The ad Obama should run
Picture of McCain with elder Bush on golf cart wearing $500 shoes.
VOICE: John McCain wants you to believe he’s just like you. OH REALLY?
How many houses does he own? He doesn’t seem to know.
(big white letters over picture) “”I think – I’ll have my staff get to you. It’s condominiums where – I’ll have them get to you.”
VOICE: The answer: Four. And what kind of income does he think defines who’s rich?
::SHOW VIDEO OF RECENT RELIGIOUS FORUM:::
MCCAIN: IF WE’RE TALKING ABOUT INCOME, HOW ABOUT $5 MILLION?
VOICE: Is this why John McCain wants to cut taxes on people making $2.5 million or more, because he thinks they’re middle class?
VOICE with nice pic of Obama in background) BARACK OBAMA only recently paid off his student loans, and gave up his career as a lawyer to help the youth of Chicago as a community organizer, helping kids get off the streets and stay out of trouble.
(back to pic of McCain/Bush/shoes)
$500 shoes, four houses, and a $2.5 million a year middle class? WHO’S REALLY MORE LIKE YOU?
OBAMA: i’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.
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GET WITH THE F’ING PROGRAM, OBAMA! Time to destroy this totally false view of McCain as the Everyman who understands the needs of people suffering real economic hardship, and focus on who has REALLY seen the carnage on the streets.
Eric:
Except that there has really not been a poor presidential candidate since George Washington; that includes McCain, Obama, Kerry, Gore, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, etc. Calling out one for having four houses really doesn’t work if the other one flies around in a custom jumbo jet.
Do you actually believe this is a reasonable criticism, or are you just on the Democratic payroll? I would have expected a Cornell graduate to be slightly better at critical thinking… I apologize if you consider that to be ad hominem, but I am legitimately curious. Feel free to delete this paragraph if you don’t want it posted to your site.
August 21, 2008, 10:30 pmJoe:
It is ad hominem, but whatever.
The point is that if you’re going to accuse your opponent of out-of-touch elitism, don’t be surprised if you get hit hard for hypocrisy. He is attempting to paint Obama as elitist and himself as the cozy guy who understands everyone’s economic problems. His little gaffe showed him for the fake he is: an elitist if there ever was one, who married into a $100 million fortune and can’t keep track of all his properties.
This hits McCain from every angle:
–it makes him look as old and out of touch as Bush 1 did with his checkout scanner incident in ‘92;
–the hundreds of thousands of people losing their homes, and those who know them, are not likely to think that someone who can’t keep track of his houses is going to understand their problems;
–McCain’s exposed hypocrisy totally destroyed the “theme” he was trying to portray for Obama.
I have no problems with rich people being politicians. I do have a problem with hypocrisy….so really, you must forgive me for chortling at McCain skewering himself on his own petard.
August 22, 2008, 12:12 am