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Oh the Righties are going to go apoplectic over this, I can't wait.
I hope this plays everywhere... repeatedly...
Petulant
Old
Warmongerer?
Now this is campaigning!
PERFECT AD. I love it. We need some red meat thrown to us on the left, and this is what I have been waiting for.
I am donating!
More of this!
I'll be glad to give $ for every great comeback ad I see!
Obama hit a nerve with the Creepy Old Man.
C'mon, I know you can do it.
His deals with Keating were under Cindy's name.
hey Karl, you forgot to say he's a former prisoner of war.
Go Obama!!!!!!!
There might not have been a tape available (?).
I thought it might have just come from an interview that wasn't taped, or was just taped by a reporter for his private use.
Could be wrong.
"Do you think by the first debate, McCain will know how many homes he owns?"
No shit, McCain...If he didn't, he probably wouldn't have made an ad about it...
Wonder how many convicted felons were involved in the arrangements for McCain's 7(+) houses?
I hope somebody is digging into it.
It could be the Motherload!
That's how he got out of the Keating Five thing.
Let's not forget McCains shoes.... It's nice to see McCain painted as the 'Elitest' he actually is.
I'd suggest one, John McCain's late father-in-law, James Hensley, the source of the Hensley-McCain family fortune . According to the Phoenix New Times.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-02-17/news/...
Sometimes the lack of self-awareness of this bunch is mind boggling.
BRING.IT.ON.BITCHES
and Atrios says FactCheck might say there is a falsehood in Obama's ad...it's 12 homes, not 7!
Bitch please....
that makes it more interesting..........If no one can figure it out....that REALLY is bad for McCain.
right?
Uh... Hello? Testing.. one two three...?
This new ad is good start, but the problem is this is August, and this ad is only a good start.
I have been watching the game of political tetherball that the George W McCain campaign has been playing with you for the last month. What I have seen is disturbingly familiar.
The days and weeks following your incredible speech in Berlin, you had the momentum, the free world had stood up and cheered the hope that America would return to a path of sane, rational global leadership. A hope that now had a face and a name. Yours.
And then, your campaign dropped the ball.
You allowed attack after ridiculous attack to go basically unanswered. You allowed the campaign of the consummate lobbyist's pet to question your ethics. You allowed a man who has voted consistently against supporting the men and women of our military, to question your commitment to the troops. You allowed a man who employs lobbyists for foreign nations to question your love of country. You allowed a man who thinks that wide spread conflict in the Middle East would make a good Beach Boys song, to cast doubt on your willingness to defend America. In the past few weeks, you allowed a man with 7 homes, $500 loafers and a private jet to say that you were elitist and out of touch with the needs of working families.
In response? You mumbled tepid statements of disapproval of "old style politics." You frowned at the camera and said John McCain is honorable man who is running a dishonorable campaign. I have news for you. John McCain is not an honorable man, and at some point, unless you are happy with the idea of watching the McCain Inaugural from the bleachers, you are going to have to say so.
I feel like screaming at you. "HAVE YOU TALKED TO MICHAEL DUKAKIS OR JOHN KERRY LATELY???" Yes, playing defense will make you feel very noble and allow you to say how you are leading a "new kind of campaign." Sorry but there is nothing new about losing. Your campaign seems to be heading down a frighteningly similar path to 1988 and 2004.
I hate to break this to you but there is a truth to this Presidential race that you seem to be unable to grasp, so let me spell it out for you .The Republicans will say anything and stop at nothing to win. They will lie, they will cheat, and they will steal. They will call you a terrorist, they will call your wife a traitor, and they will criticize you for every thing you do, then turn around and criticize you for everything you don't do.
GOP Surrogates will spew the most insane nonsense about you with impunity on Fox News, which will then be repeated in the rest of the media as "covering the campaign". You CANNOT play defense. You will LOSE.
