Sep 12 2008
The gloves are off
Yep. With less then two months until the elections, I think the gloves are finally coming off. The McPalin campaign is screaming “victim” every time they turn around, and the Obama campaign is finally giving the Republicans a little taste of their own medicine. This is starting to get interesting. And fun.
Here are the two new ads the Obama campaign came out with today. The first defines what change really is and the second explains why we cannot have a president, especially in this day and age, who is technologically illiterate…
I’ll let Pickler tell you all about them (in her usual bipartisanical fashion).
P.S. Remember up top about how I mentioned the Republicans crying “victim” all the time? Well… the latest ad from the McCain camp is nothing but a big whine about how Barack Obama has “disrespected” Sarah Palin. Give me a break! What was that line Hillary Clinton used on Senator Obama back in January? Wasn’t it something about getting out of the kitchen if you can’t stand the heat? Perhaps it’s time for Johnny and the Republicans to get out of the kitchen.
(That ad, by the way, was about as racist as you can possibly get. Are they seriously accusing a black man of “disrespecting” a white woman? Is there supposed to be some kind of secret code in there for us “gentlemen of the south?” Senator McCain approves this message? I think Senator McCain owes Senator Obama an apology. Big time.)
Update: From Obama campaign manager David Plouffe…
“Today is the first day of the rest of the campaign, and today we are releasing two new ads that go directly at the fundamental issue in this race: John McCain is out of touch with the American people and unable to address the challenges facing the country in the 21st century and bring about real change, and that Barack Obama is the candidate who will bring about change that works for the middle class.
We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks and we will take the fight to him, but we will do it on the big issues that matter to the American people. We will not allow John McCain and his band of Karl Rove disciples to make this big election about small things.”
4 Responses to “The gloves are off”
You asked where McCain’s claim that Governor Palin is “the most popular governor in America” came from.
Might be from here: Anchorage Daily News
Enough is Enough, their smear tactics are only to grab swift votes and I am glad Obama is hitting them hard with the truth. I just can’t wait until the debates!!
@RightFace! : Yes, I did ask that (on your weblog, I believe). However, the article to which you link is 15 months old. That’s a lifetime in politics. Got anything a bit more recent? (And perhaps even a bit more national in nature?)
Neither one of them really gets on the issues though. Obama says we wants to raise income on those who make more than 200k a year. That makes them well off, but not really rich. Meanwhile he has said nothing about raising the tax rates on those whose primary income comes in stock. While the “rich” 200 thousandaire has to pay more taxes, the poor millionaire that has to gamble on the stock market pays a nice 15% tax. They get some type of loopwhole. I forgot what it was called. Why does Obama ignore this, because he’s in the real rich(the millionaire’s) pocket. Both parties are. All I’m saying is that if he’s going to make taxes on 200k people go up to say 40%, the rich stokholders tax should go to say 60 or 70%. While I don’t like high taxes, I think he should be fair.