The 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 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.
With Obama opening, and maintaining, a significant lead in the polls (50%-43% in today's Gallup daily) on the strength of his debate performance and McCain's bad gamble on the economic crisis, the McCain campaign is headed for the peak of desperation mountain.
This ad relies on attacks that were debunked by FactCheck following the VP debate. The funding bill that the ad refers to was one that didn't include timelines for withdrawal. Obama, along with Hillary Clinton and conservative Republican Tom Coburn, voted against the measure. At the time, 32% of Americans thought we were making progress in Iraq, and 56% favored timetables. That number is at 59% today.
As far as the out-of-context quote about Afghanistan, the point Obama was trying to make was that we needed more troops in Afghanistan, a position McCain has lately adopted. From WaPo:
"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 problems there,"
The Afghani government has complained about the level of civilians killed by US forces, which exceeds those killed by insurgents. So, McCain is in favor of killing civilians?
The politics of fear worked out pretty well for George W. Bush in 2004. The next round of McCain scare tactics are sure to be worse than this, so we'll get to see if Americans have wised up to this game yet.
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McCain is unfit to be a Commander in Chief or President. He is 74 years old and will be senile by next year. Palin on the other hand is a witch and would bring America into delusion. McCain is unfit as he abandoned a POW in Indochina and put America in danger to save his own life in Vietnam war. McCain in the Senate voted against Veterans War benefits and consider himself as Veteran war hero. Voted against benefit for children 8 out of 10.McCain supported the Bushes in Iraq war that killed 4,500 Americans and civilians and he wants to continue the war and kill more Americans. McCAIN IS MORE TERRORIST THAN OSAMA BIN LADEN. McCain is desperate and so is Palin the screwy moose hunter who do not know Bush doctrine and do not know the meaning of bailout. This is what she learned from 5 community colleges she has been.
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DisgustedDem
10:44AM Oct 6th 2008
OBAMA DANGEROUS??? Of course he is....Now he has put the lst amendment under the bus..
FREE SPEECH ON ITS WAY OUT IN AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
October 04, 2008 Liberals Rethink Free Speech By Rich Lowry
Barack Obama has already brought change. He's ended the "chilling effect."
The Left has learned to like some chill with its free speech.
Enter the Obama campaign, which reflects the new ethos. It twice issued "Obama Action Wire" alerts for activists to call a Chicago radio station and try to shut down appearances by two Obama critics, writers Stanley Kurtz and David Freddoso. No "chilling effect" here. CNN and the Chicago Tribune reported on the effort to silence Obama's detractors, but mostly by way of noting the Obama camp's tech-savvy mustering of its supporters.
When an outside group ran TV ads pointing out links between Obama and the former Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, the Obama campaign asked the Bush Justice Department -- yes, that Bush Justice Department, the fount of all evil -- to open a criminal investigation.
The Obama campaign's effort dovetails with the work of an outfit called Accountable America, run by a former MoveOn.org operative. It is devoted to threatening conservative donors with legal action and exposure of any embarrassing details of their private lives if they give money to groups running ads against Obama. The New York Times account says the group hopes to create "a chilling effect," but the phrase is used non-pejoratively.
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DisgustedDem
10:47AM Oct 6th 2008
THE OBAMA TRUTH SQUAD IS OUT TO GET YOU.
Liberal editorial boards have apparently lost their former zest for the First Amendment. Consider this approving sentence from a New York Times editorial: "The wholesale descent into Swift Boat campaigning has been blocked -- for now -- by a federal judge in Virginia." It was written about a judge denying an injunction against the Federal Election Commission sought by a pro-life group running radio ads attacking Obama. The group thinks the First Amendment protects political speech; unfortunately, the courts disagree.
But the Times goes beyond mere legalities. It asserts with no evidence that the group's advertising is "lies," then urges the FEC to "be vigilant for what will inevitably be fresh attempts to mislead voters with fresh lies." Here's a newspaper charging a governmental agency with policing and shutting down campaign ads it doesn't like.
