From the Fact Check Desk: Obama’s New Spanish Language TV Ad Es Erróneo

Last week the MSM chastised McCain for being “sleazy”, so what will the MSM have to say about this line of attack? Race-baiting, anyone?

Fair is Fair, Neither should blatantly distort the other for political gain. They should be held to the truth, spin it yes, but stay with the truth and spin it. That was the American way, what happened?
Obama/Biden 2008

Wow… Obama finally getting the hang of republican smear politics! It stinks, but it’s needed.

IllegalsOUT – Don’t speak, no, no, don’t speak.
1) most minorities (if we must generalize) do not agree en masse with other minorities.. If you are going to be a bigot get your stereotypes right.
2) People who are here as non-citizens cannot vote, most Mexican born US citizens (actual voters) do not want non-citizens to come and take their jobs either. Why would they support open borders.
3) There are no statistics for “Illegals” – how can there be, they are the non-counted people. Please site your REPUTABLE source for that statistic. I think you might mean 25% unemp. among hispanics…. are you lumping them all together? (if yes, see point #1)

poor, poor Rush. Try the vicodin (TM).

Im glad that Obama finally realizes to win he has to play rough with a rough crowd. Forget Limbaugh and his whole crew, they are racists and even if those statements don’t prove it, others do. Fight to WIN!

Rush is a big fat racist, and it’s about time the Democrats called him out on it.

This is so sleazy, dirty politics. Another reason I could never vote for Obama. The man has no scrupples, he lies. He has been practicing this for sometime.

racist always stick together and always hold hands with racist. what does that tell ya, once a racist, always a racist. hatred learned is always too hard to get rid of, which proves what the liberal’s main malfunction is! if you don’t agree with a black man and won’t vote for one, does that make you a racist. i’m a white male from san diego with european and native american blood, i aslo have hispanic’s by blood and african-american’s by adoption in my family and i still do not agree with and will not vote for obama. and i also come from a military family! does that make me a racist? i don’t think so! born and raised in san diego, lived in texas, lived in virgina, now i reside in illinois. i think i seen enough about race to understand that not voting for obama does not make someone racist!

I’m an Obama supporter, I volunteer with his campaign here in Gainesville, and I’m Mexican, and even though I don’t agree with these smear ads be they from a republican or a democrat, I just want to say: “john mccain, you reap what you sow.”

Jake shows us that the Obama campaign is plainly lying to Latinos. I hope this comes back and bites him on the butt! “the Obama campaign is quoting him selectively and unfairly to make their points.
The greater implication the ad makes, however, is that McCain is no friend to Latinos at all, beyond issues of funding the DREAM act or how NCLB money is distributed. By linking McCain to Limbaugh’s quotes, twisting Limbaugh’s quotes, and tying McCain to more extremist anti-immigration voices, the Obama campaign has crossed a line into misleading the viewers of its new TV ad. In Spanish, the word is erróneo

Obama seems to favor “personal attacks” over attacking McCain’s policy.

Thank you for explaining the sitation Jake. We need more of this kind of journalism.

I see Obama is now counting on ignorance about the lies in his ad and faux racism charges to get Hispanic votes.
Change!

The Obama campaign is in trouble! This financial mess is going to hurt the Democrats in a very bad way. Giving credit to people who didn’t have the income to afford a loan isn’t racism, it’s smart.
It’s no accident that both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae gave Obama $85,000.
Why would anyone vote for Barack Obama? Not even his surrogates can answer that question–watch them–it’s pretty funny.

It is funny to see ABC go after Obama I never thought I would live to see this day. It is really amazing.

I doubt much will be made of this because most of the media is liberal. They will not go out of their way to say the Obama campaign is running a sleazy campaign but they will run articles about McCain running sleaze in a heartbeat.

I doubt much will be made of this because most of the media is liberal. They will not go out of their way to say the Obama campaign is running a sleazy campaign but they will run articles about McCain running sleaze in a heartbeat.

Your article was very accurate. Thank you for publishing it.

McCain belongs to a party that uses divide and rule to the hilt. They scare us with gay marriage, immigrant hordes pouring over our borders, and the weight of social programs dragging our country down. Nothing could be farther from the true state of affairs. These unscrupulous people have sold our country to the richest patrons. While they do their paymasters bidding they keep us occupied with trivial nonsense.

Obama is really running scared! Once he decides to use lies and smears he is illustrating to the American people that he has nothing else to offer – nothing. This clown is also using race more and more every day. I hope the Liberals are happy with this package – to me it stinks.
Remember you reap what you sow.

This is a new low for Obama.

I can’t believe you liberals. Go ahead and support the liberal,socialist position of Obama.
Limbaugh and McCain, the bad guys? Limbaugh is a radio guy. What concerns me is all politicans. What has Obama or McCain done for our country as elected officals? Nothing,zero.
The hope and desire to elect a president that is black is not a good cause. He has alot of sizzle and no beef. Change is his theme but where are the details. Mmmmmmm, the hand is quicker than the eye.
If you like liberal and socialist, vote Obama.
The morons here are all voters that continue to vote for all the clowns that attempt to fool us into thinking that they are watching out for our best interests.
Think about it.

THE REVIEWER OF THE ADD NEGLECTED TO CONSIDER THE KEY WORDING OF “MCCAIN AND HIS FRIENDS”.
DESPITE LIMBAUGH AND MCCAIN BEING RIVALS OR ENEMIES MOST OF THE TIME, LIMBAUGH IS MOST CERTAINLY MCCAIN’S ALLY -NOW-.
BY NOT REPUDIATING LIMBAUGH, PERHAPS AS AN “AGENT OF INTOLERENCE”, AS MCCAIN OF 2000 SAID OF SOME IN THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT, MCCAIN HAS IMPLICITLY EMBRACED HIS VIEWS.
RUSH IS FAR TOO VOCAL AND FAR TOO ASSOCIATED WITH THE REPUBLICAN BASE FOR MCCAIN TO NOT BE ASSOCIATED WITH HIM AND HIS SENTIMENTS ONCE MCCAIN BECOMES THE GOP’S NOMINEE.
HE NOW CARRIES THOSE VIEWS ON -HIS- PLATFORM.
LETS BE REAL, HERE, TAPPER. YOU DONT NEED TO CALL THEM LIARS THE SAME AMOUNT TO BE UNBIASED, PARTICULARLY IF ONE IS LYING FAR MORE THAN THE OTHER.
(see: “True Whoppers”, in WashPost)

EXCELLENT! I didn’t think the Dems had it in them, but afterall, we are the party of Clinton. Sleaze is thy middle name. In the immortal words of George Lopez (channelling Tony Montana) in “Balls of Fury”… “So you wanna play rough eh? HOKAY…” GO OBAMA. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

I don’t believe he is defending Limbaugh, he simply stated the fact that the statements were taken out of context. You don’t just get to pull out words or phrases and claim that’s all there is…well those of us in the real world don’t. They did the same thing to Carly yesterday, cut off her statement and pretended that’s all she said. Desperation really stinks. Personally where I live I am sick to death of seeing sleazy mud slinging vote for Obama commericials every commercial break. Yet he calls it “change”…sounds like dirty Chicago politics as usual to me.

Obama bin Lyin’… this time in Spanish!
Now, what did he know about Ayers, and when did he know it?

Obama is justified in making the point that John McCain has gone back and forth telling people he was in favor of ‘comprehensive immigration reform’, then saying to a different group he would not vote for HIS OWN BILL in its current form.
Why can’t John McCain pick a position on immigration ‘reform’ and defend it???

SoWhat…if they don’t like one another? Unfair? Doesn’t make it false. Calling out a racist is not racist. It’s justice.

Obama fights like the old Chicago Dems like DaleyI. But mayor Richard J. accomplished things. Barack just fights untruthfully. This Obama viter in the primary is working FULL TIME for McCain

The Obama campaign desperation is palpable. Lying about the opponent is one thing, but lying about Rush Limbaugh smacks of total fear of losing.
Is Hillary 2012 running the Obama campaign?

anti immigrant does not necessarily mean illegal immigrant. Get your mind out of the gutter.

Thanks for setting it straight, ABC. I guess the claims of bias are not so stark.

As a hispaninc female, I am disappointed in Obama for using this crap to get political points. I am insulted. It is Obama who is tryign to insult us by distorting the words of others. Obama will nto only lose the hispanic vote, he will lose the GE in a landlside. We care about more issues than just immigration. We care about the economy, education, crime, taxes, jobs.
Barack Obama better start Ad buys in New York because I guarantee you , he will lose both NY and NJ.

Nice to see that our “Change” candidate and his campaign’s only real platform brings more of the same.
Some high road. This type of “integrity” in an election we used to attribute to the likes of the Karl Rove.
As a Democrat I’d like to think that we have more to offer than just typical mindless mudslinging, but I guess if that what you have, you use it.
It’s politics as usual in 2008.

Nice to see that our “Change” candidate and his campaign’s only real platform brings more of the same.
Some high road. This type of “integrity” in an election we used to attribute to the likes of the Karl Rove.
As a Democrat I’d like to think that we have more to offer than just typical mindless mudslinging, but I guess if that what you have, you use it.
It’s politics as usual in 2008.

Oh, this is rich. Now, all of a sudden Jake Tapper is going out of his way to “fact check” Obama. I seem to have to missed you fact-checking John McCain when for the past 2 weeks he was busy releasing misleading (i.e. lying) ads one after the other.
In case you missed it, John McCain has been running a sleazy dishonest campaign. As such, the Obama camp has rightfully recognized that this is not the time to play nice with these republican cronies.

McCain should run ads linking Obama to Keith “the fascist” Olbermann.

The “change” Senator Obama wants to bring us is from sleazy Washington politics to even sleazier Chicago politics.

Obama sure takes the low road. He’s no change. The Clinton’s called him a “thug” and that’s just what he is.

Finally the HONEST media is back, after months and months of Obama pampering.
I’ve been highly critical of the mainstream media, but here is some real improvement and the author of this article deserves credit for his manifest intellectual honesty.

Obama thinks latinos must be stupid. John McCain was the only politician that risked his political life for us. He is our hero and we love him. You can take your ad and go home.

I don’t care what lie someone says about a GOP candidate. They can dish it out, but can’t take it. Whiners!

Give me a break. ABC is putting an attempt to be balanced above the need to teall the truth.
This is an Obama counterpunch that McCain deserves.
Remember Operation Chaos? Rush is clearly McCain’s buddy – especially as compared to Obam who is cleary Rush’s enemy.
Lousy journalists become “balanced reporting” apologists when they are just not able to do a good job reporting the truth –which is that McCain has run a sleazy campaign period.

Rush isn’t politically correct, so people who are will be offended. We’re to believe that there aren’t any stupid Mexicans? Are we that wimpy?
The point he was making is clear, we don’t need unskilled immigrants do our unskilled work. I like Ann Coulter’s take better. She says our poor education system will ensure we have plenty of unskilled people to do our unskilled jobs.
A lot of people don’t pay attention and don’t realize how dangerous the Left is, so they don’t get Rush’s satire. I know how dangerous the Left is and find Rush to be very tame.
God bless ya Ruah!

Apparently Obama thinks the Latino community can be fooled and coerced into voting for him. If you don’t like me on the issues then vote for me because the other guy says your dumb. Nice! I knew Obama wasn’t for change when he picked Biden…36 years in Washington!

Deregulation is the problem with business and our economy. All business to go on with no oversight and there you have it, the Financial institutions and Banks do as they please with wall street speculations. The U S American economy continues to worsen. But still Deregulation remains. Which candidate is pro Deregulating the financial corporations? It was John McCain who wrote those letters tell BANK REGULATORS to leave his friend alone. His friend owned a SAVINGS AND LOAN which went bellyup and got bailed out by Bush Sr. with billions of Taxpayers money. Yep, John McCain, the Deregulating financial institutions friend.

