New McCain ad: Obama didn’t visit the troops in Germany because he couldn’t bring cameras
posted at 5:48 pm on July 26, 2008 by Allahpundit
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This is a sequel to the attack ad McCain dropped on him at the beginning of his trip, retaining some of the same points about Obama’s NATO subcommittee and his having steered clear of Iraq for almost three years. It’s also a sequel of sorts to the “Pump” ad from a few days ago suggesting that Obama uniquely was somehow to blame for soaring gas prices; anyone who believes that will, I guess, also believe that he’d torpedo a visit to see wounded troops because there’d be no flashbulbs popping in his face. Not only does that not fit the facts — he left his pool reporters outside when he visited Walter Reed a few weeks ago, and as I noted last night, his spokesman says the plan at Landstuhl was to keep the press on the plane — but even under the worst assumptions, it makes no sense. If you think (and I do not) that Obama’s a sociopath who sees wounded soldiers as nothing but political chips to be played in an election card game, surely we can agree that he’s nevertheless savvy enough to grasp how horribly bad it would look to have photographers with him on a hospital visit in the middle of a campaign. If there were pictures on the wires of him shaking hands with bedridden vets while media vultures crowded around for close-ups, conservatives would have ripped him for it properly and mercilessly and he knows it. Why not stick with the “he went to the gym but not the hospital” point, which is at least factually correct? Why go here?
Update: Here’s the way the ad should have played it:
“If I had been told by the Pentagon that I couldn’t visit those troops, and I was there and wanted to be there, I guarantee you, there would have been a seismic event,” McCain told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview to air Sunday on “This Week”…
McCain questioned his rival’s justification: “I know of no Pentagon regulation that would have prevented him from going there — without the media and the press and all of the associated people. Nothing that I know of would have kept him from visiting those wounded troops.”
“All of the associated people” meaning Ret. Gen. Gration, specifically. Obama still has yet to explain why he didn’t just leave him behind.
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The DNC sure as hell will.
fiatboomer on July 26, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Did he get permission for the background music for this one?
muyoso on July 26, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Works for me :) Who’s going to call him on it? The same slackjaw, thrill up the leg media? Who believes them?
BJ* on July 26, 2008 at 5:55 PM
i like it. the only thing i would add is the following; barrack is a muslim name so therefore he is muslim, barry hates america, his wife hates america, barry hates religious people with guns, etc.
custer on July 26, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Obama NO PAID Campaign STAFF or adoring Media LEFT BEHIND..
Chakra Hammer on July 26, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Yeah, it’s good to mention issues like this. But I think it would be better to explain to the American people why Obama’s political philsophy is dangerous, and how it runs counter to American traditions of limited government and natural rights. That’s harder to do, but I can’t help but feel that we win little converts by talking instead of every little issue, rather than attacking the whole philosophy.
kc8ukw on July 26, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Oh jeez. “John McCain is always there for our troops” just sounded really lame in that ad, tacked on there like that.
warrenmr on July 26, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Obama… wrong about the Surge… wrong about Energy…. wrong about Iran… he’s so wrong on so many things, just what is Obama ever right about? Well, maybe just one thing… when he speaks… it’s [CUE tape clip of Barry saying:] “Just words?”
We need a leader, not a speaker.
VOTE McCain 2008.
profitsbeard on July 26, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Ever see such an Empty-suited, light-resume, hollow-rhetoric, Fraud for President, that a single, solitary Dog&Pony Show Lovefest trip to Anti-Ameican Europe and a quick viist to Iraq & Afghanistan, where he’s had responsibilites for 4 years related to his job in the Senate, yet could not manage to vist before, gaff-off-the wound-troops, while being drooled over by the sychophantic Mainstream Media, is actually considered a “BOOST” to his “foreign policy credentials”??
Un-freaking-believeable!
Dale in Atlanta on July 26, 2008 at 6:02 PM
I don’t know. I got the distinct impression that Obama skipped the soldiers because they did not fit the itinerary. I don’t think he is a sociopath, I just think he did not think about how it would look. Too busy being idolized.
