Typo in the headline.

I like it.

Particularly Bush-McCain at the end.

Oh, and if this is a McCain ad, then his campaign has well and truly gone over a cliff.

: )

Is this ad really new?

Didn't we have a thread on it a few days ago?

In any event, I think it's a good ad.

Eric - 65% of people in this thread think there is a typo in the headline.

(You gotta speak to him in terms he understands.)

Use active voice not passive. Stop asking us questions. We want to be led.

TELL US who will run his white house. TELL US McCain wines & dines with crooked lobbyists and was a member of the Keating Five and that Palin is an earmarker.

We don't want details. We want you to tell us facts, and be told to follow you.

Humans only jump on the strong horse. The Obama horse still looks weak.

This is "more of the same" milquetoast crap that Obama's crew sees as an "attack." If you want to attack McCain, you need to attack his perceived strengths. The words honor, integrity, and honesty need to be juxtaposed with McCain's actual words and deeds.

McCain is going for blood. Obama's ankle biting is not a good counter attack.

I'm gonna keep posting this until it stops ending up on dead threads:

From Josh's link to ProPublica on the front page:

Peter Feldman, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, did not respond directly to questions about whether Palin was aware that the project had begun anew or that $73 million in federal funds had been set aside for it. "The fact is that once Governor Palin was elected and had an opportunity to look closely at the project, she killed it," he said in an e-mailed statement. "She fought for Congress to kill the provision, but they sent the funds anyway. Palin fired the kill shot by not using a dime of that money on the bridge."

Note to Josh: since your site is called Talking Points Memo, how about posting this talking point on the front page, so that hopefully the next person who has contact with the McCain campaign or any of Palin's spokespeople will know what question to ask: exactly how did Palin "fight for Congress to kill the provision"?

I mean, come the fuck on. They keep recycling these same weak ass claims. Palin says "I told Congress, thanks but no thanks." Really? How, exactly, did Sarah Palin communicate her opposition to the bridge to Congress? With a memo? A letter? Phone calls? Press conferences?

Please, please, please someone ask the RIGHT FREAKIN' QUESTION. Make her present the documentary evidence that she did what she and they continue to claim that she did. Make them put up or shut up.

Do any of the rest of you see why this is the MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION to ask on this topic? Seriously, where's her wiggle room if she's finally asked to put up or shut up? And why the hell isn't anyone in a position to speak directly to the campaign smart enough to figure out this is what needs to be asked?

You want a true moose in the headlights question? This is the one.

Good ad. Take him on the integrity issue hard from here on. Palin proved to be a distraction that backfired and she will be taken care of in the dabates. The honor-integrity theme is a winning narrative. Keep on.

I've seen this ad and what gets me every time is the at the start when McLame swings his arms forward. For some reason it gets me. He never looks quite right to me - he looks like a puppet for real.

Wow, I finally got a post through. Unbelievable.

I'll try again. This op-ed is short, simple and on point. The question is will americans pay attention? Marioth thinks there is a chance. I hope so. I still can't f'n believe what is going on in the republican party. It is totally devoid of reality. I really don't know what they are on, but they should share the secret so that we can all be delusional and living in fantasy land. It must be some good stuff.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/opinion/13sat1.html?hp

There was a similar ad that had just one shot of the lobbyists. Drawing three out individually made me pay closer attention on this one.

ABOUT FRICKING TIME!!!

I was wondering if they were ever going to do it.

We need more of this, also one where McCain doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shia.

And with the lies recently, I think Obama should do a face-to-camera where he uses the "L" word about McCain. That would get the pundit attention back on him where it needs to be.

this ad is a good start but is misses. Now say something like where will Republicans find new people to make changes. As a nation, We can not afford the same old republican insiders and their friends to watch over the failure of Banks, Regulate the environment, improve contractor oversight, live up to the dream of Justice for all. We need Barak Obmama and the new democratic team to make sure the Corrupt, discredited, and failed policy people who president George Bush brought to Washington leave government. Only by having a democrat elected president will there be real change because new people will be brought in to make the decisions.

The Democratic presidential campaign needs to make a systematic argument that even if McCain-Palin might bring change. They do not have the people available, because it is the same gang of advisors who currently advise and lobby Pres. Bush who are moving McCain Palin forward. And that is the problem.

Secondly the democrats need to take a page from social science research which is argue the gut reaction first then do the policy. And keep it simple.

Show someone loosing a home to forclosure
show former sen. Gramm and the bankers who support the republicans. Who will the Republicans turn to to solve this mess. With Obama it will be new people not connected with the current Bush Adminstration who have ties to the banks that made the mess. New people will make decisions for average americans.

