Ad Wars
I just got an email from the Obama campaign warning me about John McCain taking “the low road” of politics;
Friend —
As we face the fundraising deadline at midnight tonight, I want you to know what we are up against.
Less than 24 hours ago, the McCain campaign launched the latest and lowest in a series of misleading attack ads.
This Karl Rove-style ploy misleads people about Barack’s energy plan and even mocks his ability to inspire voters and bring Americans back into the political process.
Watchdogs in the media are calling McCain’s accusations “bogus,” “desperate,” “wrong,” “misleading,” “ugly,” “offensive,” “reckless,” and “a nasty turn into the gutter.”
Some of McCain’s own supporters agree. One senior Republican strategist quoted by the Washington Post called the latest ad a “wild swing at Obama” that reflects his campaign’s “increasing bitterness” and the lack of “any coherent strategy to elect McCain.”
Even John Weaver, a strategist who worked for McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000 and on his current campaign last year, called the ad “childish,” adding that this negative strategy “diminishes John McCain” and “needs to stop.”
The ad? This one;
I thought it was pretty tame, considering what McCain could have said about the Fluff Master. But Obama thinks I should send him some money so he can run this ad;
With the election less than 100 days away, media pundits and Washington insiders will be watching our fundraising numbers more closely than ever.
In the face of these new attacks, you can help demonstrate that a movement funded by grassroots supporters giving only what they can afford is ready to take on the Republican fundraising machine and its onslaught of negativity.
Your support will also give this campaign a crucial boost in momentum as we build our organization to compete in all 50 states.
There are only hours left to make an impact in July.
Yeah, what McCain ran was an attack ad. Which part is untrue? Well, none of it, actually. A statement of facts is not an attack. Obama’s ad is an attack ad, though. It attacks common sense by talking about “same old politics” and then lays out Obama’s agenda that’s the same old Democrat rhetoric without real solutions. Same old politics indeed.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, John McCain/Sarah Palin, Politics
I think they meant all 57 states, with I think, one more to go.
Martino may be on to something, I’m guessing that Number 58 is not actually a “State”, but the hallowed “Mother Plane”, as described by the Right Rev. Calypso Louie. I note that 58 divided by 19 equals 3.05, perhaps what they think to be the Gas Price we all might be able to…nahhh
Of course John is right. Any statement of fact(s), and McCain’s Commercial falls into the “Light” Category even there in my estimation also, can only be seen as nothing more than a vicious attack by such unbiased, objective Journalistic Institutions such as the NYT’s, Time, ad nauseum. And, I’m sure you all remember how the DemocRATS hate those subliminal things like brief images of Paris and, what was her name? I didn’t recognize her with panties on. Man, I’ll bet they wish they hadn’t pissed off James Carville at times like this, just think of the Trailer Park Trash Lines that he could produce.
Seriously, and sadly, I feel we are in a way in the same “Box” as the Dems at this point. They need high casualties from “Dubya’s” War (even if they are misrepresented), truly terrible Economic News (even if it is contrived) and general unease about our Nation’s Policies(even if it is manufactured), in short, anything Bad for the United States, in order to win Elections. For the same reason, we need Gasoline to stay at or above $4.00/Gallon. That is something that gets people to wipe the scum off their eyelids and pay attention, at least a little bit.
Everyone, please prompt “Our” guys to take advantage of this Hanging Soft Ball and frame the true Issues around it in a manner that will capture and focus the anger in the minds of us regular Dirt-Baggers out here in Fly-Over Country.
Obamas energy policy consists of arming a national security service with tire gauges.Instead of asking for campaign donations he should be making good on his promise to the school named after him in Kenya.This action alone should show everyone of his supporters just how empty he is.
This email caused me to unsubscribe from the Obama mailing list. They make me ill.