New 527 ad responds to Obama attack on McCain’s computer abilities
posted at 12:10 pm on September 24, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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John McCain didn’t want to respond in kind to Barack Obama’s silly and ignorant attack on McCain’s inability to e-mail, but a 527 group has decided to fill the vacuum on their own. In a 30-second spot called “Wounded Veterans”, Lt. Col. Mike Fairhead asks Obama why he attacks McCain’s war wounds:
I’m certain that this will once again start the hysteria about 527s, “swift boating”, and unfair personal attacks among Obama’s defenders. Well, I’d say that Lt. Col. Fairhead may go a little far in claiming that Obama attacked McCain’s war injuries, since it looks more like a case of incompetence than anything else. That certainly was the net effect, if not the intent.
I’d also say too bad. Their original ad itself was, even without the easily-researchable cause of McCain’s disability, pointless and misleading. McCain has led on technology issues (although he did not, as McCain himself laughingly noted, invent the Blackberry). The fate of the Western world does not hinge on the ability to personally send an e-mail, especially when the White House has been known to hire an aide or two for those kinds of purposes. On the other hand, the false logic of “How can McCain understand the tech world if he can’t send an e-mail” certainly opens Obama to the more substantial logic of “How can Obama understand the military if he’s never served,” or “How can Obama handle the biggest executive job in the Free World without any executive experience at all,” and so on.
Let the whiners gripe about the marginal overreach in this ad. Call it an idiot tax for Team Obama and their failure to do basic research on the original spot. Joe Biden’s original verdict on that spot being included in this ad is priceless as well.
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Good point.
aunursa on September 24, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Awesome – especially with the quote of Biden in there.
thirteen28 on September 24, 2008 at 12:13 PM
The words “I loathe the military” would fit very well in OBambi’s mouth.
AubieJon on September 24, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Ugh… I am so tired of the 527 ads from the Democratic Party here in Alaska against Stevens and Palin.
This isn’t so bad, but good Lord I can’t tell who is doing the add until the end of the commerical and then I just want to throw my TV out of my window.
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:14 PM
I thought a Barry talking-head did admit on Fox that they knew about McCain’s torture injuries affecting his typing, but ran it anyway?
ex-Democrat on September 24, 2008 at 12:14 PM
I wish it was the day before election day and it was over already.
Any one else feel the same?
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:14 PM
I just wish the debates were over, McCain/Palin had already put OBiden in their place, and we were just watching them and the MSM twist in the breeze.
AubieJon on September 24, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Yeah. McCain up 10 on Nov. 3rd would be nice.
Isn’t it like 4 in the morning where you’re at?
BadgerHawk on September 24, 2008 at 12:16 PM
God in heaven, YES. I’m sick to death of it. It’s been so frustrating and I have the high blood pressure to prove it.
jewells45 on September 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM
So, again, Joe Biden proves his VALUE to the Republican Party.
Thanks JOE!
originalpechanga on September 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM
What I don’t understand is how the term “swiftboating” came to mean “lying and twisting facts” when all it did was to show testimony of dozens of men who were there…
AlexB on September 24, 2008 at 12:18 PM
I sure do I’m tired of it already and we have over a month to go.
tee866 on September 24, 2008 at 12:18 PM
The Debates are about the only thing I am looking for since the Media won’t leave Alaska. It is becoming a weird feeding frenzy up here and I heard that some dumb NYT Journalist Bimbo got kicked out of Koots (www.koots.com) for being vulgar. I wish the media would leave my damn State!
It is 0818. 4 hours difference then the East Coast. Hawaii I think is an hour past me.
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:19 PM
This ad is airing in Colorado starting this week. People so inclined can contribute to help spread it around at http://www.corg.us
CP on September 24, 2008 at 12:19 PM
McCain was never going to respond to Obama’s ad and now Palin doesn’t have to. Let them take the high road while this ad sets the record straight.
Terrie on September 24, 2008 at 12:22 PM
A 527 should go after Ayers and the plot to bomb the Ft Dix NCO dance. Use a military guy who was injured with an IED.