It's all just a taste of what's to come if Obama wins and Democrats have even bigger majorities in Congress, emboldening them to try to crush their antagonists once and for all. "Hate is not a family value" was a popular bumper sticker on the left during the 1990s. Now, the left has embraced hate as, if not a family value, the organizing spirit of its long assault on George W. Bush, and anyone else in the way, from Joe Lieberman to Sarah Palin.
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W Stone
10:44AM Oct 6th 2008
If Obama is a terrist as labeled by Palin, then is McCain as racist because he votedagainst Martin Luther King Jr Birthday as a Holiday?
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DisgustedDem
10:58AM Oct 6th 2008
OGB (OBAMA GESTAPO BRIGADE) COMING TO A HOME NEAR YOU.
America's partisan politics has always featured its share of rancorous abuse, but there's something rancid at the heart of the new, blog-driven left that believes its bullying childishness has led the way out of the wilderness. This spirit will inevitably seep into an Obama administration. Whatever Obama's professions of his commitment to cross-partisan understanding, he's never confronted the left of his own party and has always been willing to engage in hardball when it suits his purposes.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Little Keith Olbermanns will surely be burrowed throughout his executive branch, eager to chill the speech of the "worst people in the world."
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connie
10:52AM Oct 6th 2008
trish, are you trying to convince yourself by saying it three times. McCain is a good man, who has done something for his country and is proud to be an american...before and now. Unlike the Obama's...who is only proud to be an american now because they are fooling everyone who votes for them. People want change and I do too...that's why I'm voting for McCain....he will help this country not hurt us. If Obama gets in there...yes there will be change also...It will be the end of all american's and America.
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connie
10:54AM Oct 6th 2008
God bless McCain...McCain 2008
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Michaelene
3:02PM Oct 7th 2008
I am Michaelene and I approve the McCain ad!
For the first time in my adult life, I am AFRAID for America!
If Obama had been truthful about his past and CURRENT associations with the radical and extremist American hating pals, he would have lost the primary. All Republicans are thankful for that since they did not want to battle HRC.
I am pleased that the Obama campaign is responding exactly as predicted, with an attack ad, instead of with an explanation and documentation of his achievements. Keating 5-McCain was exonerated and the 4 dems were held accountable.
Attacking rather than correcting the record will not help them what so ever. But when Americans are finally introduced to Barry they will become curious and begin to research the man and question his character since he has no public record to stand on.
BHO- as an American taxpayer, I demand to know how you funded your education and your trips to Indonesia, Kenya and Pakistan. I demand to know who your advisors are, and why you chose them (Raines, Wright, Meeks?)
I declare the Hollywood elite foolish dreamers who have no idea what Americans are facing today. Their opinions are worth as much as the value of the dollar.
I am screaming for an end to the pork in politics! Especially Obama's pork 900 million in 900 days. WTF!
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mike
10:58AM Oct 6th 2008
You are a MORON! You are so blinded. Obama has done nothing for this country, yet everyone wants him to run it. Just because he has a nice smile and hes young and he appeals to evryone. ugh! Wake up people! Mccaim has the expirience needed to run our country! Its too soon for Obama. He needs to prove himself before he can take on such a HUGE role in America! I mean Hello!!! WAKE up people!!!!!!!!
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DisgustedDem
11:02AM Oct 6th 2008
AOL asked this question today..
"How relevant are decades-old scandals and events to the presidential race?"
Most people said they weren't.
Interesting..since the ONLY scandal which s decades old is the Keating 5 Scandal which the Democrats are trying to revive.
BUT..Obama's scandals...involving associations with bigoted preachers and former terrorists which continued to just recently..and associations with organizations involved in the collpase of our financial systems..are as recent as last weeks news.
No spin by the AP can change those facts.
Tough luck Obama!
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MJG22
11:11AM Oct 6th 2008
Barack Obama's campaign "smacks" of too much that is sneaky or downright criminal. The same was true of the Bush Administration. As it turned out Bush and his far right base were completely out of touch with mainstream America just as Obama's far left base will be. So, here we are standing on the brink of exchanging one extreme form of greed and corruption for another.
