South Carolina GOP on a McCain “House”
posted at 2:35 pm on August 28, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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The South Carolina Republican Party pushed back — hard — against the class-warfare attack from Barack Obama and the Democrats over how many houses John McCain and his family own. This ad uses McCain’s years as a POW to underscore how much he sacrificed for his country, a way of both defending McCain and putting Obama on the defensive (via Palmetto Scoop):
During a combat mission over Vietnam, John McCain was shot down and severely injured. John McCain’s new home for the next five-and-a-half-years would be an enemy prison cell.
This is where John McCain was starved, beaten, tortured, and maimed for life.
So the next time Barack Obama talks about one of John McCain’s homes, remember this one.
Does this respond to the actual thrust of the Democratic argument? The criticism is that John McCain can’t possibly understand the concerns of normal folk, with all of his wealth. That ignores the fact that Barack Obama does pretty well for himself, too, and that their last nominee had also married a wealthy woman and enjoyed the lifestyle that went with the marriage.
This doesn’t exactly address the surface of their argument, but it attacks it in a totally different way. It argues somewhat obliquely that Obama has never had to sacrifice for his country, certainly not in the way McCain did. It points out the easy ride Obama had in progressing through college, law school, and politics.
Both arguments seem pretty silly to me. McCain certainly can point to his war record with pride and as a reason to trust him. On economics, though, he’d be better off pointing out the hysterics in the Democratic Party who scream Depression! while the economy continues to grow.
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I actually like the idea of home ownership.
Why don’t the Democtrats?
Elizabetty on August 28, 2008 at 2:37 PM
You are wrong. They would very much like to own your home.
Darksean on August 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Looks good to me. This is politics. This kind of a smackdown retort to Barry is justified.
BrianBoru on August 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Obama has done nothing but take from this country, he’s contribution so far is a net negative.
He’s accepted paychecks for elected positions where he’s done absolutely nothing beyond run for the next office.
Can the voters who elected him honestly say they got their dollar’s worth out of him? Of course not.
All Obama does in office is line the pockets of his supporters and run for the next office. If he’s elected, the latter will be eliminated and the former will take up all of his time.
What a worthless man Barack Obama is.
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Awesome!
rightonamerica on August 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM
.
Depression? What Depression?
upinak on August 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM
::proud to be a South Carolinian::
::but still detests Lindsey Graham::
SuzEQCitizen on August 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Its a great ad considering Obama’s political background has more in common with the people that shot down McCain than real patriots.
elduende on August 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM
The democrats rather that I live in the Projects than in my house.
jencab on August 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Not bad. Not great, but not bad.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM
This is where you slip up Ed. You assumed the liberal mind thinks like yours.
*
This is effective because the liberal mind only holds images, not facts.
Every time they mention McCains homes, a liberal will flash to these pictures.
This ends the discussion from the liberal side.
right2bright on August 28, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Does this respond to the actual thrust of the Democratic argument?
Maybe, but it sounds more like John Kerry: “I was in Vietnaaaaahhhhhmmmmm.”
Tony737 on August 28, 2008 at 2:41 PM
They should do an ad that includes the richest senators. The last time I looked, democrats outnumbered republicans. They want class warfare, give it to them. Democrats have as much, if not more, money than republicans. Even at the local levels in my home town.
Sue on August 28, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Barry needs bitchslapped. We need to hire some plumbers to take photos of the family at leisure at Casa O’bama. He is pretending that McCain lives like a prince and he is facing Grapes of Wrath style life in his and Michelle’s rhetoric.
