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1. 888:

Mr. McGill, maybe you haven’t noticed, but the last several months, including during the Democrat’s primaries, the mainstream media has openly and wholeheartedly supported Obama, so much so that nothing McCain supporters and Hillary supporters have been saying about Obama, were getting any spotlight or coverage. In the past year, Obama’s sordid and mysterious past and questionable alliances with the most radical and extreme characters have been discussed ad nauseum in blogs, in emails worldwide, in magazine articles and in the only TV network with courage and a commitment to the truth, Fox News Channel. But the mainstream media (worse abusers being MSNBC, ABC, CBS & NBC) ignored anything that questioned Obama’s judgment, character, lack of experience and being beholden to unsavory figures. And now that McCain is exposing the truth through TV ads, you’re questioning why he should do that?? I don’t call that negative, not after seeing what those hypocrites did to the Palin family and what Barney Frank did to our economy. Excuse me, but the other half of America — the one that is mesmerized and enamoured by this charlatan with the thinnest resume of any presidential candidate in US history — that half of America has been shielded from the truth about Obama.

We all know what the Bible says about this: the truth shall set you free. If Obama would just tell the truth about his background, his alliances with radical leftists and socialists, what he did with that education fund when he was organizing the slums of Chicago, etc., etc., etc., then all of these questions will have been answered. The problem is, he keeps lying and delaying so that America will vote him in, without ever knowing the truth. That’s the real tragedy here.

Oct 11, 2008 - 1:47 am 2. lee:

Mccain has ran mostly on experience and patriotism until recently. A few months ago most of his TV ads were of the “I’m a war vet and maverick” variety.

I actually think there are undecided conservatives to be won over. They might include some moderate southern democrats, disillusioned Hillary supporters and even some *HARDCORE* right wingers who still dismiss him as a soft conservative and a closet liberal.

Honestly, at this point of the game, Mccain needs to energize his own base, and he needs to do it NOW, even if he alienates a few potential undecided voters. He started out well as a more moderate figure willing to compromise on some issues like illegal immigration and climate change, but it’s time for a shift in strategy. He needs to win the SOUTH, Ohio and Florida, and stage a final fight at either Colorado or New Mexico. With more voters registering as a democrat, he’ll need every last ounce of conservatives to vote to beat them back.

Mccain enjoyed a lead for about one week after the GOP convention, where Sarah Palin was introduced. Americans are still center to right, if you motivate the right kind of people the right he can pull this out. DITCH the maverick label and act like a conservative. Or at least a libertarian.

Oct 11, 2008 - 2:43 am 3. John B:

Considering America’s short term memory problems, McCain has to wait until the last 15 days to get his message out about Obama’s character flaws.

Let’s face it, Rev. Wright is history, so is anything that happened or was said last spring/summer. According to the MSM, Bill Ayres happened when BHO was 8 years old,,, the fact that Obama had a more recent on-going relationship with this unrepentant terrorist is glossed over as unimportant.

It is unfortunate that 50+% of American reads on a 5th grade level, and seemingly reasons on a level lower than that, but it is a political truth to deal with. Obama has the race card to play at his whim, and frequently does so through his surrogates. As a result that puts Obama ahead by an automatic 17% as 100% of American black voters will pull the lever for BHO out of racial pride. They say they “need a brother in the White House”. Obama has not been subtle, his message is clear, greater government spending, reparations, “deeds, not just words”, all of which is the swan song for conservative ideals.

I don’t blame McCain/Palin a bit for trotting out the mud at this late date. Obama shouldn’t be the nominee in the first place. He got there by crooked means, rigged caucuses, and ACORN.

I’m just hopeful that it is not too late to wake America up about this sleezeball.

Oct 11, 2008 - 2:53 am 4. vivo:

888 Oct 11, 2008 – 1:47 am:

Fox News Channel is right-wing biased.
MSNBC has Democrat leaning bias.
Limbaugh and others are right-wingers.
I don’t hear radio, so I don’t know the left-wingers.
So there is a little of something for everybody.

People like what they want to hear. A lot of the political news is gossip and entertainment. So don’t talk about media conspiracies, they all want to make money. Oh, yes, that’s it! Money. They cater to their listeners.

So go watch and entertain yourself. McCain and Obama don’t tell the truth with their ads. It’s all sound bites, paid sound bites. Only morons pay attentions to ads, including pharmaceuticals, insurance, food, and just about everything.

I know my GOP friends watch Fox and the others the other channels. And then repeat all the blabber as they please. Not much will change their political positions.

Oct 11, 2008 - 4:00 am 5. C Smith:

Senator McCain became the anti-Maverick with the “suspend my campaign” bogosity, followed by a “yes” on SteamerFest’08.
Real Mavericks aren’t centrists. A Maverick campaign would have promoted a Federalist policy to resurrect state governments to deal directly with their own afflicted, and halt the Fed’s picking of the public pocket.
So we get the Second Coming of Carter instead.

Oct 11, 2008 - 5:04 am 6. Ed Wallis:

“888″ is spot on. Sorry to tell the Obama shills out there that NO, not all media are equal.

The relativism of “you’ve got FOX, and we’ve got MSNBC, so we’re even” is rubbish, by the straightforward fact that, long before MSNBC, there was NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, etc etc…ALL banging the JOHNNY ONE (LEFTIST) NOTE DRUM into Americans’ eyes and ears.

The truth just hurts…maybe that’s why it “seems” negative.

Oct 11, 2008 - 5:18 am 7. TomP:

Is it negative to point out Obama’s associations and the lifelong influences these shady characters had on him? A man is a reflection of the people he associates.

