Sep 10, 2008 6:34pm

DNC Video: Bush-McCain: Same Wolves

ABC News’ Tahman Bradley reports: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., came under attack Wednesday by the Democratic National Committee for using wolves in a television commercial against rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. A new DNC Web video calls the McCain campaign’s use of wolves to attack the Democratic presidential nominee the "same old tactics" as George W. Bush.

The video plays a piece of a 2004 spot by the Bush re-election campaign that uses wolves and meshes it with McCain’s new ad, "Fact Check." To hammer the point home, the closing disclosure line features the voices of both McCain and Bush. Watch it HERE.

During the final stretch of the ’04 election, the Bush-Cheney campaign famously used the image of wolves in a dark forest to paint Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry as weak on national security.

The ’04 election was not the first time that a Republican used a menacing (or potentially menacing) creature against a Democratic opponent in a commercial. In 1984, a Ronald Reagan campaign ad referred to the Soviet threat as a "bear" that his opponent, Walter Mondale, did not even recognize as a threat.

McCain’s original Wednesday ad, which accuses Obama of dispatching a team of operatives to Alaska to dig up some dirt on Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, claims Obama is out to destroy Palin. The Obama campaign says that they have sent no such team to Alaska. 

This time, according to the McCain spot, Democrats are the creatures on the prowl.

Below is a script for the DNC video.

SCRIPT

IMAGE: Wolves from John McCain’s Attack Ad

CHYRON: John McCain Attack Ad 2008

VOICEOVER: 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers…

IMAGE: Wolves from Bush Attack Ad

CHYRON: George W. Bush Attack Ad 2004

VOICEOVER: And weakness attacks those that are waiting to do America harm.

MCCAIN: I’m John McCain…

BUSH: I’m George W. Bush…

BUSH & MCCAIN: …and I approved this message.

CHYRON: Same old tactics. Same old policies. Four more years?

This time, according to the McCain spot, Democrats are the creatures on the prowl.

User Comments

This ad was on point. Obama has had a group of attackers against any opponents not just McCain. He has no campaign without the attacking wolves.
McCain/Palin will win. Obama’s cheap tricks need to go back to his corrupt Chicago political buddies.

Posted by: Mary | September 10, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

Maybe those wolves are just getting revenge for being hunted from the air. Can you say Freudian slip?

Posted by: PBW | September 10, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

McCain has lost all honor. Country first my #@$. He has shown he’ll stoop to any level to win. Don’t fall for it America. This is our childerns future we’re fighting for.

Posted by: linda n carolina | September 10, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

Wolves? Do they really want to go THERE? Quick Todd, rev up the helicopter so we can go plug those suckers!

Posted by: mila | September 10, 2008, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm

I’m sure they’re just actor wolves anyway. Like they used actors to portray soldiers and their families in their “tribute” to the troops at the Republican convention.

Posted by: mila | September 10, 2008, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm

Mary,
Wrong!! Fact check stated that the Democrats and Obama never sent anyone up there, however the McCain camp sent several. Ignorance is not bliss Mary…

Posted by: jen | September 10, 2008, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm

Uhh, Mary, did you happen to see the Republican convention? You must not have, if you think that it’s Obama whose entire campaign is based on facts.
For cryin’ out loud, Republicans have the audacity to say they are about values, yet they don’t have any sense of shame about the fact that their leaders lie like pros – again and again.
Mary, how many people do you think McCain and the RNC have doing opposition research on Obama and Biden?
Seriously, some people are either stupid (republican voters), or think everyone else is stupid (republican politicians).

Posted by: Ed | September 10, 2008, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm

Mary…I think you need to substitute McCain for Obama. There have been no “cheap tricks” from Obama…but it’s all the McCain camp has. Remember they haven’t allowed the American people to hear Sarah Palin answer any questions from the media. That’s the cheapist trick of all.

Posted by: Hockey Moms for Obama | September 10, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

Heh, Freudian slip, I can’t even write “Obama’s campaign is based on attacks” because it’s so obviously not true

Posted by: Ed | September 10, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

Right on HM for O. Indeed, if it’s the media the McCain campaign is afraid of, at least have her answer some questions from uncommitted voters.
Most of us don’t know much about Palin at all. In reality, she may be an intelligent person who’d make a capable VP. But without taking questions and telling us what she thinks about the issues, there’s no way for most of us to assess that. And the fact that McCain met her once before giving her the nod makes me wonder if he knows himself what she stands for.
If Palin’s as great as McCain would have us believe she is, then he shouldn’t be so afraid to have her answer some questions on the issues.