Michelle to middle America, “oh God you can’t believe how expensive the girls’ dance recitals get”….
you’re right Michelle I can’t believe because like your arugula I don’t have a common touchstone to base belief on.
sven10077 on August 28, 2008 at 2:41 PM
very effective ad… should be picked up and run nationally by a 527 if the lib’s houses meme continues.
kevinkristy on August 28, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Oh lord Team McCain, please don’t John Kerry yourself. People are not going to forget what you went through and you shou ld tell your story but don’t use it as an Absolute Moral Authority card. He should retort “better a sugar momma than a slum lord”…
ninjapirate on August 28, 2008 at 2:42 PM
This is a stupid angle. It is a defense of capitalism which is something that ought not be required in the USA. It would be better to highlight the massive wealth of many top Democrats including Pelosi herself. If the Dems want to make wealth an issue, throw it right back at them. Voters wre going to tire of the POW angle as the answer to every McCain ctiticism.
DerKrieger on August 28, 2008 at 2:43 PM
There is no argument.
During his show at the Saddleback Church, John McCain hit a home run when he said he wants everyone to be rich.
He needs to run with that.
I am getting fed up with republicans running from success and wealth. I am tired of them running from their success in living the American Dream.
What happened to the days of old when the streets of America were paved with gold?
http://www.conservativepolitics.today.com
Virginia Shanahan on August 28, 2008 at 2:44 PM
Hmmm… do I recall Bill Clinton saying this was the worst economy since the 1920’s?
El_Terrible on August 28, 2008 at 2:44 PM
Ed, I think it is a brilliant ad. McCain may have plenty, but he also paid plenty. Compare him to Obama, who has quite a bit, and paid what?
Vashta.Nerada on August 28, 2008 at 2:44 PM
They would very much like to own your home. – Dark Sean
Ha, good point. They’d love to take all private property and redistribute it to the collective. I wonder if they’d also include Ted Turner’s ranch, you know, the one that’s biger than some countries? I’d sure like a piece of THAT action. How ’bout it Dems? Gonna hook me up?
Tony737 on August 28, 2008 at 2:45 PM
“McCain fought communists, this is where he ended up” (show cell)
“Obama befriended communists, this is where he ended up” (show mansion)
Bishop on August 28, 2008 at 2:46 PM
*schwing outta the park*
We ought to take pics of Casa Barry and show that he and Michelle are living far from the grapes of wrath themselves…
Michelle to Middle America:
Oh dear God gals I am one of you, the girls’ recitals cost so much and have you priced arugula of late?
Yeah real coupon clipper Michelle.
sven10077 on August 28, 2008 at 2:46 PM
McCain’s experiences as a POW have absolutely nothing to do with the topic of not knowing how many houses he owns. This “ad” is way off topic.
Dave Rywall on August 28, 2008 at 2:46 PM
And the point swings completely over Dave’s head. Par for the course.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 28, 2008 at 2:47 PM
I don’t think that the point was ever that McCain had so many houses, I think that the point was that he apparently did not have a clue as to even approximately how many he had.
BTW, is there anyone in this country who has not heard at least 14 gazillion times in at least 2 gazillion different contexts that McCain was a POW?
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 2:48 PM
Dave Rywall on August 28, 2008 at 2:46 PM
I agree. McCain should stick to showing that Obama claims he didn’t know what Ayers and Wright were all about, even though he has had a long association with them.
Bishop on August 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM
RACIST!! At least partly, for attacking Obama…
SARCASM
Rick on August 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM
This is why you can’t be a campaign manager, you think too logically.
Liberals respond to emotions, not facts. If you showed how much Pelosi makes or has, no big deal, or Feinstein, or that fact the Bidens neighbors are the DuPonts, doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if they take graft, or use their apartments as a bordello, or caught using drugs, it is what image they project is what is important.
right2bright on August 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM
Sure it does. Barack Obama continually moans about his “humble” upbringing. So does Michelle.
For five and a half years, John McCain’s “home” was a North Vietnamese prison cell.
Which is exactly why how many homes he owns or does not own is irrelevant. Is it illegal to own more than one home? What the hell difference does it make how many homes he owns? How many does Kerry own? How many does Clinton own? Who cares?
What is also relevant is why Barack Obama continually refuses to provide straight answers on the shady funding of his own estate in Chicago.
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM
I guess the jury is in – it does work….
