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Video: Another strange McCain ad

posted at 9:55 am on April 3, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Still in “branding” mode here with a bit of “war is hell” thrown in to counter the left’s attempt to paint him as a ‘monger, but it’s two minutes too long and the rhetoric is so high-flown and stilted at points that not all of it registered on first, casual view. You really have to listen, which for most will require a second viewing, which ain’t in the offing for a spot that’s already pushing three minutes.


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Where would they run it?

freevillage on April 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM

Cool.

THE CHOSEN ONE on April 3, 2008 at 10:01 AM

I guess they weren’t targeting the Jerry Springer/Cheaters demographic with this one.

PBoilermaker on April 3, 2008 at 10:04 AM

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

Strange?

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 10:06 AM

I relied on him to keep us safe from the illegal immigrant invasion. He failed and let me down big time. So don’t give me that BS.

saiga on April 3, 2008 at 10:06 AM

Where would they run it?

freevillage on April 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM

Check the bottom right of the video screen. ;)

p40tiger on April 3, 2008 at 10:07 AM

Here’s an excellent read from NPR of all places. As you read it, think of the contrast it creates between McCain and Obama.

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 10:11 AM

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89300339

heh, well, there’s the excellent read anyway

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 10:12 AM

I get it…a total slap down of Obama…Obscure understanding, not understanding until you have served, just reading and listening isn’t enough, military teaches you to work together, teaches you honor, humility, and no amount of suffering and pain can take away your honor, you won’t sell out you nation to the highest bidder…and if you have not served, faced an enemy overcome fear and near death hand and hand with your comrades, it will be an “obscure understanding”.

right2bright on April 3, 2008 at 10:13 AM

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89300339

heh, well, there’s the excellent read anyway

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 10:12 AM

The stated out with a slam, “fifth from the bottom”, not wanting to know, or admit, that the fifth from the bottom of any military academy means probably fifth from the top of any other university.

right2bright on April 3, 2008 at 10:16 AM

I hope they’ve got some better stuff in the hopper. Most voters would be changing the channel after about 10 seconds into this one.

AZCoyote on April 3, 2008 at 10:17 AM

You’re right, it’s about 90 seconds too long. There’s a good ad in there, but it needs editing.

irishspy on April 3, 2008 at 10:25 AM

Is there like…uh… ANY college Republicans working with Maverick who may give his campaign a clue about what kind of videos go viral?

Sugar Land on April 3, 2008 at 10:28 AM

Where would they run it?

freevillage on April 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM

Hey you little straight shooter, you ran off the other post after asking you to back up your claims.
Do one of two things, back up your claims, or admit you are wrong.
You run around posting stupid statements, and when you are proven wrong you move to another post to try and hijack that one.

right2bright on April 3, 2008 at 10:30 AM

Look at it this way: the Letterman appearance was for you Allah. These biography ads are for Ed. And both are more substantive than HopeyChange. The most substantive ad/video I’ve seen of Obama is the one where he outlines his plan to slash missile defense and future combat systems and surrender in Iraq.

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM

Well I take it that this is aimed at those in the military who are thinking of voting Dem.
He is reminding them that he has been there, been one of them and so he can be trusted as CIC.

Just my take.
http://armyaunt.johnmccain.com/

ArmyAunt on April 3, 2008 at 10:32 AM

right2bright on April 3, 2008 at 10:30

AM

No kidding, I was asking for a link proving that “star wars” isn’t viable.

Freevillage, if you state something as fact as opposed to just your opinion, then you need to back it up with a link.

ArmyAunt on April 3, 2008 at 10:36 AM

Excellent ad, but most people would be too stupid to understand it. For example the people who clap when osama says change 50 times.

eski502 on April 3, 2008 at 10:38 AM

Freevillage, if you state something as fact as opposed to just your opinion, then you need to back it up with a link.

