07/30/2008
John McCain's Lying Attack Ad and the Commander-in-Chief Test
This made the rounds on blogs earlier this week but I couldn't let it get by without an appearance here.
Despite John McCain promising to run a respectful campaign, he's been running the ad above on the left, which contains an outright lie. On the right, Andrea Mitchell questions why McCain would run something that is "literally not true."
Incidentally, the portion of the ad showing Obama playing basketball while claiming he made time to go to the gym rather than visit with troops is actually footage of him playing basketball with troops in Kuwait over the weekend.
Ironically, the lying ad has been something of a public relations coup for McCain.
Following accusations that McCain has gone negative, his campaign today sent out a list of talking points to its surrogates that basically argue he didn't go negative until Obama did...
Crooks and Liars notes that in the past few days "John McCain has launched an all-out war against Barack Obama’s fitness to be commander-in-chief." But as can be seen in the video below, McCain fails his own fitness test.
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Well hello...
It's called politics.. Geeze. Stop drinking your fucking Koolaid and grow up.
Posted by: John Doe | Jul 30, 2008 12:17:58 PM
Suck on that, PUMAs.
Posted by: GM | Jul 30, 2008 12:18:41 PM
Well, what do we expect? Rove is helping Mc-Shugana, it will be all lies all the time. The same crap that got Bush appointed.
Posted by: davefromtampa | Jul 30, 2008 12:21:29 PM
the mccain campaign is just pathetic
Posted by: KFLO | Jul 30, 2008 1:32:39 PM
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Does baby need his bottle?
Posted by: Robert | Jul 30, 2008 1:37:59 PM
"John McCain has launched an all-out war against Barack Obama’s fitness to be commander-in-chief."
Like that is going to be a hard war to win.
Posted by: Robert | Jul 30, 2008 1:39:16 PM
Watch out Mr. Doe and Robert, or some fairies will sprinkle magic Troll-B-Gone(tm) dust on you!
Posted by: David R. | Jul 30, 2008 3:37:36 PM
LOL
robert
like a guy who talked about a non existent country 3-4 times in as many months and thinks pakistan and Iraq share a border succeds at the comander and chief test
Just be honest and say "I will never vote for that n@g@e@"
mcshame is such an idiot (graduated like 894th out of class of 899) that is the only explanable reson for your support. Your dislike of all shades not peach (the only "whites" are albinos)
Obama has LED ontalking to Iran (bushco now listening at least without preconditions to the Iranians)
Obama has led on withdrawl from Iraq with even mchame saying 16 months souns kind of good
Obama has led on the war on terror actualy being in Afganistan where we dropped the ball and spporters in pakistan
bush, mcshame, nor any repub is fit to even clean Obama's intelectualy superior toilet.
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Jul 30, 2008 4:02:39 PM