McCain camp: Obama gets pass on ads

[morteduzionism]

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A new Obama ad released Thursday repeatedly links McCain to President Bush’s economic policies, showing the two Republicans in the rearview mirror as the car drives past McCain’s tax proposals.

“The most amazingly bankrupt line I’ve seen in this campaign is Barack Obama campaign’s repeated attempt to link John McCain to President Bush,” Davis said on a conference call with reporters. “John McCain held the Bush administrations feet the fire more than anyone else for the first four years of the administration.”

Is that really that offensive? I'm just asking is that really "negative?"

“Barack Obama hasn’t been held accountable time and time again,” Davis said. “In the last two weeks, he has attacked Sarah Palin and thrown the George Bush card back on the table.”

If there're talking about the ad where they have the McCain quotes and then he says he'd have to look to his VP candidate to handle economic issues...

That's an attack on Sarah Palin? And is that ad really that "negative?" It's not like McCain even partially tried to indirectly imply that Palin was knowledgeable on economic issues. So isn't it relevant that if he's quoted as saying he might have to look to his VP for economic advice then he should've picked someone with knowledge of economic issues...he didn't.

“If you bring up his association with William Ayers or Rashid Khalidi it’s, ‘Oh boy, that’s off limits; you can’t do that,’

How is it "off limits?" Palin brought up Khalidi, what is the press not supposed to mention that McCain oversaw $400K+ being given to an organization started by Khalidi?

Are they not suppose to question the hypocrisy of suggesting ONLY Obama "pals around with terrorists" when Ayers has connections to other Republicans?

Davis insisted that Obama has yet to be fully scrutinized because every person who has offered criticism of the candidate has not been fully heard before coming under fire from the campaign.

Like who? The Rothschild who said Obama was an elite? Joe Wurzelbacher who asked Obama how his plan would help a hypothetical business? Someone who for some strange ideological esoteric reason supports McCain even though Obama's plan would benifit him more? The guy who said a vote for Obama was "death to Israel?"
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What do you guys think? Does this sound like whining? Does anyone think that Obama's ads have been as "negative" as McCain's?

[Mikelus Trento]

Part of our human nature is to believe in our own infallibility...*I* am always right in other words. This fact of human nature is exaggerated in military pilots. They know/feel they are even more special.

Is it any doubt that McCain will reject all notions that he has run a badly managed campaign? Any doubt at all when just a couple days ago he expresses complete confidence in his pick of Palin?

He probably would have lost anyway in this year of change, but that selection put the nails in his coffin. Oops....prolly not good to use that expression with a 72 year old.

[KaerMorhen]

If you take Bush cadency as 'not the best at least'-supporters or 'next to complete disaster'-opponents then Obama's will become cataclism for all anyways. Apart from all these plans, promises, etc. candidates use for blind and fool people he never plays himself but tries to be someone he never will which means he is not to be trusted even if we take all politicians as natural born liers and hypocrites.

[Gaidin]

This is one of Obama's bigger aesthetic advantages in the last run to the 4th. He's had such a short career by comparison that there are so few slip ups(by comparison) that McCain can't afford to vet his info properly if he wants to use it(case in point: Khalidi). McCain has had a long enough career to build a record that Obama has a lot of ammo to go with his 150 million dollar megaphone.

[Siblesz]

On one side you have Obama calling McCain another Bush (which he is... ignoring the fact that Obama doesn't drift that far apart from the right either), and on the other you have the McCain campaign insinuating that Obama is a friend of terrorists and a socialist altogether. You decide which campaign is "playing it rough".

It's hilarious to watch... and even more hilarious to see how the stupider half of America actually plays along with the McCain campaign's idiotic message and repeats it over and over as if it were fact. Animals, they all are.... Imagine if McCain comes up saying that Obama once trained in a terrorist camp... you'd have ten million Americans believe it outright and without question. Scary when it's true.

[humvee2800]

The Mccain campaign never called Obama a terrorist, the relationship with ayers is flaunted more for the fact that he purposely hid it, thats already been shown earlier in the ads in question.

[Siblesz]

The Mccain campaign never called Obama a terrorist, the relationship with ayers is flaunted more for the fact that he purposely hid it, thats already been shown earlier in the ads in question.

They insinuated it. Twice.

BTW, just in case-
insinuate: to bring or introduce into a position or relation by indirect or artful methods.

[Gaidin]

The Mccain campaign never called Obama a terrorist, the relationship with ayers is flaunted more for the fact that he purposely hid it, thats already been shown earlier in the ads in question.

It's called a dog-whistle statement for a reason.