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Jonathan Martin's Blog: Obama pops new ad dinging McCain on economy
News: Obama Hits McCain and Bush on Economics in New Ad
Political Animal: Obama campaign unveils new ad, new tagline: ‘Middle Class First’
Say Anything: Why Do Liberals Only Admit That Government Spending Hurts The Economy When It’s Military Spending?
Open Left - Front Page: How Dare the Iraqis Make Money Off Their Oil
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TheHype And you better believe having the "I approve this message" stinger go first is a sign of a winner!
Obama pops new ad dinging McCain on economy
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
Mixing attacks related President Bush, the economy, energy and Iraq, Barack Obama is going up with a new ad today in the 16 states he's on the air tagging John McCain.
Unlike Obama's spot portraying his rival as a "Washington Celebrity," the ad appears to be real buy.
"Book" depicts a faux volume called "Economics by John McCain" -- "Foreward by George W. Bush" -- but surprisingly makes no mention of McCain's now-infamous statement during the primary that economics is not his strong suit. Perhaps they're saving that bullet. ...
Obama Hits McCain and Bush on Economics in New Ad
News —
Obama Hits McCain and Bush on Economics in New Ad Barack Obama's new television ad criticizes John McCain's economic policies as proposals that are too close to President Bush's. The ad starts with an image of a mock book called "Economics" that's authored by McCain and has a foreword by Bush. It notes that McCain has backed Bush 95 percent of the time as a senator and would continue spending on military operations in Iraq while that country has built its own surplus. The spot will run in 16 states. Read the transcript and watch the video of the ad below: I’m Barack Obama and I approved this message.” Economics … by John ...
Obama campaign unveils new ad, new tagline: ‘Middle Class First’
Political Animal —
I think the new Obama campaign ad works pretty well:
It’s another “contrast” ad, hitting McCain in the first half, touting Obama in the second half. The spot starts out with the image of a hardcover book, “Economics … by John McCain.” Turning the various pages (get it? “turn the page”?), we see various problems with McCain’s economic policies: “Support George Bush 95 percent of the time. Keep spending ten billion dollars a month for the war in Iraq … while the Iraqis sell oil for record prices. Giving ...
Why Do Liberals Only Admit That Government Spending Hurts The Economy When It’s Military Spending?
Say Anything —
Barack Obama is hitting McCain on Iraq war spending hurting America’s economy.
Here’s the ad:
Transcript:
“Economics … by John McCain,” says the announcer in the 30-second spot. “Support George Bush 95 percent of the time. Keep spending ten billion dollars a month for the war in Iraq while the Iraqis sell oil for record prices — giving Iraq a $79 billion oil surplus, and hurting our economy.
“Barack Obama’s plan: End the war responsibly. Better schools. No more tax breaks for oil ...
How Dare the Iraqis Make Money Off Their Oil
Open Left - Front Page —
This is Barack Obama's latest campaign ad:
I agree that McCain represents a third Bush term on economic and national security issues, and I agree that it is an outrage that we are spending $10 billion a month on the war. But there's something troublingly imperialistic about the underlying message of this ad. About 15 seconds into the ad, the Obama campaign starts criticizing Iraq for selling oil and making money off those sales - as if that is an outrage, as if, in fact, we should be able to simply take their oil for free.
Don't get me wrong - I think multinational oil ...
Candidate Who Voted with President Bush 9 out of 10 Times Assails Rival for Doing So a Whopping 4 out of 10 Times
Political Punch —
Focus On The Family Pulls Video (Jokingly) Asking Supporters to Pray for Rain During Obama's Speech | Main Candidate Who Voted with President Bush 9 out of 10 Times Assails Rival for Doing So a Whopping 4 out of 10 Times August 13, 2008 1:54 PM This is one of the weirder attacks yet. In a new TV ad, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, makes the curious case that Sen. John McCain, R-Illinois, by supporting the war in Iraq, is helping the Iraqis and the oil companies fleece the middle class. The script: "Economics by John McCain: Support George Bush 95 percent of the time. Keep spending ten billion dollars a month for the ...
Obama Ad: Book
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
The Obama campaign released a new TV ad today hitting McCain on economics. According to a press release, the ad will be aired in 16 states (AK, CO, FL, IA, MI, MO, MT, NM, NV, NH, NC, ND, OH, PA,... ...
Obama's Ads
The Corner on National Review Online —
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 [image] Obama's Ads They are always well-produced, but generally they have struck me as a waste of money, especially "Hands" that has been running during the Olympics. This new one on the economy, "Book," has some genuine bite though, and is exactly what Obama should be doing linking McCain to Bush and hammering him on domestic issues. 08/13 02:44 PM
Obmama's New Tack
Discourse.net —
This new Obama ad, Book strikes me as a largely welcome messaging departure in several ways.
First, it’s an attack ad — but on substance. And it’s not a rebuttal ad, either.
Second, it alludes (dog whistle anyone?) to the Responsible Plan to End the War, without of course actually endorsing it.
