There was a “little number” used in Vietnam that helped to rid the leadership of poor leaders…

J_Gocht on August 5, 2008 at 6:30 PM

Number of fragings?

McCain plans to continue Bush’s giveaways to big oil
Working families are feeling the squeeze – record high gas prices, record home foreclosure rates and skyrocketing health care costs. But President Bush and John McCain both have Big Oil’s interests at heart. Despite record profits and executive pay in the oil industry, neither Bush nor McCain is willing to cut back on Big Oil’s windfall profits and tax breaks. McCain already has proposed giving $3.8 billion more in tax breaks to Big Oil and has voted to protect their profits.

…in other words, he isn’t “battling” them at all. So which is he? Oil industry hater or oil industry protector? Either way, he’s grossly misrepresented himself. Either those positions you posted are correct, or his ad is. And don’t tell me “battling Big Oil” is ambiguous, because that’s intellectually dishonest.

Is this a Mitt Romney ad?

“J_Gocht on August 5, 2008 at 7:14 PM

My final stanza was…

So painfully …!

wise_man on August 5, 2008 at 6:30 PM

no, sorry, that doesnt hold water. you are using what obama accuses mccain off to defend mccain? sorry, no dice. mccain has mentioned obscene profits in relation to oil companies way too many times to think he means anything positive when he says “battle big oil”. the guy is getting more liberal all the time.

Damn this sorry War!

“…“Broken”, McCain positions himself as an outsider and makes the claim that he’s the solution:

“Broken” you say.

I’ll tell you and Saint Mc what’s broken.

That’s the goshdamn lack of military discipline in this sorry despicable War in Iraq.

“……Women serving in the US military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.”

What the hell is that?
Doesn’t surprise me though; when their glorious leadership has given our brave troopers nothing but continuing “Hobson’s Choice’s”… consider, “stop loss” consider, “extended tours” …what the hell can you expect?
There was a “little number” used in Vietnam that helped to rid the leadership of poor leaders…
Dose anyone recall the immediate effectiveness of such action?
My thought would be, that; St Mc as much as anyone, would be cognizant of those actions and present conditions?
Where’s Holy Joe?

The new Obama ad trumpets his proposal to revive a windfall profits tax on energy companies and asserts that McCain favors TAX BREAKS for the oil industry.

“A windfall profits tax on big oil to give families a thousand-dollar rebate,” an announcer in the ad says. Obama has pushed for such a tax to fund $1,000 emergency rebate checks for consumers besieged by high energy costs.

Congress enacted a windfall profits tax in 1980, during an earlier era of high oil prices, but repealed it in 1988 amid concerns the tax was discouraging domestic oil development. Last year, the House approved $18 billion in new taxes on the largest oil companies, but they were blocked by Republicans in the Senate. Monday August 4, 2008

McCain:

McCain plans to continue Bush’s giveaways to big oil
Working families are feeling the squeeze – record high gas prices, record home foreclosure rates and skyrocketing health care costs. But President Bush and John McCain both have Big Oil’s interests at heart. Despite record profits and executive pay in the oil industry, neither Bush nor McCain is willing to cut back on Big Oil’s windfall profits and tax breaks. McCain already has proposed giving $3.8 billion more in tax breaks to Big Oil and has voted to protect their profits.

wise_man on August 5, 2008 at 5:43 PM

So then how will he “battle Big Oil” differently than Obama?

wise_man on August 5, 2008 at 5:43 PM

It could be as you say, but judging from McCain’s last 8 years….I am not so sure about the ‘take on’ McCain means what you and I think it means.

Sir Napsalot on August 5, 2008 at 5:30 PM

In addition to republicans and conservatives, there are other people in the United States that might see this ad and not take offense. Such as the great unwashed. i.e. the ‘moderates’ and the ‘undecideds’. You see, these people don’t think the same way we do. And they often vote. When someone says “wall street and drug companies,” this means something different to them. They’ve been conditioned by watching the mainstream media and being feed the notion that these groups are evil.

I am not absolutely sure, because I don’t know for a fact, but I would guess that McCain might ‘take on’ wall street and drug companies in a completely different way as someone like Obama might. Example, Hillary wanted to ‘reform’ US healthcare. We all knew what she was planning. And if someone who was not a liberal would want to ‘reform’ the US healthcare system, it would be a lot different. Same word. Different outcome. And as I said, ‘take on’ means different when coming from Obama “I’m going to take on wall street” and coming from a republican.

Something to consider. As a possibility.

I thought conservatives had established that drug companies not bad, trial lawyers/frivilous lawsuits are to blame?

Who/what does McCain think Wall Street mean? After he touches Wall Street, every working Americans can kiss their 401k(s) goodbye (or a hefty chunk of it).

Don’t even let me start on the Big Oil….

RNC should really post a big HELP WANTED sign.

He’ll…battle Big Oil
@#$%! CP on August 5, 2008 at 12:48 PM

???

He must be delighted that GM lost 8 billion $ this quarter. Now THAT’S good news to these dolts.

I guess 8¢ on the dollar is “windfall” profits.

No, welfare is windfall profit for all its recipients.

MadisonConservative on August 5, 2008 at 2:46 PM

4. is capitalism for 1000 Alex!

” We’re worse off than we were four years ago.”

That’s exactly the wrong message. It’s Obambi’s and the Democrat’s message. And John McCain is falling headlong into that pit.

It’s also false. We’re better off. The economy stopped growing for exactly ONE quarter, back in 2007. Despite energy costs, inflation and unemployment remain low. Interest rates are at record lows.

And we’re winning in Iraq, and in the GWOT worldwide. The USA remains free from terrorist attacks.

John McCain at some point has to realize he can’t avoid the Bush record, so he shouldn’t try.  He should embrace it.  It’s a damned good record to build upon, and he should say so.

Yes, I know it’s contrary to popular ‘wisdom’, but the way to win against the doom-and-gloom defeatist Democrats is not to echo them, but to present the alternative: things are good, and I’m going to make them better!

John McCain goes back to positive messaging in his newest ad … well, only in the campaigning sense

Washington is broken? we are worse off than we were 4 years ago? McCain has taken on big tobacco? drug companies? reform wall street? battle big oil? he’s the ordinal maverick? Is this what passes as positive messaging? I wonder what negative messaging looks like. Why is it every time McCain tries to be positive, It makes be question voting for this RINO?

A laundry list of special interest groups is bound to irritate someone as these comments above show. By making the ad focus on who has acted versus who has just spoken he makes the ad directed right at Obama’s weakness without being divisive.

1. He just lifted Mitt Romney’s theme, yet again, it works and he should use it. With such a low approval rating Congress has, people will sympathize with the “Washington is Broken” theme.

2. This ad is clearly a pitch to Independents and right leaning Democrats. McCain is running as a reform candidate. No surprise here.

3. Pie.

4. ?????

5. Profit!

DanStark on August 5, 2008 at 2:44 PM

Fixed.