Ayers may have been mainstreamed in Chicago, but throughout much of America, he would have been treated as a pariah.
moxie_neanderthal on September 24, 2008 at 12:23 PM
T-Minus 41 Days to V Day!!!:)
Hot Air Crew,have ye faith!!:)
canopfor on September 24, 2008 at 12:24 PM
I saw a 527 ad attacking the OIl companies for wanting to Drill, claiming they are lying and something about “Special interest” the other day.
There is another about McCain by Moveon I think
jp on September 24, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Yes, but paraphrasing Robert Frost:
This campaign is tiring, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
So please, don’t give up the fight.
Loxodonta on September 24, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Simple, portray their statements as lies and keep repeating that until all their nutroots believe it to be gospel and truth.
Kaitian on September 24, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Dude, you are my canadian croonie.
Right now it is 40, snowing in the mountains, dark, cold, gloomy, depressing, and all I wanted was a nice warm sunny day.
Oh, and Biden to get decapitated by Sarah.
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Even if they didn’t know about his war injuries, it doesn’t make much sense to say that a Navy fighter/bomber pilot that could navigate well enough to find, and land on, a rolling carrier deck in the middle of the ocean is too technologically impaired to operate a desktop computer.
RBMN on September 24, 2008 at 12:27 PM
it seems this cycle, there are alot more liberal 527 and hardly any conservative 527’s so far.
where the heck are all the Wright Rezko and Ayers attack ads????
jp on September 24, 2008 at 12:28 PM
I wish it was the day before election day and it was over already.
Any one else feel the same?
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Yes!
Cody1991 on September 24, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Operation SlingBlade: S.O.B.!!
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on September 24, 2008 at 12:29 PM
If Obama wins, I might as well cancel cable and quit watching TV for several years. The news will be non-stop Obama porn by the media.
jp on September 24, 2008 at 12:29 PM
+100!! Nice timing, I didn’t even think of that!
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on September 24, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Around here he would be treated like a backstop
LimeyGeek on September 24, 2008 at 12:30 PM
lets hope it doesn’t happen.
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Yeah, I’m disgusted with the term, “Swiftboating” being used as a smear related term. The truth is, what it is, and I’m dead sick of being inundated with Obama’s version of it.
anniekc on September 24, 2008 at 12:31 PM
As someone who is both disabled and old, I hope Obama and his acolytes are hit hard and often by as many as possible on their campaign’s insensitivity to the disabled and their snide remarks about the elderly.
So, I like this ad.
Loxodonta on September 24, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Last time I looked at the desk in the Oval Office, I didn’t see a computer on it!
gridlock2 on September 24, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Some of the comments against Kerry turned out to be true.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry_military_service_controversy.
jim m on September 24, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Let’s let Obama’s talking heads go out and make the argument he is incompetent, not malacious. Seems to me that is an argument that helps us whichever side the public comes down on…
18-1 on September 24, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Oops, I meant “some of the comments against Kerry turned out to be false”. That’s why the term “swift boating” developed as it has.
Still see the link in the earlier post for details.
jim m on September 24, 2008 at 12:33 PM
On the plus side, we’ll get a close understanding of what it feels like to be a resident of North Korea…
18-1 on September 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM
That was lame.
Good thing the old timer mentioned he was “retired”. We never wouldve guessed.
“Mista Obama, Wha do you attack Senata McCain becawse of his disabiliteeee??”
Redneck city.
And also, wha did we republicans nominate a man whose onla qualification is his disabiliteee.
Roger Waters on September 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM
I guess what frusrates me is the total lack of ethics on the part of the media. Not a damn negative word about Obama. The Ayers connection, the Rezko connection. He has flip flopped so many times he makes Kerry look steady as a rock. Not one negative word. Everywhere I look I see it and it burns my ass.
jewells45 on September 24, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Ayers may have been mainstreamed in Chicago, but throughout much of America, he would have been treated as a pariah.
moxie_neanderthal on September 24, 2008 at 12:23 PM
Ayers would have simply “disappeared” where I live, and no one would have reported him missing.
Cody1991 on September 24, 2008 at 12:35 PM
It is 6:33 here – we must be 2 hours back. We never change time zones so sometimes we are 6 hours behind East Coast and in the winter 5 hours. So after DST we will be 1 hour behind you I presume.
