...with a web ad...that will be sent to McCain's entire e-mail list... the campaign says they'll wait and see how many ad points the Clinton campaign buys before deciding whether to actually broadcast the ad.
« McCain Orders Up A Pounder | Main | McCain's American Story Prepares To Challenge Obama's American Story » The McCain Campaign Responds to Clinton's 3am Ad02 Apr 2008 09:32 pm Comments (15)
To: Obama campaign We liked the original 3 am response using Clinton's imagery. If you care at all, however, now leave the children sleeping at 3 a.m. to Clinton and McCain. The original snippy aide response was stronger. Really, as a parent I'm either thinking "Get away from my children, candidates!!!" or "It's 3 a.m. and this baby is NOT sleeping, and I blame the candidates who don't even grasp this. Or care. How can they understand the economy if they don't understand 2 month olds like to have parties at 3 a.m?" 
Obama's Reply: It's 3pm and President Obama has just been sworn into the Presidency of the United States of America. He is ready to take the call, and better, he's already making calls to solve the issues of National Security, Economic Security, Job Creation, Health Care Portability and Energy Independence. Tonight, at 3am, rest easy. Barack Obama is now your President and America can rest assured it's in hands of sound judgement, not the politics of fear.
BTW, where are Hillary's tax returns? Last week, Woolfson promised they would be released this this week, and time is passing away. I wish someone would run an ad asking Hillary where her tax returns are. Maybe she should stay up to 3am making copies for the press. Perhaps they should run an ad saying "it's 3am and where are Hillary's tax returns. What is she hiding?" Hillary's taxes alone may have enough dirt to sink her campaign.
The returns will not be released before she quits the campaign. The only reason for running the campaign now is to collect enough to get her out of debt. It is already over.
That is, undoubtedly, the dumbest political ad I've ever seen. It's every lame GOP economic ad of the Reagan era laid over a lame, derivative Hillary ad. That ad is so stale, it cracks when you try to play it. It's 20 year-old rhetoric laid over 4-time warmed over ad copy. Wow. Could John McCain's campaign make itself look any more tired and idea-free?
Wow. McCain was able to take an absolutely retarded ad from the Clinton campaign, and make it even worse in response. Congratulations.
It's 3 am. WHY THE F**K DOES THIS PERSON KEEP CALLING SO LATE?!!?!
Why the hell can't these people make any decisions during business hours?
If I were running the Obama campaign I'd follow up all these 3:00am ads with a morning in America ad -- but unlike Reagan's it would be 'it WILL BE morning in America AGAIN' (ie under an Obama administration). The important thing for Obama is to shift from the fearful middle of the night to the hopeful morning.
Wow, it looks like I was able to get the transcript for this phone call too. Pres McCain: Hello? Tres Sec Norquist: Mr. President, there's a crises in our financial markets. McCain: Cindy, do you know where Lieberman is right now? - Sorry Grover, what were you saying? Norquist: The financial markets are in trouble sir. We need to respond. Immediately. McCain: We will not surrender. We will fix this problem if it takes us a hundred years. Norquist: Sir, I am talking about the finanical markets in the US, not in Iraq. McCain: Oh, Sh*t, Grover, you know I don't know anything about that. Tres Sec Norquist: Sir, may I suggest that we need to eliminate the Death tax entirely - tonight. McCain: You know, I don't think that is the right idea.. Tres Sec Norquist: You do remember who put you in office, don't you? McCain: Ok, fine. Do what you want. But will the press still call me a maverick? Norquist: Just hold a BBQ, you'll be fine. McCain: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz Norquist: Hello? Sir?
Here's what McCain does when posed with tough problems he knows nothing about: He asks himself What Would Dubya Do?
I think McCain is coming out in support of legalized marijuana with this ad. How else will he "grow jobs and grow America" during wartime without raising taxes? I mean, you know, since he's so against empty rhetoric and platitudes it's only fair we interpret this ad absolutely literally and substantively, right?
As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying. The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes. Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career. Why? “Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
Barack's trying bowling shows he is human and not afraid to try something new just because he is not good at it -- that he does not have to be Mr. Perfect. Yet some made fun of him for their own agenda and turned something human into political sabotage!
Candidates don't even have to actually pay to broadcast ads anymore. They can just produce the ads then distribute them to people like Marc Ambinder and every cable TV politics show and be assured the ads will be rebroadcast and dissected over and over cost free. Nice trick.
|
Subscribe to this blog by Email Twitter || On Facebook || QIK Live Channel  Recent Posts
Monthly Archives
|
| 
Copyright © 2008 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved.
This 3am theme is getting very very lame.
Clinton's use of it on the economic issue is very lame...it's like when she tries to make a joke...it just kind of bombs.
And then McCain's followup is just as dumb because it borrows from the same failed imagery.
We should want Obama if only to deliver us from this type of vapid and empty discourse.
Posted by cm | April 2, 2008 9:50 PM