Baracky II

Looking forward to more of these as the election season continues:

Obama's Second Olympics Ad

Although I want Obama's negative ads to be harder hitting, I think his positive ads have been EXCELLENT lately. Check out the newest one:



Compare that to McCain's "positive" ads, which are usually about how great McCain is and what a hero he is. Yet Obama is the arrogant one?

By the way, I haven't talked much about the Georgia situation. But it is shocking how "presumptuous" McCain has been, trying to inject himself into a foreign shooting war despite the fact that we already have a president. And as much as McCain would love to fire up another Cold War or WWIII, I just don't see the American people getting riled up over a country they never heard of.

Oh, and the president of Georgia, Saakashvili, comes across as another Ahmed Chalabi. Chalabi suckered the neocons into toppling Saddam, and now this Saakasvhili idiot wants us to fight Russia for him. If you elect McCain, guess what, we might try to do it. Imagine four wars at once: Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and Russia! Oh, what fun that would be.

Grassroots Anti-McCain Ads

I doubt these will be the last ones we see. And I also have no doubt that some Rove-wannabe will put together an anti-Obama ad, filled with lies of course.

These ads are based on truth. The first is the best, and I could easily see MoveOn.org picking it up, cutting it down to 30 seconds, and playing it on TV.



This second ad is even tougher, but would be a wee bit too controversial for mainstream media. Republicans can get away with these types of ads, but Democrats can't.

Brilliant DSCC Ad

Liddy Dole is one month older than John McCain. This is a fantastic way of bringing age into the equation in a humorous way.

16

Today marks 16 days until Old Man McCain turns 72 years old.

Mark Warner Will Be The Keynote Speaker

And I officially win a cookie for calling it.

Better And Better

This ad rips McCain a good one, with lots of the talking points we've been discussing at this blog for months.



How can McCain be a maverick when he has voted with Bush 95% of the time? Doesn't make sense to me, and hopefully doesn't make sense to most voters.

Polls Of August

Boy, it's been a miserable two weeks for Obama, hasn't it? First he was accused of trying to lose a war to win a campaign, then he was accused of ignoring troops, then he was called a Paris Hilton type celebrity, and now McCain is running negative ads against him during the Olympic games.

So Obama has probably crashed and burned in the polls, right?

Wrong:

Gallup:
Obama: 47%
McCain: 42%

Rasmussen:
Obama: 48%
McCain: 45%

Gallup (open-ended):
Obama: 45%
McCain: 38%

CBS:
Obama: 45%
McCain: 39%

AP:
Obama 47%
McCain: 41%

Time:
Obama 46%
McCain: 41%

and as a bonus....

Alaska:
Obama: 45%
McCain: 40%

Bush won Alaska in a blowout. So this is the equivalent of McCain beating Obama in NJ or Hawaii by 5 points. Kind of a big deal.

McCain had better hope that the Dem convention in Denver is a disaster, and that Obama throws up on himself during his acceptance speech. Because right now these ridiculous negative ads are amounting to one big fat waste of money.

Do You Want Another Bush?

I don't.

Not So Much

Ok, it was laughable enough when Hillary Clinton tried to portray herself as Rocky. Now McCain is doing it too.

John McCain casts himself as the movie hero "Rocky" at a rally in Pennsylvania.

In perhaps the corniest political stage crafting ever, the theme song from "Rocky" blared over the speakers as the McCain Straight Talk Express drove into the rally auditorium. None other than the Senator Joe Lieberman introduced McCain as "Rocky McCain!"

For reference sake, John McCain is 42 years older than Sly Stallone was when he originated that role (Sly was 30).

Indeed, McCain is four years older than Burgess Meredith was when he played Rocky's ancient trainer Mickey.


Think about that for a minute. Old Mickey, the grouchy old coot from Rocky, was nearly half a decade younger than John McCain is now. That's scary.

Bush Justice

Attorney General Michael Mukasey, chief law enforcement officer of the land, explaining why he won't prosecute Alberto Gonzales, Monica Goodling, and the others who illegally politicized the Justice Department hiring process:

“Where there is enough evidence to charge someone with a crime, we vigorously prosecute,” he said. “But not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.”

Unless somebody is smoking weed somewhere, in which case Mukasey will sends teams of FBI agents after them.

Unbelievable.

McCain Is A Danger To Us All

You like how Bush has screwed up everything and left us in such a dangerous position? Well, then you'd love McCain.

Andrew Sullivan:

After the last eight years, we simply cannot risk a continuation of the same reckless, belligerent, argument-losing, ideological and deceptive foreign policy of the current crew. The damage that neoconservatism has done to America, to the Middle East, to democratic norms, to Israel's security, to civilized values and fiscal sanity is immense and deep. From his knee-jerk COld War posture over Georgia to his Rovian campaign tactics, McCain is simply too close to this disastrous record to contemplate. McCain's trigger-happy temperament, shallow understanding of the complexities and passion for military force as the answer to everything is the bigger risk. He is a recipe for more, wider and far more destructive warfare.

Josh Marshall:

Andrew Sullivan is right about this. This is something that transcends whatever immediate campaign tactics or even strategy Barack Obama may be pursuing. It goes beyond him. It goes beyond the Democrats. The whole country needs to wake up.

The foreign policy of the last seven-plus years has been an unmitigated disaster for the United States by virtually every measure. And John McCain would ramp up all the worst traits of the current administration. His instincts are always toward force and the people advising him come squarely from the Cheney wing of the current administration. In comparison to Bush he's not just more of the same. There's every reason to believe he'd be much worse.

The current situation in Georgia and his response should make clear to everyone how dangerous a president John McCain would be.

I know we spend a lot of time making fun of McCain for being a crazy old coot. But if this last week has taught us anything, it is the "crazy" that should worry us a lot more than the "old coot" part.

If McCain is elected president, he would most likely steer us towards another world war. Seriously. War with Iran, another Cold War with Russia (at best), increased belligerence against China. Pat Buchanan has said that John McCain makes Dick Cheney look like Gandhi.

This is why we must win this election. McCain is even scarier than Bush, if you can believe it, and cannot be given control over our foreign policy.

Another Dumbass McCain Ad

I have to say, these ads are just getting dumber and dumber. Oh, and notice how McCain's campaign continues to lie about whether Obama will raise taxes on folks making $43,00/year.



The ads are so stupid that they undermine the negative messages they are trying to convey. Just my opinion.

It will be interesting to see how McCain pivots from these attack ads to Rev. Wright ads in September. It's gonna seem rather jarring that celebrity Obama is suddenly scary radical America-hating Obama. How can you be scared of a celebrity crush?

Two Can Play That Game

A very good new ad from the Obama campaign hits McCain on his celebrity status:



I'm a tough customer -- I'd love to see an ad talking about McCain's eight houses, $500 shoes, private jet, etc. But this is a very, very good ad that mocks McCain, ties him to Bush, ties him to Washington, shows him as a flip-flopper extraordinaire. Pretty good.

Bush Disrespects the Flag

Yeah, I don't think banging the flag against your knee like a drumstick is all that respectful.



Maybe George Stephanapoulous or Fox News should ask Bush whether he loves America if he is going around disrespecting the flag like that.

Just another example of "If Obama had done this..."

New DNC Ad Rips McCain On Outsourcing

Not as good as their previous ads, needs more voice-over and not so much reading. But still a good start: