This latest ad is Act 2 in the Obama is not in touch with you message. First was the celebrity spots (here and here). We know celebrities are inherently out-of-touch with common folk.
The poll numbers demonstrate this line of messaging is having an impact and even NY Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer admits its "powerful."
Obama's nine day vacation, during the Olympics, is a risky move for a candidate already on the verge of being commonly percieved as radically out-of-touch with everyday voters.
Lets see my choice is John McCain or that smart black man Barack Obama?
McCain who does not know how to use a computer but is willing to learn if we elect him – I’ll just vote for that smart black man.
My Choices are: John McCain who says the economic downturn is psychological? - Na! I'll vote for the smart black man.
McCain who says you are better off under George Bush? - Nope I'll vote for the smart black man.
Mc Cain who wants to continue killing more people looking for weapons of mass destruction that do not exist? - Gee! I'll vote for the smart black man.
McCain who believes that we should stay the course but is not willing to support the people he puts in harms way. - I'll take a chance on the smart black man.
Should I vote for a man that does not know that 9-11 was caused by Osama Bin Laden not Sedam Hussein? - Easy! I'll vote for the smart black man.
Vote for the man who does not know if the Sunnis or Sheits are our enemies? - No way I'll vote for the smart black man.
Vote for the man who helped put our government on the China, Saudi Arabia credit card? - Not a chance I'll vote for the smart black man.
Vote for the man with the worst temper in the Senate to have his finger on the nuclear button? - No way - I'll vote for the smart black man.
George Bush, Dick Chaney, Condoleezza Rice and John McCain are responsible for the murder of 94,330 innocent people while they looked for nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. Of that total 4,134 were Americans. They are also responsible for the wounding of 30,464 people. as of 8 - 07 - 2008.
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THE COMPANY HE KEEPS
10:44AM Aug 8th 2008
Is John McCain in the pocket of oil companies? Is John McCain in the pocket of insurance companies? Is john McCain in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies?
Here is a list of lobbyists and employees of major companies working in major positions in the McCain campaign. It will answer any questions you might have about the people who are advising and influencing him.
McBush rides around in a golf cart wearing $520 shoes, but claims Obama is out of touch? After being in Congress for 26 years and accomplishing absolutely nothing, I think it's ironic, but appropriate, that he would be wearing "loafers."
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Diane
10:59AM Aug 8th 2008
If people think the economy is bad now wait until Obama is President.......DEPRESSION!!!
Vote McCain
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SoldierBlue
11:21AM Aug 8th 2008
These ads are only entertaining to Republicans but not to middle class blue collar guys like me. We already know Obama is a better person than McCain and will run the country much better than another republican.
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SoldierBlue
11:33AM Aug 8th 2008
Diane your reasoning is not.You make no sense.You either have a mental disorder or your just plain stupid. The last time the Democrats were in charge the Economy was in much better shape than it is now. Then we got Bush,Tom Delay,Dennis Hastert,Dick Cheney,John McCain, Larry Craig,and of coarse Stevens of Alaska, Condi Rice,Karl Rove,Remember old Al Gonzales and Rummy Rumsfeld?... to fix it for us Now we are in Great shape...LOL...you republicans choose to be ignorant.You choose to slime the future for your own children,your losers every last one of you addicts addicted to big cars,big oil and money with no sense of honor or country.
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Jerry A
11:39AM Aug 8th 2008
Bush has ruined everthing he ever touched and now I am afraid that means the Republican Party. What a major loser, liar and cheat! So vote for McCain..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Debby
7:40PM Aug 9th 2008
Soldier Blue, Obama is no Bill Clinton when it comes to the economy. Clinton governed a state and knew how to balance a budget. Obama needs his papers and pencils still brought to him because he is so dis-orginized and those were his words.
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ANYBODY BUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA !
1:48PM Aug 8th 2008
Another Obama supporter tossed from the Happy Times bus.
Mazen Asbahi, hired to help with Muslim relations, is no longer a part of the bus as he was found to be associated with the Hamas terrorists.
Poor old Obama - his choice of friends seems to be a continual failure.
Osama and Achmadinijad still plan to vote for Obama.
HOW MUCH MONEY HAS OBAMA RECEIVED FROM MIDDLE-EASTERN MUSLIM COUNTRIES?
VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN IN 2008.
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John
12:07PM Aug 8th 2008
Choices - Choices - Choices10:37AMAug 8th 2008
Lets see my choice is John McCain or that smart black man Barack Obama?
------------------------------------------------------ Your leaving out the smart black man Bsrak Obama who has no experience, I will take the experienced candidate who is not racist, like the racist Obama, I will take the one with patriotism, not the young Barak Obama.. I can go onand on about this.
