Weaver on McCain Ad: “Childish”; On New Negative McCain: “Like Asking Wilt Chamberlain to Play Point Guard”

I have had it. I have never participated in politics before and I am 54 years old. I am pissed off at McCaine and the Republicans with this last ad about “Obama being empty and he is like Parris Hilton”. First it was “Obama would rather lose a war to win an election” and “He did not visit wounded troops in Germany because cameras were not allowed in the hospital”. Bla h! Blah! Blah! This is very insulting and demeaning stuff from the Bush, Karl Rove, and the McCaine campaign. I was not going to donate to the Obama campaign until after the convention. I was going to respect McCaine since he is such an older man and sacrificed so much during the Vietnam War. Now all the gloves are off. But now McCaine and the Republicans have done it. I will start by donating to the Obama campaign to night. Then I will go and volunteer at the Obama campaign office that just opened in our small town 2 weeks ago. I hope all the Obama supporters start the Fall campaign tonight. We have to do the heavy lifting. Obama and Michele and the girls need to go on vacation. I am ready for the fight for the Nov. 4 elections. McCaine and the Republicans have no idea who or what they are dealing this campaign season.

Yea, its like all I ever see Mcain doing is bashing Obama and vice versa. I know that political debates have quite a bit of that same kind of “bashing” but in all honesty I think they need to focus more on other things.

McCain is DISGUSTING.

I could have sworn that John McCain said earlier this year that his campaign was going to take the high road……..what has happened to change his approach? In fact, I thought that he said that the American people wanted, and deserved, better……what has happened to change his approach? Simple put: I guess that John McCain has nothing positive to say. In fact, he has NOTHING TO SAY about how he’s going to move our country forward. How sad…….McCain…….more of the same old politics as usual!

Yes, Barack, once again, it’s all about you.

hey rachel,
FYI, McCain has done all those mags. McCain hasn’t done Oprah, but did go on the View. Is there a point to your post?

You change your tactics according to the conditions on the ground, right? How can you convey rational messages effectively to people who are high? You cool them first, by getting them over their illusions.

Actually the adds tell it like it is.

It’s obvious:Obama has inspired millions of people. McChildish is inspired by Briney Spears & Paris Hilton. Haaaaa

“John McCain right now – he’s spending an awful lot of time talking about me. You notice that? I haven’t seen an ad yet where he talks about what he’s gonna do.”
This from a guy whose “policy” is essentially two undefined words–HOPE and CHANGE–and who has been all over the place on issue after issue!
“You need to ask John McCain what he’s for and not just what he’s against.”
This from a guy who spends his time running down a McCain presidency as “Bush’s third term”!
Sure, McCain is an extremely poor candidate. But I suspect that against Barack “An Echo, Not a Choice” Obama, with his conspicuous lack of substance (other than the Ludacris ‘vote for him cause he’s black’ tack), McCain might manage to win. I’m not sure it will be worth hearing all the aggrieved conspiratorial talk for the next four years, though. (“They fixed the election! Diebold and Fox News wouldn’t let a black man be president!”) Maybe it’s better to let Obama become the new Jimmy Carter for the next four years so that we can all see what a lack of substance his presidency will really have.

This board is moderated like Mickey Mouse own’s the joint. ;)-

Regardless of which side you on; even his so call republican base can’t stand him,because he DOESN’T know what he stands for he is all over the place.
That AD was on the same footing of high school.very strange attacking someone because he is popular; very strange.
And this FAKE CLAIM of NO SUBSTANCE.
PLEASE ADVICE John McCain to go to Barack SITE, he does LAY out HIS platform/ ISSUES which is quiet BOLD with a VISION heading into the 21st century.
On the other side McCain site deliver nothing but.. VOTE FOR ME or ELSE the TERRORIST WILL HIDE UNDER YOUR BED.
JUST fear . fear . fear . fear .
nothing is optimistic. its the tired same ole policies.

I don’t understand, who advised McCain to do this. This seems so out of character for him. It’s almost like he is jealous of Obama. He really is looking like a fool which is sad.

Good for Mac! The media is so “in the tank” for Obama. Just as they did to Hillary in the primary, pundits and columnists will do Obama’s dirty work for him, smearing his opponent while allowing The Anointed One to appear clean as the wind-driven snow. McCain doesn’t have that luxury. We all know what happened to John Kerry when he refused to fight the SBVT attacks. He lost.
Go Johnny Mac! PUMA – NObama!

“He did not visit wounded troops in Germany because cameras were not allowed in the hospital”.
That much is true.
I believe, “to thine self be true”,
No matter how Obama tries to explain away his absences last week…. he had no valid reason.
With him, the only expedient goal is the winning of this election.
Let the soldiers and the flotsam… fall where it may!

It does indeed look very small of McCain and his campaign to ridicule Obama’s international tour by juxtaposing him with Brit and Paris. It was once again, another self-defeating act.

BJINCHICAGO,
Senator Mccain knows that their are “simple hearted” folks out there who he can still play on their “simple intelligence”. With Schmidts on his Campaign, it is goodbye to positive campaign and a big welcome to politics of Fear and Machinations.
If Senator Mccain where to be a younger man, the drift of his Campaign from the high road can be pardoned, but for a man of his age and standing, it leaves much to be desired.
President Bush used the same tactics to hoodwink Voters in 2004 and his second term brought great fortune to the US, Inflationary rate is at its lowest in History and Osama bin Laden, the Man that gave President Bush is second Term, is holed up in a US Jail.
Please let us do what is right this time around. If we allow Politicians to continue to exploit our fear and insecurity to win Elections, we can as well give up our rights to vote responsibly.

This is a strategic suggestion for the Obama campaign.
The best way to respond to these ads is to say:
“This is not the McCain we though we knew. John McCain has served our country honorably and has promised to run a clean, respectful campaign. These types of attack ads are beneath him and diminish his reputation as a person of decency and bipartisanship. The question people should be asking is: why is John McCain choosing to attack the purported perception of Barack Obama as a celebrity? What does this say about McCain? Where is the old McCain? And just who is this new McCain.”
I think it is imperative to flip the attack ads back onto McCain to show how it reflects on his character, his (perhaps) uncomfortableness with sending such a message, and the fact that this hard-line is being pushed by a former Bush advisor who may not reflect what was appealing to independents (and frankly many liberals) about McCain.

I would bet Obama’s pastors, shady friends, and rap buddy Ludacris scare away far more voters than any McCain attack Ad.

the ads are idiotic. not a good move for the mccain camp. even though they hit home on the message they are conveying, the mccain camp should be doing better. there are lots of good things they could be promoting instead.
almost every pundit for obama is saying that mccain is running a negative campaign but obama is not. that is bs. everytime obama states an obvious lie in an attack, it gets repeated over and over by the media, with no correction on the obvious lie. the affect is the same. obama gets to put out a negative political advertisement, it gets repeated by the media for free, any response by the mccain camp gets a partial sound bite and is then buried. make no doubt about it, obama is running a negative campaign against mccain and the republicans at the same time.