After reading an article referencing about a new attack ad on youtube released by the McCain campaign I decided to try and find it. It proves to be a little challenging. Why? Because John McCain's campaign has 11 attack ads against Obama on it's first two pages of videos. How many does Obama have? That took less time to add up because Obama has... 1... ( I believe that now McCain is up to 13. Maybe more.)
Recently McCain has backed down on something he said repeatedly. That being that he wanted to run a respectful campaign. Respectful. That would be a good idea. But if the numbers don't show you the disrespect than maybe the content will. McCain has blamed Obama for oil prices, while the price of oil is no one persons fault. And rather McCain's former economic adviser (the one who called us a nation of whiners) deregulated the oil and housing industries, which have both been disasters after this. Also, McCain falsely accused Obama of not visiting troops because cameras wouldn't have been allowed in, and went to the gym instead. What's ironic about this attack is that the gym reference is Obama playing some ball with troops. However, Obama didn't play ball instead of visit troops, he instead took up an extra interview with CNN. Also, Obama knew that cameras weren't allowed in, but after the Pentagon checked with them again, they decided not to go. One factor may have been that a volunteer for Obama wasn't going to be allowed in with him. This person isn't a paid staff member and is a former military officer. So basically they weren't going to let a former member of the military visit current wounded troops.
The newest attack ad doesn't even try to hide it's attack on Obama's personality. It calls him the biggest celebrity in the world and compares him with Brittney Spears, and Paris Hilton. This ad also says that Obama isn't ready to lead. So now the McCain campaign is taking after the Clinton's 3 am ads. I guess they didn't learn that these ads don't work. Fox News caught up with Obama and asked him about this latest ad. Obama responded with something along the lines of "I don't pay attention to McCain's ads, but if you notice he doesn't have a whole lot of positive things to say about himself does he? He has a whole lot of negative things to say about me but nothing good about himself." That's not exact, because I can't find the video to take the quote from, but it is the same message.
Finally, McCain has accused Obama of being a traitor. He did this when he said that Obama would rather lose the war in Iraq then lose a political campaign. wow... now McCain says that Obama's 16 month withdrawal plan sounds "pretty good".
Also, I don't know if you remember back when McCain was campaigning for the Republican nomination against George W. Bush 8 years ago; but he eventually withdrew from that race because he felt like the Bush campaign was being to negative, and he denounced running a negative campaign.
Now 13 mins ago Obama might have grown to 2 negative ads on Youtube. Why? Because he released an ad that starts out saying that McCain is running a negative campaign that is based on lies, it then ends with a general outline of some of Obama's plans. Whether this is actually a negative ad is up to you. So here it is:
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