“The One” is now deadlocked with McCain
By JR Hoeft | Friday, August 1st, 2008 | PoliticsGallup released their daily tracking poll and it’s a nine-point Obama lead no more. McCain and Obama are tied at 44.
In honor of the occasion, McCain released this new ad:
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Conservative to the core; liberal with his opinion! J.R. has been involved in politics for over a decade and has worked on several campaigns in Hampton Roads. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Chesapeake and the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is also the director of “Blogs United” in Virginia. E-mail J.R.. Follow J.R. on Twitter.
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18 Responses to "“The One” is now deadlocked with McCain"
Whoah, now THAT’s ballsy. The only official presidential race ad i can think of off hand that mocks another candidate as openly as this is this 1968 Humphrey ad against Agnew.
I can’t imagine this will actually get airtime. I see the “paid for” at the tail, but no personal “i approve this message.”
Negative campaigning works. I just wonder if McCain has any actual ideas or plans…
Is he ready to lead?
Lead our nation in the worng direction perhaps.
the mccain ad in this post is deceptive. mccain’s campaign cut and spliced in order to what obama actually said . that type of thing diminishes mccain, diminishes the voters and dimishes the country.
jonathan weisman of the washington post:
“… one leadership aide said the full quote put it into a different context. According to that aide, Obama said, “It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign — that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol.”
don’t let john mccain pwn you.
and obama is right, it is “not about [him] at all,” it is about citizens of this country being thoroughly disgusted with our government stripping our rights established by the constitution, deliberately and with premeditation lying us into military action which has killed well over the 4,000+ troops in the “official” tally, not to mention hundreds of thousands of iraqis who the bush administration claims it was liberating through military action (liberated them right out of their mortal coil), made refugees of approximately two million iraqis, and made “brand america” a laughingstock and a country whose word was not worth the paper its money is printed on.
i’m STILL waiting for john mccain to explain what his goals would be as president. you may not have noticed but he contradicts himself not just multiple times in a week but in a day. his own campaign had to come out with a statement the other day that “mccain doesn’t speak for the mccain campaign.”
i suggest that you will save yourself a lot of embarrassment by verifying the truth of any mccain ads before you post them.
sorry, i forgot to include the link to the weisman article:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/29/obamas_symbolic_importance.html
Karen, let me know your feelings about when the Democrats used only part of McCain’s “100 years” comment, and then I’ll share your concern about our embarrassment.
i am familiar with ALL of mccain’s statements about his “100 years” comment.
mccain himself backpedaled on his original statement when it became clear that it was a completely idiotic thing to say.
we hear mccain talk a lot about “victory” but he has yet to explain what he thinks “victory” looks like or what it means in terms of our military continuing to occupy iraq.
my knowledge base is really irrelevant anyway if the best rebuttal you can come up with is “you did the same thing first!”
try thinking rather than confining yourself to being a low-information voter.
“my knowledge base is really irrelevant anyway”
We agree!
brian kirwin, does your mother allow you on the internet unsupervised?
in addition to never explaining exactly “how” we are going to “win quickly” or what “victory” is, mccain has still not explained what he sees as the purpose of our maintaining bases in iraq.
john mccain is running for president. he wants my vote. he has an obligation to explain what he means and not simply rely on other people “interpreting” his remarks for him. he has not done that at any point. he is relying on your willingness to substitute slogans for actual policy ideas. it appears that he has the perfect supporter in you, brian kirwin.
look what’s been scrubbed from McCain’s campaign website:
“There had been no doubt that McCain would eventually become a full-fledged White House candidate, and he had been expected to make his candidacy official in the spring.
The 2006 midterm campaign had just ended when McCain took the first formal step toward a presidential run in November. He formed an exploratory committee and gave a speech casting himself as a “common-sense conservative” in the vein of Ronald Reagan who could lead the party back to dominance after a dreadful election season by returning to the GOP’s core principles.
A political celebrity, McCain is considered a top contender for the nomination.”
“This summer John McCain is traveling in style. He has worn a pair of $520 black leather Ferragamo shoes on every recent campaign stop — from a news conference with the Dalai Lama to a supermarket visit in Bethlehem, PA. The Calfskin loafers, with silver-tone “Gancini” buckles, are imported from Italy.”
but, hey, obama eats arugala, so he is the elitist.
what? nothing to say?
run out of sixth-grade retorts?
No, Karen, Brian has a life. He is appearing on stage in a performance of “1776″ tonight, tomorrow and twice on Sunday.
I’m sure he’ll have something to say tomorrow.
Or maybe he’ll just ignore you.
Hilarious ad! Frankly, you tube and desktop video editing have just made politics so much more fun!
well, i guess when he cannot actually defend his position, i suppose he really only has two options, use sixth-grade insults or ignore me.
that’s fine. it makes perfectly clear that brian kirwin and you, j.r., are not interested in discourse, you are merely cheerleaders.
some of the comments in an earlier thread had given me the wrong impression that this blog was not simply a rightwing circle jerk.
good to know. i won’t waste my time here.
I would hardly say we’re not interested in discourse, KM. Just not with vulgar trolls such as yourself who don’t really want to have a discussion, but want to repeat talking points from your left-wing, moonbat cronies.
oh right … that’s why there is so much substance behind your wanking.
Karen, it’s no secret that most Republicans don’t really like McCain and will vote for him only because he’s the lesser of two evils. You’re rehashing what has already been established and that’s why there’s not much interest in going over it again.
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