Third, and least delightfully, although probably wise tactically, it offers what may become a campaign mantra if it catches on “the middle class first” (i.e. before those rich lobbyist and GOP beneficiaries of Haliburton largess). I preferred Edwards’s focus ...
I had Senator Obama figured all wrong on the GWOT.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
No, really.
I mean, I figured that his entire stance was him being really
and truly against the war from the start - you know, principled.
Dangerously wrong and hideously naive, but principled.
Turns out he just wants his cut:
Apparently, the junior Senator from Illinois doesn't like
it when we dare to rebuild a country that had been systematically
wrecked over the course of more than fifty years{*}; he doesn't
like it when the inhabitants of that country look to
actually make some badly-needed money off of ...
Why Do Liberals Only Admit That Government Spending Hurts The Economy When It’s Military Spending?
Say Anything —
Barack Obama is hitting McCain on Iraq war spending hurting America’s economy.
Here’s the ad:
Transcript:
“Economics … by John McCain,” says the announcer in the 30-second spot. “Support George Bush 95 percent of the time. Keep spending ten billion dollars a month for the war in Iraq while the Iraqis sell oil for record prices — giving Iraq a $79 billion oil surplus, and hurting our economy.
“Barack Obama’s plan: End the war responsibly. Better schools. No more tax breaks for oil ...
Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread
Daily Kos —
From an email press release from the Obama campaign: CHICAGO—Today the Obama campaign announced a new TV ad focused on the economy to air beginning Thursday in 16 battleground states. The new ad entitled Book highlights Obama's plan to break with the failing economic policies of the past eight years and put America's middle class first. The ad will run in AK, CO, FL, IA, MI, MO, MT, NM, NV, NH, NC, ND, OH, PA, VA, and WI. Open thread yourselves away, folks.
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Obama on Offense
TPMCafe —
Obama's new ad is very good and takes McCain's record and uses it against him, unlike McCain's cavalcade of lies.
Recent articles in the New Yorker and the New York Times have made it clear that Barack and his team are adept at Chicago style street fighting politics. In terms of organizers on the ground Obama beats McCain 3:1. All the old politics blabocrats on cable TV are still measuring this race in terms of old time memes. But the Republicans are clearly worried about the millions of new registered voters. As the Wall Street Journal bravely reported this morning, the Republicans are up to their old ...
Obama’s “Book” Ad
PoliGazette —
The “who can skew the facts more” contest continues between Barack Obama and John McCain. Today’s contestant: A reformulation of “100 years” followed by blasting the Iraqis for…umm…rebuilding their country through their most valuable natural resource. ...
McCain campaign re-defines ‘lockstep’
Crooks and Liars —
The Obama campaign unveiled a solid new ad recently, which, among other things, goes after McCain for having voted with George W. Bush 95% of the time last year.
Soon after, the McCain campaign responded by — I kid you not — telling reporters, “In the Senate, ...
Barack Obama: Egghead?
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Barack Obama begins most of his speeches with the claim that voters will have a crucial choice to make on November 4: "We meet at a moment when this country is facing a set of challenges unlike any we've ever known."
During debates Obama - the former University of Chicago professor of constitutional law -- keeps his head tilted thoughtfully, as if in a seminar. His answers weave in and out, sometimes incisively, sometimes evasively. When pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church asked Obama last Saturday if life begins at conception, Obama's 210 word response, or perhaps, non-response ran as follows: ...
Veepstakes Observation
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Jesse Taylor
I keep reading an undercurrent, both on blogs and in the press, that the longer Obama “makes us wait”, the better the pick has to be.
It would probably seem like much shorter of a wait if the press wasn’t making it 50% of the campaign coverage (the other half, of course, being how Obama is falling further and further less ahead, often by full percentage points for up to a day at a time). It’s a great bit of transference, though: the people covering the campaign spend hours a day obsessively winnowing the VP candidates down to the same four to eight people ...
Obama’s “Karl Rove Style Negative Campaign”
The Next Right —
It’s official, Obama isn’t just running a negative campaign, he's running an all-out smear fest. Obama’s Ralph Reed ad accusing McCain of being in bed with Jack Abramoff is especially Swift Boat-like. He's going after McCain’s strength in a very Rovian way, never mind how baseless the attack is.
The Obama campaign is counting on the classic “he started it” argument and a docile media to let him continue his Different Kind of Campaign shtick, and without some very aggressive action from the McCain campaign that’s exactly what will ...
Obama v. McCain: Ad-war hits both ways
The Swamp —
by Mark Silva
Before anyone gets too indignant about any negative campaigning going on, an independent analyst has found that Barack Obama and John McCain have aired pretty much the same number of negative TV campaign ads against one another.
From June 3 through Sept. 7, according to The Nielsen Co., the campaign of Republican John McCain ran 76,238 negative ads against Democrat Barack Obama in the presidential contest, and the Obama campaign ran 75,246 negative ads against McCain.
Obama has suffered a little more incoming in a couple of key battleground states however.
The states ...
