GREAT AD!! only wish they would have come out sooner but this is good!

Obama smacks the crap without getting soiled with this ad. Bravo and encore!

I just posted in another thread that this was solid ad, but I bet we'll see many of the chicken littles and handwringers saying that the ad was too late, or not strong enough, guess I was right.

This is a solid ad. Instead of 3 or 4 contradicting ads the Obama campaign has released just 1, that can be used to combat all the previously released McCain ads.

Notice that the ad does not try to respond to any particular McCain ad. It's aimed at all the attacks, and brings the issue back to the economy which as I said in an earlier thread is Obama's message for this week.

This is how you respond to these type of attacks, McCain has so many ads up that can be either debunked or totally dismissed that I tend to think it dilutes his message.

Anyway, good ad.

Oh, you all have to vote on the TMZ link below, they are slamming McCain, too funny!

http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/30/mccain-as-hip-as-the-one-hes-inclined-to-break/

JOAN RIVERS McCAIN.

Maybe Bill Burton can apologize to Clinton supporters for not coming to her defense during the primaries and helping her battle a torrent of sexist media criticism? I guess he is to busy responding to "Luda" as you call him.

I love this campaign. I've loved it every goddamn step of the way so far.

This is not only the most effective way to attack McLame, it happens to be the truth - something McLame wouldn't realize nowadays if it crawled up his butt and bit him.

The concern is gone.

The Bush-McCain picture makes the ad.

The best is that it's preemptive against future ads.

My favorite part: When McLame is pictured next to W. Infact, if I had to tweak and add one letter, I'd say- "Same Old W Politics."

But a nice one. Now play and replay it.

Ludacris is an artist.

Artists say all kinds of things that regular people don't say - that is in a large part, their function in society -

Luda has nothing to do with Obama - thanks for the racism, though, that was implicit there - yes you can tell them apart if you try a little bit.

;)

Well damn, it's about time. Do you guys have any idea how many milliseconds its been since McCain started this trash? I only pray that it isn't coming too late for him to salvage the election.

Thank God there were blog commenters here to demand that Obama respond to McCain's ads RIGHT THIS MINUTE and even threaten not to contribute if he didn't heed their advice immediately. Why, I'll bet that if we hadn't gotten a mass TPM-EC Chicken Little Dance going over the last two days, Obama would have just let it all slide without any response whatsoever, just like Kerry did with the Swiftboaters in 2004.

Yes, whatever would his campaign would do without expert panic-tinged campaign advice from blog commenters?

Candid hop they do, its perfect

I don care if MSM gets in an uproar over age issue the more it is mentioned the more low info voters will hear it and it will sink in the Republican guy is dirt old

If this response (as good as it is), simply responding to McCain's attacks becomes a pattern, I will be concerned.

McCain is out front, forcing his opponent to respond.

If Obama doesn't balance it out and go out front
against McCain, I don't care how good his response is/will be, he'll be in trouble.

527s not being in the vanguard, not having Obama's back may have been a bad decision.

Pretty good ad, but what I really want to hear Obama say is something like this...

McCain is an honorable man who has served his country well and promised to run a decent campaign focused on the issues affecting all Americans. Yet by running a constant stream of baseless negative attacks against me, he is not only undermining his own words, but he is allowing his long standing principles to be sacrificed by the people managing his campaign. I hope that John McCain can take control of his campaign and bring it to a dignified level of discourse that is worthy of the principles he once held. It is a disappointment.

In other words...

Make McCain feel shame. Make him feel embarrassed. Make him feel weak and powerless. Make him angry.

In a sense O's a victim of his own success. McSame's attacking him because he's popular which is odd to say the least until you realize that as long as the election is framed around McSame's attacks, no matter how absurd the attacks are, McBush isn't the issue

This ad attempts to return Bush to his rightful place

Good ad. Gets right to the point: McCain is a liar, just like George W.

Wrapped it up with some positive rebuttal, though. I like the phrase "taking on Big Oil" as a counter to the "drill here" rant from the badguys.

I feel good about our ads. Plus McCain is getting some blowback in the MSM on his dishonesty about the wounded troop visit.

The old guy is a f-ing liar. It has to be said.

Obama himself says that he did not visit the troops because he realized it would look bad politically to use the troops as props. This is so same old, same old: Obama did not care what the troops thouht about it -- he thought about how it would play politically.

He also claims that he had not realized this until informed by the DOD's position that he couldn't have campaign staff with him. Is Obama nuts or does he just think we are?

The important point here is that the MSM has finaly given permission to question McCain's integrity and honor - the only things besides the surge he had to run on.

John McCain, same OLD politics. Oh, and by the way, he's losing it.

McComplain should have left well enough alone. Here's their response:

Pointing out your opponent’s worldwide celebrity is not the ‘low road,’ and neither is pointing out that he opposes oil drilling and supports higher taxes.”

Weak sauce....

Unfortunately, this ad probably won't be amplified by the media the way McCain's ad was. McCain only had to run the ad in a few markets and the media did the rest of the work. Today's Chicago Tribune featured a front-page-below-the-fold story about McCain's ads equating Obama with airhead celebrities. The story about Rove's contempt of Congress was buried inside, as was a story about Ted Stevens and his recent troubles. I seriously doubt the Trib will have a front-page story about Obama's response to McCain's ad. The article did quote some former McCain advisors who thought the ad wouldn't help McCain.
It's an uphill climb for Obama, who has an entire TV network running against him, most of the Radio Ranters, as well as the other McCain-sympathetic media in print.

On top of their shit. They've already got these ads written before McCain's camp even cuts them. Now that's how you run a campaign. No wonder John Weaver got the fuck out of there.