Oct 11, 2008 - 5:40 am 8. David Thomson:

This is a very dumb article. However, Bobby McGill has inadvertently touched on a bit of harsh reality: John McCain waited too long to start talking about the Chicago area miscreants associated with Barack Obama. This should have been done at least two and half months ago. By waiting until now—many middle of the road voters are confused and tempted to believe McCain is engaging in desperation tactics.

Bobby McGill is the quintessential left-wing and poorly read journalist. He is abysmally ignorant about the current issues of the time. He seemingly places his wet finger into the air to see which way the wind is blowing. McGill might be personally a nice guy—but we all will far better off when he must find another way to earn a living.

Oct 11, 2008 - 5:43 am 9. kevin c:

I HAVE TO ASK-IS THIS “WRITER” BASED INB RED CHINA? SEEMS TO ME HIS COLUMNS COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY THE MINISTRY FOR STATE SECURITY(MSS). THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS HATED CAPITALISM EVER SINCE TELEVISION FIRST CAME INTO WIDESPREAD EXISTENCE(REMEMBER JOE MCCARTHY,TURNED OUT HES BEEN PROVEN CORRECT ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS). TALK RADIO HAS ONLY EXISTED FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS AND FOX NEWS FOE THE LAST 12 YRS AND EVER SINCE COMING INTO PROMINENECE HAVE HAD NOTHING BUT “RACIST.HOMOPHOBE,AND ANTI-WOMEN” THROWN AT THEM BY THE COMMIE SCUM MEDIA. SO SPARE ME THE “NEGATIVE ADS” CRAPOLA. THE 1995 BUDGET BATTLE ,USED AGAINST GINGRICH AND CONGRESSIONIAL CONSERTVATIVES,WAS NOTHING BUT A SERIES OF LIES AND DISTORTIONS. SO WAS THE MEDIAS PATHETIC LIES ABOUT BUBBA. THE MEDIA ACTUALLY ADMIRED BUBBA FOR BEING SUCH A GREAT LIAR. SEEMS TO ME OUR WRITER OF THIS ARTICLE FALLS INTO THAT CATEGORY.

Oct 11, 2008 - 5:56 am 10. Wally:

I’m expecting McCain & Palin to appear at the next rally in a KKK gown and hood ready to burn a cross. Is that what republicans want to represent?

Oct 11, 2008 - 6:02 am 11. PRODOS:

I’m VERY glad to see John McCain run these so-called “negative” ads.

In fact, it’s about damn time!

The ads are “negative” because they’re exposing what a dubious character Obama in FACT is. When it comes to Obama, there’s much to be “negative” about.

Whether or not John McCain wins, he’ll have done America and the world a great service by exposing the FACTS about Obama.

I find the latest ads to be “positive.”

My standard is: get to the truth.

What’s Bobby McGill’s?

Oct 11, 2008 - 6:10 am 12. Joseph Marshall:

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. After a week of slash, trash, and burn, McCain’s national numbers across all polls are at the lowest point of the entire campaign.

This is not a coincidence. The 40-42% he is now carrying is his base and only his base. The usual expectation would be that he would either flatten out here, or start to rise from here.

But there is absolutely no current indication of that in the national numbers. Over the last week he has steadily lost about .1% every day. At this rate, on Election Day, his poll numbers will be 35-37%. Will this happen? There is currently no indication in the numbers that it will not.

The major thing I would disagree with in the article is it’s lack of articulation that McCain is actually falling rapidly in the polls, faster, in fact than Obama is now rising. This is causing a net increase in undecided voters.

I strongly suspect that the poll numbers on election day will be 52% Obama and 37% McCain with 15% uncommitted. If half of those uncommitted voters break for McCain, the voting totals would be 56% Obama 44% McCain.

I think that is too generous at the moment. Based on the current trends, I think the final results would be 60% Obama, 40% McCain.

As of now, to win this election, McCain must pick up at least 1% every 4 days. He must also capture enough states currently trending Obama to pick up about 100 electoral votes which he now does not have.

I don’t think he can do this. His best case secnario for a win would be winning NV,CO,MO,IN,OH,FL. I don’t think that will happen in three weeks.

And I don’t think it will happen at all if he continues to campaign as he has for the last week.

This current campaign tactic is not about winning. It is about feeding the emotional addiction to personal attacks and personal hatred among McCain’s base, and, I think, to a lesser degree in McCain and Palin themselves.

Republican Senator Norm Coleman up in Minnesota has finally wised up to the fact that this style of campaign is becoming a bad idea. If any Republicans win any of the current races, I hope they wise up to it too.

Oct 11, 2008 - 7:04 am 13. rspar:

Obama doesn’t have to go negative he’s got a multitude of supposed unbiased outlets for that.

If things continue this way I’m afraid we’re going to get a lot more change than people think.

Wally:
Not worth commenting on.

Oct 11, 2008 - 7:26 am 14. Nancy-Michigan:

They claim to fight for freedom, yet they think and act like communists. Some conservatives bring to mind the drunken uncle who ruins Christmas. And most of us know, there’s no sense in fighting with a drunk. They make no sense, they simply love the fight. Enjoy your freedom, vent your little hearts and heads of, and then please, sober up.

Oct 11, 2008 - 7:57 am 15. Formwiz:

Obama tells his people to “get in their faces” and that’s OK? Obama isn ‘t being investigated by the media the way Sarah Palin has and that’s political suicide?

How else does McCain tell people what a disaster an Obama presidency will be than by advertising?

And if you think Obambi isn’t going negative, read Michael Barone’s latest column, The Coming Obama Thugocracy.

