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40 Years Later, It's OK To Laugh...

24 Oct 2007 04:25 pm

It's everywhere else by now (the perils of traveling), but here's a link to the new John McCain ad in New Hampshire, if only to keep the McCain campaign from complaining to me.

A McCain adviser insists that this ad buy is real -- in other words, it's not a video press release (from a campaign with... not much money) designed to convince us naive press folks into running it for free. The buy, the adviser said, is "substantial" and statewide.

JOHN MCCAIN: "A few days ago, Senator Clinton tried to spend one million dollars on the Woodstock concert museum.

"Now my friends, I wasn't there. I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event.

"I was, I was tied up at the time."

(APPLAUSE)

JOHN MCCAIN: "No one can be President of the United States that supports projects such as these.

"I'm John McCain and I approve this message."

Comments (11)

not to be mean. i respect mccains service, but i am uncomfortabel with im using it as a campaign strategy. seems wrong. politicizing it seems not right to me.

Even if...

Even if McCain had the money necessary to really run this ad, it wouldn't matter very much. A million dollars just doesn't have the punch now that it did 40 years ago.

I understand why he wants to gently remind people about his service. Politically, it makes sense. However, it doesn't make sense to overshadow that service with an incredibly minor criticism of a minor expenditure that Sen. Clinton supported for an expenditure in her state.

If he wanted to go after her for pork, there are better and more effective ways.

Using this quip during the debate: Thumbs Up
Using this quip as a campaign ad: Thumbs Down

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