HawaiiLwyr on September 24, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Isn’t the more accurate statement, Kerry was *proven* to be a liar on at least some of the Swift Boat claims?
/Would you like to see my magic hat?
18-1 on September 24, 2008 at 12:36 PM
We need some ads Asking Obama why he sold out his constituents to Rezko in 1997 and took campaign cash and still continued to take lots money from him for YEARS later, and never Blew the whistle.. why did Obama do a land and house deal with him AFTER Rezko was exposed as being totally corrupt and it was reported every day in the Chicago papers(Did Obama NOT care or didn’t he care? why didn’t he expose Any corruption of any of his cronies in Chicago?)
Chakra Hammer on September 24, 2008 at 12:37 PM
AKDT is two hours ahead of HAST. When DST ends the first Sunday in Nov, you’ll revert to AKST, one hour ahead of HAST. HI does not do DST; neither do AZ (excluding the Navajo Nation), GU, AS, nor VI.
The Monster on September 24, 2008 at 12:38 PM
oh and for Biden to get decapitated by Sarah..
upinak on Sept 24,2008 at 12:27PM.
upinak: Suggestion,get curled up by the fire,and watch
Heavy Metal Movie,in that movie,the heroin is
pretty handy with her sword!!haha:)
canopfor on September 24, 2008 at 12:38 PM
I forgot you don’t change times. Alaska is trying to do the same thing. What is the point of changing when the sun is still only going to be up 4 hours during the day and I never see it when I am at work! Or the sun never goes down in the summer.
It doesn’t help power or the kids up here.
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Thanks Monster. I think.. LOL
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:40 PM
The MSM currently exists to elect Obama. They will do whatever they believe is necesary to achieve that. I’d like to say once you accept that nothing they do will shock you anymore…but that just isn’t true.
The polls show the American people see that, but we will see whether they really are taking that into consideration come the election, won’t we?
18-1 on September 24, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Been saying that sort of thing for years, even before I moved to AZ. ;)
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on September 24, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Not if it means missing the VP debate, I don’t.
Jim Treacher on September 24, 2008 at 12:40 PM
hey Hawaii, which island are you on? I am planning a family reunion there.. always good to know some good people around. :)
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:41 PM
I thought pidgeons were more reliable than
e-mails,(as I laugh myself silly,a hem!)is
it just me!!
canopfor on September 24, 2008 at 12:41 PM
“Overreach,” Ed?
Hell, I know you true political junkies like to keep it all polite and warm-&-fuzzy, but the sad truth is that Osama Obama is scum. He will use any means to get elected, and doesn’t give a rat’s butt about truth, honor or any of those other old-fashioned notions.
To steal a line from Calvin & Hobbes, Obama needs to be “skooshed like a bug” in November. Otherwise, what little remains of moral codes and reasoned argument in this country will vanish forever.
MrScribbler on September 24, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Jim are you going to do a commentary? Kinda of like a sport caster?
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Oh forgot about that. We’ll just stop there for that then jump ahead to November.
Hope there’s no glitches along the way. :)
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on September 24, 2008 at 12:42 PM
To keep you within an hour of PT, and within four of ET, which is tough enough for you to do business with people in other timezones.
The Monster on September 24, 2008 at 12:42 PM
They are blocked at the door of the liberal Youtube and pull by the smallest charge of copyright claim. Eyeblast and other host for web ads just don’t have the following to get any major play over youtube
They will come.
tjexcite on September 24, 2008 at 12:44 PM
How can Obama claim to be change when he’s got Biden as veep.
Sounds like Mo da same ol to me.
Kini on September 24, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Too bad, alright. It’s not just incompetence, but incompetence compounded by malicious intent.
petefrt on September 24, 2008 at 12:47 PM
I have to disagree with that assessment. To write this off as a case of imcompetence one would have to believe that it was more likely than not that Team Obama just missed the infirmaiton on McCain’s injuries that were linked in the press to his inability to work a keyboard.