Oct 11, 2008 - 8:28 am 16. Rotwang:

I think it’s wonderful that McCain’s embrace of the whole pathetic, wackadoodle “Obama’s a Terrorist” slur is turning on him like the Golem-Frankenstein-Monster-from-the-Id” it is.

McCain is looking more and more like the Rev. Kane from “Poltergeist II,” while Sister Sarah is coming off as the Jim Jones of wingnut tribal xenophobia/anti-science/anti-education blood-sacrifice. Even voters who secretly harbor the same primitive, right-wing insecurities are appalled at what that stuff looks like when it manifests, nakedly, in the public discourse.

McCain/Palin is like a nonstop marathon of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “12 Angry Men” and “Inherit the Wind.” How many voters are seeing in these two the rotten corrosive evil within themselves, and turning away, ashamed?

Oct 11, 2008 - 8:39 am 17. John B:

“Wally:
I’m expecting McCain & Palin to appear at the next rally in a KKK gown and hood ready to burn a cross. Is that what republicans want to represent?”

Wally, the KKK is a Democrat organization. Please do not attribute those miscreants to the Republicans. Check your facts before posting such trash.

Oct 11, 2008 - 8:43 am 18. jane:

It is amazing that McCain and his supporters are criticized for being negative. This from the side that has trashed and bashed Pres Bush for years. This from the media that has given up any pretnse of objectivity.

If the media had vetted Obama as thouroughly as they claim to be doing to Palin all of the negative stuff on Obama would be common knowledge. IMO McCain waited too late because he apparently didn’t understand that the media wouldn’t be honest. Given the hard ball tactics we saw the Obama camp play toward Hillary in the primaries the Republicans should have hit him fast and hard from the beginning.

You have to wonder if the liberals still will be pushing that unity cr@p if Obama wins. Anyone think they’re going to be suprised when the right tells thme to shove it after the election? Will they enjoy his term before it becomes the disaster it will? As far as I’m concerned a “Pres Obama” deserves exactly the same level of disrespect from Republicans that Pres Bush got from Democrats.

Oct 11, 2008 - 8:52 am 19. Postliberal:

It’s stupid to categorize ads (or campaign speeches) as “negative” or “positive”. That’s for therapists. The relevant factor is what points are to be made. In this campaign one of the most relevant issues is Barack Obama’s background. There’s nothing “positive” to say about it. Therefore it is entirely legitimate for McCain to communicate with voters about it, and this communication will necessarily be very negative.

It is also relevant, as other comments in the thread have noted, that the MSM have actively covered up the weaknesses (not to mention the fraudulence) of Obama’s candidacy, both in the actual election and previously in the Democratic nominating process. With all the bad information to report about Obama you’d think the public would learn about it from regular news sources. But the MSM have surrounded Obama in a heavy cloud of disinformation. The only way for McCain to get out the ugly truth about Obama is to do it himself. That’s not mudslinging. Obama is awful.

The effort of the MSM to mislead and coerce voters, and the unfavorable economy, have certainly put McCain in a difficult position. I’m not in a position to say whether throwing the truth at Obama can win the election for McCain. But Bobby McGill is talking wind if he thinks that McCain would somehow do better if he followed a “positive” strategy. There’s no reason to believe that whatsoever.

McGill is really advocating that McCain join the MSM in patronizing and manipulating the voters to win the election. That’s bad for everybody, and especially for McCain, because throughout his career McCain’s strength has been his honesty. McCain has said that he is running to serve America, not to burnish his resume. He has said that he would rather lose an election than lose a war. Well, he should also feel that he would rather lose an election than let Barack Obama and the MSM get away with the fraud they are perpetrating on the country. Exposing Obama is the right thing to do. It’s also the only chance McCain has of winning the election. If he doesn’t win, it won’t be because he didn’t try to expose Obama. It might be because he didn’t try hard enough.

Oct 11, 2008 - 8:52 am 20. Marc Malone:

Define negative ads. An ad telling the truth about the other guy’s shady background is NOT a negative ad. The guy is shady, not the ad. The Obama spanish language ad was a gross mischaracterization. THAT was a negative ad.

Win or lose, this info must come out, because once Obama’s Prez, with the MSM shilling for him and a Dem Congress, there’ll be no limit on his power.

Oct 11, 2008 - 9:55 am 21. Al:

You’re right, 888. The media has fallen on its knees in worship over Obama. Hillary didn’t have a hope in hell with them fawning all over Barry O. Neither does McCain. With MSNBC and CNN getting erections every time they think of this man, even Jesus would lose. It doesn’t matter what McCain does, these two outlets twist it or refuse to report it, depending on what advantage they get from it. “No Bias, No Bull” IS A BUNCH OF BULL.

It’s a Democrat Year, not because Obama made it so, but because these networks have not been playing fair. They remind me how corrupted our media has become. Journalism seems to have died years ago. The rush to sound bites and vid clips have removed all semblance of integrity.

Oct 11, 2008 - 9:56 am 22. Boris:

It didn’t take long for the “blame the media” crowd to take over. It couldn’t possibly be that McCain has run a terrible campaign with no ideas, could it?

Independent voters don’t care about Ayers. So why McCain is pushing this, I have no idea.

