'Dangerous' - New McCain Ad
Politics Daily — Filed under: Ads, John McCain, 2008 President John McCain's campaign, in conjunction with the Republican National Committee, has released a new :30 second spot to air in battleground states. It's titted "Dangerous." The ad is not a suprise, in that it blazed no new ground. The subject matter was covered in the first Presidential debate and been apart of the back-and-forth on the campaign trail for both candidates. The tagline Barack Obama is too risky is ultimatly the case McCain ...

Mac Attack: Obama 'Dangerous!'
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, Ads, John McCain, 2008 PresidentThe McCain campaign, on the heels of Sarah Palin's "Joe McCarthy" tour on Saturday, has released a new ad that brings the GOP candidate's last ditch strategy into full relief: The Boogieman. The new ad is called "Dangerous," and it is as dishonest as the rest of McCain's ads. ANNCR: Who is Barack Obama? He says our troops in Afghanistan are BARACK OBAMA: "... just air-raiding villages and killing civilians." ANNCR: How dishonorable. Congressional liberals voted repeatedly to cut off funding to ...

"Dangerous"
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — When I was a freshman in college I climbed into my baby blue Cougar XR-7 with a close friend and we caravaned with about 3 other cars to Key West Florida for spring break. We took turns driving and when it was my friend's turn to drive I fell asleep for a few hours. When she woke me up we were on a dark highway in the middle of no where and she told me she we were about to run out of gas and she hadn't seen any gas stations for miles and miles. "Where is everyone else?" I asked. "I don't know," she replied, "They took off and I couldn't keep up ...

"Cheney"
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Monday, October 06, 2008 [image] "Cheney" [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] McCain's new ad is called " dangerous ." No, Senator Biden, it's not about Dick Cheney. 10/06 06:22 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us This page loaded in 0.006652 seconds. ...

McCain Ad: Dangerous
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — A new ad from the McCain campaign, released this morning:...

McCain ad: “Dangerous”
Hot Air » Top Picks — McCain ad: “Dangerous” posted at 8:20 am on October 6, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly John McCain sharpens his attack on Barack Obama one day ahead of their debate with his new ad, “Dangerous”. This follows the lead of the campaign chatter over the weekend, which resurrected Obama’s comments about American strategy in Afghanistan from over a year ago: ANNCR: Who is Barack Obama? He says our troops in Afghanistan are BARACK OBAMA: “… just air-raiding villages and killing civilians.” ANNCR: How dishonorable. Congressional liberals voted repeatedly to cut off funding to our active troops. ...

McCain: 'Dangerous'
Ben Smith's Blog — Despite the rhetorical sparring, neither Ayers nor Keating is on television -- yet -- and McCain goes with another troop-related ad against Obama. This one begins, again, with a line made famous by viral emails that have done more damage to Obama than all the McCain campaign's efforts combined: "Who is Barack Obama?" There's also a random throwaway line about "congressional liberals, muddying the message to use RNC money.

Barack Obama: 'Dangerous'
JammieWearingFool — About time the McCain campaign started tying Obama to the inept Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Not to mention the utterly corrupt Charles Rangel. Of course, having another black man in the ad will spur more phony cries of racism. Ed Morrissey ...

McCain Nails Obama For Not Supporting Military
Gateway Pundit — What a frightening scenario to to think of the most liberal senator whose closest associates are felons, anti-Semites and America-haters in charge of the US military-- Someone who still cannot give US troops credit for the successful surge and who voted to defund their efforts while at war. John McCain nails "Dishonorable" Obama in his latest ad: Good for McCain. Our military deserves better than a Far Left cut-and-runner as Commander in Chief. It's not surprising then that the US military supports McCain over Obama by a ...

In new spot, McCain camp keeps up patriotism rap
Jonathan Martin's Blog — The campaign has Palin pushing the Ayers charge on the stump and now they're going on the air with a spot suggesting Obama has little regard for U.S. troops.   The common theme: Who is this guy and does he love America enough to be president? Just listen to the buzzwords in the ad: "dishonorable," "dangerous" and "risky." Joining in the character battle, Obama's camp today resurrects McCain's involvement in the Keating 5 scandal.    It's a race to the bottom.

Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — New McCain Ad: Obama "Dangerous" And "Dishonorable" To Our Troops This new McCain TV ad, set to air nationally, goes after Barack Obama by taking his comments on Afghanistan seriously out of context: "Who is Barack Obama? He says our troops in Afghanistan are 'just air-raiding villages and killing civilians," the announcer says, splicing in footage of Obama's mangled quote. "How dishonorable." In fact, Obama was talking about the need for more troops in Afghanistan, in order to avoid the situation he was talking about -- a real problem that has been ...

Barak Obama is “DANGEROUS”
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — In this latest Team McCain television ad, voters are reminded of Barack Obama’s comments about American strategy in Afghanistan. The Script: ANNCR: Who is Barack Obama? He says our troops in Afghanistan are BARACK OBAMA: ...

Obama and Dems 'dangerous': McCain ad
The Swamp — by Frank James Sen. John McCain has a new anti-Obama ad out called "Dangerous" which tries to work on at least two perceived voter concerns -- the X factor which Sen. Barack Obama still represents for many voters and the thought of Democrats controlling two branches of government. Here's a transcript of the ad's narrative: ANNCR: Who is Barack Obama? He says our troops in Afghanistan are BARACK OBAMA: "... just air-raiding villages and killing civilians." ANNCR: How dishonorable. Congressional liberals voted ...

McCain Ad, Assaults Bring Campaign To New Depths
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Thirty days until the election and the presidential campaign is reaching new depths. On Monday, the McCain campaign put out a television ad that is notable not just for calling Obama "dangerous" and "dishonorable" but for how badly it misrepresents the Illinois Democrat's words and votes. The spot, titled "Dangerous," plays off an already debunked attack that Obama, back in August 2007, said American troops in Afghanistan were "... just air-raiding villages and killing civilians." "How dishonorable," says the narrator. "Congressional liberals voted repeatedly ...

McCain Ad, Assaults Bring Campaign To New Depths
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Thirty days until the election and the presidential campaign is reaching new depths. On Monday, the McCain campaign put out a television ad that is notable not just for calling Obama "dangerous" and "dishonorable" but for how badly it misrepresents the Illinois Democrat's words and votes. The spot, titled "Dangerous," plays off an already debunked attack that Obama, back in August 2007, said American troops in Afghanistan were "... just air-raiding villages and killing civilians." "How dishonorable," says the narrator. "Congressional liberals voted repeatedly ...

New McCain Ad: “Dangerous” Obama
Stop The ACLU — This ad hits Obama hard. He tried to dodge the issue through Joe Biden at the VP debate, and tried to come across as a hawk during his debate against John McCain, but would a hawk who supports our troops say and do these things? As Ed ...

Pelosi, Rangel and House Dems Star in McCain Ad
News — Pelosi, Rangel and House Dems Star in McCain Ad John McCain tries to tie Barack Obama to House Democrats in a new television ad. The spot, released Monday, goes after Obama and Democrats for voting against troop funding. The Democrats had voted against a bill that lacked a timeline to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, but they backed a measure that included a timetable. One of the ads closing shots features an image of Obama between photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who has his arms up in a Richard Nixon-like pose. The McCain campaign said the ad will run nationally, but it didn't ...

New McCain Ad Hits Obama On “Troops Killing Civillians” Remark, Calls Him “Dishonorable”
Say Anything — Ouch. I think McCain’s hitting on Democrats for voting against funding for Iraq is a particularly good point.  Obama has defended himself by pointing out that the Iraq funding was part of a larger bill that had elements in it he didn’t like.  Which is a valid point, but it’s worth noting that his Democrats were in the majority during those votes.  His Democrat leadership in the Senate and the House were the ones flirting with the “cut off the funding” strategy. If Obama didn’t agree with ...

New McCain Ad: "Dangerous" Obama
Wizbang — This ad hits Obama hard. He tried to dodge the issue through Joe Biden at the VP debate, and tried to come across as a hawk during his debate against John McCain, but would a hawk who supports our troops say and do these things? As Ed ...