Terrye on July 26, 2008 at 6:06 PM
“If you think (and I do not) that Obama’s a sociopath who sees wounded soldiers as nothing but political chips to be played in an election card game, surely we can agree that he’s nevertheless savvy enough to grasp how horribly bad it would look to have photographers with him on a hospital visit in the middle of a campaign.”
Um..no, I think it’s fine…We don’t know why Obama really didn’t go, but his explainations are really poor…So McCain is hypothesizing the motives and may be right. I see nothing wrong with it because it at least fits the image of Obama that is clearly emerging…and I don’t know if he’s a sociopath, but I don’t think he gives much thought to the troops at all, based on use of military funding as a political football.
AUINSC on July 26, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Obama - 99
John “Fudge Haus” McCain - 1
Hello, landslide.
alphie on July 26, 2008 at 6:07 PM
McCain’s campaign is finally showing some life.
GogglesPisano on July 26, 2008 at 6:10 PM
This is very smart. Its purposefully provocative to force the MSM to talk about it. They’ll attack it but that just means people will hear about it. Very smart.
D0WNT0WN on July 26, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Hey quit defending Obama…he was out saying McCain is changing his position and he was right about the war.
tomas on July 26, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Let me ammend what I said…I think there’s more here and his very poor explaination left a big door open for McCain…Didn’t he say the main reason he didn’t go was because he thought there would be a media circus while the doctors were trying to treat the wounded…huh?!?
AUINSC on July 26, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Obama’s people said that the purpose of his visit (before he cancelled it) was to thank the troops — an act that required neither media nor military advisers. Obama’s excuses don’t pass the smell test.
BTW, if Obama wanted to keep his visit to Walter Reed secret, then why does he keep mentioning it to the media?
AZCoyote on July 26, 2008 at 6:12 PM
I think that if McCain had not called Obama on this a lot of people on the right would have said he was too soft, too unwilling to fight dirty, etc.
That is the problem with negative ads. They are usually not entirely fair, but they work. In this instance however, Obama could have just gone over and said hello to some soldiers and spared himself the problem.
Terrye on July 26, 2008 at 6:12 PM
alphie at 6:07 PM-
Obama wants to be President for himself.
(”Historical”, “black”, “we are the ones…”, “now is our time…” et al.)
McCain wants it for the country.
Choose stupidly.
As you must.
profitsbeard on July 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Although off topic, Texas Darlin has has an update (Part II) called: Divided Loyalties, Obama’s Eligibility Problem, PART 2 on Obama’s dual citizenship. This is a must read for anyone believing the Obama is not eligible to become our next president.
luckybogey on July 26, 2008 at 6:14 PM
It’s about time McVain showed some testes.
madmonkphotog on July 26, 2008 at 6:15 PM
I like the ad…..and I also wonder why he didn’t let that General behind also. He hasn’t given a good explanation for that at all.
I saw a Fox poll that 63% feel his trip didn’t help him at all. Plus, many, many people feel he is too arrogant and they are turned off by it. That may well be his undoing.
becki51758 on July 26, 2008 at 6:16 PM
I don’t know if Obama is a sociopath, Mr. Pundit, but he is an arrogant narcissistic liar–as well as a proven Serial Fraud who is certainly capable of thinking of wounded American military personnel as pawns.
He has a Nixonian non-conscience and a Clintonesque amorality that you might be ambiguous about, but I’m not
Janos Hunyadi on July 26, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Because Obama really doesn’t know how to talk to the troops, especially wounded ones, without his military advisor to give him cues on what to say.
Obama can’t imagine why people would be willing to be wounded, maimed or killed for a country his wife was never proud of until now.
And he might have been afraid of troops confronting him on saying the surge would fail. His advisor would step in with cues.
Wethal on July 26, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Please, Allah.
