That one's going to leave a mark.

Tiny. Heh.

Yes gets the Jewish vote and makes clear Obama wants to keep people ignorant and focused on trivialities.

I just asked on the previous thread, is it me or has McCain put together the best collection of attack ads in televsion history? Granted, Barry had to do his part by giving him so much ammunition....

Can't wait for the next McCain ad. Should be out, like, what - immediately after Barry's speech?

Ouch! Leave Barack Obama alone!

How tall is Ahmanutjob anyway?

Oh, very good!

re: #6 Cap'n DOC

How tall is Ahmanutjob anyway?

I think he makes Kucinich look big.

This is the stuff nobody thought McCain would do. And he's doing it even before the official nomination. Putting Obama's face up there with the word "Tiny" isn't exactly a stroke of genius, it's an obvious choice, but nobody thought McCain would do it.

re: #4 harrylook

A few hours, anyway. There's likely to be so much ammunition, one has to pick and choose.

Wonder what voter he's going after on that one? Very effective.

They left out the embassy crisis, but perhaps it's for the better- the obama camp can't complain they're using the former hostages that way.

I'm rightwinger3 and I approve of this message!

Aren't they still complaining about the last one?

"Tiny."

Everybody knows that this is a thinly veiled attack on Obama's manhood. Just another disgusting attack by the racists conservatives. /

re: #6 Cap'n DOC

How tall is Ahmanutjob anyway?

He was running around with Smeagol the last time I saw him.

Dangerously unprepared to be President.
ouch

How is Barry going to accuse McCain of "playing the race card" on that one?

Dang. I'll have to watch it later.

Does 'tiny' refer to Obama's preparedness for office or to his notion of Iran being a 'tiny' threat?

re: #11 Creeping Eruption

Wonder what voter he's going after on that one? Very effective.

I dont think it is the MI muslims.
could be the Menonites.

re: #16 Eowyn2

I'm getting a very clear visual here - I mean ear...

From an email just sent to me:

Suddenly a keen sense of morality ...

John Edwards has been banned from making a speech at the democratic convention for having an affair and lying about it.

Instead Bill Clinton will be speaking in his place.

The McCain folks are hitting them out of the park with these commercials.

re: #18 sngnsgt

How is Barry going to accuse McCain of "playing the race card" on that one?

See #15.

re: #19 NoSubmission

Dang. I'll have to watch it later.

Does 'tiny' refer to Obama's preparedness for office or to his notion of Iran being a 'tiny' threat?

Both.

I'm so glad the McCain campaign has stepped up to the plate. We are all doubting whether he would do so not too many weeks back.

re: #18 sngnsgt

How is Barry going to accuse McCain of "playing the race card" on that one?

"Tiny" mocks his white half?

Oh, the response ad will complain that McCain is going negative, attacking Obamassiah. They have such thin freaking skin. Since the media won't investigate him or tell people he has ZERO experience, McCain has to...

re: #2 Cap'n DOC

Tiny. Heh.

yeah its only what 3 times the size of Iraq?

I don't know who started doing McCain's ads after the shakeup a while back, but he/she is doing one heck of a job. And has Obama spitting mad. Keep it up folks.

re: #16 Eowyn2

And both are seeking out Precious.

Smack!

(And the word "Tiny" gets applied to the Obamamessiah too -- that's a neat bit of subliminal advertising.)

Iran is the 18th largest nation in landmass, and has 70,000,000. How is that tiny?

Apparently, the Chosen One will be talking about his "tax-cuts for the middle class" in his speech. Dear God, I hope McCain's camo has a nice informative commercial and response that flat out says he is lying...

I'm loving these 30 second zingers. Hit 'em hard, hit 'em fast. People won't wait for a 5 minute video to load, so these are escellent to share with your friends.

re: #25 HelloDare

See #15.

You knew that was coming...

Did he mention Iran-sponsored Hezbollah murdering our Marines in Beirut?

re: #24 pablito

The McCain folks are hitting them out of the park with these commercials.

And its working.

Gallup: McCain 44% / Obama 45%
You would think Obama would already be receiving the "big bump" from the convention.

ShortShit is the only tiny thing about Iran.

ZOMBIE ALERT!

Zombie, look to the skies and please get some shots of the plane towing the Osama bin Laden banner...from what I could see, there is a picture of bin Laden with the top line of text reading "Osama says" but I can't make out the bottom line since it's backward from my vantage point, and it's flapping too much for me to make out. I assume it says something about voting for Barry Zero, but I'm not sure...

Maybe this is a new McCain strategy...keep Obama so busy refuting these attack ads that he doesn't have time to make any attack ads of his own against McCain. Either way glad to see the gloves are really off now.

re: #33 MandyManners

I thought that was the point.

Iran is the eighteenth largest country in the world both in population and area. Considering that there are 195 countries in the world, that puts Iran in the top 10% in both categories. Not among the very largest, but hardly tiny.

re: #6 Cap'n DOC

How tall is Ahmanutjob anyway?

Never ever work for a man that is under 5' 4". Trust me on this.

re: #38 Racer X

And its working.

Gallup: McCain 44% / Obama 45%
You would think Obama would already be receiving the "big bump" from the convention.

Maybe that's just it, people ARE thinking...

re: #35 doppelganglander

PIMF: "excellent"

re: #33 MandyManners

Its all a matter of perception. I mean. Doesnt the US have lots more people?

re: #40 tastes like chicken

ZOMBIE ALERT!

Zombie, look to the skies and please get some shots of the plane towing the Osama bin Laden banner...from what I could see, there is a picture of bin Laden with the top line of text reading "Osama says" but I can't make out the bottom line since it's backward from my vantage point, and it's flapping too much for me to make out. I assume it says something about voting for Barry Zero, but I'm not sure...

osama? a plane? wtf?

How many of these ads will get placement in general rotation before the election. Sending them to the Net is one thing, preaching to the converted is one thing - pushing this into mass markets is another.

It does, however, provide McCain's people with an opportunity to gauge reaction and see which ones do best - and use those in wide mass market tv buys.

re: #41 Dream

Maybe this is a new McCain strategy...keep Obama so busy refuting these attack ads that he doesn't have time to make any attack ads of his own against McCain. Either way glad to see the gloves are really off now.

They ARE NOT attack ads. They are informative.

I figured out why Obama is going to speak in front of that faux temple.
He's going to mimic Samson and symbolically pull down the pillars of the Bush/McCain Temple of Doom.

Folks, it nothing to worry about. Obama will speak, Achmenijad will listen and comply just like Putin did when Obama spoke to him.

Relax our security couldn't be in better hands.

Obama speaks,
so it will be done!

No more nasty military to get into ugly wars, no more trade disputes, it's all peace and justice every where on Obama's Word!

/// just to make sure.

While I totally agree with the danger Iran poses, I think this is counter productive.A lot of fence sitters fear that McCain is going to do a premptive attack on Iran and this will only serve to convince them.If it's aimed at the Jewish vote, a waste.

I think this ad is worth about 50 electoral votes all by itself.

Anyone know if the MSM outlets are not letting McCain run his ads?

re: #37 NoSubmission

Not to mention Iranian Special Group commandos in Iraq supplying advanced IEDs to al Qaeda.

Obama's lawyers will be trying to prevent this one too from being broadcast.

/they won't, but we can always have the audacity to hope they will

I like the ad and am more comfortable with McCain then I was a few months ago. But he is still a pretty weak candidate. The entire Republican field was weak. This should be a cake walk for the Dems.

