Ad Roundup: McCain Courts the Hillary Vote; Obama Slammed on Foreign Policy
John McCain: "Passed Over"
McCain's campaign released this ad August 24 at 3 a.m. The release time was a reference to a national security ad Hillary Clinton released in February (called "3 a.m.") and the time at which the Obama campaign sent its text message announcing Biden as Obama's running mate. The ad tries to counter Clinton's efforts to unify the Democratic Party, with a narrative that asks why she won "millions of votes" but "isn't on [Obama's] ticket." It features criticisms that Clinton has voiced about Obama and suggests that they are the reason Clinton was "passed over" in Obama's search for a vice president. In response, Clinton spokesperson Kathleen Strand said in a statement, "[Hillary Clinton] has said repeatedly that Barack Obama and she share a commitment to changing the direction of the country, getting us out of Iraq, and expanding access to health care. It's interesting how those remarks didn't make it into his ad."
John McCain: "Housing Problem"
The McCain campaign released this ad in response to Barack Obama's comments about McCain's inability to remember how many houses he owns. McCain's ad tries to connect Obama with political fundraiser and convicted felon Tony Rezko, accusing Obama of getting Rezko's help to buy his "million-dollar mansion." In return, the ad says, Rezko got "political favors including $14 million from taxpayers." In response to the ad, Obama's campaign released its own fact check of the ad, citing various news items debunking the claim that Rezko helped Obama.
DNC: "How Many"
The Democratic National Committee jumped on John McCain's housing comment with this Web video that asks real voters on the streets if they know how many houses they own. Unsurprisingly, everyone shown in the video knows the answer. The video attempts to portray McCain as out of touch with average Americans who are struggling in today's economy. In the press release for the video, DNC spokesman Damien LaVera said, "While millions of families are struggling to stay in their homes, John McCain can't even keep track of how many he owns." Responding to earlier attacks, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said, "Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii, and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses? Does a guy who worries about the price of arugula and thinks regular people 'cling' to guns and religion in the face of economic hardship really want to have a debate about who's in touch with regular Americans?"
Barack Obama: "Don't Know Much"
This ad takes a lighter tone in its criticism of McCain's economic plans. It features a catchy song (to the tune of Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World") that begins, "I'm not up on the economy/Don't know much about industry/Really can't explain the price of gas/Or what has happened to the middle class." At the end, the narrator asks, "Do we really want four more years of the same old tune?" A press release for the ad said that McCain will "provide more tax breaks to corporations that ship American jobs overseas--and provide no direct relief at all for more than 100 million middle-class families." The ad is airing in several battleground states. The Chicago Sun-Times quoted McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds's response to the ad: "Barack Obama has proposed raising taxes on small businesses and America's working families during an economic downturn. You don't have to 'know much' to understand that Barack Obama's plans to raise taxes will hurt an already struggling economy."
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want true change?
Both the Democratic and Republican parties are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Big Multinational Corporations that control our government and the mainsteam media. Barack Obama is every bit as much a puppet of these oligarchic powers as is John McCain. If you really want a substantive change, vote for Ralph Nader. He is the only candidate who is independent of Big Money, and is on the side of the American people against the invisible plutocracy that pulls the strings of both major political parties.
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Think about this and employer provided health care. Obama's plan provides to supplement costs that employer provided health care doesn't cover, as well as provide health care, on government employee standards, to be given to all who dont have it....this includes 147,000,000 of which several million are illegal aliens.
Now, with that in mind...please tell me the incentives employers would have to provide employees health care as part of an employer benefit package, if the government, under Obama's plan would provide the benefit themselves? Will most of American workers, who have employer provided health care, lose it under Obama's plan?
Its a dangerous plan and threatens middle America with loss of their health benefits.
I don't believe he thinks like middle class America because he has never worked in private enterprise....and he doesn't realize how important those "benefits" are.
OBama
In his speeech says lot of things to help low-income and health for seniors. after he gets elected and into the office they change every thing. congress has the say so. He is lot of hot air. Mc Cain in my opinion will be good for president .
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