Vashta.Nerada on August 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM
I agree. They better start talking about how McCain, with Romney’s help on the economy, will be able to make the American Dream attainable for Americans who work hard and are able to own income property but don’t run those properties like Rezko. Pound the message that Rezko was a slum lord (now a convicted felon) and that Barry bought property at a discount because of his buddie’s help.
Christine on August 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM
Is there anyone who hasn’t heard in 2 gazillion different contexts that Barack Obama went to Harvard Law school? That Barack Obama is black? That Barack Obama speaks well?
I actually doubt whether very many Americans know the full story about John McCain’s POW experiences, actually.
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Exactly, Democrats squeal when the ads hurt. Look how hard Obambi is working to keep anyone from mentioning his good buddy Ayers.
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 2:56 PM
It’s his trump card to Obama’s race card argument.
Rick on August 28, 2008 at 2:56 PM
The question was a set-up, he may still not know how many homes he owns. Just like Kennedy doesn’t know how much stock he has.
Certain items go into blind trust, if he had said 6 he may have had 5 or 7. Much of his money and his wife’s investments are in a blind trust, that trust could hold any number of properties. It just wasn’t important to him to know except for the ones he and his family uses, but he knew they could have been more.
I have a feeling most people know this. Don’t you remember the flap about the taxes? All about nothing, just a trap and he didn’t fall into it by giving a wrong answer.
right2bright on August 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Vladimir Putin: President McCain, I just wanted to let you know that I am about to invaded Poland.
John McCain: You can’t do that because I was a POW.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: President McCain, I just wanted to let you know that I am about to set off an atomic bomb.
John McCain: You can’t do that because I was a POW.
Ben Bernanke: President McCain, I just wanted to let you know that inflation is about to reach double digits.
John McCain: It can’t do that because I was a POW.
Head of National Weather Service: President McCain, I just wanted to let you know that another big hurricane is about to hit New Orleans.
John McCain: It can’t do that because I was a POW.
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM
It is the fact that he stayed when he could have gone. Not only does it show courage, but it shows a man who is selfless and not concerned with wealth over his fellow man and the human spirit.
tomas on August 28, 2008 at 2:58 PM
This is exactly the kind of retort the dumb-ass Obama brown shirts deserve. This is real life and people need to know about McCain. As for the number of homes he has . . . who cares. He’s obviously a successful man and that’s what this country is really about. Somebody needs to tell the Democrats and the rest of the leftists in this country that being rich does not make you bad, it is one element of life’s achievements that makes you a successful person. If the left wants to exist in a pandering nanny state where success is measured by value of your welfare check, then let them, but then also let them separate themselves from the rest of us.
rplat on August 28, 2008 at 2:58 PM
as opposed to:
As the clean, articulate Harvard educated mater orator Black Messiah I command you stop putin, no blow wind no, etc etc?
yeah we have two clowns but one has red eyeliner…the other wears a red mask.
sven10077 on August 28, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Wow, Juan McShame was shot down over Vietnam and was a POW for 5 years?!?!?!?!?!? How come nobody ever said anything about this???? Why hasn’t the McShame campaign shamelessly used this juicy nugget for political capital? I have a totally different opinion of McShame now since he never used this information to advance his political career on the symphathy of guilty NeoConservatives. God bless America. Red, white and blue!!!! Rockets and bombs!!!!
DanKenton on August 28, 2008 at 3:01 PM
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM
That schtick was a lot funnier the first “gazillion” times you wrote it. Jus’ sayin’.
Bishop on August 28, 2008 at 3:02 PM
BTW Ed, it is considerate of you to post the transcript for those of us who can’t play videos at the office. Thanks.
RushBaby on August 28, 2008 at 3:03 PM
That is just about the dumbest crap I’ve heard lately. And by the way, how many combat tours have you had?
rplat on August 28, 2008 at 3:04 PM
I’ve heard about McCain being a POW about a million times less than I’ve heard you coming in here to tell us all how much John McCain sucks, MB4.
wise_man on August 28, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Vladimir Putin: President McCain, I just wanted to let you know that I am about to invaded Poland.
