Obama ad again links McCain to Bush

Thursday 07th August, 06:19 AM JST

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SuperLib at 04:38 PM JST - 7th August

So much for the clean campaign that both of them pledged.

Agreed.
skipthesong at 04:46 PM JST - 7th August

So much for the clean campaign that both of them pledged." Compared the Obama-Clinton campaign, this is very clean!
NeilArmstrong at 04:50 PM JST - 7th August

skipthesong

John McCain campaigns in a very fair and clean manner. He does not use insults or jibes. Shame Obama flip flops and uses underhand tactics.
Madverts at 06:51 PM JST - 7th August

"John McCain campaigns in a very fair and clean manner"

Heh, yeah the "leaked" pictures of Sen. Obama in tribal dress were a treat. So was the comparision to Brittney Spears.
yabits at 07:03 PM JST - 7th August

Obama going negative because he is stalling in the polls...

I find it funny that linking McCain with Bush is "going negative." True, but funny nonetheless.
McNeoCon at 11:45 PM JST - 7th August

McCain 2008!

God bless America!!
undecidedbout08 at 12:01 AM JST - 8th August

Obama ad again links McCain to Bush

If history is anything to go by this election should be a cakewalk for the Dems. That Obama and the Rove-like Mr Axelrod have to resort to ads like this must mean they are getting desperate. Media coverage is overwhelmingly in Obama's favor and yet he is taking the low road.

What happened to all that hope, all that change...
WhiteHawk at 12:33 AM JST - 8th August

SezWho2:

The negativity of McCain's campaign is not determined by whether or not McCain can find positive things to say about Obama. It is determined by McCain's lack of attention to positive things about his own plans and programs.

McCain says positive things about his plans and programs all the time. But most of the media is too busy fawning over Obama to report it.

smithinjapan:

A stupid answer to a very honest and important question.

There is nothing positive of substance to say about Obama. Period. Again, he has no experience, no substance, no honesty, and no knowledge.

Look at his entire campaign... name ONE pledge he's made that isn't a reversal to what he promised previously, or a flip-flop from a senator under the Bush regime. Name one!

Fighting the war on terror. Wow, that was easy.

McCain was against drilling in offshore areas and ANWR when oil was $20/barrel, but is for it when oil is $120/barrel. Is that your idea of a flip-flop?

Obama was against it when oil was $120/barrel, but is for it when oil is $120/barrel. Can you spot the difference?

undecidedabout08:

You didn't follow the Republican primaries. You look ridiculous.

Bingo. What smithinjapan has so quickly forgotten is that McCain got the lead in "blue" states which held open primaries (Democrats could vote in the GOP primary), before the majority of conservatives in the "red" states got a chance to vote. Fred Thompson, as a reminder, dropped out before his home state of Tennessee held its primary.

And for the record, Duncan Hunter was "my" guy. Once he dropped out, it was Romney. I liked Thompson too, but I knew only my fellow Tennesseans would remember him as anything other than an actor. McCain is our hold-the-nose-and-vote candidate. He's only been a consistent conservative on a few major issues: Defending the country (and the world) from Islamic terrorism, cutting unnecessary spending from the federal budget, supporting the death penalty, and energy independence. Other than that, there's not much difference between him and Obama, so I don't understand the opposition the left has against McCain. You want open borders or amnesty for illegal aliens? McCain has oily-slick, MS13-apologist Juan Hernandez as his "Hispanic outreach director", so it's likely. You think the Fairness Doctrine was a good idea? Well, right-wing talk radio has rarely been McCain's friend, so don't expect much opposition from the man who co-wrote the other great restriction on free speech, McCain-Feingold. McCain was the liberals' pick during the primaries, after all.

Same for Bush, really. He didn't do a single thing to reduce the number of people on welfare, and he gave us our biggest step towards socialized medicine since FDR. Nor did has he done much to prevent illegal alien nannies, housekeepers and landscapers from finding jobs in the mansions of limosine liberals from D.C. to Malibu. He's a moderate, so what's with all the Hitler comparisons and neocon this and neocon that?

Obama is making schoolwork, studying, and showing your braininess cool. That's good for the kids, people.

Credit to Obama there. He's had the audacity ;) to tell young blacks they need to help themselves and get in the game. No wonder Jesse Jackson wanted to rip his... man, it hurts even thinking about typing it. Of course, that's been the message Republicans have been sending for years, but when it comes from them, it's attacked as "racism", and when Obama says it, it's heralded as "responsibility". With such a bigoted perspective, any legitimate discussion of issues or politics is impossible.
adaydream at 04:25 AM JST - 8th August

NeilArmstrong - Shame Obama flip flops and uses underhand tactics.

Please explain the underhanded tactics.

They both have done their fair share of flip-flopping. < :-)
Sarge at 07:02 AM JST - 8th August

"The 'leaked' pictures of Sen. Obama in tribal dress were a treat."

Yeah, they were! Hee hee!
SezWho2 at 08:25 AM JST - 8th August

WhiteHawk,

It's not true that McCain says positive things about his campaign all the time.

The Wisconsin Advertising Project, for example, found that 90% of Obama's add's were "positive" and did not mention McCain at all. They compare that with the 1/3 of McCain's ads which were negative and predominated in insinuation and innuendo against Obama.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/07/30/mccains-political-ads-go-negative-against-obama.html
undecidedbout08 at 08:50 AM JST - 8th August

How can Obama link McCain to Bush when Obama is getting more money from Exxon and Mobil than is McCain?

Yup. Read, weep, gnash teeth, wave hands in the other guy's face, change subject...

"Much has been made of Barack Obama's TV ad this week that accuses John McCain of being "in the pocket" of the oil industry, and yesterday the Democratic Party launched a website pairing McCain and Exxon Mobil as running-mates. While McCain has raised considerably more money from this unpopular industry, CRP was surprised to notice that it's actually Obama who has received more from the pockets of employees at several of Big Oil's biggest and most recognizable companies. Tallying contributions by employees in the industry and their families, we found that Exxon, Chevron and BP have all contributed more money to Obama than to McCain.

Through June, Exxon employees have given Obama $42,100 to McCain's $35,166. Chevron favors Obama $35,157 to $28,500, and Obama edges out McCain with BP $16,046 vs. $11,500. "

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/08/oil-industry-leans-toward-mcca.html
WhiteHawk at 12:05 PM JST - 8th August

SezWho2, there is a lot more to campaigning than TV ads, and I was not limiting McCain's comments to those.
undecidedbout08 at 12:52 PM JST - 8th August

The Nation magazine, in an open letter to the naked emperor-would be, has warned Obama about his campaign. I'm guessing that is why he is going negative.

"...Since your historic victory in the primary, there have been troubling signs that you are moving away from the core commitments shared by many who have supported your campaign, toward a more cautious and centrist stance--including, most notably, your vote for the FISA legislation granting telecom companies immunity from prosecution for illegal wiretapping, which angered and dismayed so many of your supporters."

Signers include: Barbara Ehrenreich, Tom Hayden, Eric Foner, Studs Terkel, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn,Juan Cole, and various other sentimental Lefties.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080818/open_letter
SezWho2 at 06:40 PM JST - 8th August

WhiteHawk,

There is indeed more to campaigns than just TV ads. But what you said was that McCain says positive things all the time.

Now I believe you must have meant that colloquially where we are to understand that you don't mean all the time, but instead frequently. I have pointed out one statistic that shows McCain being more negative than Obama. You have rightly said that there is more to campaigning than TV. But I can't see where you have supported the notion that McCain is not negative compared to Obama.