Posted by: Ed | September 10, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm

Sen. John McCain has proved himself to be unqualified and incapable of effectively leading the United States of America into the future by, among other things, his reckless, irresponsible, impulsive, and dangerous judgment in picking Sarah Palin as his running mate. Sarah Palin is a minor distraction not even worthy of discussion. However, Sen. John McCain has shown his contempt for the intelligence of the American people by making this unequivocally cynical decision to use an unknown, untested, and corrupt, serial liar like Sarah Palin to deceive voters into believing he stands for change. Sen. John McCain also disgraced himself by demonstrating a lack of courage in his choice of Sarah Palin at the last moment over much more qualified Republican men and women simply because she appeals to the base of the Republican Party, a group of voters he was going to lose. What Sen. John McCain doesn’t understand is that by appeasing the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, he is going to lose the voters that really count, i.e., moderate and independent voters, and, in doing so, certainly lose the election. Obama/Biden 2008!!!
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1043793620080910?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsafternoon
According to the Pentagon, we are losing Afghanistan.

Posted by: caliguy55 | September 10, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

Mary is typical rep-LIE-can. Say it enough and people might but into it.

Posted by: linda n carolina | September 10, 2008, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm

you guys of the triple RP (REAL RACIST REPUBLICAN PARTY)are so weak minded til you are funny.Don’t you men,women so called blue collar workers know the Triple RP is in it to benefit the rich,i know i’m rich they use you,the religious,blue collar,the racist,your fear to stay in power.I am an independant i vote for the best person not party.Wake up 8yrs same party country in recession time to give the other group a shot.if they suck the 4yrs later we give someone else a shot,remeber this if you get the wrong guy in the whitehouse your job and and other things you might lose,but the wealthy we’ll still be rich the morning after.

Posted by: mychal teller | September 10, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm

Was Obama’s Freudian slip about his Muslim faith the Wright thing to say?

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 7:10 pm 7:10 pm

mychal teller
Race-baiter, race-baiter!

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 7:11 pm 7:11 pm

William Ayers and Barack Obama: A Revolutionary Campaign
http://www.pr-inside.com/william-ayers-and-barack-obama-finally-r797225.htm

Posted by: LightSeeker | September 10, 2008, 7:11 pm 7:11 pm

mychal teller
Race-baiter, race-baiter!

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm

Community Organizer = Democratic thug!

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm

Well the trolls have come out of the woodwork just like roaches when you turn the lights out.Nothing to say but lies and inuendos.

Posted by: linda n carolina | September 10, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

Why won’t Obama allow his baby mama outdoors?

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

McCain= pig without lipstick.

Posted by: linda n carolina | September 10, 2008, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm

CBS just reported that Joe Biden is dropping out and Hillary is stepping in…Good luck McShame..

Posted by: jim | September 10, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

At least they didn’t do Little Red Riding Hood or the Three Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf.

Posted by: bhciapol | September 10, 2008, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm

Obama is not ready to lead, but he’s ready to smear. Obama and his goons are sending out wolves into the Alaskan wilderness to chase and destroy Palin and her 5 kids. Even Jason Bourne is after her.

Posted by: young_voter | September 10, 2008, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm

McCain ia a CLONE of BUSH and Palin not far behind…..Nice threesome

Posted by: me | September 10, 2008, 7:27 pm 7:27 pm

Maslow’s “Take” on the Election
By Bob Mann, Golf Professional
9/9/2008
Abraham Maslow said “To distract people from higher needs, threaten their lower needs.”
The Republican strategy of giving their convention a war and patriotism theme was quite brilliant. It changed the focus from such issues as health care, education, global warming and long term alternate energy development, and even to large measure, the economy; to the more fundamental human need to feel safe.
As Bob Woodward noted in his recent interview with Larry King, the President is not the Commander in Chief of the economy or global warming. The President is the Commander in Chief of the military.
The polls have shown that Senator McCain is perceived by the American public as more suited to be responsible for national security than Senator Obama. The Republicans are openly selling “inexperience” vs. Obama, but less openly they are selling “fear”. Ultimately, the peoples greatest fear, for themselves, and their families, is annihilation.
Unfortunately many people see bravado talk and aggressive action as the “answers” to fear related national security issues. (This, coupled with Senator McCain’s military service and family heritage gives many people a greater sense of false security.) However, the reverse is true; reserve, caution, negotiation, and having a strong military in reserve enhance national security. As President Clinton said, “..we lead by the power of our example, not by the example of our power.”
In spite of the evidence that we are militarily weaker as a result of the ill-founded invasion of Iraq, proposed by Senator McCain long before it actually occurred; a majority of Americans see Senator McCain’s approach to national security as being better then Senator Obama’s. Iraq has our military so over extended that we are not well prepared to face other situations that may arise, and are more likely to arise, because others recognize that we are over extended, which weakens our negotiating position.
Senator McCain continues to make hawkish noise; including implied threats that, as well as being inflammatory to other countries who might pose a threat, also distances us from our European allies.
In October 1st, 2003 on ABC nightline Senator McCain was asked how much more money the war would cost. He replied, “Estimates I hear as much as 50 to $55 billion more.” When asked, “Over a course of how many years?” McCain answered, “..four or five years.” Five years have passed with no end in sight, and Senator McCain’s estimate of maximum cost has been surpassed by approximately 10 to 1.
Senator McCain brags about his support of the Surge and its effectiveness. This claim is subject to serious question as many experts believe that the turn around in Iraq was more attributable to putting the enemies on our payroll. Moreover, Senator McCain’s bragging about the Surge can be compared to the person who makes a bad judgment about maintaining their car, but brags about repairing it at a cost many multiples of the original neglected service.
Senator McCain’s selection of Governor Palin to be a heartbeat away from a position of invoking nuclear holocaust on the world raises additional questions about his judgment, decision making process, and his motives.
Senator Obama’s campaign needs to make it clear that Senator McCain’s aggressiveness, has in the past, and will in the future, if left unbridled, weaken us militarily by depleting resources. It is not enough to merely point out Senator McCain’s bad judgment, the other shoe must drop, and Senator McCain’s bad judgment and hasty reactions must be clearly defined as weakening national security if permitted to affect our future. Senator Obama’s approach, using military force only as a last resort, and only following negotiation, strengthens us in two ways:
A) Enables negotiations to be conducted from a position of un-dissipated strength
B) Holds military might in reserve to use when and if genuinely required.
Senator Obama’s plan for better treatment of returning veterans coupled with his educational and occupational proposals for military personnel enhances recruiting and thus is superior for strengthening us militarily as compared to Senator McCain’s approach.
The Importance of rebuilding our alliances around the world should be more emphatically communicated as well, so Americans understand that we are stronger and more secure having Senator Obama as our next President, (who our European allies prefer over McCain by a 9 to 1 margin).
When Americans come to understand the superiority of Senator Obama’s temperament and approach to national security, compared to Senator McCain’s, they will recognize that Senator Obama is far more qualified to serve as Commander in Chief.

Posted by: Bob Mann | September 10, 2008, 7:34 pm 7:34 pm

FACTCHECK.com has just put out a message stating that the McCain is wrong. They did not say that Sen.Obama is at fault. They believe that the attacks are of homegrown orgin. Thant is a good web site to check out.

Posted by: Pam | September 10, 2008, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm

No one is buying Obama’s BS anymore. Why hasn’t he made any change while he has been in office. Palin pulled the rug out from under Obama because she has made real changes already.
The wolf thing is stupid. “They both use wolves so they are the same.”Obama is like a little boy name calling.

Posted by: kathy | September 10, 2008, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm

I love Palin/McCain. I think they are brilliant.
Palin/McCain – Change you can see

Posted by: Bobby | September 10, 2008, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

jim
In your dreams! That’s not a legal option!

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm

I think they must be reading my comments on these blogs…
because iut is everything I keep saying…
lol
same team same tactics
same policies same tomfoolery that gets us the same results…
and the same 8 years…again.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm

From Gallops home page today:
McCain 48%, Obama 43%
On Economy, McCain Gains Ground on Obama
McCain Regains Upper Hand on Leadership Dimension
McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents
McCain Gains on Ability to Handle Economy

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm

Wake up Democrats, Bush is not running. What else can you run on? The war? Sorry you where wrong. The economy? What has the Democrat congress been doing the last two years? Nothing with a 9 percent approval rating. Barack Obama is tied to the same old do nothing congress.

