McCain demands withdrawal of anti-Obama ad

[Johonny]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080423/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_ad_dc

Isn't this the same stuff BushCo. pulled. Have a third party attack organization run your most negative stuff. Then protest it to look like you are above that type of tactic. Here McCain gets to A) look like a nice guy B) run some pretty horrible negative commercials C) allow the media to let him have his cake and smear it too.

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Exactly.

[Richard Steele]

2. Yup. And his "complaint" will get the ad more airtime than the group could ever buy.

It's slimy all the way around.

[zbdent]

3. AAAAAAANDDDDD ...

the media will play the ad as "news" more times than the media played the bodies of the soldiers being drug through the streets in 1993 ...

[rurallib]

4. Exactly - gee it was like they planned it.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. Swiftboat by proxy

Nice job, KKKarl.

[NNN0LHI]

6. McCain is a real prick but watch the media play this up as him being a stand up guy

They think we are all idiots.

Don

[Dukkha]

7. how very Rovian of him

and his supporters are of course stupid and gullible enough to fall for it again

[CoffeeCat]

8. Aren't these ads running in North Carolina????

Can the GOP be any more obvious?

They're running these Swiftboat-style ads against Obama in North Carolina?

Wow, anyone wondering who the elite, Washington establishment Dems and
Republicans don't want in the White House--you only need to understand that
Obama is running against Dems AND Reps.

This had to be completely unprecedented in the history of American politics.

Has a Republican EVER ran an ad against a Democrat in a state with an imminent
primary?