Timmaaa7 – I agree with you regarding immigration.
I choose to vote for Barrack Obama because his views most closely represent my views. I agree on the direction in which he has conveyed that he will lead this country.
The rest of this is just noise. Vote for whomever you most closely align with and I will do the same, the majority win out.
Now, as for the rest of you, start discussing issues like Timmaaa7, at least he has a point.
Obama/Biden 08

Kirk I don’t know. Ask Jake. The GOP wants to borrow Mexican labor as long as they go home at night.

LMAO, with all the recent LIES McBush has been caught in, surely no one is really taking him seriously any more. I mean really, how could anyone with a single brain cell trust a proven LIAR? Think about it.

it’s so unfair! how can he tie the politician to his party’s policies – he’s a maverick? how can we question an unknown running mate – she’s a woman!
anyone who thinks this is race needs to re-examine their own terminology. think of it as a “culture war”. this culture speaks spanish. it’s not racist to speak another language in a multi-lingual country. the racism is in wanting to make them second class citizens or prevent them from becoming citizens at all

Breathtaking sleazy. Al the more important that immigrants learn English so they can’t be lied to, used and abused by hucksters like Obama. I fear for our country.

The Obama Campaign is always hiding behind the RACE CARD to cover up the shortcomings of the candidate himself. Obama is largely unknown, untested, and woefully inexperienced, and not all qualified to be president of the USA. Moreover his platform is ultra liberal advocating big government socialist solutions for a free market society. He already played the race card against his own Democratic members – Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Geraldine Ferraro. But it won’t work this time for the American people will not be bullied, shamed, or tricked into electing an unqualified person to the presidency.

Guest worker…aka free labor. Ask them why they just don’t give them citizenship. OOOO …OOOO …ooo…I know. They don’t want you here. Here’s a tissue…stop whining. That’s why America is broke. They blame the media because they can’t resist coercion from ads. Grow.up Yes – the message is a lil twisted. ANd?!

Jester Lewis
you are right. we cant trust Obama, a Proven Liar from this article. Mark my words, all this is helping McCaon/Palin, and I will be joyous when they win!!

As a American from Mexico, I don’t buy into B.O.’s ad. I came to this country to work and I don’t need any government handout. I actually took the time to read house/senate legislation and know that the democrats like to vote for everything against minorities and then come election time, feed us lies. Republicans have done more for my “legalized” citizens than democrats, but the democrats feed on the ignorant.
Laboral Americanos voto republicana!

They both lie, how is it that there is still ample surprise when politicians act like politicians?
At this point I could care less about the gossip. The election can’t come soon enough!
P.S.: “I’d rather be wrong about Obama then right about McCain.”

bah-
McCain helped sponsor a bill to solve the problem of illegal immigration and when it was killed he found out what the major stumbling block was and focused on correcting that problem. What has Obama done about the issue?
Obama has never written any major legislation on anything. He’s too busy writing his memoirs.

Are you kidding me???
Nada de erroneo! Apparently you don’t speak Spanish, because the ad links to McCain is mentioning him as a friend of McCain’s. Limbaugh and McCain are no longer in disagreement after McCain sold himself out for his party’s base; that includes Rush Limbaugh.

Look at the howls from the right wing as their hero Rush gets hoisted on his racist petard!

Jester Lewis
you are right. we cant trust Obama, a Proven Liar from this article. Mark my words, all this is helping McCaon/Palin, and I will be joyous when they win!!

Sure Redram. Let’s go down the economy road and the family values road too.

Wow. Just wow. Snagged trying to twist the words of Rush and McCain. By ABC no less!!! Good job ABC. If you keep this up you might become relevant again! (I really didn’t mean that to be as harsh as it sounded. Really, good job)

gotta love all these high-minded barack devotees who are now snarling and calling for winning ‘by any means necessary.’ speaks volumes about the emptiness of their candidate and his campaign. what happened to all that hope and change and unity malarkey?? looks like an old-fashioned power grab to me. thanks, abc, for finally starting to expose this charade.

This is especially funny considering how much Rush has bashed McCain over the years. Remember the primaries of 2000? Rush beat the crap out of McCain with everthing he could find. Rush pounded McCain when he supported the immigration reform bill. Any fair minded informed person would know that Rush can’t stand McCain and they don’t share values. The only reason he isn’t poking him in the eye with a stick right now is because Limbo can’t stand Obama and Old Johnny War Hero is the only name on the ticket with an R next to it standing between him and four years of the looney left in the White House.

sue – thank you for bringing facts to this room with your post! we need more American citizens from the southern boarders to speak to understand what is really going on and how to fix it and who is better for the job. GOD bless. McCain/Palin 2008

I thought Barack Obama was a different kind of politician who was going to stay out of the gutter. I thought he wanted to bring hope and change and unite the country. What a fraud!
He’s nothing more than a creation of the dirty Chicago political machine. He does as he’s told. He’s never stood up to any special interest in his party, reached across the aisle on any significant legislation, or achieved anything of importance–other than publishing two autobiographies before the age of 50. Who does that?
Compare and contrast with McCain and Palin. They rose to prominence by attacking waste and corruption. McCain has repeatedly reached across the aisle to work with Democrats. Though not in office long, Gov. Palin has been an effective governor and is wildly popular in Alaska–drawing the support of many Democrats.
Vote Reform. Vote McCain-Palin.

I am absolutely DUMBFOUNDED that ABC got this right when they could have just as easily ignored it, kudos for actually checking facts for a change!

More outright lies from a desperate, and failing Obama.

Obama is panicking and listening to his handlers. Just recently he claimed he wanted to run on the issues. Has he run out of issues that he can take a popular stand on? So much for hope and change.

THE ONLY CHANGE OBAMA IS FOR IS HIMSELF, I think this is his coming out party

Over the top race-baiting! More of the same from the candidate who promised a breath of fresh air to a country longing for something different in politics as usual, who was going to run a campaign above all that.
If Obama loses, we all know that the hard line stance will be that the country was not ready for the first black African-American president. Nothing will stick to the actual man running, only his race. His credentials don’t count, just his race. When the polls were up and reflecting McCain’s convention/Palin bounce, the volume on the Obama camp’s cries of racism was turned up to match. No matter the outrageous sexism sent Hillary’s way and now Sarah Palin, no matter the outrageous ageism sent McCain’s way. It’s all racism, all the time.

Ryan C:
I have never heard Rush differentiate illegal immigrants by race or country of origin. An illegal immigrant simply didn’t follow our laws coming into the country, period. It doesn’t matter what that person’s country of origin is. The reason Hispanic illegal immigrants get so much attention is because they have a much higher profile, especially when they hold demonstrations and hold Mexican flags.
Those of us who are anti-ILLEGAL immigration are NOT anti-immigration. We just want people to follow the laws when coming into our country. It’s a national security issue. It’s an issue with the extra load that is put on our hospitals and our social services. It’s an issue with a neighboring country that has very strict immigration laws, and yet sees nothing wrong with dumping the people THEY don’t want on our country, rather than doing whatever they can to create jobs for them in Mexico. And then they have the nerve to complain when we try to control the influx. THEY have a right to control who comes into their country, but we DON’T??
Ryan C, it’s a complex issue, and you don’t put yourself in a very good light when you accuse those of us who are anti-ILLEGAL immigration of being racist. I, for one, will not be guilt-tripped into falling in line with your views.

Bunch of hypocritical losers. Like you really care about the other half of America. It might help your argument if you let them into your convention next time!

Once again Jake Tapper has shown he is almost unique in the whole of MSM by actually taking a critical view of anything that Obama says or does.
Will wonders never cease.

I love when racicts freak out when you call them on it!
They get all angry and then spout even more racist crap!
Its hilarious!

Careful Jake,
Your fair and balanced reporting could get you kicked out of the MSM…You better drink some more kool-aid.

And the same for GOP folks. Their politicians can just keep abusing children and what do you know?; they still vote for them. All that praying and preaching…and all the sin that follows. Hypocrites!

I assume the Washington Post and New York Times will have front-page articles out on Obama’s distortions tomorrow, just as they did with the lipstick-on-a-pig and sex ed ads of McCain.

WHAT WILL JOYCE AND BARBARA WALTERS SAY TO THAT???

Last week the MSM headlines screamed how McCain was being “sleazy” for attacking Obamba.
Anyone else notice the THUNDERING SILENCE from the MSM on these vicious smears and lies from Obama?

What?????? Obama would lie????? I’m shocked, I tell you…shocked!!!!

Ryan C:
Once again, we are NOT anti-immigration. If someone comes into the country LEGALLY, they are more than welcome. My issue is with those who flout our laws and come into this country ILLEGALLY, and then have the nerve to make demands on our resources like they’re entitled to them.
On a smaller scale, it’s like someone breaking into your house, camping out on the sofa with your remote, eating your food and using your stuff and refusing to leave — and acting like they have a right to be there.

I’m an Obama supporter. But I don’t like distortions. Stick to the truth – both sides – and it will be a fair fight.

I’m impressed. ABC does actually have a reporter who can cover both sides of an issue…and who does research.

I am a Latino myself. I, my family, friends, and everyone that I know are voting for Obama. We are tired of the Bush/Republican BS. By the way, that Spanish ad by McCain was horrible. Does he think that we only watch Univision and are not awarded of what’s going on in this country? Shame on you McShame.

First off, who knows what McCain’s position is on anything? He flip-flops on every stand he has ever taken. Including backing away from the Immigration bill he sponsored. I think the only lie Obama told was that John McCain ONLY has 2 faces.
As far as taking Rush’s hate filled rants out of context. Give me a break.
This race is over. John “The Fundamentals are Fine” McCain put the final nail in the coffin when he spoke these words on Black Tuesday (for like the 22nd time!).

Tying McCain to Limbaugh may be unfair, but it’s NOT a “factual problem,” as you assert.

As he steered his Straight Talk Express across the United States in recent weeks, Republican Sen. John McCain has tried to stay a-head of the immigration issue.
But Friday the immigration issue delivered 36 or so heads to his Phoenix office — heads of lettuce, that is.
McCain has been getting skewered in the media for comments earlier this month to a union group in Washington, D.C., that immigrants are taking jobs no one else wants, and offered them $50 an hour to pick lettuce in the Arizona sun for a summer, suggesting they couldn’t do it.
The senator didn’t stick around long enough to process any applications, despite several offers to take him up on his offer from the audience.
So Friday more than three dozen demonstrators showed up at his office, many carrying lettuce picker applications in one hand, and a head of lettuce in the other to show they could do the job.

“Sure, McCain “voted with Bush” 90% of the time.”
Brenda,
That line comes from McCain himself.
Are you saying he is lying?

Thanks Mr. Tapper for a fair and balanced report. However, I don’t expect the Obama folks to stop the outlandish deceit–that’s what weak, unprincipled people do when they are panicked.

I am a Mexican American and I am voting for McCain he is a real patriot, and Obama has socialist ideas.

@Erroneo? – Si, el uso de babelfish para traducir su titulo es un chiste en si mismo…pero, por lo menos hizo un esfuerzo, ¿no?

Thank you, Mr. Tapper. That was thorough and well-researched. And I agree with the many posters who point out that the Obama team has been similarly duplicitous throughout the campaign. They really think they can accuse McCain of being “sleazy,” run ads far sleazier than his, and be given a pass on it?

Ryan C: WRT McCain voting with Bush 90% of the time, no, I am not calling McCain a liar. I’m just saying that if you examine the majority of those votes, they’re for earth-shattering stuff like congratulating the Giants.
But the Left in this country wants to use that “statistic” to support their argument that McCain would give us a third Bush term, when the reality is that McCain and Bush were at cross purposes on a number of important issues, and McCain also angered the Republican base with his stance on those issues. To try to link McCain with Bush is disingenuous.