ArmyAunt on April 3, 2008 at 10:36 AM

I have watched him for several weeks now, and every time he ends up with egg on his face, and then he “disappears”. What you challenged freevilliage with over at the other post (Obama against missile defense)was the icing.
You shouldn’t be allowed to continuously post, without backing up your statements.
I think if AP, looked this guy up, you can see he is just a hijacker.
Good job.

right2bright on April 3, 2008 at 10:42 AM

Conservatives still have a chance to wake up

By John Andrews
Article Last Updated: 02/15/2008 03:45:27 PM MST

Was it hearing about Dennis Kucinich’s encounter with spacemen? Or was it seeing the ex-Governor Moonbeam, Jerry Brown, doing TV commentary? Something sent me on an out-of-body experience the other night, a sci-fi trip into the future — and it was scary.
I was driving home after my radio show, haunted by Mike Littwin’s prediction about John McCain’s detractors: “The Limbaugh Republicans will eventually vote for him, but the Dobson Republicans, who knows? They may not.” Suddenly my car was a tiny dot far below, and then it was caucus night 2012.
Nine of us lonely Republicans huddled in a school library that had held hundreds for previous caucuses. Out in the corridor were five caucus-goers of the feisty little Tory Party that had formed around Ann Coulter and James Dobson after McCain wrested the 2008 nomination from Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. Three hundred Democrats packed the gym.
Caucus business quickly done, we brooded over the dramatic events of President Barack Obama’s first term. Despite campaign gaffes, foot-dragging by the Clintonistas, and his maturity deficit against the GOP’s war-hero nominee, Obama and Vice President Nancy Pelosi won the popular vote and narrowly took the Electoral College over McCain and Condoleezza Rice.
Fittingly, it was Colorado’s nine electoral votes that made the difference. “That’ll show’em,” a Tory leader in Colorado Springs told Fox after McCain’s midnight concession speech.
The president-elect rewarded state Democrats by naming Federico Peña as Treasury secretary and Ken Salazar as Interior secretary. Gov. Bill Ritter elevated Diana DeGette to the resulting Senate vacancy.
Helped by the Republican fracture, Dems had taken 58 Senate seats; after Maine’s Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins switched parties, Harry Reid could now break any filibuster. DeGette’s embryonic stem-cell bill sailed through and was signed in Obama’s first hundred days. He inked the repeal of Bush’s partial-birth abortion ban the same day.
Tory radio hosts, already demoralized, grew more so after Sept. 11, 2009, when al-Qaeda took down a dozen airliners over the U.S., Britain and Canada in a single hour. Aboard one of them, tragically, was Chief Justice John Roberts. Obama appointed arch-liberal Laurence Tribe to replace him, and picked Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison to chair a commission on why they hate us.
McCain, now as lonely a voice in the Senate as Churchill had been in Parliament before 1939, pointed out that the Patriot Act and FISA surveillance could probably have averted the Second 9/11. But few listened, especially after the Super Fairness Doctrine was signed, muzzling conservative voices on cable and the Internet as well as talk radio.
Did I mention it was depressing, that GOP caucus I magically attended in 2012? It was the pits. Speaker Charles Rangel had passed a black reparations bill in 2009. The Tribe court had ordered gay marriage in 2010. Israel had fallen in 2011. Why didn’t thinking Republicans work harder to prevent the 2008 schism, we sat there asking each other.

The upside, we told ourselves, was Obama’s vulnerability for re-election against Condi or Newt or Jeb. Even Huck and Rudy were talking of a comeback. Chances seemed good, considering the recession triggered by Rangel’s huge tax increase, along with global tension over an al-Qaeda-dominated Iraq, an Iran with nukes, and a China that had seized Taiwan while the U.S. stood by.
Predictably, Obama-Care was way over budget and already unpopular. Thankfully, his Supreme Court nomination of Bill Clinton, a payoff to Hillary Clinton for the DNC deal on superdelegates, had failed. Republican hopes were reviving. But what a price to pay for getting America’s conservative party unified and competitive again.
Then, snap! I was back at the wheel, and it was still 2008. Heaven protects day-dreaming pundits. Headlights showed my garage door going up. My party might still avert self-destruction.
John Andrews (andrewsjk@aol.com) is a fellow with the Claremont Institute and a past president of the Colorado Senate. He hosts “Backbone Radio” on Sundays at 5 p.m. on 710-KNUS. His column appears twice a month.

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_8267269

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 10:43 AM

Excellent ad, but most people would be too stupid to understand it. For example the people who clap when osama says change 50 times.

eski502 on April 3, 2008 at 10:38 AM

Or blows his frickin’ nose. Sheesh.

techno_barbarian on April 3, 2008 at 10:52 AM

Just a few days ago, Obama stated that his experience was growing up in Chicago politics. He actually compared his toughing it out in Chicago politics is the same as McCain’s military experience…the gall.

right2bright on April 3, 2008 at 10:57 AM

confusion then patriotism. Nice angle

THE CHOSEN ONE on April 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM

Duty, honor, country, integrity, sacrifice, honesty, perseverance, etc.

