a bond can have. Then the same companies peddle this garbage to the mass market but neglect to inform people what they are really buying. That is what got us into this mess. If this was just all about mortages going bad we would only have had the $300 billion dollar criss. Know your truth before you say any thing.
I wish more people would come out and call Lies as Lies and no "misrepresentation of the facts" as they do now. Call a lier a Lier. John McCain is a lier and has lied many times in his speeches. People who pay attention to the speeches know when McCain lies. I saw McCain lieing about what Obama said about taxes and how Obama plans to fund his programs. McCain just plain out lied about what Obama said and if I had not seen Obama's speech I may have believed McCain. There has to be some sort of entity where people can easily find out when the other canidate is lieing...Maybe on the web pages of each candidate is a good place for clarification of what the other candidate is saying? Or how about news reporters calling out the lies?
One question. Obama went to Europe prior to going to Harvard. He went to Harvard upon his return. Who paid for Harvard? No one seems to ask this question. I worry it was some power that wanted to build a US President. The best way to conquer is from within. WHO PAID OBAMA TUITION AT HARVARD?
LOVE some of these comments from folks who obviously get their talking points from MoveOn and Kos. Unfortunately, a few facts....
1) Obama received the second most contributions from Fannie and Freddie than anyone else in congress....behind only Senate Banking Committee Chair Chris Dodd.
2) the main reason behind this crisis is the pressure Congress imposed on the markets to make loans available to folks who had no business buying homes to being with. AND to the easy credit offered folks to buy homes above their ability to pay and for allowing refinancings in which the cash pulled out of the home didn't correspond with reality. The same politicians wringing their hands over this capital crisis were loudly proclaiming how great it was that "more folks have bought into the american dream of home ownership".
"Republican failure"? Hardly.
They're saving the best for last. REV WRIGHT.
And those ads can't come soon enough for me.
Obama has no business being the nominee over Hillary. Any white politician would have been forced out in shame, with their career in ruins, for such an association (not to mention Rezko and Ayers). He sat in that vile place of Hate for TWENTY YEARS and got a pass from the leftist media.
I love this stuff. This is too easy beating up on Obama.
Everyone, just sit back an relax. Remeber, Bush won this decade.....Twice!
1-20-09 McCain!
Don't forget William Ayers... The McCain camp hasn't even begun to trash this awful excuse for a Presidential candidate...
Ayers was one of the original grantees of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform organization in the 1990s, and was cochairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one the two operational arms of the CAC. Obama, then not yet a state senator, became chairman of the CAC in 1995. Later in that year, the first organizing meeting for Obama's state Senate campaign was held in Ayers's apartment. Ayers later wrote a memoir, and an article about him appeared in the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers is quoted as saying. "I feel we didn't do enough."
Good for McCain to make this known, you can't rely on the mainstream media to look into the past. It is only a matter of time before they drill down on Willam Ayers as well. Heck I was only eight years old when the Boston Strangler was doing his thing here, but that does not mean that I would like to hang out with him or have him hold a politcal fund-raiser for me. Come on Barrack, we are not stupid here.
William Ayers, the Willie Horton of 2008? Let's hope so
Ayers and Rezko have nothing to do with Obama. Obama sat on a board with Ayers. They were not friends. Ayers contributed 200 bucks to Obama at most. Bombings that Ayers did happened when Obama was 8. Ayers acts are disgusting, but cannot be pinned on Obama at all.
Rezko, the guy owned property that was in close proximity to Obama. Obama purchased a piece the land. Now somehow that makes Obama one of Rezko's guys? The land was purchase long before Rezko even got into trouble.
The Governor...laughable. How does the governors problems have anything to do with Obama.
As for the Lobbyist William Daley , check the internet news sources. This guy is not an advisor to Obama. He is not in the inner circle.
These are all lies and distractions. McCain is the most dishonorable politician I have ever seen. I though Bush and Cheney were bad but his brother McCain aka Bush 44 is even worse.
Incredible.....
Palin has her own preacher problem. According to her church, Bush was ordained by God and it is a sin to criticize him; the earth is 6,000 years old; gayness can be "prayed away"; and that "the end is near." I suppose those beliefs aren't a problem to McCain followers, but the sane among us shiver at the thought of Palin' finger on the button.
You republicans are all in a panic, your epic failure in this race has caused you to reach the bottom of the barrell. You think linking Obama with people that the American public do not know is gonna hurt him. HA HA HA you are fools and full of fail.
McCain is linked with the one person America knows well, George W Bush and he will go down in flames. If Obama is a socialist then McCain is a pawn of the Corrupt Corporations who got us into this mess. A republican congress and president set the course by deregulating the markets, mandating Freddy and Fannie Mae take on more debt than managable and lets not forget the Iraq War we did not need to be in. The Art of War said it best, "Never fight on two fronts"
The Right wing nut jobs and your moonbat hate radio days are over. The people will elect a real president with more guts and determination than any fool you can throw up, Obama is that president. You lose, bye bye
The democrats are going to dominate the next congress. The reason to vote for McCain is to KEEP GOVERNMENT DIVIDED. It's the only way to protect ourselves. THEY ARE ALL BUMS!!!!
Ryan, get some new talking points. Those were shot down months ago.
one word "PRESENT", I'm voting for the guy that knows a little something in Washington, who carried his own luggage on the campaign trail, it's not about the big white house that Obama ravished himself in Chicago, it's about the big house in D.C. and the folks in Washington that are corrupt, Obama sure knows how to surround himself with all that and is not a stranger to riding coat tails with crooks in Chicago!!! Since Obama took that seat, crime went up in that district- show the facts people, not just want the liberal media wants you to see.
For those of you who believe that Barack Obama is the dream candidate, you should carefully read his books (written by him). He states one thing in one part of Dreams of My father and then refutes it in the later parts of the book. There have been many, and I mean many inaccuracies in his autobiographies. Before we choose any candidate to either run this country, or run it into the ground, we should use all means at our disposal to research the complete histories of both major candidates. Although I am not a McCain supporter I may be leaning in that direction because the security of this country and the financial dificulties we now face will not be helped by the underlying policies I hear coming from the other candidate.
Regarding comment number 20, he is right. It was Bill Clinton who signed the bill to penalize lending institutions who did not offer sub prime loans to those who otherwise couldn't afford to buy their own homes. and That was the prelude and impetus to what is happening now. McCain tried to warn congress in 2005 that we were heading into a financial mess in the near future, but as is the case often. Congress didn't listen.
I hear different statements about McCain,that he is George Bushes' buddy. And he will be just like Bush. ,nothing!! Then there are statements and rumors about Obama. knows nothing,and not ready to lead. I think,if Obama gets a chance,he may improve this economy. If congress gets their brain in gear.
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