All BO had to do was fulfill his itinerary. He didn’t do it and there’s no excuse for his failure to have a personal visit with the wounded.
Forget sincerity. The political advantages of just showing up were enormous.
No wonder the Clintons were flummoxed.
Randy
williars on July 26, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Hooray for manufactured controversies about things that don’t really matter in the long run!!
AJB on July 26, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Because “his Expectancy” wouldn’t know what to do, to say, what the protocol is, and wouldn’t have gravitas sin the generals who cling to his crotch.
profitsbeard, do not worry about alphie. He will be my client.
Entelechy on July 26, 2008 at 6:33 PM
I dunno. Maybe I’m missing something here and keeping in mind, of course, that I am not a brilliant high paid strategist like those working for the McCain campaign, but is it really all that super wise for McCain to be talking about all the things that would cause him to go seismic?
The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine
- Senator Thad Cochran, Republican, Mississippi
I decided I didn’t want this guy anywhere near a trigger.
- Senator Pete Domenici, Republican, New Mexico
MB4 on July 26, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Sorry AP, this is big league politics. Those epitomes of restraint on the other side certainly would have no problem running an ad similar. One thing I would have added is the townhall meeting at Ft Hood that Barry O is ignoring.
I would make it seem that Barack only does something when challenged by McCain. I would make it real clear who was in charge and who was just a piece of string fluttering in the breeze.
I would show Barack responding to not only my challenges but those of Chris Wallace at Fox News and from groups on the left. The tag line. Obama is a follower not a leader.
Hit him, hit him hard, hit him again.
Just A Grunt on July 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM
McCain is damned if does, and damned if he doesn’t. I’m just glad he’s “attacking” Obamuh on several fronts.
SouthernGent on July 26, 2008 at 6:42 PM
Wouldn’t it have been enough to have the press camped outside regardless? Pinning over how empathetic & altruistic Obama is, speculating with honey dripped lips over what was going on inside, what he was saying, how he was healing people by his very presence? Ready the very moment he reappeared to ‘walk with him’ cameras rolling the way Brian Williams was, on the scene and lobbing Obama softballs within 8 seconds of stepping down from the podium of light in Germany?
It seems to me either way you slice this, the primary factor was how it would look as opposed to your Military & associated veterans & staff at hospitals.
saus on July 26, 2008 at 6:44 PM
MB4 do you work for the Obama camp? If not, they should pay you.
Entelechy on July 26, 2008 at 6:45 PM
alphie on July 26, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Geez; a gambler would bet on the odds that one (just one) of your comments actually had a twinge of intellect contained within. That gambler would have lost good money and would still be scratching his/her head wondering how this could be possible.
Obama is a rookie politician, and a big fat lier to boot. Simple enough for you Libs; the guy is 8-12 years away from having the experience needed for the position of potus. This has nothing to do with the color of his skin, nothing to do with his religion of choice; this has to do with qualifications and experience.
Keemo on July 26, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Doctor Jones: This guy may not be dead after all.
Doctor Smith: Are you sure? He sure looks like a corpse to me.
Doctor Jones: Well I certainly can’t argue with you there Doctor Smith, but I think that I may be detecting a faint pulse so I think that we better do an IV surge of Epinephrine.
MB4 on July 26, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Maybe McCain sees things differently, his son is after all serving his country, a Marine. Obama doesn’t have a son or served himself in any Military Service. He doesn’t get that Marines, Soldiers, Airman, Sailors, are not photo props. Come to think of it, how would that look in contrast, Obama standing healthy, next to a wounded troop? I don’t think Obama wanted to have his photo taken with someone who made the Surge Work, and paid for it too.
http://forums.grunt.com/forums/p/44143/351672.aspx
Dr Evil on July 26, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Obama was afraid that the media would start to turn on him a little bit again, like when that person in the media back here in the states called the coverage out of Iraq “Fake News”
Chakra Hammer on July 26, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Like Ed Morrisey, for example?