Barack Obama: You’re just doing that because I’m black.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: President McCain, I just wanted to let you know that I am about to set off an atomic bomb.
Barack Obama: You’re just doing that because I’m black.
Ben Bernanke: President McCain, I just wanted to let you know that inflation is about to reach double digits.
Barack Obama: You’re just saying that because I’m black.
Head of National Weather Service: President McCain, I just wanted to let you know that another big hurricane is about to hit New Orleans.
Barack Obama: That hurricane hates black people.
I’ll take an authentic, heroic POW who fought for this country, over a phoney, affirmitive action no-load any day, how about you?
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 3:04 PM
I find it hypocritical of the Dems to use the multiple houses smear on McCain. Seriously, Obama is wealthy, Kerry was filthy rich, Bubba’s and Hillary’s tax returns showed them to be excessively wealthy, the Dems have Hollywood backing them (very rich, spoiled people), most of the Dem Senators and Congressmembers are rich, and some of the richest people in the world are Dems. And, what’s wrong with being wealthy? The Dems demonize people for having money – - it’s ridiculous.
Rick on August 28, 2008 at 3:04 PM
A: Has anyone bothered to actually ask what kind of “houses” they’re arguing about? Mansions, 3 plus 2’s, rentals, what??
B: John just needs to respond with “Yes, we have EIGHT mortgages, so we know all about declining property values first hand.”
leftnomore on August 28, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Drywall – are you a paid DNC hack or just a mentally deranged liberal???
txdoc on August 28, 2008 at 3:06 PM
The libs love to mock the POW angle in their forums. They dismiss almost anything McCain says by implying that he thinks his 5.5 yrs as a POW gives him the right to say or do anything without criticism. It has the potential to be as overused as Rudy’s 911 meme. In both cases, a man lived through a situation that justifiably earns him respect and deep, meaningful experience. But brought into the public eye too often, it takes on broken record status. We need to be careful to only play the POW card when absolutely necessary. The house attack angle did not necessitate it in my opinion.
aero on August 28, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Gee, I leave for a couple of weeks to the Olympics and look what I come back to.
An even more desperate plea for attention.
Several years that define the man, that shaped him, that taught him courage, leadership, value of life, is monumental. He knows it, and the SC Republicans who did the ad knew it.
Aren’t you the one, several months back, that linked the anti-McCain site that doubted that McCain was even a POW, and then snaked out of it by saying something like “I don’t know if they are right or not but here is the link”. A person who hates McCain so much that even him being tortured isn’t enough for you…what a life you have.
Don’t forget the red truck…
right2bright on August 28, 2008 at 3:08 PM
This ad does not smack of John Kerry! Regardless of what Kerry did in VietNam (or Cambodia for that matter), he came home and pissed on his fellow soldiers. McCain, on the other hand, refused to even piss on one soldier by allowing his father’s clout to get him released from the POW camp early. And don’t be so naive as to think that everyone knows this story. Lots of average Americans are not as informed as us.
Disturb the Universe on August 28, 2008 at 3:08 PM
It’s a Presidential election, people. There is no off topic.
bloggless on August 28, 2008 at 3:09 PM
I disagree. The left discounts real heroism because they don’t think this country is worth laying down one’s life for.
Could you realistically see some spineless milquetoast like Barack Obama, living through a situation like John McCain did? And not selling out his buddies and his country for personal gain? Please.
“Heroism” to the left is confined only to losers and victims. And their politicians aren’t heros, they are all unethical, worthless political hacks, there is absolutely nothing at all heroic about any of them.
John McCain is a genuine war hero. If the left doesn’t like that, it’s only because they were rooting for the other side.
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 3:12 PM
This is different shtick and I doubt that you liked the other shtick any better. Jus’ sayin’.
