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New Ads: 1, 2, "Punch"
The Caucus —
Between the two campaigns, three new ads have debuted over the past two days, with one from each on taxes (both focusing on Senator Barack Obama’s proposals). Starting Monday, “Three Bedroom Ranch” will run nationwide on cable and during the Olympics. It offers his “economic blueprint,” almost literally, in outlining his plan for the middle class as a house is being constructed. “It begins with a plan. A plan to build. A plan to put hard working Americans first,” says an announcer, before text and images on the screen address his goals of offering working families a $1,000 tax cut and investing in alternative energy. Senator John McCain’s ...
Buckeye State Ad Battle
44 —
Look, friends, I've learned to lie with stats with the best of them and when my people say that the top 1% makes 25% of the money and pays 37% of the taxes you know that we're lawyered up, have swiss bank accounts, have Cayman Island trips that are business and pleasure (and no I don't bring the Mrs!;), and that we make a lot more than that and pay a lot less in taxes. Join us, you sure as hell can't beat us- we're bought the system. From rags to rackets to riches to respectability. We bought the USA, we OWN it. We OWN you too. And the future of your children, who will be paying us off with what they make. Resistance is futile, we'll give ...
Competing Obama, McCain Ads In Ohio
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
Obama is running a TV ad in Ohio hitting McCain for "helping pave the way for foreign-owned DHL to take over an American shipping company and putting more than 8,200 jobs at risk in Wilmington,... ...
Dissecting McCain, Obama campaign ads
The Swamp —
by Amanda Erickson
Welcome to this week's edition of Swamp Clearing, where we dig into some of the week's biggest talking points to bring you the truth, at least as far as we can tell.
This week, in honor of what's become an increasingly mean-spirited presidential campaign, we dissect two political ads - one from likely Republican nominee John McCain (Ariz.), and one from his Democratic opponent Barack Obama (Ill.).
First, to McCain. Friday, he released a new ad called ...
Obama Gets Tougher
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
His new ad has some teeth:
To which the McCain campaign responds: William Ayers, William Ayers, William Ayers. When Obama goes negative he usually goes after state issues; like this new ad playing in Nevada about nuclear waste or this ad
about DHL job losses in Ohio. McCain, on the other hand, mostly deploys
blanket negative statements: Obama is a celebrity, Obama isn't ready to
lead, Obama doesn't care about the troops. One seems to be aiming for
the national polls, the other for the electoral college. ...
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 ...
Sucker Punch - Obama Fast and Loose With Truth
Say Anything —
Here’s an ad that Obama has been running in Ohio, followed by an analysis by the somewhat left of center Plain Dealer:
It’s possible for every fact in a political ad to be true, but the sum total to be misleading. Such is the case with this ad.
“...It’s impossible to know whether the Ohio jobs would be more secure under an American-owned DHL. The same foreign owners made significant investments- and added 1,000 jobs- in Wilmington after the merger. And it’s not as if the jobs are ...
