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McCain Scoring Points On Obama
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I may have underestimated the McCain campaign. Consider the challenges they face. An uninspiring candidate facing a genuine rock star in an election atmosphere of almost unprecedented republican dispiritedness. Top it off with Obama's World Tour and the sight of 200,000 crazed germans vying for a sight of the one.
In an amazing feat of political jui jitsui, the McCain team turned Obama's popularity into a negative with the now infamous Britney Spears/Paris Hilton ad. Rather than try to convince people that they were wrong to flock to Obama, they turned the candidate into just another airhead celebrity. Now his stadium acceptance speech in Denver will appear to many to be another example of morons intoxicated with celebrity worship rather than serious political theater. Team McCain bypassed the tedious business of arguing issues, which obviously have little relevance for most Obama supporters, and went straight to ridicule. Journalists were quick to dismiss the ad, but Mike Dukakis, Al Gore and John Kerry understand the danger all too well of becoming an object of ridicule.
Now apparently they have another ad featuring some of Obama's most ridiculous assertions like lowering the seas cut with Charlton Heston as Moses parting the Red Sea.
Everyone pretty much knew the election would be a referendum on Obama, but the challenge would be how to attack him without seeming mean or out of touch. The answer was absolutely brilliant. Make it ok for people to like him, just not take him seriously as a potential president. Mission accomplished.
Hilton's retort, in my opinion, strengthened the message of McCain's ad, anyone can read from a teleprompter...
It was a juvenile appearing ad, a little shock-and-awe wrapped in pink ...
US elections 2008
Obama adviser blames McCain ad for poll dip
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington and Edward Luce in Elkhart, Indiana
Published: August 6 2008 22:03 | Last updated: August 6 2008 22:03
A senior adviser to Barack Obama has blamed recent attack advertisements comparing the Democratic presidential hopeful to celebrities Britney Spears and Paris Hilton for a dip in Mr Obamaâs polls with voters.
Tom Daschle, the former Democratic Senate majority leader, said in an interview with the Financial Times that the Mr Obamaâs Republican rival John McCain was seeing a âshort-term blipâ as a result of the advertising, including one that used the image of Charlton Heston as Moses to mock the supposedly messianic Mr Obama as being âThe Oneâ.
âTo a certain extent the ads are having some effect,â Mr Daschle said. âBut you canât be thrown off your game plan by a momentary dip in polls.â
Until this week polls showed Mr Obama with a slight lead over Mr McCain. Some daily tracking polls this week showed the race tightening, however, leading some Democrats to wonder why Mr Obama has not commanded a bigger lead in an election year in which Republicans are disadvantaged by the unpopularity of President George W. Bush.
Mark McKinnon, a media strategist and former McCain adviser who worked for both of Mr Bushâs campaigns, said of the advertisements: âI think theyâve crystallised their message and I think theyâre hitting a nerve.â
Political advertising is effective, he added, when it ties into an overall narrative. In this case, the message has been framed in a positive and negative way: that Mr McCain puts âcountry firstâ, while Mr Obama puts âObama firstâ. The theme was repeated in a McCain advertisement rel_eased on Wednesday, showing flashing cameras and crowds chanting âObamaâ as a voice asks, âIs the biggest celebrity in the world ready to help your family?â
The Obama campaign has sought to convey the message that the Democrat represents âchangeâ.
Mr Obama said on Monday his campaign was engaged in a âconstant internal debateâ on how to respond to attack advertising.
â[McCain] brought in a team that is adept at this kind of politics,â he said. âThis kind of politics has been successful in the last two elections in terms of getting people elected. It has not been successful in governing or bringing the country together to tackle big problems.â
At a fundraiser in Boston, the Illinois senator drew parallels between his primary defeat in New Hampshire and the state of the race. âEverybody was taken aback because we had won Iowa and there was this giddy sense that . . .  this thing is moving,â he said.
âI recite all this history bec_ause we do have three more months of work in this _campaign.â
Ms Hilton, the heiress, hit back at the McCain advertisement with a video that referred to him as the âwrinkly white haired guyâ.
Obama adviser blames McCain ad for poll dip
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington and Edward Luce in Elkhart, Indiana
Published: August 6 2008 22:03 | Last updated: August 6 2008 22:03
A senior adviser to Barack Obama has blamed recent attack advertisements comparing the Democratic presidential hopeful to celebrities Britney Spears and Paris Hilton for a dip in Mr Obamaâs polls with voters.
Tom Daschle, the former Democratic Senate majority leader, said in an interview with the Financial Times that the Mr Obamaâs Republican rival John McCain was seeing a âshort-term blipâ as a result of the advertising, including one that used the image of Charlton Heston as Moses to mock the supposedly messianic Mr Obama as being âThe Oneâ.
âTo a certain extent the ads are having some effect,â Mr Daschle said. âBut you canât be thrown off your game plan by a momentary dip in polls.â
Until this week polls showed Mr Obama with a slight lead over Mr McCain. Some daily tracking polls this week showed the race tightening, however, leading some Democrats to wonder why Mr Obama has not commanded a bigger lead in an election year in which Republicans are disadvantaged by the unpopularity of President George W. Bush.
Mark McKinnon, a media strategist and former McCain adviser who worked for both of Mr Bushâs campaigns, said of the advertisements: âI think theyâve crystallised their message and I think theyâre hitting a nerve.â
Political advertising is effective, he added, when it ties into an overall narrative. In this case, the message has been framed in a positive and negative way: that Mr McCain puts âcountry firstâ, while Mr Obama puts âObama firstâ. The theme was repeated in a McCain advertisement rel_eased on Wednesday, showing flashing cameras and crowds chanting âObamaâ as a voice asks, âIs the biggest celebrity in the world ready to help your family?â
The Obama campaign has sought to convey the message that the Democrat represents âchangeâ.
Mr Obama said on Monday his campaign was engaged in a âconstant internal debateâ on how to respond to attack advertising.
â[McCain] brought in a team that is adept at this kind of politics,â he said. âThis kind of politics has been successful in the last two elections in terms of getting people elected. It has not been successful in governing or bringing the country together to tackle big problems.â
At a fundraiser in Boston, the Illinois senator drew parallels between his primary defeat in New Hampshire and the state of the race. âEverybody was taken aback because we had won Iowa and there was this giddy sense that . . .  this thing is moving,â he said.
âI recite all this history bec_ause we do have three more months of work in this _campaign.â
Ms Hilton, the heiress, hit back at the McCain advertisement with a video that referred to him as the âwrinkly white haired guyâ.
Ms Hilton, the heiress, hit back at the McCain advertisement with a video that referred to him as the âwrinkly white haired guyâ.
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Wow...Imagine your a Southern Dem...your a little nervous about OB to begin with and then you Have the chick from " the simple life" and all those Home videos coming out ....
AAA...your right....shrewd moves....and i cannot believe that OB does not have a double digit lead
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Wow...Imagine your a Southern Dem...your a little nervous about OB to begin with and then you Have the chick from " the simple life" and all those Home videos coming out ....
AAA...your right....shrewd moves....and i cannot believe that OB does not have a double digit lead
Not nearly as slick as Bill Clinton. Not pathological like BC. Just a wannabe with not much there. Still dangerous to the free world though.
The big O is starting to look like a 0.
Obama = 0bama
Interesting. Firefox spell checker indicates that Obama spelled with the letter O is misspelled where 0bama spelled with a zero is correct!!!!!
The big O is starting to look like a 0.
Obama = 0bama
Interesting. Firefox spell checker indicates that Obama spelled with the letter O is misspelled where 0bama spelled with a zero is correct!!!!!
Is she old enough to run for president?