This makes the decision track very clear. Obama and his team set up the visits to military installations before going overseas. After seeing how the media got excluded in Iraq and Afghanistan, they decided it wasn’t worth traveling to Ramstein and Landstuhl to visit the severely wounded troops because they couldn’t bring the campaign and get the photo ops they wanted. Instead, Obama went shopping in Berlin.
As I wrote yesterday, that’s certainly a revealing set of priorities for a man who wants to lead these troops as Commander in Chief.
Which is not to say I agree with or like the ad. You want an attack ad, jeez, Obama’s own words provide ample fodder for as many as are needed between. Just keep showing video clips and quotes of what Obama himself said and let the proles figure it out. They will, eventually, if McCain isn’t a total idiot. (Which is clearly too much to ask of any pol…)
Laura on July 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Oops, forgot to blockquote Ed’s quote, but all that link is a quote from another Hot Air post.
Laura on July 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM
May others plan their future, some are too busy lovin’ McCain (1-2-3-4)
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
And don’t worry ’bout tomorrow, hey, hey, hey
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
Live for today
MB4 on July 26, 2008 at 7:01 PM
Obama cannot function without his handlers to feed him cues or to keep away troublesome people, and he cannot function without his teleprompter with his canned speech.
This would have been a solo, unscripted performance. The lightworker would have crashed to earth.
Wethal on July 26, 2008 at 7:01 PM
No. I am just evil and in league with Satin.
MB4 on July 26, 2008 at 7:02 PM
WHAT A POS. So it’s always been about cameras, and not really about shaking the hands of our military heroes…who’d thunk!
byteshredder on July 26, 2008 at 7:05 PM
What is that, some kind of club for people with fancy sheets? ;-p
Laura on July 26, 2008 at 7:09 PM
“some men aren’t looking for anything logical. Some men just want to see the world burn.”
wise_man on July 26, 2008 at 7:09 PM
Or the republican party. Which ever comes first.
wise_man on July 26, 2008 at 7:10 PM
I had a professor who admitted to being a Satin Worshiper.
Turns out he was just a devoted cross dresser.
Beto Ochoa on July 26, 2008 at 7:16 PM
I dare not say my masters true name.
MB4 on July 26, 2008 at 7:18 PM
It’s okay, Ron Paul says it’s all right.
wise_man on July 26, 2008 at 7:20 PM
100% agreed. Hillary learned that the way you beat Obama is to paint him as an opportunistic elitist and attack, attack, attack! Obama’s got a glass jaw and can’t answer for his actions — hence why he did so poorly in Henner’s interview earlier today. SO HIT HIM!!!
Outlander on July 26, 2008 at 7:20 PM
All things should be seen exactly as they are without sentiment.
Some like it hot and some sweat
When the heat is on
Some feel the heat and decide that
They can´t go on
Some like it hot, but you can´t tell how hot
Til you try
Some like it hot, so let´s turn up the heat
Til “wise_man” fries
MB4 on July 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Honey?
Beto Ochoa on July 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM
The problem with the “Obama is a follower, not a leader” angle is that McCain was late to the party on recommending more troops in Afghanistan and is trying to co-opt Obama’s 16 month withdrawal plan from Iraq. Thus, if McCain does the “I’m a leader,” Obama is going to clobber him on Iraq and Afghanistan.
Outlander on July 26, 2008 at 7:23 PM
You’re in league with a stripper?
AZCoyote on July 26, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Just for the record,
Strippers are no longer stage named “Satin”
The Top Ten:
Candi
Bambi
Crystal
Tiffany
Brandy
Destiny
Ginger
Lola
Angel
Star
Satin isn’t even in the top 100
Unless she’s over 50
Beto Ochoa on July 26, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Do any of MB4’s comments ever have any value at all?
Buford Gooch on July 26, 2008 at 7:34 PM
He’s in love with a really old stripper?
AZCoyote on July 26, 2008 at 7:36 PM
Ignoring the troops because he couldnt get a photo op is gonna hurt Hussein and he knows it.
dogsoldier on July 26, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Oh, how the mighty have fallen! sniff, sob
Beto Ochoa on July 26, 2008 at 7:39 PM
The spin he put on this act today seemed to have the news anchor snorting at it as well.
Then the next story, they’re saying bailing out these homeowners in default is good because it will stabilize values and our taxes will go up. I kid you not.
Beto Ochoa on July 26, 2008 at 7:43 PM
Thus, if McCain does the “I’m a leader,” Obama is going to clobber him on Iraq and Afghanistan.
Outlander on July 26, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Obama and the word “clobber” just doesn’t work together; esp. when referencing anything having to do with war & military. Obama has been wrong on Iraq and Afghanistan 100% of the time. McCain has gotten the “war on terror” right from the very start. There is much I don’t agree with McCain on, but when it comes to the war on terror, I agree with McCain 100%…
Keemo on July 26, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Close.
MB4 on July 26, 2008 at 7:50 PM
I hope some McCain media people read the blogs. That is an ad that must be made. Bravo to you!
TheBigOldDog on July 26, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Everything has a morale, if only you can find it.
BTW, this comment of yours is an exception.
MB4 on July 26, 2008 at 7:54 PM
If the Obumbler was as savvy as he thinks he is he would have arranged military transportation and sneaked out of the Ritz-Carlton for the visit. Hr already knew he was taking flack for the decision that afternoon and he clearly had nothing to do that night. His whole line of BS about not wanting the troops caught in the middle of the campaign stuff would actually be believable then.
RW_theoriginal on July 26, 2008 at 7:54 PM
I like the new slogan…’COUNTRY FIRST”. I think that is where they want to head, and I like it…cus they want to show that Obama cares more about himself, and his ambitions than the country.
I like it.
Chudi on July 26, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Some of you guys sure seem to know a lot about strippers. Probably more than you should.
MB4 on July 26, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Hey Allah, all you fair mindeness is going to get you a better room at the re-education camp! Sociopath? Just words:
* Speeches in stadiums filled with mesmerized, adoring audiences - Check
* An uninspiring background before meteoric rise - Check
* Creates his own new symbols of power - Check
* Associates with racists, hatemongers and violent radicals - Check
* A propaganda machine willing to show him only in the best possible light - Check
* Uses, “glorious leader” style Agitprop posters common in totalitarian nations - Check (see German campaign poster for example)
* Wants Secret Police force - Check
* Somebody powerful people think they can control - Check
* Often dismissed as a light-weight by his opponents - Check
* Seeks to replace God with the State - Check
* People adopting his name as their own - Check
* Inspires adoration art - Check
* Appropriates symbols of past German glory - Check
* Never plans on giving up power - Check (Obama to be president for the next “eight to 10 years”)
* A narcissistic megalomaniac - Check
* Brazenly Takes credit for other people’s accomplishments - Check
* Wants to build “youth” movement through State service - Check
* Acts as if in power before he is - Check
* Some followers believe him to be divine - Check
* Worshiped and aided greatly by the media - Check
TheBigOldDog on July 26, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Moving up to now ahead by 7 in Gallup Tracking - Check
Moving up to now ahead by 6 in Rasmussen Tracking - Check
Looking at the forest instead of the trees - Check
Checkmate - Check
MB4 on July 26, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Chris “tingly leg” Matthews, Matt Drudge and Judith Whatsername from BILD are members of the club….
MrScribbler on July 26, 2008 at 8:10 PM
MrScribbler on July 26, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Agreed… What the hell happened to Matt Drudge? Must be drinking from the Soros funded koolaid bowl.
Keemo on July 26, 2008 at 8:19 PM
One of these days, soon I hope.. (for our country’s sake) we’ll all know what McCain means by the line “Country First”.