Heh…
looks like the Dems are all for the Patriot Act now and the GOP are them hippie’folk all against it. :P
Heh…politics aside,
Time to update the email password! That, in the end, is a really ugly thing to do. Good things never come about by doing evil ones.

@Brenda: To put it simply, the people you referred to earlier learned the language, true; however, the socio-economic situation & politics at the time also made their presence pretty much a curiosity & a help more than “illegal”. There where no illegal immigrants prior to that because there where no immigration laws at all before to Ellis Island. Idaho was almost 25% Asian at one point and sure enough, they spoke Chinese / Japanese / etc. there.
In other words, you would have needed to learn the language there too ;)
Do Hispanics that immigrate here need to learn the language? Of course; we expect people to speak Spanish if they immigrate to one of our countries / nations / republics. The way people have been speaking about it, however, with such exasperation makes it seem as if we do not. True, the older generations might still prefer Spanish but my grandmother could hold her own quite well in English if she had to :)

@Brenda – the polls showing that more Hispanics are voting for Obama are all fraudulent. They are calling predominantly democratic areas. I know of very few Hispanics, be it family, friends, or others, who are going to vote for Obama. Don’t worry about it! :D

RyanC: I honestly don’t know how often McCain “voted with Bush”. He is decidedly not my first choice as a candidate, but I don’t see him as a liar. If this was actually a quote from him, my semi-educated guess was that it was just his own rough estimate of how much he felt he was in line with the Republican base. And certainly, he wants to be elected, so I’m sure that this comment was an attempt to persuade the base that he had more in common with them than they thought, in light of the controversy surrounding McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, and the Gang of Fourteen, just to name a few.

McCain and the republicans have never done anything for the hispanic community, even with bush’s failed immigration bill ,Limbaugh is a racist no doubt about it.
I support Obama 100% as I supported Clinton as I supported the amnesty in the 80′s. The same policies of Bush, the same kind of idealism, just look at the economy people, look at what these failed policies have brought.

McCain, Rush and all the rest of the Repubs are definitely sleazy and don’t give a hoot about the hispanic population other than for exploitation. I personally think the ad is terrific and it tells a big truth, the truth that you don’t like to talk about. So for all the stupid comments made above about the dishonesty of the ad, you know what you can do with them. The Hispanic community needs to know that Republicans don’t care about them nor want them in this country and this ad does it JUST RIGHT!!!! It hits HOME!!!!!! You will be surprised how it will move them, I happen to KNOW!!!!

Politics of hope?
HAHAHA

The ad represents the feelings and impressions we Latinos have about the Republicans and McCain. Bush and the GOP offered to help Hispanics and what has he done? Increase raids, unemployment and racist attacks against Latinos in general. Obama, as a Black man, understands what we’ve been through. Que viva Obama, nuestro proximo Presidente de los EE.UU!

Anyone who knows or has followed the imigration debate or lives on the border with Mexico knows it is and has always been the Democrats that have derailed imigration everytime there is an agreement. I guess kinda like they do on everything. They really do not want a gov. that works because well they would not have anything to cry about. They have never had any solutions just blame the other guy kinda like Obama now. What ever the issue ITS BUSHES FAULT , ITS JOHN MCCAINS Fault. While serious people are trying to get things done the DEMS and Obama exspecially are crying ITS HERE FAULT. Is that really what Americans want more blame game. Obama talks McCain does it really is that simple ya want some one who talks good or does good? McCain and Sarah for greater good of all.

Rush Limbaugh is a promoter of John McCain. Limbaugh and the right wing establishment will dictate what McCain does in office. Limbaugh is against an equitable and reasonable solution to the immigration problems because Republican leaning business owners and others who use cheap labor don’t want a solution. So Obama connects the two (McCain and Limbaugh) as he should. Limbaugh is a blight on the political landscape of America. And, McCain caved in and sold out to him and right wing talk radio on the immigration issue. And, McCain will be a captive of this bunch if they get him elected. Hispanic Americans and others who want immigrants treated fairly and want a responsible immigration policy will vote for Obama. Republicans and McCain and Limbaugh are not their friends.

This sums it up…

Obama is a FRAUDE and an arrogant COMUNISTA. He thinks we are a bunch of stupids who cannot read and speak English. “Merci beacoup” . Most Latin Americans came to the USA for the same reasons others came: In pursuit, not because of welfare. Obama can continue with his club of “gimegime” people, we are not here to ask for gifts but to build a future. Go BigMac/Palin!

It is just beyond comprehension to me how any latino-american would support Obama.
Obama voted to kill the McCain/Kennedy amnesty bill that would have helped a lot of latinos (legal and illegal). McCain almost ended his career with his efforts on that bill b/c it was not in line with the Republican party.
Obama is a shameless moron who hopes to trick latinos into believing that he will look out for their interests if he wins (god help us all).
The only interests that Obama will look to protect are those of his fellow african-americans (and muslims)…

Not even the illegals will vote for this empty suit. Now I am getting angry at this bozo from Chicago. It’s true, he’s nothing but a thug that will stoop to anything. But the country is getting wise about this Sammy Davis Jr./Louis Farrakhan mixed up Muslim.

Time for the McCain campaign to take the gloves off, let’s explore Obama’s 20 year relationship with Rev. Wright and Rev. Pfleger. And how about the $1,000,000 earmark for the hospital that gave Michelle a $150,000 raise. William Ayers anyone??

Obama is evil. He talks and talks and yet says NOTHING. He makes me puke.

“If that was true then Bush would have never won the Hispanic vote, and McCain would not have won the FL primary.”
Two problems with this statement,
a) Bush did not win the Hispanic vote either in 2000 (62-35 to Gore) or in 2004 (53-44 to Kerry)
b) McCain was the lesser of 4 evils for the Hispanic community when it came to FL. The Cuban combined with other non Cuban Hispanics accounted for 11% of the voters in the FL GOP primary. 11% was the same portion for the Dem FL Primary that was basically an unpromoted, uncontested straw poll.
He is currently losing the Hispanic vote by a 2 to 1 margin to Obama and has been for much of the GE season.

Josue,
I never claimed to speak for Hispanics.
Though I find it quite funny that you are doing so.
Polls show Obama with a 2 to 1 margin of support over McCain.
Sorry you have a problem with that.

Why Obama wasn’t thoroughly repudiated the minute his evil was exposed shows only how deeply infected American society is with traitors, principally through the morally repugnant Democratic Party. The shame that now is attached to that once-decent political party will not soon, if ever, be erased.
The whole lot of them are filled with the evil stench that Obama has hoodwinked his “followers” with.
The whole country must cry out in opposition of the evil these mentally deranged individuals are trying to bring upon our great land.
This is serious — our union is actually at stake.
IDo we realize that the socialists are trying to take over? Do we?

The bottom line is that Zero-bama must be defeated, for his lies, for his deception, for his selling out his soul and his fellow democrats as racists and the same as the Bush administration.

I’ve watched some of Obama’s ads aimed at Spanish-speaking voters.
I don’t think he understands them. They are more American than he is, and they don’t want to be Black a la Obama. They are like any other immigrants. They do care for immigration because they have families. For them, Obama is just another rich American trying to get their votes.

I am a minority and an immigrant but not voting for Obama, period.

So Jake, when Obama does this kind of stuff he’s just “unfair” but when McCain approaches this level of negativity he’s “dishonest”….got it. Again, words matter and they betray your “reporting.”

Thank you, Jake for posting this article.

So Jake, when Obama does this kind of stuff he’s just “unfair” but when McCain approaches this level of negativity he’s “dishonest”"
Perhaps because while this is one of a few ads by Obama that have been called out as misleading.
McCain has a dozen or so ads that have been called out right false.
Lie enough and people will call you dishonest.

152 bills of fluff. Nothing of substance. What legislation has he written on major issues?

Try this for current Ryan.
RANGEL

Don’t forget Barney Frank, oh, he hasn’t been indicted…yet.

Did he vote present for that bill? Besides that is NOT major legislation and everyone agrees that mortgage fraud should be curtailed. What do I know about Obama from that?

How does being against illegal immigration make one a racist? So simple minded. There are a ton of problems created by people coming to the US illegally, like dying in the trunk of an abandoned car in the desert. Or little girls being raped by coyotes, or using other people’s social security numbers, or not being treated humanely in the work force or afraid to report crimes being perpetrated against them for fear of being sent home.
Is that all you have got? Victim, Victim, Victim! Yeah racism is alive and well in the US, but a black man is a few votes away from being President. No wonder the D use a jackass for the party symbol.

Maybe theese are lies about what Limbaugh said and maybe it’s not fair to tie them to McCain, but SO WHAT! We have to do everything possible to win. The ends justify the means. If we have to lie a little to get Obama elected, then I’m all for it.

Did you just compare Rangel’s tax evasion to Cindy paying back taxes on her condo?
Even Nancy Pelosi is upset with Rangel.

Democrats Lying-What a shocker!!
1.Its Congress that controls Washington’s Pursestrings but the recession THEY blame on the President.Lie!
2.Obama’s Extremist Muslim Cousin isn’t trying to overthrow the US friendly government of Kenya. Lie!(Obama talks with him regularly)
3.Obama hasn’t spent the last 15 years (or so) involved with Socialist and Communists Organizations. Lie!
4.Obama and Wife both headed “Public Allies” an organization bent on indoctrinating our sons and daughters into the Socialist/Communist way of life by forming a civilian militia.Community organizer?? True!!!
This is a VERY twisted and dangerous Liar!!!

“Did you just compare Rangel’s tax evasion to Cindy paying back taxes on her condo?”
Let’s see failure to pay $5K in taxes on rental income equals evasion.
Failure to pay $5K in property taxes is waht exactly then?
Still leaves Cunningham, Hunter, Ney, Delay, Stevens, Doolittle etc etc,

“Fact is Obama has authored NOTHING.”
Except for 152 bills & resolutions.
Why do you lie Earl?

Tell me what rental property in NY he lets out at 5K over 5 years?

“No use continuing with you. You have no facts on your side.”
Earl,
I offered facts, you ignored them in favor of repeating lies. The I called you on that.
Now you’re just another coward running away after getting socked in the mouth like every other right winger I come across.

All I can say is typical Obama elitism. He thinks he can get away with lying to Hispanics. We are so much smarter than that. How insulting of him to try and exploit us in this way

John McCain and Rush Limbaugh are buds, everyone knows it. This ad is accurate to the T. Jake Trapper assails every hard-hitting Obama ad, and then writes that Obama is not hard-hitting enough. Trapper is extremely biased here as usual.

To tell you the truth….I didn’t even look at the ad. I’ll take your word for it. He twisted the facts! Whoa!!!!!!!!

As John McCain said on the view: this is a tough campaign. I certainly don’t condone lying; however, if we’re keeping score… McCain is still WAY far ahead in the lying game. I think these types of political maneuverings are criminal, because — if they are in fact flat out lies — it deceives the public. That’s not right. We deserve fair, honest ads and campaigning, including legit journalism/reporting. But the door to the low road was opened long ago by the GOP.
I’d like to see Obama win this entire election taking the high road from now on. I think he’s done a great job so far of redirecting his opposition to issues and pointing out the underlying, fundamental flaws in their arguments. He needs to continue down that path, in my opinion.
But, then again, I read some commentary recently that discussed Dem v Rep campaigning and how Republicans have a knack for “winning” elections because they do whatever it takes to win: Lying and scheming and cheating happen to be one of their tactics. I wish it didn’t go there; I wish that weren’t the case. But it is.

Richard? What’s my name? SO WHAT!