Do you think it’s easy getting a Brazilian model out of her clothes? Come on!

Blake on April 3, 2008 at 11:10 AM

Dude. I thought John Kerry was an ego maniac.

Angry Dumbo on April 3, 2008 at 11:16 AM

rhetoric is so high-flown

I’ll take that over 5 second soundbites or endless repetition of the word “change” any day. Give the American people some credit for their intelligence.

kc8ukw on April 3, 2008 at 11:27 AM

I guess I missed it: where is this being run?

NeoconNews.com on April 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM

The trying-way-too-hard vocabulary of this barf-worthy video will be a low flying jet over the unwashed masses of America. It’s as cheesy as Hillary’s horrible 3 AM series of ads.

Dave Rywall on April 3, 2008 at 11:37 AM

IT IS RUNNING ON YOU TUBE.

Dave Rywall on April 3, 2008 at 11:37 AM

right2bright on April 3, 2008 at 10:16 AM

I beg to differ. I would agree that average at any military academy beats average at any other university, but I don’t agree that fifth from the bottom of any military academy means probably fifth from the top of any other university.

Just because McCain’s Grandfather and Father were Admirals doesn’t make John McCain a great man. In fact, I think he had real issues growing up because he had big shoes to fill and couldn’t fill them. It’s kind of like the preacher’s kid who can’t live up to the high standards and rebels.

I think the fact that McCain finished fifth from the bottom is a very significant material fact.

Red Pill on April 3, 2008 at 11:41 AM

Nice to see you guys calling the military culture cheesy. Keep supporting those troops! Obama 08!

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM

While I wouldn’t want McCain to be President many of his ads have convinced me that we should give him a rifle and send him to the front lines. That’s where he is needed most.

Just don’t post him to sentry duty to guard the perimeter because McCain will encourage anybody and everybody to come on in and make themselves to home.

FloatingRock on April 3, 2008 at 11:46 AM

If I am not mistaken, this video is from McCain’s website and is aimed at people interested enough to look at his website to gain some knowledge of the man. It is good! If we cannot take less than 3 minutes to consider nominees for POTUS it is a sad commentary on voters. Whether you like McCain or not, he reveals more of his underlying thoughts and feelings than the mindless rhetoric of hope (for what?) and change (to what?).

Pat in NC on April 3, 2008 at 11:47 AM

Funky chicken, one can call Rambo cheesy and still respect military culture.

Dave Rywall on April 3, 2008 at 11:56 AM

one can call Rambo cheesy

::::pssst! Rambo isn’t a real person!:::

baldilocks on April 3, 2008 at 11:58 AM

::::pssssst!
Rambo: use of military imagery to get one’s point across
McCain: use of military imagery to get one’s point across

Dave Rywall on April 3, 2008 at 12:02 PM

John McCain’s father and grandfather, John Sidney McCain Jr. and Sr., were distinguished naval officers who rose to become four-star admirals. As men, Senator McCain indicates, they fell far short of sainthood. They drank, gambled and swore like, well, sailors. But both understood what being an officer meant. The McCain men were fiercely devoted to an unwritten code of military honor. An officer, McCain explains, “keeps his word, whatever the cost. He must not shirk his duties no matter how difficult or dangerous they are. His life is ransomed to his duty. An officer must trust his fellow officers, and expect their trust in return. He must not expect others to bear what he will not.”
At the U.S. Naval Academy, McCain the youngest followed in his grandfather’s and father’s rascally steps by performing poorly as a student and chafing under the hazing that “plebes” were expected to accept. “I resisted not by refusing the hazing but by letting my resentment show, and by failing to conform fully to the convention of the squared-away midshipman,” he writes. “… I wanted the lords of the first and second class to know my compliance was grudging and in no way implied respect for them.” Constantly breaking the rules and provoking his instructors, he nearly “bilged out,” but managed to hang on, graduating fifth from the bottom of his class in 1958.

So Dave, you are a military expert? Which military academy did you attend?

My husband graduated from USAFA and I assure you, this ad will be right up his, and his fellow graduates’ alley. They really do think like this for the most part.

But call it cheesy all you want. Just please be grateful that such cheesy fellows have your back and do it for duty, honor, and country….yeah, for real.