Show a factory closing and the jobs moving to overseas. Show just the one advsior to McCain and his links to foreign companies, and Romneys Bain Capital moving factorys to Asia. Talk about tax breaks for doing this export of jobs and who will the republicans turn to to solve this mess. With Obama new people not connected with the Bush Adminstration will make dicisions.

Show a Emergency room, long waiting times. Show McCain campaigns connection to Drug, and for profit healthcare, insurance by his advisors. How will McCain and these advisors fix health care if they are beholden the status quo. Only with a clean break with the current adminstration by changing the people who make decisions will we cause changes to improve the health care system.

Same again for energy.

Democrats need to show that McCain is the same, but more focused issue by issue much more simply and to the point.

A new NY Times piece on how Palin governs: If you like Bush's cronyism, secrecy, and punishment of critics, you'll love her!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Another lie:

Sarah Palin did not visit troops in Iraq, a spokesperson for the Republican vice presidential nominee confirmed Saturday, as new details emerged about the extent of the Alaska governor's foreign travel.

all this is well and good, but fivethirtyeight.com is making me want to move to toronto. WTF. suicide watch in the nova_voter household.

NY Times front page story on Palin's record as Wasila's mayor and Alaska's Governor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1221343324-tGxa66AkDRYq1tsNYpjoIw&pagewanted=all

Cheney with lipstick comes short.

I just have to ask: has nothing happened since 2pm that there hasn't been a post on Election Central? From what I've heard Obama was in NH.

I am still waiting for the Obama ad ripping McCain for his lies along the lines of whatever happened to the concept of truth, justice, and the American way? McCain is dishonorable and this needs to be pointed out long and often. So far as I can see, the Obama folks don't have any strategy or any particular message, and this is just killing them.

What is it with Democrats that they can't show any spine, even when they're being relentlessly attacked? Obama doesn't need to lose his cool, he just needs to point out that McCain and his campaign organization have no honor whatsoever. It's nothing but the truth and it's highly documentable. A whole series of orchestrated ads would be a start. But the Obama camp doesn't seem to be able to orchestrate their way out of a paper bag.

hit even harder

McHogwash the politician, like (until recently) King Bubbuh before him, is following his Nature, believing he can get away with it because no one is paying attention. But my god...you need hip-waders to listen to either him or Palin speak.

I really think we are pivoting this weekend. No one is taking Palin seriously, and McMuleFritters is all lies all the time.

I agree, hit them hard: Want Four More Years Of Lies?

You guys are great! It's time the Repugs crawl back under their rock!
This campaign is making me sick, and I think a bit paranoid. I keep see McCain as the Manchurian Candidate! The old movie, not the re-make. Now it's worse since I read an article talking about McCain authoring the bills that seal the MIA and POW records.

It's not just any oil lobbyists, it seems to be Chevron lobbyists.

http://the-shin-bone-star.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palinknows-more-about-energy-than.html

I suspect Obama is waiting for the debates before he goes after McCain. At the moment, McCain is too busy making shit up and spending a ton of cash in the process. Once the debates are going, he'll have ammunition to fire salvos at McCain and rip him up.

As for the current ad campaign, it only servers to solidify his base and annoy the left. It doesn't create a change of heart for someone in Obama's camp to move to his camp or for a squatter on the fringes of both camps to pick up and join his camp. It's way too early for an independent to make up their mind.

CNN quotes Obama spokesman Bill Burton today:

"We will take no lectures from John McCain, who is cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history. His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office he is seeking."

Glad to hear the Obama campaign saying this, in appropriately strong language, at last. They need to put the corporate-owned media on the spot by relentlessly attacking the Rove-Palin campaign's numerous, repeated, brazen, preposterous, malicious lies with words like "sleazy", "dishonorable" and "disgusting" until it raises a stink that the corporate media can't avoid talking about even if they want to.

We need to make this cloud and clear as Americans. Not Democrats, or Republicans, but as Americans. Bush has implemented all of Obama's war strategies; and not given Obama the credit for it; McCain has stolen the long-standing 'Change" platform as if that's all it takes, when Obama's change platform is a grassroots movement from the people; McCain has even turned against himself in most issues; Palin banned books, which obviously states that she does not believe in the first amendment; doesn't care about the Polar bears and lied about the whole thing; Palin now, we discover never even went to Iraq, so we are beyond the stretch here and into outright lying. As Americans, we need to demand some standards. Further, it is the Electoral College's job to scrutinize the caliber and qualifications when the candidates fail to. That is their purpose.