‘SHAME ON YOU BARACK OBAMA’, shame on your supporters – remind you of anyone -”shame on you Barack Obama” – I don’t agree with Hillary Clinton on much – but when she spoke that sentence she was absolutely right.
This country deserves better than Barack Obama and Joe Biden – truly it does. Obama/Biden – take all your Wall Street and Hollywood money and purchase some decency with those millions.
McCain (an honorable man) Palin (an exceptional woman) – 2008!!!

After Bill “Backstab” Richardson made his derogatory comments about the Clintons this year, I ceased to care about Latino immigration issues. Let’s enforce U.S. immigration laws, please.

Bzzt, wrong. Not even a good strawman. The ad in question said Obama supported a bill that called for sex ed for kindergarteners. He did – he voted for a bill (i.e., supported it by voting for it) that was specifically amended to require “age appropriate” sex ed for kindergarteners (as if there is such a thing). I’ve seen the text of the bill. It’s easy to find online.
But thanks for bringing it up again!

PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL CHOICES
I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re ‘exotic, different.’
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, and its a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer,
become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review,
create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters,
spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor,
spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people,
become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee,
spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13
million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign
Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees,
you don’t have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years
on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less
than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000
people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second
highest ranking executive.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters,
all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress,
and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month,
you’re a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including
the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only,
with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system
while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you’re very responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm
to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family,
your family’s values don’t represent America’s.
If you’re husband is nicknamed ‘First Dude’, with at least one DWI conviction
and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and
once was a member of a group that advocated: the secession of Alaska from the USA,
your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now.
Need I say more?

David – I’m all of the above. You’re a Republican. What do you expect me to do? Argue with what you said. You guys are the epitome of truth. I’d be a nut to debate you. Tell me whatever. I’m all ears. Making a list…
the economy is strong…
mccain never lies….
obama’s an elitist….
the GOP is transparent…
WHAT DID I MISS?!

obama all the way to a 3rd world country status. McCain/Palin 2008

What? The candidate of “hope” and change” and “binging people together” is divisive, angry, and has crossed a line into treacherous deception?
Obama is a charlatan through and through, that’s a given, but we still need to know what this man did when he went to Iraq and pressured the Iraqis to delay troop withdrawal until he was president!
Audacious treason I say.

david – GOD bless you brother! keep at em’ McCain/Palin 2008

jim – so he could run for president. McCain/Palin 2008

I think Barry made a mistake. Limbaugh has 3 hours a day, 5 days a week and does not have to pay for airtime. Obama has to pay to get on the air.
Limbaugh can start cutting and pasting Obama’s stuff and playing it on the air. I know that he has a large conservative audience that would probably not vote Obama anyway but he also has a lot of Independents and they are the ones who will decide the election.

Ryan C
You do need to get your facts straight – oh wait! you’re a democrat so facts are just petty annoyances. Scooter Libby did not expose Plame as a CIA agent – as a matter of fact the law as it is defined did not apply (she had not been a covert agent in quite some time). I fail to see any point in your postings other than to expose the hypocrisy of your party. Could it be that you’re actually a GOP mole? Because your musings certainly make the GOP look damn good. Trish

Congrats Jake, as long as you folks in the media are willingly carrying the water for Barack Obama, he’s going to continue getting away with telling outright lies and not getting called on it.
Welcome to the bed you’ve made. Have fun sleeping in it.

Wow, ABC, I am AMAZED that you had the intellectual honesty to call out Obama on this one. Honestly guys, doesn’t it feel good to be objective journalists again?
As for the BS ad itself, I wonder how long it will be before Obama makes his usual claim of “It was regrettable but I can’t control everything my staffers say” (even though he uses the campaign as “proof” of his management abilities.) Of course that annoying little “I’m Barack Obama and I approved this ad” will come back to bite him.

tim… zip your pants up please before speaking to me. PERVERT!

Outcry? Protect your own email. If she wasn’t trying to hide (hmmmm…BUSH) maybe they would not have hijacked her account. I could care less about her email.

Fact checker ? What a pointless exercise with a racist like Limbaugh. ! Spending time trying to figure out whether Limbaugh was the victim of factual inaccuracies, is much akin to spending your time picking the fly poop out of the pepper. Limbaugh has made his career playing fast and loose with the truth, Why worry about nuanced distortions about the king of bombastic and B.S.?
Oh I get it, your trying to make sure candidates are not advantaged by false impressions drawn about the candidates. Ha, ha, ha ha !!!!Let yout sifting continue!!!

I should not have brought up Bush. I forgot he is in the OTHER Republican party. You have no idea how fed up the world is with this self righteous party.

Cut the crap. It’s gone long last the point where any comment whatsoever about illegal aliens is seen as “racism.” OK, then I guess I’m a racist…I can live with it. Illegal Mexican citizens see the U.S. as a giant ATM, nothing more; they cling to their macho, blustering nationalism with no thought of even a thank you to the country that’s provided them with the sustenance and benefits their own corrupt government won’t provide them. L.A. County spent $85 billion on services to illegals in 2007. Enough ! The U.S. should treat whining illegals from Mexico the same way that Mexico treats the poor Guatemalans illegally crossing its southern border. Wave your flag somewhere else at someone else’s expense.

Um, Barack? Are your sleazy smear campaign ads even MORE evidence of your proposed “New type of politics”? “Politics of change”? Hillary Clinton said it best and said it first, long long ago, “Shame on you Barack Obama! You know better!”. McCain 2008/Hillary 2012

Hey…if McCain is anti-immigration, then he has my vote. Drill and Deport.

Limbaugh is awesome.
Obama doesn’t know what he’s gotten himself into.

If it weren’t for double standards, Democrats wouldn’t have any standards at all.
If McCain had sponsored ZERO legislation before seeking higher office, the Left would have been screaming bloody murder about him being “unqualified.”
WHY do they not care that BHO didn’t do a thing but polish his Italian loafers his entire time in Congress?
Why do they not care that he has no experience save HUBRIS, CORRUPTION, AND GREED?

obama all the way,
a “brilliant” community organizer? still i’m waiting for someone to tell me what is so brilliant about that job… and representing so many people in the senate winning the election by eliminating the other candidates in the courts (too bad he can’t do that now huh?).
i wonder at what point did BHO’s children went from an nonviable mass of tissue to “beautiful daughters”?
and since he was a constitutional prof i would certainly expect he would understand a senator going to a foreign country and trying to negotiate keeping troops in iraq might just be outside a senators duties and outside the law.
but who cares about all that when all he wants is hope, change and unity.

Well, I said it that the MSM followed Axelrod’s talking points about McCain and honesty, and now they have fallen into this trap.
Obama over the last few days has been totally out of control with negative untrue ads. MSM silence is deafening.
I know know who I dislike more Obama or the MSM.

zen (Sep 17, 2008 11:30:24 PM) says he doesn’t like the Obama ad, but oh well, it’s “less distorted” than McCain’s.
Oh, so if someone breaks the headlight on your car, but it’s less broken than the other one, it’s okay?
Obama (Mr. Harvard) should know better, right?
Well, he does. But he does it anyway. Lies, deceit, whatever it takes to get into the White House.

The desperation of the Democrats is so delicious to any ‘real’ American.

As a Latin American let me say what I said yesterday:
The writer of this blog is lying. Democrats are the only people who have tried to help democrats. McCain tried and failed.
This blog writer has an agenda and is lying to the readers.

As a latino-American, I am offended by this divisive, untrue and ethnic-baiting ad. Whatever chance Obama had of bringing me back to the fold, just went out the window.

You are one of the only journalists I respect because you have integrity.

Oracle,
Totally wrong. Graham’s act had to do with allowing banking consolidation, nothing to do with oversight of mortgage lending. No economist has linked the current crisis to consolidation; as a matter of fact, the mechanism to bail out Bear required Graham’s act, since it involved crossover between investment and standard banks. The current crisis was caused by subprime mortgage rates, which both Bush in 2002 and McCain in 2005 tried to restrict, but were thrwarted by Dodd, ranking member of the Senate who buried the bills in committee. No coincidence, Dodd is the biggest recipient of money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. All the data is in the NYT and WSJ, and it’s not at all difficult to follow:)

desperate men do desparate things. this one is going to haunt him all the way back to harvard where maybe he can teach ethics.

Thank you for a balanced article Jake.
Could you please look into why Fannie and Freddie went down just before the
Election? And why the top recipients of campaign donations from their people
were Dodd, Frank, Obama and Clinton?

Red? U CIA? If it’s secretive how the heck would you know? You wouldn’t be lying would you? People in here do not react kindly to lies.

Let’s see… Oh Mighty Barack Obama!!
Presents himself as “change” while pursuing big government policies that result in destruction of free enterprise… (darn it I read history books and studied economics… I never should have read “Wealth of Nations” either)
Presents himself as one of “hope” while having marxists and bigots as big influences in his life (he even wrote that in his books!)…
Presents himself as having 12 years as a constitutional law professor which is listed by the University of Chicago as “senior lecturer”. (This also brings into light Professor “Maybe I’m the last communist who is willing to admit it.” Bill Ayers – 1995.) Golly, Obama was there from 1992-2004….
Barack won’t take people out of context or use fear mongering…. he’ll just say he voted “present”.

Rush is correct. Obama began playing the race card. Ask the Clintons( was that in South Carolina, ask Bill Clinton) and Geraldine (ask her). They are correct as well. Obama attended a radical anti- white church for 20 years. No, he’s not a bad guy and would never seek high office in a bad way. He’s so truthful and never was influenced by those good folks. Get a life, people!

redryder….
some of the financial problems might have been somewhat affected BECAUSE of the upcoming elections. Many long term investments are not made until you know what lies ahead for taxes and regulations. The company I work for has been working with many corporations to create plans regarding climate change regulations so that they can adjust to the rules quickly (These companies KNOW man-made climate change is a farce, but none of them can prevent stupid people from voting in bad politicians).

redherkey: Hey, didn’t McCain try to get some legislation passed in 2005 or 2006 that called for increased oversight as far as Freddie and Fannie were concerned? If I recall he saw the dangers back then, but everyone seems to forget that. I think it failed because all the dems and some of the repubs voted against it. Follow the money to see who is the back pocket of Wall Street. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not Mccain.

Why is Obama now campaining for McCain? If McCain is the anti-immigrant candidate, then he gets my vote.

If Obama is telling me that McCain is the anti-illegal alien candidate, then McCain has my vote. Thanks for the ad, Obama!

Ken… good luck. Used is always good. Stay a skeptic. People don’t get to this level of the game accidentally. For a completely empty suit to be promoted up should send serious alarms. McCain’s the old man who sat in his desk for 40 years and the old guard feels it is time to reward him with more than a watch. That’s normal. Pushing a low-level ACORN radical street thug to presidential considerations in a few years is not. Be alarmed and look for who is driving this dynamic.
The one I can’t quite figure is the McCain game. I wish the media would get off of all this side-game crap on Palin’s baby, daughter, etc. and really find out who’s driving McCain. I can’t see him as a black swan emerging from exogenous swellings of support (e.g. Palin who /is/ a black swan). McCain’s a known quantity and part of the system. So who benefits from his placement? Yes, he’s the only alternative option, but I think we need to go back to what occurred during the primaries to understand who’s behind him.
Bush was a mistake. I truly wish we’d have an alternative party that would stand on principal, but the Dems sold out and have absolute crooks like Pelosi and Reid running things. Seriously, anyone who keeps Charlie Rangel in office is beyond suspect. Then again, I’m not sure I could ever find it in me to support the party of the Klan.
There’s a lot of money in this game. Setting the US economy off kilter and profiting from it puts hundreds of billions in play. Most people don’t seem to understand that. We’re the fat, lazy cow ready for slaughter and we have a DNC that is eager to offer us up (for their cut), and a RNC that would do the job too, but has a higher price.
Good luck in this election…

One of Obama’s few remaining strong claims has been that he is smarter than McCain. Well, so much for that.