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 12:07 PM

The parallels to Kerry are striking. Come on, Senator McCain. I want to like you but your military background only gets you an interview. Details please.

Angry Dumbo on April 3, 2008 at 12:10 PM

More Powers Booth, please.

manfriend on April 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM

Good but, where does he stand on illegal immigration??? Does he support the new Employer Sanctions bill in Arizona??? Military experience a plus, but not a requirement. Get to the meat and potatoes of this campaign. These POLS and MSM are pushing immigration questions to the back burner. It is as if the public outcry of 06/07 never happened. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

pueblo1032 on April 3, 2008 at 12:20 PM

“If you haven’t seen combat, you aren’t fit to be President.”

tommylotto on April 3, 2008 at 12:21 PM

i liked it.

trailortrash on April 3, 2008 at 12:25 PM

I’m thinking that these ads are initially for the Internet, where they’re semi-free to run, and where the campaign can see if any of them become especially popular. If that happens, then the ad (or an abbreviated version of it) can be run on TV. The Internet lets the campaigns throw everything at the wall and see what sticks, without focus groups. Am I right or wrong to think that’s what’s happening?

calbear on April 3, 2008 at 12:35 PM

“If you haven’t seen combat, you aren’t fit to be President.”

tommylotto on April 3, 2008 at 12:21 PM

Did Reagan say that?

right2bright on April 3, 2008 at 12:51 PM

My husband graduated from USAFA
funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 12:07 PM

Please give your husband my heartfelt thanks for his service to our country.

Red Pill on April 3, 2008 at 12:52 PM

Cheesy?

Why return to the Air Force Academy after Winter Break?

So after our sunburns have faded and the memories of our winter break have been reduced to pictures we’ve pinned on our desk boards, and once again we ve exchanged T-shirts and swim suits for flight suits and camouflage, there still remains the question that every cadet at U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has asked themselves at some point: Why did we come back? Why, after spending two weeks with our family would we return to one of the most demanding lifestyles in the country? After listening to our ‘friends’ who are home from State or Ivy League schools chock full of wisdom about how our war in Iraq is unjust and unworldly, why would we return? And after watching the news and reading the papers which only seem to condemn the military’s every mistake and shadow every victory, why would we continue to think it is worth the sacrifice of a normal college life?

Is it because the institution to which we belong is tuition- free? Anyone who claims this has forgotten that we will, by the time we graduate, repay the US taxpayer many times over in blood, sweat, and tears. Is it because the schooling we are receiving is one of the best undergraduate educations in the country? While the quality of the education is second to none, anyone who provides this as a main reason has lost sight of the awesome responsibility that awaits those who are tough enough to graduate and become commissioned officers in the U.S. Air Force.

I come back to the Academy because I want to have the training necessary so that one day I’ll have the incredible responsibility of leading the sons and daughters of America in combat. These men and women will never ask about my Academy grade point average, their only concern will be that I have the ability to lead them expertly; I will be humbled to earn their respect. I come back to the Academy because I want to be the commander who saves lives by negotiating with Arab leaders… in their own language.

I come back to the Academy because, if called upon, I want to be the pilot who flies half way around the world with three mid-air refuelings to send a bomb from 30,000 feet into a basement housing the enemy… through a ventilation shaft two feet wide. Becoming an officer in today’s modern Air Force is so much more than just command; it is being a diplomat, a strategist, a communicator, a moral compass, but always a warrior first.

I come back to the Air Force Academy because, right now, the United States is fighting a global war that is an ‘away game’ in Iraq – taking the fight to the terrorists.

Whether or not we think the terrorists were in Iraq before our invasion, they are unquestionably there now. And if there is any doubt as to whether this is a global war, just ask the people in Amman , in London , in Madrid , in Casablanca , in Riyadh and in Bali.

This war must remain an away game because we have seen what happens when it becomes a home game … I come back to the Academy because I want to be a part of that fight.

I come back to the Academy because I don’t want my vacationing family to board a bus in Paris that gets blown away by someone who thinks that it would be a good idea to convert the Western world to Islam.

I come back to the Academy because I don’t want the woman I love to be the one who dials her last frantic cell phone call while huddled in the back of an airliner with a hundred other people seconds away from slamming into the Capitol building.

I come back to the Academy because during my freshman year of high school I sat in a geometry class and watched nineteen terrorists change the course of history live on television. For the first time, every class currently at a U S. Service Academy made the decision to join after the 2001 terror attacks.

