Obama’s latest rather niche attack ad goes after McCain for allegedly supporting nuclear waste in the backyard.
Sound bite: “John McCain - for nuclear waste in Nevada.”
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A wise use of YouTube: The Obama campaign has an economics adviser respond to McCain’s attack ad point by point.
Ad: “He wants to raise taxes.”
Adviser: “Let me be clear, Sen. Obama’s plan does not raise taxes on any family earning less than $250,000.”
Well, then, sounds like they’re both right.
When this video was first on YouTube during the campaign, I posted it here and remember how amused I was at how Citizen Kate, bodacious blonde, made John Edwards nervous. Of course, it’s all the more amusing now. The sweat starts about 2:50 in. She tells him he’s cute and then asks for a job.
Obama’s equation: George Bush + Washington = John McCain. That has been the case. But his tone is changing, making fun of McCain. Silly old pol.
Sound bite: “John McCain started running an ad yesterday saying that Washington is broken. No kidding. It’s taken him 26 years to figure that out.”
Sound bite: “We haven’t had an energy plan. We’ve had an oil company plan…. Senator McCain’s energy plan reads like an early Christmas list for oil companies.”
Video blog documentary maker Chuck Olsen caught John Edwards’ affairmate making money making video of him during the campaign. She’s 1:09 into this video (still image here):
Yes, just what we needed, more talking heads about politics. Todd Purdum, Bill Clinton’s bete noir, and Dee Dee Meyers, former Clinton employee, talk on behalf of Vanity Fair — which you’d think would run with the Paris Hilton story. Congressional Quarterly is more entertaining.
James Kotecki raps the veepstakes.
The Washington Times says McCain is stomping Obama in YouTube views. It’s called the Paris Hilton Gambit:
Paris Hilton may think John McCain is just a “wrinkly white-haired guy,” but the Republican presidential candidate apparently has figured out the younger generation just fine. Over the past two weeks, his “celebrity” attacks have stomped Democratic presidential opponent Sen. Barack Obama in YouTube hits.Mr. McCain has pumped out a series of brutal yet entertaining attack ads and Web videos mocking the press and Mr. Obama, and the combination of wit and insult has pushed his YouTube channel to the sixth most watched on the site this week. Mr. McCain has beat Mr. Obama’s channel for seven straight days and 11 of the past 14 days, in a signal he intends to compete for the YouTube vote.
That is a giant reversal. Mr. Obama had been quadrupling Mr. McCain’s YouTube views and beat him every day since February, according to TubeMogul, which tracks online video viewing.
MoveOn makes fun of John McCain. They say he’s bugging Congress to come back to Washington from vaca to get an energy policy but he missed energy votes because, well, he has been burning up carbon flying here to there.
The Daily Show beats the competition the network promotional war. “The best campaign team in the universe, ever. We’ll bring all the news stories first. Before it’s even true.”
The Democratic Convention promises to stream the entire event live over the internet in high-definition (”see the funny hats”). They’re also credentialing 120 bloggers.
The Democratic National Convention is holding a contest asking people to explain why they’re Democrats and the winners get a trip to the convention. A random example of the results:
Here’s Bill Richardson’s (except I think he’s already going):
Swift Boater Jerome Corsi is back with a book trying to portray Barack Obama as a black extremist too close to black Muslims. Sean Hannity takes him out to the softball diamond asking him, “How many footnotes are in the book?”
Barack Obama spoke to the Unity convention of minority journalists in Chicago. The chatter I heard beforehand was concern about “the ovation problem.” What will it say to the nation when a hall filled with journalists gives a political candidate an ovation? As the video begins, the standing-ovation ends.
Obama makes a pitch for donations telling people that he’ll pick 10 donors and invite them to Denver to be backstage when he accepts the nomination. Who wants to be an Obama groupie?