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Leave Sugar Mommy alone!
Nitpicker —
Is this really the tack McCainians want to take here? That you can't attack tough guy John McCain for the stuff his sugar mommy buys him? Somehow, I don't think that makes him seem more in touch with the common man... ...
The McCain Campaign is Genuinely Flustered
The Anonymous Liberal —
... , so now they're pulling out all the stops. According to Marc Ambinder, the McCain campaign is trying several new approaches. First, they're trying to spin this as an attack on Cindy McCain: ...
McCain Fails Today's Ad War
Taylor Marsh —
Guest post by Scott Hopkins
The McMansion saga continues. Ambinder from earlier today:
Sen. John McCain’s campaign is finishing a hard-hitting television ad highlighting Barack Obama’s ties to shady Chicago land ...
Brutal: New ad hammers Obama over Ayers
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... , so read that after you watch. Update: Remember, the fightin’ nutroots demanded that their champion fight fight fight back against McCain’s attacks. Now he’s done it and so here’s what he gets, a new TV ad on Rezko that should drop within the hour. New lefty spin forthcoming: Why does McCain insist on fighting when we’re trying to run a polite campaign? A campaign official said that the decision to Go Rezko was Obama’s. “He’s opened the door to this,” the official said… Though McCain is widely perceived to to drawn first blood by attacking Obama’s character, the official ...
Matt Lewis: McCain Prepares Rezko Ad
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Via Marc Ambinder : "Sen. John McCain's campaign is finishing a hard-hitting television ad highlighting Barack Obama's ties to shady Chicago land dealer Tony Rezko, the one-time Obama patron who was convicted earlier this summer of fraud. A campaign official said that the decision to Go Rezko was Obama's. 'He's opened the door to this,' the official said."
The gloves are off (UPDATE: REZKO VIDEO ADDED)
Sister Toldjah —
... Marc Ambinder details a new ad the McCain campaign is getting ready to run against Obama that relates to his ties to convicted felon Tony Rezko, as well as a new ad done by a 527, which will air in Ohio and Michigan, that links Obama and Bill Ayers. ...
Eric Schmeltzer: Senator Complain: "But They're My Wife's Houses!"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... A McCain spokesman, on the whole issue of John McCain owning seven or eight houses, shoots back to Marc Ambinder, "Obama's charges "attack Cindy. She owns the homes. I thought he said the wives were off-limits."" ...
McCain: They're Cindy's!!!
Talking Points Memo —
McCain's latest response: They're not my homes! They're Cindy's!
Wingnut Logic
Balloon Juice —
In case there was any doubt that the McCain campaign is being run by wingnut bloggers, check out this:
Sen. John McCain’s campaign is finishing a hard-hitting television ad highlighting Barack Obama ’s ties to shady Chicago land dealer Tony Rezko, the one-time Obama patron who was convicted earlier this summer of fraud.
A campaign official said that the decision to Go Rezko was Obama’s. “He’s opened the door to this,” the official said.
The ad will be released to network news divisions in time for ...
McCain Set to Run Rezko Ad
The Next Right —
Skip to Navigation About Us | Contact | Donate | User Blogs | Login Home Home › Blogs › Josh Kahn's blog › McCain Set to Run Rezko Ad View What links here by Josh Kahn | August 21, 2008 at 7:59 PM in 2008 Presidential Camnpaign Barack Obama Corruption John McCain negative campaigning Tony Rezko Finally . Here's hoping it's well done and that there are many more to follow . Average: 0 Your rating: None Login or ...
Ad Critic: McCain Rezko Spot
The Next Right —
Finally. Here's hoping it's well done and that there are many more to follow.
Update: Here's the spot, and a quick review:
This is a generally solid ad with one major flaw. The opening line "Barack Obama knows a lot about housing problems" and the closing line "that's a housing problem" are complete inside baseball. No one who hasn't been paying neurotically close attention this race (ok, like me and probably everyone reading this blog) knows what the ...
McCain to Obama: Oh, Now It’s On Rookie!
