Obama Buys Olympics Airtime, While RNC Runs Spot In Paris...Maine
The race for the White House is expected to take something of a backseat when the Olympics begin August 8th, but Barack Obama isn't exactly ceding the spotlight to the rhythmic gymnasts: The presumptive Democratic nominee is paying NBC Universal $5 million to air commercials during the Beijing games.
It is, Ad Age reports, "the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years."
News of an ad buy from the Republican National Committee has also emerged, though it's a far smaller buy than Obama's. In a cheeky response to Obama's headlines-dominating European trip, the RNC is airing radio ads in American cities that share names with the European cities Obama is visiting.
Obama's stop in Berlin, Germany has resulted in spots in Berlin, Pennsylvania, Berlin, Wisconsin and Berlin, New Hampshire; his expected Paris stop has led the RNC to air its ad in Paris, Maine, Paris, Michigan and Paris, Missouri.
You can listen to the attack ad here; it claims that "Obama chose Washington politics over the needs of our military," while McCain "has always put the public interest first."
"If Obama can’t rise above politics to support our soldiers in a time of war, then how can he claim to have the strength to change the way Washington works?" the spot concludes. "John McCain is ready to lead. Barack Obama is not."
It is, Ad Age reports, "the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years."
News of an ad buy from the Republican National Committee has also emerged, though it's a far smaller buy than Obama's. In a cheeky response to Obama's headlines-dominating European trip, the RNC is airing radio ads in American cities that share names with the European cities Obama is visiting.
Obama's stop in Berlin, Germany has resulted in spots in Berlin, Pennsylvania, Berlin, Wisconsin and Berlin, New Hampshire; his expected Paris stop has led the RNC to air its ad in Paris, Maine, Paris, Michigan and Paris, Missouri.
You can listen to the attack ad here; it claims that "Obama chose Washington politics over the needs of our military," while McCain "has always put the public interest first."
"If Obama can’t rise above politics to support our soldiers in a time of war, then how can he claim to have the strength to change the way Washington works?" the spot concludes. "John McCain is ready to lead. Barack Obama is not."
Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."
The old coot is not only geographically, historically and ethically challenged (to put it mildly), he''s cranky, shrill, and repetitive.
A vote for McCain is a vote for Bush, period. If you think that is good, then you must be making over $250,000.00 a year. I personally believe John "I''ll NEVER surrender" McCain is still fighting the Vietnam War. If he wins, I believe that he will reinstate the draft. He will have to because no one is "joining" voluntarily and at some point, he will have to allow so-called "volunteers" go home.
John McCain has BEEN in Washington for 26 years. He''s had a chance to change things. All that BS about being a Maverick "came to him" like enlightenment after being caught in the Keating 5 scandal. His economic policy is engineered by Phil "Nation of Whiners" Gramm -- the same guy who took over a $1M from the banking and insurance industry while legislating deregulation of the same. The same guy who bought you (oops, I meant BROUGHT you) the Enron loophole deal.
John "I know how to win wars" McCain is a Republican. He''s had 6 years to win a war. If he''s won the Iraq War, can we please come home now?
McCain = Bush''s Third Term
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Obama voted "YES" ten times to support our troops. The one time he voted "NO" was when the bill he supported, which was passed by congress and which the president vetoed, was rewritten to exclude the timeframe for withdrawal that Bush (and McCain) opposed - a timeframe, by the way, much less constricting that the "end of 2010" timeframe now suggested by Irag''s government.
Like everything else in John McCain''s campaign, "straight-talk" has yielded to the RNC flak machine.
If you don''t stand for anything, attack the other guy.
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The Republican Party have continued to cut GI benefits during this time of War and didn''t support our troops with a viable plan, protective equipment, and ample post action medical care at Walter Reed.
John McCain is ready for..retirement.
nuff said.
ENOUGH SAID.