And coming from the Obama organization, the chance they missed it is improbable. Over 2500 paid volunteers, 300 paid bloggers, 300 top level advisers, thousands of volunteers and supporters donating their time and resources as contributions in kind, and the most money of any campaign in history makes it almost impossible that someone in Obama’s camp missed this. They knew it and they chose to expolit it.
If it WAS a case of imcompetence, just how in the hell does Obama propose to run a country when he bumbles so badly on something like this?
Jim M. on September 24, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Eyeblast is soooo much better though.
upinak on September 24, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Cody1991 on September 24, 2008 at 12:35 PM
That’s what would have happened to him where I’m at also.
tee866 on September 24, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Call the whaaaaambulance
Dave Rywall on September 24, 2008 at 12:58 PM
One month a 10 days… UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH…
It’s getting brutal in Colorado.
reshas1 on September 24, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Can Obama do THIS??
No?? Then STFU, Obambi.
fred5678 on September 24, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Check out Bill CLinton last night on Greta on the “Rev Wright/David Duke” comparison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlRAGHqEqPU
he was stumped, where are the ads making these comparisons?????
jp on September 24, 2008 at 1:01 PM
I think this ad is completely justified. But I have no idea what the people who haven’t made up their minds are going to think. Biden tried to back track on his opposition… but it sounded pretty insincere.
I can imagine the DailyKos folks will blow a gasket.
petunia on September 24, 2008 at 1:01 PM
I wonder, will Barry take the time to answer Lt. Col. Fairhead’s question? Probably not, but what’s more important is why Palin’s handlers are keeping her out of harms way: away from the Obamedia.
Christine on September 24, 2008 at 1:03 PM
I agree the corruption angle is more troubling to me than any other. And the way the media covers for him now I can’t imagine they will magically start reporting truthfully when he is in office. That means he and his corrupt friends will have free reign.
It will be change alright. We can have more and more corruption forever.
petunia on September 24, 2008 at 1:06 PM
Thanks jp…I needed a reason to purge.
Christine on September 24, 2008 at 1:07 PM
A 72 year old guy so frail he can’t sit at a desk and type on a keyboard is really a healthy guy – perfect for a high stress no sleep job like the president.
Dave Rywall on September 24, 2008 at 1:09 PM
The “McCain can’t email” ad was an attempt by The Chosen One to lock up the netroots generation.
I suspect that the campaign thinking was more an attempt to portray McCain as “old” and that tech-savvy young people should not trust someone who can’t do something as simple as email. Thus, the only choice for President becomes the youthful, hip Obama.
Wildcatter1980 on September 24, 2008 at 1:13 PM
I always knew that drugs were bad for you, but isn’t that stretching the point a bit?
MarkTheGreat on September 24, 2008 at 1:14 PM
I’m glad Biden is on our side. In the next weeks, I’m sure his comments will continue to draw voters.
Hening on September 24, 2008 at 1:17 PM
What is it about liberals and their inability to follow a simple conversation?
It has nothing to do with frailty. It has to do with pain from war injuries.
If you still don’t want to understand the difference, then let me give you similar injuries and you can report on what it feels like.
MarkTheGreat on September 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Hell.to.the.YES.
That’s deep and I dont think its playable.
Mike D. on September 24, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Hening on September 24, 2008 at 1:17 PM
I dunno he gave a good speech today in Cincinnati without 1
mess up to be found,he’s the wild card in this.
Also don’t forget people Sarah gives her interview tonight with CBS must see tv.
tee866 on September 24, 2008 at 1:25 PM
What is it about liberals and their inability to follow a simple conversation?
It has nothing to do with frailty. It has to do with pain from war injuries.
If you still don’t want to understand the difference, then let me give you similar injuries and you can report on what it feels like.
MarkTheGreat on September 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM
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The pain from old war injuries is exactly what makes him frail. If you’re not physically well, you cannot possibly expect to be able to have the stamina to endure the rigors of the presidency. I await various comments about how tough McCain is today.
Dave Rywall on September 24, 2008 at 1:27 PM
When you don’t do your homework, you don’t get to whine that the test was unfair.