And now he has to fight back against the morons at his own campaign events who start off with “Obama is a terrorist…”

It is fun to watch, however

Oct 11, 2008 - 10:07 am 23. Sam M:

This is some information that we all should read and
> consider. I am all for having a dream and working toward a
> goal. But do remember we all have to work and gain
> experience in what ever field we choose so that we can
> become knowledgeable in our fields of choice.
>
> Read On…………………
>
> 143 DAYS (INTERESTING INFO)
> Read On:
> You couldn’t be a new lawyer with 143 days of
> experience and become a partner in my law firm.
>
> You couldn’t get a job at McDonalds and become
> district manager after 143 days of experience.
>
> You couldn’t become chief of surgery after 143 days of
> experience of being a surgeon.
>
> You couldn’t get a job as a teacher and be the
> superintendent after 143 days of experience.
>
> You couldn’t join the military and become a colonel
> after a 143 days of experience.
>
> You couldn’t get a job as a reporter and become the
> nightly news anchor after 143 days of experience.
>
> BUT….
>
> ‘From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United
> State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a
> Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of
> ‘experience’ in the Senate. That’s how many
> days the Senate was actually in session and working.
>
>
>
>
>
> After 143 days of work ‘experience,’ Obama
> believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of
> the Free World …. 143 days.
>
>
> We all have to start somewhere. The senate is a good
> start, but after 143 days, that’s all it is – a start.
>
>
> AND, strangely, a large sector of the American public is
> okay with this and campaigning for him. We wouldn’t
> accept this in our own line of work, yet some are okay with
> this for the President of the United States of America?

Oct 11, 2008 - 10:46 am 24. Edward A.:

With McCain changing positions/policies frequently, there is no consistent theme/direction to his campaign. He has had many disruptions in his campaign staff since he began. This is just a continuation of his ’shoot from the hip’ approach that is his trademark.
McCain is a decent man, ill-prepared, and past his prime who has bad advice from the lobbyists/staff surrounding him.

Oct 11, 2008 - 10:55 am 25. Sandra M:

Terrible article but interesting comments from 888 and Sam M.

McCain waited so long to target Obama because the non-political public doesn’t tune in till a few weeks before the campaign.

Obama can be defeated. In 1992, the press knew of the many Clinton scandals but chose not to tell us till Clinton was safely elected. This time around, there is the internet from which millions of people get their news. We also have the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Channel, Glenn Beck on CNN’s Headline News, Larry Kudlow on CNBC, radio talk shows, etc.

Also, Obama is sitting on a number of scandals, not all of which have bubbled to the top. And there are 24 lifetimes in politics for him to worry about.

We have the Axis of Oil to worry about and high food and fuel prices. McCain/Palin can tie this all together by talking about energy, a subject on which Palin is positively mesmerizing.

The current financial crisis has driven everything else off the front pages, but Obama will offer mostly Marxist solutions and those never work.

The Democrats have controlled the House (the pursestrings) and Senate for the past two years, and there are 527 ads showing the guilty parties, most especially, Barney Frank (who we can de-elect) and Senators Chris Dodd and Harry Reid (up for re-election in 2010.

How to get out of this mess? All I know is that Henry Paulson, a Democrat functioning as Republican Secretary of the Treasury, attempted a power grab of never-before-seen dimensions and I don’t trust him.

Ron Paul has sensible economic ideas but on every issue other than the free market economics of Ludwig Von Mises, he sounds like a fruit loop.

Oct 11, 2008 - 11:15 am 26. Chip:

John McCain is telling the truth in these ads.

If the truth about Obama happens to be negative, so be it!

I have been on the phones making calls in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri in recent days and the voters are starting to see very clearly that Obama is a FRAUD…

Oct 11, 2008 - 11:23 am 27. lily:

If the media are negligent in its coverage of Obama’s association. what about its non-ocverage of Palin’s association with the Alaskan Independent Party – whom the Governor gave a ’shout-out’ to. The AIP call for the cessetion of Alaska from the US. Her husband has been a member for 7 years. If Palin became Vice-President and perhaps President would she grant the AIP its wish to ‘free Alaska’?

Oct 11, 2008 - 2:26 pm 28. JohnRJ08:

The media has always had a bias. But that bias is inherent to the medium and driven by the qualities of the candidates themselves. JFK was considerably less “experienced” than Richard Nixon, but the television audiences loved him. His sense of humor and sharp intellect trumped Nixon’s rumpled, neurotic mantle of experience. You can’t blame the media for a candidate’s inability to inspire voters. In this election, after 8 years of enduring the follies of a substandard intellect, the country wants somebody with brains who can deal with complex issues we’re facing. McCain’s earnest recitations of his ‘talking points’ and over-use of meaningless terms like “maverick”, make him sound like a politician from a bygone era, when voters were less cynical and more gullible. Repeating “I can do it”, or “I know how to do that” over and over again just sounds stupid in this day and age. So, when that footage runs on television or YouTube, the pundits and anchors don’t have to say a word. The bias is self-generated by the candidate himself.

Oct 11, 2008 - 2:39 pm 29. Angry African:

An extremist and anti-American in the White House? How about this quote? “The fires of Hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government, and I won’t be buried under their damn flag!” This comes from a guy who founded the organization that Todd Palin was/is a member of. Maybe we should look a bit closer at Todd Palin and his ties to the Alaskan Independence Party. The AIP has a history is one with links to Al Qaeda supported terrorists and communist. Sarah spoke highly of the AIP at their conference. And Todd’s history of using her office for his own agenda should be worrying if he continues to supports the AIP extremist and secessionist anti-American views. Six degrees of separation… http://angryafrican.net/2008/10/11/six-degrees-of-seperation-or-the-todd-palin-story/

Oct 11, 2008 - 2:58 pm 30. joan:

john mccain campaign is going around calling you people kooks! HA HA

!

Oct 11, 2008 - 3:01 pm 31. Marc Malone:

Edward A. – I both agree and disagree with you about McCain shifting his positions all the time. It IS unsettling, but at the same time, I admire that he’s trying to find answers. That serves him poorly in a campaign, but I think would serve him well in an administration that won’t magnify the swings so dramatically, but rather, slow them.