Posted by: Waggdogg | September 10, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

so they have hired this fake “dl” to start posting against my blogcomments…
the real “dl” is a guy who moved to NH to because this race was to important and has actually been successful enough to go to see candidates on both sides almost every day for the year they were here…
who worked for Clinton, Biden and then Obama (and a closet mcCain fan) initially but after hearing them all it was very clear who was the next president…
and I can tell you IT WAS NOT
John “don’t throw a second follow up at me” Mccain
it was the guy who gotit better than any of them who could answer questions logically and explain them insmall groupds and coffeehouses logically…and intelligently…
his plans had credibility in the details.
Now because I comment all the time… they have this three sentence attack version of “dl” who puts up lies and attacks…
but I think it is great…because he is such a representative of the entire McCain Palin caMPAIGN
“ACT LIKE SOMETHING YOUR NOT”
same team same tactics same 8 years…
throw these bums out…
they scream “change” yet what is it they are changing that will get us out of this hole …none
as many as answers and follow ups that Mccain’s choice for VP has been able to answer in her own words…
(and if you say earmarks are what they are going to change … just like George Bush said the same thing in 2000 and 2004… with Palin who has the most important statistic in the earmark money she has gotten per capita … the statistic that tells you in balance how much money does each individual get that is in their constituency that they are taking from us as individuals as her state is reaping profits from oil revenues hand over fist…and taxing that oil -which in mccain’s supporters theories…are being passed on to us as well… her constituents are getting individually…
Alaska an average of $515 per tax payer in earmarks.
To put that in perspective…Illinois gets $20 per taxpayer.)
she really is the earmark and tax queen…
wonder if she will promise before the election that alaska will have their earmarks broguhtdown to a level a tenth of what they are getting to be more in line with what taxpayers in the rest of the country are getting.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm

To whoever ‘real dl’ is — shut up and stop crying!

Posted by: Martin Slueg | September 10, 2008, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

In his 26 years in the Senate MacCain has indeed often challenged other Republicans but he has never taken on the party itself as he now promises to do. Let us remember “What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.” His voting record speaks for itself.

Posted by: Anne Scott | September 10, 2008, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

what answers and change are mccain and palin offering that is different than what Bush offered in 2004 and/or continues to offer
and if you say Mccain isn’t going to tax…
well George Bush senior said the same thing about reducing government spending and taxes… “read my lips…”
McCain is going to have to end up taxing…Obama is just saying the taxes are going to be both on the people who are least likely to be homeless because of this downturn…who can handle it
and those people are the same people that over the last 4 decades again…saw their tax burden rate increase at half the pace of the rest of the country…you know when they originally were redistributing the wealth slowly over those 4 decades so no one noticed …
just in those cases the redistribution was up…
and that is fact…go look up the studies that have been done…they may not all be at a half rate (some are more some are SLIGHTLY less) but all say the rich have been getting richer…
and how did they do that…
the same arguments they are using now.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm

From Gallops home page today:
McCain 48%, Obama 43%
On Economy, McCain Gains Ground on Obama
McCain Regains Upper Hand on Leadership Dimension
McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents
McCain Gains on Ability to Handle Economy

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm

From Gallops home page today:
McCain 48%, Obama 43%
On Economy, McCain Gains Ground on Obama
McCain Regains Upper Hand on Leadership Dimension
McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents
McCain Gains on Ability to Handle Economy

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm

martin
no crying
just telling liars and dumb people not to lie and not to believe the liars like they did in 2000 and 2004…
you know the ones…the ones that are using the same tactics now to send us for another 8 years of crap…and hiding the witnesses and truth from the press and the people… partly by working the refs…
as we see they continue.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm

McCain/Palin: Good for the country.
Obama/Biden: Good for nothing.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm

and fake “dl”
it’s a daily national tracking poll …
Obama is still winning so far ahead in the state wide races that Mccain would have to run the table and then some…
and lying and hiding his team and
the joint chiefs coming out and saying we may lose Afghanistan (you know where the people were and are partially still that attacked us) because of the situation we have been handling…
(thank you John mcCain)
Yeah that daily tracking bummp is going to go bye bye.
Because Americans aren’t dumb enough to be fooled a third time.
same team same tactics same road off a cliff.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:25 pm 8:25 pm

McCain employs Rove.. small wonder the same smear commercials are being used.
McCain = Bush

Posted by: Gus | September 10, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