EyesOpen on September 24, 2008 at 1:32 PM
“Dave Rywall on September 24, 2008 at 1:27 PM”
you really wanna go down the road of duh[2-packs-a-day]1 looking haggard and barely able to string 2 sentences together w/o a teleprompter vs. John [looks as fresh at the end of the day as he does at the beginning?]
go for it, turd …
Buckaroo on September 24, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Okay, okay! I wish it was the day *after* Election Day, the returns were showing McCain/Palin 65%-30% over Obama/Biden (Bob Barr and Ralph Nader splitting the other 5%), all the would-be rioters had thought better of it and gone home to cry in their beer, and I had all the debates on TiVo so I could watch Sarah Palin use Joe Biden’s head for a mop and his butt for a broom over and over and over and over again!
Mary in LA on September 24, 2008 at 1:33 PM
“I wish it was” s/b “I wish it were”
/grammar-checking myself
Mary in LA on September 24, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Kind of….but I still have 2 cases of pop corn left here and that should last me until Nov. 4th……if I did my calculations right.
Old Hippie Vet on September 24, 2008 at 1:38 PM
you really wanna go down the road of duh[2-packs-a-day]1 looking haggard and barely able to string 2 sentences together w/o a teleprompter vs. John [looks as fresh at the end of the day as he does at the beginning?]
go for it, turd …
Buckaroo on September 24, 2008 at 1:32 PM
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Sure, Chachi, let’s go there. So exactly what does McCain do to stay in shape vs what Obama does? Why was McCain’s little health report over a thousand pages long?
Dave Rywall on September 24, 2008 at 1:46 PM
What’s wrong, Dave? Fall and you can’t get up?
BillH on September 24, 2008 at 1:56 PM
showboating at hoops for the camera does not qualify as a workout program …
well, yes, the health report was longer than du — oh, wait, duh1 NEVER RELEASED ANY HEALTH RECORDS!
Buckaroo on September 24, 2008 at 1:57 PM
I’m a disabled Nam Vet and my medical reports take up 2 1/2 folders…..that’s over 3,000 pages. What’s your point Spanky?……… or do you just like pissing on disabled vets?
Old Hippie Vet on September 24, 2008 at 1:59 PM
But challenging the VP nominee on the opposing ticket to a game of Horse because he thinks his chances are better probably does ;)
BillH on September 24, 2008 at 2:05 PM
or do you just like pissing on disabled vets?
Old Hippie Vet on September 24, 2008 at 1:59 PM
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No, anonymous poster on an anonymous web board who claims to be a vet, I am not “pissing on disabled vets”. If it’s too upsetting for you to discuss McCain’s health then feel free not to. That McCain’s medical reports are so long is an obvious indication of the level of his health. That this escapes you is not my fault.
Dave Rywall on September 24, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Your funny.
Old Hippie Vet on September 24, 2008 at 2:15 PM
What doesn’t escape, though Dave is the fact that, since you are Canadian, what you have to say is quite irrelevant.
That whaaambulance should be showing up at your house at any moment. Oh, wait- my bad. National Health Care. I forgot that you’ll need to take a number and wait a couple of months.
BillH on September 24, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Works for me.
pannw on September 24, 2008 at 2:16 PM
MY BAD…..you’re funny
Old Hippie Vet on September 24, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Well it took $5583.43 worth of makeup for McCain for a recent TV appearance. You do the math.
Dave Rywall on September 24, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Damn, Dave. Don’t be hatin’. It’s not his fault all you can afford is the drug-store stuff.
BillH on September 24, 2008 at 2:20 PM
You owe me a new monitor!
Old Hippie Vet on September 24, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Drop shipped to your door, Old Hippie Vet, with gratitude for your service.
BillH on September 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM
I’m pretty sure that’s pocket change compared to the average episode of “Oprah” or similar programs.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on September 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM
I don’t know, maybe its because he’s already been through that kind of stress and worse.
Count to 10 on September 24, 2008 at 2:30 PM
don’t know, maybe its because he’s already been through that kind of stress and worse.
Count to 10 on September 24, 2008 at 2:30 PM
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Yeah.McCain is exactly the same guy he was 40 years ago. Exactly.
Dave Rywall on September 24, 2008 at 2:33 PM
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