I do want someone who will try to find answers; who can possibly think outside the box. Is McCain that kind of guy, I dunno. He does seem less dogmatic than Obama. Would you prefer McCain to be more dogmatic?

Oct 11, 2008 - 3:37 pm 32. John:

Here is the game changer for Obama, and it is Democrat exposing him. Check it out yourself

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/this_could_be_the_game_changer.html

John

Oct 11, 2008 - 4:34 pm 33. Richard:

Since when is shining a spotlight on a candidate’s past an act of racism? To equate McCain with the KKK and George Wallace is ignorant and inflaming racial tensions of the past. You think such talk will disappear after the election? I hope so, but I think not.

Oct 11, 2008 - 4:39 pm 34. Outsideobservor:

If the above is the level of discussion in US politics all that those of us in the rest of the world can do is pray and hope that the coming election is not rigged as were the last two. Australians managed to get rid of a war mongering old man but one doubts that the electoral system in the US has the same capacity.

Oct 11, 2008 - 5:07 pm 35. AndyK:

Telling the truth about an inexperienced, far left character with more questionable associates than any politician I’ve seen in my 46 years = negative? Give me a break, we’re living in the Twilight Zone folks.

Oct 11, 2008 - 5:50 pm 36. Lightmoth:

The problem with McCain’s negative Ayers campaign is it’s core of dishonesty. In a hyperconnected electorate, it’s too easy to quickly check whether something is true or false. Too often, McCain’s attacks fall in the false spectrum.

For example, Ayers was on the board of the Annenberg Foundation, put there by Walter Annenberg, a former Ambassador and confidante of Ronald Reagan. Other members of the board included CEO’s of major companies, and several conservatives.

On top of this, Ayers was awarded Citizen of the Year in 1997. Citizen of the Year.

Against this backdrop, McCain tries to reduce the board to a dimly lit back room with only Obama and Ayers plotting nefariously. It simply doesn’t wash.

It’s not the negative nature of the ads. It’s that they are so wildly distorted that mainstream America simply cannot accept them. He needs to frame attacks that resonate with more than the tinfoil hat crowd.

Oct 11, 2008 - 6:02 pm 37. KansasGirl:

There is nothing dishonest McCain is saying about Ayers. He is a Marxist and a murderer. Get over it.

Oct 11, 2008 - 6:15 pm 38. Northern Light:

If this was a Frank Capra movie, McCain would appear on national TV to declare that somehow he was seduced by the lowest elements of the Republican Party and had become the kind of politician he always despised. He would also say that his administration should be about reaching across the aisle and dealing with the crises at home and abroad. He would say that his choices, both in policy and his VP choice were dictated to him by people with money and from now on he will never listen to them again.

He would conclude by saying he did not deserve to be President. The American people would be so overwhelmed by his straight talk and honesty that they would elect McCain in a landslide.

But this isn’t a Frank Capra movie.

Oct 11, 2008 - 6:32 pm 39. Von:

The truth is NEVER negative!
Be afraid be very afraid unless you want a socialistic regime in power!
I do not in any fashion advocate violence or inciteful speech but I am afraid of Obama’s leadership. He has has several stories about Ayers–just “a guy in the neighborhood”, he did know he was a terrorist when they worked together, then he thought he was rehabilitated—from what if he didn’t know about Ayers past!!! His record IS the reason and his POOR judgment. 20 years in Rev Wright’s church, 13 year close working relationship with Ayers, dishonest loan from Rezko, stated friendship with convicted felon and ex mayor Kwami Kilpatrick, his using US Senate money to travel to Kenya in 2006 to promote his cousin the violent Odinga, his multiple lawsuits against anyone who speaks out, his Truth Squad in MO and his ever changing stories about what he did or did not know or do should terrify everyone of all races who believes in American freedoms. Hired ACORN people solicit fraudulent votes while taking federal funds. WAKE UP AMERICA!

Oct 11, 2008 - 7:11 pm 40. Iseult:

It seems to me that this entire article does not have any factual basis at all. I clicked the link to the “report” and this is what it says –
“The major-party presidential nominees continued to dump record amounts of money into television advertising, spending more than $28 million last week alone, according to an analysis by the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project, which is affiliated with the school’s political science department.
And, the survey found, with just weeks to go before the election, nearly 100 percent of GOP nominee John McCain’s TV ads aired last week were negative.”

Who participated in the survey? Who was responsible for the analysis? Where is the logical, factual basis for the conclusions? One would think that they would include some type of reasoning – but they do not. “They” being the University of Wisconsin. It all seems highly suspect, considering it comes from a project affiliated with the “political science department”.

Mr. Obama, when he was a completely unknown attorney, gets appointed to head a $150 million dollar foundation, by Mr. Ayers. Mr. Obama’s political career, his “coming out” party, was held at Mr. Ayers’ home. This is a person who was instrumental in planning 250 bombing attacks against his own country. This is a “distraction”; and Mr. Obama, we are to believe, had no idea that Ayers was unrepentant (after a 2001 article in a Chgo newspaper quoted him as saying he (Ayers) did not do enough, and Ayers was photographed trampling the American flag). Mr. Obama belonged to a church for 20 years in which the pastor, Mr. Wright, railed against America and American values. Rev. Wright married Mr. and Mrs. Obama and was closely associated with them. Mr. Obama apparently had no idea that the sermons he was listening too for all of those years were rants against the country. After Tony Rezko was convicted, Mr. Obama was apparently clueless that this connected Chicago power broker’s dealings were illegal (was this before or after Rezko helped Obama buy his million dollar mansion?