"Dangerous"
Hotline On Call Part Deux — New John McCain/Sarah Palin spot running nationally charges that Barack Obama and congressional Dems want to cut off funding to troops in Afghanistan. Script For "Dangerous" (TV :30) ANNCR: Who is Barack Obama? He says our troops in Afghanistan are BARACK OBAMA: "... just air-raiding villages and killing civilians." ANNCR: How dishonorable. Congressional liberals voted repeatedly to cut off funding to our active troops. Increasing the risk on their ...

MCCAIN AD: DANGEROUS
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Guilt-by-Association Response
The Caucus — ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Countering the McCain campaign’s effort to question Senator Barack Obama’s ties to some controversial associates , the Obama campaign today is using a new Web site and documentary to resurrect the so-called “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of the late 1980s that tarnished Senator John McCain. The 13-minute documentary, which will be released at noon Monday on the Web site, keatingeconomics.com , is an attempt not only to tie Mr. McCain, the Republican nominee, to the convicted savings-and-loan operator, Charles H. Keating, Jr., but also to argue that Mr. McCain’s past judgments do ...

McCain Spot Asks: 'Who Is Barack Obama?'
44 — Ad Watch McCain Spot Asks: 'Who Is Barack Obama?' By Howard Kurtz The Ad: ( Narrator: ) Who is Barack Obama? He says our troops in Afghanistan are -- ( Barack Obama: ) "... just air-raiding villages and killing civilians." ( Narrator: ) How dishonorable. Congressional liberals voted repeatedly to cut off funding to our active troops. Increasing the risk on their lives. How dangerous. Obama and congressional liberals. Too risky for America. Analysis: This John McCain ad blatantly distorts Barack Obama's words in an effort to paint him as callous about the role of the U.S. military. The commercial truncates a comment that ...

New McCain Ad: Obama Dangerous
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"Dishonorable"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — That's what McCain calls Obama in his new ad. Palin used this line in the debate. It's part of the negative tsunami they are now unleashing on Obama, for lack of any positive message: Here's an LA Times article from last month about air-stikes in Afghanistan. We rely heavily on aerial bombing in Afghanistan, this has caused many civilian causalities, and popular support for an American presence in Afghanistan has fallen markedly as a consequence. Acknowledging these facts isn't an act of disrespect towards our soldiers. From Fact-Check.org: The ...

Matt Lewis: McCain Ad: 'Dangerous'
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — If you haven't seen it yet, here is McCain's new ad out today ... Script For "Dangerous" (TV :30) ANNCR: Who is Barack Obama? He says our troops in Afghanistan are BARACK OBAMA: "... just air-raiding villages and killing civilians." ANNCR: How dishonorable. Congressional liberals voted repeatedly to cut off funding to our active troops. Increasing the risk on their lives. How dangerous. Obama and Congressional liberals. Too risky for America. JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approved this message.

McCain’s Latest Disgrace
Firedoglake — So here it comes: the scary black man who wants to kill U.S. troops. Not a word of this is true, obviously. It's basically self-refuting to see the McCain campaign clip off Obama's full Afghanistan comments from August -- "We've got to get the job done there and ...

Palin Calls Afghanistan "Our Neighboring Country"
Main and Central — I feel sorry for the SNL writers, Caribou Barbie seems determined to put them on a hiatus until the election is over. She's writing Tina Fey's skits all by her lonesome... How could the SNL writers possibly top this...? “They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,” she told several hundred supporters at a fundraising event in San Francisco. Seems that Miz Palin is merely displaying McSame's same lack of geographical ...

In Land of Enchantment, McCain Asks 'Who is the Real Barack Obama?'
Political Punch — Previous | Main In Land of Enchantment, McCain Asks 'Who is the Real Barack Obama?' October 06, 2008 5:33 PM In Albuquerque, NM, this afternoon, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, delivered his harshest attacks yet against Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., painting his Democratic rival as a mysterious, risky unknown. "Who is the real Barack Obama?" McCain asked. “Even at this late hour in the campaign there are things we don’t know about Senator Obama or the record that he brings to this campaign,” McCain said. “We have all heard what he has said, but it is less clear what he has done or what he will do." Speaking to a relatively ...