Will… I actually agree with your comments:
” People don’t want to hear your hypothesis and theories when they are broke. They are worried about their children. They are worried about whether they will have a job tomorrow”
Wiki Agency Theory and you’ll have the fat-cat version of what I deal with daily. As someone who works in the Fortune 500 world and lives in BFE rural America, I get to see and live both sides. You’re right, btw, that this dynamic drives a lot.
So what do you do when someone comes along and promises to give you money that he is stealing from your neighbor? Things are tough. Your kids are not starving, but you believe they could be doing better than this. You don’t have the same perks as your neighbors.
Lacking any objective foundation, you empower the thief. You vote Obama. McCain is a pathetic has-been and he offers you nothing from your neighbor’s home. Old Grandpa McCain preaches things that might have been relevant 50 years ago, but not now.
That said, this election says everything about you. Are you a pawn of those who prey upon disequalibrium? Yes, it’s a hard concept and they’re counting on you being too stupid to get it. There’s a good living taking money from people like you.
The point is this: Do you trust those like me who lecture you about how stupid you are leaving your wallet on the table and leaving yourself easy pickings to Obama’s Masters? Or do you trust the con artists like Obama who say pretty changy-hopey things that make you swell emotionally and just feel happy (as your back pocket gets emptied)?
This election is about you and who you trust. Do you trust those who tell you what you don’t want to hear? Or those that tell you nice things you secretly know are absurd fantasies?

Scooter Libby did not expose Plame as a CIA agent – as a matter of fact the law as it is defined did not apply (she had not been a covert agent in quite some time)”
She was covert at the time.
WASHINGTON – An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame’s employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was “covert” when her name became public in July 2003.
That is why Bush pardoned him.
Corrupt treasonous Republicans.

The vast majority of illegal immigrants don’t want to be American. All they want is the money and the benefits. Hospitals near the Mexican border are closing at a staggering rate because they can not afford to handle all the illegal immigrants who don’t pay for medical care. The taxpayers end up paying the bills. More than 50% of latino immigrant students drop out of school. The taxpayers recieve the bill for that education and end up paying more down the line for jailing them when they commit crime, paying for children they can’t afford, giving them unemployment checks and on and on. Stop the illegal immigration madness!

If pointing out the truth is being in the tank for McCain, that really says something, doesn’t it?

One of your comments above displays the Republicans as; racists, biggots, etc… What the writer of this comment must know is the fact that Democrats throughout American History have been the most racists, starting with the fundation of the KKK, they shut down the Human Rights Amendment twice, they used welfare to keep minorities in bondage, also, listen to what Democrats have said about African Americans, Latinos, and everybody else. The racist vitriol from these Democrats is perverse, and disgusting to say the least. So, get a little more informed about your so called Democrat friends.

How is it unfair to link John McCain to Rush Limbaugh. McCain has already flip flopped on just about every issue the conservative talk lynch party media didn’t like. He made a VP pick in order to placate them. And the conservative lynch mob spends all their on air time making unfair attacks against Barack Obama.
They are all carrying McCain’s water now so in reality Obama is running against McCain and the Conservative Talk Radio Lynch Mob.
They always talk about the Main Street Media being in the tank for Obama but the Conservative Media “IS THE TANK” for John McCain and will do anything, say anything, run over anyone to help McCain win this election.

Each day I keep wondering how much lower the “left” and the Obama campaign can go, and each day they provide me the answer. I USED to be a Democrat, and I step back and ask myself, “Was I that mean”? I don’t think so. This election has brought out the “meanest of the mean,” and I don’t think I can ever got back to the Democratic Party after this.

Obama needs to stop stereotyping Mexican Americans. Ethnocentric , racist groups such as LaRaza, LULAC, MALDEF, etc. don’t rule Mexican Americans–in fact, all the Mexican American friends I’ve had during my long life have nothing to do with those groups.
Obama seems to think that if you’re Latino, you want millions of people who disregard the rule of law and push aside millions of Latinos who file their papers aside to be given a free pass.
Mexican Americans aren’t stupid. They, like other Americans realize that cheap labor will also depress their wages. There’s no magic barrier that will protect Mexican Americans any more than any other ethnic group.
Amnesty is going to bring about a tremendous wave of more poor and uneducated people through chain migration, opening the floodgates .Our social benefits can’t keep up with the demands, nor our ability to supply the schools, bilingual education, hospital care, food stamps, etc.
Obama is going to wreck this country even more than it is with his “social engineering” philosophy. Those entitlement groups he champions have to have somebody to pay the bills and the entitlements are outstripping the workers. There’s going to be a revolt in this country if this insanity isn’t stopped.

I think McCain is being alot more upfront in this campaign than Sen.Obama. and all Obama does is take cheap shots at McCain. I realize its an election and both parties can get pretty desperate, but it seems to me more or less Obama is underestimating the inteligance of the Hispanic community, by running this ad. I realize McCain has an Spanish-language ad running as well, but it doesn’t seem like he’s taking things so horribly out of context in order to make Obama look bad. Like comparing McCain’s politics to that of Rush Limbaugh’s….whom has never agreed with McCain on his immigration policies….its all pretty lame…

This group pays COs to register Democrats and this week in Michigan has once again been charged with voter registration fraud.
Chez, He not only waffled on it.
In IL Obama voted against life saving measures for infants born alive after
abortion procedures.

How is this any different than the BARRAGE of lies and obfuscation from Obama from the very beginning?

Obama endorses allowing illegal aliens to get US driver’s licenses. This is FACT. For those of you who are New Yorkers, you will remember our former, disgraced Governor Elliot Spitzer also pushed this incredibly inane proposal only to back off from it after a resounding NO from the citizenry. Of course, the mainstream media will not bring this to the forefront for obvious reason: it would hurt BO.

it’s pathetic- neither party had the nerve to even mention illegal immigration at their conventions for fear of being labeled racist..
but how is it racist to want to enforce the laws of this country and have only LEGAL immigrants coming to our country?
i want a candidate who will say what is RIGHT instead of living in fear of losing votes and being mis-labeled…
and shame on Obama for this ad..im not racist if i don’t want illegal aliens in my country, just as not voting for Obama for president doesnt make me racist… but the Dem’s have already set that up as the excuse if he loses..
pathetic

If you are a Latino and here illegally, you won’t like this post.
Why do any people here illegally belong to stay here? We are a nation of laws which for the most part all of us follow. Why anyone here illegally should be afforded protection or benefit from this country is beyond me.
Why should these illegals be allowed drivers licenses, welfare benefits, social security or any other federal or state funded program benefits if they have broken our laws?
You or I would not be afforded these if we illegally entered Mexico, in fact they would deport or incarcerate us.
Try going to Canada illegally and see what happens, you will be arrested but, not here in America. We have got to get our southern border secured or we can expect more thugs, rapist and general criminals that are allowed to enter and stay here in our country.
Bottom line if you are here illegally you violated federal immigration laws, that’s why we have them.
Stop this madness!

Railing against NAFTA in 1993, Limbaugh said, “If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine ’cause those are the kinds of jobs NAFTA is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I’m serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”
Not one of his most eloquent moments, to be sure, but his larger point was that NAFTA would mean that unskilled stupid Mexicans would be doing the jobs of unskilled stupid Americans.
I’m not going to defend how he said it, but to act as if this was just a moment of Limbaugh slurring Mexicans is not accurate. Though again, certainly if people were offended I could understand why.

Railing against NAFTA in 1993, Limbaugh said, “If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine ’cause those are the kinds of jobs NAFTA is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I’m serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”
Not one of his most eloquent moments, to be sure, but his larger point was that NAFTA would mean that unskilled stupid Mexicans would be doing the jobs of unskilled stupid Americans.
I’m not going to defend how he said it, but to act as if this was just a moment of Limbaugh slurring Mexicans is not accurate. Though again, certainly if people were offended I could understand why.

Reading this article, and the comments to it, makes me realize just how out of touch is mainstream America with the situation of Hispanics in this country. I’m not talking just about undocumented workers (who some people here like to call “illegal”), but even Hispanic US citizens like myself. We love this country, help it grow, and still are not allowed to be part of it. This needs to change, so that America can be a better place for EVERYONE. McCain, for sure, would do nothing to change that. I believe Obama will at least try.

Even someone who attended 5 colleges in 6 years would know that the Democrates exported a majority of their racists to the Republican party in 1948. Go to the comments section of Red State and read what Republicans really think of African-Americans and Latinos. Its rich, the republicans have discovered the evils of sexism and racism in this election cycle. That’s some conversion. No matter, it will be gone by November 5th, either way.

You folks who made negative remarks about Rush clearly haven’t listened to the guy. How do you judge the man without listening to him? Do you choose your friends based on someone else’s opinion? If you did then you wouldn’t have any friends. Listen to him for a while (I KNOW you haven’t)and decide for yourself. Take this advice from a guy that voted for Dukakis.

Obama’s campaign is certainly revealing itself as part of the dirty Chicago political machine it’s always been. Middle America sees it for what it is.

If Democrats did not lie and call names, they would have no campaign ads whatsoever.

Hopefully Obama doesn’t stoop to the depths of lies and mud that McCain/Palin have been indulging in. She STILL talks about her heroic stopping of he Bridge. We have had 8 years of this nonsense. Let’s hope we don’t get another 4.
Ever notice how many things Obama has mentioned/advocated are actually being followed NOW by Bush? N. Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq. The financial metldown was being addressed by Barack years ago while McCain just kept deregulating and deregulating. Anybody concerned about the national debt? Not McCain.

Once again Obama proves himself out of touch with the American people and only relating to extreme left wing Democrats. The uproar of the AMERICAN people over the Senate vote on the amnesty bill should have told Sen. Obama that Americans don’t want illegal aliens to remain in the US. I guess the left wing wants cheap labor for the Heinz tomato patch. Before that the good senator didn’t notice that the Supreme Court agrees with 73% of the American people that the DC gun ban was unconstitutional. He supported it anyway as well as the Chicago ban and while in the Illinois state legislature he voted for a similar state wide ban. He never noticed that the Clinton gun ban caused the Democrats to lose control of Congress. Now he claims to be pro-Second Amendment. Obama will say whatever he thinks will get him in the White House so he can work for the extreme left wing, ignoring the rest of us, Democrats and Republicans.

So what if Sarah Palin went to 5 schools in 6 years. So did my younger sister in the ’70′s. She was the baby and becomae homesick every time. Didn’t mean she was stupid or dumb or a social outcast.
As far as Hipanics, I am white, female, Republican. I also have a Mexican son-in-law and 5 beautiful grandchildren, and a great-grandchild whose mother is Mexican/White and whose father is Korean/Black. Think this white female Republican is biased?

Let’s turn the tables for out of context quotes. Here’s my question to Obama answered by his own words.
“So Senator Obama you’ve been very successful and have a great income now what do you do with all that spare cash?” From his book: “I buy some blow”. That’s cocaine for those who don’t know. Why don’t we just call him Blow-bama? If a DUI from 22 years ago by the Republican VP’s husband is relevant why isn’t cocaine use by the Democrat Presidential candidate? For the same reason the opiate shots given daily to a sitting Democrat President are irrelevant (JFK). Or the fact that Clinton sexually harassed and employee (where’s the lawsuit Monica) and lied about it to federal investigators (a felony). Because the truth doesn’t matter to liberals. That’s why they hate the ten commandments. Thou shalt not steal. Confiscating private property is the cornerstone of liberalism. Ask Hitler, ask Mussolini, ask Stalin, ask Chaves, ask Mao, ask Fidel, ask Putin…
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Just an interesting article

‘Railing against NAFTA … Limbaugh said … [s]killed workers, educated people are going to do fine cause those are the kinds of jobs NAFTA is going to create.’ One does not ‘rail against’ that which one supports.
Rush supports NAFTA, and does not ‘rail” against it. I thank the author for pointing out the misleading commercial Senator Obama is running in Spanish, but even he seems incapable of listening to what Rush actually says. He also is a lacking a sense of humor, incapable of recognizing parody and sardonicism.
The Bible uses parables to teach the masses; it is an effective technique to using the absurd to bring insight to the contemporary.