Not only that - you have yet to get your OWN house in order. This lunacy of having Senator Clinton's name put in nomination is a prime example. You WON the nomination, will you please ACT like it! Senator Clinton's campaign was historic yes. But it is OVER. The time has come for the Democratic Party to say to every Clinton supporter who is still whining about the need for "healing" a simple question. "Why do you want John McCain to win?"
You need to state in clear terms the choice in 2008 is this; "If you believe the right of a woman to control her own body is a bad thing then by all means support John McCain".
You need to state in clear terms the choice in 2008 is this; "If you believe our economic and national security, and the lives of thousands of American soldiers should be sacrificed for Oil Company profits, then by all means vote for John McCain."
You need to state in clear terms the choice in 2008 is this; "If you believe the Executive Branch of the Government has a greater right to privacy than the citizens who elected it, then by all means vote for John McCain."
You need to state in clear terms the choice in 2008 is this; "John McCain has no plan to repair any of the damage done to our economy, national security, global standing or environment over the last eight years. John McCain's only plan is to continue doing more damage. To do that, the Republican Party can't offer America anything to vote FOR. They can only try desperately to scare enough of us to vote against anything different."
You must be willing to stand up and say out loud that John McCain has nothing to offer this nation but exactly what we have had for the last eight years. Economic disaster, loss of American lives in wars with no end, and a philosophy of Government that sees the constitution at best, as a nuisance, and at worst, as a threat to its power.
Unless you are willing forcefully articulate the choice between the two of you. A choice that is, in fact crystal clear. You will allow the GOP to once again cloud that choice with mud, flung without conscience or restraint. The time has come to stop lying to yourself by thinking that deep down the Republicans want the same things as you do. They don't. They want you to lose, that's it.
The time has come to call liars what they are. Time has come to call cowards what they are. The time Senator, has come for you to stand up and say you are a better man, a better leader and the better choice to lead this nation.
Please Senator Obama, stop being the tethered ball on the GOP playground.
David F - San Francisco, CA
I'm going to take the liberty of copying your comment (w/credits to you & Americablog) and forwarding it to Obama's campaign with the comment that this represents the kind of campaign I expect my contributions to be helping run.
I suggest others might do the same if they agree.
L
They should have changed the last line to "This is one house we can't afford to let John McCain BUY!"
Are these all personal McCain dwellings or do Johnny and Sin-dy lease or trade limited use of them as favors, I wonder?
Ha!
So does $2 mil insure food stamps?
The wonk side of me wants to come back with, hey, Obama's going to have us producing MORE energy of MORE kinds (instead of cutting wind power out of the game as McCain has been doing).
The media junkie in me wants to know who's keeping a list of the still-best unofficial videos? I mean ones like "Republicans and military men on John McCain" (that's the one with Requiem for a Dream in the background as McCain promises more wars) and that one with the approval graph for Bush going down as McCain's support for Bush climbs to 100%? (BTW could someone post the link to that one? Can't find it.)
Another question, -- Bill Clinton got tons of mileage out of his personal story of coming from a single-parent household in Arkansas & rising to hold office, etc. Obama's family bkg is just as compelling to me, so I don't get why that doesn't go further... Media is too busy with other garbage?
PS: The will.i.am spoof is still up, but the wonderful "Como se dice -- como se llama -- Obama! Obama!" song has been removed. Anyone got a copy?
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2...
As a result, Medicare did not detect that more than one-third of spending for wheelchairs, oxygen supplies and other medical equipment in its 2006 fiscal year was improper, according to the report. Based on data in other Medicare reports, that would be about $2.8 billion in improper spending.
$2.8 BILLION pissed away by a department of the government that Bush/McCain don't want anyway.