Go tthe dailyshow and watch their mash up of McCain’s acceptance speech and Bushes. Yeah, McCain’s a maverick alright!
MCCAIN = 0.9xBUSH
PALIN = BUSHETTE

Posted by: The Pitbull needs a BONE | September 10, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

Mccain Palin
No answers, no changes same plan same outsome
Obama Biden
simply put
the next President and Vice President of the United States of America.
People are starving and losing their homes and now we are losing the war with the actual terrorist because of John mcCaina dn George Bush…
and Mccain still wants to focus on iraq.
bet tomorrow he says we won in iraq and they can go to Afghanistan tomorrow…lol
throw these bums and cover ups and non follow up answering frauds out.
enough 8 years and we are done.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

I am throughly disgusted with McCain. I thought he wanted to run a different campaign, one of honor. But since he realizes he has nothing to offer except more of the same Bush policies, he decides to use a play out of Carl Rove’s handbook.

Posted by: erin | September 10, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

It’s not hard to tell that Obama is a sexist pig as the woman’s right’s movement used to say — toys to be played with — not humans to be reckoned with.
His attitude is easy to see. And women from both party’s are not missing the signs.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm

did you see the interview with the guy who was Palin’s right hand man
you know the guy who questioned her in the debate where she was raving about the bridge to nowhere
tonight he was being interviewed saying
he thought it was his duty to let people know that this can’t happen and that she is completely unqualified.
He was on CNN and MSNBC
nice judgement John mcCain

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

The new SOCIALISTS PARTY OF AMERICA hijacked the democratic party and robbed it of it’s traditional values.
Now, the piper is being paid!

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm

26 years in the Senate vs. a community organizer. What kind of choice is that?

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

Whine whine whine.
Won’t work for America.

Posted by: John | September 10, 2008, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

this guy who worked for Palin
she hired him right after the debate when he was the interviewer…
and before you even go there …he left on good terms…
said again his duty to make sure people knew that this VP Palin thing couldn’t happen because she is not qualified …and that her job as Alaska WAS much easier than most think and yet she thought it was tougher…she did okay at it he said…but she is absolutely not someone who should be in the position of Vice President
he said in so many words he could not let his conscious go without speaking up.
nice judgement John Mccain
sure it wasn’t putting himself and his own election in front of the welfare of the country…
sad to see a man throw his character out the window because he is is so close to getting what he wants so he throws what made him special out the window.
well I guess that means he never had that he probably lost that a long time ago.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

Where’s baby mama Obama these days?

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

What’s that flushing sound I hear?

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm

Posted by: carolyn | September 10, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm

Biden – better looking than Hillary. Looks better in pants. Has less wrinkles.
Go Joe go!

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm

Obama’s pastor busted for sleeping with a white woman. Well, at least she was a woman!

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

how about the fake “dl” calling Obama a sexist pig…lol
is that why he fights for equal pay for equal work and Palin and McCain think women should get less pay for the same work
and all the other women’s rights issues that show
she is a trojan horse that makes jokes about Chelsea Clinton because she wasn’t what he thought was attractive…
funny guy…I bet Palin woukld have laughed at that joke
probably still does.
No one called HER a pig with lipstick but I would definitely call her a trojen horse with lipstick
sad manipulate and play tactical games… same tactics same team way to go in 2000 and 2004…
2006…enough.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm

how about the fake “dl” calling Obama a sexist pig…lol
is that why he fights for equal pay for equal work and Palin and McCain think women should get less pay for the same work
and all the other women’s rights issues that show
she is a trojan horse for a guy that makes jokes about Chelsea Clinton because she wasn’t what he thought was attractive…
funny guy…I bet Palin woukld have laughed at that joke
probably still does.
No one called HER a pig with lipstick but I would definitely call her a trojen horse with lipstick
sad manipulate and play tactical games… same tactics same team way to go in 2000 and 2004…
2006…enough.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm

carolyn
Nice article. Very informative. And proof positive Obama has very dirty hands indeed!

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm

Wow — a lib saying that McCain picked Palin because she didn’t have an abortion.
So long Evangelicals.
Good by conservative Christians.
Adios Baptists..

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm

fake “dl” soon to be the first lady of the US
Michelle Obama was wowing a crowd today…
it was all over the news
oh I forgot you don’t watch the news…
you are too busy acting like me as McCain and palin act like they are going to change naything with the exact same plans and policies that we have now
lol
you know the ones destroying all of us.
so i guess you and they probably don’t have a choice than to act like the people who are going to take the country back to the road in the right direction
not the one toward everyone’s personal the cliff that we have been on since you all used the same technique in 2000 and 2004..

