Sinking In The Polls, Hussein Releases Series Of Attack Ads - Video Of All Ads
Returning from his Hawaiian vacation to sinking poll ratings, Barack Obama has heeded Democratic calls for a tougher stance against John McCain and unleashed a multi-pronged attack against the Republican nominee with a series of state specific ads distinctly more negative in tone than his previous offerings.
The first, “Economy”, is airing in Philadelphia; East Lansing, Michigan; Green Bay, Wisconsin; and at least five other major cities in battleground states such as Colorado and Indiana. It paints McCain as out of touch with the lives of ordinary Americans, contrasting some of his previous positive statements on the economy with the experiences of voters:
In Des Moines; Tampa, Florida; and at least 10 other cities, Obama attempts to tie McCain’s support for the Iraq War to the foundering economy through an imaginary book, “Economics”:
In a twist on Hillary Clinton’s earlier “3am” ad, “Ringing”, airing in Texas, refrains from mentioning McCain by name but takes on his claim to the commander-in-chief mantle by highlighting Obama’s judgement on a number of key foreign policy issues:
“Ringing” TV Ad - video powered by Metacafe
Meanwhile “Punch”, airing in Ohio, emphasises McCain’s role in a deal that saw foreign-owned DHL takeover an American shipping company, leading to the loss of thousands of local jobs. The ad taps into the anxieties of blue collar Americans over unfettered free trade - of which McCain is a vocal advocate - using the word “foreign” as many times as is possible in a 30 second spot:
But how will the negative turn, from a man promising to eschew the Washington politics of old, be greeted by voters? With the nominee having taken a hit in the polls following a volley of Republican attacks, most Democrats now view the move as a necessary evil. Meanwhile, analysts note that while Obama has gone on the offensive locally, his national advertising campaign remains generally positive.
“If you can go quietly negative, that’s what he’s done; I think the perception is that he’s still running the positive campaign,” Evan Tracey, president of the Campaign Media Analysis Group of TNS Media Intelligence, told the New York Times. “It’s a pretty smart, high-low, good cop/bad cop strategy.”
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In another serious blunder the Obama camp has snubbed the Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput who is the leader of 385,000 Catholics in northern Colorado. The Archbishop will be leading the prayer vigil at a Denver area Planned Parenthood Clinic.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:05 pmhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/19/denver-archbishop-not-among-democrats-invited-cler/
Archbishop Chaput said:”I am tired of people telling religious folks to be quiet in the public square because of constitutional questions of separation of church and state,” he said. “I hope this encourages people to become confident and active.”
His polls are sinking because most of us, the American electorate, are smart enough to see right through him. He is an empty suit who speaks well but never gets any real information out. It is like he is telling us about a wonderful vacation he has planned at some beautiful place but never says where it is or how to get there.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:05 pmForeign entity? Bleakest of times?!
Forgive me, but I’m far more concerned about foreign entities that have aims to wage terrorist acts against us, than foreign businesses. We operate and acquire foreign businesses, they do the same that’s how a global market operates.
A slowdown is NOT a recession!!! Ask those who survived the Great Depression and WW2, then maybe you’ll really know what the bleakest of times were.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:50 pmRecession = 2 quarters of GDP loss if I’m not mistaken. We’re not even at 1!
August 20th, 2008 at 11:23 pmAnother good ad for McCain — “Obama on the run”
He is sinking in the polls because it’s becoming transparently obvious there is no there there, just the blind ambition of another mediocre Marxist
August 21st, 2008 at 3:01 amI am blue collar, I have had a lot of American companies take over my company, so I lost my job. I found another pretty fast, its just the way it is.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:23 amNo mention of the thousands of jobs being lost right now, because of the mortgage fiasco.
This, my friend, is a superb analogy and you should copyright it.
“It is like he is telling us about a wonderful vacation he has planned at some beautiful place but never says where it is or how to get there.”
August 21st, 2008 at 4:48 am
Tom
August 21st, 2008 at 5:04 amExactly. But don’t tell a democrat that, it might overload their brain. How do you confuse a liberal? Use logic and reason.
The 3 bottom ads (the 1st one doesn’t work for me) are poorly written and poorly organized and require great leaps of reasoning to get from the first points to the closing point. And the one that argues that 0bama has good “judgment” had me LOL. I sincerely hope the general public does not vote for this empty suit.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:05 amI love how the media tries to hammer the idea that we are in a recession (when we’re not) at worse off than 8 years ago. Hmm I seem to remember we were actually in a recession at the end of Clinton’s term. The internet boom burst and with his high taxes people couldn’t handle it. I have no problem now. Good job, good pay. Yeah some people lose jobs here and there but that is normal business.
On another note, what nerve does he have bringing up the DHL deal. We are trying to be a global economy. When he raises taxes he’ll know what job loss is. NO business will want to stay in the U.S. when it can go somewhere else that is cheaper and then just import the goods.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:53 am