By the way during this time frame Mark McClellan was head of the FDA and then Medicare. He suggested that Pharma companies raise their prices in Canada and Europe to protect their profit structure. As head of the FDA he fought tooth and nail to prevent drugs from coming in from Canada and actually called them inferior and tainted. One last note he is Scott McClellan's brother. Go figure
FDA's economist in chief, Mark McClellan's views on healthcare make him popular with the drug industry, by Christopher Rowland, Boston Globe, January 18, 2004. "He shares industry's view that profits should be protected to provide money and incentives to keep the United States at the forefront of new drug development. He is demanding speedier drug approvals from the FDA, echoing long-standing pleas from industry that the agency move faster and more predictably. He is lined up with the pharmaceutical industry in warning about potential health dangers of importing low-cost Canadian drugs. Instead of calling for lower US drug prices, he says, Canada and Western Europe should raise their prices on brand-name drugs to match. 'He's really been a disaster, possibly the worst commissioner I've seen,' said Dr. Sydney Wolfe, director of health research at consumer group Public Citizen in Washington. 'He is more well-liked by the pharmaceutical industry than any other commissioner I can remember.' Drug industry executives readily agree with the second notion."
McCain is the same old Republican party. They care only about themselves, their businesses that keep them in power and their cronies. Maybe one day they will wake up and actually see that we live in a society of people. Nah, too many people in this country are ignorant.
Bring it on. But Obama needs to put McCain on the defense constantly. And the 527s have got to go Rove on McCain.
That's brilliant.
The charge that Obama made $4 million last years is yet another lie. I think when Obama released his tax records, it showed between $1 and $2 million. Has McCain yet given us full disclosure of his and his wife's total income?
Furthermore, the elitism charge is not really about income, wealth or a luxurious living style. It is code for "Uppity" N-----. Another words, in my opinion, McCain is trying to say that Obama does not deserve to have a higher than normal income and that he is disqualified from being president because of his race. That is shamefully unAmerican, though again, that is my opinion. I believe that the current accepted understanding of our Constitution is that no one is disqualified from either the pursuit of happiness or running for the presidency because of race, creed or color .... or gender. I'm sure many on the right will disagree, but their opinions aren't accepted thinking and they have to hide their bigotry behind code words and legalistic dodges that only work in the courts of partisan, right-wing judges. Admittedly, they would reverse the argument and say that our liberal arguments are only accepted in partisan liberal courts like the 9th Circuit Court.
There are very few of our politicians of either party who can truly claim to be in touch with the Americans in our streets. Some like the Republicans actively despise, hate and discriminate against common Americans as too dirty, lazy, stupid to become wealthy. But the other side of the coin is how many of those same Republicans gained their wealth through very questionable if not illegal means? Democrats are just a bit better as they pretend to be sympathetic for the common people, say the right things and even occasionally do throw a few meager, well chewed bones to us. Very few politicians are genuinely sympathetic and only a few are even honest enough to avoid the corruption of selling out to the corporations, very few. Dennis Kucinich and Barbara Lee are those few that come to mind immediately. If Obama is no longer a common American, at least he isn’t so far removed as to forget what it was like to be a common American. In addition, as a Black American, he has the added burden that people like McCain regard him as subhuman and undeserving of equality or the presidency ... or wealth. Blacks like Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Ward Connerly or Larry Elder sell their souls to continue to live in the Big House, but in reality are never equal, and never more than servants.
Similarly based on timing, I also think the revelations about Edwards served to guarantee he's out of the picture for:
1. VP (long shot anyway)
2. AG
3. SCOTUS
May this be the KINDEST ad the Obama campaign runs. With McCain running all those ads full of lies, he deserves no mercy.
If McCain can't recall how many houses he has, I wonder if he knows if he paid all his taxes. And what else has he forgotten?
Yeah, Obama was compared to Britney and Paris. How about McWar gets compared over and over again to our failed president, I'm-for-helping-big-corporations-Bush?
MaCain=Bush.
Obama needs to consistently and repeatedly make this MaCain=Bush relationship to drown out the experience issue that the McRoves are using against Obama.
As a poster said below: let this be the KINDEST ad the Obama campaign runs!