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm

Been looking at the MSM pages today? Sure a lot of race-baiting going around. And, apparently, proudly so.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm

same team same tactics
but it’s not 2000 or 2004
and mcCain and palin are saying to the middle class…”change is coming” as he tells us to keep our pants down around our knees and stay bent over while he takes over the Presidency and fights Obama out of our eyeline…right behind us…I mean RIGHT BEHIND US.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm

I like Joe Biden. Always have.
But, VP of the United States?
I just can’t imagine that.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm

fake dl
reading your own comments again
wouldn’t be if you weren’t typing.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm

fake dl
can not imagine Biden being VP
but can imagine Palin
okay even for supporters of hers
you just blew your cover.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm

After the details of the bridge to nowhere became known, how did the 4 principle candidates vote?
Obama: yes
Biden: yes
McCain: no
Palin: no
The choice is clear – same old DC corruption or a new beginning. McCain/Palin – choice of intelligent voters.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm

Reporter: Mister Obama, what are your qualifications for President of the United States?
Obama: I was a community organizer.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm

Was Obama’s Freudian slip about his Muslim faith the Wright thing to say?

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 8:53 pm 8:53 pm

dl, your a loser!

Posted by: Jo | September 10, 2008, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

Half the country (or more) has lost their oboner.

Posted by: Noboner | September 10, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

Pigs of a feather Flock Together!
The Pig theme is really taking off for the Repiglickins!
The next Ad will certainly spotlight the oinkers no doubt.

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm

dl, what are your qualifications as a human being?
I don’t have any, sorry

Posted by: dl | September 10, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

I won’t miss Obama’s sleazy thug politics after he is creamed in November. It’s a shame he can’t live up to his hype. No substance- just nasty politics and empty or stolen words.

Posted by: Patrick | September 10, 2008, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm

People are just stupid. After all of the money spent during this election period we are left with extreme people on each side of the aisle.Most of us are in the middle and that is really what makes us a great nation. Such extremist on either party could set up back for ever.

Posted by: William | September 10, 2008, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm

McCain/Palin will win.
Obama’s CHEAP as always. Voters have seen enough of him to spit him out.

Posted by: JKan | September 10, 2008, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm

At least now- the mean Pelosi, Dean, Reid and Kennedy can’t blame Hillary for Obama’s loss.
Obama brought it on himself!!
You pathetic DNC members – try to take some lessons on Commonsense 101. The fun you had in getting rid of Hillary will turn to *%*_%& on Nov. 4 and when you will be clapping McCain/Palin’s inauguration ceremony in 2009.

Posted by: JKan | September 10, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

Obama’s campaign may be right that they did not dispatch a team to Alaska. They already have them in place.
The “manager” of the investigation into Palin’s firing of the police commissioner is none other than (drumroll) avowed Obama supporter State Senator Hollis French, whose smiling picture and endorsement appear on Obama’s website (at least until they take it down).
There WILL be an October surprise – count on it, and it WILL be the kind of sleazy campaign trick that Obama used on his opponents in Illinois, like getting judges to release their divorce records.
Obama is right, he’s not “politics as usual.” That’s only because Chicago-style politics have not been the norm on the national level. Until now.

Posted by: AnnJo | September 11, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

Oh my lord…what is this election about….pigs, pit bulls, wolves and bears…..the Dems (donkey/asses) are really having a bad week. I hope this lasts until Nov. 4.

Posted by: Debra | September 11, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

I would probably say a pack of scumbags.

Posted by: Mack | September 11, 2008, 1:03 am 1:03 am

OBAMA SUPPORTERS READ AND PASS ON. POST EVERYWHERE…
GREAT ARTICLE ABOUT THE NUMBERS:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/palin_doesnt_matter_numbers_do.html

Posted by: Chad | September 11, 2008, 2:38 am 2:38 am

linda n carolina: You anger is showing up because Obama is losing ground. He is not the celebrity anymore and now it is hurting Obama supporter’s. That’s too bad. Obama said he was a community organizer? What area on the southside of Chicago. I lived in Chicago, lived here all my life and know the neighborhoods then and now.H didn’t state what neighbood he worked in. I doubt his word. I think he just talked to a few young people about changing their life around but not for four years.It doesn’t take college to do that.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 11, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am