Obama & Axelrod soy muy malo – y locos, tambien.

Obama & Axelrod soy muy malo – y locos, tambien.

What goes around comes around. This AD is all truth nothing but the T-R-U-T-H. I LOVE it, LOVE it, and LOVE it. It’s about time that someone stands-up for the Latinos and others that contributed so much to this great Country success. They need to be appreciated also for their great work. Everyday, their main topic on and off air is on Latinos and other immigrants who don’t look like them. November the 4th is the verdict day. Arriba, arriba Obama!

race baiting, absolutely appealing to the most base emotions. Typical Liberal ploy, no logic or reason — just emotional and reactionary.

If ABC and the networks think that this ad is dishonest, then DON”T RUN IT!!!!!

As a conservative, I’m embarrassed with the campaign McCain has run. His terrible pick of Sarah Palin showed how unserious he truly is and unready to lead.
I’ll be pulling the lever for Obama this fall.

I was supporting John McCain until he sold out and started his barrage of negative ads a few months ago. I could never vote for him now.

The amazing drop in McCain’s numbers these past few days show that people are wising up to the idiocy of the Palin pick. A know nothing, wacked out, fundamentalist who doesn’t believe in dinosaurs, thinks that the “End Times” are upon us, and giggles that she “can see Russia from my kitchen”?
I was considering voting McCain, but this seals the deal. No way.

MORT, MORT, MORT, you posted:
“As a conservative, I’m embarrassed with the campaign McCain has run. His terrible pick of Sarah Palin showed how unserious he truly is and unready to lead.
I’ll be pulling the lever for Obama this fall.”
You would insult the intelligence of even an illegal immigrant who doesn’t speak English with this. You are no more a “conservative” than I am the Queen of England and you’re not fooling anyone any more than the rest of the Obama plants here saying “Oh, I was going to vote McCain, but not now ooooh he picked Palin, yuck.” Palin has fired up the conservative base. It was with Palin’s pick that the conservatives finally became interested in this election. A conservative unhappy with McCain may stay home in November, but never vote for the Socialist Obama. So, MORT, nice try but, it didn’t work.

Wow, I just learned this morning that John McCain was the head of the Commerce committee in the Senate that DID NOTHING to avoid the financial mess we’re in now. Guess he was right when he said he knew nothing about economics.
All along I’ve been thinking McCain, but this is really a game changer. Looks like it’s going to be Obama for me.

What’s particularly interesting is that anyone who questions Palin’s experience is actually insulting Obama. After all, it was Obama who took pains to argue (incompetently) that he has more experience than Palin, because Palin “only” governs a gigantic state, while Obama manages a big ol’ Presidential campaign. Thrilling, no? In other words, Obama’s own argument is that the Democratic A-game is just about as good as the Republican B-game. And they say this guy is a good speaker.
Here’s an idea, Democrats: If you actually want to win, why don’t you nominate a moderate instead of the most liberal person in the Senate? A trash can filled with smelly rainwater could have won in 2004, but no: let’s nominate a Massachusetts Democrat who secretly met with the Viet Cong in Paris during Vietnam! Brilliant! And when that fails, let’s double-down in 2008 on a guy with no executive experience who is a product of the legendarily corrupt Chicago Machine and pals around with unrepentant domestic terrorists like William Ayers. What could possibly go wrong?

Rory:
“governs a gigantic state”
47th out of 50 in population.

I’ve read that linking McCain to Limbaugh is “unfair”. Can it also be said that linking Obama to something Bill Ayers said in 1971 and repeating it over and over and over again is fair or even relevant? Remember, Limbaugh was off on a Oxybinge on 9/11/2001 and called into the person hosting with the following quip: “Somebody told me it had something to do with Clinton, heh, heh, heh”. I’ve listened to this guy since 1989. He does go off the deep end a lot and some of his chickens are coming home to roost.

Once again, Obama shows us exactly how “hope & change” play out.
Same old political slander, same out of context quotes to twist the meaning to fit.
I really did have hope that he was different, that he was going to change, that he could make a difference, but with this and so many other ads of his, he’s showing us that he’s entrenched in the politics of the past.
If I’m going to be forced to vote for the old political machine, I’m going to vote McCain. At least that way it will be somebody with experience and not just rhetoric.

I guess obama should just bring a broomstick to a gun fight. If you’re upset at this ad, then surely you have a lot to be upset at McCain for. Sure – the ad is less than stellar. that’s not the point in politics. Sure – this is not what Obama preaches. But at this point in the game – you have to win to enact the change. I have seen MUCH MUCH MUCH worse from Mr maverick. You should take issue with him using a woman the way he is using Palin. That would be SUBSTANTIVE anger. This is fake.

reagle80// “Wow, I just learned this morning that John McCain was the head of the Commerce committee in the Senate”
John McCain hasn’t been the Chairman since 2005. As I recall, in 2006, he and others tried to call for more insight to Fannie and Freddie. The bill never made it out of committee because of Senator Dodd, a democrat. So enough B.S. from both side, Republicans and Democrats, would be nice. Niether side is a saint, but they are both pretty full of fecal matter right about now.

All I have to say to all of this is….
if you want to re-elect Bush….then vote for McCain.

Okay, Joko, Thank you for informing me that there are different rules for cable than network TV. Now, I AM in awe! And, I neither watch nor donate to the 700 club, I just understand the basic rules of appropriate public decorum…and the fact that the one using expletives is losing the debate.

Obama sent Kennedy out to Cali to campaign for him during the primaries to win over Hispanic voters because he was part of the MCCAIN-KENNEDY Immigration Bill. I guess Obama’s two faces are stupid and dishonest. I don’t agree with McCain on some of the positions he took in the past, but at least he took a position and has some type of record of trying to make life better for people.

I just LOVE the new politics Obama has brought to his campaign. Obama, we LOVE you! – signed, Fannie and Freddie.

Illegal entry = criminal, what part of that don’t you understand? ‘Oh we’re all god’s children’, god’s children break laws = law specific penalty is on the books and is enforced – not ‘let’s make something up because THESE criminals are really just ‘good hard working people’. ‘But we must keep families together’, criminals are in jail not with their family. Criminal aliens OUT. Other countries protect their borders, other countries don’t allow the bs of ‘anchor babies’. USA = soon to be 3rd world in your neighborhood if you don’t wake up.

Is Sarah Palin really a ‘God Warrior’? What does that mean? Sounds a bit scary.

Jaemes wrote:
“I do see a lot of people accusing Obama of being racist.”
Could you please identify all those Republicans who you claim are calling Obama a racist?
I’ve heard President Clinton accuse Obama of playing the race card against him, but I having heard either Clinton or anyone outside of the Obama supporters accusing Republicans of calling Obama a racist.
I’m comfortable in saying that if the McCain campaign or any other major Republican spokesperson were calling Obama a racist, they would be toast in the MSM.
BTW, Obama’s new ad is race bating.
McCain did modify his priority on illegal immigration from amnesty to security, but only after one of the largest public outcries in recent history against the amnesty option. Our politicians are supposed to be representing the people,so why isn’t it OK to modify your personal position to be more in line with what the public is demanding? It’s called representative government. Besides, McCain has never abandoned his goal of providing amnesty for illegals; he has only said that border security must now come first.

Want to be a true patriot and save our country? Vote for, and elect, Obama!

Wow! A properly researched piece of journalism from a guy in the MSM. Kudos!

IllegalsOut has the facts wrong. Several studies have shown the unemployment rate, the crime rate and the use of public services rate is much lower among those here illegally.

Ryan, it’s okay to quote Rush Limbaugh’s sarcasm, just don’t try to spin it by not describing it as such.

“And the most important “issue” in a campaign for a voter to do is to look at the character of the candidate’s advocatory supporters”
WOW!!! You mean like like Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, Wright,Farrakhan, Ayers, and COUNTLESS other radicals, Marxists and anti-semites from the fringe who are only NOW coming to light? IF the ad’s defenders REALLY believe that, then Obama deserves to lose many times over.

Didn’t you read the article. Tapper doesn’t say so but the Obama ad on the sex ed bill (and Factcheck.org’s poor research and analysis on that particular ad – they usually do better, even if they tend to ignore a lot of Obama stuff) is just another example of Obama calling people liars while being dishonest themselves.
Another example was the Obama campaign suggesting David Freddoso of National Review was lying when he pointed out that Obama had supported a tax hike on people with taxable income above $32,000. The Obama people even brazenly quoted factcheck.org without pointing out that the article in question there made the point that the number was taxable income (while justifiably criticizing a McCain ad on the issue that conflated taxable income with gross income). In other words, they distorted an article to smear a political correspondent as a liar. Sound familiar?

“McCain started it”…uh, right. Who has been saying these gems forever:
- McCain thinks you have to make 5 million a year to be rich
Class warfare much? Of course he was joking, but that doesn’t matter.
- McCain thinks we should wage 100 years of war in Iraq
Scaremonger much? Yes you guessed it, he was making the point that we have troops in long term non-combat engagements in a lot of places.
I guess those weren’t working, so he recently took a different tact:
- he’s old and can’t use a computer or send an email
Take a look at his record before making dumb claims. Actually, just use some common sense: old voters are way more reliable than young voters when it comes to voting…good decision disparaging McCain’s age Barrack.
Now we have this ad…yeah, he really sounds different then other politicians. Oh wait he doesn’t sound different AND he doesn’t have any experience…and you Democrats wonder why you never win Presidential elections.
I could go on, but I tire of this.

I believe we are heading down a road we do not want to travel at this time.
I predict that the minority leaders in this country are going to scare most conservative voters away right before the election. They will point out there will be riots in the streets if Obama is not elected.
We are already starting to hear rumblings of this here in Dallas. I just hope that somehow Obama is able to stomp this down.

Is Rush Limbaugh not a Republican?
Has McCain not switched his position on immigration to that of Rush Limbaugh?
End of story.

The Rapture will be upon us soon. It is truly the End of Days.

How stunningly refreshing to see something fair and balanced by a Main Stream journalist!!! I nearly fell over. Thank you for setting the record straight, Mr. Tapper! Can you get the rest of the MSM to do the same?

Why is anyone here so surprised??
Destortion of the Truth coming from both candidates is what it is.. Political Spin. OBama Campaign seems to believe the uneducated and Stupid Mexicans will believe these lies and vote for the Democratic leader, but wait, if they are illegal aliens, how can they vote in the national elections? Ask ACORN and the many D party vote troopers that are getting anyone and everyone to fill out a voter reg. card, then taking those registration cards and requesting absentee ballots. No real controls there for validating voter registration and absentee ballots.
A very scary reality and a desparate attempt by the party to get Obama elected. Check out the voter registrations in each state, notice the numbers.

Obama needs to falsely attack because he has no experience to speak of. We need change; they all want change, and change. Change is not always good. If you are married and then divorced that is in fact change. I eat well…but if food is taken away I’ll starve…hmmm more change. I think the one I like hate most is when I go to the store…I hand them a $20.00 and I get back “change” wow…we give Obama power and our hard earned tax money and all we’ll have is change. Obama, shame on you for taking quotes out of context and lying to your followers. If you are indeed the second coming of Christ then act more “God Like” Misleading Hispanic voters…shame on you their smarter than that.

