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McCain’s Two Front Plan To Nudge In On Obama Speech Airtime
The Moderate Voice — There are increasingly strong signs now that Republican Presidential nominee to be Sen. John McCain plans to axe the longstanding political tradition that each political party steps out of the way when the other party’s candidate delivers his Presidential acceptance speech — and the signs it will happen on two fronts: 1. McCain will be seen in an ad that will air around when Obama gives his speech speaking directly Obama, looking into the camera. 2. We have predicted here that McCain would leak the name of his Vice Presidential pick right before or ...

Guess The Smear
Balloon Juice — This should be a fun game- let’s try to figure out the smear before it happens: Tonight, John McCain will talk directly to his opponent in a television ad his campaign is airing in battleground states, around the time Barack Obama accepts the presidential nomination, McCain’s campaign said. Aides would give few details beyond the fact that McCain will speak directly to the camera, addressing Obama. The strip-tease on the ad is one of several moves by the McCain campaign that could distract attention from Obama’s big ...

Devastating?
Riehl World View — ... With news that McCain will be airing an ad tonight around the time Barack Obama is scheduled to be speaking and that he will address Obama directly .... ...

McCain to air ad tonight directly addressing Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Between this and Drudge’s teaser about possibly leaking the VP pick, they’re clearly very nervous about letting this speech go off without the GOP getting a word in edgewise. I can’t imagine what he’d have to say “to” Obama unless it’s a challenge for more townhall debates. Tonight, John McCain will talk directly to his opponent in a television ad his campaign is airing in battleground states, around the time Barack Obama accepts the presidential nomination, McCain’s campaign said… McCain campaign communications director Jill Hazelbaker said in an MSNBC appearance that the ...

McCain Can’t Generate His Own Audience…
Comments from Left Field — ... That’s bad enough.  What’s worse is that McCain is so hurting for attention that he’s now trying to bite off of Obama’s audience.  He knows he can’t get that much attention on his own, so now he’s trying to siphon it off of Obama, meanwhile, ...

Matt Lewis: Veep Pick Countdown!
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... today ... In related news, McCain plans to run an ad tonight that will refute Obama's speech ... If you're a political junkie, this is the place to be!

McCain Is Unprincipled AND Stupid
Comments from Left Field — ... Has anyone noticed that the ad John McCain is airing tonight at the same time that Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination doesn’t even make sense? Here’s what he says (bolds mine): ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... -- there's McCain's absurd attempt to grab attention by running an ad tonight. First, the McCain people announced that there would be a "very exciting" ad in which McCain would speak directly to the camera, an ad "a lot of people are going to focus on." Now, you'd think the point of all this would be to keep us in suspense -- but that didn't get them enough attention, apparently, so they ...

The Latest Hap’s In Politics
Flopping Aces — ... Meanwhile the McCain team is airing a new ad which shows McCain speaking directly to Obama, and the ad will air during The One’s speech: ...