I can’t wait
http://www.countryaboveself.com
http://www.countrubeforeself.com
ilitigant on July 26, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Typical White Grandma Dunham
Jeremiah Wright
baldilocks on July 26, 2008 at 8:26 PM
Talkingpointsmemo has this up and its ‘disgusting’ (they say). You see, the Pentagon didn’t tell Obamie he couldn’t bring his campaign staff with him “until he had already embarked on his trip.” You see, Obamie is not at fault for being a Traitor. He just is.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/mccain_ad_obama_isnt_there_for.php
ilitigant on July 26, 2008 at 8:26 PM
Slain.
baldilocks on July 26, 2008 at 8:34 PM
I think he, and a few of us other ‘MDS’ people…. and for certain, me,…. are just trying, in our own little ways, to get the nation to prepare themselves for disaster no matter which of these arrogant idiots gets elected.
Enough of the HotAir ‘peanut gallery’ (No it isn’t the insult that several people accused me of making last time I used the term here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_gallery ) is smart enough to understand how bad commie-Obama sucks, but not enough people grasp the HUGE potential danger that McCain represents on most of the things a President has to deal with.
Think of us as they guy on the street with the ‘REPENT: The End is Near’ signs. The difference is that we aren’t the slightly insane religious zealots…. We just understand the guy better than most, and want the rest of our peers… the common people… to take off their rose colored McCain goggles and prepare for a future that is likely to be bleak, at best.
Pure blind luck would be the only determining factor as to whether Obama or McCain will go down in history as the worst, and most dangerous President in History.
I’ll guarantee you that either way, in a year from now, we all (Dem., Rep., Indep., all..) will be longing for the ‘good old days’ of 2007, and wish that Bush could have declared himself President for life, rather than allowing us fools to select from these two to replace him.
LegendHasIt on July 26, 2008 at 8:39 PM
ehhhh….no credit for the phone call afterwards?
Ropera on July 26, 2008 at 8:40 PM
I see your point, LegendHasIt, but a presidential election is almost always a choice between Bad and Worse ( 1980 was a choice between Great and Inept, but those are rare )
2008 is a choice between Bad and Much, Much Worse
We get to choose between MsCain and Obama–that’s All She Wrote. Under McCain, there is a chance to avoid a lot things–Bad Things–that could not be avoided under the Messiah
maybe, there will even be chances for Good to be accomplished; maybe not
McCain ain’t much, but complaining about him ( and not voting for him ) will only makes everything worse
Bad and Much, Much Worse…….
Janos Hunyadi on July 26, 2008 at 8:54 PM
Couldn’t he have just “breezed” in and out? Then explain why it was cut short instead of just abandoning the whole plan? Seems to me that some way to accomodate this visit could have been worked out rather than just a phone call. The thing is very odd, but(much as I do not like Obama)I do not think he did it for ego reasons. He is too saavy politically for that.
jeanie on July 26, 2008 at 8:58 PM
I’m voting for Obama. I want history to record that I went with the choice of a winner, a saviour of mankind, one who stopped the oceans from rising.
I also yearn for my taxes to go up substantially because I feel guilty for earning so much money, so easily, and for not allowing my leaders to redistribute it to the poor of the U.S. and the world, at their will.
Further, I look forward to at least 3 SCOTUS judges, of either side, to retire, or die, during the next 8 Obama years, and for him to replace them with anyone he chooses. I wish to be on that side of history, for the sake of absolute justice for all, especially for the poor criminals, gang members, illegal immigrant criminals, who’re discriminated against the most. Also, more domains, in fact any which will benefit the government, should be paif for cheaply, and converted for the good of the many.
Also, it’s high time that all troops come home, including from Germany, South Korea, and Japan. We’ll put them to work at raising barriers, to keep the oceans from flooding all of us. Al Gore will be in charge of this project. All terrorist activities should be handled as criminal cases, on a one by one, in our U.S. courts, or in the world courts.
I also favor all decisions pertaining to wars, of any kind, no matter how many attacks on our country, to be made by the U.N. In fact, I favor all U.S. foreign policy henceforth to be transferred to the U.N. The rest of the world will love us for it, and it’s high time that we show cooperation with the rest of humankind.