If the Democrats cannot nominate someone who can be elected president in this environment - low Bush poll numbers, war weariness, the MSM in the tank for the Dem, the economy - the Democratic party as we know it is finished.

Clinton was the only two term elected Democrat since FDR.
Clinton had Perot's help when he sucked up 18 million (1992) and 8 million (1996) votes.

This is and was the Democrat's election to loose. Obama just might be the man to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

BIG TINY IS RIPPING US OFF!

re: #41 Dream

Attack "ads or facts"?

re: #50 cblesz

In this day and age, informative ads are attack ads. And vice versa.

Anything that casts the other guy in a bad light, no matter how accurate, truthful, verifiable, and libel/slander proof, is going to assumed an attack ad because of tone.

Awesome ad ... it works for me ... should be effective!

All of the groups that hate America love Obama and want him to be the next POTUS. What does that say?

From "up here" I would much prefer Mr. McCain sitting across the table from Putin. Obama is manifestly not in the same league as Putin and McCain. With Russia feeling safe enough to raise its very ugly head, please sit McCain at the table.

I hope the Republicans keep these hard hitting informative ads coming.

Are there really people out there waiting for ads to make up their minds for them?

re: #55 NoSubmission

Anyone know if the MSM outlets are not letting McCain run his ads?

The MSM have already assured everyone that Obama is hip and knows about texting while McCain uses a quill pen and wears a powdered wig.

re: #61 lawhawk

In this day and age, informative ads are attack ads. And vice versa.

Anything that casts the other guy in a bad light, no matter how accurate, truthful, verifiable, and libel/slander proof, is going to assumed an attack ad because of tone.

Is this Katie Couric? Brian Williams? Or are you keith Olberman? Give me a break. it is not an attack ad. The MSM and Obama camps may say so, but it certainly is not. it is informative AND factual.

re: #64 NoSubmission

Who can say, but if they drive the Obama batty, it's all good.

re: #55 NoSubmission

Anyone know if the MSM outlets are not letting McCain run his ads?

The Ayers ad ran here in Texas

FYI, here's the quote the words in the ad were taken from.

Obama explained, “Strong countries and strong Presidents talk to their adversaries. That’s what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That’s what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That’s what Nixon did with Mao. I mean, think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela — these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, ‘We’re going to wipe you off the planet.’ And ultimately, that direct engagement led to a series of measures that helped prevent nuclear war and over time allowed the kind of opening that brought down the Berlin Wall.”

re: #18 sngnsgt

How is Barry going to accuse McCain of "playing the race card" on that one?

Unfortunately, that's an easy one.

"McCain is playing on America's fears of brown people."

re: #64 NoSubmission

Are there really people out there waiting for ads to make up their minds for them?

This is the USA. Unfortunately, the answer to your question is, yes.

re: #64 NoSubmission

Are there really people out there waiting for ads to make up their minds for them?

Yes. Two of my close friends are undecided and leaning toward McCain.

re: #68 kawfytawk

I heard that Fox has rejected the Ayers ad.

re: #40 tastes like chicken

ZOMBIE ALERT!

Zombie, look to the skies and please get some shots of the plane towing the Osama bin Laden banner...from what I could see, there is a picture of bin Laden with the top line of text reading "Osama says" but I can't make out the bottom line since it's backward from my vantage point, and it's flapping too much for me to make out. I assume it says something about voting for Barry Zero, but I'm not sure...

WHAT?

Al Qaeda was just a "tiny" group of smelly cavedwellers of 9/11. And they only sent a "tiny" group here to murder us. Someone should tell Barry size doesn't matter anymore....

re: #65 lifeofthemind

The MSM have already assured everyone that Obama is hip and knows about texting while McCain uses a quill pen and wears a powdered wig.

I'd upding you if i had my updinger turned on.

LOLLLL

re: #48 NoSubmission

I'm serious...there's a plane flying around Denver towing a banner with a photo of OBL. The plane has made a couple of passes over the city, but he's usually heading north when I need him to head south so I can read the text. I was able to read the top line, but not the rest of it...

re: #55 NoSubmission

Anyone know if the MSM outlets are not letting McCain run his ads?

Fox won't run the Ayers ad.

re: #57 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Obama's lawyers will be trying to prevent this one too from being broadcast.

/they won't, but we can always have the audacity to hope they will

Let them try. What do you suppose attorneys bill for that sort of work?

re: #73 vagabond trader

I heard that Fox has rejected the Ayers ad.

Not sure if I saw it on fox or on NBC during olympics...but was surprised to see it none the less

re: #37 NoSubmission

Did he mention Iran-sponsored Hezbollah murdering our Marines in Beirut?

Nope. And that is just fine. The kiddies who support Obama probably don't remember it in the first place and consider it ancient history if they do.

Someone needs to tell Senator Obama that Iran is not only not tiny, its actually quote a large country with over 65 million people.

That makes Iran bigger population-wise than France, Italy, or England (each of which have about 60 million), or South Korea (about 50 million).

obama came out the other day with an Iran policy:

Obama would step up pressure on Iran over nukes

"My job as president would be to try to make sure we are tightening the screws diplomatically on Iran, that we mobilize the world community to go after Iran's nuclear program in a serious way. ... We have to do it before Israel feels its back is against the wall."

Because no one's ever thought of doing that before!

By putting out these ads, day after day, on different topics, the McCain campaign has gotten well inside Obama's OODA Loop. It takes one to two days for Obama's campaign to respond, by which time the next ad is out, coming at him from yet another angle. This is how McCain has taken the initiative away from Obama even during the Democratic coronation convention.

The fighter pilot is beating the community organizer.

The McCain campaign has been tremendous about hitting on Obama this week, I certainly hope that they are not distracted by the GOP convention and respond as effectively next week and are able to continue to do that until November.

re: #77 tastes like chicken

I'm serious...there's a plane flying around Denver towing a banner with a photo of OBL. The plane has made a couple of passes over the city, but he's usually heading north when I need him to head south so I can read the text. I was able to read the top line, but not the rest of it...

Denver lizards to the rooftops!

re: #45 sngnsgt

Rasmussan has it McCain 45%, Obama %44...

re: #73 vagabond trader

I heard that Fox has rejected the Ayers ad.

Yes, they did do that, though they said that it had nothing to do with Obama's demands. It really doesn't matter I think, since they spend quite some bit of time talking about the Ayers issue and not in a good way.

re: #78 MandyManners

Fox won't run the Ayers ad.

Because the Obamahdi Army threatened to pull their press credentials. The Sopranos would be proud.

I'm maddogg, and I approve that message too:)

Dangerously unprepared!

If four years of McCain will be the same as four years of Bush,, then

four years of Obama will be like.... (insert a punchline) !

some of my best
1. 4 years of Hell
2. 4 years of Howdy Doody except Howdy Doody was just a puppet and had Buffalo Bob.
3.4 years of Jimmy Carter.

Make up your own slogan, it is fun.

re: #76 NoSubmission

I'd upding you if i had my updinger turned on.

LOLLLL

That sounds inviting.

re: #23 concernedUCIstudent

From an email just sent to me:

Obviously you don't understand democratic sophistication. You simply cannot have extra-marital sex if your wife has cancer and if you (allegedly) make the willing woman pregnant.

Otherwise, what's the problem? Having the right politics trumps having illicit sex. Only untight republicans worry about "morality".

re: #38 Racer X

And its working.

Gallup: McCain 44% / Obama 45%
You would think Obama would already be receiving the "big bump" from the convention.

Are you sure those polls were taken after the convention started? Even if they were, Monday was a poor performance by the Dems.

Before we measure the bounce - or lack thereof - we need to take a poll 24 or 48 hours after BO's speech. You need at least 24 hours to let the MSM polish it up and repackage it. Then 24 hours to collect the data.

I don't think we will have a good read on the bounce until the Sunday morning shows.

Nightmare alert! the 3 am phone call to potus obama.."mr president, Tel Aviv has just been hit by a nuclear weapon sent by iran at 9am local Tel Aviv time...what do we do Sir?"
obama: errr,uhhh,errr...hmmm I will call the UN after I pee, and err, ummmm, yea...george clooney made syrianna, better call him. errr, uhhhh, errr..is oprah up by chance? hmm better not bother her...err uhhhh, let me see if scarlett johannson is on yahoo chat...I'll get right back to you..."

/this Nightmare is brought to you by the people voting for obama...

re: #83 Sharmuta

obama came out the other day with an Iran policy:

Obama would step up pressure on Iran over nukes

Because no one's ever thought of doing that before!

What the F(** does the nincompoop think the Bush administration has been doing about Iran for the last eight years? Or has he not paid attention to the number of times this has been to the Security Council, etc. and so on?

re: #90 doppelganglander

Because the Obamahdi Army threatened to pull their press credentials. The Sopranos would be proud.

Was that the reason?! Fox hasn't been shy talking about the ad nor interviewing Stanley Kurtz.

I think that the Obama camp is going to think that the McCain campaign is impugning Barack's manhood by putting the word "tiny" next to a photo of him. I can just see Bob Herbert's next column. Not to say that Bob doesn't have his own "shortcomings".

/sarc

re: #14 Peacekeeper

Yes, that's right.

It doesn't make them look nimble and competent, does it?

re: #88 Kenneth

Racists! /do I?

re: #78 MandyManners

Fox won't run the Ayers ad.

The Ayers ad isn't from the McCain campaign.

re: #94 offendi

Obviously you don't understand democratic sophistication. You simply cannot have extra-marital sex if your wife has cancer and if you (allegedly) make the willing woman pregnant.

Otherwise, what's the problem? Having the right politics trumps having illicit sex. Only untight republicans worry about "morality".

I'd be tempted to respond with a hearty "FUCK YOU" but the moonbat might take that as an invitation.

re: #92 silversmith

Dangerously unprepared!

If four years of McCain will be the same as four years of Bush,, then

four years of Obama will be like.... (insert a punchline) !

some of my best
1. 4 years of Hell
2. 4 years of Howdy Doody except Howdy Doody was just a puppet and had Buffalo Bob.
3.4 years of Jimmy Carter.

Make up your own slogan, it is fun.

Obama; making 4 years of Carter look good.

MCain will bury Barry!

re: #90 doppelganglander

Because the Obamahdi Army threatened to pull their press credentials. The Sopranos would be proud.

Seriously? Where does that info come from?

re: #86 taxfreekiller

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the Weather Underground types at least had contact with the KGB, bearing in mind that the KGB pretty much supplied and directed groups like the Baader-Meinhoff gang and the Red Brigades. I'm not sure why the FBI would back off of keeping an eye on them, though.

McCain is landing enough jabs to keep the loonys off balance. Now when to land that hard right uppercut that spells lights out?

Looks like Crist won't be on the McCain ticket:

[Link: www.miamiherald.com...]

re: #102 lifeofthemind

The Ayers ad isn't from the McCain campaign.

I know it's from the Texas GOP. What's Fox's excuse?

re: #102 lifeofthemind

The Ayers ad isn't from the McCain campaign.

Correct, but they have and will run plenty of other ads not created by either campaign.

re: #95 jester6

I don't think we will have a good read on the bounce until the Sunday morning shows.

Honestly, I don't think the "bounce" is all that relevant anyway.

The most important poll is the election itself. The rest are mostly smoke, shifting here and there with varying margins of error.

At this point in the last two cycles, both Kerry and Gore were ahead of Bush.

Looks like Barry's bump was a pothole.

re: #89 galloping granny

Hmm, Fox isn't nearly as critical as some want to believe. Did you catch the puff piece bio of the Obama? Not a mention of Ayers,among other key details. Murdock is an ardent supporter, btw.

re: #69 JustMyView

If he thinks an evil but sane country like the Soviet Union is a greater threat than an insane regime unmoved by concepts like Mutally Assured Destruction, then Obama is a bigger idiot with less understanding of the world than I thought.

And what happened in Reykjavik? The short answer is nothing was agreed to. And knowing that is vital to understanding it.

When asked by Russia to "talk about" our SDI, Reagan said, "Nope, not even going to discuss it. Not on the table."

re: #58 jester6

Perot was 92. There was no serious 3rd party 1996 runner

re: #104 jcm

See, it is easy and fun

re: #111 cliffster

Correct, but they have and will run plenty of other ads not created by either campaign.

I deeply believe that this one hits very close to the bone. And, it paves the way for an ad featuring Ayers standing on the American flag.

It is simply wrong of McCain to refer to Obama's thinking of Iranian nuclear capability as threat to Israel.

Doesn't he know that the Obama people don't look upon this as a threat but as an opportunity to rid the Mid-East of that Western Colonial State?

re: #95 jester6

There is typically a 8-10% post convention "bounce". The McCain camp is putting it as high as 16%. Be ready for it, and don't panic.

Keep the informative ads coming Johnny!

re: #83 Sharmuta

We have to do it before Israel feels its back is against the wall

Meaning what exactly? The Israelis get to call for permission when the Iranian missiles are over Jordan?

Back to drudgery. It's not below my pay-grade.

re: #118 MandyManners

I deeply believe that this one hits very close to the bone. And, it paves the way for an ad featuring Ayers standing on the American flag.

Maybe they refused, just to build a little hype. And they'll finally agree to run it, oh, one week before the elections

I’d like to see the following McCain ads:

1. McCain’s condemnation of the Russian invasion of Georgia vs. Obama’s moral equivocation of the Russian tour of Georgia.

We’ve seen what Obama does at 3:00AM, and it isn’t what real leaders do.

2. Obama’s house and gift of land from Rezko, and the many projects, rehabilitation by Rezko / public funding arranged by Ill. State Senator Obama, that are uninhabitable / bankrupt.

Where did the $42million+ go?

3. The list of grantees, successes (if any) and cost (well, it was a $50million fund) of the CAC, as led by Obama .

Fiscal responsibility & mature leadership and decisions, or a puppet “played” by a 70’s radical (Ayres)?

4. More details about the Obama / (Ayres, Wright, Pfleger, ... ) links

Selected commonality: They all hate the American Middle Class.

5. More of Hillary mentioning that “Obama has a speech from 2002”

How about an expose of Michael Moore and Cuban Universal Health Care? Maybe not; this might scare away the PUMAs.

re: #114 vagabond trader

Hmm, Fox isn't nearly as critical as some want to believe. Did you catch the puff piece bio of the Obama? Not a mention of Ayers,among other key details. Murdock is an ardent supporter, btw.

Of Obama? No he isn't.

re: #97 galloping granny

I don't think pledging to meet with them without precondition is how I define "stepping up pressure". And Joe "let's give Iran $200 million" Biden will be any help in this either.

re: #107 joncelli

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the Weather Underground types at least had contact with the KGB, bearing in mind that the KGB pretty much supplied and directed groups like the Baader-Meinhoff gang and the Red Brigades. I'm not sure why the FBI would back off of keeping an eye on them, though.

Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society and the International Solidarity Movement were all well known communist front groups during the 60s. SDS and ISM are back on most college campuses today.

re: #108 maddogg

McCain is landing enough jabs to keep the loonys off balance. Now when to land that hard right uppercut that spells lights out?

This fight, necessarily, is going to go to round ten, then go to the scorecards. So its too early for that uppercut (assuming it exists).

Until then, McCain is doing well scoring points with jabs.

The key to winning a boxing match is body shots. Making the opponent too tired from repeated pummeling of the midsection to allow them to keep their hands up, so that the KO comes.

While "Zeus" Obama is going to be in his leftist temple, McCain is obviously doing the right thing.

BTW on #94 I meant " uptight" republicans.

That is the bad thing about campaign slogans...they can get turned around. The old two edged sword thang.

How long before Pat Buchanan comes out and denounces this ad?

re: #84 Kenneth

Kenneth, a most excellent observation.

re: #34 cblesz

Apparently, the Chosen One will be talking about his "tax-cuts for the middle class" in his speech. Dear God, I hope McCain's camo has a nice informative commercial and response that flat out says he is lying...

Based on his "Blueprint for Change" and the policies Sen Obama wants instituted, how is this to be accomplished? The upper tiers can only absorb so large a tax increase, before they are tapped out. The lower income and retirees making under 50k won't have to pay taxes (according to his Blueprint for change). Middle class tax cuts are addressed twice, but he doesn't define middle class. But, we proposes massive increased spending. This guy is going to have to make Mandrake the Magician look like a rookie.

re: #98 MandyManners

Was that the reason?! Fox hasn't been shy talking about the ad nor interviewing Stanley Kurtz.

I wish I could offer you a source for that but I'm blanking. I know I read it at one of the reputable blogs -- it had to be Michelle Malkin, Hot Air or NRO because those are the ones I read most. As for Fox's coverage, I guess they think it's easier and less heavy-handed to intimidate Fox over running the actual ad, compared to trying to influence their news coverage. It's pretty thuggish anyway you look at it, IMHO.

Had me with the Flag of Israel..

re: #122 MandyManners

Me too, posting in between stirring the sauce and boiling the water.

re: #110 MandyManners

I know it's from the Texas GOP. What's Fox's excuse?

actually it is a texas millionaires group... AIP (?) can't remember the group...but apparently Obama's team has requested they be punished for the ad....sent letters to Justice dept.

Re: Question about Dr. A's height.

Revealed by alternative view at photo opportunity gathering:

[Link: www.hyscience.com...]

re: #114 vagabond trader

Hmm, Fox isn't nearly as critical as some want to believe. Did you catch the puff piece bio of the Obama? Not a mention of Ayers,among other key details. Murdock is an ardent supporter, btw.

Yes, I did catch that. And some of their announcers are very clearly pro Obama. Shep Smith, the idiot that is the sports dude on Fox & Friends . . .

I find the number of wealthy businessmen who support Obama almost astounding. He has clearly announced that he will nationalize the oil companies. Don't they realize that once we go down that road, they will be next?

"Tiny?" Bob Herbert was right - you're all a bunch of phallus-obsessed racists!
/

re: #127 Kenneth

I don't think pledging to meet with them without precondition is how I define "stepping up pressure". And Joe "let's give Iran $200 million" Biden will be any help in this either.

I quite agree.

re: #130 offendi

The key to winning a boxing match is body shots. Making the opponent too tired from repeated pummeling of the midsection to allow them to keep their hands up, so that the KO comes.

While "Zeus" Obama is going to be in his leftist temple, McCain is obviously doing the right thing.

BTW on #94 I meant " uptight" republicans.

Excellent point. Ribcage here, solar plexus there, eventually you can't fend them off anymore.

As for #94 thanks for clarifying I was confused, that would apply more to the liberals protesting in Denver right now.

The Ayers add ran in Ohio too. The Ohio republican party also had a great add running during Hillary's speech last night using her words to bash Obama, different from the McCain one or was it the texas republican party one. I cant remember, but it was different and actually ran in the first commercial break after her speech.

re: #90 doppelganglander

Because the Obamahdi Army threatened to pull their press credentials. The Sopranos would be proud.

Welcome to the Chicago Way.

re: #138 kawfytawk

actually it is a texas millionaires group... AIP (?) can't remember the group...but apparently Obama's team has requested they be punished for the ad....sent letters to Justice dept.

Two days in a row. Here -
[Link: michellemalkin.com...]

re: #4 harrylook

I just asked on the previous thread, is it me or has McCain put together the best collection of attack ads in televsion history? Granted, Barry had to do his part by giving him so much ammunition....

Can't wait for the next McCain ad. Should be out, like, what - immediately after Barry's speech?

* * *
They're not attacks, they're the TRUTH!

"Dangerously unprepared...". I like that. These people are geniuses.

A well-done ad and visually gorgeous. Really lush and well-lit, somehow, even with found footage.

I do wish they had hit the nuclear aspect a little harder. The narrator took on a slightly sarcastic tone when he said "to generate power," but I'm not sure it's enough to catch the attention of busy people as they walk past the television, much potato chips, etc.

Soooo... aren't the Dems supposed to be having some kind of faked roll call count of the votes? You know, the kind corrupt politicians love - now look for the sake of party unity we're only going to count for awhile then our guy wins like it or not...

I liked that political ad from McCain. It only repeats what "The Obama" has been saying so how can the Dems complain. If the Dems don't like the ad they need to complain to their master.

re: #147 alegrias

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They're not attacks, they're the TRUTH!

I don't see why you can't attack with the truth. If there is some more PC term that I should be using to describe an ad that goes after the opponent, I will gladly use it....

I bet the Temple speech will make for a nice You Tube.

Excuse me folks a hairy friend has needs.

Ahhhh! Class!

Pelosi To McCain Hecklers: "Can We Drill Your Brain?"

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D- SC) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) introduced a proposal for energy independence. As one of the speakers addressed increasing green energy development and implementation, a group of John McCain supporters began shouting, "drill here, drill now," which prompted a response from Pelosi. "You want to drill right here? Can we drill your brain?" asked Pelosi. Democratic enthusiasts responded with loud cheers.

re: #147 alegrias

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They're not attacks, they're the TRUTH!

You're forgetting - anything other than outright fawning over The One™ is an attack ad.

re: #150 anotherindyfilmguy

All they need is a smoke-filled room (well, if they had any cigars...)

yeah it was AIP that made the ayers ad....Michelle Malkin talks about all the hubbub and call for prosecution Here

re: #154 lifeofthemind

Excuse me folks a hairy friend has needs.

Please, this is a family website!

re: #154 lifeofthemind

Excuse me folks a hairy friend has needs.

lifeofthemind knows Sasquatch?

re: #143 cliffster

Excellent point. Ribcage here, solar plexus there, eventually you can't fend them off anymore.

As for #94 thanks for clarifying I was confused, that would apply more to the liberals protesting in Denver right now.

Obama isn't fending them off at all. From the get go a month or so ago, he opened his "fight the smears" website and he has done absolutely nothing except attempt to counteract every last little criticism, statement or ad since. He is so completely off his game and off track that I will be very surprised if he manages to get it back. He is incapable of letting anything go.

Funny thing is, McCain told him exactly how to handle the criticisms before he started him. "Learn to laugh." Obama took that as criticism too and it has been all down hill from there.

re: #154 lifeofthemind

Excuse me folks a hairy friend has needs.

Not even going to ask what that is code for.

re: #157 joncelli

All they need is a smoke-filled room (well, if they had any cigars...)

They shouldn't have gotten rid of Slick.

re: #162 Racer X

Not even going to ask what that is code for.

ROFL

BTW, Capt Ed has his piece up at Hotair about the DNC shifting away from a televised floor roll call vote, to delegates voting in their hotels, free from from the prying of cameras.

This has "potential PR disaster" written all over it.

"Count every vote!" LOL

Great ad...Omama is in the middle of HIS convention and he's not seeing a bump in the polls...keep kicking McCain.

re: #103 MandyManners

I'd be tempted to respond with a hearty "FUCK YOU" but the moonbat might take that as an invitation.

Don't worry, democrats are given to understand republicans don't have sex. It's like an amoeba thing when they reproduce, or something.

To allow Bill, the oral sex recipient, to speak, but not John Edwards, a popular dem with a strong following because he did the full deed, is hypocritical. They are just afraid women voters will charge Edward's bad behavior to Obama, i.e. allowing him to speak is somehow Obama giving approval. Contradicts their total disdain for morality.

re: #154 lifeofthemind

Excuse me folks a hairy friend has needs.

I want to make sure this is the most responded to post.

re: #165 Edouard

BTW, Capt Ed has his piece up at Hotair about the DNC shifting away from a televised floor roll call vote, to delegates voting in their hotels, free from from the prying of cameras.

This has "potential PR disaster" written all over it.

"Count every vote!" LOL

who's gonna be the counter?

The newer Ayers meme that I wish the GOP would push more strongly is: Why did William Ayers, 60's radical, bombsetting terrorist and America-hater see so much potential in Barack Obama for achieving his far leftist goals?

Why did Ayers set so much store in Obama?

Can't get too excited just yet. Won't be long until B Hussein starts running his own ads. And he has $100 million, and doesn't have stations refusing to run his ads. Oh, and truth is not a requirement, so he will say whatever he wants to about McCain.

re: #154 lifeofthemind

Excuse me folks a hairy friend has needs.

The spotlight now turns upon lifeofthemind.

re: #140 galloping granny

I find the number of wealthy businessmen who
support Obama almost astounding. He has clearly announced that he will
nationalize the oil companies. Don't they realize that once we go down
that road, they will be next?

Misplaced guilt probably has a lot do do with it. And while no businessman would support out & out nationalization, i.e., the Feds run the show lock, stock & barrel, a "lite" nationalization would be great. They'd be the only game in town, could never be fired, and they'd just have to deal with more regulation & commisar-type figures on the Board of Directors.

re: #125 Nevergiveup

Sure sounds like it here.

[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...]

re: #133 formercorpsman

Credit were credit is due:
Boyd vs Alinsky

re: #168 Lively

I want to make sure this is the most responded to post.

I say everyone ding up post #154 and put it in the top ten.

re: #172 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The spotlight now turns upon lifeofthemind.

But he didn't know hairy friend when he was eight.

Who is it that joined McCain's Campaign - Steve Smith? Whoever it is has ramped up the campaign and it is clicking on all cylinders - there is a lot of material out there just ready for ignition - all Barry has on the other hand is: McCain is Bush, wah, wah, wah

re: #165 Edouard

BTW, Capt Ed has his piece up at Hotair about the DNC shifting away from a televised floor roll call vote, to delegates voting in their hotels, free from from the prying of cameras.

This has "potential PR disaster" written all over it.

"Count every vote!" LOL

How fast can we say "rigged election" - Selected, not Elected! This will only make Hillary supporters even more sure that their gal is being railroaded.

Actually, they could do another ad in tandem with this one:

If Obama was really concerned about Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, then why did he pick Senator Biden? His record speaks for itself:

Biden Votes Wrong on Iran:

* November 2007, Kyl-Lieberman Resolution, 76-22: Like Obama, Biden was one of the few senators to oppose the bipartisan 2007 Kyl-Lieberman Amendment labeling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Democratic senators supporting the bipartisan resolution: Sen. Clinton (D-NY), Sen. Reid (D-NV), Sen. Durbin (D-IL), and Sen. Levin (D-MI).
* June 2004, Letter Urging the President to Highlight Iran's Nuclear Program at the G-8 Summit, 66 Signers: Biden did not sign this important letter which had 66 co-signers.
* May 1998, Iran Missile Proliferation Sanctions Act, 90-4: In 1998, Biden was one of only four senators to vote against the Iran Missile Proliferation Sanctions Act, a bill that punished foreign companies or other entities that sent Iran sensitive missile technology or expertise.

Good ad. They should have put the clip of the crowd of Iranonazis yelling "Death to America" in unison before an approving Khameini though, instead of the banner.

I love my red meat...bloody! ;p

re: #154 lifeofthemind

Excuse me folks a hairy friend has needs.

If thats him in your av- then its a very very nice hairy friend :-))

re: #112 looking closely

Honestly, I don't think the "bounce" is all that relevant anyway.

The most important poll is the election itself. The rest are mostly smoke, shifting here and there with varying margins of error.

At this point in the last two cycles, both Kerry and Gore were ahead of Bush.

Agreed. It's just something political/news junkies like us watch. Kinda like ERA in baseball.

I am interested to see if either candidate has a "ceiling" of support. Pollsters on both sides have claimed it exists. I wanna see if they are right.

re: #155 jcm

Ahhhh! Class!

Pelosi To McCain Hecklers: "Can We Drill Your Brain?"

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D- SC) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) introduced a proposal for energy independence. As one of the speakers addressed increasing green energy development and implementation, a group of John McCain supporters began shouting, "drill here, drill now," which prompted a response from Pelosi. "You want to drill right here? Can we drill your brain?" asked Pelosi. Democratic enthusiasts responded with loud cheers.

If we ever have a shit shortage we can drain Pelosi's brain.

re: #165 Edouard

BTW, Capt Ed has his piece up at Hotair about the DNC shifting away from a televised floor roll call vote, to delegates voting in their hotels, free from from the prying of cameras.

This has "potential PR disaster" written all over it.

"Count every vote!" LOL

It was my understanding the rules could not be changed once the convention started. Or have they taken the anarchists totally to heart and are going to toss out all rules of protocol just going with what feels good?

re: #176 Racer X

I say everyone ding up post #154 and put it in the top ten.

Rotating banner, rotating banner!

re: #171 cliffster

Good point. Expect an ad barrage either during or immediately after the Republican convention. (And the MSM will pitch in as well, of course.)

re: #169 kawfytawk

Why, Jimmuh of course. Doesn't he already certify all Thugocracy elections worldwide?

re: #171 cliffster

Can't get too excited just yet. Won't be long until B Hussein starts running his own ads. And he has $100 million, and doesn't have stations refusing to run his ads. Oh, and truth is not a requirement, so he will say whatever he wants to about McCain.

He has been running ads right along. Last month he spent more on just one ad than John McCain spent on his entire campaign. You've noticed the polls, right?

During the primaries he outspent Hillary 10:1 - and she still took most of the popular vote.

It's nice to see that the Republicans finally have some ad people who get it. It took us long enough, but finally, we have an ad team that's not afraid to pull the right punches. Let's hope they don't stop.

re: #184 maddogg

If we ever have a shit shortage we can drain Pelosi's brain.

mmm, a contained infinite vacuum does have intriguing possibilities.

re: #154 lifeofthemind

Excuse me folks a hairy friend has needs.

I hope it isn't connected to my 'upding' comment...

re: #154 lifeofthemind

Excuse me folks a hairy friend has needs.

I hope you mean furry. Otherwise - Eeeeew!

re: #140 galloping granny

Yes, I did catch that. And some of their announcers are very clearly pro Obama. Shep Smith, the idiot that is the sports dude on Fox & Friends . . .

I find the number of wealthy businessmen who support Obama almost astounding. He has clearly announced that he will nationalize the oil companies. Don't they realize that once we go down that road, they will be next?

Obama is also going to *substantially* increase their personal income taxes, and NOT lower the corporate income tax (which is currently the highest marginal national corporate income tax in the world, with the single exception of Japan).

re: #188 Edouard

Why, Jimmuh of course. Doesn't he already certify all Thugocracy elections worldwide?

ah you would be correct....pass the peanuts, this is gonna be fun

re: #174 vagabond trader

Sure sounds like it here.

[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...]

We went thru this months ago. He runs a huge multi national company with alot of stock holders ( including me ). He and most CEO's of major corporations donate to both parties. Covering all bases. he said some thing nice about Obama. Big deal. Ever paper he owns will endorse McCain, that is a guarantee. And Fox is the only voice we have on TV even if they disappoint us sometimes. Gotta keep things in perspective now.

re: #174 vagabond trader

Sure sounds like it here.

[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...]

Hah - he thinks BO is Tony Blair MarkII, and hopes to repeat his 'success' in selling this TB-Copy to the USA, thats all ...

The USS Obama has taken damage and is listing badly from the previous battle....repair crews are trying to patch up the holes blasted in the hull by McCain airstrikes and radar detects another heavily loaded strike-force coming in low and fast.

BOOM, POW, KA_BOOM...the USS Obama has been hit again and again! Crew members are at each others throats blaming one another as their ship slips under the waters and disappears forever from the sight of Man.

The arrogant USS Obama crew floats in oil soaked waters wondering what went wrong and who will save them.....just than the first of many large sharks show up to investigate all that noise and splashing.

The End.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Iran has over 65 million people, compulsory military service starting at age 19 (you can "volunteer" once you hit 15, though, which is nice), and has an extra 750,000+ men reach military service age every year. It also has over 1.36 million square kilometers of land. Multiple world war starting Germany? 349,000.

Plus there's the whole mullahocracy-nuclear program-apocalyptic-desires thing, and its designation as an official State Sponsor of Terrorism.

Given the obviousness of the multitude of mortal threats Iran poses to the world, I can only assume Obama considers it a "tiny" threat only to his plans to snow an entire generation of gullible Democrats.

re: #189 ploome hineni

this is the political version of American Idol

he is the candidate whose vision is most alluring and unrealistic

a fantasy eveyone can love

I've said it before that Obama is the Sanjaya of American politics - handsome, exotic-looking but non-threatening, & advanced very far on nothing else.

Hannity says' insider told him that Lieberman told McCain campaign not to pick him for VP.

Hmmm... thinking about Obama's defense about Ayers, "trying to connect me to something that happened when I was 8 years old"...

Suppose you tried that line on your wife if she caught you with a younger woman and you assert, "...but I was 8 years old when she was born!"

How well do you think that would fly?

re: #155 jcm

Ahhhh! Class!

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D- SC) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) introduced a proposal for energy independence. As one of the speakers addressed increasing green energy development and implementation, a group of John McCain supporters began shouting, "drill here, drill now," which prompted a response from Pelosi. "You want to drill right here? Can we drill your brain?" asked Pelosi. Democratic enthusiasts responded with loud cheers.

Pelosi To McCain Hecklers: "Can We Drill Your Brain?"

Nancy Pelosi correctly identifies the resource Democratic politicians are in critical shortage of.

re: #147 alegrias

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They're not attacks, they're the TRUTH!

They can be both. Kind of like political Judo.

re: #116 sattv4u2

Perot was 92. There was no serious 3rd party 1996 runner

In '96, the economy was running strongly and Clinton's policies had not yet destroyed the strong foundations laid down by 12 years of Reagan/Bush.

re: #176 Racer X

I say everyone ding up post #154 and put it in the top ten.

Done :-)))

re: #190 galloping granny

He has been running ads right along. Last month he spent more on just one ad than John McCain spent on his entire campaign. You've noticed the polls, right?

During the primaries he outspent Hillary 10:1 - and she still took most of the popular vote.

Also, McCain has been so effective because there is just so much dirt on Obama, from questionable terrorist associates (Ayers), to politically corrupt ones (Rezko), to repeated political stupidity (like calling Iran a small harmless country), etc.

McCain has a track record that goes back 30 years. No matter what Obama tries, he won't be able to define McCain.

Conversely, Obama was literally unknown to 90% of America a year ago. So its easy for McCain to help fill in the wide gaps for the electorate.

re: #194 ploome hineni

It's Ahmadinejad and Morales touching each other in a weird way. Unfortunately, I needed to shrink it so much that no one can see it....

re: #190 galloping granny

He has been running ads right along. Last month he spent more on just one ad than John McCain spent on his entire campaign. You've noticed the polls, right?

During the primaries he outspent Hillary 10:1 - and she still took most of the popular vote.

Ok, I'm determined to feel uneasy. The other thing to worry about is the sheer magnitude of his ground force. What does he have, 140 full time employees, all going around areas that are, er, heavily demographic'd for BO, passing out voter registrations. And those same will be there to give rides on election days. That's the reason Hillary lost, and it's what really worries me. The ops that campaign has are quite effective.

re: #198 looking closely

Two words: Tax Shelters.

It's something these folks have, and we do not. Hence, we get soaked, and they don't. Just ask Warren Buffet. *spit*

re: #154 lifeofthemind

Excuse me folks a hairy friend has needs.

Tell him to shave his own back!

re: #205 marge45b

Good for him. I hope McCain wasn't even tempted.

re: #206 Kenneth

Hmmm... thinking about Obama's defense about Ayers, "trying to connect me to something that happened when I was 8 years old"...

Suppose you tried that line on your wife if she caught you with a younger woman and you assert, "...but I was 8 years old when she was born!"

How well do you think that would fly?

I saw that rebuttal on tv last night I think....the narrator sounded so very whiny

re: #205 marge45b

Hannity says' insider told him that Lieberman told McCain campaign not to pick him for VP.

Lieberman is much, much too valuable as cabinet material to foist off on playing lady in waiting and gavel banging.

re: #208 jester6

They can be both. Kind of like political Judo.

The best kind, a truthful ad puts the target in the position of responding, that looks defensive, and that doesn't look good.

re: #120 Racer X

There is typically a 8-10% post convention "bounce". The McCain camp is putting it as high as 16%. Be ready for it, and don't panic.

Keep the informative ads coming Johnny!

What happens when it doesn't materialize? There is usually a bounce to be had from announcing the VP as well, but that hasn't materialized.

re: #218 galloping granny

Lieberman is much, much too valuable as cabinet material to foist off on playing lady in waiting and gavel banging.

He is also smart enough to know as the VP choice he is a liability to McCain.

re: #140 galloping granny

Yes, I did catch that. And some of their announcers are very clearly pro Obama. Shep Smith, the idiot that is the sports dude on Fox & Friends . . .

I find the number of wealthy businessmen who support Obama almost astounding. He has clearly announced that he will nationalize the oil companies. Don't they realize that once we go down that road, they will be next?

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Like some wealthy Cubans who welcomed Fidel Castro's CHANGE campaign, they always figured Fidel would only take someone else's stuff, not theirs.

Chavez, Fidel's follower, has now "nationalized" dairies, petroleum, banks, etc. No end of community organizing in sight!

re: #140 galloping granny

I find the number of wealthy businessmen who support Obama almost astounding. He has clearly announced that he will nationalize the oil companies. Don't they realize that once we go down that road, they will be next?

I heard a Fox discussion on the paradox of Wall St support for Obama - the conclusion was that the major $$$$ donors were the wealthy who have made the bulk of their money already - so they are not concerned about taxes on income, they can afford to be bleeding hearts.

The people that O's taxes will kill are the creators and investors in business ideas, who rely on their income to create wealth. A painter came to our house the other day and was shocked that I was for McCain.

"You're Main Street, not Wall Street", he informed me.

I told him that the only reason that I could afford to pay him to do my work was because a Wall Street investor paid my IT husband to design some new business apps for a project that the Wall Streeter was developing. The painter turned to his brushes and buckets, while the crickets chirped....

re: #214 Honorary Yooper

Two words: Tax Shelters.

It's something these folks have, and we do not. Hence, we get soaked, and they don't. Just ask Warren Buffet. *spit*

Exactly. The poor don't make enough to be taxed, the rich can hire the best tax attorneys & accountants to make sure they don't have to pay. So who gets the brunt of tax hikes?

re: #213 cliffster

Hopefully the GOP has kept around the people that Karl Rove got to execute their get-out-the-vote effort. That's the key: identify your voters, inform them of what's going on, and get them to the polls even if you have to crawl over broken glass. It put Bush over the top twice.

re: #203 Diamond Bullet

750,000+ men reach military service age each year.

Excuse me!
It seems to me that it would be more effecient and less time consuming if we began the bombing...oh...say...RIGHT NOW!
Just a thought!

re: #213 cliffster

Ok, I'm determined to feel uneasy. The other thing to worry about is the sheer magnitude of his ground force. What does he have, 140 full time employees, all going around areas that are, er, heavily demographic'd for BO, passing out voter registrations. And those same will be there to give rides on election days. That's the reason Hillary lost, and it's what really worries me. The ops that campaign has are quite effective.

The last count that I heard of Obama's staff was ~2000, each and every one paid more than any other campaign staff in history. Note also his 301 foreign affairs advisers. Bigger is NOT better.

Hillary did not lose because of voter registrations or rides to the polls. Hillary lost because of the caucuses. And note that she did not lose by much. In other times and places, the nominee would be picked on the convention floor by the delegates in a race this close.

I have been trying to find the source to back up what I said on Obama threatening to have Fox's credentials pulled if they aired the Ayers ad. So far I've been unsuccessful. Therefore I retract my statement at #90 until and unless I can prove it. Apologies to all concerned.

I'm late to this conversation....but I want get back to the original discussion for a moment, and try to focus on the task at hand. John McCain's attack ads like this are brilliant and extremely effective, and, as someone who hasn't always been impressed with how his campaign has been run, I'm incredibly encouraged by how SMARTLY these are being done.

This one, in particular, gave me chills.

McCain musn't overplay his hand on any of this - easy does it. But keep 'em coming too. If he keeps making ads this biting, this real, this scary (and people SHOULD be scared - no, not fearmongering, but NECESSARY fear in the face of real dangers like Iran), he will be taking the oath of office for POTUS in January.

re: #84 Kenneth

By putting out these ads, day after day, on different topics, the McCain campaign has gotten well inside Obama's OODA Loop. It takes one to two days for Obama's campaign to respond, by which time the next ad is out, coming at him from yet another angle. This is how McCain has taken the initiative away from Obama even during the Democratic coronation convention.

The fighter pilot is beating the community organizer.

That's a brilliant observation. It does look as if McCain has gotten inside Obama's decision loop.

re: #200 Nevergiveup

Oh, sure, ok, thanks.

re: #203 Diamond Bullet

Indeed, in terms of pure military size (ie number of soldiers), Iran has the 8th largest armed force in the world, beat only by China, the USA, Russia, North and South Korea, India and Pakistan.

Its 25th largest in terms of absolute military expenditure, which is quite a bit smaller, though not negligible.

Not "tiny", I don't think.

re: #223 runrabbitrun

It a waste of your time and breath to try and convert those who are committed to idiocy. But, thanks for trying.

re: #178 wright1

Who is it that joined McCain's Campaign - Steve Smith? Whoever it is has ramped up the campaign and it is clicking on all cylinders - there is a lot of material out there just ready for ignition - all Barry has on the other hand is: McCain is Bush, wah, wah, wah

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Steve Schmidt.

I haven't been watching the DNC convention. Have you guys seen a lot of MCain ads during the broadcasts?

re: #230 rp1138

That's a brilliant observation. It does look as if McCain has gotten inside Obama's decision loop.

McCain has blasted Obama's decision loop to kingdom come. Obama is not making decisions. He is just reacting.

re: #228 doppelganglander

It was not their credentials, it was their FCC license, which, if BHO gets elected, he (or his appointee) could do.

re: #235 buzzsawmonkey

If the Democrats had run a convention instead of a coronation, Hillary would be the nominee.

This is not a convention. This is a show for the rubes.

Exactly!

re: #235 buzzsawmonkey

Hillary has to take some of the blame. She and her campaign didn't understand how gaming the Dem caucus system would make Obambi a threat until it was too late.

re: #227 galloping granny

The last count that I heard of Obama's staff was ~2000, each and every one paid more than any other campaign staff in history. Note also his 301 foreign affairs advisers. Bigger is NOT better.

Hillary did not lose because of voter registrations or rides to the polls. Hillary lost because of the caucuses. And note that she did not lose by much. In other times and places, the nominee would be picked on the convention floor by the delegates in a race this close.

Well I agree with you about the caucuses. But it was the effort on the ground that gave him that edge. Well, that and the fact that the delegates from the caucuses was so heavily weighted against Hillary's demographic. Hillary won Texas by a landslide popular vote, but they were even (or BO might have even edged her) in delegates because the counties in the cities got so many more delegates. BO won big in Houston, Dallas, and Austin, and that's all it really took.

Once again, Hillary has been feeling the pain the GOP has felt for decades.

"I cannot wait to watch Barack Obama sign into law a health care plan that covers every single American" -- HRC last night.

Patients Kept In Dark Over Cancer

A quarter of the myeloma specialists questioned admitted hiding the facts about treatments that may be difficult to obtain on the NHS, said Myeloma UK.

The main reason given by doctors was to avoid distressing or confusing patients.

[snip]

The doctors candidly revealed how they struggled with NHS bureaucracy and cost-cutting to obtain the best treatments for their patients.

One in four said they avoided telling patients about licensed drugs still awaiting approval from NHS watchdog the National Institution for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice).

Primary Care Trusts are generally reluctant to pay for new drugs that have not yet been given the Nice green light.

Welcome to Hope and Change.

I'd like to see McCain announce his VP Friday....so the MSM will focus on that vs Obama's greek pillar speech

re: #214 Honorary Yooper

Two words: Tax Shelters.

It's something these folks have, and we do not. Hence, we get soaked, and they don't. Just ask Warren Buffet. *spit*

Warren Buffet's major "shelter" is that he simply never sells anything, therefore never realizing any capital gains.

AFAIK, you can sock away money in trusts and such, but ordinary income essentially can't be sheltered anymore.

I'd like to know what tax shelters these rich folks actually employ, and (assuming there are any), why they are under the delusion that Obama won't close them down.

re: #229 stanleymberg

McCain musn't overplay his hand on any of this - easy does it. But keep 'em coming too. If he keeps making ads this biting, this real, this scary (and people SHOULD be scared - no, not fearmongering, but NECESSARY fear in the face of real dangers like Iran), he will be taking the oath of office for POTUS in January.

I'd also like to see an attack focus on the conundrum that the Obama campaign claims that their candidate is 'new' and 'untainted by the old politics', yet comes directly from the innards of the one of oldest, most corrupt political machines in the country.

re: #223 runrabbitrun
Don't lose hope. I overheard two parts countermen talking last week. One was grumbling about fuel prices and the urgency for passing a windfall profits tax. The other guy looked at him and asked "What about Microsoft?"
I wanted to shake the guy's hand.

re: #236 Ward Cleaver

I haven't been watching the DNC convention. Have you guys seen a lot of MCain ads during the broadcasts?

Oh yes. A huge chunk of the ads running on Fox. Plus of course not an hour goes by that they are not talking about one ad or another- and showing the ad in question as part of the story.

re: #230 rp1138

Thanks, but it wasn't my observation. Richard Fernandez gets credit as does a blog called Classical Values.

re: #243 kawfytawk

Drudge says McCain will roll out his running mate over the weekend. And hopefully won't resort to smoke signals or messaging or whatever to announce it.

re: #236 Ward Cleaver

I haven't been watching the DNC convention. Have you guys seen a lot of MCain ads during the broadcasts?

I've seen ads on Fox, but not on the others. But I switch back and forth a lot; could just be coincidence.

re: #64 NoSubmission

Are there really people out there waiting for ads to make up their minds for them?

Those who are "decided" are shaking out pretty evenly 45% each.
It is the undecided 10% that will determine this election.

re: #234 alegrias

Yep - thanks

Radio report.... HRC releases delegates.....

re: #250 cliffster

I've seen ads on Fox, but not on the others. But I switch back and forth a lot; could just be coincidence.

Only moonbats or prisoners watch MSNBC so why waste the money?

The reality of this thing is now very clear.
The wheels have come off of Obama's political tricycle.
How so? Well, the Clinton crowd has decided there is no downside to dissing and dismissing the boy Messiah due to his dismal polling. Obama should be up 12-18% over McCain at this point, he is struggling to stay minimally ahead.
The Clintons have their surrogates dismissing the key note speaker and the convention as a whole.Many are leaving before Obama's speech. Rest assured during the election they will sit on their hands with the happy wish Obama's national political future will be DOA.
"Country Joe" Biden will not appeal to the "bitter" clingers to religion, guns, etc. Catholics will not respond to the long time effete Senator and apply Nancy Pelosi's gibberish on abortion against the ticket.

Once again democrats are involved in a political orgy of self-inflicted failure. I would say one thing to the McCain camp: Attack, attack, attack, and don't give up. Nice-ness is for political losers.

re: #65 lifeofthemind

The MSM have already assured everyone that Obama is hip and knows about texting while McCain uses a quill pen and wears a powdered wig.

Using a quill pen is tough. the ink blots and it all gets Charlie Browned. I have to respect anyone who can use a quill pen.

laundry is calling...bbl....oh by the way, looks like Gustav might be heading to the Big Easy...hope they got those buses ready...its not like there hasn't been ample warning

re: #202 Maximu§

The USS Obama has taken damage and is listing badly from the previous battle....repair crews are trying to patch up the holes blasted in the hull by McCain airstrikes and radar detects another heavily loaded strike-force coming in low and fast.

BOOM, POW, KA_BOOM...the USS Obama has been hit again and again! Crew members are at each others throats blaming one another as their ship slips under the waters and disappears forever from the sight of Man.

The arrogant USS Obama crew floats in oil soaked waters wondering what went wrong and who will save them.....just than the first of many large sharks show up to investigate all that noise and splashing.

The End.

Of course, the SS Obamitanic went to sea with big targets painted on it right over all the holes in the hull patched over with aluminum foil. And the steel that came from the holes was sitting right there for the taking, to be used in making ammo.
The collision with the giant iceberg ego didn't help, either.
The ads are working, and I want McCain to keep it up, but Obama has been a dinghy pretending to be a cruise ship.

re: #249 joncelli

Drudge says McCain will roll out his running mate over the weekend. And hopefully won't resort to smoke signals or messaging or whatever to announce it.

He announced some days back that he would announce his VP choice on Friday, the day after the end of the Dems convention. So, I suspect that on Friday we will learn who that VP is. McCain is smart enough to keep his word on this, especially in light of the disaster the Obama camp produced.

re: #249 joncelli

Drudge says McCain will roll out his running mate over the weekend. And hopefully won't resort to smoke signals or messaging or whatever to announce it.

Announce it 1 hour before Barry's speach to unsettle him and dilute the DNC's message (Did they get around to getting a message this year?)

re: #179 galloping granny

How fast can we say "rigged election" - Selected, not Elected! This will only make Hillary supporters even more sure that their gal is being railroaded.

Hillary wants those names so she can file them away for future reference. She's a vindictive bitch, just like always.

She's like the Terminator. She will not stop, ever, until she's at the pointy top of the org chart.

A country is manufacturing terror, nukes, and threatens another country.
Obama's respone:

"I came, I saw, Iran"

re: #232 looking closely

Indeed, in terms of pure military size (ie number of soldiers), Iran has the 8th largest armed force in the world, beat only by China, the USA, Russia, North and South Korea, India and Pakistan.

Its 25th largest in terms of absolute military expenditure, which is quite a bit smaller, though not negligible.

Not "tiny", I don't think.

All true!
But to compare " military spending" ours to theirs is not apples to apples.
We develope,manufacture and stock THE best.
They treat they're military very poorly(not that the U.S. are saints).
Just not fair comparison!
The only oddity is they have willing suicide atackers lining up!

I agree with some of the other sentiments here about momentum....McCain has Obama on the ropes right now. He really does. The Obama campaign is clearly reeling. The poll numbers aren't heading their way, the attacks are starting to stick, and people are starting to see through the veneer of "the chosen One".

No overconfidence now.....this has always been and will continue to be an uphill battle for McCain. The dynamics this year are NOT in his favor. But, the tide is also clearly turning - some days it seems like it's turning a lot, other days not much, other days like it's maybe even turning back.

But it's not. Obama's bubble is irreparably burst. He is no longer the Untouchable One. But he could still win. McCain will only win if he can appeal to the vast Center, the moderates and indepedents who (like it or not, diehard conservatives on this board) are the ones who decide every American presidential election in the end. So there you go, my opinion, for what it's worth, not too damn much, I tell ya.

re: #256 Eowyn2

Using a quill pen is tough. the ink blots and it all gets Charlie Browned. I have to respect anyone who can use a quill pen.

Shelby Foote wrote with a dip pen. About 500 words a day.
I love his writing.

re: #213 cliffster

I have heard about great ground machines before. Those are the same ground machines that get record number of young people to register every election but they never turn out to vote.

In an urban environment where you need to get every vote from the projects or nursing homes or homeless shelters this makes a difference. There is no Republican running and the Democrat with the best ground machine wins. But in a national environment where a Democrat is pitted against a Republican, the Democrat needs the ground machine just to break even.

Folks in blue counties don't need to a ground machine - they have cars to get them to work and vote. The folks in the red counties need someone else to get them to the polls - or help them flee a broken levy - because they are too dependent on others.

re: #249 joncelli

Drudge says McCain will roll out his running mate over the weekend. And hopefully won't resort to smoke signals or messaging or whatever to announce it.

Good...but Friday would be even better....let the air out of Obama's post convention balloon