DISQUS

AMERICAblog: Obama asks McCain: Is that the best you can come up with? Is that really what this election is about?

  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    this clip should be Obama's next ad.

    Joe you are the man.
  • tjlabs · 1 year ago
    The McCain campaign's problem in a nutshell. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/07/down-side-to-...
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    There goes that uppity Negro again. Why he is just un American!
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    "The time for game-playing is over" is a campaign slogan I could live with.

    At 1:38, he says "I won`t engage in tit-for-tat." I'm sure the 12-year old boys at the RNC will loop the word "Tit, tit, tit, tit, tit...." Did you HERE THAT?! He said TIT! (Tit. he.)"

    Purple Ties '08!
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    Tell me, do you still believe that Busboy, Aquarius2, me and I think it was BushBites are all the same person? Or have you seen that was an error in judgment?
  • gaiilonfong · 1 year ago
    They need to smack-down that old haggy troll McBush daily. He is an abomination.
  • rextrek1 · 1 year ago
    Everytime I hear Obama speak..it makes my decision to VOTE for him the ONLY realistic vote to cast! Spoke to a Gay man I met earlier this am..who's voting for McCain...needless to say I had a few choice words for him....
  • CDS2 · 1 year ago
    I haven't seen McCain refer to Obama's race. So far, all I've seen in Obama refer to his race.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    you are behind.
  • GrMtGirl · 1 year ago
    Codos for Obama . . . . as would be expected, he handled it in a most professional way. The "time for game playing is over" should be the intent of all candidates .
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Codos??
  • CDS2 · 1 year ago
    What is or are Codos?
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    unprocessed mountain oysters?
  • CDS2 · 1 year ago
    Roar !!!!
  • jcgraham77 · 1 year ago
    kudos?
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Oh, yeah, well, it's Green Mountain Girl...
  • jimfromthefoothills · 1 year ago
    Can't you do anything about the sorry state of Obama's ads? they totally suck ass. How about an ad buy on mccain the flip flopper????
  • CDS2 · 1 year ago
    65% of the folks think Obama is the leader on this subject.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    CDS2, how can Obama refer to his race when he doesn't have one? Just because Hillary branded him as black doesn't make it true..
  • CDS2 · 1 year ago
    I guess it's because in Germany he called himself something 'different' and in the last few speeches, he has remarked that he looks different than other 'presidents' on our currency....(hay, maybe it's that he isn't wearing a wig?)
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    He'd look grand in a wig. Maybe SNL will do that gig...
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    McCain has attacked Obama for being too young and inexperienced. when Obama remarked he looks different than the presidents on our currency, he was referring to the GOP attack on his youth and experience. not talking about race or skin color or blackness.

    then up jumped the "you played the race card first" claim by McCain. funny how the GOPers always have race on their minds. wonder why?
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    They also have homo sex on their minds constantly, too.
  • mangoes · 1 year ago
    Call me crazy but, Obama DOES look different than all other presidents to date. I just don't see the big deal about saying it. We can all SEE afterall.

    As to "playing the race card", I'm not sure anyone knows what that means. Still, all of the hoopla about it being played or avoiding playing it, leads me to wonder if maybe it's TIME to play the race card. What is anticipated to happen if it is "played"?
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    He said the McCain campaign says that he looks different, he never said it from the first person.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Good point, Joe.

    Why have conventional ads for an unconventional candidate?

    Obama's engaging personality is his best asset.

    Use it.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    use it or lose it!
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Exactly.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    We are all descendants of black Africans. This is a scientific fact.

    Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Repugs.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Dave, you don't believe in God. Why would you put your faith in mitochondrial research carried out by computers?
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    1. You have no idea what I believe.

    2. Science is not about faith. That's what makes it science.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    It's still the "theory of evolution"; and rightly so. Actually, the processes of evolution have been discovered, but I know you wouldn't be interested.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    There's certainly nothing I'd be less interested in than your opinions in this subject area.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    suits me, wallow in cosmic ignorance.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Obviously, your little belief system needs a lot of daily psychological maintenance.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Keep it up. You'll only look worse later on when the truth sets in...
  • Grimmlok · 1 year ago
    As opposed to the proven certainty of a magic sky fairy
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    see comment to DJ below...
  • High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago
    and bushboy believes in made up nonsense of a big man above us, controlling our every move for the last 2000 years.

    bushboy, you have no credibility here. STFU!!!!
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    Like Jack Cafferty said; mcshame puts out these infantile ads with Spears and Hilton and then MSNBC, CNN, and FOX all run them over and over for free. Apparently mcshame is so short of campaign funds he can't afford any ads that are about his policies so he comes up with this crap and the networks help him out by running them constantly.
  • shrrrr · 1 year ago
    Don't you wish busboy would take a nap?
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    CNN tag line this morning: "ONLY 37% BELIEVE OBAMA ARROGANT." The "only" implies that CNN truly believes that figure should be higher.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    Jon Stewart did a scathing routine about CNN and their lack of seriousness on last nights show. You should see it, it was brilliant and so on target.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Obama's current spots are not "pablum"...they may not grab one by one's short hairs but they counter the attacks and are classy and heartwarming, a thread that has run thru the Obama campaign. Americans love happy endings, being loved and rosy dawns (symbolically, though don't misquote me, the big O's got these locked) but I do agree there needs to be a harder edge in some and even a bit of the attack ballbat. Classy, though, of course...doc style...factual...flying photos that go from color to high contrast b&w...flying document excerpts...driving, tense music, strings & oboes that turn bright with Obama's name...slo-mo, of course, an announcer with serious, deep pipes and a catchy tag line...everything McStain's spots don't have.
  • dad · 1 year ago
    it was the best idea he had

    not saying much
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    dad, are we sailing yet?
  • dad · 1 year ago
    figuratively
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    trooper!
  • High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago
    One word during the debates: EVISCERATE

    One does not get to be the leader of the Harvard Law Review and can't debate or put to two sentences together.

    john mccdumb on the other hand.....
  • boloboffin · 1 year ago
    "I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message, because America deserves better messages than the ones my opponent keeps approving."
  • mangoes · 1 year ago
    YES!!!! ABSOLUTELY!!! I wish he would start using that quote exactly!
  • jr · 1 year ago
    "I got your back!"-John Harwood to McCombover
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Andrea Mitchell did a piece about this on NBC Nightly News that was quite objective and fair.

    McCain looked like such a Bozo.
  • mangoes · 1 year ago
    I could not agree more. This clip is IT in a nutshell.