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McCain ‘Biden’ Ad
outsidethebeltway.com - 8/25/2008
McCain ‘Biden’ Ad
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Well, that didn’t take long. The McCain campaign already has a spot out called “Biden,” highlighting newly anointed Barack Obama running mate Joe Biden quotes saying Obama lacks the experience to be president and that he’d be honored to serve with McCain: While a good ad, this is hardly a backbreaker. George H.W. Bush said worse things about Ronald Reagan during ...

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PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts:  On Biden’s Past Praise of McCain

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On Biden’s Past Praise of McCain
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — ... him praising McCain. Not only are the present-day utterances newer, they are also more intensely pro-Obama than the pro-McCain statements. 3. It seems to me that all of this does it dissuade politicians from ever saying anything nice, conciliatory or even friendly about their political rivals for fear that it will come back to bite them in some future political campaign. That strikes me as a shame. In case one hasn’t seen it, the ad mentioned above can be seen here. Again, I am not sure how effective something like this is. I have no doubt that ...

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