Media: no, nothing to see here, move along.

Sarah Palin wears white to a political rally a few days ago, and gets compared with the KKK. In her speech where she indicates that Mr. Obama was friends with a terrorist (which is true) she, the McCain campaign, the Republican party, and everyone else in the general area gets tagged with “inciting racism”. Just for telling the truth. The ads I’ve seen in the last two weeks have been true; relating to the public Mr. Obama’s close associations with a host of unsavory characters and organizations; Wright, Ayers, Dorn, Rezko, Acorn, and the New Party, just to name a few.

I would suggest that anyone reading this post click over to VDH and take in his two latest postings, which are clear, insightful, and a great read -

Oct 11, 2008 - 7:55 pm 41. Anonymous:

Ed Wallis Oct 11, 2008 – 5:18 am:

“The relativism of “you’ve got FOX, and we’ve got MSNBC, so we’re even” is rubbish, by the straightforward fact that, long before MSNBC, there was NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, etc etc…ALL banging the JOHNNY ONE (LEFTIST) NOTE DRUM into Americans’ eyes and ears.
The truth just hurts…maybe that’s why it “seems” negative.”

The right wing “truth” is the truth?? You are pretty arrogant. Being stubborn doesn’t win arguments. You only see two view points: right and left. I got news for you: independents.

Oct 11, 2008 - 10:01 pm 42. TonyUSA:

Media missteps? How about a MSM propoganda machine that is in the tank with the marxist socialist Obama who is lying about what he really is. The same machine played up to McCain to set him up for this stone walling. His missteps have been in the debates where he could of made some political haymakers in front of millions of Americans but did not because he is “liberal light”. Obama is nothing but 9/11 personafied but incognito. He knows he is unelectable and is an enemy of the nation. He most absolutely know he has to play every card including the racist one to cover up what he is. Once he and his thug machine highjack the office the question will be were there enough congressional races won where Socialistcrat seats were overturned to conservative Republicans. The hardcore thing about it is a lot of Americans are “asleep” and have been dumb down by the socialist/ atheistic infested public schools. Kids are not taught what communism is and the acts of the brutal regimes that have manifested themselves in the last 100 years. We are becoming ripe for a fall. Spiritually we are ever darkening and ever more caught up in paganistic hedonism. Good is bad and bad is good. America’s enemies who reside within her borders are rising. They are not coming with bombs but with demogoguery to take the highest office in the world. They seek to bring this nation down by its own political system. The outer enemies in the world knows it and wait with glee. Wake up my fellow citizens. Vote against Obama.

Oct 11, 2008 - 10:20 pm 43. Ed Wallis:

“Anonymous”, as an Obama shill, you are certainly no one to speak of Independents in this campaign. But I accept that hypocrisy has been no stranger to Axelrod’s team….

“Arrogance” my posterior. Try FACTS, if the word “truth” makes you squirm (and I can well imagine how it does, just a vermin hiding from light and fresh air).

* What IS the truth is that Obama is the candidate of the two who has routinely abused the issue of race in this campaign.

* What IS the truth is that Obama worked at ACORN teaching, and paid ACORN’s subsidiary, “Citizens Services Inc.” $800,000 to – ahem – gather signatures. Please google “ACORN” and “voter fraud.”

* What IS the truth is that Obama was hired AS AN ADULT (so let’s put an end to the “he was only 8″ excuse making…) by and worked with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers on the Woods Fund.

AND THIS ALL BEFORE I’VE HAD MY FIRDST CUP OF COFFEE TODAY.

I welcome others to add to the shortlist I’ve started above.

Oct 12, 2008 - 3:57 am 44. Chuck Pelto:

TO: Bobby McGill, et al.
RE: Suicide? Whose?

So, why does he keep running the negative ads? Considering Einstein’s definition of insanity as someone trying the same thing again and again and expecting different results, we are left to wonder whether McCain is committing political suicide. —

Since when is telling the truth about danger, bad?

Or do you suggest that MADD should go to hell?

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Ever people gets the governance they deserve.]

Oct 12, 2008 - 5:44 am 45. Boris:

“Here is the game changer for Obama, and it is Democrat exposing him. Check it out yourself

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/this_could_be_the_game_changer.html

John”

Luckily the American people are not as stupid as the folks at the American Thinker.

Oct 12, 2008 - 6:50 am 46. SGT Ted:

*yawn* Every 4 years, whoever the Republicans run for POTUS gets called racist, sexist, bigot homophobe who wants to eat poor, black babies for breakfast, all uncritically accepted by a press actively rooting for the Democrats. Then when the Republican dares to point out an unsavory fact about the Democrat, we get a barrage of lectures about how negative campaigning is hurting the “national discourse” and those waskiwiy wepublicans will lose because of it and that negative canpaigning “never works”. Every 4 years. You could plant crops by it, I swear. But, they always whine that telling the truth about them is “negative campaigning”.

Despite the facy that going negative *does* work. Otherwise, why all the hysteria? McCain needs to keep it up, because, judging from the shrieking and matronly vapors by the drive-by media, he is on target.

Oct 12, 2008 - 7:18 am 47. SGT Ted:

The bottom line is that the Democrats backed by a compliant media are just trying to shut McCain up.

Oct 12, 2008 - 7:22 am 48. jane:

One of the Obama trolls does have a point – Independents don’t care about Ayers – apparently many of them are just as dense and corrupt as the standard Obamabots.