Question for Our Readers: Lines of Attack
The Caucus — With less than a month to go in the presidential campaigns, the two candidates have decided to tack in the negative direction. As the candidates prepare for tomorrow night’s presidential debate (9 p.m. Eastern), we’d like to hear from you: Does negative campaigning work, help you form impressions and learn more about the candidates’ backgrounds, or do these methods and the accompanying commercials turn you off altogether? Feel free to offer your thoughts in the comment section below. To get you started, if you’ve been otherwise occupied by working today or have been off the grid, here are today’s examples of what’s transpiring on ...

William Bradley: Obama Finally Fastest In TV Ad Wars
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — The 13-minute Obama campaign video on John McCain and the Keating savings & loan industry fiasco. It's all negative all the time now in the TV ad wars. For once, Team Obama has stolen a march on Team McCain in the campaign hit parade. And its attack strategy seems to be much more on the axis of decision for this election. The McCain operation under campaign director Steve Schmidt, who I know well from his management of Arnold Schwarzenegger's landslide 2006 re-election and profiled here on Huffington Post, has been the run-and-gun outfit of ...

Who is the real Barak Obama?
sisu — "Who is the real Barak Obama? But you ask such questions, and all you get in response is another angry barrage of insults. Our current economic crisis is a good case in point," said John McCain at a spirited University of New Mexico rally this ...

Fact-Check: McCain's 'Dishonorable' Ad
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, Barack Obama, Ads, John McCainVia Factcheck.org, we are confronted with yet another bogus ad from John McCain. The irony here, is that the ad, titled "Dangerous", accuses Obama of being "dishonorable" while using utterly dishonorable tactics to prove its point. The evidence McCain uses to back up his claim is the following quote from 2007 about the situation in Afghanistan: We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing ...

Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
Weekly Standard Blog — Ed Whelan takes apart Howard Kurtz's fact-check of the McCain ad posted above: Kurtz’s topline assertion is that the ad “blatantly distorts Barack Obama’s words in an effort to paint him as callous about the role of the military.” Specifically, the ad “truncates” a comment that Obama made. Here, according to Kurtz, is Obama’s full statement: “We’ve got to get the job done there [in Afghanistan], and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is ...

FLASHBACK: In 2000, McCain Said U.S. Troops Were ‘Killing Innocent Civilians’ And ‘Dropping Bombs’
Think Progress — In August 2007, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) was asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq and deploy them elsewhere. Obama replied that more troops were needed in Afghanistan: We’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there. In recent days, the McCain campaign has been taking these remarks out of context to criticize Obama. For example, during the recent vice presidential debate, Palin ...

Today in The Nation: McCain Ads Get Ugly
The Nation: Top Stories — John McCain's new line, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" has so incited the crowds at his rallies that one furious man on Monday answered the question with "Terrorist!" And Palin's catchy phrase that Obama has been "palling around with terrorists," i.e., former Weatherman Bill Ayers, led one of her acolytes to scream , "Kill him!" The ad McCain released yesterday is a few pitchforks short of those sentiments, if only because the gap between what the McCain campaign can say about Obama in ads and what the increasingly frustrated GOP crowds on the stump want to hear has grown in exact proportion to the Democrat's ...

FLASHBACK: In 2000, McCain Said U.S. Troops Were ?Killing Innocent Civilians? And ?Dropping Bombs?
The Hollywood Liberal — FLASHBACK: In 2000, McCain Said U.S. Troops Were ?Killing Innocent Civilians? And ?Dropping Bombs? In August 2007, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) was asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq and deploy them elsewhere. Obama replied that more troops were needed in Afghanistan: We’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and […] In August 2007, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) was asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq and deploy them elsewhere. Obama replied that more troops were needed in Afghanistan : We’ve got to get the job ...

On the air: McCain hits Obama on character, Obama dings McCain on economy and health care
Jonathan Martin's Blog — John McCain is focusing his paid media campaign on a tough ad that suggests Barack Obama has little regard for American troops while Obama is spending much of his money on the airwaves criticizing McCain and Republicans on the economy and healthcare. The contrast reflects the advantage Democrats now enjoy over the GOP on core issues.   Obama's campaign is happy to stay on such favorable policy turf while Republicans are moving to raise voter doubts about the Illinois seantor and make the election about character, judgment and other such intangibles where they're more competitive.  Both ...