Some have said that the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan only created more terrorists … I say that the attacks of September 11th, 2001 created an untold more number of American soldiers; I go to school with 4,000 of them. And that’s worth more than missing a few frat parties.

Joseph R. Tomczak Cadet, Fourth Class United States Air Force Academy

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 12:53 PM

He survived being a prisoner of war, but will he be able to save this country from the current invasion? I’m with saiga on this issue, but I’ll vote for McCain (with trembling hand) because he’s better than the other two Marxists.

Christine on April 3, 2008 at 1:03 PM

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 12:53 PM

Hey – where’d you get that? Gotta link?

I want it. It’s awesome.

Thanks in advance.

Professor Blather on April 3, 2008 at 1:07 PM

::::pssssst!
Rambo: use of military imagery to get one’s point across
McCain: use of military imagery to get one’s point across

Dave Rywall on April 3, 2008 at 12:02 PM

Rambo was imagery and imaginary. McCain’s military service isn’t either.

Sounds like you’re envious. Man up.

baldilocks on April 3, 2008 at 1:11 PM

Professor Blather–my mom sent it in an email. I checked Snopes, and no mention of it at all, which hopefully means it’s not urban legend.

I didn’t think to google the cadet’s name though.

But it fits perfectly with the way my husband and his academy friends believe, so it fits.

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 1:17 PM

Duty, honor, country, integrity, sacrifice, honesty, perseverance, etc.

What is McCain runing for?

President of the United States or Boy Scout of the year?

MB4 on April 3, 2008 at 1:27 PM

This ad is just plain bad.

Does Mccain even have a youtube account?

ObamaX speeches and ads are up on youtube immediately.

faraway on April 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM

I say that the attacks of September 11th, 2001 created an untold more number of American soldiers; I go to school with 4,000 of them. And that’s worth more than missing a few frat parties.

Joseph R. Tomczak Cadet, Fourth Class United States Air Force Academy
funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 12:53 PM

Huh?

So soldiers are now going to the Air Force Academy?

Stange.

MB4 on April 3, 2008 at 1:33 PM

Then, snap! I was back at the wheel, and it was still 2008. Heaven protects day-dreaming pundits. Headlights showed my garage door going up. My party might still avert self-destruction.
John Andrews (andrewsjk@aol.com) is a fellow with the Claremont Institute and a past president of the Colorado Senate. He hosts “Backbone Radio” on Sundays at 5 p.m. on 710-KNUS. His column appears twice a month.

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_8267269

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 10:43 AM

Funky, the problem with McCain is he doesn’t give us much beyond his military record. It gets my attention, but without more it doesn’t close the deal. The parade of horribles you post from John Andrews is not only unoriginal but ineffective (”DeGette’s embryonic stem-cell bill” er, a, McCain supports embryonic stem cell research). Conservatives aren’t closing ranks around McCain. I respect McCain’s service (as conservatives respect John Kerry’s service), but I don’t like John McCain, the man, and I detest his unprincipled opportunism as a politician.

McCain’s handlers are smart to emphasize McCain’s service record to the exclusion of any substantive discussion of the issues, but after the eighth or ninth ad emphasizing his military service, I wonder if I’m watching the 2004 DNC Convention: “John McCain, reporting for duty.”

Angry Dumbo on April 3, 2008 at 1:34 PM

Good article about McCain and his 7 children:
funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 12:00 PM

That article includes the following quote:

McCain’s adopted daughter, Bridget, 16, who became a target of dirty campaigning in the 2000 presidential race, when she was portrayed as the child of an illicit union.

That’s the first I had ever heard of that, but there’s an easy way to find out if that story was “dirty campaigning” or the truth…was a paternity test ever done?

A very good friend of mine is a Vietnam Veteran who has donated large amounts of his money and time to the POW-MIA effort ever since he returned from Vietnam. He says that John Kerry and John McCain, who chaired the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, were adversarial to the veterans and families of POWs. He also claims that McCain fathered two children with a Vietnamese nurse while McCain was a POW. I do not have any proof to offer you, but if that claim is true then it could very well also be true that Bridget is McCain’s biological daughter. That would be easy to either confirm or repudiate with a paternity test, but I doubt McCain would allow that. He also doesn’t allow reporters to talk to Bridget.

I respect the service of all military personnel.