Enough of this American individualism and looking out for the best of the U.S. Too much freedom and liberties are not good and lead to wealth, arrogance, and dominance. Cooperation among all nations, on any international topics is in order and Obama is right. Our time has come. By “our” I mean us, the citizen of the world.
I look forward to working less, to cheat more on the effort and the hours, in other words to just go with the socialist flow. I hear socialsm offers a worker’s paradise and I look forward to live that easier life.
All energy sources should be nationalized. Enough of the rich magnats, the billionaire bastards who run the energy corporations, while we have to pay over $4.00/gallon of gas. Lock them up and take all their resources. Let the Obama Department of Energy take a lesson from the great Hugo Chavez. He’s lifting every Venezuelan from poverty and it is high time to repeat the effort in the U.S. Every U.S. working class citizen, or non-citizen, deserves this privilage.
At leat once a year every U.S. citizen should be forced to serve in one or another capacity, for free, in the service of our country. No, I don’t mean the military (screw them), I mean civic services, to do good in one form or another. We owe this to our fellow citizens.
The ownership of home pets should be forbidden. We have needs for starving children in Bangladesh and the ownership of pets is a luxury, and should be abolished. It is natural to allow animals to just roam and fend for themselves. Let them go back to nature where they came from, before man spoiled them rotten.
On children, having one is the ideal, with two an absolute maximum. We’ll look to China to learn a thing or two on population control.
If you don’t like any of this, you’re heartless, a racist, or both.
Entelechy on July 26, 2008 at 9:25 PM
The ironic part of the ad is that it features Obama with the troops … from :15 - :21 … from the video where he is in Kuwait with the troops and sank his 3-pointer. The sad part is that this ad will run lesser number of times than the original video which ran on all news channels.
sanjeevn on July 26, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Spin this any way you wish, the fact remains that he could have gone to visit the troops just as he alleges to have done at Walter Reed,in anonimity.
looks like his patriotism wasn’t strong enough to overcome the lack of a photo-op.
Putz.
irongrampa on July 26, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Satin would be more like something that John Edwards(Silky Pony) would Fall into love with..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satin
Satin is a cloth that typically has a glossy surface and a dull back. It is a warp-dominated weaving technique that forms a minimum number of interlacings in a fabric. If a fabric is formed with a satin weave using filament fibers such as silk, nylon, or polyester, the corresponding fabric is termed a “satin”.
Not to be confused with Satan..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan
Chakra Hammer on July 27, 2008 at 2:16 AM
Boy, this sure will PISS OFF the DNC. Truth always does!!!
pueblo1032 on July 27, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Just under 100 days out from election day and McCain’s run for president has already jumped the shark. Only question is how many (R’s) will he bring down with him? He needs to come clean and move away from Bush if he wants to grab anyone remotely moderate on election day.
McCain jumps the shark.
Monkei on July 27, 2008 at 2:36 PM
Hey, “Allahpundit.” I have been reading this site for a while now and you are pretty pathetic. Either you are defending Obama or making it obvious you are scared to dealth of the Community Organizer. This is a great ad. The only way to beat the Democrats is to stand up to them and shove it right back down their thoats. But you always seem to think any attack the Republicans make will “backfire” on them. Get over your fear of Obama and the liberal media and grow a pair!
DWMT4867 on July 27, 2008 at 3:19 PM
I am not sure if Obamassiah is a sociopath but am pretty certain he is a big earred carricature of a foolish, vacuous, narcissist, inexperienced, anti-capitalist, communist/marxist, politician with less gravitas than an empty potatoe chip bag, and a following made up of an equally brain dead mix of Brittani Spears, Paris Hilton upskirt peekers, mainstream media whores, underwear sniffing college professors and those who get their information from television because they are either too dumb or lazy to read.
dhunter on July 27, 2008 at 3:34 PM
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