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July 31, 2008 3:03 PM

McCain Is "Proud" Of Ad That Hits Obama On Celeb Status

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From CBS News' John Bentley:

(RACINE, WISC.) – While Barack Obama was asking John McCain if an ad comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton was “the best you can come up with,” a member of the audience at McCain’s town hall meeting here asked if the Arizona senator had “flip-flopped” on running a positive campaign by airing that ad.

“We are proud of that commercial,” McCain said. “There are differences and we are drawing those differences. And I’ve said earlier I admire his campaign, but what we are talking about here is substance and not style, and what we are talking about is who has an agenda for the future of America.”

McCain said they could have a better discussion of the issues if Obama would join him at town hall events. “I have asked Sen. Obama to travel across this country with me and engage in town hall meetings. He has refused to do so, and yesterday, in case you missed it, he wanted to have a duel,” McCain said. “I’m not sure exactly what weapons he had in mind, but why don’t we just sit down together and have a discussion.”
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by ioweign August 3, 2008 5:06 PM EDT
Obama agreed to be interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine and consented to allow himself to be on the cover.

Obama has done this to himself. Obama has introduced these ideas.

It is fair game to now discuss Obama on the same level as Brittney Spears, a pop culture teen idol who does not write her own songs.

Obama is to politics as Brittney Spears is to music.

This is going to stick.

Posted by MCVet- at 09:50 AM : Aug 01, 2008

Gee, isn''t McCain''s nickname "Songbird"...
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by ioweign August 3, 2008 5:02 PM EDT
I have never met an individual more arrogant and so full of himself as Barrack bin Hussein. Hussein is the height of arrogance.

Posted by johnbush2 at 10:37 AM : Aug 01, 2008

Where have you been for the last 7+ years under the "Great Decider" ??
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by vincan-2009 August 3, 2008 4:27 AM EDT
Senator Obama is popular. He is smart, a leader, talented, skilled, and will be so much more competent that the current president. It doesn''t take much after the loser in chief we have now. That also goes for all the other republican losers who were Bush''s poodles the whole time. McCain voted with Bush 95% of the time so he was one of the most wonderful poodles for Bush. Republicans failed the country while they enriched their buddies in corruption. I don''t think most Americans want more of that.
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by vincan-2009 August 3, 2008 4:16 AM EDT
Everything is fair game to republican morons like McVet. What a big man you are carrying the water for the republican failures that have caused the nation to be in dire condition. McCain has done nothing while campaigning that makes him worthy of being considered presidential material. He only wants to continue failing the country the way Bush did. Nothing makes America deserve another incompetent republican who has the sense of a flea.
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by vincan-2009 August 3, 2008 4:09 AM EDT
McCain is an idiot. Proud of Karl Rove type stupid lying ads is enough to turn peoples stomachs after the last president we got for the lies, smears and evil.
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by mattblckmtn August 2, 2008 11:43 PM EDT
Of course he has gone negative, he has little else to offer. His policies are the failed policies of GW Bush that he voted to support over 85% of the time. He did everything he could to get bush elected, and now his campaign is being run by Karl Rove''s protege, so that his campaign won''t be interrupted by Roves arrest for contempt of congress. It is the same old politics. If you like W, if you like Rove, Schmidt and the politics of division, if you are happy where our country standing is in the world and the state of our economy, Obama not your candidate.
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by kansas1946 August 2, 2008 3:19 AM EDT
I remember in 2000 when John McCain was that "celebrity" candidate. People loved him, adored him, but the Republicans spurned him and tried to destroy him. The ad is nothing but sour grapes because, this year, the "celebrity" isn''t him.
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by actornaught August 1, 2008 10:14 PM EDT
Of course he says he''s "proud", that''s what he was told to say, since he probably can''t remember from one day to next what his record is.
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by dnsallday August 1, 2008 1:54 PM EDT
Is there a 12 step program that we can send to Mccain to, he needs to conquer the serious addiction he has to whine!
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by jld1959 August 1, 2008 1:49 PM EDT
haven''t forgotten the attacks from McCain on Obama''''s Foreign Policy strategy. McCain called Obama, naive, unpatriotic, dangerous and would not keep America safe.

