Jul 26 2008
McCain ditches respectful campaign
This article appeared in USA Today on April 1 of this year:
McCain pledges ‘respectful campaign’
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — John McCain pledged a “respectful campaign” Tuesday against either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton, but said he is less confident about the influence of outside political groups.
The so-called “527″ organizations — named for the section of the tax code under which they operate — can “poison the political atmosphere,” McCain said during a town hall meeting at his old high school in northern Virginia.
Here is the new television advertisement released by the McCain campaign today:
So much for Johnny McCain’s promise of a respectful (to say nothing of truthful) campaign, huh?
Here is the response from Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor:
“John McCain is an honorable man who is running an increasingly dishonorable campaign. Senator McCain knows full well that Senator Obama strongly supports and honors our troops, which is what makes this attack so disingenuous. Senator Obama was honored to meet with our men and women in uniform in Iraq and Afghanistan this week and has visited wounded soldiers at Walter Reed numerous times. This politicization of our soldiers is exactly what Senator Obama sought to avoid, and it’s not worthy of Senator McCain or the ‘civil’ campaign he claimed he would run.”
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John McCain is using our wounded soldiers as a political tool. He is not an honorable man. He is not a man who can be trusted. His word is worth absolutely nothing. This is not the kind of man we need or want as our next president, particularly after eight years of George W. Bush and his henchmen. We can thank our lucky stars that Johnny McCain will never be President of the United States.
One cannot help but wonder what the ad from the McCain campaign would have said if Senator Obama had visited the wounded soldiers in Germany. Undoubtedly it would accused him of politicizing our wounded troops, just as Mr. McCain is now doing. Johnny McCain: typical hypocritical Republican.
P.S. The McShame ad purports to show Senator Obama visiting a gym in Germany rather than going to see the wounded troops in that country. Look closely. Do you notice any similarity between the footage in the ad and this video shot during his visit with the troops in Kuwait?
Related: “Obama camp cites Pentagon in scrapping troop visit” and “Obama defends votes in favor of Iraq funding.”
Update: Even Jake Tapper of ABC News, who is usually very pro-McCain, noticed the hypocrisy.
3 Responses to “McCain ditches respectful campaign”
Some of those McCain commercials have been practically unconscionable. To accuse Obama for high gas prices is pure fallacy. I understand that politics is a dog eat dog game, but I wonder if McCain might be sacrificing his reputation with these overly negative attacks. They almost seem like bullying.
Solomon: Barack Hussein is at least partly responsible for the high cost of fuel. He is a democrat, and under the democrat heavy congress our gas has shot up at an average of 7.8 cents a month. Compare that to the previous Republican congress where gas only went up 1.2 cents a month. Thanks to George W. Bush trying to get some drilling done, gas prices are finally starting to dip a bit.
As far as McCain’s new ads, I say it’s about time he started fighting back.
@James : Yeah, right. Hey, whatever gets you through the night, James.
Let me be sure I got this correct… Obama raised gas prices, Bush lowered them, and it’s time for McCain to start fighting back against all the negative ads that have been run against him.
You’re just a laugh a minute, aren’t you?