McCain has a serious inferiority complex.

[Mr. Rugen]

Why is every ad for McCain more of an ad against Obama?

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/mccain-ad-mocks-obama-as-the-one/

[Judge]

I don't even get what he's trying to accomplish there.

It's almost like it's missing a final line like, "That's why you should vote for me, just a good ol' run of the mill mixed-up crotchety old fart."

[ShakAttack]

I don't even get what he's trying to accomplish there.

It's almost like it's missing a final line like, "That's why you should vote for me, just a good ol' run of the mill mixed-up crotchety old fart."

:worship: :D :cheers:

[Spike]

That commercial was funny. It looked like something the Daily Show would put together.

[Sultanosurf]

It's almost like a Lee Atwater clone has jumped in for McCain. Which could be a tactical error, since one of McCain's strengths is his congeniality. Some of the stuff has been funny, some has seemed low and mean.

And can somebody translate McCain's comment in defense of the tactics? "I don't think our campaign isn't negative in the slightest..."

(Which of course could be a misquote by the AP - not like that's ever happened) http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j3OGmAHBodUTLWpu16TNbCLZi9tAD929OEU80

[Produce man]

Congrats to the NYT tool who just discovered negative campaign ads.:rolleyes:

[Jax]

McCain obviously has forgotten the 2008 campaign...

From the February 14, 2000 Newshour. Topic, is the media soft on McCain?

Oh, I think it’s probably more than that, Terry. I said last week that the news… the national news media were slobbering all over John McCain and that well known conservative correspondent Mary McGrory of the Washington Post said that absolutely it was true, that I was quite right, that the press has swooned for McCain. I’ve never seen anything like it. And I think what’s interesting for most viewers or people who are interested is that the press that is most pro-McCain are the most liberal press. The ones who are the biggest Clinton supporters like the New York Times and the Boston Globe have come out and said McCain is the anti-Clinton. The Washington Post actually ran an editorial that proclaimed that McCain was the conservative candidate in the race. It’s been a long time since Republicans looked to the Washington Post to tell them who was a conservative.

Read the full transcript (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june00/mccain_2-14.html)

[Banned_Forever]

That Ad was a miserable failure in it's intent, so much for the battlefield
of politics.

The Commercial couldn't have been put together any better by the
Obama Campaign Supporters.

You've got a commercial that paints Obama as the next Messiah and
his Smile and Positive Attitude sells the Package.

People don't watch commercials for the punchline, like at the end of
the joke. What the audience is hearing in that commercial is a Subltle
Voice and Visuals with a Smile and a message that says, "Yes! We Can!"

It's like having John McCain say, "Vote for Barack Obama, I'm John McCain,
and I Support this Message."

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It's like they say, Good or Bad? Advertising Sells the Product.

If I were John McCain, I'd being having pictures all over the
place with his face in the Ads, working with people, showing
the Smiles of Working Together, presenting the Promise of
Tomorrow. If your going to spend all that money showing
pictures of another doing just that? People are going to look
at it and say, "Damn! ...after 8 years of bush!t! That sounds
like a pretty Damned Good Dream to Me!"

You're coming onto the Ball Park Playing field after people have
just watched 17 innings of the worst plays they've ever seen in
their lives.

You come to this Ball Field? And You'd better have something to Show Them.

[Spike]

That Ad was a miserable failure in it's intent...

Kind of like your Bill Conduit-style rambling posts.

[Kace]

I think his name's Spike, not Suck.

[Spike]

That Ad was a miserable failure in it's intent...

Kind of like your parents' efforts in raising you.

[Sultanosurf]

Til B_F rants obscene, there are actually some coconuts of insight on the Isle of Dissolution. During the last two weeks McCain has seemed more like your pain-in-the-ass cranky old neighbor instead of a charismatic candidate that can reel in all the disaffected who can't stand Obama. But hey, his numbers are getting a nice bump, so maybe going negative will pay.

[Spike]

But hey, his numbers are getting a nice bump, so maybe going negative will pay.

They'll get an even bigger bump when his hit television show returns this fall on SciFi.

http://www.greyfade.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/saul-mccain.jpghttp://www.nerdcore.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/mccain.jpg

[Sultanosurf]

Pretty interesting cross-the-political-spectrum analysis in the W-Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080102071.html,

Here's just one of eight, love the last line:

EDWARD J. ROLLINS
Head of Ronald Reagan's 1984 reelection campaign and Mike Huckabee's campaign chairman this year

"An ad man's dream.

In addition to Obama being compared to the "silly girls," you also heard he's going to raise your taxes and make us more dependent on foreign oil. That's the good news for those on the McCain team. The bad news is they may be diminishing their own great brand: "Straight Talker, John McCain!"

After being attacked in the primaries by Mitt Romney's relentless negative ads, John McCain refused to respond in kind. The Manchester Union Leader praised him and said McCain has "conviction" and that "Granite Staters want a candidate who will look them in the eye and tell them the truth."

I get disturbed when I hear McCain operatives say this campaign is all about Obama and that they have to define the Democrat as "not ready to lead." This race is also about John McCain. Is he ready to lead? Is he willing to have the courage to move the country in a new direction? The first test will be whether he has the courage to run an honest, "uplifting" campaign. Or will we be going to have more "negative tactics" from the Rove junior varsity.

We need to demand that each candidate look us in the eye and tell us how he gets us out of the mess we're in and the direction in which he will take the country. If they spend their TV millions doing that, the country will be well served. And, finally, the news media need to be covering the race, not rerunning political commercials."

[Pro]

Why is every ad for McCain more of an ad against Obama?


Why? One reason.

They work.

That's more of an indictment of the consumer society than anything else. Consumers tend to remember the silly and ridiculous.

[Banned_Forever]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3vpTP4wOKg&feature=user

Amusing.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd0Kb2SnD_Q&feature=user


More Amusing ...

[Zeke]

http://extras.sltrib.com/bagley/content/08012008.jpg

[Roy Hobbs]

I sure wasn't expecting Chuck in any 2008 ads.
http://www.templeton-cambridge.org/fellows/grossman/publications/2007.03.07/americans_get_an_f_in_religion/img/charlton_heston_plays_moses.jpg