Jake – thanks for digging into something and going somewhere – unlike 99 percent of your colleagues… Good job.

Thank you for information in your well documented and thoughtful article. I appreciate your professionalism.

If this is what Americans think is sleazy campaigning, then we really don’t know anything about our history. Post-1950 American presidential elections have been tame affairs compared to our earlier elections. This ad would hardly register as a blip on the historical scale. The fact is that both Obama and McCain are decent people, but they are politicians. You don’t make it to the US Senate without playing at least a little dirty. It’s all politics and at the end of the day (unlike with Bush and Gore) Obama and McCain will still like and respect each other.

Wow !! At that time, Obama did write book for making money or was “DID-NOTHING SENATOR” with smoking of Marihuana when McCain-Kennedy(=McKennedy)Bill that The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, or, in its full name, was a bill discussed in the 110th United States Congress that would HAVE PROVIDED LEGAL STATUS &
A PATH TO LEGAL CITIZENSHIP for approximately 12 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States. If Obama forget the
bill, McCain-Kennedy which was proposed by John McCain and Ted Kennedy who suported himself,Obama should would become really “DID-NOTHING SENATOR,DO-NOTHING CANDITATE, AND DOING-NOTHING PRESIDENT”. I just hope that Hispanic choose for a right candidate who had worked so far and will do for you.
the facts that the BILL which 15 Mil illegal immigrants

Just yesterday I scraped the McCain sticker off the back of my car. McCain’s smears, lies, and unfounded attacks (not to mention Palin! Don’t get me started…) have led this long time Republican to vote Democratic for the first time in 25 years. John McCain is a disgrace!

RE: Posted by: Nairb | Sep 18, 2008 10:45:13 AM:
“Can it also be said that linking Obama to something Bill Ayers said in 1971 and repeating it over and over and over again is fair or even relevant?”
No one is doing that – your getting your facts mixed up. Bill Ayers BOMBED Gov’t buildings in 1971, in 2001 – while a friend of Obama’s – he said “he wished he’d done more” bombing and felt it was right and justified.
Mr. Obama can and should be held accountable for what his friend said while he was Obama’s friend. Where was Obama on 9/11/01? In Chicago, with his friend Bill Ayers, managing a charitable foundation, IIRC…

Nice piece of balanced reporting. The new Obama ad shows you how desperate the Obama campaign is. And by tying McCain to Rush he (Obama) is essentially calling Hispanics dump, stupid and ignorant because he is assuming that any Hispanic that is legally registered to vote will forgot that McCain wants to provide amnesty to all illegals. And I, as a conservative who fought against McCain’s original bill, am under no illusion that just because McCain has moved border security to the forefront of the illegal immigration issue that a President McCain will not revisit the amnesty provision in the future. That said I am voting for McCain for president despite knowing I will have to gear up in the future to fight his efforts to give millions of law breakers a free get out of jail pass. One final point: Obama is playing the race card again by inferring McCain is a racist. Tying McCain to Rush on the immigration issue is like saying I am not voting for Obama because he is black. I am not voting because he is a liberal. Hopefully the Hispanic community will see the same thing and voter for McCain.

I have been so disgusted with the mainstream media in the past several months.It is so very obvious they are pushing the democratic ticket. Hail to Fox News, the only major news media that presents a fair and balanced report of political news. I am a registered Democrat who will be voting for McCain and Palin. I was shocked to see Jake’s (ABC’s) story and “telling the truth”. Although, he’ll probably lose his job at ABC. I will never watch Oprah again, I despise and will never again watch “The View” until they rid themselves of the pig in lipstick, Joy Bahar. Barbara Walters has some nerve grilling people who have lived a much cleaner, respectable life them her and didn’t have to write about it to make money.Elizabeth is the only one on this show with an once of intelligence an compassion for others. The other ABC personality that I have lost respect for is Charles Gibson. His unfair and harsh treatment of Sarah Palin was hard to watch and I totally lost my my respect for him. Charlie, you’ll never be as good as Peter Jennings. Jake, I hear Fox News is hiring !

I support Obama but agree that this ad is unfair by linking McCain to Limbaugh and by taking McCain’s remarks out of context. I hope someone from Obama’s campaign reads this blog and removes the ad as soon as possible.

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Why is it unfair to link McCain and Limbaugh on immigration? True, McCain, at one time, took a principled stand on immigration reform, but he backed away from it in the primaries in order to curry favor with the hard right – including El Rushbo. In fact, back when immigration was still a hot issue in the Republican nomination contest, McCain said in one of the debates that he would no longer vote for his own immigration reform bill. At the very least, this suggests that McCain is more than willing to abandon immigrants when it suits his political needs.

I will never vote for anyone who panders to Spanish speaking voters. This is America, not Mexico!

My God people, you are missing the point! First, this is real journalism. Well researched, and newsworthy. Second, the article is actually well written. The article is easy to read, well constructed and flows from thought to thought in an orderly manner.
Obama’s ad was misleading yes. Politicians lie, yes. Whoever said politicians of any party were trustworthy and intelligent? I’m just happy to read a real news article.

Jake, I must admit I need to keep more than a single column scoring of your writings as I have seen some of your other columns fail to demonstrate rational analysis. It appears you have done your homework this time to reveal the truth, which is something other reporters are failing to do in this election cycle as they pass obsessive rumors and phony pictures of a single VP candidate rather than research and fact check on all the candidates. The underlying problem is this election is going to get worse as each candidate will open the doors to their mud pit and the throwing war is on for the next seven weeks, without the voter or media to have the time to differentiate between fact and fiction. The biggest liar (with the most money) might win, to all our peril.

If Rush were pro Republican, as “Heidi” proclaims in the previous post, he wouldn’t bash Bush like he does. My point is not to defend Rush but to say that the previous post’s equation falls apart before it even gets started.
Jake, Thank you for presenting context and facts for those of us who choose to us our reason.

Alright now, who put the truth serum in the ABC water cooler?

Good solid article, Jake Tapper has been solid this entire election. This man is informative!

We conservatives scared McCain into backing off the giveaway to illegal aliens and now he has his head on straight. Obama wants no national borders. Remember, he is going to be citizen of the world and president of the world. This clown with zero credentials to lead anyone would destroy the entire fabric of this nation. He actually wants to provide massive welfare to poor people from other nations. Deep down he really hates what this country stands for. It is obvious when looking at his radical background. Wake up, Americans!

Mr. Tapper, please introduce yourself to Mr. Gibson and offer to show him the ropes of investigative journalism. It is nice to see a U.S. journalist actually do their job, instead of ‘play act’ and get paid for it! I think both political parties has it’s shysters and make poor mistakes, I just appreciate having the actual facts in front of me to make up my own mind. God may be my Shepherd, but I am no sheep!

So is Gibson of ABC ( All Barack Coclave) going to say that Barack’s ads are LIES???? That will be a revelation in Journalism which has been Missing…

WHOA…STOP THE PRESSES. It’s a bird…a plane…a NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN AD! The GOP mastered this now suck up and master the boomerang effect. The Easter Bunny is tougher than you whiners. What happened to all of your tough cowboy gun talk?

Seems more like Obama and McCain are reluctant to anger their campaign contributors, many of whom rely on cheap immigrant labor to keep their profit margin up.

This ploy will cost Obama some votes.

Ask Palin/McCain why so many GOP elected officials are perverts. Ask her to pray for these corrupt losers.

Goes to show that if Obama’s claims and comments are outrageous enough, even network news will back up McCain. I’m pleased and amazed. Thanks ABC

For all of you so upset and insulted by Obama’s “misleading” ad, please don’t hold your breath until McCain stands up and clarifies for the American people, and particularly the Latino community, his true position on immigration.

Thank you ABC for finally doing your job. for the better good. Keep it up.

Thanks for actually reporting the facts! I am a McCain/Palin supporter. I would expect you to hold them to the same standard.
Its unusual for the establishment media to take a Democrat to task. How refreshing to see real reporting from an alphabet network.

So much for Freedom of speech.

Well done Mr. Tapper and ABC for this information!!
What an extreme insult from the Obama camp to think they could be so deceitful in a Spanish language ad. What does this say about their opinion of Latinos? It’s going to be interesting to see if the Obama camp still runs this ad, even after the deceit has been exposed.
They might pull the ad due to the slander liability alone. Being served with a slander lawsuit might not be the result they intended when piecing this junk together.
Thanks again Mr. Tapper and ABC for making this information public.

It is pretty hilarious to see the media go out of their way to defend a racist scumbag like Limbaugh.
The FACT is Limbaugh is a huge voice of the Republican Party. The MSM reports on Limbaugh as though he is in touch with the Republican voters and nobody winces when he spews his vitriol everyday.
So now that Obama has called out the Republican Party for the HYPOCRISY in embracing Rush and reaping the benefits of his racism…he is at fault?
So it is PERFECTLY acceptable for Racist Rush to get on the radio day in and day out to inflame racial intolerance…it is PERFECTLY acceptable for the Republicans to benefit from this….yet it is WRONG for Obama to put their feet to the flame? lol…Give me a break…this outrage is a joke. And anyone defending Rush should be ashamed of themselves.

Obama is completely out of control. All he does is attack. He even told his cult followers to “get in their Repupblican friends faces”. But he can’t even answer the question about what to do to save the banking insudtry? And he took 3 days to comment on the Russian Georgia invasion/occupation. He is clueless…just a stuffed shirt ith a chip on his shoulders!

(a) How is Obama’s ad portraying Limbaugh and McCain as immigration unfriendly untrue? McCain has flip-flopped on pretty much every issue of importance to Americans [case in point: Wall Street deregulation was his stance until 72 hours ago when he realized that this is an unpopular position during this election] and immigration reform is no exception. Just this past March 3rd it was reported [and I quote] “McCain went so far at a debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in January to say that if his original proposal came to a vote on the Senate floor, he would NOT vote for it.” So, today he is not for immigration reform that would help the Hispanic and Latino communities in the U.S.
(b) There is a saying “Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.” McCain chose Palin as his running mate. If you are a Hispanic or Latino living in the U.S., she is not good news for you. She is of the same vein as Limbaugh, believing that the ideal America is white & Christian, not diverse. If McCain does not subscribe to this idea, why does he have someone on the ticket who does? Talk show host Laura Ingraham stated on her radio show that she spoke with Palin, who told her she was against “comprehensive immigration” reform. The reason appears to be that this viewpoint will help pick up more GOP votes from those that oppose open borders legislation and comprehensive immigration reform.
If you are a Hispanic or Latino registered voter in the U.S., make sure to consider if the in the last 8 years change has been positive for the Hispanic/Latino community. If you don’t like the direction the country took with respect to the Latino immigration, then DON’T vote for McCain, as it will be more of the same. Not only is McCain wishy-washy on issues of importance to the American people bu he is also 72 years old, with serious preconditions, and if he were president and became incapacitated, Palin is it — and she is not a friend of Hispanics / Latinos.

UCLAdy04: Your comment makes no sense. Just because you don’t agree with someone’s politics doesn’t mean they aren’t protected by slander laws.
According to your comment, Rush should be allowed to be quoted out of context and slandered in a public TV ad simply because you don’t agree with him?
Laws only apply to those you agree with?
Rush’s comments were intentionally taken out of context and aired in a public setting where their meaning would be misunderstood and damaging. If Rush wants to sue for slander, he probably has a pretty good case, whether the judge likes his politics or not.

Wasn’t Obama that talked about a civil campaign no personal attacks. This Spanish ad is completely false. Will the media state the facts. They do every time Palin speaks they come back with well that’s not completely true. Come on media this is the time to stand up for truth or show your complete bias.Today he’s telling a crowd to get in the face of the opposition.

