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That debate wasn’t about Joe the Plumber
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by Pam Spaulding
Despite being mentioned 27 times during Wednesday’s debate, Joe The Plumber Wurzelbacher wasn’t the big news of the head-to-head between Barack Obama and John McCain. IMHO, it was the final, no-mistakes-about-it repudiation of the presidency of George W. Bush by the man topping the ticket of the Republican party in 2008: MCCAIN: Senator Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago. I’m going to give a new direction to this economy in this country.
...OBAMA: Even FOX News ...
Ok, McCain isn't exactly Bush. McCain is over 90% Bush.
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
New Obama ad. Jed's right, it's funny -- and it has some of McCain's best smirks and eye rolls from the debate: McCain will be more of the same. Even if it's just 90% of Bush, that's pretty bad and the country can't afford it. So while McCain doesn't think he's Bush, but the rest of us do. And, Obama laid it out last night: So the fact of the matter is that if I occasionally have mistaken your policies for George Bush's policies, it's because on the core economic issues that matter to the American people, on tax policy, on energy policy, on spending priorities, you have been a ...
Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central —
New Obama Ad: McCain May Not Be Bush, But He Sure Votes With Him
The Obama campaign already has this new TV ad set to air on national cable, taking on John McCain for his declaration at the debate last night that he's not President Bush:
"You may not be George Bush," the announcer says, speaking in the most literal sense of McCain and Bush being two separate people. This is then followed by footage of what really counts: McCain boasting during the primaries that he's voted with Bush over 90% of the time.
Obama In New Hampshire And New York, Michelle In ...
Obama Ad Goes After McCain's Inner Bush, Eye Rolls
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Barack Obama is out with the first post-debate campaign ad. He goes directly after what was perceived to be one of John McCain's best lines from Wednesday night -- his proclamation that he is "not President Bush" -- and, in the process, highlights some of the more peculiar facial expressions made by the Arizona Republican.
"True ... but you did vote with Bush 90% of the time," goes the script. "Tax breaks for big corporations and the wealthy. But almost nothing for the middle class -- same as Bush. Keep spending ten billion a month in Iraq while our own economy struggles -- same as Bush." ...
Obama Ad Goes After McCain's Inner Bush, Eye Rolls
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Barack Obama is out with the first post-debate campaign ad. He goes directly after what was perceived to be one of John McCain's best lines from Wednesday night -- his proclamation that he is "not President Bush" -- and, in the process, highlights some of the more peculiar facial expressions made by the Arizona Republican.
"True ... but you did vote with Bush 90% of the time," goes the script. "Tax breaks for big corporations and the wealthy. But almost nothing for the middle class -- same as Bush. Keep spending ten billion a month in Iraq while our own economy struggles -- same as Bush." ...
Obama's Post-Debate TV Ad
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New Ads For Obama, McCain
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New TV ads from Obama and McCain were released this morning. Obama's ad uses a clip of one of McCain's most-memorable lines from last night's debate, and rebuts it. McCain's ad admits that "the last... ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
McCain promises four years better than the last eight:
While Obama stomps on McCain's big moment:
Obama Ad: '90 Percent'
Weekly Standard Blog —
“I’m Not George Bush”
Oliver Willis —
The McCain-As-Bush Debate, Continued
The Stump —
As I said in my write-up, McCain's line about not being George Bush was good, but Obama's response was better. And the campaign's response today is even better than that. (Or, at least, more likely to move voters.) See below:
--Noam Scheiber
Like Dubya
The Reaction —
By Michael J.W. Stickings John McCain declared in the debate the other night that he is not George Bush (and that Obama "should have run four years ago"). It was a fairly effective one-liner, but Obama's substantive, fact-based response was even more effective: "So the fact of the matter is that if I occasionally have mistaken your policies for George Bush's policies, it's because on the core economic issues that matter to the American people, on tax policy, on energy policy, on spending priorities, you have been a vigorous supporter of President ...