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Blood in the water.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 28, 2008 at 3:13 PM
I’m glad one state in our union has some stones! Good for you! I’m from Minnesota…hangs head in shame…
sabbott on August 28, 2008 at 3:13 PM
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/6181/mccainpowue9.gif
If McCain keeps using that POW block there isn’t going to be any left! Rather than deflecting nonsense attacks like the “houses” with a reference to his POW days he should actually meet them head on and point out the hypocrisy.
Rowsdower on August 28, 2008 at 3:13 PM
You are right, No Donkey! When it came out that Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire, the lefties I know mocked him for giving up his football career.
Disturb the Universe on August 28, 2008 at 3:14 PM
It’s amazing that you continue to come back and show your face after this and all the other things you’ve done here.
So McCain wasn’t a POW, huh?
wise_man on August 28, 2008 at 3:15 PM
I gotta admit, that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 28, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Its a defensive ad, it recognizes that there is a problem with the idea that McCain has multiple homes. McCain shouldn’t have to defend the number of homes he has, and he certainly shouldn’t use his war record as a means to excuse his multiple homes…what only war heroes can have multiple homes?
Here is an idea…McCain understands the American Dream, and will fight for every American to have the opportunity to live the American Dream, unlike silver spoon Obama and Biden who think the American Dream is something to be critical about. And show their respective million dollar homes.
Conservative Voice on August 28, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Going all
ad hominemDoctor Laura on me now, huh?Oh, did you win many medals?
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Yep. As has been mentioned in Dem Convention speeches this week (especially by Michelle O) – - their heroes and the America they see consists of community organizers, unions, and protesters. The only reason they have somewhat acknowledged the troops is because they have to – - or else they will really lose this election. They fail to recognize business owners and continue to demonize businesses in general.
Rick on August 28, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Who said he wasn’t a POW, huh? You need to get a brain and a clue. You are dumber than a potted plant.
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Neither Hilary nor Bill came from poor families, either. Clinton’s grandfather owned a store, his mother was a nurse-anesthetist. This b.s. that they lived on a farm and had to use an outhouse according to Dick Morris was the result of them having to live there while there huge house in town with the ballroom was being remodeled. And, yes, outhouses were still common back then on farms.
Blake on August 28, 2008 at 3:25 PM
In contrast, when I hear about Obama and drinking, smoking hooch, and snorting coke in high school, I can’t help wondering how he got into Columbia. I understand that he transferred there after a year or two at Occidental, but I’d still like to know just how much of an affirmative-action candidate this guy is. Both getting into Columbia and then into Harvard Law School.
I’d love to see Obama’s academic record. He reads an excellent speech, but that’s it. I think he’s gotten pretty far on some charm, presentable looks, and some amount of intelligence–so did Rasputin and Charles Manson. Just because he pauses before speaking doesn’t make him smart. I think he struggles so much in townhall settings because he really hasn’t thought a lot of issues through. He’d be great for a think-tank, but not for the presidency.
Sorry. I just don’t get the appeal of this guy. Watch tonight. See if he draws as more ridiculous moral equivalents as he did in his Philadelphia race speech. I’ve heard and read few pieces of sh*t worse than that speech and yet MSM and his followers swooned.
BuckeyeSam on August 28, 2008 at 3:25 PM
That doesn’t work. They think the government lies about the economic statistics.
pedestrian on August 28, 2008 at 3:26 PM
wisetaptap_man on August 28, 2008 at 3:15 PM
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 3:23 PM
And you continue to troll. Repeatedly.
wise_man on August 28, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Well it kind of does. To get a Q2 GDP growth of 3.3% they had to use an anual inflation deflator of only 1.2%
Does anyone, even the government, think that inflation is running at only 1.2% ?
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 3:30 PM
You must admit, McCain has been riding thew POW horse a little too hard. If he overdcoes it, he will start to sound like a 1 trick pony.
The best thing he could do is denounce amnesty.
saiga on August 28, 2008 at 3:30 PM
When the troops are acknowledged, it’s not for heroism or for winning the war, it’s as infants – “they’re children you see and we need to get them mental health benefits, so they won’t go all Deerhunter on us, becuase they fought in Bush’s war!”
