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• 1. JoeInBos  |  August 4th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

  Or…………………….
  “The One” ad is just another way to make Obama look like a scary man who is too high on himself. Besides… why would you want to make an ad about actual ISSUES???

  Oh that’s right… McCain doesn’t know what a truthful ad is as evidenced

  here…
  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/mccain_links_castro_with_obama.html

  here…
  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_full_tank_of_nonsense.html

  here…
  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_truth_on_troop_support.html

  here…
  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_false_accusation_about_energy.html

  here…
  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/distorting_obama.html

  here…
  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/errors_en_espantildeol.html

  and here…
  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/snubbing_wounded_troops.html

  oh by the way, here is the factcheck on “The One”…
  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_celebrity_cred.html

  So how long do we have to wait until McCain starts talking about issues and stops distorting everything Obama says?

• 2. Joe  |  August 4th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

  Or…………………….
  “The One” ad is just another way to make Obama look like a scary man who is too high on himself. Besides… why would you want to make an ad about actual ISSUES???

  Oh that’s right… McCain doesn’t know what a truthful ad is as evidenced

  here…
  factcheck.org/elections-2008/mccain_links_castro_with_obama.html

  here…
  factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_full_tank_of_nonsense.html

  here…
  factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_truth_on_troop_support.html

  here…
  factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_false_accusation_about_energy.html

  here…
  factcheck.org/elections-2008/distorting_obama.html

  here…
  factcheck.org/elections-2008/errors_en_espantildeol.html

  and here…
  factcheck.org/elections-2008/snubbing_wounded_troops.html

  oh by the way, here is the factcheck on “The One”…
  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_celebrity_cred.html

  So how long do we have to wait until McCain starts talking about issues and stops distorting everything Obama says?

• 3. KMorrison  |  August 7th, 2008 at 10:55 am

  Completely fair to challenge the statements in the ads; but a majority of the criticisms I’ve heard about the ad is this sort of inability to laugh at the celebrity and status part of the Obama campaign. I just think statements like ‘We are the change that we seek’ are funny. Now, I’ll have to admit that my sense of humor is not always appropriate, but I also find it funny how people have freaked over these ads. They’ve actually brought more attention to them than they ever would have received on their own.

  My counter to the statements in the ad would be that they’re both doing it, which certainly doesn’t make it right, but putting up either one as a saint is a bit off the mark. (ie. Obama’s energy ad)

• 4. Joe  |  August 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

  KM, that is a great thing about factcheck.org… they are not blasting McCain’s ads because they are partisan. They also say when Obama ads are false as well.

  You want to laugh? This is a funny comment…

  McCain’s campaign “ran an ad saying Washington is broken. No kidding. It took him 26 years to figure it out,” Obama said.

  Hey… if McCain does win this, let’s hope things actually click in his 27th year in Washington! Not sure I will hold my breath for it.

• 5. KMorrison  |  August 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

  My point exactly. People need to lighten up a bit. I thought the Paris Hilton rebuttal was a good one. Also thought that Jib Jab video was funny, though it seemed like no candidate’s supporters were terribly ammused by their candidate’s portrayal. Everyone’s just a bit too serious.

• 6. congressive  |  August 7th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

  Yeah, lighten up! Another war front in Iran, and we’ll all be drafted, and our country bankrupted. and a few more hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians will be dead.

  That McCain… he’s a funny guy! He offers up deleted at the Sturgis biker rally, because, after all , THAT is what best represents the Republican ideal of morality and decency.

  Git yer motor runnin’…

• 7. Catfish  |  August 8th, 2008 at 3:14 am

  Congressive……Ima lefty who would make noonan n this site sick. but hyperbole like that only makes the term “kook left” viable. A draft COULD NOT HAPPEN in this country again. No matter how badly the D’s screw this election up (and I am pretty sure they will…..). Criticize mccain for the things he deserves it, like shifting from a great, uniting moderate (2000) to a conservative (hack is too strong, he still has a lil maverick in him……..) stalwart(?).

  Buuuut you cant say the ad is tongue in cheek when it follows the line of politicking that hes been following since day 1 of the general campaign. He does want people to think obama is a self-involved arrogant elitist, and THATS the message of this ad. And Obama CANT laugh at the commercials because, even though it uses out of context quotes to be “funny” and absurdist, for obama to not “take it seriously” would be an inherant agreement with the strongest talking point of the McCain campaign–That obama thinks hes great.

  The merits of THAT argument are not unfounded, though im not sure how important they are….

  1st time poster, sry for length

• 8. Hillary Kitten  |  August 8th, 2008 at 4:43 am

  John McCain and Barack Hussein Obama had just finished getting shaved when the barber reached reached for the shop’s after-shave lotion.

  Barack deletedObama whined, “If you put that on me deleted will think I’ve been to a deleted!”

  John McCain turned to the barber and said, “Go ahead and put it on me. deleted doesn’t know what the inside of a deleted.”

• 9. Joe  |  August 8th, 2008 at 11:18 am

  Speaking of advertising…

  Wisconsin Advertising Project
  In general, the campaign advertising appears to be mostly about Obama and less about McCain. Over 90 percent of the ads aired by Obama are positive in nature and do not mention Senator McCain. In contrast, approximately a third of the McCain campaign’s ads are negative, contrasting the two presidential candidates. None of the ads aired by the RNC are positive — all compare the two candidates, referring to Obama negatively. “This campaign is about Barack Obama, not John McCain,” explains Goldstein.
  The Democratic nominee should be favored to win this year, with a strong advantage in party identification, a struggling economy, the war in Iraq, and an unpopular incumbent Republican president. In order to win, therefore, Senator Obama must clear a threshold of credibility with voters. According to Goldstein, “What the McCain campaign needs to do is convince the electorate that Barack Obama is not a credible commander-in-chief, and to do that they need to run negative ads. What Senator Obama’s campaign and campaign advertising needs to do is persuade people that he is a credible president.”

  It is actually a pretty cool study if you read it. It goes thru spending (so far) in different states and markets and what each campaign doing.

• 10. KMorrison  |  August 10th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

  So noted that everyone’s sense of humor is wildly different. Welcome Catfish.

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