McCain Ad Blasts Obama On Iraq, Afghanistan

By: Vaughn Ververs
Topics: Advertising

As Obama prepares for his long-awaited trip overseas, the McCain campaign is out with a new ad criticizing Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan and accusing the Democrat of changing his positions for political expediency. In the ad, an announcer intones: "Barack Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan. He hasn't been to Iraq in years. He voted against funding our troops. Positions that helped him win his nomination. Now Obama is changing, to help himself become president. John McCain has always supported our troops. And the surge that's working. McCain: Country first."

According to the campaign, the ad will be part of the campaign's current buy on national cable and in the battleground states of Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania Virginia and Wisconsin. Watch it below:

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by pakaal July 21, 2008 5:35 PM EDT: This is the ad the Republicans agreed to run? Are they on crack?

"Barack Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan."

Wrong, Obama sits on the Senate Foreign Relations committee and they held a hearing last year. So, strike one.

http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/hearings/2007/hrg070308a.html

"He hasn''t been to Iraq in years."

Umm, actually, Senator Obama''s there right now, strike two.

"He voted against funding our troops."

Oh, now he''s just going senile. Sydney, you MISSED that vote. HR 2642 was written into law at the end of last month. Apparently you were too busy campaigning to support the troops.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16047.html

Strike three, yer out!; Reply to this comment


by pakaal July 21, 2008 5:22 PM EDT: Before Senator McCain says a single word about Senator Obama, he should first explain his woeful ignorance on the subject. Hey Sydney, Iraq and Pakistan DON''T share a border!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=3105288&page=1

First he mentions Czechoslovakia last week (a country that hasn''t existed for a decade), now he''s talking about a fictional world where Iraq and Afghanistan are next to each other on the map?! And there are people out there that think McCain is in any way qualified to become president!? He doesn''t even know the location (or existence) of the countries he''s talking about!; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 July 21, 2008 1:48 PM EDT: If the Bush Administration would%u2019ve been successful (like 7 years ago) at competently alleviating Al-Quaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan there wouldn%u2019t be any debate today.

McCain is more of the SAME!; Reply to this comment


by alicerea1 July 21, 2008 11:11 AM EDT: Thank God McCain has the courage to stand up for Americans. Just one of many issues relating to Obama is enough for me and my community.

Louis Farrakhan, anti semitic, radical, Nation of Islam leader supports Obama. He held a rally with 20,000 islam members in Chicago.
Obama''s father was a non practicing Muslim. How do the Muslim nations view Obama. Why shouldn''t that be a proper question to ask Obama?
Watch his followers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7QUftErt_M

It''s scary and the media should be talking about Obama''s relationships with radical leaders and anti American supporters as much as they should be reporting about a nominee that was being supported by the KKK.

What''s wrong with the media. What are they afraid of?; Reply to this comment


by mh4cbs1 July 21, 2008 1:21 AM EDT: Aren''t you just SICK and TIRED of the Same OLD McCain Bush Cheney Rove attack smear slander politics ??

Lets elect Obama, put Cheney and Buch in JAIL for their War Crimes lying us into a Needless War of death and destruction, and end this endless NeoCon Nightmare; Reply to this comment


by actornaught July 21, 2008 12:33 AM EDT: The only thing John is qualified for, that he remembers, is how to advise the US military how to deal with being tortured. We''ll need it more now that he''s for us doing it, after he was against it...; Reply to this comment


by lordmi July 20, 2008 8:11 PM EDT: well, McBush. few days is enough to find - You were wrong .
Again.
You are out of date.
out of time.
out of touch.
out of sense.; Reply to this comment


by redtornado10 July 20, 2008 6:02 PM EDT: The Republican war-machine is pulling out the same tactic it did when we went to war against Iraq and John McCain is endorsing this misnomer . We''re back on the same ole rhetoric of if "You are against the war (or financing it) then you are against the troops". I didn''t fall for it then, and I;m not now. America, needs to see this as the propaganda it is. I say it is the republican party that has screwed the troops, not people like Obama. Obama wants the troops to get the education and health care they deserve and so do I. This war has been one big lie and it is time to stop and look at what we need to do as a nation to fix the mess we made and what the troops really need. And thats ways to put their blown off limbs back together and a good paying job when they get home.; Reply to this comment


by ioweign July 20, 2008 4:15 PM EDT: Good Lord, another McCain Flip-Flop

Complains about Obama not going to Iraq.

Complains about Obama going to Iraq.

What does this McCain the "Straight Shooter" want ?; Reply to this comment


by indyvet66 July 20, 2008 12:52 PM EDT: John McCain and his NeoCon buddies keep trying to say that Senator Obama doesn%u2019t have the foreign policy chops of a John McCain.

McCain likes to say that he knows how to win wars. What? McCain knows how to start wars!

McCain%u2019s Iraq war has been a dangerous and wasteful distraction from the real right focus of the war on terror, Afghanistan. Obama has strongly recommending sending more soldiers to Afghanistan for a long time. McCain has long opposed sending in those additional troops because they have been tied down in Iraq. Now, McCain has completely moved to Obama%u2019s position on Afghanistan and wants to send in even more soldiers. Better late than never John McCain.

McCain has long been critical of Obama intention to negotiate with Iran. Now the Bush administration has finally and appropriately started the negotiation process with Iran''s top nuclear negotiator.

Senator Obama does not have McCain%u2019s 20 years of experience, but he is much wiser and exceptionally well informed.

Obama has the ability and judgment to lead this nation to a more promising future.

In contrast, McCain lacks that judgment and promises more of the same stupid foreign policy mistakes of the disastrous Bush Administration.

Really now, we can%u2019t afford to have any more of McCain%u2019s kind of %u201Cexperience%u201D.; Reply to this comment

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