I also think it is the responsibility of “We the People” to vet anyone who wants to be their commander-in-chief. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged us to judge people by the content of their character. That is what I am doing, and I personally find the character of all three current Presidential candidates (McCain, Clinton, Obama) to be sorely lacking. We all seem to agree that Clinton and Obama have been caught in some pretty big and fairly frequent lies. What if McCain isn’t any better and is just as much of a liar and a Socialist as they are?

It appears that McCain began his affair with Cindy before he divorced his first wife.

McCain flew alone with Vicki Iseman on Paxon’s jet.

McCain has a long history of being rebellious…from his childhood to present day. His quote regarding his acamedy days:

I wanted the lords of the first and second class to know my compliance was grudging and in no way implied respect for them.

could easily apply to his Senate record:

I wanted the lords of the first and second class Republican Party to know my compliance was grudging and in no way implied respect for them.

Red Pill on April 3, 2008 at 1:41 PM

McCain’s handlers are smart to emphasize McCain’s service record to the exclusion of any substantive discussion of the issues, but after the eighth or ninth ad emphasizing his military service, I wonder if I’m watching the 2004 DNC Convention: “John McCain, reporting for duty.”

Angry Dumbo on April 3, 2008 at 1:34 PM

If military record is the be-all-and-end-all, let the Republican convention nominate Tommy Franks, even though he didn’t graduate from any elite military academy.

MB4 on April 3, 2008 at 1:41 PM

I wanted the lords of the first and second class to know my compliance was grudging and in no way implied respect for them.

I wonder if when McVain was second or first class he expected the lower class to treat him without any respect.

Old Army saying, “If you can’t follow, you can’t lead.

MB4 on April 3, 2008 at 1:46 PM

I relied on him to keep us safe from the illegal immigrant invasion. He failed and let me down big time. So don’t give me that BS.

saiga on April 3, 2008 at 10:06 AM

Amen to that!

Livefreeordie on April 3, 2008 at 1:49 PM

If you can’t follow, you can’t lead.

MB4 on April 3, 2008 at 1:46 PM

True.

Red Pill on April 3, 2008 at 1:49 PM

The stated out with a slam, “fifth from the bottom”, not wanting to know, or admit, that the fifth from the bottom of any military academy means probably fifth from the top of any other university.

right2bright on April 3, 2008 at 10:16 AM

Not at all.

MB4 on April 3, 2008 at 1:50 PM

eh… i wasnt a big fan of this

Drunk Report on April 3, 2008 at 1:56 PM

Bridget McCain is 16. Cindy McCain brought her back from Bangladesh so she could get surgery.

I’m not sure how John McCain’s sperm lasted from 1973 to 1991 or 2, and crossed international borders to impregnate somebody, but if so, he’s a real studmuffin.

I posted extensive refutations of that other crap you said about McCain previously Red Pill. That you choose to still believe it and proudly post it shows you to be a real lunatic, or a very nasty person.

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 2:01 PM

I’m not sure how John McCain’s sperm lasted from 1973 to 1991 or 2, and crossed international borders to impregnate somebody, but if so, he’s a real studmuffin.

Well I dunno, Benidict Arnold’s sperm lasted long enough to sire John Kerry.

I posted extensive refutations of that other crap you said about McCain previously Red Pill. That you choose to still believe it and proudly post it shows you to be a real lunatic, or a very nasty person.

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 2:01 PM

You don’t remember that quote of Millelle Malkin’s about that kind of response do you?

MB4 on April 3, 2008 at 2:07 PM

That ad was moving. You’re right that the rhetoric was a bit over done in some places- but the message was powerful. It’s like eating a turkey dinner after all the empty calories of the Obama campaign.

This ad is not like other campaign ads. It’s not about rallying an already defined group to vote for you. Nor is it an argumentative ad designed to directly convince you of a position.

It’s supposed to make people think- particularly about war, what war is, and hopefully recall to people’s minds the old patriotism that sustains us when involved in a difficult war.

McCain is going to try and convince the American people to fully support the war in Iraq. This is probably a decent opening for such a tactic.

Sackett on April 3, 2008 at 2:08 PM

I relied on him to keep us safe from the illegal immigrant invasion. He failed and let me down big time. So don’t give me that BS.

saiga on April 3, 2008 at 10:06 AM

Amen to that!

Livefreeordie on April 3, 2008 at 1:49 PM

I second that.

