Blog Buzz: John McCain's Ads and Barack Obama's Audacity
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McCommercials
So, is the McCain campaign backing down on its false ad about Obama wanting to bring the media to the troops? (Conservative answer: Even if the specifics are off, Obama was still wrong.) Regardless, he's got a new ad up trying to portray Obama as a political version of Britney or Paris (oh, how the McCainiacs wish there was Berlin Hilton or Berliny Spears). So, is the McCain campaign trying to paint Obama as "uppity"? Or are they just going Harold Ford on him? Libs say the ad simply makes Big McC look either ridiculous or like C. McC-gomery Burns. Conservatives disagree, of course. The important point, one conservative argues, is that they're closing the Obama money gap by getting the media to run their commercials over and over and over.
The audacity of audacity (or is it the audacity about audacity?)
The burning question today: Did Obama say that he had become a symbol of America possibly returning to its best traditions? Dems have been furiously trying to contextualize the controversial quote—he was saying that the campaign is bigger than him (does that mean that McCain would return the country to its worst traditions?)—but conservatives say it doesn't matter: Even in context, some say, Obama comes across as an arrogant blowhard; others say that the comment shows that the Obama campaign is about feelings, not ideas. (Maybe they miss the robots the Dems have run the last couple of cycles.)
—Robert Schlesinger
Reader Comments
McCain has become a serial liar
McCain has become a serial liar
Please Address the Concerns of We the People
Dear Senators Obama and McCain,
As I pointed out on a recent blog post called, John McCain and Barak Obama’s Advertising Hell, (http://tinyurl.com/5ah3cv) we want to hear you address the concerns of the American people.
I'm a small business owner. I feel all of us with the courage to run a small business today need answers from you. We don't care about what homes you own or how you got them. We care about how you're going to propose to get this country strong again and keep us there.
How will you inspire more people to open small businesses? As was the case 100-years ago, today, entrepreneurs with ideas and the courage to bring them to market are the future of the American economy.
Please tell me how you'll help us survive and thrive under your administrations? Tell me facts of what you’ll really do instead of spitting platitudes at me, please! I really want to believe in one of you and so far I do not.
You can't get around the facts
McCain needs to keep on track by pounding out these two words on a regular basis: Surge and Drill, Surge and Drill, Surge and Drill. He is right about the surge, he is right about drilling and most people, almost eighty percent of us agree. The second thing he needs to do is to keep battering Obama on a debate challenge. No matter what the issues are in this campaign no red blooded American (black or white) likes a coward for a President. Every single time McCain challenges and Obama denies is an opportunity for the old man to climb in the polls. The beauty of this strategy is that I truly believe that Obama is an amateur and knows that he will lose the debate, his ideas do not stand up to scrutiny, they are socialist by nature. Obama does not want the steel cage death match with MCCain because the old man would tear him to pieces at every angle. He would dissect his every statement and it could possibly be one of the absolute ugliest yet entertaining debates in our country's history. I would love to see it. McCain can even go on the offensive by campaigning in states that Obama is not currently in instead of looking like the "me too!" kid on the playground. Obama in Germany, McCain at a German Restaurant, Obama in Florida, McCain in Florida too many times together it is starting to look too desperate and is bad strategy. McCain could go on the offensive in places like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvannia, Virginia, New Mexico, North Carolina, heck even Obama's home state just to rub it in his face. Go to downtown Chicago, draw a line in the sand and challenge him man to man and insist on Oprah's time slot! McCain could also begin his presidency early by promoting legislation in the Senate that would force the hand of his opponent. Make Obama vote on drilling, taxes, health care, etc. although it is probably too late now after session has closed today. Anyway, I do think that a debate would be great news and would be productive to the fermentation of political thought in this country.
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