Mud Money: McCain’s Media Missteps
Pajamas Media — His increasingly negative ads against Obama may be doing more harm than good. [image] Give John McCain one of those word association tests that Carl Jung dreamed up in the middle of the last century and it will pretty much go like this. Cat: “Experience!” Life: “Experience!” Tragedy: “Experience!” Safety pin: “Experience!” For a guy so bent on assuring us of his corner on the market of experience, McCain doesn’t seem to be making much use of it with his ad campaign. If you run the same word association test on the subject of McCain’s media buys? “Negative!” But what has this strategy gotten him so far? A number of pundits this ...

The Ugly States of America: A Chronology
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, Barack Obama, John McCain, 2008 PresidentTime will tell, but as I said on last night's Unusable Signal, I think that the spectacle of increasingly ugly and hostile McCain crowds is going to hurt the GOP nominee badly with independents. Fair or not, it raises the spectre of two Americas, and decent people want no part of McCain's Ugly States of America. The fact that McCain has started to fight the fire he started is creditable, if not laudable. Creditable because, by tamping down the hostility, he risks disarming the only weapon he has left: Obama the ...

Are McCain's Ads Dangerous?
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — Let's compare two commercials. The first is an RNC spot entitled "Chicago Way", which hits Barack Obama on his connections to Tony Rezko, William Ayers and (somewhat oddly) William Daley: This is a pretty standard negative ad. The message is essentially: "Obama's a little green behind the ears, he might be corrupt, and he's made some poor judgments in his associates". The ad is straightforward and -- dare I say -- relatively fair. Nothing is taken out of context. In poking fun at the Chicago tradition, it even seems to have a bit of a sense of humor. By ...

Check Point: Funding the Troops
The Caucus — As mothers of soldiers who have been deployed to Iraq, both Gov. Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain accused Senator Barack Obama this week of voting not to fund American troops there. A McCain campaign ad called “ Dangerous ” goes further, saying that Mr. Obama and other “congressional liberals voted repeatedly to cut off funding to our active troops,” thereby “increasing the risk on their lives.” On the campaign trail, Ms. Palin also claims that Mr. Obama “said too that our troops in Afghanistan are just, quote, ’air-raiding villages and killing civilians.’” In an interview with Fox News , she described Mr. ...

John McCain doesn't understand "attack" ads
Crooks and Liars — Download | Play    Download | Play John McCain complained last night that Barack Obama's mean health care "attack ads" hurt his feelings and interrupted his Sunday football viewing. MCCAIN: "Every other ad -- ever other ad was an attack ad on my health care plan. And any objective observer has said it's not true. You're running ads right now that say that I oppose federal funding for stem cell research. I don't." Here is the ad in question: ...

McCain message getting through...
Jonathan Martin's Blog —                 Though this is not the response they'd prefer. But check out the rationale: Bill Ayers and Obama's claim that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians." The first has been featured in McCain and RNC ads, mail and robocalls, and picked up on cable stations.   The second is the central Obama soundbite in one of McCain's most widely-aired ads, "Dangerous." CEDAR RAPIDS - Nothing personal, but Donald Seedorf ...

A look back at the ads of the campaign: lots of new, some of the same
Top of the Ticket — Political advertisements are more than just commercials, they’re artillery. And they’ve played a key role in driving the news cycle and shaping the narratives –- and even the vocabulary -– of this presidential race. Now, as election day looms, and as Barack Obama and John McCain's campaigns unfurl increasingly negative ads at an increasingly rapid pace, the Ticket wondered: Is this normal? So we turned to David Schwartz, a campaign commercial expert and the Chief Curator of the Museum of the Moving Image. Schwartz, who is the brain behind The Living Room ...

Ticket Replay: A look back at the McCain and Obama campaigns' ads
Top of the Ticket — This weekend The Ticket is republishing some items from the past 2007-08 political season. This one, a retrospective analysis of the campaigns' television ads, originally appeared in this space on Oct. 25, 2008: Political advertisements are more than just commercials, they’re artillery. And they’ve played a key role in driving the news cycle and shaping the narratives –- and even the vocabulary -– of this presidential race. Now, as election day looms, and as Barack Obama and John McCain's campaigns unfurl increasingly negative ads at an increasingly rapid pace, the ...