They see no problem with Obama picking his associates, his mentors, his cirle of influence from a cadre of crooks, charlatens and liars. They prefer to believe in empty promises Obama won’t be able to deliver on rather than actually admit that he’s a myth. They draw some emotional comfort from the falsehood that everything will be just lovely once those evil “rich” people are paying for the handouts his supporters seem to feel entitled to.

While it may be fun to watch the McCain campaign crash and burn it may also be fun to watch the fawning Obama supporters pull their hair out when they are faced with the reality that he’s going to be able to do nothing but continue to blame the Republicans. I hope they enjoy watching capital move elsewhere from the unemployment lines.

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Oct 12, 2008 - 7:37 am 50. Chuck Pelto:

TO: SGT Ted, et al.
RE: This….

Every 4 years, whoever the Republicans run for POTUS gets called racist, sexist, bigot homophobe who wants to eat poor, black babies for breakfast, all uncritically accepted by a press actively rooting for the Democrats. — SGT Ted

….is how the Roman Republic ended and the Roman Empire, after decades of civil wars, began; with such stellar individuals as Caligula and Nero on the ’starting line-up’.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[History repeats itself, with YOU, if you're generation doesn't remember it.]

P.S. Thank you vaunted American public education system for doing such a ‘wonderful’ job…..NOT!

Oct 12, 2008 - 8:57 am 51. skyler:

If you saw the last debate it is clear that McCain is still sticking with the “I’m a war veteran, my friends” approach. Nothing has changed. I’m a war vet and Obama has no experience. People in the mid-west and southern states hear only what they want to hear, so perhaps drilling the same negative message over and over actually works for McCain. We are talking about fundamentally stupid voters (by design of our rich, separatist run government)so keeping his approach simple might be advantageous for him.
Chuck – our terrible education system is no accident. Uneducated people are easier to control, thus those in power stay in power, thus our government has sabotaged our schools intentionally.

Oct 12, 2008 - 12:22 pm 52. Marc Malone:

Chuck Pelto – Um, who were Caligula and Nero? Oh, wait, that was Caligula Arugula, right?

Oct 12, 2008 - 12:42 pm 53. Chuck Pelto:

TO: Skyler
RE: Stupid

People in the mid-west and southern states hear only what they want to hear, so perhaps drilling the same negative message over and over actually works for McCain. — skyler

Show me your Mensa membership ID number, skyler. Then let’s talk about ’stupid’.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Stupid, adj., Ignorant and proud of it.]

Oct 12, 2008 - 12:44 pm 54. Chuck Pelto:

TO: skyler
RE: Stupid About Education

….our terrible education system is no accident. Uneducated people are easier to control, thus those in power stay in power, thus our government has sabotaged our schools intentionally. — skyler

How OLD are you anyway?

I’ve watched the vaunted American public education system deteriorate over the last 40 years….since I graduated high school in 1969.

It wasn’t the ‘government’, per se, that was the cause. It was something more insidious. Think NEA and so-called ‘progressives’.

Back when I graduated high school, the biggest ‘crime’ was smoking cigerattes in the boys room and teenage pregnancy was damn near unheard of.

What do you have to offer that says things have ‘improved’? Columbine? Current teenage pregnancy rates?

Go on. I defy you to show me stats that say thinks have ‘improved’ since then.

Then show me how the government, Democrat and Republican since 1969, has been the primary cause of the problem.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[My working defintion of stupidity is someone who is ignorant and proud of their ignorance.]

Oct 12, 2008 - 12:56 pm 55. RevWright:

Nobody called McCain or Palin racists. Y’all just invent straw men to get upset about. People were rightly offended by the comments made by Palin and the tone coming form the crowds. The statements such as “kill him”, “he’s a terrorist”, “he’s an arab”, viral videos with ethnic slurs and nasty language from various Palin/McCain events are and always will be objectionable and they are being stoked by McCain and Palin. Palin suggests Obama is palling around with terrorists. This is inflammatory, misleading and just plain wrong. This link clears up the relationship and if you are so prone to condemn Obama for his board activities I hope you will:

1. condemn the other republicans who sat on that board and
2. condemn Palin as her HUSBAND, not a neighbor, HUSBAND was active with a secessionist party led by a guy who advocated violence against the government. Obama could play this ridiculous association game but has not, because making the association plays on fears and would lack any real substance.

Please feel free to counter my points with examples of Obama behaving like a terrorist, threatening your liberties or counter either of the points I raised.

Oct 12, 2008 - 4:42 pm 56. Chuck Pelto:

TO: All
RE: RevWright

Can there be any better example of a liar?

Regards,

Chuck(le)

Oct 12, 2008 - 5:00 pm 57. 888:

John, we owe you on this one. Thanks for the link. I’m forwarding to friends supporting Obama so they can see what he’s doing to our constitution and to the rule of law. http://comments.americanthinker.com/read/42323/217613.html According to the Democrat attorney who brought the suit, Berg vs. Obama will continue if it means going to the Supreme Court, despite all the legal technicalities they’re coming up with. They’re trying to delay before the truth comes out, but they can easily stop the whole thing if they just produce the document. What an October surprise.

Oct 12, 2008 - 5:30 pm 58. whiterock:

I suggest the conservative and independent just quit supporting all the media which abuses it’s truthfulness. I say we all cancel our paper (you can get it on the web anyways), when ever any polling takes place…never admit to watching any of the alphabet channels. Write in to advertisers and say why not supporting their product, for supporting that channel. When Revenues drop at least 50% it will force the MSM to either be honest or fail It is simple as that.