HockeyMomsForObama: Let me go on record to say Obama moms don’t know the first thing about Hockey. They only know how to spell the word. And the democrat convention was a joke. A disasterous band with a vocalist that couldn’t sing. No wonder more viewers watched Palin and McCain. And that fake temple. Give me a break. Obama is losing the battle and hopefully he loses more.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 11, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

Patrick: Your right when you said Obama uses stolen words. He used the words hope and change from the speeches of RFK and Bill Clinton. He is the dumbest candidate we ever had running for president and most of this generation are eating up his sincere lies. He is no longer a celebrity because Palin took over and erased him. Yes, he is Chicago politics as usual. I know, I live in Chicago, lived here all my life and I know how the city is run. I know the area of Hyde Park when it was nothing but a filthy slum neighborhood so bad the bank closed its doors. And Obama lives in a gated mansion. I remember the southside when the neighborhoods were spotless. Ride thru them now but never stop.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 11, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am

Mary: You are so right. I don’t know how Daley endorsed him over Hillary. And Oprah against having Palin on her show. She already endorsed the chosen one Obama as everyone calls him. Well, now he has been brought down to level when he should be. He thought he was the president already but I believe he is going to lose the election and that’s the good news for America. His convention was a bore and the analysis stated it wasn’t organized right. No wonder Palin and McCain got more viewer’s.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 11, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

dl: Your right. That’s why Obama and Biden flock together and but they don’t bring their piglets along for the ride. Biden already knows he shouldn’t have been chosen for the VP spot that’s why he commented about Hillary. Obama made one of the biggest mistakes by choosing him along with all the other mistakes he made. Obama is going under and will go down further until McCain wins the election.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | September 11, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf
This link will take you to Sen. Barack Obama’s Blueprint for Change wherein he sets forth in detail the real changes he will make, if elected President of the United States, and how these changes will be implemented. I believe all those who support Senator Obama can help get him elected by printing out as many copies of the booklet as you can and distributing them to friends and neighbors. Remember, we have less than 2 months to bring Senator Obama’s message of real change to the American People. Obama/Biden 2008!!!

Posted by: caliguy55 | September 11, 2008, 11:37 am 11:37 am

Huh. Someone is lying here.
Did Obama send 30 staffers to Alaska, or is McCain the boy who cried wolf?
Given their track records, I’d bet its McCain who is lying.

Posted by: Paul | September 11, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm

The problem is not McCain’s tactics – the problem is the 40-50% of the American people who believe the lies and the distortions of the ads and the stump speeches. Even at two months out there are so many lies it is hard to keep track. America is seriously facing the prospect of going to the polls following fifty odd days of one campaign lying shamelessly about the policies and the character of the other and putting that party into power.
There is a legitimate discussion to be had about which type of government the American people should have, smaller and free-market, or more interventionist, but it is obvious that this is not the debate that is going to take place. Instead Republicans are going to bypass the policy discussion and simply attempt to get the American people to reject Obama as a person, suggesting that he is somehow trying to corrupt children, or unjustly trying to savage Governor Palin, or that he is a Muslim.
And if they succeed, what then? The republicans celebrate for a few days over the inept democrats, who really thought that they had it this year, morons, well we showed them! Then what happens? McCain has not outlined a single fiscal policy that departs from the usual Republican policies that are trotted out every election, all centred on the idea of trickle-down economics, even though that is the approach that has the country in the tank in the first place. The downturn continues, maybe McCain thinks Iran needs to be ‘straightened out’, more conservative judges are appointed to the Supreme Court and Roe V Wade is overturned – all this would be bad enough, but to get that point because of lies is truly shameful, truly. Republicans shouldn’t worry about the Constitution any more, shouldn’t worry about the great men that established America, they have nothing in common with them.

Posted by: Daniel | September 11, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm

Daniel you are sooooo right
the problem it’s the people
We have the government we deserve .Period!!!!!!!

Posted by: Avembe | September 12, 2008, 3:15 am 3:15 am

I was repulsed after seeing McNasty’s ad that accused Senator Obama of creating legislation that taught sex edudcation to kindergarten kids. the bill was apparently to help kids understand that there are bad people out there and how to prevent being victimised by a pedophile. if mcnasty did not vote of this then maybe his is not interested in educating little children to help them be safe.

Posted by: Mr. Fair | September 12, 2008, 3:58 am 3:58 am

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