When will voters understand that both far right and far left political philosophies are equally dangerous to the stability of our government and that one can not occur without having suffered the consequences of other? Both are equally destructive and will not serve to put the country back on track. The answer to this dilemma has always been somewhere in the middle. Bush and his administration could not or would not find middle ground and its becoming more evident that Obama and Biden, first and third most liberal Senators in the US Senate won’t see the forest for the trees. Our country is in desperate need of reform and we need it now. John McCain and Sarah Palin are running on records of proven reform. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are running a campaign of partisan politics as usual. The time has come to free ourselves of the ideological stranglehold of both the left and right factions of Democrats and Republicans. If ever in the history of government there was an imperative need to vote the person and not the Party, the time is now. It will be a bitter pill for some to swallow, but if you think of it as medicine for a healthier America it will go down a lot easier.
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DisgustedDem
11:14AM Oct 6th 2008
MCCAIN FEINGOLD ACT
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA, McCain–Feingold Act, Pub.L. 107-155, 116 Stat. 81, enacted 2002-03-27) is United States federal law that amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which regulates the financing of political campaigns. Its chief sponsors were Senators Russell Feingold (D-WI) and John McCain (R-AZ). The law became effective on 6 November 2002, and the new legal limits became effective on 1 January 2003.
THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT CAMPAIGN FINANCE CORRUPTION
AND IT "AINT" OBAMA
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Big Sister
11:14AM Oct 6th 2008
The stock market is plunging another 500 points this morning, and McCain's campaign is trying to divert the nation with talk about a guy named Ayers?
McCain and Palin are desperate and despicable people. They have no shame. And they have no leadership to offer this country.
Obama-Biden 08
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A Mother in America
11:14AM Oct 6th 2008
The Constitution is the supreme law in the United States. No judge or other governmental body, not even the Supreme Court, may override it in any circumstance!
Subject: I wonder if the judges will uphold this one.....
Think about this. I always thought that Clinton had something on Obama. A birth certificate is a matter of public record. I wonder where it is.
We know that Obama refuses to release his birth certificate, and for some reason it is not on file in Hawaii, so this is interesting. Is Obama legally eligible to serve as President? Here's something for you to ponder.
SOME TIME AGO HILLARY SAID SHE HAD SOMETHING ON OBAMA THAT WOULD CHANGE THE ELECTION, AND THAT'S WHY SHE ONLY SUSPENDED HER QUEST FOR THE PRESIDENCY. PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE TIME FRAME AS YOU READ THIS.
This came from a USNA alumnus. It'll be interesting to see how the media handles this.
Barack Obama is not a legal U.S. natural-born citizen, according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between December 24, 1952 to November 13, 1986. Federal Law states that the office of President requires a person be a natural-born citizen, if the child was not born to two U.S. citizen parents. This is what exempts John McCain, though he was born in the US Panama Canal Zone .(to Americal Mom and Dad on Naval Base)
US Law very clearly states: " if only one parent is a U.S. citizen at the time of one's birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for a minimum of ten years, five of which must be after the age of 16". Barack Obama's father was not a U.S. Citizen, that is a fact.
Obama's mother was only 18 when Obama was born. This means even though she had been a U.S. Citizen for 10 years, (or citizen of Hawaii being a territory), his mother fails the test for at-least-5-years-prior- to Barack Obama's birth, but-after-age-16. In essence, mother alone is not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. Citizenship. At most, 2 years elapsed from his mother turning 16 to the time of Barack Obama's birth when she was 18. His mother would have needed to have been 16 + 5 = 21 years old at the time of Barack Obama's birth for him to be a natural-born citizen. The Constitution clearly declares: Naturalized citizens are ineligible to hold the office of President. Though Barack Obama was sent back to Hawaii at age 10, any other information does not matter because his mother is the one who must fulfill the requirement to be a U.S. Citizen for 10 years prior to his birth on August 4, 1961, with 5 of those years being after age 16.
Further, Obama may have had to have remained in the USA for some time frame to protect any citizenship he might have had, rather than living in Indonesia . This is very clear cut and a glaring violation of U.S. Election law. Stay tuned to your TV sets because I suspectsome of this information will be leaking through over the next several days.
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DisgustedDem
11:19AM Oct 6th 2008
and hopefully before the election our attention will be diverted to other important subjects like.