Oct 12, 2008 - 8:17 pm 59. whiterock:

Obama’s possilbe cheating his way into office (with the help of the MSM) is going to undo at least 40 years of progress between the races. The truth will become evident should B.O. become POTUS. I predict, if he should win…he will be fastest POTUS to be IMPEACHED in history. Join B.J. in infamy. There is just too much being held back by the MSM, when the dam breaks, B.O. will be damned.

Oct 12, 2008 - 8:23 pm 60. Someone75:

Give me a break! The MSM is biased because you people NEED it to be biased all so you can feed the delusion that the USA is still conservative. It’s not – the majority has moved beyond small town values. I’m not saying that’s a good thing, per se, but the polling reflects that.

Truth: the views I read on PJMedia are far more extreme (and frequently hateful) than anything I see on CNN or CBS or ABC or NBC. MSNBC is the Obama channel – Fox is the McCain channel. You guys own talk radio, liberals own the Internet.

If you could stop feeling sorry for yourselves and re-enter the mainstream, national debate, maybe your views would reach some people. Instead, you hang out in this little forum and complain about how everyone is out to get you.

The majority of MSM is a reflection of popular opinion. If you isolate yourselves, you have no way to enter the discussion and you seal your fate as completely irrelevant.

No media has ever been “truthful” or “unbiased”. Since it’s all opinion, what’s the big deal?

Oct 12, 2008 - 10:32 pm 61. Bluedog Alaska:

People who depend on campaign ads for information about their candidates are not exactly taking their civic responsibility seriously anyway. But ads do usually have a meta-message, and McCain’s ads tell me, again and again, that he’s a POW, that he’s maverick-y (though I’m not sure why or how), and that he has no actual new ideas except “let’s play the association game and see if that works since nothing else does.” I’d love to know specifically about his economic ideas for helping us out of this mess. I know he has lots of ‘em, since this week we’re about to hear his third plan–or is it his fourth?– for rescuing the economy. I just don’t know which one is supposed to be the one he’ll stick with.

I do hope McCain and Palin keep hammering on Ayers being BFF with Obama, and throw in a little Rev. Wright for good measure, since that tactic is working so well. Maybe then we’ll start hearing a lot more about Palin’s connections with the AIP, and the Keating scandal, and maybe since we’re on board the Wayback Machine, his confessions as a POW and his multiple plane crashes and his affair while married. I don’t actually give a crap about any of that, but that’s how the game is played.

And we do know the MSM controls everything, what with that Republican guy running the country for the past eight years and being such a huge success at it. (What was his name again? It’s been so long since we’ve heard from him, I forget.)

I suppose McCain could do something idiotic like tell us some specific, detailed plans for dealing with the massive challenges ahead, but apparently the attack team he hired that trashed his campaign in 2000 doesn’t roll that way. So I look everywhere for information, including places like this. Alas, none to be found here either, just more frothing and gnashing of teeth.

Now, back to those entertaining YouTube videos of the Alaska Independent Party….those are some wild and crazy guys! No wonder Sarah and Todd like them so much.

Oct 12, 2008 - 11:46 pm 62. Rachel Peepers:

Mr. McGill,

You leave me confused. To begin with, “negative” isn’t a term marketing people use. And marketing people are the ones who decide campaign strategies.

Even if you called them attack ads, you’d still be off because simply to attack isn’t a strategy.

A strategy takes into account things like strong points and weaknesses and rates them. Then on the basis of influences like cash on hand, personality of the candidate, strong and weak points, and other factors that influence the voters’ decisions, a marketing person decides what message you’re going to run with.
The marketing person decides how to get your message out. Marketing people tell media people what to do like they tell polling people what to poll based on what the marketing team wants to know.

In the beginning, McCain needed in my professional opinion, a proprietary message.
One only McCain could say. For example, anybody could say, “change”, but only McCain could say something like “Duty, Honor, Country.”

With just days left till election, the McCain strategy should be a weaving of reasons why McCain should be President with reasons Obama shouldn’t. To tie the marketing package with a bow, you need to explain the horrible consequences of an Obama Presidency versus the benefits of a McCain Presidency.

It all may not be rocket science, but there are marketing experts who know how to run a campaign, at least the rest of McCains. Trouble is, I don’t think they’re working on McCain’s campaign.

Instead of a 700 billion bailout to banks, for example, McCain could announce a million dollar handout to every person on our tax rolls. That would be a strategy, perhaps even a winning strategy.

I don’t want to sound pompous, but I know what I’m talking about. I’m the one marketing people come to when they don’t know what to do.

Oct 13, 2008 - 12:13 am 63. vivo:

Ed Wallis 10/12 3:57 am:

The right wing “truth” is the truth?? You are pretty arrogant. Being stubborn doesn’t win arguments. You only see two view points: right and left. I got news for you: independents.

Oct 13, 2008 - 4:05 am 64. BMoon:

I am Barack Obama and I approve of this message.

Oct 13, 2008 - 6:46 am 65. Chuck Pelto:

TO: vivo
RE: Hardly ‘Arrogant’

The right wing “truth” is the truth?? You are pretty arrogant. — vivo [the latest gutless wonder]

I’ll wager he can back up his args better than you can.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
P.S. I notice that the polls are indicating that McCain’s use of truthful information about Obama’s past relationships is causing him to gain in the polls…..not that I trust such in the first place, but I notice a lot of Obama supporters have been crowing about them in the prior week.

Oct 13, 2008 - 1:29 pm 66. vivo:

Pelto:

My arguments don’t need backup, they are pretty straight forward. You guys (and gals) can’t deal with simple statements. Learn how to read. Thank you for the “wonder” compliment . . . “gutless” to you means “not spilling useless paragraphs to explain the obvious”.

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