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New Georgia Obama TV Ad Links McCain-Ralph Reed
The Page by Mark Halperin — Latest spot airing in Georgia suggests the Arizonan deliberately let the former Christian Coalition head off the hook in his Indian Affairs Committee investigation of Jack Abramoff’s Indian lobbying. Watch it above. ...

Sweet: Obama links McCain to Abramoff, McCain links Obama to Ayers
Hot Air » Top Picks — Sweet: Obama links McCain to Abramoff, McCain links Obama to Ayers posted at 6:24 pm on August 20, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Via the Standard , here’s The Lamb taking his new tough-guy approach aimed at reassuring the base that he won’t let the GOP push him around the way they did Kerry. But since he is, after all, the Lamb, it’ll air only in Georgia lest wider exposure upset the balance in public perception of who’s running the more negative campaign . The insinuation, obviously, is that McCain gave Reed a pass during his Senate committee’s ...

Release the Hounds!
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The Gloves Come Off
Weekly Standard Blog — The Obama campaign tries to link McCain to Jack Abramoff via Ralph Reed: The McCain campaign hits back, invoking Bill Ayers: “Barack Obama’s ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail. “However, if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama’s political career was reportedly launched. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group ...

Obama Brings a Knife to a Gunfight
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — Two months ago Obama declared of the McCain campaign, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." And while Obama has sharpened his message of late, today he pulled out a pocketknife and McCain responded by pulling out a .44 Magnum. The Obama campaign sent out an email announcing they were releasing a new ad in Georgia linking McCain to Ralph Reed and, by association, Jack Abramoff. Here it is: Brian Rogers, spokesman for the McCain campaign, fired back with this: "Barack Obama's ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail. However, if Barack Obama ...

Local Obama Ad Ties McCain To Abramoff (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — In a negative spot running in Georgia, Barack Obama targets John McCain's connection to local scandalized Christian leader crony Ralph Reed. The ad implies McCain went easy on Reed in his investigation of the Jack Abramoff scandal: The information uncovered by McCain's Indian Affairs Committee investigation helped Reed lose his campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia in 2006. But McCain withheld a controversial email detailing how Alabama Gov. Bob Riley was targeted by Abramoff's influence peddling scheme. McCain spokesman Brian Rogers responded by pivoting hastily to Bill ...

"Never"
Hotline On Call Part Deux — New Barack Obama TV ad highlights John McCain's relationship with Ralph Reed, whose connections to Jack Abramoff forced him to bail from a recent fundraiser for the GOP nom. Narrator: Ralph Reed, "In deep with convicted felon and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, but when the Senate investigated the senator in charge never even called Reed to testify. That senator? John McCain. And who's now raising money for McCain's campaign? Ralph Reed." According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the spot will run in Atlanta only, beginning ...

Hussein’s New Anti-McCain Ad Opens Door Of “Guilt By Association” Into His Own Nose - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Bulletin board on William Ayers’ office door Hussein’s Ad Against McCain: The McCain response to the above ad: “Barack Obama’s ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail. “However, if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama’s political career was reportedly launched. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather ...

McCain camp to Obama: Wanna play “guilt by association”? Let’s go there
Sister Toldjah — The Obama campaign released the below ad airing in Georgia that strains to link Senator McCain to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.  CNN reports on the ad here: The 30-second spot is the Obama campaign’s second negative ad in the past 24 hours. It attacks the Arizona senator for his association with former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, one of the Republicans implicated in the scandal. The ad also seems to suggest McCain didn’t call Reed to testify before a Senate panel he chaired in return for political favors. ...

Barry O Goes On Offense, Gets Thrown For Loss!
Say Anything — Which elicited this response: “Barack Obama’s ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail. “However, if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama’s political career was reportedly launched. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group responsible for countless bombings against targets including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and numerous ...

McSame-- Policies, Politics, Corruption
DownWithTyranny! — Can you imagine 4 more years of Bush Regime policies-- policies which have brought the country to the brink of Depression and to its lowest standing among nations in decades? Policies directly responsible for the greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthiest 1% in American history and for the greatest transfer of wealth from America to the Bush family's partners in oil-rich Arab lands in history? Well, I can't either, but if yesterday's polls have any credibility at all, it looks like you shouldn't entirely write off the possibility. In 2006 when Rep. Sherrod Brown, then a ...

Going local, going negative
Political Animal — When it comes to relentlessly negative campaigning, John McCain is setting a very high bar (or a very low bar, I suppose, depending on one’s perspective). We’ve seen attacks from the McCain gang in July that one might ordinarily expect from a 527 group in October. The low-road campaign has been ugly, dishonest, and shameful. And the public has noticed. By a nearly six-to-one margin, voters say Republican presidential candidate John McCain is running a negative campaign against his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Nearly ...

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 Ad Slams McCain on (G)Reed
Firedoglake — The Obama camp is releasing an ad in Georgia slamming John McCain accepting campaign fundraising from Jack Abramoff's crony, Ralph Reed. As the voiceover says, McCain headed up a major Senate inquiry into the Abramoff. The Senator used the so-called "Gimme Five" hearings to cast ...

McCain Campaign Takes the Gloves Off
Moonbattery — McCain spokesman Brian Rogers responds to a lame attempt by the Obama campaign to link McCain to the stale Abramoff scandal through Ralph Reed: Barack Obama's ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail. However, if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let's start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama's political career was reportedly launched. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group ...

FactCheck.org: Obama’s ad on Ralph Reed smeared McCain
Hot Air » Top Picks — FactCheck.org: Obama’s ad on Ralph Reed smeared McCain posted at 2:25 pm on August 22, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly We already knew that, but FC puts some meat on the bone . Remember, the Reed ad was what got Team Maverick first talking about Ayers this week, as a rejoinder to the charge of guilt by association. Viewed in that context, yesterday’s brutal spot from that “independent” group was de facto retaliation (whether it was produced with that aim or not). The difference between the spots: The Ayers ad turns out to be a fairer representation of the ...