Ad Roundup: Competing Energy Policy Ads, Barack Obama as the Messiah, and John McCain Is the "Original Maverick" That Democrats Love
Barack Obama: "Original"
A new Obama ad showed up on YouTube August 5 that responded to John McCain's ad that claims he is "the original maverick." The ad attempts to link McCain to President Bush, using a McCain quote that "a recent study showed that I voted with the president over 90 percent of the time," and asks whether the Republican candidate is really "just more of the same." "Being a maverick isn't practicing the same kind of politics we have seen from Washington for decades," Bill Burton, a spokesman for Obama, said in a statement.
John McCain: "Family"
This John McCain ad (released August 6) plays the celebrity card again on Barack Obama and asks whether the "biggest celebrity in the world is ready to help" America's families. The spot opens with chants of "Obama" and flashbulbs but unlike the first "Celeb" ad features no cameos from Britney or Paris. In the ad McCain promises energy independence and more jobs and accuses Obama of promoting changes that will lead to fewer jobs. Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton responded to the ad by calling it a "dishonest attack" and pointed to tax breaks he says McCain plans to give to oil companies and corporations.
John McCain: "Praising McCain"
The most recent Web-only McCain ad (released August 6) touches on the "maverick" label again and features Democrats such as Sens. John Kerry and Joe Biden and even Barack Obama complimenting McCain. None of the sound bites are recent—Tom Daschle's is eight years old—except for a Hillary Clinton quote from March of this year. Clinton said, "I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002." Bloggers have said that the ad attempts to attract America's new center-left. Kerry released a statement Thursday in response to the ad: "The McCain campaign is determined to give their Paris Hilton ad a run for its money in the desperation department, and they've succeeded only in shining a light on the fact that the John McCain of today is unrecognizable from the John McCain of just a couple years ago."
Reader Comments
Mccain's Ad
John Mcsame is a tipical Repugs, doesn't mind doing ads loaded with lies.He and the repubgsdogs don't mind the lies as long as they win. The have raped our constitution,bankrupt our country and killed our standings in the world. People don't fall for this again.We need a change, we need OBAMA.
McCain Ads
McCain will be just like Bush with the same lying ads tryng to do the same damage they did to John Kerry. John Kerry was so much more qualified to be president and we would not find the country in such despair as we are now. Republicans and morons who fall for the lies will keep on falling. Most of us have learned not to trust these ads because republicans have no integrity with their ads. This will not work so well for McCain because the media knows how responsible they were for the harm to John Kerry. This time they will work to be fair or they will be vilified for harming the country with propaganda AGAIN.
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