Bravo! I am not conservative or liberal (registered Independent) and have been sitting here in the bleachers watching the muddy tennis balls of mistruths being slung back and forth over the net.
Like many I am fed up with this campaign that feels like it’s been going on for a decade; and I am particularly disgusted by the outrageous lies, disgusting pandering, and blatant BS that keeps that muddy ball in play.
Reporting, such as Mr Tapper’s excellent piece, was like the ref calling the game on account of bald-face lying, and a change of balls!
Kudos to ABC for publishing this piece in spite of its usual Obama love-fest.

Most of Obama’s ads are smears, 77% of them actually.
And Limbaugh kicks his cat across the room when he even hears the name McCain.
Its a good opening for McCain to reinforce his support for immigrants.

Speaking of taking things out of context: unfortunately, it is a perception in America that showing strength means “getting down and dirty” in insults and jabs. Obama unfortunately has been engaging in a bit of this lately, but even if you’re a McCain supporter, you can’t say that McCain is innocent of this type of behavior.
Furthermore, during the Primaries McCain was postulating himself as a “maverick”, a different kind of Republican vowing to run a different kind of campaign. “We are running a different kind of campaign because John McCain is a different kind of candidate.” What exactly did he mean by that? It just so happens that we have heard that message before, from the Republican Party no less, when Bush styled himself as a “compassionate conservative” and a uniter in his 2000 campaign.
For example, how is it that day after day McCain-Palin go out with a straight face and say to prospective voters: “Obama and his liberal congressional allies want a massive government… billions in spending increases” including “painful income taxes, skyrocketing taxes on life savings, electricity and home heating oil…Can your family afford that?” Just today McCain said on the campaign trail that Obama “claims that paying higher taxes is ‘patriotic’”. Obviously, those remarks take the statements made by their opponents, Obama-Biden, out of context, too. When these statements were made, Obama-Biden said that taxes would increase for those whose income is greater than $250,000 per year [something McCain-Palin conveniently omit when they make reference to this issue]. And Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do “for wealthier Americans” which again, is a blatant omission.
So, if McCain and Limbaugh want to sue for slander / truth distortion / defamation / etc., let the fun begin.

Come on everyone, both candidates are vying for every last vote they can. Of course its going to be a slug fest. These two guys are running for President of the World. Honestly, I’m tired of listening to you all complain about one or the other. They are obviously both inherently evil candidates, who when elected, will push the agenda of their respected political parties. If you are upset about this, either turn off Faux News or vote for a 3rd party candidate. If you are unaware of what they stand for, take 5 minutes and look them up. It seriously takes that long to view their policies and voting records. End the corrupt injustice of a two party system and stop voting for the lesser of two evils. YOU ARE NEVER THROWING AWAY your vote by voting 3rd party because “he/she has no chance of winning.” VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE even if it is unlikely your choice will not win the election. Otherwise this government will continue to get larger, take more of your hard earned money, and slowly take away your civil liberties with the false promise of “security.”
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOOD WAR, OR A BAD PEACE.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND THE WHOLE WORLD GOES BLIND.

I guess this is what Sen. Obama thinks is going to bring us all together.
If you win, you are going to inherit a very divided country, and I havn’t seen a shred of evidence that you have a clue what to do to bring us together, except to blame Pres. Bush for everything.
You may not know it yet, but the press will turn on you in a second, if it will benefit them.
Texas Biker

Hispanics and Latin American’s with the right to vote should think twice before voting for Obama. The man is disrespectful to his own race!! Don’t expect him to support any other minority when he won’t even support his own!!
And to those of you who hate immigrants just remember the the United States was a nation started by immigrants. Not all immigrants are unskilled; there are a lot of people up there that are actually hard-working individuals looking for a better tomorrow for their kids, and most importantly, they’re doing jobs that Americans and other minorities aren’t willing to do for very low wages. My advise…keep the hard-working ones, the ones that grew up and went to school there and get rid of those with a criminal record.
McCain/Palin 08

A dishonest liberal. Big surprise.
What *is* surprising is a mainstream-media outlet actually reporting on this glaringly false political ad put out by this sham of a candidate.
I think hell must have frozen over.

The ad by Obama was so disgusting and insulting I cannot believe even Rush could have said that, When it says, Stupid and unskilled Mexican,” but when it said “Callete el hocico y largate de agui.” this is so disgusting one would not even talk to a dog in this way. “it actually means (callate el hocico y largate de agui) shut your pig snout,and get the H. out of here.” this is the lowest of low insult in spanish. I am a hispanic and I know what this means.Obama, watch what you endorse, because this will bring you down. I know MCCain would not even conceive of speaking this way…..

Refreshing to hear national news media in factual discussion! Cheers to ABC News! Take the lead, be fair, and win the millions of disillusioned readers.
Republican or Democrat we all benefit when we remove the hatred and bias. Demand the same of your candidate today.

Did Limbaugh say it?
Yes.
Is Limbaugh a McCain supporter?
Yes.
Is Limbaugh a proud representative of the Republican party?
Yes.
Will McCain stand up to racist anti-immigrant factions in the Republican party?
Why should we believe that he would?

Let me express my personal admiration to the author(s). Actual reporting of facts is so refreshing! Honesty, intellectual integrity and fairness!! Wow! It’s been years since I’ve associated ABC with fair and factual reporting.
No sarcasm intended. Thanks for a good job of straight forward reporting.

This talk of taxing the rich by the democrats really bothers me. If they (the rich democrat lawmakers) really believe the rich should pay more why do they complete their tax returns by taking advantage of all the deductions available. If they really believe the rich should pay more just submit the tax return by paying at the standard rate. Example, John Kerry and his wife’s net tax liability was 12% the year he ran for President. Ours (my wife and I) was 22% and we made far less than the Kerry’s. There is no law that anyone has to take deductions when completing their tax return. Yes, I know there are rich Republicans that also take deductions but they aren’t the one’s clammering for more taxes.
Oh, by the way, I’m on Social Security and because of the Clinton tax on SS (the tie breaking vote was cast by Al Gore as VP)we seasoned citizens pay tax on a portion of what was supposed to be an untaxed retirement benefit according to FDR. Even during periods of Republican control of Congress the law wasn’t changed because the liberal repubs wouldn’t go along with the idea of repealing this tax.

Anyone saying that Obama is “race baiting” when it comes to Pills Limbaugh . . . well . . . that is hysterical in it’s absurdity. McCain is anti-immigrant and has tied his train to bigot central. Deal with it.

Whoa…I really was spooked today when I heard the recording of John McCain “forgetting” what or who Spain is. That’s the way it started with my Grandpa and the next thing we knew he thought it was 1929. I was strongly leaning McCain, but I’m going to have to go with Obama now.

McCain is no friend to Latinos and there are Dos Caras in the Republican campaign. I wish Obama’s people would demonstrate what a COWARD MCCain is with respect to immigration just so he can win the presidency. McCain was present in May when there was a revote on the DREAM ACT.Rather than have his vote registered McCain walked off the Senate floor so he would not have to vote. Too COWARDLY to support this humanitarian measure and too COWARDLY to face his fellow Republicans and try to persuade them to vote to give innocent kids a chance for lawful status.
NO TWO FACED COWARDLY MCCAIN, NOT NOW, NOT EVER! Another proud Latina supporting BARRACK OBAMA

I had to laugh at some of the sanctimonious comments because Obama has the audacity to link MCCAIN to LIMBAUGH and the right wing anti-immigrant rabid minions.Show your true face John McCain do you have the courage to stand up to your base on immigration now at this point in time and take on your anti-immigrant and no “amnesty” Republican platform. ….. Didn’t think so.
Another Latina for Obama.

Excellent article, Jake Tapper! Thank you for pointing out the truth of the situation and calling Obama on the lies in this ad. Haven’t watched network news in years, but maybe I should give ABC a second chance.

Lies-Hardly. Now that Palin Bridge to Nowhere is a damn lie.McCain being a Maverick that’s another damn lie. This is only linkage to a Right wing group that McCain is groveling to get in his corner. Well I say take your rightwing base and forget about the Latino vote. WE don’t want you John McCain.(Except maybe the Cuban Republicans who had favored immigration benefits once they touched land in the U.S.)

*Actually, in Spanish the word is *injusticia*

As an ally of the U.S., I don’t know which is scarier: Obama’s obvious racism, or the seemingly-endless number of Americans who are being sucked in by this charlatan.
Sometimes the picture is more clear when you are standing outside if it.

Wake up Latinos!! This is clearly showing how Obama feels about us all. He wants your vote that’s all, once he reaches his goal he’ll forget about you. Mccain might be old but he has far more experience than Obama. Do you really think a President-in-training will help you at all?? With the way things are going on right now, you need someone with experience to lead you to a better tomorrow. Good luck!!

This is the first race in memory where both candidates are scoring over 50% positives with voters. There’s no need to bottom-feed and muck-rake, and it’s clear here that Obama’s followers can have the truth placed square in front of their face and they’ll close their eyes and shake their heads. I may still vote for Obama but it might be more fun to see the look on Keith Olbermann’s face if McCain wins.

Democrats inciting fear in a minority for votes? What? Who knew??

UNFORTUNATELY FOR McCAIN,THAT HOW WE (LATINOS) FEEL!

Just a note, the Ad never says the McCain has anything to do with Limbaugh. Only quotes Limbaugh as a source of the insults mentioned. It doesn’t say McCain is doing the insulting.

Mccain tries to associate the bank buyouts to Obama. How is this ad any different. Two wrongs dont make it right , but there are several ignorant people that cant tell the difference. So , stop crying. You have to fight fire with fire. Period
Obama 08

The cost for health insurance premium: Senator and House of Representatives. Is it a token amount? How much are the payment?

Rush is not running for president Mccain, and Obama are. A willingness to sacrifice the truth for ones political ambition speaks volumes about character or the lack thereof.

It’s funny. Anyone who knows McCain like I do from C-Span knows this is totally wrong about him. Obama has no shame, he smeared Hillary up and down. He claims to be a nice guy but this is so stupidly dirty and ignorant that I think it will work. McCain has been doing outreach to the immigrant community for a long time. Heck, he is from a border state, like duh. Course, Chicago politicos who put ad together might not think about it, but what politician could get elected if they insulted their constituents over a course of decades?
So, in concluding, the left is desperate, on the ropes, the media isn’t telling the real popularity numbers about McCain/Palin and this will prolly be reported as fact.
I feel sad for you liberals, because you have to lie, smear, demonize other Americans just so people will elect you leftists.
Axlerod, Obama and Soros, you can’t win on your issues alone, no one likes them.

So Bush was bad because he divided us. Obama is good because he will unify us. Of course, he left out the “how”. We are now seeing the great unifier unmasked as just another politician, albiet with a radicalized agenda. The only unification will be the form you get in an autoctatic, socialist state.

Obama’s recent efforts are a sign of a floundering campaign. Obama just doesn’t want to be President bad enough. Proof of this: picking boring Joe Biden. The way to win: sack Biden (cook up health reasons), get Hillary as VP. Get new campaign strategists from ranks of Clinton veterans. Effectively take the initiative and hold on to it through Election Day. Result: President-Elect Barack Obama. Likelihood of Obama embracing *these* changes and becoming President? Zero. (Obama = Dukakis II) Likelihood of “President Sarah Palin” in 2012? 100%

It’s funny to hear uninformed people call Obama a Socialist and many of them don’t know what a true Socialist government is. Hint, hint…the biggest “socialization” in HISTORY is one involving a $700B BAILOUT. Bush just nationalized (i.e., SOCIALIZED) the banking system! We villainize Hugo Chavez for nationalizing Venezuela’s oil industry, YET the US turns around and does the SAME THING. Does NO ONE not see the glaring hypocrisy in that???
The Republican Party of today is a grossly misguided joke. This ain’t your father’s Republican Party!