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Tommy Christopher
12:25PM Aug 8th 2008
Greg,
aren't they all painful?
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Chuck
12:40PM Aug 8th 2008
Last year McSame & wife made 50mil he surely has never had the struggles I have. His wife is a former drug addict. If Michelle had done anything of that nature in her past it would be blasted over the airwaves & in the papers. McCain was very close to running as Kerry's VP & they discussed it very heavily. For that Repub's don't fully trust McCain. The fact is McCain supporters can make up all the excuses they want, but the fact is that he is behind in the polls.
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Hope
12:59PM Aug 8th 2008
Diane: And you think your McBush is finally going to do something after 26 years in Congress ????? LOL. You pathetic neo cons never cease to amaze me. Somebody must have drilled a hole in your head that has allowed all the brain cells to ooze out so you can't think for yourself. But then again, why think when you can parrot the same old pathetic recycled shit ??????? Your party leaders have done a fantastic job of brain washing you. Look at what your idiot Bush has done to this country since he was put in office 7 years ago ?????? Our national debit is the higest in the history of this country, unemployment is high, manufacturing jobs shipped to China and India, no health insurance for Americans while we are providng free health care for Iraqis and illegals, high gas prices while big fat oil companies are laughing all the way to the bank after getting tax breaks, tax breaks for the rich that your McBush wants to make permanent, open borders, etc., etc., etc. And your dumb ass McBush was to open off-shore drilling that will not reduce the price of gas for at least 15 years. What about all the off-shore leases that the big oil companies already own ????? Why in the hell are they going to drill when they have friends like Bush and McBush ???? These are the facts but then again, you pathetic brain washed nincompoop, nimrod neo cons really can't be bothered with facts !!!!!!
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eclecticman
5:11PM Aug 8th 2008
McCain keeps showing that he is following the GOP mantra: "Real men don't think things through". First there was his cry for doing away with the gas tax. Never mind that it would devistate our road infrastructure that depends on the tax for funding and throw thousands out of work. Never mind that economists were unanimous in saying that it would have little or no effect on the price of gasoline. It is only effecte snobs that think. Real men think with their conojes, as Bush does. Now McCain is doing the same with drilling off shore. Never mind that the the energy department says that it will take 10 years to have any effect and that will be only a few pennies off our gasoline. The people are buying it, and so McCain will ignore reality to wins votes, as Bush did.
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bshult
1:45PM Aug 8th 2008
Hey Choices, Choices... I know BO personally. I lived in his state senate district. Talked with him on my front porch. Don't get a shiver up your leg here ok?
On a key floor vote on school vouchers Sen Maj Leader Jones needed all votes to keep measure from being destroyed. He had to pull it back at last minute because BO and 2 others failed to show. BO was asked why. He did what we on south side call the O-Bambi look and said he did not know he needed to be there. Next day Jones said Oh yes he did. Few weeks later reported in local newspaper that he had been out in ski country on junket as guest of a lobbyist. As a result I never voted for him again.
Don't be a fool.
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NO-0BAMA
2:37PM Aug 8th 2008
OBAMA TELLS LITTLE GIRL AMERICA NO LONGER “WHAT IT ONCE WAS”
On August 7, 2008, Fox News’ Hannity and Colmes aired a tape of a seven-year-old girl asking Senator Barack Obama why he was running for president.
According to Fox’s Allan Colmes, Obama “offered what some are viewing as a scary response.”
Senator Obama was shown saying, “I’m running for president because of — because I got two daughters just like you. America is — is no longer what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, ‘I don’t want that future for my children.’”
Former Governor Mike Huckabee commented, “What see saw is a candidate who is exhausted --- This was a very, very serious tactical error. It’s that kind of comment that does come back to haunt a candidate.”
I am appalled at the way Obama answered the child’s question --- he really fumbled trying to respond to it!
IT IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHY HE WILL NOT TAKE PART IN THE TOWN HALL MEETINGS --- there might be some other little girls around who will trip him up and make him look even more incompetent than he already does. Those little girls can be treacherous! He simply cannot perform well without pre-scripted speeches and teleprompters.
Vote for McCain in November.
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Louis IX KingofFrance
2:11PM Aug 8th 2008
exxon- mccain '08- hail satan!
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S. Merritt
2:17PM Aug 8th 2008
All McCain seems to be doing is bad mouthing Obama and that's because he has nothing to offer. But someone please inform McCain he can stop pissing down his pants legs over drilling for oil because there are a half million acres of public and private land available for drilling and what has Mccain done about it--Like everything else he pushes--Not a damn thing. And if McCain wants to give Obama benefit of his experience, why doesn't he show Obama how to shack up with another woman and abandon his wife and kids like Mccain did.