I can't believe Americans are so blinded by Obama's charm that they don't see the pattern here! It's not just the unrepented terrorist. The list goes on and on with him. Please people, pay attention. Each time a new radical association is unveiled Obama downplays his association with that person, the truth comes out, we know he lied,then everybody drops it...WHAT!!!!!!!! The media or the American people would never let anyone else get away with so many radical associations nor would they let anyone else get away with so many lies. This man scares me. He has history of business and friendly associations with people who radically hate America (let's not forget one who was his spiritual mentor for TWENTY years ) and these radical people want HIM to be our top leader, plus everyone of his plans; health care, taxes,etc. lead America into socialism...?????Doesn't this sound an alarm to anyone? Please open your eyes America. Our freedom is too precious to throw away over one man's charm. We will get 'change' alright but at too high a price that I'm willing to pay!
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DisgustedDem
11:25AM Oct 6th 2008
WADE....OBAMA HAS LAWER WITH TERRORISTS CONN. REPRESENTING HIM IN LAW SUIT..!! WHY???11:13PMOct 4th 2008
The lawsuit, filed by Philip Berg in federal court has taken a bizarre and disturbing twist. Rather than just producing a birth certificate proving his eligibility for the office of POTUS, Obama has filed a motion to dismiss.
Of the 1,143,358 resident and active attorneys in the United States, Obama selected Joe Sandler, of the Washington law firm Sandler, Reiff, and Young to represent him in this filing.
@@@@@@Sandler is the legal hit-man for the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Sandler's role for CAIR has been to intimidate people who dare to expose the goals and actions of Islamofascists. For example, last year he tried to get Jihad expert Robert Spencer banned from speaking to the Young American Foundation by using a threatening letter. Sandler followed up by threatening columnist Mike Adams for writing about the Spencer incident.
The question is, why would a guy who wants to assume the role of Commander-in-Chief select a lawyer with terrorist connections to represent him in a law suit?
This is just another of those "guilt by associations" that Obama dismisses as a "distraction" and the mainstream media chooses to ignore.
Is there anybody around Obama that doesn't hate this country?
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liz
11:35AM Oct 6th 2008
I can't believe that one person on the right would have the right to point a finger at the left. After all it was these very same political leaders that have instituted the most deceptive and bitter politics in the history of America. What is most disheartening about this is that it is shrouded with morale values and it is the same politics that have resulted with this country ending up with a leader that you would have to blind not realize the affects of how the American people were deceived with the he's one of us politics. Please people look beyound the persona of an indivdual at look at the substance. If you understand anything, understand this, that we as a people are prone to let our feelings and cultural background impede our thinking and listening ability. We tend to cut off our noses to spite or face. Would you want a leader who saids I am going to cut every service in the budget for one year or would you want one who saids that I am going to create jobs. We cannot afford to pick wrong this time. It is imperative that we listen with our brains and not our emotions.
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Rias10
11:28AM Oct 6th 2008
Sarah Palin says that Obama pals around with terrorist. She should consider this. John McCain is a brainwashed communist trained puppet that made 32 propaganda tapes for the Viet Cong denouncing America. His brainwashing involved hating the American military so much which explains his negative voting record when it comes to veterans. McCain has never been a good Republican. During most of his captivity the Republican Party President occupied the White House and he probably blames Republicans for most of his time in captivity. When McCain ran for president in 2000 the Republican Party, under Karl Rove, defeated McCain by any means necessary. In 2008 McCain hired Karl Rove protege Steve Schmidt to capture the White House. George Bush kept this brainwashed communist trained puppet out of the White House in 2000 hopefully Barack Obama will be able to do the same in 2008
Senator John McCain sat on the United States Council for World Freedom(USCWF) Board of Directors in 1981.The U.S. chapter of "World Anti-communist League" (WACL), the United States Council for World Freedom (USWCF), has been one of the most active branches. USCWF was founded in 1981 by Major General John K. Singlaub. This branch has generated controversy, as it has been found to have illegally supplied firearms to guerillas in the Iran-Contra Affair and, in 1981, the USCWF was placed under watch by the Anti-Defamation League, which noted the organization had increasingly become a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites