Dissecting McCain, Obama campaign ads

is the swamp even going to attempt be
fair in their postings? robot rebubs get a fair shake every time but if something even remotely left gets put up, it stands a lousy chance of getting shown. liberal media at work.

Just remember one thing:

Figher pilots are trained to do one thing:

Keep comin' atcha.

So therefore it is prudent to deploy many, many antiaircraft batteries.

And fill the skies with intense and accurate flak.

As they used to call it in WW II.

Guns or butter? McCain will give us war, war, and more war as his soul traverses the World following people to the gates of hell at taxpayer expense.
He likes to put it in those terms "I will hunt down Bin Laden and chase him to the gates of Hell." Do Republicans really want someone who thinks like McCain to run this country? Yes they do, because like androids they are programmed into believing, unquestioningly, in their rich leaders. McCain defines rich as anybody with 5 million dollars. He likes to think he's being humorous, but he means that.

Of course McSame is LYING! It is the Repuglican way. The only way these creatans can win office is to rely on right wing Christian nuts that believe in an imaginary friend for their 'salvation.' Once you start with a 'base' that cannot tell fairytales of the bible from the truth it is all easy to feed that buch of gullables any line of crap.

I don't like how McCain treats the presidency as if it was a 10 year old game. I am not looking for a jokes; I am looking for someone like Obama who has substance and talks about issues and provides ways to improve America not someone like Bush and McCain who joke and avoid issues and whine about popularity.

Can't wait for the campaign ad on Obama criticizing Clarence Thomas for lack of experience -- but keep in mind that Obama says he's experienced enough for the presidency. LOL By the time he was nominated, Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General's office, served as an Assistant Secretary of Education, run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation's second most prominent court. Since his elevation to the High Court in 1991, he has also shown himself to be a principled and scholarly jurist. Meanwhile, as Obama bids to be America's Commander in Chief, he isn't yet four years out of the Illinois State Senate, has never held a hearing of note of his U.S. Senate subcommittee, and had an unremarkable record as both a "community organizer" and law school lecturer. Thomas's judicial credentials blow away Obama's presidential resume by any measure. And when it comes to rising from difficult circumstances, Justice Thomas's rural Georgian upbringing makes Obama's prep-school upbringing look like a cake walk. November can’t come soon enough to rid ourselves of this astounding con man Obama.

Sen. Obama has openly stated that upon his election he would immediately send in 10,000 troops in Afghanistan. Oh, McCain is the war monger is he?

You Obamabots talk smack about fear-smear campaigning with your McCain is WAR when your Golden Child has intentions of createing the "Obama War" immediately.

Getting on to other TRUTHS before this election is over, the Golden Child Obama's close friends and associates, terrorists, criminals and racists all will be exposed! Funny how the majority of the US hasn't heard of the guys scummy friends and mentors. Maybe your other good Chicagoan, Sen. Jones will enlighten the rest of the country soon. Somethings brewing with Jonesy for him to bail so fast before the election and I'll bet the Golden Child hopes it doesn't come out until after November. Let's see just how close these two Chicago crooks are. Is Sen. Obama acknowledging this wonderful news of Sen. Jones decision to bail from the sinking Illinois Democrat titanic!

Campaign ads almost always distort, twist, or even outright lie. Republican ads are usually worse, but Democratic ads are hardly clean. And dirty politics existed in 1800, when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were accused of being British spies, adulterers, crooks, etc.

As Groucho Marx once said in DAY AT THE RACES over 70 years ago: "I haven't seen so much mud slung since the last election."

So McCain thinks we can fix the economy using "psychological" tricks, his premier economic advisor thinks we are a "nation of whiners" and we are suffering "a mental recession", and McCain believes that if you have $4 million in income you are NOT rich? No wonder he has to rely on attack ads as a crunch. McCain's message is aweful. Who want's to go from Bush to these ideas?

A key problem with the Obama tax plan is that most corporations already pay little or no tax, and that will continue. So the deep well of revenue that he is telling us he is counting on is not there.
also, while not an economic issue, at this time there are just too many untride, untested leaders in the world, from Medvedev to Georgia and Pakistan. If Obama is added to this mix he will feel obligated, as they do, to prove he is not to be taken lightly. The result will be war, more terrible than those now being waged as it will involve countries with major military reserves.
God help us all.

Obama will certainly let the "Bush" tax cuts expire in 2011. That will mean an average family ($50K per year household income) will pay about $2,400 more in taxes. Now Obama (or should we start saying "Oprahma" to go with the "McSame" that is usually posted in this box) has promised a tax cut of $1,000 to working families. But a tax cut of 1,000 after a tax raise of 2,400 is still a tax raise. Factcheck.org might want to do a bit more homework. The Obama camp has consistently said the Bush tax cuts were a bad idea and should be allowed to expire in 2011. There is no reason to assume that Obama is taking into account this tax increase when he speaks about tax cuts, as he has never said anything along those lines.

The McCain ad is mostly accurate. Obama will raise taxes on middle-class families...no one really doubts that.

Just goes to show believe only what you can find proof of as being correct, and ignore the garbage that is being spouted on the ads.

immediately send in 10,000 troops in Afghanistan. Oh, McCain is the war monger is he?
Posted by: Springfield | August 19, 2008 9:03 AM

I know it is hard to remember through the spin, smoke, and outright lies of the right....but that was the "real" war on terror, not the "take your eye off the ball" war that the Bush and McBush people started. Don't you want to fight the people actually involved in 9/11?

I think the Swamp wanted we posters to read how campaigns try to distort the real records and meanings of those they are running against; far too many here have just jumped in to bash in effort to gain points for their "guy".

I am an Obama supporter and the one thing I hope is that he does not allow himself and his campaign to be pulled too far into the cess pool of negative politicking/lying/win at all cost we see from the McCain camp.

Do we really want a man sitting in the White House who thinks that all that is evil in our world has to do with radical Islam( which has nothing to do with the faith practices of real Islam)?

John McCain claims to be a Christian and yet we see a man with no real level of comfort about the faith he claims. What relationship does he truly have with his professed faith? Where is the sense of right and wrong in this man of faith? John McCain so easily allows lies of omission if it suits his needs: sounds like President Bush(whom I voted for) to me. I was foolish in 2000 and 2004, but not this time. John McCain is lying right now and I fear that if we vote another liar into office we(the whole world) will reap a horrible whirlwind.

Obama at least has tried to be honest in stating that we need fixes and these fixes that will make us better and stronger in the long run are going to require sacrifices. I pay a lot of taxes and I have had an excellent return on my investments these past eight years, but I don't mind paying a bit more because I love my country and want to see it once again become prosperous for folk who do not share nor live my good fortune.

With all the great change that has come to Illinois in the last 10 years because of Obama - why can't we just annoint him president now. People of Illinois have to ask if they're better off now than they were 10 years ago in this state.
Poorly funded schools, higher taxes, some the highest in the nation (that should be a feather in Obama's cap), unfunded pensions -
I just have to wonder if Obama did anything other than write books praising a father that left him while getting his goverment check.
Vote all incumbents out of office!

These ads are two pigs rolling in the mud. They both claim to be above the fray, and are both completely full of BS. So much for the maverick and hope for change.