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New Obama Ad: "Smears Are All John McCain Has Left"
The Obama campaign has a new spot in key states firing back at John McCain's attack ads, saying it's all a result of McCain's own desperation:
"Barack Obama launched his first campaign here, not in anyone's living room," the announcer says as a photo of a hotel is flashed on the screen. "And Bill Daley? He was confirmed as Commerce Secretary and praised for his great work -- by none other than John McCain."
"It's clear," the announcer concludes. "With no plan to fix our economy, smears are all John McCain has left."
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I did not see McCains attack ads so I dont know what he is talking about when he references a hotel. The connection between mcCain and Daley makes McCain look like a hypocrite....its priceless
October 10, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's ad claims Obama began his political career in Ayres living room. Presumably building bombs.
October 10, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Random question: any idea where the source of "started his career at Ayer's living room" is? I know that that was mentioned since primaries, and I just took it as fact until this ad.
October 11, 2008 12:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
A fitting response. The ugly and false fury over Ayers has almost run its course. Attacking Michelle with the non-scandal will fizzle and mark the end of this - and the beginning of the next - wildly preposterous smear campaign.
McCain is at long last getting the message that this was one more 600-pound anchor that he attached to the neck of his campaign, and it's skidmark down the polls must be causing some serious seat shifting over at his headquarters.
October 10, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I do wonder how long McCain can keep up with the same 2 or 3 cursory interactions.
Obama and Ayers served on a board together...Obama has been to his house...
It doesn't seem like it'd have much shelf life.
October 10, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know. I think about what if the situation were exactly reversed, and this was a "scandal" we were trying to pin on McCain.
It'd be embarrassing. He was eight years old when the guy, unrelated in any way to him, did these awful things. Then years later they happened to serve on the same board, which, I don't know about you, but when I'm asked to serve on a board I don't call an investigator to check into the life history of each individual member. Then they were together at this other time for some morally neutral meeting. And that's it.
It would take the media about five minutes to shoot holes in the "scandal." We'd admit, yes, it's not much to go with, and it'd be over.
But somehow the Republicans are able to take three or four unrelated facts and run with them for years at a time!
October 11, 2008 8:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://adage.com/campaigntrail/post?article_id=131653
"In terms of message imbalance between the two presidential campaigns, it is clear that a critical mass has been reached. Obama is on pace to spend more on TV in the final 25 days of this election than John McCain's entire $85 million matching-fund check. For those keeping score at home, Obama has aired more than 25,000 commercials in the past four days alone."
Wow.
John
October 10, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good to see Obama putting it in perspective.
McCain is trying to light a fire in a downpour to stay warm. Flashes of fire with no sustainability....
October 10, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://blogs.abcnews.com/moneybeat/2008/10/will-morgan-sta.html
Morgan Stanley is going down. This is beginning to get scary.
October 10, 2008 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like is going to be one of the first to be bought by the federal government.
It's official: Treasury will buy stock of financial companies.
October 10, 2008 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's on CNN right now. Paulson will speak shortly.
October 10, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nailed it!
Simple and calm in tone but still very effective.
October 10, 2008 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain, in your guts you know he's nuts...
October 10, 2008 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent. Soft music in the background. Calm voice. Uses mcShame's own words against him. I think it's effective.
October 10, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know that Ramada in the commercial and trust me...the Ritz Carlton it ain't.
October 10, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's the specific Daley connection that the ad is referring to? Has Daley cropped up in McCain's barrage?
October 10, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
The RNC ad in this post ties Obama to Ayers, Rezko, and Daley.
October 10, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, a recent "Who is Obama" ad had Daley in it.
October 10, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you both. They left out Al Capone! There must be a connection to Obama there somewhere.
October 10, 2008 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
BAM!!
October 10, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink