SubscribeJoy - Obama Is ‘At Peace’ With McCain Ads
From the Politico:
Obama calls McCain ‘cynical,’ not racist
By MIKE ALLEN | 8/2/08
Barack Obama told reporters in Titusville, Fla., on Saturday that he is at “peace” with a McCain campaign ad seeking to portray him as an airhead celebrity in the mold of Britney Spears or Paris Hilton.
“Let me be clear,” Obama said in response to a question about the injection of race into the campaign.
“In no way do I think that John McCain’s campaign was being racist; I think they’re cynical, and I think they want to distract people from talking about the real issues.
“And so I’m at … peace with the Britney and Paris Web ad. Or [the campaign’s charge that] somehow I wouldn’t go visit the troops unless I had reporters with me — which every reporter who was on the trip knows is absolutely not true. …
“Their team is good at creating distractions and engaging in negative attacks and planting doubts about people. And what we’ve got to do is make sure that we are very clear to the American people about how my policies will make a difference in their lives. …”
In the “weekly radio address” the McCain campaign has begun distributing to reporters, McCain urges voters not to let their minds be made up by “pundits and pollsters,” who “have written me off many times — and, now and then, they seemed to be on to something.”
“But I don’t answer to the pundits and pollsters. I answer to you. And even when we don’t agree, you will always know exactly where I stand,” McCain said.
McCain went on to reiterate his contention that Obama is more style than substance.
“Sen. Obama is an impressive orator, and it’s a lucky thing for me that people aren’t just choosing a motivational speaker. Washington is full of talented talkers. And Sen. Obama is one of the best to come along in quite a while,” McCain said in the address, offered in English and Spanish sound files.
McCain got in one more jab as he signed off: “Good speeches aren’t everything in politics good judgment matters, too.”
Who talks this way? “I am at peace with the Britney and Paris Web ad”?
Is it the Reverend Wright or the red diaper baby, David Axelrod? (In this case, we suspect the rhetorical influence of the former.)
“And what we’ve got to do is make sure that we are very clear to the American people about how my policies will make a difference in their lives.”
Oh, Mr. Obama has made that abundantly clear.
Which is why it would be suicide for our country to elect him.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 am
So let me make sure I have this straight. Obama says “In no way do I think that John McCain’s campaign was being racist; I think they’re cynical, and I think they want to distract people from talking about the real issues.”, but throwing out “precusations” that McCain will try to scare people with racist tactics IS “talking about the real issues”? Obama must take us all for idiots. Well, I guess he’s 45% right according to the most recent polls.
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 am
Actually “predictusation” would be a better term to describe the “post-racial” Obama’s patented race-baiting technique.
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
The recent McCain ads are terrific in their humor. There is, however, a very serious substantive point related to the McCain ads that needs to be made. The McCain ads mock Obama for attempting to create what may be called a cult of personality. Obama is a socialist, and one of the characteristics of a socialist government is that the leader seeks to have a cult of personality. Some extreme examples are Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Castro’s Cuba, Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Il Jong’s North Korea. While I don’t think that Obama intends to be a Stalin, I do think that he intends to lead a nanny state. The effort to create a cult of personality on Obama’s part gives a strong clue to what he is about.
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Has there ever been a candidate more full of him/herself than Obama? He makes Bill Clinton look like a bush-league rookie–a feat I once thought impossible to achieve.
Obama is the most pompous blowhard I have encountered in my sixty-two years on this planet. Instead of using the descriptive adjective “presumptive” candidate, the media should begin refering to him by the more accurately descriptive “presumptuous” candidate. My fervent hope is that his haughty, condescending attitude proves to be his undoing, for he even now seems only barely capable of concealing his contempt for everyone–including his supporters.
He’s a hard man to like.
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Can yall imagine the wailing and gnashing teeth when The One gets his ass handed to him in Nov.?
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Note that Obama “Told reporters” or “said in response”.
McCain “urges”, “went on to reiterate his contention” and “got in one more jab”
Noooope; no bias here…..
August 4th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
“Whoops I Did It Again” by Barack Obama
Looks like all the DaliBama and his hypnotized groupies the Drive by Media will be having a little “Humble Pie” with their dinner tonight!
It would appear that all the juvenal whining and crying over the McCain ad comparing “The One” to Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton is another smoke screen trying to conceal the truth . . . the first one to compare Barack Obama to Paris Hilton was . . . Barack Obama!
Courtesy of Newsbusters;
It would be nice if the McCain camp would follow up on this with another ad that points out this concrete evidence of Obama hypocrisy. To which I am sure Obama will try to find some exception of why it is OK for Obama and ONLY Obama to criticize Obama. Anytime “He Who Cannot Be Criticized” speaks - unless he is reading from script(ure), his sentences have more “buts” than a port-a-potty at an outdoor rock concert!
August 4th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Good one, Clifcrds.
Do we want a President with such a spotty memory?
August 4th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Or a msm the refuses even to report a smidgen of truth in relation to said candidate - but then that would be positively journalistic and investigative - and we can’t have that now can we?!?
Clifcrds - good find - that is what America needs - people willing and able to expose Obamanation for the vapid, lying two faced empty socialist suit he is. . .