The Sundries Shack —
... Meanwhile, McCain’s campaign is launching a salvo of its own tonight - an ad reminding us all of just how tight the Obamessiah was with convicted felon and Chicago money man Tony Rezko. ...
McCain Launching Multipronged Counterattack On Obama Response
The Moderate Voice —
... The second prong, according to the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder, is that the McCain campaign is accusing Obama of going more negative than they have and are using this as a justification for moving into what sounds as if it’s going to be a no-holds barred phase: ...
It’s All About the Arugula
The Moderate Voice —
... elitist, I think people have made a judgment that John McCain is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type based on his life story.” (TPM)
McCain’s far from unintelligent, so why is this a major theme for his campaign: “Do smart people scare you? If yes, vote for McCain”?
All righty then.
Do you get the impression that Obama’s silence is making the McCain campaign very nervous?
Marc Ambinder:
Sen. John McCain’s campaign is finishing a hard-hitting ...
MORNING READ
News —
... Jeralyn . Republicans should root for Obama to pick Clinton, since that decision would undermine the "change" message and could be portrayed as an overreaction to current polls, suggests Townhall's Platt Liebau . FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Barack's Glass House Politics - Carol Platt Liebau, Townhall.com [image] McCain Rezko Spot - Josh Kahn, The Next Right [image] McCain Hits Back - Jennifer Rubin, Contentions [image] McCain Prepares 'Rezko' Ad, Wright 'Fair Game' - Marc Ambinder [image] McCain ...
Stuck in the dog house(s)
Political Animal —
... Seeing Team Obama go on the offensive seemed to catch McCain staffers off guard, and their furious responses seemed oddly in line with McCain's foreign policy worldview -- act first, think second. Notice the iterations of the campaign's statements. First, the McCain gang said the story didn't matter because Barack Obama likes arugula. When that was a dud, they said the story didn't matter because McCain had been a prisoner of war. By late yesterday, McCain aides were trying to bring the candidates' spouses into this. Though McCain is widely perceived to drawn first blood by ...
Ya Brought It on Yourself!
Talking Points Memo —
... in the McCain camp's huffing and puffing Thursday afternoon. The new and somewhat improbable line from the McCain camp is that they've actually been doing their best to go easy on Obama, to hold back the stuff that would really make him suffer. But now that Obama's gone ahead and raised McCain's inability to remember how many houses, now he's really gonna get it with a super-mean Rezko ad and maybe even Reverend Wright. "He's opened the door to this," a McCain official told Marc Ambinder, in a campaign version of the wife-beater's "You brought this on yourself!" As ...
A Rare Glimpse at the Real McCain
Crooks and Liars —
... that many voters today across the country have no idea about any of it. All we’ve been told for years now about McCain is that he’s a maverick and a war hero, and yet we’ve been inundated with every scrap of negative reporting on Obama that could be dug up, no matter how tangential or untrue. Given the fact that the McCain campaign is now claiming that everything is “fair game” and vowing to rehash all of the tired old dirt on Obama brought up over and over for months during the primaries, it’s past time the voters this cycle get a full ...
Obama Releases Another House Ad Despite Rezko Threat
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... On Thursday, John McCain's campaign said Obama's ad mocking the candidate's multiple house confusion by saying the Democrat had "opened the door" to return fire with Tony Rezko and Jeremiah Wright. ...
Elitist McPrivilege: 'Consuela! Where's my fucking scotch, you cunt?!'
WTF Is It Now?!? —
Gigolo Manly McMaverick hides behind the wealthy beerfrau's skirts, then tries to change the subject. McMansions: 'I forget how many homes we have, but some of them actually belong to my rich wife. I'll have one of my staff get back to you on that. Oh, and Black HUSSEIN Osama's a hippie Muslim Islamocommiedefeatoterristfistjabbingfascist whose pastor hates America and some guy he knows commited fraud.' 'What? Keating? Never heard of him. Jack Abramoff?? Sorry. ' ...
