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New Obama ad: John McCain doesn't understand the economy is broken
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Quick turn around, good ad. Make McCain own his words: Now watch the McCain campaign whine that this ad is unfair -- because it quotes the candidate. Yesterday, McCain said the fundamentals of "our economy" are strong. The only way that statement could be accurate was if McCain was using the term "our" to describe his family and friends. Then, he'd be right. Their economy is strong. Cindy has a private jet and more houses than John can even count. But, as Americans, our economy isn't strong. John McCain doesn't know that. He's out of touch. He's got no plan. ...
McCain Spars With 'Morning Joe' Co-Host
The Caucus —
John McCain’s campaign has made a sport of criticizing the media in recent weeks. Now they may be trying a related tactic: surmising the political affiliations of journalists. In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday morning, Mr. McCain immediately changed the tenor of the conversation with co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski when he called Ms. Brzezinski a “supporter of Senator Obama.” Mr. McCain appeared on MSNBC and other morning ...
McCain’s Incoherent Babbling On the Economy
Firedoglake —
John McCain is desperately trying to spin his way out of the blunder of repeatedly insisting that the "fundamentals of our economy are strong," even as Americans watch Wall Street crash and hang on by its fingernails and their economic security disappear in a ...
Can Liars Be Out Of Touch?
Open Left - Front Page —
On several instances recently, the Obama campaign has referred to McCain attacks as "lies." They even ran a television ad to that effect:
Today, the Obama campaign it continuing a different line of attack on McCain. By using McCain's absurd statement that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," they are pushing the "out of touch," narrative that connects to McCain not knowing how many houses he owns, to being in Washington for 26 years, and to McCain himself saying that he is out of touch.
More onthe new line of attack in the extended entry. Here is today's ...
Hullabaloo — Fundamentals by dday People are having fun with John McCain's economic adviser's absurd statement that McCain invented the Blackberry (that "serial liar" tag is going to stick any minute now, right?), but the Obama campaign is staying on message. "If John McCain hadn't said that 'the fundamentals of our economy are strong' on the day of one of our nation's worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. The "fundamentals are strong" line, which ...
Not Landing The Punch
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Obama goes after McCain's "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" gaffe:
This strategy strikes me as overly reactive. Where is the Obama ad explaining what he would do about this crisis? ...
Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread
Daily Kos —
"The fundamentals of our economy are strong"
The Reality-Based Community —
[image] "The fundamentals of our economy are strong" This is a truly nasty ad, without being even slightly unfair or inaccurate. The fact that McCain verbally stumbled over the line gets more and more prominent as it's repeated. Good work! And now it's time to start pointing out that McCain was against regulation before he was for it.
How Perfect For You
small dead animals —
How Perfect For You Political ad season is in full swing. Most ads are just variations on the same basic themes; there's the openly low-blow approach, as in this Barrack Obama ad which takes one trivial verbal stumble by John McCain and uses editing tricks to make him appear not just infirm , but dangerously, ominously infirm, and then there's the ol' boilerplate ads in which a soothing voice reassures you, in a tone that's a cross between a tampon ad and someone talking you off a high ledge, that you're going to have a good life if you just choose the right political product. Some ads take newer and more creative ...
Friday McCain/McSame Bashing (Repaired)
Discourse.net —
Thanks to the helpful intervention of techs at Dreamhost, I managed to pull up a backup of the blog’s database and find at least 95% of the lost text for last Friday’s McCain bashing entry. So I’m reposting it here even though it’s a little dated – the stuff that got cut off previously starts after the horizontal line.
Of course, there’s been a ton of good stuff since then…
Thurs
Obama Ad, Who Advises
Kevin Drum, Palin Without a Prompter….Part 7
TalkLeft, Todd Palin Refuses to Comply With Subponea
Digby, ...
Didn’t McCain Say The Same Thing President Obama?
Flopping Aces —
First day as President and my, how the stories do change.
Last September Sen. McCain had this to say about our economy:
“The fundalmentals of our economy are strong”
Obama and his campaign then puts out this ad:
And attacked even further:
…”Senator McCain, what economy are you talking about?” Democratic candidate Obama said after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy sent fear ...
Change... Team Obama Says "Fundamentals of Our Economy Are Strong"
Gateway Pundit —
During the election Barack Obama ridiculed John McCain for claiming that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." They thought it was so funny, they even mocked him in an ad: But, just like we've seen several times already... That was just typical Obama campaign rhetoric. This week Obama's economic chairwoman Dr. Christia Romer told David Gregory on Meet the Press that, "Of course the fundamentals of the economy are ...
Obama Fundamentally Unsound!
Flopping Aces —
Remember when Obama said McCain was “out of touch” for saying the fundamentals of our economy are sound? See the attack ad here. Obama said the exact same thing recently at a time when the Dow Jones average is 4,000 points lower. Is Obama out of touch or was John McCain right?
One wonders if McCain had been elected whether the Dow might still be around 11,000? ...
An Obama tribute...from Rubio?
Ben Smith's Blog —
Mario Rubio's campaign openly knocks off an Obama campaign ad. Only Charlie Crist is the one now being cast as out of touch.
Obama's spot above, Rubio's homage below. And the messaging, from a candidate who is trying to cast his rival as too close to Obama, is either brilliant or sort of confusing.
Rubio's copycat Obama ad
Naked Politics —
From the Associated Press: Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, who criticizes Gov. Charlie Crist for being a fan of President Barack Obama's stimulus package, is himself a fan of one of Obama's campaign ads. Rubio's U.S. Senate campaign posted a Web ad criticizing Crist, a fellow ...
Townhall.com Staff: Marco Rubio Spoofs Obama's Campaign Ad
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Critics are saying he's plagiarizing. Hello, parody:
