More of these please! I hope they play it in all the key states. Hit him where he's most vulnerable: big government spending and taxes in a time of economic uncertainty. We are billions of dollars in the hole and Obama just wants to dig that hole deeper and deeper. That cute sleeping baby in McCain's ad is going to be facing a huge national debt when he grows up (and for the lefties who are tempted to bring up the war spending, let me remind you that Obama wants to send more troops to Afghanistan, do you think they'll be less expensive than the ones we sent to Iraq?).
The transcript is here for the broadband impaired.
BTW, take a notice of the graphics. The McCain camp has a really decent graphics department, they've been doing some neat things with graphics in their ads. I like the flying titles, they used them in Fringe and I thought it was kind of an interesting visual cue (something for those of us who pick up visual cues more quickly than auditory cues)
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Given Biden's comment on taxes this morning on Good Morning America, this ad comes at a perfect time.
Update: Speaking of a gift that keeps on giving: Biden states that a city councilman's job is harder than a Senator's job (need I remind you that Palin was a councilman? :-)
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"doing some neat things with graphics in their ads" elections decided by graphics? Elections decided by McCain's nonstop lies about Obama's tax plan, which has been debunked by many sources?
"That cute sleeping baby" and other babies are inheriting a life that is already mortgaged for many generations. The financial crisis is real and people have just begun to feel the affects.
The continuing crisis:
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/09/the-continuing-crisis.html
So why are you saying its a factual add???
I have 2 things:
1) its a half truth at best. Its deliberatly misleading. Both candidates do it, however I feel only Obama is called on it when it happens. you give McCain a free pass.
2) McCain has not voted against, or stood up to any of the unneccessary expendatures in the last 8 years, so how is he on solid footing here. Its like the pot calling the kettle black.
Both are spenders. There aren't any Reagans anymore.
" . . . Don't get me wrong. The people I meet in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks, they don't expect government to solve all their problems. They know they have to work hard to get ahead and they want to. Go into the white collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don't want their tax money wasted by a welfare agency or the Pentagon. Go into any inner city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn. They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white. No, people don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better. And they want that choice . . . .
"Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
" . . . In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation; the belief in things not seen; the belief that there are better days ahead. I believe we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. I believe that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us. America!"
Obama made this speech in 2004 at the DNC and he has stood by them every step of the way since. Look at his proposals, compare them with McCain's, check the facts. It's not that hard to figure out who's really on your side, folks.
mcspain's ad is as desperate and confused as he is.
What is Obama's PLAN to cut spending?
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