“I Don’t Think Our Campaign Is Negative In The Slightest…We’re Having Fun And Enjoying It…”
PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Republican John McCain on Friday defended his campaign’s new Web ad mocking Barack Obama as a presumptuous messianic figure, saying it was important to “display a sense of humor” in the presidential contest.
The new ad, with a voiceover calling Obama “The One,” features clips of the Democratic contender appearing to describe himself and his presidential quest in grandiose terms—saying such things as, “This was the moment when the rise in the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.” The ad ends with Charlton Heston as Moses parting the Red Sea in the movie, “The Ten Commandments.”
The ad was not set to air on any television stations, so the campaign was counting on it to attract viewers by circulating broadly on the Web. Still, it was McCain’s latest attempt to caricature his rival as an overweening but empty media phenomenon, coming on the heels of the campaign’s new television ad juxtaposing Obama with lightweight celebrities Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan slammed the Web ad, saying the Arizona senator was “spending all of his time and the powerful platform he has on these sorts of juvenile antics.”
McCain insisted he was running a “respectful” campaign and brushed off complaints from critics and even some supporters that his tone had taken a sharply negative turn in recent days.
“I don’t think our campaign is negative in the slightest,” McCain said. “We think it’s got a lot of humor in it, we’re having fun and enjoying it … we’ll continue to fight and scrap all the way to November 4.”
McCain also reiterated his contention that Obama had injected race into the campaign. McCain’s campaign manager accused the Illinois senator of “playing the race card” by suggesting Republicans were trying to scare voters away from Obama because he “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
“I didn’t bring up the issue. Senator Obama did,” McCain said.
(AP)
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Welcome to the big leagues Barry, stop being such a baby and let’s get it on.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:45 pm
August 1st, 2008 at 9:20 pmI am glad to see my Contributions paying off, continue the exposure of the empty suit, Senator John Sidney McCain!
Sending your birthday check today!
God Bless you & America!
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August 2nd, 2008 at 7:37 amIf there’s one thing that sends Moonbats like Obama and his disciples into fits of impotent rage, it’s ridicule. They can’t stand people blowing holes in their over-inflated egos and utopian fantasies.
Keep blastin’, Mac!
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 amYeah well… the day AFTER the Dhimmis make him ‘official’ you need to cut his Marxist nuts off!
(WHOA…. deja vu man… think I heard that somewhere else..)
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:22 amMac, this a contest for the most powerful position in the world, it ain’t ‘Last Comic Standing’, fer krisakes! Take the gloves off and get down in the dirt. Obombus himself and the dhimmicRat party have given you plenty of ammo to beat him about the ears with. Get to it!!!
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:05 am