Isn''t it amazing that McCain, President Bush,Iraqi Politicians (President, PM),Afghan president,Israeli PM,President, All the European Leaders he visited (Germany, France & England) has the thrown their wholehearted behind Sen Obama foreign policy. I don''''t hear anything more about the Surge. So much for Obama not being fit or ready to be POTUS. That leaves McShame only one route to the presidency. McShame is counting on the voters not being informed, Since McLame cannot win on the issues, he has chosen an unethical road paved with untruths, lies & distortions. McCain new strategy is "If you can''''t get win thru brilliance, baffle them with B-ll S-it" Not this time, not this year and definitly this presidential election.

America deserves an intelligent, honest, vibrant, caring leader.

Obama 08

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by johnbush2-2009 August 1, 2008 1:38 PM EDT
Well, I''''d rather be compared to Britney Spears or Paris Hilton than George Bush.

Posted by pr_boxer at 07:48 AM : Aug 01, 2008

Well you may like it, but then you are not running for election.
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by johnbush2-2009 August 1, 2008 1:37 PM EDT
I have never met an individual more arrogant and so full of himself as Barrack bin Hussein. Hussein is the height of arrogance.
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by johnbush2-2009 August 1, 2008 1:34 PM EDT
Arrogance, thy name is Barrack bin Hussein.
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by jld1959 August 1, 2008 12:48 PM EDT
I just heard that another 51,000 Americans have lost there jobs, Millions of Americans do not have health care, an obsolete energy plan, and many other important issues not talked about by McCain. It is as if McCain has realized that he cannot compare with Obama on the issues, so his only hope of winning is to start trying to define Obama as an Elitist, Risky, Unpatiotic, frivolous and dangerous. McCain vowed he would run a clean & honorable campaign and make the distinction between himself and Obama on the issues. In the last couple of weeks the ads and statements out of McCain''s camp has been distorted,twisted, dishonest, outright lies & unethical. The MSM has also some blame to share for reporting untruths without a disclaimer i.e., "We cannot vouch for the truthfullness of this Ad". I was really hoping that the debates would be interesting and that the battle would be about issues, I know that won''t happen now. How could Obama have a battle of wits with McCain, when McCain is acting like a senile idiot!

Obama 08
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by peterp111 August 1, 2008 12:36 PM EDT
Duty, Honor, Country.

I have found it amusing that even though some bloggers have become nothing more than judgemental rambling empty headed people, one after the other, day after day, it reflects the way society seems to want to support "change" but refuses to do so for themselves.

Are we nothing more than children pretending to be grown ups?

Duty, Honor, Country- McCain
ME, ME, ME- Obama.
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by sst01 August 1, 2008 11:25 AM EDT
"but what we are talking about here is substance and not style, and what we are talking about is who has an agenda for the future of America.%u201D

John, it didn''t work for Hillary, it won''t work for you"

Suggest you stick to the tried & true "flip-flop" attack ,
Start with Bush tax cuts , a good way to promote the Republican agenda for America....


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by rudy654-2009 August 1, 2008 10:59 AM EDT
I can''t see the ad hurting Obama. It made him look popular and a star at the same time. I was laughing the whole time I saw it, because Obama couldn''t have received a better gift.
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by skyk-2009 August 1, 2008 10:55 AM EDT
When the truth hurts the Democrats scream and shout- blaming everyone else for their own malfunction. Their low intelligence should allow them to shoot themselves in the head soon enough.

Posted by Ariel133 at 07:18 AM : Aug 01, 2008

LOL YOU are joking right? LOL Why do you think McBush came out with this horrible attack Ad''s? LOL It was because he could NOT compete on the World Stage with Obama and he felt he HAD to drag him down to his level. It''s sick, it''s sad and EXACTLY what the Worst in our History did to get to the White House. What kind of fools would we be to allow that to happen a SECOND time?
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by pr_boxer August 1, 2008 10:51 AM EDT
Well, McBush does wear that flap pin in his lapel, and he also wears a ball cap and thats proof of his patrioism.
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by pr_boxer August 1, 2008 10:48 AM EDT
Well, I''d rather be compared to Britney Spears or Paris Hilton than George Bush.

Hang in there Sen McBush at least you''re not under indictment (yet) like buddy Ted Stevens!
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