Reverend Wright might be off-limits to the McCain campaign, but not to a PAC called Our Country Deserves Better. This 60-second spot says Obama’s BFFs are the good Reverend, William Ayers and disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. (Admit it, you miss seeing those classic Reverend Wright rants.)
Sound Bite: “Sorry Senator Obama, but if this is the kind of change you want for America, you can keep the change.”
And here’s an ad from the same group featuring Sarah (“By Golly! You Betcha!”) Palin. They seem to like her — a lot.
As the campaign enters its final 30 days, the McCain campaign has unleashed the pit bull with lipstick. Forget the isssues. The final month will be all about convincing voters that Barack Obama is a dangerous choice for the top spot.
At a speech in California, Sarah (By golly! You betcha!) Palin says Barack Obama “pals around” with a “domestic terrorist” (William Ayers). Look for her to drag out Reverend Wright next week and, if that doesn’t work, she’ll be calling him a Muslim by late October.
Sound Bite: “Now, this is not a man who sees America as you and I see America. We see America as a force for good in the world.”
McCain’s first ad following last night’s VP debate says the Senator from Scranton lied about a couple of Obama-Biden positions. And even worse, he SIGHED following a Sarah Palin answer! (Of course, the folks snoring at home probably didn’t hear the sigh.)
Jackie Broyles and Dunlap — the Red State Update boys — take a look at tonight’s debate and predict “a train wreck of astonishing magnitude.” Dunlap’s rant is a classic.
Sound Bite: [Dunlap] “Unless she or a member of her family gets impregnated onstage, the spin’s gonna be that she held her own.”
The economy? Who cares. Gas prices? Stop whining. War and peace and America’s role in the world? Fuhgetaboutit!
Those issues are all small potatoes. What really matters, says this 30-second McCain spot, is that Barack Obama has been “disrespectful” to Sarah Palin.
This 30-second spot says Barack Obama will “try to destroy” Sarah Palin.
Sound Bite: “The [Wall Street]Journal reports Obama air-dropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Alaska to dig dirt on Governor Palin.”
Joe Biden was asked by a local TV reporter in Milwaukee is it a “step forward for women” if Sarah Palin becomes VP.
Now, this is one of those questions that most politicians would finesse; would reconstitute; would deconstruct. Hell, they might even punt — talk about their own wives and daughters and mothers and such. But not Joe Biden.
Sound Bite: “Well look, I think the issue is what does Sarah Palin think? What does she believe? I assume she thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain think. And that’s obviously a backward step for women.”
What Kind
Barack Obama will spend more money on education and make sure your kids are smarter. John McCain doesn’t care about public schools.
No Maverick
McCain and Palin are anything but mavericks, says this 30-second spot. Most of McCain’s campaign advisers are lobbyists and Palin is a flip-flopper on the “Bridge to Nowhere.” Oh yeah, McCain = Bush.
