Obama says McCain is running dishonest campaign

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_on_el_pr/obama

In a presidential race turning increasingly negative, Democratic nominee Barack Obama drew on editorial comments from U.S. newspapers and magazines Monday to accuse John McCain of running a dishonest campaign with some of the "sleaziest ads" ever seen.

Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, said McCain was "launching a low blow a day" and went on to say he stands "with George Bush firmly in the corner of the wealthy and well-connected."

Obama, flying to Colorado to begin a swing through contested Western states, leveled his charges in a new television commercial that aggressively pushes back against charges by McCain, the GOP presidential nominee. Obama has been under increasing pressure from Democrats to strike back harder at McCain, who has taken a slight lead in national polls. Some leading Republicans faulted both presidential campaigns Sunday for the increasingly negative tone of their advertising.

Obama's new commercial opens with a picture of McCain saying, "I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land." The announcer then asks, "What happened to John McCain?"

The ad uses brief phrases from editorials and commentators from The Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, CBS and The New Republic: "one of the sleaziest ads ever seen," "truly vile," "dishonest smears," "exposed as a lie," "a disgraceful, dishonest campaign." It concludes, "It seems `deception' is all he's got left."

[MrModerate]

1. No shit? It's pretty clear that up to the DNC, the 'Licans were scared . . .

Over the convention's 4 days, they became terrified. So they turned to the nuclear option (excuse me, "nucular") -- dredging up Sarah Palin from some oil-soaked bog. It was so shocking to the MSM that they twittered for days. Now the twitter is dying down, but McCain dare not let the national discussion settle on issues of character, vision, and governance, because if it does, he turns into sugar-frosted doo doo. So he's dropping lie-bombs, one a day.

And the Palin puppet is working, to an extent, as are the lie bombs -- to an extent. Moron-Americans are buying into it. But we never had a solid grip on the moron-American vote, and the price of pursuing it (your brain, your heart, your honor) is just too high.

I happen to think this is a disastrous tactic by McCain that has not only doomed his candidacy, but will burn so many 'Licans in November that he'll be blamed for wrecking the party. Bullshit, of course (Bush and his handlers wrecked the party), but vengeance is a particular favorite of pubbies, and they'll shred him and shit on the remains come November 5.

McCain can't turn back now. It's not as if he can reclaim his honor now that he's peed on it in public. It's not as if he can pretend to be wise and patriotic after having chosen a dangerous nonentity to back him up. It's not as if he can run on Republican values of deregulation and free-love markets, because (as today has shown) those values are totally phony and have come perilously close to wrecking the country. Or maybe the world financial system.

Palin was a distraction, a flaming turd that inevitably came back to earth and spattered the 'Licans with warm shit. A few days ago was the high water mark. Now the feckless and afraid will start leaking away and the bliplet in the polls for McCain will reverse.

And Obama and Biden continue going to rally after rally, firing up the people, and continuing to stay on message and tell the truth.

Anyway, that's how I see it.

[Curtland1015]

2. Awesome ad!

...and I agree. McCain's smear job will be his downfall.