If you’re proud to have fought in this war and proud to have won, the geriatric hippies in the absolutely worthless Democrat Party want nothing at all to do with you.
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 3:31 PM
This is different shtick and I doubt that you liked the other shtick any better. Jus’ sayin’.
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Actually they are awfully similar, and I did like it the first…oh…two or three times. The next gazillion attempts, not so much.
Bishop on August 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Troll! Troll! Troll!
You are completely vacuous.
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Their war heroes are Kerry and Murtha.
Rick on August 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM
like Right2bright said, his POW experience shaped his values. He doesn’t want it to look like it contaminated his values.
If he suffers from the Stokholm syndrome, it could explain hie enchantment with amnesty.
saiga on August 28, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Kerry? I thought he won the gold medal in the Olympic medal toss event. He was in Vietnam? Didn’t know that.
Murtha? How many medals to the North Vietnamese award him? Did he get the Iron Cross? The Order of Lenin?
Most decorated soldier ever, John Murtha.
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 3:36 PM
I really doubt that.
You should know that exaggeration only works well within limits and in the right context and when done with the right “shtick”, otherwise it just falls flat.
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Those who think we are in a Depression need to dust off their history books, or talk to an old-timer who lived through it, or read The Grapes of Wrath, or rent Cinderella Man.
Disturb the Universe on August 28, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Worked for me, I think you’re just biased. :P
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 28, 2008 at 3:42 PM
You know who thinks we are in a recession?
These girls.
As well as
These women.
And all the democrats, as well as all of the liberals in the press.
wise_man on August 28, 2008 at 3:43 PM
The liberals want a Depression so they have an excuse to push their Progressive/Fascist/Nanny State/Neo-New Deal ideas.
Disturb the Universe on August 28, 2008 at 3:51 PM
I still laugh my head off when I read that Nunez story.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 28, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Most Americans, I think, and I hope! don’t care about their homes. Don’t care that McCain was unsure of the answer.
We Don’t Care.
And just like Biden’s wife dying, I’m over McCain’s POW experience as well. I don’t care.
What I care about is the Future. The NEXT four years for this country. It’s no wonder that people in foreign countries sit and laugh at us. Idiots, we look like. Spoiled brats.
bridgetown on August 28, 2008 at 3:57 PM
Oh please, this is such a dopey claim. If we opened up the green cards, the ones who are “laughing” would be applying by the tens of millions.
Who gives a hoot in hell what foreign countries think of us anyway? The majority of them live in authoritarian hell holes because their masses are too historically balless to challenge the criminal kleptocracy who runs the country (i.e. China and Iran).
Personally, I laugh at the poor schmucks who have to live in China. They eat terrible food not fit for an American dog, they have no freedom of expression and the recent Olympics ceremonies looked like something out of Brave New World.
Because we have a Presidential candidate who talks about his resume of heroism, presumably.
Far better I guess to pat oneself on the back for a two-year “Community Organizer” whatever the hell that is.
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 4:04 PM
As long as they aren’t shooting at us, bombing us, or otherwise causing problems, I don’t give half a care what people in foreign countries think of us.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on August 28, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Then you will be voting for Obama. His future picture that he paints looks pretty darn good. Money returned, lower fuel prices, lower taxes, other countries love us, our military will come home, peace, prosperity, etc.
You don’t believe that? Why? Because of his history, his background, his values shaped by his education, lack of experience, his HISTORY.
Get it? Leaders are measured by their past accomplishments, the challenges that they overcame, not by what they promise in the future.
The future means nothing, it hasn’t happened.
McCain spent 5 years overcoming unbelievable odds of surviving, and 24+ years in the senate…Obama gave a speech in 2004, and one year in the senate.
But you will vote who promises you the best future.
right2bright on August 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Man, the MDS is thick around here.
MarkTheGreat on August 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM
And shiny objects, don’t forget the shiny objects.
Barack supporters are fascinated by shiny objects. They’re . . . just . . . so . . . cool . . . dude. Trails.