Amnesty for millions of low-paid workers is part of the published Program of the Communist Party USA.

Marxism/Socialism is alive and well in this country. Any conservative who has sent a child off to college knows that.

Are you aware that the Communist Party is alive and well in the USA? They don’t run candidates on a “Communist Party” ticket because they don’t have to. They now control the overwhelming majority of the Democrat party.

Sidebar: when you hear them say “Democratic” party instead of “Democrat” party, there is a reason…they consider themselves “Democratic Socialists”. Also, it’s a giveaway when they say that our country is a “Democracy”. It’s not. We live in a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. But they “Hope” to “Change” that with this election and replace our constitution with this constitution.

There are exceptions to this rule but they are few and far between…people like Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman. And the rest of the Democratic Socialists despise them.

What’s sad is that the “Democratic Socialists” have also made inroads into the Republican party. If you have eyes to see, it’s not difficult to see that “Maverick” is one of them. Read and understand the Marxist/Communist/Socialist’s game plan (The Road to Socialism USA), and then look at what McCain has done and said as a Senator. Amnesty for millions of low-paid workers is part of their game plan.

In my opinion, any elected official who cares about our national security should have started advocating stronger border security on September 12, 2001. Any elected official who opposed stronger border security, who pushes for open borders and amnesty rather than for secure borders and respect for the rule of law, doesn’t deserve my trust.

Red Pill on April 3, 2008 at 2:16 PM

Any elected official who opposed stronger border security, who pushes for open borders and amnesty rather than for secure borders and respect for the rule of law, doesn’t deserve my trust.

Red Pill on April 3, 2008 at 2:16 PM

If you go around repeating vicious rumors that you know to be completely implausible, do you deserve our trust?

tommylotto on April 3, 2008 at 2:30 PM

funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 2:01 PM

You are misreading what I posted. I never claimed Bridget was conceived while McCain was in Vietnam. My point is that if the story is true of McCain fathering two children in Vietnam is true, then it could also be true that he could father other children out of wedlock. Whether or not Bridget is one of them would be easy to confirm or repudiate with a paternity test. McCain is under no obligation to do so, but in my opinion it appears that McCain has a pattern of infidelity. My intent is to ensure that we vet our next commander-in-chief…the man or woman who will have a direct impact on the lives of many people you know who fight valiantly for our country.

I respect your first amendment right to call me “a real lunatic, or a very nasty person”. I think I have been kind to you, and I choose to continue to be kind to you.

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you
Matthew 5:44 (New King James Version)

Red Pill on April 3, 2008 at 2:30 PM

zzz

corona on April 3, 2008 at 2:32 PM

Duty, honor, country, integrity, sacrifice, honesty, perseverance, etc.

If John McCain truly stands for these things, why is he afraid to do a 1-on-1 interview with Michelle Malkin?

Where is his courage?

Red Pill on April 3, 2008 at 2:54 PM

Oh for chrissake, funky chicken – I said the ad is cheesy, not the military. Apparently you can’t tell the difference. The voiceover is so overwritten and so over the top the knuckle dragging masses will tune out after the first bombastic 30 seconds. Those who stick around will fall by the comprehension wayside. But wait – there are a few monosyllabic supers thrown in at the end to sum things up like a lame powerpoint presentation. Awesome.

And I never said I was an expert on the military. But I do know cheesy production values, bad editing and a dorky script when I see it. Some people will love this ad. Some people will find it a huge stinky cheesefest. I’m the latter.

Dave Rywall on April 3, 2008 at 3:02 PM

A bit high brow, but I think it accomplishes what they intended.

It’s never gonna run as a TV ad, but it will get lots of www coverage and some TV.

cheap and a solid hit

I’d like to see them use some Forrestal fire footage

the drill sgt on April 3, 2008 at 3:16 PM

I’d like to see them use some Forrestal fire footage

the drill sgt on April 3, 2008 at 3:16 PM

I second that.

Red Pill on April 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM

…maybe if they just used the last minute.

…maybe if they gave viewers a sense of “looking forward” and “acting for the future.”

Three minutes? He has this much money to throw around?!

Short. Punchy. He can do it, he has done such ads.

Just one suggestion: get rid of the morons who put these together; it’s deadly (…personally it also evokes “in memoriam” feelings…NOT what you want to persuade you to vote for a presidential candidate).

Lockstein13 on April 3, 2008 at 5:50 PM

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