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Ouch hard hitting stuff right there , I think I can hear The Ones jaw shattering .
Hey BHO you shouldnt lead with your chin if you have a glass jaw .
Mojack420 on August 28, 2008 at 4:30 PM
You noticed.
wise_man on August 28, 2008 at 4:30 PM
I knew I’d get attacked for that comment.
LoL
if nothing else, people are predictable.
I shouldn’t have said that about foriegners…it’s just that I was talking to a friend of mine, lives in Europe..blah, blah…….I don’t give a flip what foreigners think either…until I start to think like them. This entire election process is becoming a joke.
There are issues facing this country…..Does anyone know what congress does? Does anyone know what the jobs entail? Or the presidency? Not many do, it would seem, watching the media and the campaigns trying to create drama over things that do not matter.
How about researching Obamas previous elections, jobs, business partners, etc. ??? Where’s the information? I’m tired of having to dig for it, while I watch the shiny television sets with talking heads so full of it…oh, i can’t finish that joke..it would be racist…or something.
McCain’s information is easy to come by. Many votes have been cast by him over the years.
bridgetown on August 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM
I don’t know that people in the past really knew either. But our public schools are abyssmal and which party is responsible for that?
You can bet public school kids know everything there is to know about contraception, but what, maybe 20% can identify the three branches of government?
NoDonkey on August 28, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Contra Ed, I do think that this ad addressed the actual thrust of Obama’s “Houses” attack. “Houses” did try to portray McCain as out of touch with the average American, but it did that by attempting to create a disconnect in the mind of the viewer between their own situation and their perception of John McCain’s, namely: I have it hard, McCain has it easy.
Now you can reply to that attack by saying it isn’t true, but the fact is that at some level it is true. McCain does have a sweet life–for that matter, so does Obama–but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s out of touch. The best response accepts the grain of truth within the attack and puts it in a different, more positive light.
This ad from the South Carolina Republican Party does just that. McCain has it easy, it admits, but he used to have it hard and he survived. The subtext is that although I have it hard, I can survive too.
Eukardios on August 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM
It’s such a dumb argument.
If a candidate DID have it so hard, I wouldn’t want them in office. Give me someone who is capable of making a fine living to run this country.
Have you heard about McCain’s ad that will run tonight? Congratulating Obama? Now, THAT is class!
bridgetown on August 28, 2008 at 5:00 PM
I think the ad is useful, but obscures its main point. It says, “sure, I have a bunch of houses now, but for 5-1/2 years I only had what I was wearing, and the VC’s might’ve taken that away at any time. I made it through those times and prospered afterwards — you can make it through these times and prosper yourselves.”
cthulhu on August 28, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Does anyone, even the government, think that inflation is running at only 1.2% ?
MB4 on August 28, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Sorry MB4, your attention to the actual components of what comprises a quarterly QDP figure will undoubedly fall on deaf ears around this place. The NeoCons on this site aren’t bothered with Bush & Co’s weak dollar policy or that the growth (if you can even call it that) is a result of cheap exports and taxpayer subsidies (that’s a euphemism for “stimulus checks). Not to mention that the number will mostly likely be revised downward once Bush & Co. leave town. NeoCons: Get shovel, dig hole, insert head.
DanKenton on August 28, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Awesomely awesome ad.
Don’t you hear liberals’ head exploding? Thay can’t believe they are up against a Republican who has Absolute Moral Authority.
rockmom on August 28, 2008 at 6:00 PM
I think it makes a pretty strong general point that McCain has experienced hardship and is not some rich man who has always had a silver spoon in his mouth.
I know that all thing being equal, I’d find someone who has experience want and deprivation as more attractive then someone who never has.
Sackett on August 28, 2008 at 6:03 PM
Now if you guys really understood those figures, and how they are derived…but then facts would “undoubedly (sic) fall on deaf ears”.
It is hilarious watching two buffoons trying to tear apart statistics they know nothing about.
Here, look, over here a shiny object…
right2bright on August 28, 2008 at 6:10 PM
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